Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 534: Troublesome

All credit to original author: Yi Yi Lan Xi

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If he had told Lian Fang Zhou about it early, his sister had a keen mind and was a woman, so she would have definitely guessed something.
With her taking precautions, he would have suffered less.

After explaining everything, Third Aunt sighed.
“This child has had a hard life! What kind of parents are those! When I see her, I can’t help but love her more.
She is cute, hardworking, and capable.
She rushes to do all kinds of work, which makes people pity when they see her.”

Lian Fang Zhou frowned before smiling faintly: “Third Aunt, no matter what, she is still a servant.
What you’ve said, don’t talk about it in front of outsiders or servants.” Seeing that Third Aunt only nodded with a disapproving ‘oh’, Lian Fang Zhou sighed and could only explain: “If you treat her too well, the other servants will be jealous! If they plot against her out of envy, you will harm her!”

“How can that be!” Third Aunt laughed.
“Bi Tao and Chun Xing are not such people! Bi Tao likes Si Si very much, I think Chun Xing will also like her!” The girl was quite popular!

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Lian Fang Zhou had no choice but to persist.
Patiently, she said: “Yes, Chun Xing and Bi Tao are not that kind of people but Third Aunt, there will be more servants in the future.
Can you guarantee all of them will be like this? Besides, just because Si Si is pitiful and well-behaved, everyone must like her and treat her well? What is a well-behaved and sensible servant but a servant doing their duty? If you treat her like this, is it fair to the other servants?”

Third Aunt was taken aback.

“If you just talk about it but don’t act biased, after a long time she will feel dissatisfied with you in her heart, thinking that you are just nice to her on the surface and don’t give her any benefits at all.” Lian Fang Zhou continued.
“In this case, it’s better not to say these things to save her from having thoughts she shouldn’t have.
But if you are biased to her, its fine if its once or twice, but when others see it go on for a long time, won’t they be dissatisfied? As the master, the most important thing is to be fair! The same servants work the same way but if you insist on favoring one, won’t this only provoke them?”

“I—” Third Aunt was stunned.
Sullenly, she muttered: “I can’t argue with you.”

Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t laugh or cry but she didn’t blame Third Aunt.

Their family had only just become rich.
Not to mention Third Aunt, all of her siblings also needed to learn to pay attention.

It was not so easy to juggle the internal affairs of the household, external affairs, and the relationships between relatives and friends.

Lian Fang Zhou smiled.
“You don’t need to argue, just think about it.
It’s okay to have simple family rules now but once the family increases, if you don’t handle things in a proper manner, you will easily get into trouble.
For the sake of the family, we can’t do whatever we want! Otherwise, it will take a lot of effort to solve things later if they get missed up.
You think she is pitiful but that was the past.
In our household, there are no people to beat and scold her.
She did not have enough food and clothing and was abused.
Since she is still young, its fine to assign her less work.
She’s not pitiful anymore!”

Third Aunt sighed.
“You’re right, I just couldn’t bear to think about it.
I won’t be like this in the future!”

Relieved, Lian Fang Zhou comforted Third Aunt so she wouldn’t be depressed.
Then she asked: “This Si Si, from what you’ve said, her parents are rouges.
Since she came to our house, will they go to Ah Ze to find trouble again in the future?”

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Third Aunt looked stunned.
Shaking her head, she said: “I didn’t even think of this.
Yes, we need to guard against them! Her parents are really scoundrels, maybe they will come to find her!”

Although they had sold her with a death contract, Lian Ze was only human.
He was from a rural family, not a daunting wealthy family.
If the couple insisted on pestering their daughter to help them, no matter how bad they were to Si Si before, could she watch them starve to death? What’s more, she had a younger brother.
Even if she had a grudge against her parents, her brother was innocent…

Lian Fang Zhou thought for a moment and said: “If her parents come to the door, don’t let them in.
Tell Bi Tao to handle it and don’t mention it to Si Si.
Have her find Steward Qin to deal with it! I will talk to Ah Ze.
If they go to him, they will be threatened and driven away, he is not allowed to pay them money! This kind of person is the most difficult to deal with.
Once you try and they taste sweetness, there will be no end to it in the future.”

Third Aunt nodded in agreement.

The two chatted for a while.
Suddenly remembering something, Lian Fang Zhou pretended to ask with a casual smile: “Did anything new happen in the village these days?”

New? Third Aunt thought about it and suddenly regained her spirits.
With an odd smile, she rolled her eyes and laughed: “These is something exciting, I just don’t know if it is new or not!”

Moving closer to Lian Fang Zhou, she smiled and said: “These days, your uncle’s house is very lively, hehehe!”

Lian Fang Zhou narrowed her eyes and curled her lips into a slight sneer.
It seemed that her plan had succeeded!

“Really? What is happening at his house?” She asked, smiling.

Third Aunt quickly took a sip of her tea and put the cup down, too excited to wait to tell Lian Fang Zhou…

Just five or six days after Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian went out, Lian Li finally returned home from the outside.

However, he didn’t come back alone, but with two other people: his mistress, Xiao Ya and her little girl, Cui’er.

As soon as Lian Li led Xiao Ya and Cui’er into the village, many people say them.
There was no end to the people rushing to Madam Qiao to wag their tongues vividly!

Before Lian Li could even enter his yard, he was stopped by Madam Qiao, who had a cold face and eyes that seemed to spew fire.

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Not too far away, a crowd of people in groups of two or three were watching the fun!

This kind of liveliness was obviously what everyone loved to watch.

However, they also understood that this matter was quite embarrassing and it was not suitable to watch too closely.
Those who were considerate stood just far enough away to hear the conversation.

Seeing her, Xiao Ya blinked her beautiful eyes and lightly tugged Lian Li’s sleeve.
In a soft voice, she said: “Master, many people are watching.
If Madam says something unpleasant, I am just a concubine.
I don’t mind, but won’t this let others see Master as a joke? Why don’t we go in first? It’s better to talk about our affairs behind closed doors.  No matter what the Madam wants me to do, I will listen.
I don’t dare make Madam angry!”

She was so sensible and considerate!