Chapter 278 Surprise or Shock
The smile in Zhou Yunshu's eyes disappeared, but she still asked patiently, "Don't boys have to do these things?"
"Of course not. Managing the household is a woman's job. Boys just need to study hard and serve the master when the time comes."
Fu Ze saw that Zhou Yunshu's expression was not very good, and tried hard to recall whether there was anything inappropriate in what he had just said, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was quite right.
"Master, do you think something is wrong?" he asked nervously.
Before Zhou Yunshu could say anything, Fu Ze explained, "Actually, not all girls work like this. The better-looking girls will be sent to the main household to be maids. We will train them well, and they are quite good at needlework and cooking."
As he spoke, Fu Ze glanced at Cen Miaoying, who was standing next to Zhou Yunshu and had been giving him a bad look, and said to Zhou Yunshu, "It's really too simple for the master to have only one little maid to take care of him personally."
"My daughter, Fu Ya, is only sixteen years old. She is pretty and unmarried. She is particularly good at housework and cooking. How about letting her serve the master during this period?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at Fu Ze's attentive smile, then glanced at the boys who were studying hard in the school, and said, "Okay."
When Fu Ze sent someone to call his daughter, Yan Shilei happened to call over a few of the young and strong men from Fujiazhuang who had followed him back to Dongchuan.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the man who came and said to Fu Ze, "Wait until the farmers finish their work in the fields and call everyone in the farm to the school. I want to see them."
Fu Ze was a little unsure what Zhou Yunshu was going to do, but he nodded anyway.
He believed that after the manor came into his hands, no matter who the owner was, he would be the best manor boss.
Even if the new owner came and wanted to find fault, he wouldn't be able to find anything.
After Fu Ze left, Zhou Yunshu, who was sitting on a stone bench under a tree, looked at the group of people brought over by Yan Shilei. When she saw one of them and thought of his name, Zhou Yunshu asked, "What is your relationship with the village head Fu Ze?"
"To answer the master, Fu Ze is my elder brother."
Zhou Yun raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the other four people.
Among these four people, three have the surname Fu, and they are all related. Only one has the surname Wang, and his name is Wang Jiu.
"How have you been since you came back?"
Zhou Yunshu had seen everyone who followed Yan Shilei to Dongchuan. She had an impression of all of them, and the ones who impressed her the most were Fu Rong and Wang Jiu in front of her.
Fu Rong was chosen because he was popular and smart; Wang Jiu was chosen because he was good at archery and could almost never miss a shot.
Fu Rong smiled and said, "As you instructed, we will train whenever we have time after we return, and we will bring other people from the village with us."
Zhou Yunshu smiled and said, "Since you have also trained, why not compete with the brothers from Qishui Village to see who is stronger, the people from Qishui Village or the people from Fujia Village."
Zhou Yunshu's casual words instantly aroused the desire to win among the two young men from the village.
No matter what minor conflicts there were between Gan Zhiyong and Wan Zhong who had been following Zhou Yunshu before, they now all tacitly stood together and faced the outside world.
When Fu Ze came back after notifying everyone, he saw his brother and the people from his farm with bruised faces and noses. Wang Jiu, who was in a slightly better condition, also had a big footprint on his clothes.
"What's going on, Master? Did Fu Rong and the others get into trouble?"
Fu Ze was frightened when he saw their miserable appearance, and wondered if he had done something wrong to please his master, so he beat up the people on his farm to warn him?
Fu Rong covered his bruised face and said to his elder brother, "No, we were just sparring briefly, we didn't even use a knife."
Fu Ze looked at his younger brother with an indescribable expression. If he really got stabbed, he would probably be half dead judging from his miserable appearance.
"Has everyone been notified?"
Fu Ze nodded immediately when he heard Zhou Yunshu's question, then he pulled the round-faced girl wearing a pink skirt behind him in front of Zhou Yunshu, "Master, this is my daughter Fu Ya."
Fu Ya looked at Zhou Yunshu, blushing slightly as she saluted, "Fu Ya greets the Master."
She originally thought that the new master would be an old man older than her father, but she didn't expect that he would be a bookish young man.
If I could serve my master personally and be accepted by him...
Zhou Yunshu watched Fu Ya, who was looking at her with a shy face, turn around and look at Cen Miaoying beside her. Cen Miaoying took a step forward and asked, "Will you settle the account?"
Fu Ya was stunned and shook her head.
"Can I buy some?"
Fu Ya shook her head again.
"Have you ever learned to drive a cart?"
Fu Ya pursed her lips, feeling that the girl in front of her, who looked younger than her, was deliberately making things difficult for her.
"What you said are things that men should do. What does it have to do with me?"
Cen Miaoying didn't turn her head away because of the dissatisfaction in Fu Ya's tone. Instead, she asked, "So you only know how to cook and do needlework?"
Fu Ya nodded.
She looked at Cen Miaoying, who was obviously a maid but had the same temperament as a young lady, and thought that if she became the master's maid, she might become like her.
"Sir, we are indeed in want of a cook and a seamstress."
Now the logistics of their team are all in the charge of Cen Miaoying. As long as Cen Miaoying says that Fu Ya can stay, Zhou Yunshu has no objection.
"Since you said you need it, then stay."
Zhou Yunshu watched the farmers gradually approaching the school and said to Fu Rong, who was standing next to her with a bruised face, "After the class is over, you guys should bring out a table and chairs, stack them up and put them at the school entrance."
"Yes, Master!"
When Fu Rong went to work, Wu Gui and Cen Miaoying had already finished checking the account books of Fujiazhuang.
Compared with Qishui Village, Fujia Village is too honest and obedient, which makes Zhou Yunshu and Wu Gui, who have been prepared for a tough battle, feel that they have accumulated so much energy in vain.
Fujiazhuang has performed so well, so of course it will also enjoy the benefits mentioned in Qishuizhuang before.
At this time, the golden crow was setting in the west, shining a golden light on Zhuangzi.
Seeing that it was not long before dark, Zhou Yunshu was about to speak to Fu Ze, the village head beside her, when she heard him say, "Master, everyone is here!"
Zhou Yunshu: “…”
Zhou Yunshu looked at the crowd in front of her, which was less than half the size of Qishui Village, and most of them were women, children, and the elderly from Fujia Village. She pointed at them and asked Fu Ze, "Are you saying that these people in front of me are all the people in Fujia Village?"
Does she look like a fool?
Fujia Village is one-third larger than Qishui Village. Even if the population is not one-third more, it is at least not half less than that of Qishui Village.
She watched as Fu Ze retracted his previous good impression of Jia Zhuang and asked, "Are you kidding me?"
Fu Ze shook his head and said to Zhou Yunshu with a smile: "This is really all the people left in Zhuangzi."
When Zhou Yunshu heard the word "left", she looked at Fu Ze silently and continued to ask.
Fu Ze smiled and said, "As for the arrangements for the others, they were surprises I specially prepared for the master. Before I had time to write to the master, the master came."
"What surprise?"
What if it was a shock?
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