Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 546 - 282 You Are So Beautiful_1

Chapter 546: Chapter 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."

As he said ’rustic,’ Pan Ying probably guessed her father meant ’ugly.’ Her face turned red with embarrassment, and she awkwardly tugged at her clothes, seemingly trying to make her ample chest less noticeable.

He was being quite considerate, and Qian Yixiu nodded with a smile, "Butler Pan has thought things through..."

Before she could finish, a clear whistle came from behind, followed by Jack’s excited voice, "Beautiful, oh my goodness, so beautiful, really so beautiful!"

Jack had been so amazed by Pan Ying’s unusual appearance that he’d taken a while to react. He hurried over and bowed deeply to her in a European fashion, then said in broken Chinese, "Miss, you are so beautiful, it’s a great honor to meet you."

To his surprise, upon hearing this, Pan Ying suddenly covered her face and started to cry, sobbing, "I know I’m ugly, but you can’t mock me in front of all these people. Wuu wuu wuu..." With that, she ran away crying.

Pan Shoufu’s face turned red with anger as well. This foreigner not only publicly mocked his daughter but also openly flirted with her. He bent down to pick up a stone to throw at Jack, but then he remembered the foreigner was a guest of his master’s and discarded the stone. Pointing at Jack, he shouted, "You Golden Ghost, you’re the one who’s uglier." Then he squatted down, holding his head in anger.

Jack, clueless about the trouble he had caused, stood there bewildered and asked Qian Yixiu, "What do they mean?"

Qian Yixiu signaled Blue Bead with her eyes, telling her to go comfort Pan Ying, and then she said to Jack, "I’ve already told you, the customs of Daqian are different from your country. Your enthusiasm frightened the girl."

Huang Tie was familiar with Jack, as they often led the two foreigners around Huaxi Village and were inseparable on the ship coming to Capital City. In learning some foreign languages from them, he also taught them Daqian speech. "Miss, you are so beautiful," was actually a phrase Huang Tie had taught them at their request. Huang Tie knew that Jack genuinely found Pan Ying beautiful because the foreigners would shake their heads when they saw a beauty, but gave a thumbs up and considered those they found unattractive as good-looking. They even thought Madam Hua was beautiful and must have been a great beauty when she was young...

Huang Tie squatted down and tried to calm Pan Shoufu, saying, "Butler Pan, don’t be angry. I know Jack well; he’s not a bad person and means no harm. He truly thinks that Miss Yingzi is beautiful because foreigners see beauty differently. What we consider beautiful, they may find ugly, and what we find unattractive, they think is extremely beautiful. Their customs and sentiments are also different, more overt; they feel compelled to express vocally what they appreciate."