Wei Zhan and Xiao Chengyu stayed at Jiang's house for two days.
By the third month, Cui Zhaochen was ready to take them back.
Wei Zhan was very good. He knew that if he didn't go back, Youke would be grounded for another half a year, so he walked obediently in the carriage and waved goodbye to the tigers: "Wait until he comes back during the Chinese New Year!"
Xiao Chengyu refused to leave until he died. The guard who hugged him by mistake kicked, hit, and scratched him, screaming for help at the top of his lungs.
"Ahhh! Help! He doesn't want to go back! Wuwuwuwu... He wants to come to the east! He doesn't want to go back!"
The guard did not dare to exert any force, and accidentally let the young master break out of his arms.
Xiao Chengyu quickly ran to Yingbao, hugged her and refused to let go: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Ying Bao patted him helplessly, "Then I won't beg my parents?"
Xiao Chengyu kept shaking his head, with a lot of tears and runny nose: "Don't beg, don't beg."
Yingbao was speechless, wiped his face with the hem of his clothes, and coaxed: "Then I'll go home first, and then we can come play with brother Wei Zhan later, okay?"
"No." Xiao Chengyu held on to her, sobbing and crying, feeling extremely aggrieved. "My mother won't let me go."
Yingbao thought for a while and said, "My sister gave me a jar of peach juice. I will take it back and give it to my mother to taste. Maybe she will agree to me coming there to play there for a few more days."
Xiao Chengyu blinked and thought about it with his immature head, and felt that it made sense.
Because the peach juice tastes so good and is good for digestion, he didn’t suffer from stomachache even after eating it. My mother-in-law must like it.
"Well, then he wants two jars." Xiao Chengyu began to put forward conditions.
One jar was given to his mother, and the other jar was begged for him to drink.
Yingbao: "Okay, just two altars."
Please send that troublemaker away, even if you give him three altars.
Anyway, the peach tree next to the Pupil Spring in my cave has bloomed, and the peaches produced are big, red, sweet, and very delicious.
During that season, peaches and grapes were not allowed to be taken out. She could eat them alone and couldn't finish them all, so she could boil them into peach juice or grape juice, and occasionally take out a jar for her brother to drink.
Just boiling the juice couldn't solve the problem, so she brewed some peach wine and wine in Dongfu.
I once bought a jar of distiller's yeast in the capital, and if I add the jar to the Xiao family's compensation, I can use it to brew a lot of wine.
When the wine is ready, you can take some out as gifts during the Chinese New Year and celebrate the holidays, otherwise you won’t be able to drink it at home.
Ying Bao ran home and brought two jars of peach juice to Xiao Chengyu.
Seeing that Wei Zhan had a look of resentment on his face, he gave him two more jars before sending them away.
When he got home, Jiang Quan kept looking at his little cousin, chasing her and asking: "Where did I get so much peach juice?"
"I cooked it before, but I kept it in the house and didn't take it out." Ying Baomian said without changing her expression.
Jiang Quan suspected that his younger cousin was lying, but he had no evidence.
"Would you like to go to the county seat with him?" he asked.
Yingbao: "I won't go." It's enough for the county shop to be run by the first cousin and the second cousin. There is no need for me to participate in everything.
Moreover, a house is being built at the shop recently, so it is not convenient for me to go there by myself.
Jiang Quan shook his head regretfully and started to register the golden ear and snow ear that his little cousin brought out.
The owner of their shop wants to make a lot of money from golden fungus and snow fungus, and he can do nothing else.
Bu Nao, next year's gourds will be very popular, and many people will go to specialty shops to buy them.
Most of the gourds grown by people in the village were given to Jiang Quan for sale, and every household made a lot of money.
Even several gourd growers in the West Village made a fortune from it.
Jiang Quan took a few baskets of mushrooms and a dozen gourds back to the county town. He was accompanied by his elder brother Jiang Cheng, You Yuanbao and Jiang Jie.
Jiang Yunniang's family was also picked up by her eldest son Zhang Yukun. Before leaving, Mrs. Jiang Liu felt sorry for her daughter and secretly gave her twenty taels of silver.
