Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 492: Won’t I be Pitted Again?

Lian Li and Madam Qiao hesitated.
From the side, Lian Ze glared at Madam Qiao until she felt a chill in her heart and wasn’t able to say half a word of refusal.

“You, you can’t always bring up the past!” Lian Li argued reluctantly.
Internally, he cursed this dead girl in his heart for being too ruthless!

Third Aunt’s expression changed: “Fang Zhou is right! Eldest brother, just sign the letter.
I’m not as lucky as Lian Fang Zhou and I don’t have her ability.
From now on, whether I live or die, you don’t need to worry about it!”

Lian Li continued to refuse with a sullen face.

Smiling faintly, Lian Fang Zhou said: “Eldest Uncle, there is nothing cheap in this world.
You are not willing to pay to support Third Aunt but you still want to put on the air of a big brother and sister-in-law to manage her affairs.
Do you think I am stupid? Since you don’t want to sign it, it means you want to take care of her.
Third Aunt will live at your house for the next half a year!”

Looking at Third Aunt, she said: “You stay here, Third Aunt! If Eldest Aunt asks you to work, you do what you can but don’t force yourself.
If you are wronged and bullied, don’t hide it! We’ll let the whole village know!”

“You’re taking advantage of people too much!” Lian Li was furious.

Next to him, Madam Qiao was already shouting: “Sign the letter, who wants to care about her! What kind of man are you?”

Lian Fang Zhou smiled at Lian Li.

Annoyed and forced into a corner by his wife, Lian Li didn’t know what to do.
Lian Fang Zhou’s attitude was very tough.

He had no choice but to reluctantly nod his head: “Alright, let’s sign it.
But I have one condition! This will stay within our family, you can’t take it out and spread it around.”

“That’s fine.” Lian Fang Zhou assured him, “I didn’t intend to publicize it.
We will raise Third Aunt because she is our relative, not to damage your reputation.
This document is just a guarantee.
As long as you keep your promise and don’t point fingers, I will never take this letter out and talk about it.”

Taking a piece of paper out of her sleeve, Lian Fang Zhou smiled and said: “Eldest Uncle, please take a look.
If there is no problem, then sign!”

He took it and snorted coldly: How well prepared!

With an icy expression, he signed the paper and Third Aunt did the same.

Putting away the letters, Lian Fang Zhou got up and left with Third Aunt and Lian Ze.

“Cursed star! Finally got rid of that trouble!” Madam Qiao spat lightly as she wanted them leave.

However, Lian Li was frowning.
He felt like he had been tricked by Lian Fang Zhou again…

But he couldn’t figure out where the trap was.

–

With the dust settled, the Lian family happily prepared for the New Year.

They had finally moved into their new house and there was more money in their hands.
This year was even more lively and prosperous than last year.

After cleaning the house from inside to out, they hung two giant round red lanterns at the gate which were decorated with gold tassels and looked very festive.

There were also red lanterns hanging under the eaves of the porch in the courtyard, couplets in red on the windows with red paper and black characters, and a few festive and auspicious decorations throughout the house.
The whole house had a strong New Year’s flavor.

There were also all kinds of melon seeds and candy snacks out on plates.
It was expected that many people would come to visit during the festival and Lian Fang Zhou and specially prepared a lot.

The most important part of the holiday was slaughtering pigs.
In order to go all out, Lian Fang Zhou had bought six pigs and slaughtered them in the courtyard, cooking a wide variety of pork dishes for everyone.
Madam Zhang and the others processed the pork, so that the dozens of workers could have a prosperous New Year.

Wang Da and the others were all very grateful.
How many masters like Miss Lian could exist in the world? Although she repeatedly emphasized that it was just because she had made lots of money this year that she couldn’t treat everyone too badly.
The New Year was a big festival that only happened once a year, obviously everyone should be lively together!

But everyone knew that the money the master made belonged to the master.
How many would think like her! In addition to a generous end of the year bonus, there was also a generous amount of food and treats.
The workers were all full of energy and confidence, secretly vowing to follow Miss Lian and the Lian family well, never doing stupid things!

There were many families who had promised great benefits to anyone who could sell them the secret technologies of the Lian family but there was no second master that would treat them with sincerity like Miss Lian.

They absolutely believed that only stupid people would try to drink porridge when Miss Lian would give them meat.

Lian Fang Zhou also gave Zhang Li Zheng and the village elders pieces of pork weighing four or five catties, a basket of thirty eggs, and some persimmons from their own trees.
She had Lian Ze and Lian Che deliver them to express their well-wishes.

In the future, Lian Ze would be the head of the family and would need good connections and approval.
Lian Che would be an official in the future and so his reputation was also very important.

Lian Li’s family was also necessary and so she also sent them a generous New Year’s gift.
As for whether that couple would think it was too little, Lian Fang Zhou was too lazy to care.

What she cared about was helping Lian Ze and Lian Che improve their reputation.

If there were no elders in the family, one would always suffer in this regard.
You had to be even better and more outstanding than others to receive the same approval and praise.
This was to make sure there were people to say a few words for you in the future.

Don’t underestimate the power of a few words, sometimes they were enough to destroy a person.

–

For a few days, the Lian family had went hunting in Xian Teng mountains.
Their luck wasn’t bad and not only did they catch a few pheasants, they also caught some hares, small birds, and few other animals.

Hunting on his own, Xiao Hui joyfully caught a few rabbits.
Amazingly, the rabbits were still alive and not a drop of blood was spilled.

When everyone saw this, they laughed and praised Xiao Hui for being smart, as expected of a wolf!

But thinking about it, Lian Fang Zhou thought she understood his thoughts.
Lian Fang Qing had been raising pheasants, which Xiao Hui was not allowed to eat.
However, he had gone and killed one when she was not paying attention and Lian Fang Qing had punished him severely.
Since then, he hadn’t dared to go and bite anything to death.

It was a lively and joyous New Year.

During the festival, many people from all over the county came to visit for the New Year, claiming to be relatives.
Though the siblings had no impression of these people, Lian Fang Zhou and the others were still polite.

As long as they acted appropriately, Lian Fang Zhou didn’t mind.
If there was a suitable opportunity to help them in the future, she would.

People in the world were like this.
When you were poor, people giving coal in the winter was a rare kindness.
It was human nature to avoid troubling oneself and if a person cared too much about these things, they would only be angry and exhausted.

Of course, Lian Fang Zhou was absolutely shameless and would never show mercy to those who had set traps for them when her family was at their lowest.