The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 284 Foreign Spy (3)_1

Chapter 284: Chapter 284 Foreign Spy (3)_1

Back at the Government Office, while writing the memorial, the wording and emphasis were slightly changed, not so biased anymore.

The harvested sweet potatoes were also distributed to the Wang family, Landlord Chang’s house, Fang family, Feng family, Zouxing’s family, Sun Tiezhu’s family, and Sun Lizheng family. The families hired by Sun Quanliang were each given a basketful, and even Pei Lizheng family received a basket.

Fang Li felt that his own family got too little. Looking at the mountain of sweet potatoes, he said, "There are so many sweet potatoes, are you planning to sell them all?" Thinking that they were reluctant to give more because they wanted to sell them for money!

"Next year, the entire Yuanyang County will promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes. These sweet potatoes all need to be reserved for seeds!" Pei Qin had no intention of eating all these sweet potatoes. However, the bruised ones and smaller ones could still be sorted out to eat.

"Then sell them!" Fang Li laughed heartily as he talked about how much money they could bring in, then suggested that Fang Liuming should come and help his cousin more when he had no schoolwork.

Old Scholar Fang reminded Pei Qin to have someone carefully guard the sweet potatoes in the workshop and to find him immediately in case of any issues.

Pei Qin agreed and saw them off.

After a tiring day and a good night’s sleep, the next day the Government Officials came over to post the notice and delivered a land marker to Pei Qin. As requested, it bore the bold characters ’Government Promotion’ and ’Sweet Potato Plantation Base,’ along with the signatures of Wu Dongsi and Sun Lizheng.

Pei Qin directly instructed the Government Officials to dig holes at both the southern and northern ends of the field and bury the land markers, which stood brightly there.

These official land markers, buried by the Government Officers, made the villagers even more profoundly aware of the importance the Government Office placed on sweet potatoes.

Pei Lizheng also gathered the villagers in Back Mountain Village to discuss the visit of Magistrate Wu to inspect the sweet potatoes and the posting of the notice, planning to cultivate sweet potatoes in the village the next year.

There were very few families in town that went hungry, but in the villages, there were many more each year who couldn’t get enough to eat. The promise that planting sweet potatoes meant a family wouldn’t have to go hungry attracted more and more interested households.

Lady Zhu was scratching her head in frustration. That damned wretched girl had received an official reward from the Government Office—wouldn’t she be even more arrogant and rampant!? During the Han clothing festival, they even pushed to legitimize the concubine as the new wife in the family, and now wouldn’t they be even more capable!? It wasn’t their family that had connections with Master County, but those few despicable wretches. With Dalang recovering his status and the eldest taking exams, they were unlikely to let them take advantage of the momentum!

Lady Chen also felt a burning hatred. Why wasn’t it their family receiving the Government Office’s award?! Instead, it was those damn wild brats!

Old Pei worried even more. With Pei Lizheng promoting the cultivation of sweet potatoes in the village, if one mu yielded two thousand catties, those families in the village who went hungry year after year and borrowed food would definitely plant them. They were no longer in Back Mountain Village, and with just a small workshop, they had won over Pei Lizheng. By planting a sweet potato, they had won the hearts of the villagers, no, perhaps the entire ten miles and eight villages, even the whole of Yuanyang County would remember their kindness!

By then, the death of Lady Fang would be dredged up again, with no benefit to Old Pei’s House, and they would have to endure it being brought up and cursed again. Just as things were looking up for the family, suddenly the situation turned against them!

But the cultivation of sweet potatoes was promoted by the Government Office, which had also issued a notice, and even the land markers were buried by the Government Officers, so no one dared to say too much.

Qian Wanxiu rubbed a silk handkerchief, humming cynically, "It’s just rubbing shoulders with the County Magistrate, a petty seventh-rank official!" She planned to write to her family to ask for help.

While the promotion of sweet potatoes had just begun, with wheat growing in the fields, planting would have to wait until the summer and autumn seasons. Magistrate of Runing Prefecture had already received an anonymous accusation, alleging that Pei Qin was using something from a foreign country to beguile the people, intending to harm them and subvert the Chu Dynasty. Although not directly stated, the accusation clearly implied that Pei Qin was a spy from a foreign country with a heart of rebellion.

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