Chapter 63 Visiting the Farm (2)
Chapter 63 Visiting the Farm (2)
"Sister, are there only adults and no children on the estate?" Wen Yunhong was a little puzzled. The servants who came to pay their respects earlier were all adults; there wasn't a single child.
Wen Yuxia laughed and said, "How could there be no children on the farm? The head of the farm shouldn't have called any children over."
When the property was transferred, Master He handed her all the indentures of the servants. She didn't look at them carefully and just put them in her handbag. She only remembered that Xiao Zhang had said that there were a total of 63 adults in the three farms.
Thinking of this, Wen Yuxia took out the stack of indentures from her spatial storage and carefully examined the top one. The number of servants for the three farms was recorded on that piece of paper.
Lingyuan Manor has 23 servants, including 12 male servants, 11 female servants, and 10 children. Lingdong Manor has 18 servants, including 10 males, 8 females, and 7 children. Lingtong Village has 22 servants, including 10 males, 12 females, and 5 children.
After reading it, Wen Yuxia looked at the indentures again, and as he expected, even children had indentures.
There were children on the farm, and the happiest of them all was Wen Yunhong. Living in the city, Wen Yuxia was worried about his safety and wouldn't let him go out alone, so he had no friends his own age.
The farm is surrounded by walls, so it's safe and secure. He can play with the children in the farm. After dinner, Wen Yunhong sneaked out of the house and ran towards the tallest and biggest tree in the farm. His intuition told him that it was where the children played.
The children, who were playing in the mud and throwing stones under the tree on an empty stomach, all stood up and bowed timidly to greet Wen Yunhong, who was dressed in new clothes: "Greetings, young master!"
The adults in the family said that a beautiful young lady and a handsome young master had come to the village. The young master was the new owner of the village, and the young lady was the manager of the farm. The adults also said that when you see the young master and the young lady, you should bow and greet them, and you must not offend them.
Wen Yunhong looked at the children with pity. They were wearing tattered clothes and open-toed shoes.
Is it cold?
“Young master, we… we’re not cold,” a boy said in a trembling voice.
"Come on, let's go to my house to warm up by the fire and play with our toys," Wen Yunhong said, taking the boy's hand and beckoning the others to follow him home.
Back home, Wen Yunhong asked Granny Lu to light a charcoal fire and serve some snacks. The children sat nervously around the brazier, heads down, not daring to look at the snacks on the table. However, the sound of them swallowing their saliva betrayed them.
Wen Yunhong picked up the plate and walked over, putting a pastry in each child's hand. Finally, he picked up a pastry, took a small bite, and said happily, "Pastries should be eaten while they're hot. Don't just stand there with your pastries, eat them!"
He ate a big meal that night and definitely didn't want any snacks. But if he didn't eat, the children didn't dare to either. Oh, this was really putting him in a difficult position.
Wen Yuxia, observing the canopy bed up close in the bedroom, heard from Granny Lu that Wen Yunhong had brought the children from the estate back. She then hurried towards the front yard.
She had always wanted to cultivate a group of loyal subordinates, and now that there were children in all three farms, weren't these children the best candidates?
"Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu," Wen Yuxia called out.
"Miss, I'm here," Lu Xiaosong quickly appeared in front of Wen Yuxia.
Originally, in the city, Wen Yuxia forbade them to refer to themselves as "Xiao" (小, meaning "young man"), but the farm servants constantly used "Xiao," making Lu Zhigang very uneasy. Therefore, he instructed his family members not to use "I" (我, meaning "I") in front of Wen Yuxia and her siblings, but to refer to themselves as "Xiao" (小, meaning "young man") like Lin Zhuangtou and the others.
Wen Yuxia was immune to being addressed like that. "Miss is Miss, and Little is Little," she said with a faint smile. "Uncle Lu, go tell Headmaster Lin to go to Lingdong Village and Lingtong Village tomorrow morning and bring all the children aged 4 to 7 here."
"I'll go find Lin Zhuangtou right away," Lu Xiaosong said. He didn't understand why Wen Yuxia wanted to bring the child over, but that didn't stop him from carrying out Wen Yuxia's orders.
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