I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 980 - Chapter 980 Suggestion

Chapter 980: Suggestion Chapter 980: Suggestion Editor: Atlas Studios Mu Yangling and Qi Haoran looked at them with their mouths wide open.

The children continued to chatter and discuss.

“But I want to rob the Portuguese fleet.” Little Lion said gloomily, “Why can Pedro and the others accost us and rob the fleet of Great Qi while we can’t rob theirs?” Tiger Head said domineeringly, “As long as it’s a Westerner’s ship, we’ll rob it.” Just as Qi Haoran was about to reach out to smack them, Little Treasure smiled and said to them, “Tiger Head, Little Lion, we can’t keep thinking about robbing openly.

That won’t be good for our Great Qi’s reputation.

We have to combine robbing secretly and openly.

This way, not only will it be more efficient, but it will also be easy to find good excuses.

For example, Fourth Uncle previously led the navy to pretend to be pirates to rob those Westerner merchant ships that colluded with pirates.

It’s fine if we do that once or twice, but if we do it too many times, those people will inevitably suspect us.” Qi Haoran raised his eyebrows and asked, “How did you know about this?” This was a confidential matter.

Other than Zijin and his subordinates, only Zhu Liang, Fei Bai, and Ah Ling knew about it.

This kid had only been here for a few days and he already found out about this?

Little Treasure chuckled and looked at Little Bear.

In turn, Little Bear chuckled and looked at the three little ones.

Little An, Little Lion, and Tiger Head chuckled and lowered their heads.

When they were climbing up the roof, they overheard Fei Bai asking Zhu Liang to quickly sell the foreign goods in their possession lest there be trouble.

Qi Haoran gritted his teeth.

Mu Yangling looked at Qi Haoran in disdain.

“That’s because you didn’t keep it a secret well enough.

But other than those Westerners, are you sure none of the officials in Guangzhou know about this?

You brought those soldiers out for a walk and suddenly brought back so many goods.

Those officials aren’t fools.” “I didn’t want to hide it from them, but what if the children find out and blurt it out?” Qi Haoran was not afraid that the officials in Guangzhou would know that he was robbing the merchant ships of those foreigners who had colluded with the pirates.

After all, back then, they had joined forces to rob the merchant ships and fishermen of Great Qi.

Qi Haoran did not believe that the officials of Great Qi would stand up for those people, but it would be different if the children accidentally blurted it out in front of the foreigners.

Just as Qi Haoran was about to ask them to keep it a secret, Mu Yangling said, “Don’t worry, the children know very well how to keep something confidential.

Would you kids spread such news?” The children answered with contempt, “Only a fool would tell others.” “Since we robbed them, we should just secretly feel glee.

Why would we tell anyone?” Mu Yangling glanced at Qi Haoran smugly and asked Little Treasure, “You talked about robbing openly.

What about secretly?” Little Treasure said solemnly, “I heard that Spain and Portugal each have an army that entered Luzon and fought with the local people.” At this moment, Qi Haoran also became serious.

“They followed behind Andre.

There weren’t many of them, only four to five thousand people.

However, in less than half a month, they managed to occupy many places in Luzon.” Qi Haoran looked at Little Treasure with a deep gaze and asked, “Why?

Do you want to interfere?” Little Treasure nodded with sparkling eyes.

Qi Haoran did not agree immediately.

He only said, “Let’s talk when we get home.” As this kind of topic was too profound, the four little ones expressed that they didn’t understand it.

Therefore, as soon as they returned home, they went to play by themselves.

Seeing the four children running away before his eyes, Fan Zijin reached out and casually grabbed one of the kids.

Upon taking a closer look, he realized that it was Tiger Head.

He asked, “Why aren’t you guys playing with your two big brothers?

Why did you come over here?” When they went out, there were four carriages, one for each couple, one for Little Treasure and Little Bear, and one for the four little ones.

For their return trip though, the six children had unanimously swarmed towards Qi Haoran’s carriage.

