Chapter 259 Someone broke into the manor at night
Before long, she revived all the dead fruit trees in the orchard. Each tree sprouted small green buds, and several trees that originally had green fruit turned into ripe red fruit with a gentle wave of her hand.
While Zhou Ruiyuan and the others were preparing the fields, Du Wanchun had already finished pruning the entire orchard.
As it was getting dark, the family returned to the Zhou family home in a horse-drawn carriage.
No sooner had they left than three women secretly arrived at the village.
These three women used to be servants in this estate, but they were sold off by the Feng family a long time ago. These past few days, they heard that the Feng family had sold the estate, and they ran to the estate with resentment.
They had spent most of their lives in this village, and they were all resentful when the Feng family drove them away.
"Why should such a good estate be given to the Zhou family!" The speaker was Madam Zhu, who had been sold off and worked in Master Fang's house. She knew people from the Zhou family and had always been jealous of them.
Now that they've heard their estate was sold to the Zhou family, they're even more resentful.
The others chimed in, "That's right! We've dedicated most of our lives to this estate, but we've got nothing in return!"
"Why didn't the Feng family think of us before they sold it!"
These people had lived in the manor for too long, and since the Feng family didn't really care about them, they started to think of themselves as the masters.
The three men grew angrier and angrier, deciding that if they couldn't have it, no one else could either. So they came to this place together at night, intending to destroy the manor.
Zhu took the lead, walking at the very front, and arrived first at the already renovated house.
The originally dilapidated house has been completely transformed in the past few days thanks to the repairs done by the Third Prince and his men.
Zhu raised her foot and kicked the door. "The Zhou family really put their heart into it; they actually repaired the house."
The door was kicked open, and she slowly walked inside.
The dust inside the house has been mostly cleaned up, but new tables and chairs haven't been placed yet.
Zhu turned around and kicked the door again, trying to kick it off.
At this moment, two other people came over and said, "It's no use just messing around with this house. Let's go to the orchard in the back mountain. Those fruit trees are worth a lot of money."
Upon hearing this, Madam Zhu quickly withdrew her foot. "Alright, let's go to the orchard now!"
The three of them walked together toward the orchard.
On the pitch-black road, Zhu Shi carrying a lantern looked particularly eerie.
As they walked, the last old woman suddenly heard a rustling sound and grabbed the old woman in front of her, saying, "Did you hear anything?"
The old woman stopped and shook her head. "No."
Madam Zhu turned and glanced at them. "What are you talking about? Hurry up and leave, or it will be dawn soon."
"Okay, we're coming right now." The two of them replied quietly, looked around, and continued walking forward when they saw no one was there.
Once they reached the orchard, Zhu took out a tinderbox from her bosom. "Just burn all these things."
The two old women behind her nodded repeatedly, "That's right, we planted these trees one by one, why should we just give them to the Zhou family?"
Hearing their words, Zhu became increasingly indignant and quickly lit a tinderbox.
The tinderbox quickly produced a small flame.
Zhu was holding a dry branch she was about to use to burn it.
But a gust of cold wind blew in and extinguished the small flame.
Zhu was startled. "Why is the wind suddenly picking up?"
After her initial surprise, she took out another tinderbox, only to have the flame blown out again.
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