Wow, so much land, so many rice seedlings!
“Yes, all these plots of land are connected, unlike our family’s land which is scattered in several pieces.”
"With so much land now, we won't go hungry anymore, right...?"
The three little radish heads of Su Dalang had just entered Zaozhuang when they felt that their two eyes were not enough to see everything, as all they could see were endless rice paddies.
By the end of April, the clumps of rice seedlings had grown to about 30 centimeters long, their tender green leaves swaying gently in the mountain breeze.
If you smell it carefully, you can also detect a unique aroma of rice leaves.
Looking at the endless rice paddies, Su Bai's slanted eyes gradually welled up with tears, "Yes, with these fields, we'll never go hungry again, we'll never go hungry again..."
Su Hua was smelling the fragrance of the rice seedlings when she turned around and saw that her mother's eyes were red.
The three little ones beside them looked completely at a loss.
"Ahem, eldest brother, take your younger siblings to play over there first, don't go too far." Su Hua sighed inwardly, sending the three little ones away.
She took Su Bai's hand and winked at her, "On such a wonderful day, you can't cry, otherwise the little brats will spread the word, and all the old ladies in the village will laugh at their mother..."
"They dare?!" The woman glared with her slanted eyes, but then, seeing the mischievous look in the girl's big eyes, her old face immediately turned red.
"The sandstorms in Zaozhuang are so strong that I only avoided peeing because the wind got into my eyes."
"Yes, yes, it's too windy here." Su Hua nodded in agreement, smiling as she pulled the woman forward. "Don't worry, Mother. With these two hundred acres of land, we'll never have to worry about going hungry again. Mother's only concern is what to do if we can't finish the food?"
"Pfft!" Madam Su Bai was amused and burst out laughing. "You silly girl, there's no such thing as food that can't be eaten. If there's food that can't be eaten, just sell it. All the money from selling it will be saved for Hua'er's dowry."
Your brothers aren't very capable, they just have a lot of strength. After they finish selling spicy hot pot every day, they should come and work on the farm. They have to take good care of these lands..."
Su Hua: "..."
Her mother's doting fatherhood was probably no less than that of Xiao Jinhan's maternal grandfather!
If the three Su brothers were to manage all 200 acres of land, they would eventually be exhausted.
Moreover, everyone is born with their own interests, and now that the family's life is gradually improving, it's time for them to free up their hands to do things they enjoy.
As for these lands, we can simply find someone knowledgeable in agriculture to manage them.
The three Su brothers, who gradually caught up from behind, didn't see anything wrong with it. They felt more at ease having their own family members do the work, and Hua'er was willing to let them serve her because she trusted them.
"Hey, what are they doing in the rice paddy?"
Su Erlang's suddenly raised voice made Su Baishi and the others stop talking. After taking a few steps forward, they saw a number of people standing in the rice field about two hundred meters ahead.
They rolled up their trousers and were leading several old oxen back and forth in the field.
Behind them, the tender green rice seedlings had been reduced to bare stumps.
Seeing this scene, Su Bai was so angry that she almost fell backward. She rushed forward like a cannonball, yelling, "Ah!!! Damn it! What are you doing?"
"What a tragedy! How could you waste all this perfectly good food! What a tragedy! Wasting food will bring divine retribution..."
The three Su brothers were also furious. They rushed into the rice paddy and stopped them from continuing to destroy the seedlings.
"Stop! All of you, stop right now!"
"This is my sister's land! And you all come here to ruin things? Do you want a beating?"
"Stop it right now, all of you! When I start beating people up, I don't care about anyone, not even my own family..."
The three Su brothers were tall and strong. The rice paddies were full of villagers from the nearby Wangjia Village. Seeing this, they gradually stopped destroying the seedlings.
They glanced at the remaining twenty or so acres of land and turned to leave through the village entrance.
"Stop! You think you can just run away after destroying the land? It's not that easy!" Su Sanhu grabbed the man at the front and pinched him hard on the shoulder blade. "Tell me! Why did you destroy these seedlings?"
"Aaaaaah!!!"
The man cried out in pain, sweat rolling down his face. "Young man, let go! Let go! I... I was just following orders, I had no choice."
Su Sanhu frowned deeply. "Obey orders? Obey whose orders?"
They'd just arrived, didn't know a single person, and had no enemies... Wait, no, what about those people in the carriage just now...?
Just as the boy's thoughts were forming, he heard the man's intermittent cries of pain ring out again, "It's the steward of the Liu family... Last night they made us take the oxen and destroy the crops overnight... They also said that this estate belongs to your Su family, but the things in the estate have nothing to do with you."
"This is outrageous!" Upon hearing this, Su Erhu and Su Sanhu's eyes widened in shock.
Zhuangzi belongs to them?
But what's inside has absolutely nothing to do with them?
Isn't this blatant sophistry?
The rice seedlings were planted in early April. Now that it's late April, if they destroy the seedlings, how will they have time to cultivate and transplant them? Even if they plant them hastily, given the climate in Shanghe Village, they will only be able to harvest a meager amount of grain.
If only one or two acres of land were destroyed, it would be fine, but now almost all of the two hundred acres have been destroyed, leaving less than twenty acres of seedlings.
The initial joy at seeing the rice paddies was completely replaced by anger at this moment.
Su Sanhu was so angry that his knuckles cracked.
The man being choked immediately let out a pig-like scream, "Ahhhhh!!! Little brother... no... brave warrior... brave warrior, spare our lives... we had no choice, we dared not say no to the orders of the prefect, unless we didn't want to die..."
Su Hua's expression turned slightly cold as she gently pulled Su Sanhu's hand away.
"Forget it, let him go."
The weight on his shoulder lifted, and the man quickly stepped back two paces, bowing to Su Hua. "Thank you, young lady! Thank you, young lady!"
"Don't be in such a hurry to thank me!" Su Hua narrowed her almond-shaped eyes and picked up a stone the size of a washbasin from the side path. "Remember this, from today onwards, Zaozhuang belongs to the Su family. Every blade of grass, every tree, every flower, and every fruit in this village belongs to the Su family."
"If I ever see anyone dare to mess with my Su family's Zaozhuang again, I'll make sure they suffer the same fate as this stone."
After she finished speaking, she slammed the stone in her hand onto the ground.
Clang!
The stone, the size of a washbasin, shattered into pieces of gravel in an instant.
The gravel and grayish-white lime swirled in the wind and rushed towards the men's faces.
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