After Li Qingling thoroughly understood the situation, he handed the vegetable seed over to Nian Xia and the others and had her plant it for them to decide on their own.Nian Xia said yes and took a big bag of vegetable seed to look for Li Qingfeng and the others.
Hu Juanjuan looked at Li Qingling, and asked her with a smile, had the garden in the house already opened up?
Listening to Magistrate"s Wife"s words, it was from the young masters of the family?
"I just spent more than an hour to open it. I"m waiting to plant the vegetable seed and after a while, there will be dishes to eat." Li Qingling laughed in a good mood, "Mrs. Hu, I would like to ask you about the suitable fruit trees to grow here."
Fruit tree?
Could it be that Magistrate"s Wife wanted to plant a fruit tree?
Hu Juanjuan hid the astonishment in her heart and explained how many fruit trees she would find.
Hearing this, Li Qingling then asked her where he could sell fruit trees.
"Madam, you …" Are we going to plant fruit trees at home? "
"The children at home want to change their trees into fruit trees. They say that by the fall, they will have a lot of fruit to eat." Li Qingling did not conceal anything from Hu Juanjuan, and directly laughed, "It"s rare that these children have one request, and that is to satisfy them."
Magistrate"s Wife was rather pampered by his family and could even fulfill these requirements.
Hu Juanjuan thought in her heart, but she did not show it on her face. She smiled and said, "It"s good, I also saved a lot of money to buy fruits."
"Indeed. The most important thing is to let the children experience the hardships of the people. The children will not casually waste food."
Hearing these words, Hu Juanjuan sighed as she looked at Li Qingling. She had a premonition that this time, the County Magistrate would definitely bring the common people to live a good life.
Although she had never seen County Magistrate before, she knew what kind of person he was from Magistrate"s Wife.
What pot with what cover? Magistrate"s Wife was so good, how could the County Magistrate be bad?
When Master comes back tonight, she would definitely warn him again. She would definitely hug County Magistrate"s leg tightly and not be left behind.
Thinking about Director He who had always been pressing down on her Master, her expression darkened. If Director He had not seduced He Zhao Lin w.a.n.g and his four family members, how could he have the qualifications to act so arrogantly?
The four families were like four great mountains of the Ninghua County, always pressing down on the Ninghua County, causing all of the incoming County Magistrate s to be unable to move these four families, and could only turn a blind eye to what the four families were doing.
There were even more excessive County Magistrates who colluded with the four families, constantly trying to squeeze out more commoners.
They squeezed the common people so hard they couldn"t even speak, yet they had no choice but to endure.
Every time the master came home and talked to her about these things, he would sigh.
However, he didn"t have any other methods. If the officials weren"t powerful enough, what could he do?
For the sake of his family, he could only endure it.
This time it was different, she seemed to have seen the light of hope, the light that could allow the people of Ninghua County to live a good life.
Hopefully, her intuition was right this time. Otherwise, she would slap the old master"s face when she resolutely said those words.
"Madam, I wonder if you"ve ever heard of the Ninghua County"s Four Great Monopolies?" If he wanted to get into his shoes, he would have to sell his information at the right time. Hu Juanjuan was well aware of this logic.
"Oh? The Ninghua County has four great wealthy people? " Li Qingling pretended not to know and looked at Hu Juanjuan curiously: "Mrs. Hu, can you tell me what the situation is with these four rich people?" The information they were investigating was not as clear as the locals had thought. What came out of the local population could contain information that they wanted to know.
Hu Juanjuan also wanted to sell them all to Li Qingling. As long as she knew about the four great wealthy owners of Ninghua County, she would tell everything to Li Qingling.
To be honest, Li Qingling really did know some things that they had not discovered from Hu Juanjuan"s mouth.
She would talk to Liu Zhimo about it later and see if she could help him?
"Mrs. Hu, then is your land rented as well?"
"No, my family has fifteen acres of land, so we don"t have to eat. But we can go on like this, so we didn"t rent any more land." She felt that the rent the people were renting for the land was too high to be a good deal.
However, the Ninghua County was a family that the four families had grown up in, so the commoners had no other choice. They didn"t want to starve, so they could only force themselves to rent it.
Li Qingling frowned, and asked Hu Juanjuan about the rent on the side of the Ninghua County?
Her frown deepened when she heard that it was forty percent turned over to the family.
After paying forty percent of the rent to the main house and then handing over the taxes of the imperial government, how much of the family would remain?
Having a few kids at home was not enough to eat.
She never thought that the"s rent would be so high. Those four families were really too much, like leeches lying on the common people"s bodies, sucking their blood.
Did Mo know about this? If he wanted to achieve a good result in Ninghua County, he would have to overthrow those four clans. Otherwise, he wouldn"t be able to perform his job.
"I wonder if Mrs. Hu will have the time to introduce me to the Ninghua County tomorrow?" Li Qingling laughed and changed the topic, no longer talking about the previous topic.
She would tell him about it in her heart, so she didn"t want to say anything more.
Hu Juanjuan looked at Li Qingling, and could not tell what she was thinking. Would she inform County Magistrate about this, and would County Magistrate care about it?
