Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 339: Zhao Ru Jun’s anger

Over the next few days, the whole family mobilized to top the cotton.
After this, the cotton would grown more quickly and produce more fruit.

Other than Third Aunt, who stayed home to cook, more than a dozen people went out to battle.
They spent nearly three weeks working night and day before they finished.

During this period, the old head of Wang Village sent someone to visit again.
The batch of ducklings had hatched and he wanted Lian Fang Zhou to come over and take a look.

Lian Fang Zhou was very happy and took Lian Ze and Ah Jian over to see.

Old Wang had been very clear that he did not have a clear understanding of the incubation time and for their first experiment, only one hundred and twenty eggs had successfully hatched out of the original two hundred.
However, he was excited to try again.

This result was beyond Lian Fang Zhou’s expectation.
Looking at the fluffy yellow ducklings, still only the size of her palm, Lian Fang Zhou was thrilled.
She picked out fifty of them and left the rest to Old Wang.

These fifty ducklings were raised by Madam Li and Xiu’er in a duck house built behind the compound living area.
Right now, the ducklings were too small to resist the cold water, so they could only be kept in the backyard.
After raising them for a few weeks, they would be able to go to the river outside the village for food and water.

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In the Zhao manor, Zhao Ru Jun was so angry she almost fell ill when she heard that she had not only failed to have Zhao San set the fire but had also lost her servants.

What made the angriest, however, was her father.
The man who had only praised her since she was a child had scolded her!

There was also the family-born slaves in the manor who she relied on as her personal servants.
All of them were horrified to learn that their families’ slave contracts were in Lian Fang Zhou’s hands.
All of them took this matter very seriously and actually dared to watch her in secret, reporting anything amiss to her father, who would come and teach her a lesson…

Zhao Ru Jun hated this to the roots of her teeth!

The more hate in her heart, the more she needed to vent it or else she would suffocate to death.

Her angry had made her lose her mind and her desire for revenge was very strong.
Although Master Zhao guarded her very closely, he could not completely control her.
After all, Zhao Ru Jun had managed the family businesses for so many years and was not the typical girl raised deep in the inner courtyard.
If the people inside the manor would not work for her, she would simply use the people outside.

When several gangsters were sent to Master Zhao with their legs broken and a letter of confession, Master Zhao trembled and taught Zhao Ru Jun a lesson.

At the same time, Er Gou Zi, Er Liang, Ha Ma, and Lei Ze all left Yuhe county silently.
The gossip was that they had offended Zhao Ru Jun, the eldest young lady of the Zhao Manor.
After nearly being killed by her, they had left their hometown.

When this came out, the entire county was in an uproar and Zhao Ru Jun’s reputation plummeted!

As the saying goes, there is no smoke without a fire and Er Gou Zi and the others had indeed been involved with Zhao Ru Jun.
Although Master Zhao had repeatedly spoken out and tried to explain that their disappearance had nothing to do with his daughter, he wasn’t able to come up with a good enough reason to persuade the people.

The others in the Zhao family had long coveted the property of the main branch.
Now they had started to move again, intervening on the grounds that the reputation of the Zhao family had been damaged as a result of Zhao Ru Jun’s actions.
They nearly pushed Master Zhao to a dead end and in the end, he had to spend countless amounts of money to his contacts to deal with them.
He was so troubled, he could only leave the matter of his daughter’s reputation alone.

However, Zhao Ru Jun put the fault for all this on Lian Fang Zhou’s head and didn’t feel that she was in the wrong.

Disappointed in her attitude, Master Zhao put her under house arrest and claimed that she was recuperating.

Frustrated, Zhao Ru Jun broke out in a hunger strike.
When her father was still indifferent, Zhao Ru Jun panicked and asked her mother for help, kneeling down in front of him and begging for forgiveness.

Master Zhao did not move.
Speaking indifferently, he said: “Father has thought about it; you are a young lady, you should have been spoiled in the inner courtyard.
I really regret teaching you business, let alone letting you out to show your face outside! It’s not too late now, you should obediently focus on your embroidery and household management.
This is what a young lady should learn!”

Zhao Ru Jun’s face paled and she hurriedly cried: “Father! I am your only child! If I do not share your burdens, who will share them with you? Are you willing to divide your hard-earned business to the white-eyed wolves in the family? I’m your daughter! I should inherit and manage them!”

“You don’t need to worry about this.” Master Zhao glanced at her quietly.
“Father has thought about it and has decided that it is too hard for you! I have decided to accept three concubines again.
An heir is good regardless of their appearance or background, as long as they have good parenting.
If I can’t give you a little brother after three years, I will adopt a child from the branch families.”

“No! No! I don’t agree!” Zhao Ru Jun screamed, staring at him in disbelief.

Madam Zhao paled.
Looking at Master Zhao in surprise, her eyes reddened and she bowed her head silently.

Master Zhao waved his hand and sighed tiredly: “Originally, I did not want to say this but since you have asked today, I said it! Go back to your yard and have a good rest!”

Where was Zhao Ru Jun willing? She nearly fainted from the sudden rush of anger, exclaiming: “Father, you can’t do this! You can’t do this! Are you worthy of my mother like this?”

Her father couldn’t help becoming angry.
With a calm face he said: “Who are you speaking to? Is there any daughter who acts like you?”

He looked at his wife, who was starting to weep, and his heart softened: “You don’t need to worry about this! When you have a little brother, your mother and I will be able to rely on them when we grow old.
Whether he is born from a concubine or adopted, he will be kept in your mother’s name and raised by your mother herself! I won’t drag her down!”.

When Madam Zhao heard this, she was instantly moved.
She hurriedly pulled Zhao Ru Jun, saying in a low voice: “Jun’er, stop making trouble! Go, go back with your mother!”

Zhao Ru Jun was screaming and struggling like crazy, yelling furiously.
Her mother had no choice but to call the maids to help her forcibly drag her daughter away.

Master Zhao sighed for a long time before he shook his head and ordered the housekeeper to send someone to find some good-bodied woman, preparing to take them as his concubines.

In the inner courtyard, Zhao Ru Jun threw herself on the bed and cried in a mess.
The maids were all driven out until only Madam Zhao remained to persuade her.

But how could she be persuaded?

“Mother! How can Father do this?! How can he treat me like this! Didn’t you say that I will inherit the family property? How can he take his words back?!”

When Zhao Ru Jun had cried herself dry, she finally opened her mouth.
Raising her head, she looked at Madam Zhao with tears in her eyes.
They flashed with a scorching light: “Mother! Why didn’t you speak for me?! I am your daughter! Could it be that you will just watch Father pass the family property to others like this!?”

TN: In the end, ZRJ is really just a spoiled teenager.