I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 876 - Chapter 876 Removal

Chapter 876: Removal Chapter 876: Removal Editor: Atlas Studios Qi Haoran locked Second Brother Bai up in Qin Er’s cell and got his men to pay attention to their conversation before washing his hands off of the matter.

He called for Zhu Liang and Fei Bai and said to them, “Carefully check the properties under the Prince’s estate and the Princess Consort’s name to see if there are any spies.

Find all of them.” Through this investigation, many spies planted by other families were discovered.

Even Qi Xiuyuan was alarmed.

He looked at the list before looking at his brother, who was gritting his teeth, then said gently, “Fortunately, their operations are limited considering they’re all small fries.

These people don’t come into contact with any confidential matters.” “That’s because it hasn’t been long.” Qi Haoran gritted his teeth.

“What if it’s in a decade or two?

Don’t tell me I’ll leave behind a spy-infested Prince’s estate for Little Bear then?

And these are only the ones we managed to uncover.

Perhaps there are more.” Many families were also in a panic at this moment after learning that their nails had been pulled out.

Although the spies’ families were still in their hands, there was no guarantee that they would be able to withstand the torture.

They were filled with anger and resentment towards those publishing houses.

Wasn’t it just a printing technique?

It actually caused them to lose so many of their spies all at once.

All their efforts in the past years had been in vain.

Meanwhile, the owners of the publishing houses were drinking in the restaurant to celebrate.

All the publishing houses in Jiangnan had just signed a contract with the Prince’s estate’s publishing house.

After paying the money, they received the technique.

500 taels of silver for a prescription might look expensive, but it was nothing when considering the profits it would bring in.

This was especially true for small and medium-sized publishing houses.

Their bosses had been wearing a smile on their faces throughout the day.

Only the influential publishing houses weren’t too happy about it.

Unless their publishing house could take over most of the new books, it would be better for them to use the engraving technique to print old books.

With their collection of printing blocks, they could just print the books and didn’t have to engrave new characters at all.

The ones who benefited the most from this deal were undoubtedly those small and medium-sized publishing houses.

This was because at this moment, other than the Princess Consort’s publishing house, everyone was on the same starting line.

As soon as they left the restaurant, an owner instructed his manager, “Send gifts to the Hanlin officials and scholars immediately.

Make sure to get their manuscripts.

Since we’re already a lot behind, we can’t fall behind anymore.” The managers agreed one after another.

However, at this moment, Mu Yangling was happily counting the contracts on the table.

She said, “Now that we’ve signed the contracts to the random notes and travel memoirs, it’s best if we can also get their opinions on some state affairs.

When the time comes, we can compile them into one book and I believe they’ll sell like hotcakes.” Dumbfounded, the manager stuttered, “Your- Your Highness, isn’t it inappropriate to discuss state affairs?” “Free speech is allowed in this dynasty.

Just sit in the teahouse and listen.

Every day, you can even hear people speculating about how many concubines His Majesty sleeps with.

I’m sure this is of no concern.

Just go and ask them to write it.

If anything happens, it’s on me.” After a moment of silence, the manager said, “I’m just afraid that the officials won’t be willing to write it.” Smiling, Mu Yangling said, “It’s fine if they refuse.

There will always be people who are willing to write it.

Remember to send the manuscript to me for review first.” Seeing that the Princess Consort was insistent, the manager could only agree.

He said awkwardly, “Your Highness, because we bought a lot of manuscripts at once, we’re running short on funds.” “I’ll get Steward Zhu to dispense more money to the publishing house.

Record it as an investment on the books later.” Little Bear happened to bring his younger brothers to look for his mother.

When he heard this, he ran in and said, “Mother, why are you giving the manager money?” “It’s royalties for the manuscripts.” Mu Yangling took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat.

“Where did you go this time?

Why are you sweating so much?” “The royalties?” Little Bear wiped his face nonchalantly and asked with sparkling eyes, “What royalties?” “It means that someone writes books for our publishing house and we pay them.” “You can earn money by writing books?” Little Bear rolled his eyes and asked, “Then can the Three Character Classic I wrote be exchanged for money?” “Did you author the Three-Character Classic?

You have to be the author to receive money for it.

You merely copied the Three-Character Classic to practice your calligraphy skills.

