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Upon hearing this, Chow Yun interjected, "Madam Cai, do the animals in the woods count as ours, or do we continue to help the hunting grounds raise them?"
Madam Cai wasn't quite sure about this: "They should count as ours, right? Because every year before the autumn hunt, people from the hunting grounds send Silver over, and then we send the animals we've raised in the woods to the hunting grounds. But for the specifics, you'd have to ask my husband; he knows better."
This Madam Cai is not very scheming, and Xiao Ruo easily extracted quite a bit of information about this estate from her, getting a good grasp of the situation.
Not long after, a half-grown child delivered a live duck; Madam Cai explained that this child was from a Tenant Farmer family on the estate, although the Tenant Farmer had passed away two years ago, leaving only the mother and child on the estate.
Understanding their hardships, Chow Yun took out a purse and rewarded the child, who left with thanks.
