It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 127

Fu Weixin came back from somewhere relaxing accompanied by Baoqin. Seeing everyone cleaning everywhere with various tools, he couldn't help but suspect that he had been fooled by them before.

Yile finished sweeping the dust in the master bedroom and was about to make room for Jiang Yan and Chunying to wipe the floor when she turned around and saw Fu Nulang staring at them with a bad look on her face.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she felt a sense of crisis that was slightly less severe than the one she felt in Rongcheng County last year.

Yile pretended to be unaware and calmly assured Fu Nulang, "Miss, thanks to Zhou Li borrowing some tools from other farms, we maids will be able to clean up the house before sunset."

Fu Weixin stared into the room, and his silence lasted so long that even Jiang Yan and Chunying, who saluted and then turned around to continue wiping the dust, could sense something was wrong.

Jiang Yan increased the frequency of her work, but question marks popped up in her mind one after another. It seemed that Miss Fu really couldn't sit still. Without any elders to find things for her to do, she wanted to do it herself.

……

Jiang Yan and the others worked hard for several days and finally helped Miss Fu settle down at the farm.

The weather in early March was complex and changeable. The originally chilly winter day became as warm as spring in just one night, and the land outside the village also showed fresh greenery.

With Fu Nulang's permission, Jiang Yan and Yi Le, carrying their newly purchased small bamboo baskets and small stools, leisurely went to the fields to dig for wild vegetables. After a winter of eating dried wild vegetables, it was time to savor the freshest green leaves.

At the same time, Fu Weixin was considering adding more staff to the farm.

She needs a woman who can cook. Although Jiang Yan's cooking skills have improved significantly in the past few days, they are still not as exquisite and stable as those of a professional chef.

She asked the coachman and the doorman to free Zhou Li from the chores of feeding mules and guarding the gate so that he could concentrate on working for her.

We need a gardener. The yard here is bare. We need to plant some flowers and plants to please the eyes.

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The next day, when Madam Yang was resting, she brought some well-known young men from the city to the farm for Fu Nu to choose servants, Fu Weixin picked and chose and only took a liking to one or two of them. The rest were not to her liking. Either their facial features were not regular enough, or they were too rigid or had too many ulterior motives, or they just didn't feel right.

Nanny Yang stood by and twitched her lips. This level of pickiness did not seem like picking out a few maids to do the cleaning and washing, but more like looking for helpers who could run errands for herself.

After sending the boy away, Madam Yang asked Miss Fu, "Now that you've chosen your servants, are you planning on finding some tenant farmers or buying some slaves to farm the land?"

Fu Weixin had never thought about this, and even didn't care: "Is it necessary? I can buy food in the city or in the nearby farms."

Can I buy it if I want? The day after Fu Nulang returned home, the people sent by Xiding Prefecture arrived right after her. Nanny Yang vaguely heard some inside stories and knew that Fu Nulang had only survived starvation thanks to the help of the young man and young woman from the second wife of the Chang Mansion, and that she had the strength to sneak back. Now she had forgotten her predicament.

Of course, Nanny Yang couldn't pull Miss Fu to wake her up, so she just carefully advised, "There are always inconvenient times, and you haven't had time to check the grain store yet. Grain prices are high right now, and feeding more than ten mouths is a considerable expense."

Fu Weixin pondered for a moment, then accepted Madam Yang's kindness. However, she had no experience in these matters, so she asked, "Madam, do you know how to choose someone?"

Nanny Yang didn't know either. The last time she worked in the fields was decades ago, and she hadn't touched it since she was brought to the Chang family to work. But she knew who might be the one.

Fu Weixin also thought of Jiang Yan, one of his maids who clearly had farming experience.

When Jiang Yan came back leisurely from outside with a bamboo basket on her shoulder, she received an order from Fu Nulang asking her to help pick people to farm the fields. She was stunned at the moment.

"Girl, I've only been farming for a year, and I've always done what my elders told me to do. Now I don't know how to choose people..."