Although she temporarily conquered Du Juan with money, Lin Ya was still worried about this money-grubbing maid.
He can buy it with money, but similarly, once someone else offers a higher price, Du Juan will immediately turn against him.
I need to send Yazi over as soon as possible to pick out a few confidants!
Before Jiang Long was attacked, the house was in a state of turmoil, so Lin Ya couldn't immediately propose a maid.
Now that things have passed for several days, everything in the house has stabilized.
With his confidants, he can secretly monitor Du Juan. If Du Juan wants to do something, or if there is any trouble, it will not escape Lin Ya's eyes.
Glancing at Du Juan again, Lin Ya retracted her white jade-like hand and lowered the car curtain.
The car curtain blocked the sunlight coming in, and the interior of the car became dark again.
After a full hour, the convoy arrived at Jingfu Farm in Wushi Town.
Manager Hu has been leading the way. Today, in order to show the poverty of the farm, he took a carriage to the house and asked the coachman to drive the carriage back. Jiang Long didn't say anything just now, so he walked for a full hour.
Although Guanshi Hu is just a servant of the Jing Mansion, he usually lives a very prosperous life with the large sums of money and the income from the tenant farmers on the farm. He is like a nobleman outside the government, and he can be considered pampered.
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The burlap clothes stained with mud that he wore today were specially borrowed by him.
He usually doesn't farm, and he always has a carriage when he goes out. How could he have traveled such a long time?
After walking for half an hour, his legs and feet were so tired that they became weak, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
However, most of the Jingfu guards had heard of Manager Hu's reputation, so not only did no one sympathize with him, but the guards at the front kept urging him to walk faster.
Even if he was extremely tired, Manager Hu had to hold on, otherwise he would make Jiang Long unhappy, even if Mrs. Zhang Jiang was there to protect him.
After all, Jiang Long is the master of Jing Mansion!
By the time they arrived at the farm, Guanshi Hu was already out of breath from exhaustion, his face was pale, and he felt that his legs were no longer his own.
The clothes and hair on his body were all wet with sweat, as if he had been caught in the rain. Moreover, the soles of his thin cloth shoes were worn out because he couldn't lift his legs when he walked and kept dragging them on the ground.
Full of blisters and blood blisters.
When he heard the place, Aoping opened the car curtain.
Jiang Long lowered his head slightly and jumped out of the carriage.
At this time, more than a hundred households of tenant farmers in the farm stood at the intersection into the farm to greet him.
"The young master is here, please hurry up and say hello!"
Although Manager Hu was as tired as a dog with his long tongue sticking out, he still had to brace himself to deal with it.
As long as he survives this test and deliberately creates problems to drive Jiang Long back home, so that Jiang Long gives up the idea of managing the farm, he will be able to live a comfortable life as an official.
On the other hand, if Jiang Long discovers the problem, he will be doomed.
Not only will the position of Zhuangtou not be guaranteed, but if Jiang Long wants to implement his family's methods, his life will be at stake!
Upon hearing Manager Hu's instructions, a dozen men and women, old and young, immediately gathered around and said hello to Jiang Long.
"I have met the young master."
"I would like to say hello to the young master."
"Young master, you must be exhausted. Please come to the farm quickly!"
A group of Jingfu guards stood in front of everyone when they came forward, preventing them from getting too close to Jiang Long.
Jiang Long didn't speak, he just put his hands behind his back and carefully looked at the people in front of him with his eyes.
Although the first few people had dust on their faces and bodies, if you pay a little attention, you can see that it was deliberately smeared on them, and these people all have very fair skin.
Looking down, he glanced at the palms of these people. Jiang Long sneered in his heart. The tenant farmers have been farming and working in the fields for many years. How can they not have calluses on their hands?
However, he remained calm and waved his hand gently, signaling the guards to drive these people to both sides.
Jiang Long's eyes moved to the tenant farmers standing behind.
I saw that some of those people were dark and thin, some had sallow complexions, and some children and old people were even skinny and skinny.
There are old patches piled on top of new patches on his clothes.
In an instant, he understood that these people were the ones really working hard in the fields.
Seeing Jiang Long looking at those people, Manager Hu's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately shouted loudly: "You are blind, why don't you come over quickly and pay your respects to the young master?"
That group of people are all honest, insensitive, stupid, and can't speak.
After hearing Guanshi Hu's order, they looked at me and I looked at you. After a while, they mumbled forward to greet Jiang Long.
"thump!"
Different from the dozen or so people who bowed down with enthusiastic smiles before, their knees suddenly weakened and they fell to their knees.
Jiang Long was shocked!
This should be simple, right?
"Everyone, get up." Jiang Long glanced at the dozen or so people standing aside from the corner of his eyes, and stretched out his hand to support them.
Yuchai and Baoping stood next to Jiang Long. When Jiang Long said something, those people still looked at you and me, and I looked at you. They knelt there helplessly and stepped forward to help a few old women.
"Young master, please get up."
Baoping supported an old woman's arm, her light eyebrows furrowed slightly at first, and then for some reason, seeing the old woman smiling gratefully at her with her toothless mouth, she suddenly felt sore in her eyes.
When the delicate palm touched the old woman's arm, it felt very hard, with only bones and no flesh, and it actually made her hand hiccup!
"Yes, stop kneeling, you don't have to be afraid, our young master Jiang Long treats others very well." Yuchai also kept persuading.
Several guards also stepped forward to help the person under the signal from Jiang Long's eyes.
The hundreds of tenant farmers got up one after another.
"Young Master, these people are stupid and stupid. Don't be angry." When Hu Guanshi saw everyone, he couldn't even say a nice word. He just endured the pain from the blisters and blood blisters on the soles of his feet.
