Pampered By All In Different Planes-Chapter 156 - : The Lucky Farmer is at Ease, While the Husband with No Heirs is Busy Pursuing His Wife 16

Chapter 156: Chapter 156: The Lucky Farmer is at Ease, While the Husband with No Heirs is Busy Pursuing His Wife 16

Three years later.

A massive fire wiped the Su Family village from public view, yet at the same time, a merchant caravan rose from the Western Regions. The members of this group were tightly knit and each performed their assigned duties. Everyone, from the able-bodied to the women, children, and elderly, found a role to fulfill.

In just three years, they had quickly established countless industries. Their business associations and ventures were too numerous to count, spreading across the north and south of the great river.

At that time, in the wealthiest part of Jiangnan, within a magnificent and opulent small courtyard.

“Mommy, look at brother, he split my ledger with a sword!!” A child as cute as a doll, with two buns in her hair, pouted, her big and bright eyes brimming with tears. She stretched her small, lotus-root-like arms, waving them to be held by the woman leisurely sipping tea at the head seat.

On the other side, holding a short sword and dressed in a short brown robe, the other child hemmed and hawed, somewhat hesitantly looking at his sister. He wanted to pull her over but didn’t dare, and instead he bowed his head in apology, “Mommy, I didn’t mean to. Zhezhi was checking the accounts in the pavilion, and I accidentally—”

“Ruanruan, playing judge again?”

At this moment, the aunt walked in and, seeing the two adorable children, her expression immediately softened, “Oh my, Zheye, Zhezhi, what happened? Come here, let your aunt take a look.”

Su Zhiruan put down her teacup, picked up one of the squishy children in each arm, and after examining them declared, “So, Zheye was practicing swordplay and accidentally split the ledger that Zhezhi was going through, is that right?”

The two children nodded like pecking birds, exchanged a glance, and then turned their head away in feigned anger.

“In that case, Zheye, apologize to your sister and have someone fix the ledger. Then both of you will check the accounts together,” Su Zhiruan said to her son and daughter. She added, “After you make up, Mommy will give you both a gift.”

Upon hearing there was a gift for making up, the children immediately joined hands.

“I’m sorry, Zhezhi, I ruined the ledger. Let’s fix it together. Will you be mad at me?” Su Zheye hugged his sister.

“It’s okay, if you fix it you’ll still be my good brother,” Zhezhi also stretched out her little hand.

Watching the two cute, huffing children, Su Zhiruan smiled helplessly.

“Ah, Ruanruan, these children are actually…” the aunt said affectionately, looking at the siblings walking out hand in hand and then turning to Su Zhiruan, “they are his, aren’t they?”

“Hmm,” Su Zhiruan knew what she meant.

Most of the Su Family village residents who had come out with her knew the true identity of these two children. Descendants of the Royal Family, their lineage had fallen among the common folk, a secret not to be disclosed.

Now, the entire Su Family village, all more than a hundred people, were united as one, sharing mutual prosperity and adversity; naturally, no one would risk their life to spread the word.

“Zheye and Zhezhi are our Su Family village’s children, Ruanruan, don’t worry, we definitely won’t tell anyone,” the aunt assured repeatedly.

Su Zhiruan nodded and took another sip of tea.

Seeing her so calm and composed now, the aunt’s thoughts involuntarily drifted back to three years ago.

Back then, everyone had been worried about being hunted down and silenced, and the whole village, men and women, young and old, sick and disabled, all followed her.

Initially, many regretted their decision, as it meant cutting off all ties to their past life, following a woman like Su Zhiruan to look for a livelihood without knowing what the future held.

But soon, the tactics that Su Zhiruan displayed had all the over one hundred villagers of Su Family Village bowing down in admiration, even to the point of wholehearted reverence after witnessing her capabilities.

She acquired a storefront, established a business association, and gave everyone a complete makeover. Posing as someone from the Western Regions, she quickly began to build a reputation at the State Office.

She arranged for the able-bodied men to follow her in rotating between stores for training and opening new shops. Women who wanted to learn how to run a shop could also join in, while those who couldn’t read or didn’t wish to learn could stay behind to take care of the children.

For children of school age, she set up a school and hired a teacher to educate them. The children made progress in their studies, and a few with a solid foundation even became Scholars.

Ready-made clothing stores, restaurants, pawnshops, jewelry stores, and so on—she dabbled in all these businesses, and some of her sales strategies even left the old hands utterly shocked.

If an average person had acquired five thousand taels of Gold, they might have immediately bought property, spent lavishly, and indulged in pleasures without delay.

But what the Su family saw her doing with that money was building up a large family. Eventually, every single villager from Su Family Village who ventured out with her felt a deep sense of pride, and Su Zhiruan’s reputation became increasingly illustrious, especially renowned throughout Jiangnan.

As for Zhezhi and Zheye, they were the children she gave birth to smoothly after ten months of pregnancy.

All the people in Su Family Village knew who the parents of these two children were, but everyone kept their lips sealed and never let even a hint of information slip out.

A pair of boy and girl twins, an auspicious sign of the dragon and phoenix, the brother was born first, followed by the sister. At the time, Su Zhiruan was reading a book of poetry and came across the line, “Plucking branches and leaves in the search for willows,” so she named the brother Su Zheye and the sister Su Zhezhi.

Aunts and mothers, or even the wives from next door, all scrambled to take care of Zhezhi and Zheye.

The two little infants, from their birth, were well-behaved and sensible, showing intelligence and wisdom beyond other children, speaking much earlier than most.

At a very young age, they each exhibited staggering talents. Zheye possessed an innate talent for martial arts that attracted the attention of a reclusive master, who was even willing to give up his carefree life to devote himself wholeheartedly to teaching Zheye the martial arts.

Su Zhiruan also hired a world-renowned teacher to educate the two children.

As for sister Su Zhezhi, she was different. From infancy, she would blink her eyes intently watching Su Zhiruan balancing the accounts and counting money, and during her baby ‘Grabbing Week’ ceremony, she went for a Gold abacus on her own initiative.

After she learned to speak and walk, little Zhezhi was already able to take part in the accounting aspects of Su Zhiruan’s business.

The siblings were only three years old this year and had already built a reputation for themselves, becoming famous prodigies near and far.

The people of Su Family Village felt sorry for her raising children alone and were grateful for her leading them in business to grow and strengthen. Now the Su Family had become a well-known and distinguished new clan.

Everyone in Su Family Village, from top to bottom, admired her.

Even Erya, who once disliked Su Zhiruan, after witnessing her capabilities, no longer harbored resentment or envy and willingly followed Su Zhiruan’s arrangements, happily caring for the children Zhezhi and Zheye.

The entire Su Family Village’s attitude towards Su Zhiruan and the two children could almost be described as unconditional indulgence.

The village’s beloved Su Zhiruan, where no one was allowed to speak ill of her. As for Su Zhezhi and Su Zheye, everyone knew they were the children of Fu Huaichu and Su Zhiruan and showed them nothing but unconditional love.

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In her past life, Su Zhiruan was already well-versed in the art of business, and the strategies of modern business warfare, when applied to ancient times, naturally led to victory in every battle. Apart from some initial difficulties at the beginning, the rest of her life could be described as flourishing.

“Ruanruan, this is the account book Erdan submitted today, and there’s a problem at Uncle San’s place. He’s asking for you to take a look,” the aunt related all the tasks Su Zhiruan needed to handle that day.