Chapter 546 - 282 You Are So Beautiful_1
After breakfast, Qian Yixiu, accompanied by Zi Zhu, went to the front courtyard, where Huang Tie, Pan Shoufu, Jack, and Sean were already waiting for her, and together they stepped out of the courtyard gate.
The early winter months in the North were quite cold, made even colder by the wind sweeping through the open countryside, much stronger than the wind in the city.
A hundred meters in front of Meizhuang were vast stretches of farmland, and low-roofed houses could be glimpsed in the distance. Pan Shoufu pointed to the area and said, "All these fields belong to the Commandery Princess. That village up ahead is called Dongshi Village, and many of the villagers are our tenant farmers."
It was the slack season for farming, with almost no one in the fields, which made the vastness even more apparent.
Forests flanked the east and west sides of Meizhuang. Although their leaves had fallen, they still obscured the view to some extent.
As they were talking, a girl of about eighteen or nineteen years old approached them. The girl was very full-bodied, not fat, but had flesh in all the right places. She was also tall, about 1.75 meters, which was considered unusually tall for a woman in the Great Qian Kingdom. With small eyes, a flat nose, thick lips, and very dark skin—peppered with freckles on her nose—she resembled an enlarged version of Li Ahcao, yet exaggerated by far.
Qian Yixiu guessed that this might be Pan Shoufu’s daughter, Pan Ying. She had heard while in Capital City that Butler Pan’s daughter was extremely unattractive and rather large. She had worked as a servant at Earl of Rongen’s Mansion for the past few years because no one was willing to marry her.
Last year, when the old manager of Plum Court retired, Pan Shoufu, who had been the Second Butler of the External Affairs at the Rongen Earl Mansion, took the initiative to move to Mei Garden. He and his wife wanted to bring their daughter to the countryside to see if they could find a more suitable tenant farmer for her. However, even in the countryside, the families with better conditions were unwilling to marry her, and they were not willing to let their daughter marry into a poor family to suffer. Neither high nor low matched her; it was unknown if they had found a match for her yet.
Pan Shoufu bowed to Qian Yixiu and said, "Miss, this is my daughter Yingzi. She is a bit, uh—rustic, which makes you laugh. I thought since you are of noble birth, you might be startled in the countryside, so I had her come to serve, for your convenience."