I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 792 - Chapter 792 Thick-skinned

Chapter 792: Thick-skinned Chapter 792: Thick-skinned Editor: Atlas Studios Little Bear pestered Qi Haoran for three days and obediently brought him tea and water.

He even brought him foot-washing water at night and squatted on the ground to wash his father’s feet.

Qi Haoran enjoyed three days of filial piety before finally agreeing to lend him a messenger pigeon for the sole purpose of exchanging letters between him and Little Treasure.

Little Bear wrote to Little Treasure excitedly that night to tell him the good news.

At the same time, he told him that he had decided to name the school Treasure-Bear Academy.

Then, under his father’s guidance, he carefully placed the letter into a small bamboo tube and tied it to the messenger pigeon’s leg, letting it send a letter to Little Treasure.

Little Treasure cried out in surprise when he received the letter from the messenger pigeon.

In fact, he did away with his usual afternoon nap and kissed the messenger pigeon twice as he hugged it.

After reading the letter, he personally fed the pigeon.

Qi Xiuyuan watched as the two children discussed the name of the school, the students recruited, the teachers hired, and even the curriculum.

Finally, the messenger pigeon collapsed from exhaustion due to the heavy utilization by the two children!

Little Treasure could only carry the messenger pigeon to look for his royal father and beg him to give them two more messenger pigeons so that they could alternate between the two.

Qi Xiuyuan had a headache.

Previously, he was worried that the two children would grow distant due to the distance, but from the looks of it now, how could they possibly grow distant?

The two brats wished they could become conjoined twins.

As soon as the pigeon arrived, Little Treasure would write a letter to send it back.

A letter from the messenger pigeon would arrive every three to four days.

Clearly, Little Bear was in the same state as Little Treasure, only letting the messenger pigeon rest for a night.

No matter how much there was to be said, they should be done talking about it in a month, right?

However, the two children would chat about everything under the sunaEUR”the delicious foods they ate, getting slapped on the palm when they didn’t complete their homework, and even trivial stuff like their mother getting kicked by the fetus thrice.

There were new topics every day.

Especially Little Bear.

Looking at his illegible letter, one couldn’t help but wonder just how Haoran and Ah Ling had taught him.

The cow that Dahei’s family had raised for eight years fell sick.

In order to treat the cow, Dahei’s father wanted to sell Dahei’s younger sister.

Now that the snow was beginning to melt and the farmer uncles had to start farming, the older kids were made to help out in the fields and could no longer attend school.

He brought people to his house and snatched the person awayaEUR| This made Little Treasure sob hard.

During dinner, he asked Qi Xiuyuan, “Royal Father, why do people have to sell a person when the cow falls sick?

Are cows more important than people?

If I had a younger sister, I wouldn’t sell her even if all the cows were sick.” Qi Xiuyuan could only clench his chopsticks bitterly.

How was he going to tell his son?

Should he say that cows were an important asset to farmers, or that females had a low status in the family?

Or to tell him how hard the commoners’ lives were under his rule?

Qi Xiuyuan closed his eyes and said, “I don’t understand these either.

You have to find the answer yourself.” The Empress looked at him in surprise.

Qi Xiuyuan lowered his eyes and picked up a piece of chicken for him.

“So, my son, you have to eat more and grow up quickly.

When you find the answer, do tell Royal Father.” Little Treasure nodded fiercely.

“Royal Father, don’t worry.

I’ll definitely tell you the reason when I find it.” The topics discussed by the two children were too varied and wide-ranging for the adults to understand.

However, this did not stop Qi Xiuyuan from seeing Little Treasure’s growth.

His son, who had been studying with the teachers every day, suddenly became energetic.

He would hold a book and ask his teacher what it meant to ‘teach without discrimination’.

He would also run to his bedroom at night and nestle in Qi Xiuyuan’s arms, curiously asking him about the difference between millet and rice.

He would try his best to save up every copper coin he obtained and then plan what to do with the money.

Then, he would write to Little Bear and teach him everything.

He even wrote up a plan without anyone guiding him.

Therefore, even if Qi Xiuyuan was sometimes stumped or saddened by the two children’s questions, he still supported them and gave them two more pigeons.

Hence, the two children could communicate with each other unimpeded.

This made Qi Haoran extremely jealous.

It was not easy to nurture messenger pigeons.

Even military pigeons were not used so casually.

Qi Haoran could not help but apply for two more from Qi Xiuyuan.

Qi Xiuyuan, who was as warm as the spring breeze to Little Treasure and Little Bear, was not polite to Qi Haoran at all.

Not only did he ruthlessly reject his application, but he also asked him to speed up the construction of the Luodian guardhouse.

In fact, he asked Qi Haoran to try his best to nurture two military pigeons to be sent from Luodian to the capital.

Along with the letter to Qi Haoran was his letter for Mu Yangling.

When Qi Haoran received the letter, his eyes widened so much that two holes almost appeared in the envelope.

After staring hard at it, he confirmed that it was his big brother’s handwriting and not the Empress’s.

Frowning, Qi Haoran went to look for Mu Yangling.

In the past, his big brother had also written to Ah Ling, but that was before Ah Ling married him.

After Ah Ling married him, whatever his big brother wanted to say to Ah Ling, he would directly tell Qi Haoran in the letter and let him pass on the message.

If Ah Ling had anything to tell Qi Xiuyuan, it would also be through Qi Haoran’s letter.

This was the first time he had directly written to Ah Ling like this.

Hence, Qi Haoran went to look for Mu Yangling in confusion.

He suspected that something big had happened and that his big brother couldn’t tell him, so he directly wrote to Ah Ling instead.

He thought that nothing should be hidden from him since he was the head of the family.

Hence, after handing the letter to Mu Yangling, he stood in front of her in a daze.

Not realizing that there was anything wrong with this, Mu Yangling opened it without any precautions.

As she opened it, she muttered, “Why did Big Brother think of writing to me?” ‘That’s right, I really want to know too.’, Qi Haoran muttered in his heart.

Without batting an eyelid, he moved and stood behind Mu Yangling, craning his neck to see.

After holding it in for a few days, Qi Xiuyuan finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and wrote to Mu Yangling in embarrassment.

He was in the wrong regarding this matter, so he naturally felt embarrassed to ask his younger brother to pass on the message.

Therefore, he directly wrote a letter to Mu Yangling.

He wanted to requisition Mu Yangling’s cattle farm.

Of course, it was not for free, and he would in turn give her some farm produce and gold and silver as compensation.

But it had already become the largest cattle farm in the north, having more than 5,000 adult cows.

Clearly, a cattle farm that produced more than 600 calves a year was not something that he could compensate for using gold and silver, so he felt bad about this request.

However, the words his son asked him that day had been echoing in his mind from time to time.

To farmers, cows were more important than their lives.

It was touching to hear, but also sad.

What was it that made people inferior to cows?

Poverty!

How many cows were there in the country?

As long as one looked through the documents of the Ministry of Revenue, they would know that there were not many of them.

Mu Yangling’s cattle farm was the largest scale one in the north, and countless officials in the court were eyeing that cattle farm.

It was really tempting, huh?

Considering there were fewer cows in the entire Jiangnan than in Mu Yangling’s cattle farm, it could be seen how big Mu Yangling’s cattle farm was.

If the cows in her cattle farm could be distributed to various places so that the cows could be utilized to their fullest, the farming rate would rise a little.

Although distributed across the country, it was a mere drop in the bucket, little by little, a little becomes a lot.