Reborn as a Landlord-Chapter 676 - 347 Intentions_2

"Sixth Master, have you tried corn? Does it taste alright?" Lian Manman asked with a smile as she saw Shen Liu drinking tea without speaking.

"Both Sixth Brother and I have tried it, first the ones you gave to me," Fatty Shen hurried to speak, not knowing if it was Lian Manman’s illusion, but he seemed to stress the words "you gave to me" a bit more. "...Later, we also ate the ones from my family. Corn is delicious, and I love to eat it. My Sixth Brother loves it too."

"Not bad," Shen Qian said in this manner, and Shen Liu slowly uttered two words.

Not bad, so that means it’s quite good.

Lian Manman then gave Wu Lang a look.

"Brother, give the things we’ve prepared to Sixth Master."

"Okay," Wu Lang promptly agreed and went to the inner room. In a short while, he returned and presented a letter to Shen Liu with both hands.

A servant took it and laid it on the desk.

Shen Liu put down his teacup, picked up the letter, opened it to look, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

The letter detailed how Lian Manman’s family grew corn and also recorded the yield of the tender corn, leaving a blank space at the end to record the yield of the mature corn after the autumn.

"Knows the importance and also has the intention," Shen Liu thought to himself.

"Who wrote the words on this letter?" Shen Liu asked. He had seen the letter Lian Manman sent to Shen Qian, and the handwriting on this letter was not Lian Manman’s.

"It was me," Wu Lang hurriedly replied.

"Sixth Master, my brother started attending the private school in the town this spring. We also have to thank Mr. Loo on the mountain for regularly tutoring my brother and Xiao Qi’s studies," Lian Manman said, "Next year, my brother will be able to participate in the young students’ exam."

"Were you also taught by Mr. Loo?" Shen Liu glanced at Lian Manman and asked.

"Yes," Lian Manman nodded.

"I’ve heard that you are better at learning than your brother and younger brother are. If you were allowed to take the exams, you would surely pass as a Scholar, even a Graduate," Shen Liu said while looking at Lian Manman.

"Hear..." Lian Manman wanted to ask Shen Liu whom he had heard it from when suddenly she remembered that these words were from the first letter she wrote bragging to Shen Qian. Shen Liu must have seen that letter, and now speaking like this didn’t seem like a compliment to her.

Upon this reflection, Lian Manman’s face turned a bit red. Okay, she admitted, it was vanity that drove her at that time, thinking of Fatty Shen, she wrote without much concern.

Shen Liu was not a nice person.

Lian Manman said no more.

Shen Liu coughed softly, put the letter away, and then stood up.

"Let’s go take a look at the corn you’re growing."

Shen Qian cheered and jumped down from the chair.

Lian Shouxin led the way, and the group surrounded Shen Liu and Shen Qian to first check out the corn in the backyard of the shop.

Shen Qian found everything in the vegetable garden to be novel and kept asking Lian Manman non-stop along the way, who patiently told him everything. Although Shen Liu seemed indifferent, he was actually listening.

After leaving the vegetable garden, the group moved towards the fields.

Seeing a field of over twenty mu of lush corn, Shen Liu nodded his head.

"The corn in the field was planted late, so it ripens late. Come late autumn, it will fully mature... We plan to sell all the tender corn from the garden and right after that, the corn from the fields will also be harvested, allowing us to continue selling for about ten days, which is about one-fifth of the corn. The rest, almost twenty mu of corn, we’ll keep some as grain, and the rest can be saved for seeds," Lian Manman whispered her plans to Shen Liu and Shen Qian as she followed beside them.

Shen Liu made no comment.

"Sixth Master, if you allow everyone to grow corn, could you let the people from our village plant it first?" Lian Manman cautiously asked.

"Is the yield of this corn really as high as you say?" Shen Liu didn’t answer Lian Manman’s question but instead asked.

"Yes, definitely," Lian Manman nodded. In the letter, she had already calculated the yield of the tender corn and, come late autumn, when the corn matured and aged, the weight of each one would double. For example, she, Lian Manman, could eat two ears of tender corn in one meal, but if it were two ears of mature corn, whether boiled into porridge or ground into flour for cakes, she wouldn’t be able to consume that much in not just one meal, but probably two.

"Sixth Master, the year has been good, we’ve been managing it carefully, and we’ve applied plenty of fertilizer. We estimate that by late autumn, this one mu could produce at least seven hundred jin of corn... We haven’t told this to anyone, just wrote it in the letter to Sixth Master,... for fear of disbelief," Lian Manman said as she rolled her eyes.

"Alright," Shen Liu nodded and took another look at Lian Manman, then added, "Let’s talk about it after these corns have been harvested."

"Manman, what is that?" Shen Qian, seeing the shed at the end of the field, asked Lian Manman.

"That is a shed for the guards to live in," Lian Manman told Shen Liu and Shen Qian, explaining that they had hired someone to watch over the corn day and night because they feared it could be damaged or stolen.

"Here the people are simple and honest, and these few nights, only twice have we found someone approaching and wanting to... they were chased away by the guards," Lian Manman said.

"You should assign more people to guard," Shen Liu frowned slightly and said.

"Manman, what’s this?" Shen Qian pointed at the sweet potatoes planted at the edge of the field and asked Lian Manman.

Before Lian Manman could answer, they saw a procession of dark carriages and sedan chairs approaching in the distance at high speed.

"The Qingyang County Magistrate requests to see the master."

"The gentry of Jinyang Town requests to see the master."

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