GBP Chapter 146 Don't mess with her anymore
Chapter 146 Don't mess with her anymore
"Since you admit that you destroyed other people's crops on purpose, do you have to double the compensation?" Caesar asked expressionlessly.
"Compensation, can't we just pay it?"
Yuan Pingzhang said repeatedly.
"Ten taels of silver."
"What?" Yuan Pingzhang was a little unresponsive.
"The intentional destruction of crops is a serious offense, and each person must pay at least ten taels of silver in compensation." Xize stared at Yuan Pingzhang and the others without any fluctuations in his voice.
"Compensation, I will!" Yuan Pingzhang agreed readily.
"I'll pay!" Wang Sibo and others also nodded in agreement very tactfully.
"What you say is unfounded."
"We are willing to write a document as evidence!" Wang Sibo continued.
Caesar then nodded.
Ruan Qingqing held the five receipts in her hand and shook them at Yuan Pingzhang and the others, "Did you do this voluntarily? I didn't force you to pay compensation at all!"
"We volunteered!" Yuan Pingzhang and others said with their heads down.
After receiving the guarantee, Ruan Qingqing felt fulfilled.
"Tomorrow, you will transplant the sweet potatoes for me!"
"Where did the sweet potato seedlings come from? Did the villagers share them?" Zhang Qiuming asked.
“I grew it myself.”
The next day, Yuan Pingzhang and others saw Ruan Qingqing taking out bundles of sweet potato seedlings that were more than ten centimeters long from the darkroom, and they were all stunned.
"Can sweet potato seedlings be cultivated out of thin air?" Zhang Qiuming was a little confused.
"How can I cultivate them out of thin air? Thanks to you, the mother buds of the sweet potatoes were destroyed. I can only trim the remaining vines and cultivate them in a humid place. Although the process was a bit tortuous, fortunately they all survived. Take them and plant them!"
"Don't they say that vines without mother buds will die?" Yuan Pingzhang was a little unwilling to give up.
"As long as there is enough temperature, water and nutrients, the sweet potato vines will grow roots independently. It's just that people don't know this nowadays!"
"This... means that the crops we destroyed were not completely destroyed?" Shen Zhizui raised his eyebrows at Ruan Qingqing.
"The vine whose mother bud you destroyed before will not survive if left alone. But if you want to save it, you can find a way to save it."
After Ruan Qingqing finished speaking, she continued to work on her hybridization research. If she wanted to achieve high grain yields here, she still had to develop the hybridization technology in China, otherwise it would still be difficult to get rid of the nightmare of food shortage.
"Although Ruan Handao looks fierce, she still has some ideas in her head. I dare say that no one in the entire Yunqing Kingdom knows the method she just mentioned!" Yuan Pingzhang said while waving his fan and looking at Ruan Qingqing who was gradually walking away.
Shen Zhizui clenched his fist angrily, "You say it!"
"I say, we should avoid messing with Ruan Handao in the future. We can't beat him in a fight. Just this time, it's a small matter that we lost some money. If Ruan Handao really intends to make a big fuss about the mess we did, it's possible that all of us will be exterminated along with our entire clan." Wang Sibo couldn't help but shiver.
"Normally, if we have a fight, at most the old man in the family would take us out to apologize and make amends and that's it. But if you mess with Ruan Handao, either nothing will happen, or your entire nine clans will be wiped out. We are gangsters, but we can't joke about our own nine clans." Zhao Zhen couldn't help but shiver all over.
"Let's all just finish our farm work honestly over the next few months! Don't provoke her anymore." Zhang Qiuming almost knelt down in front of everyone.
A group of people who are not as strong as others in terms of fighting power and brainpower are still fighting with others. Aren't they just asking for trouble?
Not only did they fight, but they also dragged me into it...
"You say it!" The other four people retorted to Zhang Qiuming in unison.
After this incident, everyone really stayed quiet for a while. They did whatever Ruan Qingqing assigned to Yuan Pingzhang and the others, and they no longer dared to think of causing trouble.
It’s because they carry manure more frequently that the potatoes and corn they plant are bigger than those of other families.
On the day of harvesting potatoes, Yuan Pingzhang and his friends also called Fu Yuanhao to join them in harvesting potatoes. They harvested more than 6000 kilograms of potatoes from five mu of land.
When the news reached their respective families, everyone was somewhat unconvinced.
"Others are fine, but is Shen Zhizui a farmer? He would be grateful if he didn't waste the land. He can farm? And he can even produce a high yield of more than 1,200 kilograms per mu? Isn't that just a compliment from everyone?"
When Shen Zhizui's father, General Shen, first heard the news, he scolded his youngest son, who was the worst performer, from head to toe at home.
When Lord Yuan, the Dali Temple Minister, heard his old wife chattering on and on praising him, he quickly raised his hand to ask her to stop.
"Stop! What kind of character does your own son have? Don't you have any idea about it? How can he produce more than 1,200 kilograms per mu? He looks like a wretch who can't wait to go home and take a bath when there's a little dust on his clothes. Is he fit to farm?"
"But... isn't this what Ping Zhang said in the letter? Is it possible that our son suddenly comes to his senses?" Yuan Li said hesitantly.
"He didn't get wise in the first twenty years, but he got wise after staying in that corner of Lulin Mansion for two years? Could it be that Lulin Mansion is a place with outstanding people and beautiful scenery?" Yuan Youzheng didn't even believe the punctuation marks in the letter.
"Isn't it possible for Lulin Prefecture to produce outstanding people? Didn't you see that Zhou Zheng, that bastard, has been hiding in Lulin for three years? Not only has his temperament changed a lot, but his official position has also been promoted several levels. Not to mention that the families of the children who went with Pingzhang have all received good news. These things can be found out with a little inquiry."
"You're getting more and more ridiculous. Zhou Zheng may not look like a good guy on the surface, but he's actually a very capable guy. Otherwise, why would the emperor promote him? Besides, he got help from many people in Lulin to achieve his current success!"
"Why can't my Pingzhang have the help of an expert, suddenly come to his senses, and grow high-yield potatoes?" Yuan Li still believed that her son had become a better person.
Similar arguments were also taking place in the homes of Wang Sibo, Zhang Qiuming and Zhao Zhen.
Faced with their family's suspicion, Yuan Pingzhang and his friends didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and immediately spent a lot of money to buy all the potatoes weighing more than 6000 kilograms, and then divided them equally. Except for keeping some for themselves, the rest were sent back to their families so that their families could taste the potatoes they had worked so hard to grow.
After the Grain Full Festival and the wheat harvest, Yuan Pingzhang and Shen Zhizui's working period also ended.
Everyone gathered together to celebrate.
They also called Ruan Qingqing over to drink.
"Miss Ruan, we were really annoyed with you at first! You were a girl, much younger than us. You asked us to do this and that, without any sympathy for our cleanliness, and of course, you ignored our image of being a dashing and charming woman.
This makes us very unhappy, but you are really great, not only in work but also in handling things. We have to admire you! Although we are being punished here, we have really learned a lot. God knows that seeing that the yield of potatoes per acre is much higher than that of others, the pride and joy are really beyond words! Without further ado, I toast you a glass! "
"I'll toast to you, too! You've helped us get rid of a lot of bad habits and allowed us to face the working people head on!"
"I toast to you too! We have deeply experienced the hardships and joys of farmers!"
"I'll toast to you too! You've shown us a different way of life!"
"I'll toast to you, too! Let's experience different aspects of life!"