The housekeeper agreed, "Don't worry, young lady. I will bring people to the farm tomorrow to check it out."

"That's right!" Father Mu slapped his thigh and looked at the housekeeper, "You understand these things."

"Butler, what do you think? Should we rent out our land or buy slaves?"

The housekeeper expressed his opinion, "Old Master, if we rent it out, the initial expenses will be less."

"But some tenant farmers are not content and may do some bad things."

"If you buy slaves, the initial expenses will be higher, but you won't have to worry about anything going wrong."

"If a slave does not perform well, he can be sold at any time."

Father Mu couldn't make up his mind and asked his family, "What do you think?"

Mu Baobao was the first to suggest buying a slave. "Second Brother said that buying a slave is the best option."

Mu Pingping and his children agreed to buy slaves.

After so much training in all aspects, the children's ideas are very different from before.

Most of the elders want to farm on their own.

Especially Mu Lao Di and Mu Lao Da, they hope to farm on their own.

"It would be great if I could farm my own land. The land at home isn't enough for me to farm."

"It's too far away, and there's too much land. I think it's better to rent it out. Buying slaves is too expensive."

Father Mu was undecided for the time being and asked Mu Baobao, "Baby, do you want to buy slaves to farm the land?"

Mu Baobao nodded his little head, "Second Brother said so."

"Second Brother said that most families buy slaves and farm their own land."

Mu Laodi slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, then buy a slave."

The baby is the lucky star of the family, so you can never go wrong by listening to her.

He asked the housekeeper, "We have a farm with chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, and we have ten plots of land. How many slaves should we buy?"

The housekeeper calculated and said, "How many chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs does the old man plan to raise on the farm?"

Mu Laodi was also unsure, "How many chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs can a farm raise?"

The housekeeper said, "That depends on how many chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs you want to feed, old master."

"Generally speaking, large families rarely raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs on their farms. They just raise a few casually."

"These things are easiest for large families to obtain. They don't have to bother raising them on the farm."

Father Mu thought for a while and said, "Then let's fence off a piece of land on the farm to raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs."

"Zhuangzi is such a big place, and we don't go there often. It would be a shame to leave it empty. We might as well use it to raise some chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs."

Everyone in the family thinks this is great.

"It would be a shame to leave such a large farm empty. It would be better to use it to raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs. Not only would they have meat and eggs to eat, but the manure could also be used to irrigate the fields."

"Let's go to the farm tomorrow and take a look. After we take a closer look at the farm's conditions, we'll decide how many chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs to raise."

Father Mu thought the same thing and decided to go and see the situation in Zhuangzi tomorrow.

"Tomorrow, the second and third brothers, you guys go back to the shop, Pingping, you guys go to school, and we'll go to the farm to take a look."

After discussing this matter, the family continued to eat.

Mu Laoer talked about recruiting You Xiao: "This kid is good. He is diligent and good at seeing things and greeting guests."

"Also, the account books he made are beautiful."

Mu Baobao asked excitedly, "Second uncle, second uncle, is it Brother You Xiao?"

Mu Lao Er hummed, "It's You Xiao."

"There was nothing left in the shop today. I gave him two rice balls, but I saw he didn't eat any of them. I guess he wanted to take them home to eat."

Zhu sighed, "Isn't this what happens when our family is in trouble?"

"Grandma, you can't be too kind." Mu Niuniu reminded, "We have already helped You Xiao."

"If you're too kind and help him too much, it might just make him think things he shouldn't."

"There are students like this in the Imperial College. It's their duty to help them, and if they don't, they'll be scolded."

Mu Pingping took over the conversation, "Yes, there is such a thing."

"There has to be a limit to helping these people. If you help too much, things will go wrong."

Zhu said angrily, "How could I not know this truth?"

"I just expressed my feelings. How could I really do that?"

She has lived to this age and has not seen much wealth and luxury, but she has seen a lot of dirty things.

Those people in the village can do all kinds of bad things for a little bit of profit.

Mu Pingping and Mu Niuniu felt relieved. They were worried that their family members would have different thoughts after their lives became better.

In the Imperial College, they had heard people say that some people forgot their roots after they became well off and did many strange things.

There are all kinds of people in the Imperial College, including children who have risen through various means.

"Speaking of which," Father Mu said, raising his voice slightly, "Our family is living a good life, but that doesn't mean we can forget our roots."

"Also, don't forget who brought good times to our family."

"We must remember our roots. We are authentic farmers. This is nothing to be ashamed of, and there is no need to think too much about it."

It took him so long to understand this after coming to Rongdu.

These people in Rongdu don’t care about your background at all. They only care about whether you have a backer and whether you can bring them benefits.

Take their family for example. They were born as farmers, but they were able to make those wealthy families compete to curry favor with them.

It's because behind their family are the Rui Wang Mansion and Prince Zheng, as well as Mr. Cheng, Mr. Sang and Doctor Deng, and these are the people those people want to curry favor with.

Boss Mu and the others all said "remember". They would not forget their roots, nor would they have any inappropriate thoughts.

The good life our family has now is thanks to our baby.

"Old Master," the housekeeper An Niang walked in.

She bowed, still looking serious, and said, "I just got the news that everyone in the Shangguan family is out on business."

"Shangguan family?" Mu Laodi and others couldn't remember who the Shangguan family was for a moment.

Mu Baobao raised his little paw and said, "They were Third Senior Brother's former family members."

She said angrily, "They are so wicked, always trying to plot against Third Brother."

Only then did Mu Laodi and others remember who the Shangguan family was.

"Didn't the Shangguan family fail? What kind of business are they going out to do?"

"I heard that the Shangguan family is out of money. Where do they get the money to do business?"

An Niang explained, "It is said that Young Master Shangguan found out that there is a very profitable business out there, but few people know about it now."

"I wonder what method Young Master Shangguan used to persuade everyone in the family to go out to do business together."

Mu Lao Er was stunned for a moment, "There must be a problem."

"If there really was such a good business, there would be no chance for the Shangguan family to participate. Those big families would have already divided it up."

This was a lesson he learned in Rongdu: any profitable business would be divided up by the big families.

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