Chapter 141 - Chapter 141 Chapter 136 Insect Master Hard to Find_i (2/2)

This kind of green brick and tile house generally doesn’t require much decoration.

Because exposing the green bricks themselves is a display of luxury.

At most, hang some famous calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and plant a few pots of elegant flowers and plants in the room. Then, the furniture is the main event, especially the exquisite furniture made of redwood, which is the pursuit of wealthy families.

For example, Wang Furen’s neighboring house is furnished with redwood furniture.

Beautiful and generous, durable.

It is also a display of wealth.

“We have not yet added new furniture to the home, I ask Chief Tang to make do! Brother Tang Bin, Cai Xian, please have a seat, how come you’ve become estranged after not seeing each other for a while?”

Qin Niu greeted the three to sit down with a smile.

Xiao Qing, being sensible, served tea to the three guests.

Qin Niu had not yet invested in those costly and exquisite Sancai lid cups.

The accumulation of a wealthy family often requires more than three generations to be considered to have some heritage.

Nouveaux riches, to put it unpleasantly, might not even understand the intricacies of eating and dressing.

Empty of silver money, their daily life and behavior still resemble that of poor people.

It takes at least three generations to cultivate a true noble.

“Last time we came over to propose marriage, we didn’t know Master Qin had become an Insect Master; we were indeed too rash, please don’t take offense, Master Qin.”

Tang Bin stood up and gave a deep bow, apologizing to Qin Niu.

Tang Caixian also followed her brother in apologizing with a bow.

However, Qin Niu calling Cai Xian intimately by her name brought her much joy.

“Not knowing only made your intentions appear all the more sincere! Do not be so formal anymore; I like things simple and to act freely. In the future, you and your sister are welcome to visit me here in Shuangfeng Village anytime. Once the manor is restored, it should be much more elegant. However, when it comes to layout and such, I know nothing and might still end up turning it into a simple dwelling fit for a rough man.”

Qin Niu said self-deprecatingly.

“When it comes to decoration, I know a little and can come over to help you out when the time comes,” Tang Caixian said with a smile.

“Little sister, don’t be presumptuous; Master Qin is just being modest, how could he truly not know?”

Being two years older, Tang Bin was after all a bit more mature.

“With you two siblings, I truly speak my mind without deceit. Cai Xian, thank you for your kind intentions.”

Actually, Qin Niu wanted to marry Wang Wanyan from next door.

As for Cai Xian, if judged solely from a man’s pleasure, bringing her home would undoubtedly be blissful.

Moreover, she wasn’t just a pretty face; she was talented, beautiful, and skilled in song and dance, the type of woman countless powerful men dreamed of.

“By the way, is the locust disaster in your village very severe?”

He proactively brought up the important issue.

The Tang Family Patriarch personally seeking an audience must be for something crucial concerning foodstuff, to come in such a way.

“We had just suffered a flood not long ago, and after replanting the second season’s crop, the seedlings had just started growing when the locust disaster struck us again. Disasters have been unending this year; it has been very hard on everyone.”

Tang Jingyuan spoke of Daoyuan Village’s misfortune, his head shaking continuously in despair.

“Haven’t you thought of asking an Insect Master from the city to help exterminate the pests?”

Qin Niu felt that with a high-ranking official in the Tang family, it shouldn’t be too difficult to enlist the help of an Insect Master.

“Don’t even mention it, the disaster has not only befallen us. More than half of the territories governed by the Black Tiger Gang have been struck by the locust plague, and their numbers are still growing. Even the government offices are at a loss. Each village and town, anyone with connections, has been spending a fortune to hire Insect Masters to help eliminate or drive away the pests. When our Daoyuan Village sought to hire an Insect Master, only some with ordinary abilities were left.

Some of these apprentice Insect Masters, although they have read a few books, their pest control skills are not even comparable to our experienced old farmers in the clan.

Even if we hired them, it would be useless, yet we’d end up wasting silver money.”

The Chief Tang nearly shook his head off talking about this matter.

Daoyuan Village encountered the locust disaster later, and by then it was impossible to hire any powerful Insect Master.