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Chapter 1098: Chapter 1104 Too Cold-Blooded
Having traveled on and off, it took half a month for Duo’er and her company to finally reach the suburbs of Mansion City.
The two manors that were given as a reward by the Saint were located here, and Qiao Duo’er planned to check on these two manors before entering the city.
Early in the morning, Qiao Duo’er said with fiery enthusiasm, "I’m going to catch some borers later, do you want to join me?"
"What borers?"
Green Group was a curious child and needed to ask for clarification whenever encountering something unknown.
"Those are the people who hide our family’s silver in their own pockets."
Tangyuan clenched her little fist, "I’ll go beat them up!"
"You’re too weak, let me do it!" Green Group said disdainfully after glancing at Tangyuan.
A little girl like Tangyuan wasn’t even worth the effort of a punch from those people.
Seeing that the two children were about to start arguing again, Qiao Duo’er quickly said, "Let’s go have breakfast now, we need a full stomach to have the strength to dig out the borers!"
After breakfast, the Tan Zhenghong family headed to the manor together.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the manor, they saw some people using wheelbarrows to move, evidently tenant farmers from the manor, and it looked like several families were moving at the same time.
Qiao Duo’er asked with confusion, "The wheat in the field has only just begun to sprout, why move out now?"
It was normal for tenant farmers to move, but usually, they did so after the harvest.
Otherwise, their previous efforts would have been in vain.
Tan Zhenghong got off the horse-drawn carriage, stopped a tenant farmer, and asked politely, "Brothers, is the harvest on this manor not good?"
"What’s the use of a good harvest if we still can’t fill our bellies?" the tenant farmer sighed.
If it weren’t for being at the end of one’s rope, who would want to move again and again?
Not to mention, just changing places means building a new house, which costs silver, a significant burden for families like theirs.
Tan Zhenghong couldn’t understand, "How can you not have enough to eat if the harvest is good?"
What if they encountered a natural disaster or calamity? Wouldn’t they starve to death?
"This manor’s owner is so ruthless, charging a fifty percent rent. Even if I toil away at over ten acres of land, it’s still not enough to feed my family. Life is truly unbearable," the tenant farmer said, growing more and more indignant.
The rent here was the most expensive in the region, and he had really been blind to choose this place.
"Fifty percent?" Tan Zhenghong was also surprised.
A normal rent was thirty percentand for the manager of the manor to dare charge fifty percent was truly outrageous.
What was most abhorrent was that the Tan Family had not seen a fifty percent rent.
Nine out of ten, it had all ended up in the hands of the person In Charge.
"Indeed? And to think of how the Owner planned for this, we’re already having a hard time, and now we’re being driven to our deaths, huh? I notice you guys don’t look like tenant farmers, why so many questions?" the tenant farmer finally sensed something was amiss.
These people were dressed finely and arrived in a horse-drawn carriage, clearly wealthy individuals.
Could such rich people also be planning to become tenant farmers?
Tan Zhenghong replied truthfully, "We are the owners of this manor, and we’ve come to have a look."
The tenant farmer was taken aback, so the person he’d been complaining about was right in front of him?
It was over. He’d been caught bad-mouthing to their face, how embarrassing...
"I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean it," the tenant farmer hurriedly said.
People who owned such a large manor were surely either rich or noble, and for them, killing him would be as easy as stepping on an ant.
Tan Zhenghong quickly said, "It’s all right, the manor has been managed by the In Charge for the last couple of years, and we came over because we heard the harvest was not good."
The tenant farmer’s expression changed instantly, they were already collecting fifty percent rent and still thought it was too little?
Businessmen truly were cold creatures, oblivious to whether people like them lived or died!
