I support the army through farming and business.

Chapter 40 I Really Want to Be with a Rich Man
The more beautiful something is, the more poisonous it is. But Tang Zhao never expected that it could be so poisonous.

Song Kai stood in the corner terrified as he listened to the princess sighing, wanting to persuade her but not daring to.

Tang Zhao calmed down and ordered, "Go to Mingxia Manor and draw a map for me. Find out what's planted there and what the yield is per mu."

Song Kai nodded.

Tang Zhao and Gu Ci borrowed a guard, and the two of them rode out of Lanzhou City at full speed that day.

Mingxia Manor belongs to Mingxia County, less than a hundred miles away from Lanzhou City. At noon the next day, Song Kai arrived at Mingxia Manor.

In late August, it was the time of autumn harvest. All the men, women, young and old in the village were mobilized. Some went to the fields, some picked ears of grain, and some dried them in the sun, without stopping for a moment.

Young children, carrying wooden baskets, staggered cautiously across the ridges of the fields and found their families busy in the fields, "Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Uncle, Aunt, Big Sister, Second Sister, it's time to eat!"

She stood under the huge ginkgo tree, placed the basket on the stone table, spread out the chipped pottery bowls one by one, and poured in water that had just been chilled in the well.

The farmers, who were already starving, heard the shouting and quickly tied up the wheat they had just harvested and stacked it neatly, then hurried over to eat.

A little girl of seven or eight years old stuffed the largest millet cake in the basket into the hands of her father and uncle. The man didn't want it, saying, "We'll just have bean rice," and was about to take the bowl from the woman's hand.

The woman dodged and said, "Dad, this is the pancake that Niuniu made especially for you and his uncle. You guys do the most work, so how can you not eat something good?"

"Then we don't have to eat millet cakes every meal!" The man was anxious. He saved them for making dumplings during the Chinese New Year. "Besides, we already had them yesterday. Today it's your turn and Niuniu's second aunt to eat them."

The tall, dark-faced young man beside him nodded seriously and added, "There are also gold flowers and silver flowers."

The women all shook their heads, as if what they were about to eat was not the corn that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year, but poison.

"Eat now! The harvest still has another ten days to go. Eat well to have strength," the old man sitting on the stone slab slammed the table in silence. "The sun is strong. Ladies, go home and rest after dinner. Go back to the fields when the sun is lower in the afternoon."

The women responded happily.

The men could no longer refuse, so they quickly tore off a small piece of cake and stuffed it into the bowls of their wives and daughters, and then ate the rest in big mouthfuls.

Song Kai was envious. The northwest was bitterly cold, and large tracts of land were poor fields. The grain yield per mu was far less than that of good farmland. The people worked hard for a year and could only get enough to eat and wear, and that was only when God was kind enough.

If God turns against you, your family will be destroyed.

This is especially true for tenants. If they meet a kind-hearted master, the master will give them some food to eat when there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster. But if they meet a landlord who is struck by plague, there will be many tenants who will starve to death even in normal years.

The tenants are lucky. First, they have the generosity of Princess Xuan, and then they meet the kindness of the princess. Their lives will definitely get better and better.

The head of the village, Sun Qing, was not as optimistic as Song Kai. He did not tell the tenants about the transfer of ownership of the village. He was worried that once he told them, the tenants would be upset and the autumn harvest would be delayed.

He squatted on the edge of the field, not knowing which young lady had become the new master of the manor. After much hesitation, he decided to pay his respects to the mansion after the autumn harvest.

A young man came running over barefoot, "Uncle Sun, someone's looking for you!"

"Who?" Sun Zhuangtou stood up.

The young man turned around and pointed, "He said it was the new master's steward." He scratched his head, "Uncle Sun, are we going to have a new master?"

Sun Zhuangtou slapped him on the head and said, "Don't ask about things you shouldn't ask about, and don't spread this matter outside. Do you understand?"

"Ah?" the boy said bewilderedly, "But many people already know about it!"

Sun Zhuangtou remembered that the man in front of him was a famous sifter in the village. He kicked him away tiredly, brushed off the dust on his body and walked towards him.

"Sir, I'm Sun Qing, the head of Mingxia Manor. May I ask which young lady you work for?" Song Kai replied, "I'm the dowry steward of Princess Zhaoshan's mother's family. My surname is Song."

Princess Zhaoshan? Sun Zhuangtou's eyes widened. "But the Princess Zhaoshan who donated her entire dowry to disaster relief?"

Song Kai smiled and answered yes.

Sun Zhuangtou was so happy that he almost fainted. He never dared to dream that Zhuangzi would fall into the hands of the princess.

Bodhisattva and Buddha, believers will worship with sincerity day and night in the future, and thank Bodhisattva and Buddha for their blessings!

Sun Zhuangtou couldn't stop smiling and took Song Kai to visit the farm.

At the same time, Mei Guanya took the teacup handed to him by Qiuyu with trembling hands and took a sip mechanically. He could not taste the imperial tea at all. Mei Guanya burst into tears in his heart, I am really damned!

Chun Feng glared at her and said softly, "Don't be afraid, Mei Guanya. We came to you because the princess needs your help with something."

"I dare not," Mei Guanya waved his hands repeatedly, hurriedly expressing his loyalty, "It is a blessing for me to be able to work for the princess. Just tell me what you want, and I will do my best."

"Don't worry, Mei Guanya, what the princess asks you to do is definitely your responsibility," Chunfeng said, reassuring him. "The princess has just arrived in the northwest and needs to set up some business. I would like to ask Mei Guanya to help find a shop that suits her."

Mei Guanya breathed a sigh of relief. "I wonder what conditions the princess has, please let me know."

"A three-courtyard structure, with a shop on the outermost side, should occupy a large area and preferably have its own well," Chunfeng explained. "It doesn't matter if it's a bit remote, but it must be well-connected and close to residential areas."

The conditions were quite a few, but not difficult. Mei Guanya considered carefully and said, "I wonder what price range the princess would like?"

Seeing Chunfen smiling without saying anything, Mei Guanya stopped asking questions and stood up and said respectfully, "Please tell the princess that I will take the princess's instructions as a top priority. Please wait for good news."

"After the matter is accomplished, the princess will definitely not treat Mei Guanya unfairly." This is just empty talk.

Mei Guanya left happily.

"The girl only has 800 taels of silver in her hand, and she doesn't even know if it's enough to buy a shop," Qiuyu looked at Mei Guanya's back with sympathy.

"The girl is already writing a storybook," Chunfeng said as he walked.

Qiuyu's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly got on the carriage, urging, "Hurry up!"

She was going back to help the girl with her writing.

Tang Zhao sat on the swing that Bai Cheng had just built, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds, like a wise man thinking about life.

Bai Cheng took a big broom and swept the fallen ginkgo leaves into one place, while waiting for the princess to say some great truths that would brighten his life.

God helps those who work hard, Tang Zhao finally spoke his first words of the morning.

"I really want to be with a rich man!"

Then he started to sing, "Aha, I had a dream last night. A rich man took a fancy to me, gave me a high-rise building and wanted to be my husband!"

"Ahhhhhh, there's thunder outside the window, shattering my beautiful dream. Everything is in vain!"

Bai Cheng was bewildered after hearing this. What, what does it mean to hang out with a rich man?
Zhao Zhao: The poor all want to be with rich people

Rich people, please give some recommendation tickets and monthly tickets to Zhao Zhao.

And the poor author
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