Fan Zijin, who was talking to Qi Haoran, was annoyed by the noise and went over to Little Madam Xia’s side.

When the coachman arrived at the Qi Residence, the carriage filled with children went straight in.

Fan Zijin and Little Madam Xia naturally returned to the Fan Residence.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they got out of the carriage, these boys rushed over from next door.

It was obvious that they had rushed over as soon as they got out of the carriage.

Tiger Head struggled to get out of Fan Zijin’s arms for a while.

Seeing that he couldn’t break free, he shouted, “Daddy has something important to speak with Big Brother and Little Treasure about.

We didn’t understand, so we came out to play.” “What is it?” Tiger Head shook his head decisively.

Fan Zijin thought that he didn’t know and was about to let go of him.

Unexpectedly, this kid shouted, “I can’t tell you because it’s supposed to be confidential!” Fan Zijin raised his eyebrows and pulled him back by his clothes.

He asked with interest, “Even if it’s me?” Tiger Head shut his mouth and shook his head.

This piqued Fan Zijin’s interest.

Seeing that Little Lion and the others had already realized that Tiger Head was missing and were running back to save him, he let Tiger Head go.

He turned to Little Madam Xia and said, “The weather is hot.

Tell the kitchen to prepare more sour plum soup so that they wouldn’t get a heatstroke.

I’ll go over and take a look.” Little Madam Xia hurriedly agreed.

Seeing him leave with his hands behind his back, she turned around and smiled at the children.

She tapped their foreheads and said in a low voice, “You’re really mischievous.

Let’s go.

I’ll bring you guys to drink sour plum soup and quench your thirst before you kids go off to play.” Tiger Head drooled.

“Is it iced?” “No, you guys have weak stomachs and can’t take iced drinks.

However, the sour plum soup has been chilled in the well before.

It’s also cold and tastes better than iced ones.” “Then I want to drink three bowls,” Tiger Head shouted first.

Little Madam Xia knew that he had no resistance when it came to food and was even willing to be a younger brother for the sake of delicious food.

She couldn’t help but nod in amusement.

“As long as there is enough.” In order not to spoil the children’s appetite, Little Madam Xia naturally wouldn’t ask the kitchen to take out so much sour plum soup at once.

She poured out exactly four bowls, no more, no less.

Tiger Head’s was slightly fuller, so although he couldn’t drink three bowls, he was still very satisfied.

At this moment, when Fan Zijin walked to Qi Haoran’s study, the latter had just spread out the sea map.

He sat at the head of the table and looked at Little Treasure and Little Bear.

He asked, “Tell me what you’re planning to do.” Little Treasure looked at Little Bear, and Little Bear said, “Daddy, Luzon is too close to Great Qi.

The Portuguese are pirates, and the Spanish colluded with them to rob our Great Qi’s merchant ships, so they’re bad people.

Now that they can occupy Luzon, they might attack Great Qi in the future, so we have to destroy them while they’re still in Luzon.” Qi Haoran said, “The Imperial Court won’t agree to send troops.

If we help Luzon fight the Westerners, we’ll just be helping others without gaining anything.

If this matter blows up, I’m afraid some people will call for a maritime ban again.” This was because some people believed that the Westerners would not be able to enter Great Qi with the maritime ban in place.

The two children chuckled.

Little Treasure said, “That’s why we have to send a gold medal to the King of Luzon and confer him the title of King of Luzon.

At that time, regardless of whether we send troops or not, we will be in the right when we go up against Spain and Portugal.” Little Bear chuckled.

“Moreover, if they occupy our vassal state, it’s only natural for us to rob a few of their merchant ships.

Because our eyesight isn’t great, we might see the merchant ships as warships that invade our Great Qi vassal state.” Fan Zijin raised his eyebrows and said to Qi Haoran, “That’s a good idea.

Luzon, Yueli, Laos, and Siam have a tradition of receiving investiture from a suzerain state.

If we confer the title upon the King of Luzon at such a time, he will only accept it gratefully.”