Mother Guo's vision went dark and she almost fell to the ground.
"What a sin, why do you fall in love with a married woman?"
Guo Zhao felt guilty for lying to his mother, but in order not to continue to be forced to marry, he could only choose to lie.
"Is this the reason why you don't want to get married?"
Mother Guo calmed down and asked sharply.
"Um."
Guo Zhao sulked, and Guo's mother collapsed, "Okay, okay, you are so good. Sooner or later, I will be pissed off by you!"
Guo Zhao stood there unmoved and allowed his mother to beat and scold him. Mother Guo was so angry that her heart ached and she pointed at the door.
"roll!"
Shen Yingxue came out of the shop. She closed the door and returned to Shen's house. When she reached the street, she was suddenly grabbed by someone.
"ah!"
Shen Yingxue screamed in fear, closed her eyes and hit people.
"Yingxue, don't fight, it's me!"
Shen Yingxue opened her eyes when she heard a familiar voice, and disgust flashed through her heart when she saw Zhou Shui'an.
"What are you going to do again?"
"I have no money, and the Zhou family has no money to build a new house. My mother and I can only stay in the shop and eat cold food. Yingxue, I know you are the most kind-hearted, so you will definitely be willing to help me, right?"
Zhou Shui'an looked crazy. The clothes he was wearing had not been changed for a long time, and his whole body exuded a rancid smell. Shen Yingxue was almost breathless and struggled to break free from his restraints.
"You've got the wrong person."
"Yingxue, you are the only one who can help me now. You paid for it and built a house for the Zhou family. Mother will definitely allow you to go back. Even if you can't give birth to a son, mother will not complain. Yingxue This is not only for me, but also for our future, please lend me all the money you have!"
"laugh!"
Shen Yingxue was shocked by his shamelessness. How thick-skinned he must be to say these words.
"We have divorced a long time ago and have no relationship anymore. Don't think about pestering me anymore. And you said you would go back to Zhou's house. I'm sorry, I don't care."
"Shen Yingxue, you are so cruel. How long did it take for you to forget the feelings between us? Did you leave me and find another man?"
Zhou Shui'an thought of the strong man who often came to the shop to buy snacks, and immediately looked at Shen Yingxue with unkind eyes. His mother was right, there was no difference between Shen Yingxue and Zhao Yuan, they were both harlots who had changed their minds.
Shen Yingxue was mad at him and slapped him hard.
"Go away! Don't think of people as dirty as you!"
Zhou Shui'an's face was distorted, and there was a sinister look in his eyes, but thinking of his own purpose, he suppressed his anger and replaced it with a flattering smile.
"That's not what I meant. Yingxue, please help me because of our past friendship. You don't want Ling'er to see that her father and grandma don't even have a place to live, right?"
"I won't borrow it. Just give up and stop pestering me, otherwise I will report it to the police immediately."
Shen Yingxue had no affection for him, so she would not be blackmailed by him. Zhou Shui'an did not expect that Shen Yingxue would actually leave him alone. He was afraid that she would really report to the official, so he could only let her go in despair.
"You'll regret it!"
"From the day I made peace with you, I have no other feelings for you, let alone regrets."
Shen Yingxue's tone was calm, but Zhou Shui'an became panicked. He knew that what she said was true, so he became even more flustered.
"Yingxue, I..."
"I have done my best to you Zhou family. Don't bother me again in the future, otherwise I'll see you at the Yamen."
Shen Yingxue walked around him and left quickly with a basket in her arms. Zhou Shui'an stared at her back blankly, his eyes gradually becoming crazy.
"No, I won't let you go. You are the daughter-in-law of our Zhou family, and I will never let you go!"
Shen Yingxue was still in a state of disbelief after arriving home, so Jiang Miao asked curiously.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." She shook her head and forced a smile on her pale face.
"I'm just a little too tired, I just need to take a rest."
"Oh, sister, please come in and take a rest."
Jiang Miao thought she was really tired, so she didn't pay much attention and continued to do the work at hand.
It's March, the weather is getting warmer, and Jiang Miao has started planting sweet potatoes with the Shen family.
Li Dajiang's family plowed ten acres of wasteland. Although crops had not been grown in these lands for a long time, the soil was still fertile. Jiang Miao asked him to collect the village's excrement for fertilization. The villagers were baffled by what he did. He did not throw excrement into the ground. Yeah, it made the whole place stink.
"Dajiang, what are you doing? If you damage the land, your employer will definitely not be able to spare you."
"That's right, this stench has reached our area. If it stops my crops from growing, I will make you pay for it!"
Several villagers cursed at Li Dajiang. They all felt that the Li family were servants of the Shen family and were inferior to them.
"My boss asked me to do this, saying it can make crops grow faster."
Li Dajiang was not angry at being scolded by them and continued to fertilize stupidly.
"Oh? Your boss is just trying to trick you." The villagers didn't believe it. The Shen family had never fertilized the fields before. This method was probably not suggested by Jiang Miao. She was a young girl. Madam, how do you know how to farm? This is nonsense.
Li Dajiang didn't care whether they believed it or not. Anyway, he trusted Jiang Miao wholeheartedly. He ignored everyone's ridicule and taunts and concentrated on plowing the ground and fertilizing. The villagers found it boring and gradually left.
March and April are the time when sweet potato seedlings are being raised. Jiang Miao cut the sweet potatoes picked last fall into small pieces. She needs to ensure that there are buds on these small pieces, otherwise there will be no way to grow sweet potatoes. Cut into small pieces Plant it in the soil that has been plowed and fertilized, and wait for the sweet potato seedlings to grow.
Two bags of sweet potatoes only planted two acres of land. Mrs. Zhang looked at the other empty land and asked worriedly.
"Are these acres of land empty? If I had known better, I would have bought a few acres less. All my money would have been wasted."
"It won't be wasted. Once the sweet potato seedlings grow, they can be transplanted. The sweet potato seedlings will survive. By then, these plots of land may not be enough for planting. Besides, we also have potatoes, so we have to plant them together."
After listening to Jiang Miao's words, Mrs. Zhang felt reassured.
"That's fine, that's fine, but potatoes are grown in the same way as sweet potatoes?"
"Yes, we have three bags left, which can be used to plant three acres of land. Then the remaining five acres of land will be reserved for planting sweet potatoes."
Jiang Miao has already made plans. If there is a famine this year and next as mentioned in the original book, these grains will be life-saving things.
Although Jiang Miao didn't want it to happen, she still made preparations in advance.
