I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 984 - Chapter 984 Two Teams

Chapter 984: Two Teams Chapter 984: Two Teams Editor: Atlas Studios The next day, Little Treasure and Little Bear were occupied with their studies, but the four little ones took out the music box from their desks as soon as class ended.

With two music boxes each in their arms, they ran out.

Advisor Qian walked out behind them and turned around to return to his courtyard without any curiosity.

If by now he hadn’t learnt not to be curious about what the children were doing, he would be asking for a beating.

But he didn’t expect the four children to go to this extent this time.

Little An climbed into the carriage with his three cousins and asked the coachman to go to Qianmen Street.

He planned to use his capabilities to tell the adults that even if they didn’t flaunt the name of the Prince’s estate and Duke’s Residence, they could still sell the items.

As Qianmen Street was not far from their residence, just two streets away, a carriage could quickly take them there in less than 15 minutes.

This being Qi Wensu’s first time doing such a thing, he was very excited.

Brimming with enthusiasm, he hugged the music box while being surrounded by his brothers.

Tiger Head lowered his head from time to time and warned him, “Follow us closely.

Be careful not to get pulled away by the beggars.” Qi Wensu shivered and immediately followed Tiger Head closely.

Little An stood on the street and tilted his head to look.

In the end, he chose a shop that looked quite good before walking in.

When the assistant shopkeeper saw them, the smile on his face blossomed.

He greeted them respectfully and asked with a smile, “Young Masters, what do you want to buy?” Tiger Head shouted, “We’re not buying.

We’re selling things.” Little An nodded and showed him the music box.

“Do you want to buy music boxes?” The assistant shopkeeper looked at the music box in their arms, then at the children.

Finally, he raised his head to look at the manservants following behind them.

The corners of his mouth twitched as he said, “I’ll have to ask our shopkeeper about this.

Young Masters, why don’t you sit down and wait for a while?

I’ll go and invite the shopkeeper now.” The first thing the assistant shopkeeper said when he ran to the backyard to look for the shopkeeper was, “Shopkeeper, bad news.

The young masters of the Prince’s estate and Duke’s estate are here.” The shopkeeper frowned.

“Are the Young Masters picking trouble?” “No, the Young Masters aren’t buying anything.

They’re here to sell things.

There are quite a lot of imported music boxes, eight of them.” The shopkeeper relaxed his eyebrows and smiled.

“Since they’re selling it, we’ll accept it since these music boxes are quite easy to sell.

Didn’t we only just get our hands on three music boxes from Andre?

We can just sell them together.

I’m guessing the Young Masters are just short of money and want to exchange them for some money.” “What about the priceaEUR|” The shopkeeper pondered for a moment.

“Though we bought them at 15 taels each from Andre, we can’t quote the same price to the Young Masters.

Let’s take it at 18 taels each.” “Then we’d be earning too littleaEUR|” The shopkeeper glared at him and said, “What do you know?

Just do as I say and cut the crap.

Wait, I’d better go personally.” The shopkeeper left with a smile on his face.

He did not even bother to check the quality of the music box and started off by saying all sorts of nice things.

Then, he gave them 18 taels of silver for each of the music boxes.

He even explained with a smile that the music boxes here were sold for 20 taels of silver each and that he wasn’t even earning that much from this.

Little An agreed and happily took the money before leaving with his younger brothers, feeling very pleased with himself.

“Look, we didn’t reveal our identities this time and still managed to successfully sell the things.

And Daddy didn’t believe me when I said doing business is a piece of cake.” The three little ones nodded in agreement.

The corners of the manservants’ mouths twitched as they thought to themselves, ‘Who in Guangzhou doesn’t know who you are?’ They’d been here for a year or so, and Guangzhou City was not very big.

Besides, these three people liked to go out often and had played all over Guangzhou City, even the small fishing villages on the periphery.

At first, no one knew that these were the Young Masters of the Prince’s estate and the Duke’s estate.

However, as time passed, everyone came to know about the three kids who often went wild by the sea.

Also, these four children were the first ever to rent an area in the sea to raise fish and farm pearls.

They went wild in the streets and alleys and never separated, and there was always a group of manservants and guards following behind them at all times.

It was difficult for everyone not to know their identities.

The three children had left their footprints at practically all the snack stalls on Qianmen Street.

