Everyone in town knows about this. This was intentionally done by the Fang family. If Zhang Tingyu does anything detrimental to the Fang family in the future, it will have a significant impact on his career.

Subsequently, at Zhang Tingyu's request, the head of the Fang family sent him to the academy in the county town for further studies.

The annual tuition fee of over one hundred taels of silver was paid by the Fang family. All the teachers at the academy knew about this. He originally wanted to hide it, but as soon as he entered the academy, the teacher brought it up and taught him to be grateful.

Zhang Tingyu outwardly expressed gratitude to the Fang family, but inwardly she was extremely bitter, feeling as if the Fang family was putting her on a hot seat.

Even the slightest act that would dishonor the Fang family would ruin him completely, especially since he wasn't sure if the Fang family knew about his affair with Zhao. If they did find out, the Fang family would have him completely under their control.

The Fang family is truly ruthless; this is something he never expected. It's too late for him to try to divorce them; he's probably tied to the Fang family for life.

The Zhang family learned of this in mid-April. Overjoyed, they rented the village chief's oxcart and excitedly went to the Fang family's house.

Unexpectedly, the Fang family did not take their son's passing the imperial examination seriously, which angered them greatly. They felt that they should at least host a banquet at a restaurant, but when Zhang Tingyu went to the county town, the Fang family did not invite them to lunch.

The Zhang family had no choice but to take the oxcart back home. After closing the door, Zhang Dashan and Qian gave the Fang family a thorough dressing-down.

Zhao, meanwhile, was listening contentedly in the side room with her two children in her arms. She thought that if she could just wait a few more years until Zhang Lao Er passed the imperial examination, she and her children would finally have a better future.

In the future, when the whole family moves into his mansion, the two of them can spend every day together again.

When the villagers learned that Zhang Lao Er had passed the imperial examination and become a scholar, they all became resentful.

It's really uncomfortable for an outsider to step on their heads, so the village chief even called a meeting of the clansmen because of this.

They also wanted to find a scholar to accompany them, and after discussing it until midnight, they selected three children from the clan, all seven or eight-year-old boys, and sent them to town to study.

They refused to believe that with the entire clan's resources, they couldn't afford to support a scholar.

After the gossipy dragon finished telling Xiao Nan about it, Xiao Nan chuckled.

"Elders are always scheming about this and that, trying to get their hands on other people's money. The younger generation follows suit, and children who only have these kinds of ideas in their minds will never amount to anything, no matter how much they are nurtured."

“Master, the clan is so poor that they have to support three children, yet they don’t even think about making money through honest means.”

"They're all bullies within their own village. No matter how poor the people in the other villages are, would they dare to rob them?"

"That's right. They say a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow, but they've almost eaten all the grass around their burrow. If your heart isn't upright, wealth won't come to you. Even the God of Literature won't visit your home."

"Heh, let's not talk about them anymore, they're bad luck. You stay home and keep watch, I'm worried about those people in the capital, I'm going to check on the fields."

"Yes, Master, may I burn them?"

"No, if something happens in our house, we'll face legal trouble. By the way, with your spatial advancement, your abilities should have improved by now."

"Hehe, I can take you to the prefectural city now, and then I can hit Old Niu from a distance."

"Wow, it's just a ball of air, how are we supposed to fight it?"

"Controlled object strike, instantaneous release and instantaneous retraction, it looks like it's launched from a distance."

"Has the distance from me increased?"

“One hundred li.”

“Wow, it’s grown tenfold, not bad, not bad. You just stay in the village. If those people from the capital dare to come again, take care of them at the village entrance. Those annoying flies, they’re disgusting to look at.”

"Solve it? Does that mean taking their lives?"

"Knock them out. Within the city limits, dump them in the most remote place. If they can live, they can live; if they can't, they can die. It's up to their fate."

"No problem, leave it to me."

Xiao Nan nodded and left, relieved.

The land is 1,700 mu, but not many fruit trees are planted because the land only counts the first harvest; subsequent harvests are not counted.

We planted it simply for our own convenience.

So she planted ten acres of the same fruits she ate daily, and hired ten people to manage them. That only took two hundred acres, leaving fifteen hundred acres.

Thinking of the promise I made to Manager Liu, I planted fifty acres of each of the ten commonly used herbs: honeysuckle, bupleurum, saposhnikovia, atractylodes macrocephala, salvia miltiorrhiza, astragalus membranaceus, platycodon grandiflorus, notoginseng, gastrodia elata, and kudzu root.

For these hundreds of acres of medicinal herbs, twenty people were assigned to manage them diligently.

She planned to plant potatoes on the remaining thousand acres, but she was short of manpower. When Wang Feng learned about this, he immediately went to his wife's village and recruited thirty people in one day. They were all honest and hardworking people.

Having manpower alone wasn't enough, so she asked Longlong to take her to the county town, where they bought five cows and a horse.

She entrusted the cattle to Wang Feng for arrangement, and told him that the cattle should be raised together, and the manure produced should be collected together. Then, it should be mixed with hay and burned together. In this way, the cow manure and wood ash will be mixed together to become nutrient-rich organic fertilizer.

Xiao Nan spent the entire winter preparing for this 1,000-plus acres of land.

Now, the hero finally has a place to use his talents.

As she rode on horseback, gazing upon the vast land she owned, a wave of emotion washed over her.

The orchard, covering more than 200 acres, is neatly divided up, with a path separating each variety. The trees are spaced eight meters apart, and the open space is free of weeds, having been thoroughly cleaned.

There is a main road between the medicinal herb fields and the orchards, which is convenient for oxcarts to travel, and another road between them and the grain fields, with countless smaller paths interspersed in between.

In the middle of every fifty acres of land, there is a large house with a heated kang bed and new mats. You can heat the kang and cook your own meals. The kitchen cabinets and tableware are all provided by Xiao Nan.

Currently, five workers share one room, and several other rooms are empty.

The workers now live there, and they take turns going home once a month.

Xiao Nan rode her across the field, and her heroic figure on horseback was deeply imprinted in the hearts of the workers.

This is their female boss, their provider. She's beautiful, kind, and capable. They must work hard for her from now on.

This land of over 1,000 mu has solved the livelihood problem for idle people in two villages.

If one person in a family works here, that family will not go hungry. You know, a monthly income of three hundred coins can buy a lot of coarse grains.

If a family has two workers like that, they might be able to buy a pound of meat occasionally for a treat.

The people of Wangzhuang and Zhouzhuang were all grateful to Wang Feng and Xiao Nan, their employer.

By the end of April, people in the north had already taken off their thick coats and were wearing light clothing. Workers in the fields were wearing vests, and even so, sweat was still dripping from their heads.

Xiao Nan told them to build a shed in front of his house. Three wells had been dug in advance in the manor, so they could get a drink of water and then drive an oxcart to fetch water from there.

They wouldn't even let the workers drink raw water; they told them to boil it and let it cool before drinking.

Although the workers didn't understand, they all listened to her. The boss must have his reasons for saying that.

Wang Feng explained it to them privately, and the workers then understood the benefits of drinking boiled water and the drawbacks of drinking raw water.

Each of them was even more grateful to Xiao Dongjia.

The owner never smiled at them when he came here; he always looked very serious, but the things he did always warmed their hearts.

This job was hard-won, and they vowed not to let their employer down and to keep it.

Seeing that the work in the field was proceeding in an orderly manner, Xiao Nan changed her routine from checking on the fields every day to checking on them every five days.

She's taught everything she needed to, so she can finally get some rest.

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