She suppressed the anxiety in her heart and smiled as she said that if she had time, she could accompany Madam on a stroll around the Ninghua County.
Magistrate"s Wife wanted her to accompany him. Even if he didn"t have time, she had to be free.
No one would be able to find such an opportunity even if they wanted to. She was fortunate enough to find one, so of course she had to grasp it tightly.
"Alright, come and find me tomorrow. We"ll leave together."
"Alright …" Hu Juanjuan nodded her head in excitement. She would definitely perform well tomorrow, to the satisfaction of Magistrate"s Wife, "Then Madam, I"ll go home first.
Li Qingling acknowledged his presence and waved his hand. Xi Chun took out a basket of dim sum and handed it over to Hu Juanjuan, telling her to bring it back for the children to eat.
Seeing that, Hu Juanjuan waved her hand fiercely, saying that there was no need for it. She had already taken it two days ago, so if she took it again today, she would feel embarra.s.sed.
Li Qingling took the basket and directly stuffed it into Hu Juanjuan"s hands, saying that it was made by her family"s servant and was not worth much, and gave the children a taste.
At least it was something easy to say, but now, Hu Juanjuan took the basket of snacks with an embarra.s.sed face, and thanked Li Qingling gratefully.
He remembered that when she went to see Magistrate"s Wife previously, Magistrate"s Wife had looked at her with his tallest eyes, and when he talked to her, he looked so high and mighty, and every time she left, he would not give his any snacks.
The former Magistrate"s Wife was the complete opposite of the current Magistrate"s Wife.
Now, this Magistrate"s Wife, not only was he good-looking, his words were also good to hear.
After coming here twice, she had only given her two things. Although these things weren"t worth much, she was very grateful for her kindness.
"Thank you Madam, I"ll be leaving first."
Before Li Qingling could say anything, Nian Xia ran over and whispered into her ear, "A lady who calls himself Director He has come. He wants to meet me?"
Director He"s wife?
She raised her eyebrows and waved towards Nian Xia, asking him to bring Madam He over for her to see.
She was a little interested in this Madam He who had delivered herself to her doorstep. Why had she come to see her?
Could it be for Director He?
The corner of Li Qingling"s mouth raised into a smile. She actually wanted to see just who Madam He was?
Hu Juanjuan did not want to stay in the same room as Director He"s wife, Cui Cuicui.
Li Qingling acknowledged his presence and told her to be more careful. He would look for her on time tomorrow and take a walk outside.
Hu Juanjuan replied respectfully, took the things and left.
Halfway there, he met Director He"s wife, Cui Cuicui.
Cui Cuicui looked at Hu Juanjuan with contempt. She felt that Hu Juanjuan was very shameless, and came to visit him again.
Li Qingling wanted to see who Cui Cuicui was, and similarly, what kind of person was Li Qingling?
She felt that people who could chat with Hu Juanjuan for so long wouldn"t be much better off.
"Oh, it"s the Mrs. Hu, you came over to kiss Magistrate"s Wife"s a.s.s again? It seems that you made a pretty good bid, for Magistrate"s Wife to send you more refreshments? "
Hu Juanjuan was so angry that her face turned green and white. She glared and said, "Should I go back and inform Madam about this? Mrs. Cui has called her a horse." She really didn"t like Cui Cuicui. Every time they met, the two of them would have to struggle for a long time before they would part ways.
Cui Cuicui did not take Hu Juanjuan"s words to heart at all. She looked at Hu Juanjuan coldly, snorted, and then leisurely followed along.
Hu Juanjuan frowned as she looked at Cui Cuicui"s back. Why was this woman looking for Magistrate"s Wife?
She thought for a moment before silently sighing. She then took a basket of pastries and walked out of the main door.
Magistrate"s Wife was so intelligent, he should be able to get rid of him.
Cui Cuicui originally thought that she would see a dark skinned, ugly Magistrate"s Wife, but she never thought that Magistrate"s Wife would be so beautiful.
She looked at Li Qingling, his mind unable to wrap around the situation. It was too different from what she had imagined.
For a moment, she couldn"t take it anymore.
In the Ninghua County, who didn"t know that she, Cui Cuicui, was a beauty who firmly sat on the seat of honor as the number one beauty in the Ninghua County.
It would be strange if she suddenly discovered a woman that was even more beautiful than she was.
Li Qingling gracefully put down the teacup and turned to look at Cui Cuicui. He asked with a smile if she was Director He"s wife, Cui Cuicui.
Cui Cuicui snorted, and unceremoniously sized Li Qingling up from head to toe.
Being sized up like this, it was as if he was evaluating a merchandise, made Li Qingling very uncomfortable in his heart.
What kind of husband, what kind of wife.
From this, it could be seen that their home tutor wasn"t any better off.
Cui Cuicui nodded condescendingly.
She was half a head taller than Cui Cuicui, so she had her eyes lowered and her aura was in full swing as she looked at Cui Cuicui. She asked indifferently, "I wonder why Mrs. Cui is looking for me?"