FID – Chapter 437

  Chapter 437: Grandma Wanted to Water the Vegetable Patches With Night Soil

  ”Many of the Liu family’s tea plantations all suffered overnight, and they know who the culprit is. Now that they invited us, I suppose it’s for them to bow and beg for help to solve their problem. From the way they set the meeting for tonight, the degree of their urgency is evident.” Liu Yusheng smirked.

  It wasn’t easy to see the Liu family bow their heads.

  ”Do you want to help?”

  ”Who they’re really asking for is you. You’re the best at concocting and solving poisons.”

  The Liu family should know that the tea plantations turned the way they were because the tea trees were poisoned, so they wanted to beg Xue Qinglian to help. She was indeed invited in the litter, but she would be the one tagging along.

  ”Do you want me to help them?”

  ”I have no intention to help, ah. I just want to go see their faces.” Liu Yusheng smiled playfully.

  But the bottom of her heart was sunken.

  The Liu family was such a big family, and the only one she had seen so far was Consort Liu.

  That face was exactly the same as her clan members in her previous life.

  It was obviously two different eras, so why were there people who looked exactly the same? Whether it was a coincidence or another reason, she wanted to understand.

  She accepted the invitation to see Liu Huai’s appearance, and whether he would also be identical to one of the people in her previous life.

  Xue Qinglian himself couldn’t understand Liu Yusheng’s thoughts. They were mutual enemies. Both sides knew that the fight between them was either one dies and the other lives. Why did she have to look at their faces? There was nothing worth seeing.

  They should wait until the moment when success or failure is really determined. At that moment, it could be called wonderful

  It was still far too early.

  But since Lucky Nannan was interested, he would reluctantly accompany her on the trip.

  The four Liu family elders were still working on the newly reclaimed vegetable patch in the backyard.

  To quote them, it was a waste of energy to plant things that looked good but were impractical. They lacked the penchant for the arty types and were unable to perceive what was good and bad.

  Planting vegetables, good-looking and edible, was really economical.

  Grandpa Liu led Liu Dalin and squatted between the garden patches to serve the greens. Grandma Liu went to summon the servants with Chen Xiulan to ask if there was any night soil in the house that had not been disposed of.

  The servants’ expressions changed anew.

  ”Is there any? There are so many servants in the residence, and they have to go to the toilet, right? Someone is bound to defecate, right?”

  ”…”

  ”It doesn’t matter if there’s none today. Remember to keep them for me tomorrow. Watering the vegetable field with night soil can fertilize them. The vegetables can also grow better and faster.”

  ”…”

  After Grandma Liu explained herself and led her daughter-in-law away, the servants still couldn’t recover from the shock. Then they ran and stumbled to find Fu Yuzheng for consultation.

  Miss Fu took care of all the trivial things in the house. The elders of the Liu family wanted to water the vegetable field with night soil, but they couldn’t do it without permission, so they had no choice but to ask Miss Fu. If His Highness ended up punishing them, it would be none of their business. They were just doing things according to orders.

  It wasn’t because they lacked moral principles. In fact, they would make the whole manor odorous everywhere by then. By then, the manor would really be the same as the vegetable gardens in the countryside. They could not afford that responsibility, much less the King’s wrath, ah.

  The servants did not look for Miss Fu everywhere, but ran directly to Liuyun Pavilion. There they raised their voices at the door, “Miss Fu! Miss Fu!”

  In the room, Fu Yuzheng immediately broke away from Liu Zhixia’s embrace and walked out, still with a tint of blush on her cheeks.

  A servant took a look and immediately lowered his head, “Miss Fu, Grandma Liu told us to collect night soil to water the vegetable patches. Can we collect them?”

  ”Yeah. If the elder master and elder lady have any orders, you can just do as you’re told.”

  ”Then His Highness…”

  ”I will talk to His Highness later. Retreat.”

  ”Understood.”

  Fu Yuzheng watched the manor servants walk away with their feet still floating and hid a smile behind her palm.

  Grandpa Liu and Grandma Liu probably scared the servants in the manor.

  The scenery in the royal residence also represented the facade of the manor. Changing the backyard and flower beds into vegetable gardens was already enough to scare these people. Then here came watering the vegetable patches with night soil. It was estimated that many people found it hard to accept.

  ”Grandma wants to use night soil to water the ground?” Liu Zhixia’s voice rang inside the room, hinting at helplessness.

  ”Yeah, there are so many vegetable patches, so I don’t know if there’ll be enough night soil in the house.”

  Liu Zhixia really had a headache this time. It was okay if his grandparents were acting so, but how come Yuzheng was also so accepting? “Don’t you mind the smell?”

  ”The vegetable field is ventilated everywhere. I heard Grandma Liu say before that after watering the soil, the sun will dissipate the smell. Besides, watering them wasn’t every day. It’s only once or twice to fertilize the ground.”

  ”…” In the past few days, just what exactly had his grandparents, parents and Yuzheng talked about?

  However, fertilizing was fine, as long as they were happy.

  Anyway, Feng Qingbai would also indulge them in everything.

  When the grandparents finished their work and went back to the hall to rest, Liu Yusheng told them about the invitation.

  Grandpa Liu frowned at once: “Why is it the capital’s Liu family again? If it’s not easy to deal with them, just ignore it.”

  They sent someone to Xiapo Village to dig up information about their family, and now they invited their Nannan to a banquet. Intuition was telling Grandpa Liu that the Liu family in the capital were planning bad things behind the scenes.

  In the past few days since their arrival to the capital, they had been occupied with Yuzheng and Zhixia’s engagement, plus the time coincided with Zhixia’s exam, so they forgot to ask Axiu what was going on with the Liu family.

  ”Grandpa, Grandma, parents, don’t worry. It’s nothing serious. We just have some business dealings with the Liu family in the capital, and we’re just going to talk about it.”

  ”You can’t go alone. Let Qinglian accompany you, or wait for Axiu to come back and bring him, too. That way, you won’t get caught in the Liu family’s traps,” Liu Dalin suggested.

  ”It’s okay. Feng Qingbai is busy there. The results will be released tomorrow, so he may not come back at dinner time. It’s enough for Xue Qinglian to go with me.”

  The eyes of the Liu elders immediately gathered on Xue Qinglian. He raised his hand and promised, “I promise to bring Lucky Nannan back completely without suffering any injustice.”

  At dinner time, Feng Qingbai sent someone with message. As expected, he couldn’t return home.

  At that time, Liu Yusheng and Xue Qinglian had already gotten on the carriage, heading to the restaurant.

  Perhaps to show sincerity, Liu Huai set the venue for the meeting at The Qians Restaurant.

  That alone was extremely rare.

  Everyone knew that the Lius and the Qians were rivals, so the Lius almost never set foot in the Qians territory.

  At the entrance of the restaurant, the two met up with Qian Wanjin and the three of them looked at each other with a smile.

  ”It seems the Liu family is really exhausted and desperate,” Qian Wanjin said. The Lius invited the three of them all at once, all the most critical parties. “Let’s go. In my territory, put your heart in your stomach. Let’s see what medicine the Liu family is concocting.”

  ”Even if it’s not your turf, do you think we’ll be afraid?” Xue Qinglian lazily countered.

  Not really.

  Apart from the fear of Lucky Nannan not giving him the potion, he had never been afraid of anything else.

  When he first approached Feng Qingbai and Liu Yusheng, he suffered a lot of beatings, but it didn’t shake his resolve.

  As soon as the restaurant shopkeeper saw the three enter, he personally welcomed them to the third floor private room.

  When they opened the door of the private room, Liu Huai was already sitting inside, waiting.