The Lucky Heiress

Manager Zhao nodded dumbly: “I’ve heard of that!”

A wheat field with a yield of a thousand pounds per acre! The news had spread all over the region, and everyone was flocking to it. He had also followed the crowd, drooling over the sight of the heavy wheat grains on the wheat spikes. “Now I am the owner of Caili Farm, and only when you have a good harvest can I collect rent. How could I be harmful to you?” asked Wei Ruo.

Manager Zhao shook his head continuously.

Though he seemed fierce, his reactions were rather simple-minded. “Then follow my arrangements and instructions. Pull out the remaining seedlings and replant new varieties of rice, just like those wheat crops before, high yielding and likely to survive.”

Manager Zhao nodded.

Wei Ruo continued, “Alright, don’t dawdle. Communicate my words to the farmers, along with the promise I just made. Explain it well, if there is anyone that doesn’t understand, bring them to see me.”

After hearing Wei Ruo’s words, Manager Zhao went down with his men.

Xiumei who was left behind, laughed, “Miss, I have a premonition that once you manage Caili Farm well, the tenants of many nearby farms will be eagerly hoping for you to buy their land.”

“I would like that. If possible, I want to make a large field in the east and north of the Government City mine. I would never disapprove of more produce. After everything is connected, I will merge it into a large estate for easier management.”

“Miss, you are really thinking about that! I was just saying it casually!”

‘I really am thinking about it. How nice it would be to be a big landlord, with money, grain, shops, carefree and comfortable.” said Wei Ruo.

Xiumei nodded, “Then I will count money and grain with Miss in the future!” The master and servant looked at each other and laughed.

After Wei Ruo’s intentions were conveyed, some of the tenants didn’t believe it at first, feeling it was impossible for a landlord to be so kind, caring for the lives and deaths of tenant farmers.

But after hearing that their current young landlord was also the owner of the famous wheat farm, some began to believe.

Since that owner was famously kind, widely known near and far, the farm workers enjoyed good days, with adequate food and clothing.

Many people scrambled to work at that farm, but alas, besides the original workers, they only took in homeless refugees and beggars, and did not hire extra workers.

With Wei Ruo’s promise, and the Government Office doing the same, the tenants accepted the arrangement after a while, cooperating to remove the original seedlings and re-plowing and irrigating the fields.

Following that, Wei Ruo prepared late rice and sweet potato seeds for them. Because for tenant farmers, filling their stomachs was the priority, therefore crops like rice and sweet potatoes that could provide fullness must be planted. Wei Ruo felt that under the uncertain future of food production in other regions, there might be a great famine, and more planting of high-calorie crops was the urgent matter at hand.

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The next day, Wei Ruo visited the brewery first. As news came after she returned to the Military Prefecture last night, the first vat of distilled wine had been produced at the brewery.

The color was clear like water, with a strong wine fragrance, and had been tried by many, revealing a strong taste.

Now they were just waiting for Wei Ruo to inspect.

Before entering the brewery, Wei Ruo could smell the strong scent of wine even across the fence.

The scent was very mellow, feeling like it was mostly successful.

Upon entering, she was greeted by the smiling Manager Yu and the brewer’s mates.

The room with the stove in the brewery was noticeably hotter, so the mates were all dressed in sleeveless hemp vests and cotton shorts.

Were it not for Manager Yu’s decree, these people could have worked shirtless. “Miss!”

Everyone greeted Wei Ruo in unison, the excitement clearly audible in their voices.

“Miss, this is the wine we brewed!”

People made way for her to see the large wine vat not far away, covered with a bamboo cone-shaped cover.

Wei Ruo went there, lifted the cover, and the wine aroma became even stronger.

“Miss, rest assured, we’ve all tasted it, and we ensure there are no problems,” said one of the mates, grinning.

Without the assurance of its validity, they wouldn’t dare to have Wei Ruo taste it.

Now that Wei Ruo was here to evaluate it, they wanted to see whether the taste of the wine passed the inspections.

Wei Ruo picked up a wooden spoon from the side, scooped some into a bowl.

She first smelled it, then tasted it a little, savoring it, feeling the different stages of taste.

From the entrance to the throat, the burning sensation spread all the way from the mouth to the stomach.

Mellow and robust, exactly the taste Wei Ruo was looking for in white wine.

Everyone nervously watched Wei Ruo, waiting for her response.

“Very good! This wine is mature!” Wei Ruo announced.

Hearing this, everyone jumped and cheered, behaving like a group of children laughing and shouting.

Wei Ruo was also smiling, and when everyone had calmed down a bit, she continued to speak to everyone:

“Everybody is doing a great job, you’ve worked hard during this time.”

Everybody in response waved their hands hastily,

Not hard, not hard at all. It’s not hard to work for Miss.”

It’s our fortune to be able to work for Miss!”

“Right, it’s our fortune!”

Wei Ruo smiled and said, “Next, we are going to start production on a full scale.

I hope everyone maintains their original intention, keeps working harder, can’t be lazy, can’t be slack, ensure the quality of the white wine produced in our brewery, let’s grow bigger and stronger.”

“Yes!” Everyone responded loudly, their voices exceptionally resounding. “Everyone take a rest today, we will officially start tomorrow morning,” Wei Ruo ordered.

Following, she instructed Manager Yu, “Manager Yu, arrange for everyone to have a good meal tonight. Give them a good treat.”

“Yes, no problem,” Manager Yu replied with a joyous face.

“Also, the wine, arrange for someone to take out a few vats for me, I could use

it.”

When Wei Ruo had finished and before Manager Yu could utter a word, the brewery’s mates had already rushed to do it.

Manager Yu smilingly said, “Miss, why don’t you name our brewery. Since we are going to make a signature wine, we should have a resounding name.” Wei Ruo contemplated for a while and said, “Let’s call it Thyme.”

“Great, that’s a good name. Fine wine with a fragrance that spreads a hundred miles!” Manager Yu agreed, “You write a letter Miss, I will find someone to reproduce it into a festoon.”

“Never mind my writing, find a local gentry to write it.” Wei Ruo was fully aware of her handwriting abilities.

“That also works.” Manager Yu acknowledged.

By the time Wei Ruo completed her talk with Manager Yu, the mates had already loaded several vats of wine onto the carriage at the foot of the mountain.

Wei Ruo left the brewery amid cheering goodbyes.

“Miss, where are we heading now?” Xiumei, who was driving the carriage in the front, asked Wei Ruo..