For example, you can only publish your own essays in exchange for money.” Mu Yangling said with a smile, “But I remember that you’ve only started learning how to read recently.

Your Brother Little Treasure has just started writing essays, right?” Although Little Bear was a little disappointed, he remembered this method of earning money in his heart.

It turned out that one could earn money by writing an article, too.

So when his teachers assigned him homework, wouldn’t he be able to earn a sum of money by publishing it after writing it?

Little Bear did some calculations in his heart and realized that in this way, he and the Crown Prince would earn a lot of money in a month just by doing their homework.

Meanwhile, the manager retreated to the side, wishing he didn’t have ears.

Speaking of which, was the young Prince very short of money?

Mu Yangling allowed the manager to leave before bringing the children to the small garden in the northwest.

At this moment, it had been converted into a small farmland, and there were ripe yellow and orange grains hanging in the field.

The children cheered and ran towards the paddy field.

The three little ones wanted to catch bugs to play, while Little Bear ran towards one of the fields.

As he stood in the field with his hands on his waist, he laughed loudly.

“Mother, the crops in my rice field are ready for harvest.” Mu Yangling nodded with a smile.

The rice field in the small garden was divided into six plots.

At only 0.2 acres in size, each plot was not considered big.

Little Bear farmed one plot himself, and the remaining five were tended to by Mu Yangling and her people.

This was the second crop season.

After they returned to the capital, Mu Yangling led her men to plant this to see if Dry Rice No.

1 and Zhancheng Rice could be planted for a second crop season in Jiangnan.

Mu Yangling pinched the grains, peeled the grain shell, opened it, and chewed.

Then, she nodded in satisfaction.

The rice from the second season tasted even better than the first.

Mu Yangling waved at the four children and said, “We’ll have sunny weather tomorrow and the day after.

Tomorrow, I’ll get someone to clean up the stone slabs in front and we’ll harvest the crops.

Little Bear, since you guys are on a break from school the day after tomorrow, you can invite Little Treasure to harvest the crops together.” Tiger Head came out of the field with a frog in his hand and asked, “Mother, I want to eat this.” The veins on Mu Yangling’s forehead twitched.

“Frogs are beneficial creatures.

They help to catch pests for our paddy fields and can’t be eaten.

Let the frog go quickly.” Tiger Head didn’t believe it.

“It’s sold as food in the restaurant.

Daddy said it’s delicious.” Mu Yangling went forward and rescued the frog from his hand.

As she looked at him helplessly, she said, “It’s not like we’ve been starving you.

Why do you always look like you’re hungry?

Alright, instead of frogs, I’ll get the kitchen to stew chicken for you tonight and give you a big drumstick.” “I’ll give my chicken drumstick to my younger brother,” Little Lion immediately expressed.

Little An said lazily, “Brother Tiger Head, you can eat mine too.” Tiger Head drooled.

Little Lion whispered into Little An’s ear, “I don’t like chicken drumsticks anyway.” Little An nodded.

“There’s too much meat on a chicken drumstick and it’s not sweet enough.

I prefer the meat on other parts.” The corners of Mu Yangling’s lips twitched when she heard their “whispering”.

Looking at the delighted Tiger Head, she was extremely worried.

Qi Xiuyuan and Zijin had both said that Tiger Head resembled Qi Haoran the most.

Could it be that Qi Haoran was really so dumb when he was young?

Little Madam Xia sat in the armchair and watched them harvest the crops in the field.

Mu Yangling was wearing a short-sleeved training suit and a straw hat as she worked in the field.

Other than Little Treasure and Little Bear who could help, the other three children were just here to cause trouble.

Seeing that only she and Nanny Xia were sitting here and that the other servants had been sent away, Little Madam Xia sighed faintly.

“I’ve watched this scene for several years, but I still feel like I’m in a dream.” When Nanny Xia saw Prince Little An walking over with a small bundle of grains in his arms with a flushed face, she smiled and said, “I don’t think there’s anything bad about this.

Look, the young masters are all very diligent.

By running around in the fields, it actually does good for their health.” Little Madam Xia looked at her son carefully and nodded.

“Little An is indeed much healthier than before.

Didn’t Imperial Physician Wang say that his heart meridians are much stronger when he checked his pulse?”