Even if they had never entered these shops, who wouldn’t know that they were the young masters of the Prince’s estate and Duke’s estate when they saw them?

It was impossible for the few Young Masters to hide their identities in Guangzhou City, but no one dared to say it, afraid that they would run elsewhere to experiment.

Fan Zijin and the others had obviously thought of how lawless the brats were, so they also did not point it out.

It gave the children the impression that they were invincible.

The four children were even more proud.

Even the Second Prince, who had been slightly shy and introverted previously, raised his head and puffed out his chest.

Under such circumstances, when they learned that Qi Haoran was going to try out the cannon he had retrieved from Andre, the four children recklessly asked to watch.

Little Treasure and Little Bear, who had already been given permission to board the ship, stood at the side with smiles and spoke up for them from time to time.

It was already the limit for Qi Haoran to bring Little Treasure and Little Bear onto the ship.

He didn’t dare to bring all six of them along, so he suppressed them with his might and refused.

However, seeing tears gradually well up in Tiger Head and Little Lion’s eyes, Qi Haoran’s heart was in turmoil.

He hurriedly shot Mu Yangling a look for help.

Mu Yangling said, “If all of you are boarding the ship, who will follow me to the farm?

I’ll have to take a carriage to the farm alone and stay there alone for two days with no one accompanying me.

I’d be so lonely and pitiful.” Tiger Head and Little Lion turned back to look at their mother and then at their father.

While they couldn’t bear to give up the opportunity to see the cannon, it didn’t seem nice to leave their mother all alone.

With a sigh, Mu Yangling said, “Looks like no one is accompanying me.

I’d have to go so far alone.” Tiger Head quickly pounced on her knee and said hesitantly, “Why don’t I accompany Mother to the farm, and let Brother Little An and the others board the ship to check out the cannon?” Mu Yangling didn’t expect Tiger Head to be the first to pounce on her.

She hugged him in surprise and said with a smile, “I’m very happy to have Tiger Head accompanying me, but I’ll have to go to the fields to see the crops during the day.

If there’s no one playing with you, won’t you be very pitiful?” This time, Little Lion and Little An’s hearts softened.

They let go of Qi Haoran’s thigh and turned around to hug Mu Yangling’s thigh.

“Mother (Fourth Aunt), I’ll go with you, too.” The Second Prince looked left and right.

After glancing at his big brother a few times, and then at his three friends for a long time, he still couldn’t make up his mind.

Mu Yangling held his small hand and asked, “Wensu, can you accompany Fourth Aunt to the farm too?

I’ll get your older brothers to bring you around.” The Second Prince looked at his big brother.

Seeing him nod, he agreed.

This way, they were divided into two teams.

Qi Haoran brought Little Treasure and Little Bear onto the ship to test the newly bought cannon, while Mu Yangling brought the four little ones to the farm.

Reclamation of land outside Guangzhou City had long been completed, and the remaining land was either mountains or land that was too infertile to grow anything.

Therefore, the farmstead that Mu Yangling bought was quite far from Guangzhou City.

Actually, she didn’t want to buy a farmstead here at first.

There were many mountains here and few flatlands.

There was no need for her to fight with the commoners for land.

She preferred to buy land in the north of Baoding because there was a lot of uncultivated land and plains there.

If she bought a large area and hired people to do forest conversion, it wouldn’t occupy the commoners’ territory.

However, Qi Haoran heard that there was a hot spring on a few of those mountains and soaking in hot springs was beneficial for health.

So, he asked Zhu Liang to buy two mountainsaEUR”one for Fan Zijin and the other for their family.

When they were free in winter and early spring, he would bring them there to soak in the hot spring.

Seeing that the surrounding mountains were desolate and the low-lying land below had not been cleared, Mu Yangling made the decision to buy that mountain and got someone to plant fruit trees on the low-lying hills.

Rice was planted on the low-lying land below, and other crops were planted on flat ground.

As there were several mountains connected, the low-lying land and flat ground added up to quite a sizable area.

Thus, Mu Yangling decided to build two farmsteads there and let the local tenant farmers manage them.

This time, she was heading to the farm because her subordinates had reported that the estate manager wanted to clear a few mountains so as to plant fruit trees there.

When Mu Yangling left back then, she had instructed them that other than a few low hills, they should leave the other mountains untouched so as not to destroy the ecology inside.