It was during the late morning. The following day when many of the servants begin to notice the odd behavior of their new Young Master.
Liu Tián Qǔ almost got a migraine when she thought of having to feed close to three hundred servants, five hundred house guards, and twenty thousand warriors in a famine, food shortage, or drought.
Liu Tián Qǔ never realized that she stood hands clasped behind her back in the middle of a main walkway of her residence. Liu Tián Qǔ stood there looking up at the sky lost deep in thought for over twenty-five minutes.
As Liu Tián Qǔ stood in the middle of one of the main pathways of the residence staring up at the sky. The servants of her residence passed her coming and going as they carried out their duties. Liu Tián Qǔ never noticed or moved. Her thought were lost in the 21st century. New servants had come in over the past few days. Those servants were also given a welcome into the residence, and Liu Tián Qǔ gave them the same speech she gave the first group of servants.
After Liu Tián Qǔ's speech, many of the Liu Residence servants had begun to realize that their new Young Lord was not only eccentric. He also did things in a peculiar and strangely unconventional manner.
What other master would give all their slaves a wage and a bonus and teach them to read and write? Forget that, what other master gave their slaves the opportunity to buy their freedom?
What other master encouraged their slaves to gossip. As long as it was in the confines of the residence and didn't affect their work? What other master encouraged their slaves to accept bribes as long as they didn't mind being shameless and not delivering on what they were being bribed for?
By now, every servant of Liu Residence realized that their new master was strange, unconventional, and eccentric. So none of the servants worried when they realized that their new Young Master have been standing in the middle of one of the main pathways of the residence staring up at the sky for almost a half-hour. Yes, they found it strange, but with all things considered, their master was a peculiar person anyway. So all the servants that came upon Liu Tián Qǔ standing in the middle of the pathway just walked around their Young Master and continued on with their duties.
Liu Tián Qǔ had just come from the vineyard, orchards, and Apiary on the top of the hill. She had toured the vineyard with all the Vineyard workers and the agricultural supervisor. The agriculture supervisor was surnamed Kuo. He was a tired-looking scruffy short man with a very long beard. He had hooded teardrop-shaped curved eyes. His right eye was a bit more hooded than his left eye. Liu Tián Qǔ had looked at Supervisor Kuo clothes in slight mirth, reminiscence, and sadness.
It's was really weird, Supervisor Kuo obviously had on very well made clothing that was clean and brand new. It was apparent he made an attempt to dress properly. However, when Liu Tián Qǔ looked at the brand new clothes on the Supervisor, who obviously attempted to look his best. The word scruffy came to mind. Poor Supervisor Kuo was one of those people that no matter how well and how much effort you made to dressed them well. They just always seem to end up looking not exactly messy but slightly disheveled, ruffled, or untidy.
That how it was with Liu Tián Qǔ's nephew in her past life. When taking her nephew out. Liu Tián Qǔ would dress her nephew in the latest fashion and stylish shoes. She would then style his hair in a fashionable style. Her beautiful nephew would look so handsome and well dressed for all of fifteen minutes. By the time they would get where they're going. Little Taro would look like a refugee that was chased down by a wild animal and barely managed to escape with his life.
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It's was the most perplexing astonishing thing ever. They would only go from the house to the car and ride in a car to their destination. They wouldn't do anything else or go anywhere else. However, by the time Little Taro get out of the car at their destination, Liu Tián Qǔ would be so embarrassed and perplexed. Little Taro's hair would be a mess. His clothes would be wrinkled. His shirt would be untucked, and sometimes his clothes would look weirdly lopsided on him. His shoes would be untied and sometimes look scuffed.
Liu Tián Qǔ couldn't understand what would happen. Finally, she hired a stylist that found a style where Little Taro wasn't constantly looking like a person on the run for his dear life. The Stylist kept Little Taro's hair cut low, dressed him in stringless shoes, and found a suitable form of clothing for him that didn't easily unravel or become wrinkled.
Supervisor Kuo appeared to have the same disheveled qualities about him that Liu Tián Qǔ nephew Little Taro had. However, he was a very brilliant man who was ahead of his time. He immediately understood the instructions Liu Tián Qǔ gave on how she wanted the Vineyard maintained and how she wanted the vines pruned. Over the past several days, Liu Tián Qǔ worked closely with the Supervisor and the workers of the Vineyard to carefully clean up the overgrown vineyard.
None of the weeds that had overgrown the vineyard were burned or thrown away. Liu Tián Qǔ explained to Supervisor Kuo the methods and benefits of composting. That was all that Liu Tián Qǔ needed to do. Supervisor Kuo immediately understood the idea behind composting.
After Liu Tián Qǔ explained how to create a compost that was not smelly, she put Supervisor Kuo in charge of it. She made sure to inform him that no weeds, clipping, and things of that sort were to be burned or disposed of. They were all to be used as compost.
Liu Tián Qǔ was so happy with Supervisor Kuo she made him the agricultural manager of the whole residence. He was not now only over the Vineyard, Orchard, and Apiary. Liu Tián Qǔ made him manager over all the gardeners that took care of the many gardens throughout the whole residence. Liu Tián Qǔ and Manager Kuo also toured the Orchard and the Apiary with the respected servants of each area.
Liu Tián Qǔ explained her ideas for the grove and left the rest to the servants and Manager Kuo to sort out. The hill was huge, with lots of unused space. Liu Tián Qǔ had plans to build several things they would need to make wine. However, with the amount of space on the hill adding on to the grove would not be a problem.
It was the same for the Apiary. A large quantity of honey and wax was retrieved from the hives. Five more locations of hives were found on the hill. Some of the honey was taken to the kitchens, and some were given into Housekeeper Gao's care to be stored away. Liu Tián Qǔ made Housekeeper Gao the manager over the storage of food.
The beeswax was set aside because there were many vital purposes Liu Tián Qǔ needed it for. When Liu Tián Qǔ found out that one of the apiary servants new how to create the odd-looking beehives. Liu Tián Qǔ had him create more of them and place them in strategic locations in the hopes of attracting more bees. In Liu Tián Qǔ's opinion, one can never have too much honey.
There were now seven experienced vineyard servants, four orchard servants, and three experience apiary workers. Liu Tián Qǔ suggested for Manager to train several supervisors to assist him. He was going to be a very busy man since he was now over all the garden and gardeners of the residence.
If there was one thing that was plentiful in Liu Garden Residence, it was gardens. There were useless gardens all over the residence. Liu Tián Qǔ had every intention of turning them into something useful. With all the people she was raising, she had many mouths to feed. Beautiful flowers were not going to fill anyone's stomach.
That was the final order she gave to Manager Kuo. Liu Tián Qǔ gave the order for him to get rid of the majority of the useless gardens all over the residence and grow food in them. Liu Tián Qǔ loved beautiful things, so she told the Manager which gardens to leave and which gardens to convert.
There were some magnificent gardens in her residence. Liu Tián Qǔ didn't want to receive an important guess and have to entertain the guest in a potato field. Neither did she want to walk out into her inner courtyard early in the morning to watch beans grow. So some gardens have to be left behind and maintained.
However, there were back gardens and gardens throughout the residence were no one really went. Those were the useless gardens Liu Tián Qǔ decided to make use of.