He took two steps forward and approached Jiang Long and said, "Why don't you go take a look at the small courtyard that I cleaned up for you last night and take a rest first.
I’ll scold them for you later!”
After hearing what Manager Hu said, the silent tenant farmers looked panicked.
"Mom, does Hu Zhuangtou want to find an excuse to fine you again?"
Jiang Long still did not express his position, his face was expressionless. His style has always been to do nothing. Once he takes action, he will act vigorously and resolutely to eliminate future troubles. Although it can be seen that there is something wrong with Manager Hu, after all, there is no evidence in his hand now, but he is
At this time, a little girl suddenly pulled the sleeve of her mother next to her and choked out a cry.
"The family has no money and is hungry."
The little girl is dark and short, and wears thin clothes. She looks only six or seven years old. Perhaps because there is no flesh on her face, her eyes appear to be very big.
Everyone instinctively looked in the direction of the sound.
At this time, the little girl's mother had already covered her daughter's mouth with her palm in a panic.
Because of the strong force, the calluses on the palms of her hands caused a blush on the little girl's face.
The scene fell silent for a moment.
Manager Hu's fat face turned red instantly.
I have to say that the little girl was really smart, and she immediately figured out what he was thinking.
If he wanted to keep his position as the head of the village, he had to please Zhang Jiang, which naturally cost him a fortune.
Since the wool comes from the sheep, he is not willing to spend the money in vain, so he naturally wants to get it back.
The tenant farmers on the farm were his targets for making money.
"Xiao Huangya, I, I..." Manager Hu felt very uncomfortable being stared at by everyone. He was so articulate that he suddenly stuttered.
At this time, a fat boy wearing tattered linen clothes suddenly became furious, yelling and trying to rush towards the little girl.
The little girl was so frightened that she quickly hid behind her mother, with deep fear and fear in her big eyes.
The middle-aged woman next to the fat boy was quick and quick and grabbed the fat boy.
But the fat boy was struggling with his hands and feet, staring fiercely in the direction of the little girl, refusing to be quiet and honest.
"sister in law!"
At this time, something unexpected happened again. A guard in his thirties suddenly walked out of the Jingfu guards. The guard looked excited at first, and then changed to a look of anger. There was even a hint of disbelief in his eyes, "
Is someone bullying you? Also, we haven’t seen each other for only three years, how come Xiao Huangya is so thin?"
Jiang Jun frowned slightly when he saw this, and quickly glanced at the guard who walked out, then leaned close to Jiang Long and introduced in a low voice, "This guard's name is Yang Haibo, and the mother and daughter..."
After listening to the brief introduction, Jiang Long learned that Yang Haibo was the woman's late husband's best friend during his lifetime.
And the woman's deceased husband wanted to protect the face of Jingfu, so he killed a descendant of a nobleman in the street who had insulted Jingfu's reputation, and was sentenced to execution!
Afterwards, Yang Haibo took great care of the mother and daughter, but people said it was scary. He was not married, and the woman was a new widow. He always went to the mother and daughter's residence, and there were rumors.
Yang Haibo is a big boss and nothing to care about, but the woman can't stand it.
So he took his daughter Xiao Huangya to say goodbye to Yang Haibo and came to this farm to live on some farmland.
Because the woman explained the reason for leaving to Yang Haibo before she left, even if Yang Haibo knew where their mother and daughter lived, he never visited them again in these years.
It's just that Yang Haibo never expected that the fair and tender little niece who was often held in his arms back then would be dark and thin today. It looked like she was hungry because she had not had enough to eat for many years!
If it wasn't for his profound memory, he almost wouldn't dare to recognize her.
"No, no one bullied her..." Before the woman could finish her words, tears started to flow down her face.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Suddenly, an old man paused heavily on the ground with his walking stick, splashing a few pieces of soil, and said angrily, "The tenant farmers on our farm help each other and have a harmonious relationship. How could someone bully their mother and daughter?"
"Then how come they are so thin?" Yang Haibo straightened his neck and instinctively tilted his head to ask.
Yang Haibo was a sergeant who had actually been on the battlefield, and he had a strong murderous aura in him. At this time, his eyes were red with anger, as if he was going to draw a sword to kill at the next moment. The old man was so frightened that he breathed.
A lag.
The old woman standing next to her then answered, "They share the farmland for farming, but they can't take care of the crops, so they will naturally starve!"
"Fart!" Yang Haibo cursed loudly, "After my brother Chengshan died, the old lady rewarded my sister-in-law Juhua with fifty taels of silver. How much food can they eat every day?
Even if I eat meat every day, I will never be able to spend all the fifty taels of silver in just three years!"
The old woman's face turned red and she couldn't answer.
However, Manager Hu suddenly coughed slightly and said, "If it's just food and clothing, it won't cost that much, but they want to farm in a sharecropping field, but the crops didn't sprout. You know, even if there is no harvest in the autumn, the sharecropping field won't cost that much.
Money still has to be paid.
They share a lot of farmland, so they naturally lose a lot from this coming and going."
Yang Haibo obviously didn't believe it, so he turned and looked at Yang Juhua.
Yang Juhua lowered her body and hugged her daughter's skinny body tightly, crying and shaking her head, with big tears rolling down her face, "I don't know how to farm, and I lost all my money. It's none of Hu Guan's business."
Hai Bo, just leave it alone!"
"No!" Yang Haibo yelled.
"Young Master."
Yuchai also saw that there must be something fishy, and gently tugged on Jiang Long's sleeve, trying to get him to come forward.