When Xue Huan had almost finished cultivating the pepper seedlings, half of the swamp had been filled. The swamp that used to be so hard to get people into had now become a vast flat land, about 180 acres.
You know, one acre of land is 666.666 square meters. These hundred acres of land are more than 6,000 square meters! All of this belongs to her!
Xue Huan did not let the workers continue filling the soil, but reclaimed the already filled land.
After several fertilization processes, this piece of land has not only become top-quality farmland, but at least farming on it is no longer a problem.
Let's leave the remaining swamp alone for now. After all, if it gets any bigger, she won't be able to take care of it. This is enough for now.
It’s not too late to expand it later if needed.
It took a few more days for the workers to plant all the pepper seedlings. They were all men used to doing farm work, so growing vegetables was not difficult for them at all.
Everyone was curious about what kind of dish this was, as they had never seen it before.
Xue Huan kept it a secret for the time being and just said she would tell them when the time was right.
After planting the peppers, Xue Huan planted a circle of thorns around them. Stimulated by the spiritual spring water, these thorns grew at a relatively fast but not scary speed.
Before the thorn hedge was fully grown, Xue Huan, Pei Ji, and Da Hei would guard it here at night.
To prevent someone from stealing vegetables or causing damage.
Especially the latter.
You know what, someone actually sneaked into the vegetable garden that night and tried to steal the pepper seedlings.
Dahei noticed it immediately, jumped out from the side and knocked the man to the ground.
"Ahhh, don't bite me!" The man was so scared that he held his head and screamed.
Xue Huan held up a lantern to illuminate his face. She identified him and realized that he was a lazy man named Liu Quan who often hung out outside her yard.
This man is quite famous in the village. Of course, it’s not a good reputation, but he is famous for being lazy and dishonest. People call him Liu Laizi.
His parents had given birth to three daughters in a row. Because they wanted a son, they did not stop having children and continued to have children until the fifth time when they gave birth to this son.
His parents treasured this son, whom they had finally gotten, by holding him in their hands for fear of dropping him, and in their mouths for fear of melting him.
He never had to do any housework, and any delicious food went to his four sisters without a share; it all belonged to him.
The only value of his four sisters was to marry them off and exchange them for gifts to support his family in their old age. So Liu Quan developed a lot of "young master" syndrome from a young age.
Unfortunately, he was not destined to be a young master.
He just idles around all day and does nothing, just wanting to get something for nothing. Now he is almost thirty and still a bachelor.
He had applied for the job when Xue Huan was recruiting workers before, but unfortunately he did not meet the requirements.
Now that the vegetable garden has been built, due to Xue Huan's deliberate secrecy, no one knows what is planted in it. They privately speculate that it might be something very valuable that they have never seen before.
Others just talked about it and expressed their envy, but Liu Quan, on a whim, ran over to steal the vegetables, thinking of stealing some to take home and grow them. If they really were treasures, he might become rich.
Looking at Liu Quan, Xue Huan was thinking about how to deal with him. If she was too lenient, it would not have a deterrent effect. In the future, others would follow her example and come to the vegetable garden for a visit. Wouldn't she be annoyed to death?
But if it is too serious, it is not acceptable. After all, we are all from the same village, and there is no guarantee that there will be no gossip.
Xue Huan gestured to Pei Ji: "Tie him up and send him to the government office tomorrow."
When the time comes, give Guan Yue a heads-up and ask him to put Liu Quan in jail and treat him well for a few days.
After he has experienced the beatings in prison, he will probably no longer have any evil thoughts, and he will be able to deter others effectively.
The next day, Xue Huan and Pei Ji drove a donkey cart with Liu Quan, who was tied up like a dumpling, on it and drove out of the village.
When they passed the village entrance, Li Hehua, the leader of the gossip group, asked about it. Xue Huan then spoke frankly, "Liu Quan broke into my vegetable garden last night and tried to steal vegetables. I'm going to report it to the county government."
The common people naturally held the government in awe. Upon hearing this, Li Hehua said, "That's unnecessary, isn't it? We're just fellow villagers, why would we have to take the matter to the county government? It's just stealing a few vegetables, what's the big deal?"
Li Hehua said this not out of defense of Liu Quan. When it comes down to it, it was actually a kind of "hatred of the rich" mentality.
Now Xue Huan's family has become prosperous and wealthy. As the saying goes, it is not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth. Some people in the village can't help but feel unbalanced and often grumble about it when gossiping in private. Li Hehua is one of them.
In addition, she still held a grudge against Xue Huan because she had been rejected when she applied for the position of cook.
So whenever he got the chance, he wanted to make Xue Huan unhappy.
Xue Huan didn't bother to think about Li Hehua's thoughts and simply said, "Whether it's necessary or not is up to the officials to decide. Can Aunt Hehua be more wise than those officials?"
After saying this, he said no more and asked Pei Ji to drive away.
Behind her, Li Hehua spat at the donkey cart, "Why are you so proud? You're still relying on men. If Mr. Huo ever changes his mind, I wonder how she can still act so arrogantly!"
There are some people in this world who just can't stand seeing others do well. Once others are doing well, they will wish them bad luck all day long.
In fact, Xue Huan's trip to the county town was not just to send Liu Quan to jail, but mainly to go to the antique shop to see if she could find any objects with purple energy so that the Five Elements Beads could absorb them.
The spiritual spring in this space of the Five Elements Bead is constantly being consumed, and now only a shallow layer is left, which urgently needs to be replenished.
After all, the spiritual spring is related to whether her pepper garden can have a good harvest.
When they arrived at the county government office, Xue Huan stuffed a bag of rice cakes into each of the two yamen runners at the door.
Rice cake is a very common snack, but Xue Huan’s method of making it is a little different. She adds milk and spiritual spring water to it, so the rice cake tastes much better than ordinary ones.
The two yamen runners also knew that she had a close relationship with Guan Yue. As Guan Yue's subordinates, they naturally would not make things difficult for Xue Huan.
In addition, Xue Huan is so pretty and well-behaved. Every time she comes back, she will give them some delicious food. They have long been bribed by Xue Huan.
Yali Jia took the rice cake and said with a smile, "Miss Xue, are you here to see Master Guan? Unfortunately, Master Guan is out investigating a case and hasn't returned yet. If you have anything to tell us, it's the same. We'll tell him when he returns."
Xue Huan: "It's nothing serious. Someone broke into my house last night and tried to steal something. Luckily I discovered him early, otherwise he would have succeeded."
Yali Yi: "How could such a thing happen?! Miss Xue, please hand him over to us. We promise to teach him a lesson and make sure he never dares to steal again."
Xue Huan smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you two brothers."
"Hey, no trouble, no trouble."
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