It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 301

The entire Rongcheng County was illuminated by the gorgeous golden sunset.

At the East City Gate, the gatekeepers smiled as they welcomed a procession of carriages and horses into the city until the rear of the procession became blurred in front of their eyes.

After a long moment, one of them muttered quietly, "Oh my goodness, I don't know how many good things I stole this time."

After breakfast the next day, the meeting room in the main courtyard of the Fu Mansion was quickly filled with people.

Fu Yi, the former second manager of Furong Village, stood in front of the hall and rewarded everyone who participated in the operation in Rongding County.

When it was Jiang Yuan's turn, Fu Yi's eyes revealed more genuine satisfaction and appreciation.

He was impressed by the young man who suggested that "rich households in Rongding County may have concealed the embezzlement of land and the number of tenant farmers in order to resist donations of money and grain."

Although the money and grain collected according to the account books at that time were enough to meet the needs of disaster relief on paper, large discrepancies were discovered when they were actually distributed.

The number of people who came to collect relief with the Huang ID card of Rongding County exceeded expectations, so much so that the money and food reserved for their own people were consumed.

If Jiang Yuan had not reported it in time, by the time the team realized the problem, those hidden households might have already hidden themselves in the crowd.

They were unable to catch the wealthy families in Rongding County who were committing crimes red-handed in the first place, and could not legitimately extract more "atonement" money and grain from them, and they might even have to swallow this loss in vain.

Fu Yi looked at Jiang Yuan and said, "Well done. Learn from Thirteen from now on."

The guard codenamed Thirteen is one of Manager Fu Yi's capable subordinates... Upon hearing this, a man in the back row gently nudged Jiang Fu with his elbow.

After the show, several people who were close to Jiang Fuyuqian came to congratulate him: "Jiang Yuan is so young, yet he's been recognized by the manager and even received a raise. Congratulations~"

Now most people in Rongcheng County know the true status of the Fu family, and the confidants of the head family are optimistic about the personnel they want to train... In the next two days, some people who are interested will quietly come to inquire about Jiang Yuan's marriage.

Jiang Yuan did not leave with the main group. Although he was very tempted by the promise just now, he could not take all the credit for this reward.

When Fu Yi heard that Jiang Yan was the first to notice something was wrong, he started to feel dissatisfied: "Then why did she conceal it and not report it in time?"

"She just made a random guess and didn't realize it was related to the account book she was looking at." Jiang Yuan subconsciously concealed the details of Jiang Yan's guess about the origin and approximate year of the account book.

Fu Yi looked at Jiang Yuan with an ambiguous expression: "Do you guys communicate closely?"

Jiang Yuan felt a little nervous. "Dongshan Village is remote, and I rarely see my relatives and friends. This time, we just happened to be chatting during the New Year gathering and mentioned it by chance."

Fu Yisi asked nonchalantly, "Oh? What did you mention?"

Jiang Yuan pretended to recall: "Well... at that time we said that it was fortunate that the county issued relief and the government provided us with grain on credit, otherwise life would have been difficult, we would have lost our land and sold our people, and our families would have been broken up.

Jiang Yan then said that it wasn't necessarily true that his family was completely destroyed. It was possible that he had become a hidden householder in a wealthy family, either voluntarily or involuntarily, in order to survive.

Fu Yi frowned. "It's just a guess. I haven't reported it to the steward yet. The Jiang Yan you mentioned didn't play any role in the operation. And yet you still want a reward for her?"

Jiang Yuan answered yes, he couldn't deceive himself.

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After a moment of silence, Fu Yi instructed another person in the room, "Call Jiang Yan."

Then he said to Jiang Yuan coldly, "Since you insist, let her speak based on her ability. Let's see whether the opportunity is given to her or neither of you gets it."

Calling someone over would take time, so Fu Yi left Jiang Yuan to wait alone. He then walked into the side room and asked Fu Jian and Fu An, who had not yet left, "We still have some unfinished business here. Why don't you two leave first?"