The village gradually became busier, and every household went to the fields to pick cotton.
The same goes for the Jiang family, who went out to pick cotton.
Jiang Sanlang hired more than 20 people from other villages to help his family with work.
Chun Niang and her elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law cooked the food at home and then sent it to the fields for the hired workers to eat.
After picking up the cotton, ginning begins.
Almost every household in Dongchen Village has a cotton gin, and the seed cotton harvested from the east will be ginning quickly.
Jiang Sanlang rolled the rolled cotton into rolls with oil paper, weighing five kilograms each, and sent part of it to his shop. Yu Dong was going to spin it into yarn and keep it for weaving.
At that time, the county government also sent people to purchase cotton seeds and prepare to transport them to the capital.
The county government purchased a lot of goods that time, using twenty or thirty mule carts, and the journey was quite majestic.
Fortunately, cotton cultivation has become popular in Chuanhe Town, and many families are willing to sell their excess cotton seeds to the government, saving time and effort.
After the cotton harvest is over, the villagers begin to pull out the cotton stalks, prepare the fields, and prepare for planting wheat.
The Jiang family relies on a group of workers to do the work, and is responsible for their two meals a month.
That day, Erni and Yingbao went to the field to deliver food.
The meal was made of bald wood, put in a big bamboo basket, and carried by a pony to the cotton field.
When I walked halfway, I saw a woman standing on the side of the road.
The woman has messy red hair, an old face, and her clothes are covered in patches.
"Er Ni." The woman said, looking at Er Ni with tearful eyes.
Erni was stunned for a moment and looked over carefully. Sure enough, she was her own mother, Leng Shi.
"Mom? How did I become like that?" Erni did not expect that her own mother would become like that, and she was really shocked.
Mrs. Leng took a step forward and untied a bundle from her legs, revealing two small clothes and a bundle of cloth belts.
"My mother sewed the little clothes for me." She stuffed the little bundle into Erni's legs: "I am already ten years old, so I can use it when I am here."
Erni held the bundle, bit her lip, and couldn't help but shed tears.
She touched Leng's rough legs and choked with sobs: "Mom, why are you suffering?"
Mrs. Leng hugged Erni and burst into tears. While crying, she said, "Mom is wrong. She can't fault my father, nor me and Huzi. I regret it so much..."
After she was abandoned by Zuo Chengxiu, not long after she returned to her parents' home, her brother sold her to an old sheepherder in her sixties for the price of two sheep.
The old sheepherder was not a human being. He often beat, scolded and humiliated her, forbade her from going out and forced her to give birth to a child.
But for some unknown reason, she never got pregnant.
The old sheepherder felt that he was at a disadvantage, so he ran to the Leng family to make a noise, and soon started a fight with the Leng brothers.
But the old sheepherder accidentally hit the young and strong Leng Dalang's leg, and he was beaten to the ground in a few seconds.
The old sheepherder was carried home and died within a few days.
The villagers helped bury the old sheepherder, and Mrs. Leng finally regained her freedom.
Instead of returning to her parents' home, she chose to stay in Dongfang and live alone in that shabby house.
Since the family had a lot of sheep, she sold two of them and kept the remaining two for breeding.
But a few days later, Leng Dalang and his wife came to the door again, forcing Mr. Leng to remarry.
That time, Ms. Leng was determined not to compromise and warned her mother and brother that if they dared to force her, she would report to the officials and tell them whether the old sheepherder was beaten to death by them.
Madam Leng and Dalang Leng were afraid and did not dare to harass her again.
"Er Ni, mother doesn't ask for anything, she just wants to come and see us occasionally, okay?" Mrs. Leng cried while hugging Er Ni.
She regretted it. Looking back on those years, she was really crazy. She thought her parents' family was the best, but that was how it turned out.
Erni nodded: "I can come if I want, but... I don't want to be like before. My father is already married, and Yanruniang mistakenly thinks that he and Huzi are very good. I... I just don't want to disturb them."
