Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 457: Maternal Uncle and Aunt

All credit to original author: Yi Yi Lan Xi

Madam Gu took a gamble and collected seven or eight taels of silver to buy cotton seeds.
In the huge Yuhe count, Lian Fang Zhou was not the only one growing cotton so she didn’t believe she couldn’t find something to buy.

But the reality was that other people’s fields were only enough to grow enough for themselves, how would they have some to sell to her? In fact, there really wasn’t enough.
Many people who had sold their own cotton seeds in the past were so regretful that their intestines were turning green!

The dealers who had bought the seeds had them but mot of them had already been shipped to sell at high prices in other counties.
Where would they have some for her?

In the end, Madam Gu resorted to her shameless methods and brought back more than two catties of cotton seeds from nowhere.
Proud of herself, she didn’t forget to say a lot of sour words.

Of course, no one cared about her.

A few people actually thought that Lian Fang Zhou had taken things too far, saying that now that she had money, she should make good connects and be generous.
Why bother with people like Madam Gu?

Lian Fang Zhou smiled at Ah Jian and the others: “I’m not a Guanyin Bodhisattva, I have never thought about saving everyone.
Besides, there are just these kinds of people who will always been a white-eyed wolf, no matter how much you feed them.
I know this very well!”

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Over the next few days, Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian went to the city to find Zhao Liu.
They needed to hire people to build the house as well as about thirty to forty workers for Luozhi Mountain.
If they had enough workers, they wouldn’t always need to go through Zhao Liu.

Zhao Liu agreed and smiled: “Congratulations!” Then he joked, “I knew that Miss Lian would need people and I have them ready.
Miss Lian is a big customer, since Miss Lian came even the slow, winter season is busy!”

Lian Fang Zhou laughed.
“What? Is Zhao Liu blaming me? Isn’t it good to get rich in just a year?”

“Good, good! Of course it’s good!” Zhao Liu laughed loudly: “I’m not flattering you, it’s true!”

They both laughed together.

Choosing an auspicious date, Lian Fang Zhou’s family moved to the compound.
Fortunately, they had many people and few things, so they were able to move over in only a day.

The next morning, the old house was demolished under the command of Li San He and the workers spent three days setting up the new foundation.

The new house was going to be a lot bigger.
Not only was the old foundation too small, but the yard itself was too small as well.

Exchanging some of the land they used for their vegetable garden with their neighbor, Lian Fang Zhou was able to get some of the land next to the yard to expand.

After cleaning up, the yard was now more than one and a half acres, just enough for both the house and the yard.

The house design was drafted by Lian Fang Zhou with lots of suggestions from her family.
The younger siblings were full of expectations for this big house that would unite them.

After the auspicious day arrived, the building started.

Nowadays, people and money was abundant and it was much more convenient to do things.

But who would have guessed that just as the work started, trouble arrived.

The persimmons in the orchard were at the best time for persimmon cakes and Lian Fang Zhou had handed this matter over to Madam Sun, Lian Fang Qing, and Third Aunt.

Even Lian Fang Zhou would go out and help pick persimmons whenever she was free.

Now that they were living in the compound, which had many eyes and mouths, Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian couldn’t meet as frequently as before and could only see each other in the banana forest.

It happened that Lian Fang Zhou was just leaving the banana forest to help harvest persimmons when she saw Zhang Xiu’er rushing towards her, smiling with relief: “Miss! Ah, I found you just as I started looking for you! Your Maternal Uncle and Aunt are here, you should go back!”

“… Uncle? Aunt?” Lian Fang Zhou’s tone was suspicious.
What kind of nonsense was this?

As she wondered at this, Zhang Xiu’er shrugged: “I don’t know either, they’ve never been to our house.
However…” she looked at Lian Fang Zhou cautiously.
“It looks like that uncle and aunt are very strong! They have strong characters.”

Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t help but glance at Zhang Xiu’er.

Zhang Xiu’er had a soft temperament and treated people in a friendly manner, never speaking out against others.
Since she said this, it could be seen that this Uncle and Aunt were not easy to deal with.

“Let’s go back first.” Lian Fang Zhou smiled.

The so-called rich had distant relatives in the mountains! Uncle! Aunt!

Lian Fang Zhou sneered in her heart.
After the deaths of her parents, they never showed up and now that rumors were passing around, they came out!

Zhang Xiu’er saw that Lian Fang Zhou was calm and indifferent and her heart relaxed.
She nodded and the two went back together.

For some reason, seeing Lian Fang Zhou’s expression, Zhang Xiu’er felt that no matter how difficult they were, she couldn’t be beaten.

The two of them hadn’t gone far when they saw Aunt Zhang hurriedly running towards them.
She stopped and smiled, saying: “Are you just going back? Your Aunt and Uncle are here!”

“Aunt Zhang,” Lian Fang Zhou greeted her.
“Xiu’er told me, thank you! Did they say what they came to my house for?”

Lian Fang Zhou was not familiar with this Aunt and Uncle at all.
Let alone their personality, she didn’t know what their plans were.
She only knew that it wasn’t good.
Hopefully she could get some clue from Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhang sighed: “Fang Zhou, this auntie has never treated you like an outsider.
There are some things that different surnames shouldn’t say… but this auntie has to say it! Your Maternal Uncle and Aunt… just look at your Paternal Uncle and Aunt.
You should know that your Maternal Aunt is much stronger than your Paternal Aunt.
Now that you have money, it’s not the same as before.
You don’t know how many people are watching your every move.
Che’er is in school, too.
Don’t let her catch hold of your handle and ruin your reputation in vain!”

“Thank you, Auntie! I will remember it!” Lian Fang Zhou said gratefully.

But her heart was cold.
It turned out they were such good people!

Ah, how could she have been so blessed in her second life?

“You are becoming more and more mature and thoughtful in your actions and I’m sure you have an idea in your heart.” Aunt Zhang said.
“I have reminded you in vain but if I don’t say this, I will not feel at ease.” She smiled and walked back with them.

Lian Fang Zhou hurriedly smiled: “No matter how mature and steady I am, I still have limitations.
I will need your reminders a lot! You are the only one who has treated me so well and it has never changed.”

She sighed, her heart feeling warm.

Aunt Zhang smiled, gratified.
“I hope you will not say that I’m relying on my age to have the air of an elder.
I really take you as a daughter!”

“This is my blessing!” Lian Fang Zhou said, sharing a laugh with Aunt Zhang.

Suddenly, she asked: “By the way, Aunt Zhang… how did you know about this?”

As soon as the couple arrived, Zhang Xiu’er should have come straight to tell her.
How did Aunt Zhang get involved?