A Blessed Daughter

by Usui Takumii

not mine, Moonlight Teatime until chapter 43, after that is MTL from novel cool. 577 chapters and ongoing.

8. 81 to 100

Chapter 81 Wei Mingting is also promoted

Wei Ruo continued to say to Xu Zhengyong: "Don't worry about the medicine, just write to me if you need anything, and I will prepare everything for you."

"Sister Ruo'er, you are so kind to me! Having this girl, I, Xu Zhengyong, is worthy of my life!" Xu Zhengyong was deeply moved.

"Anyway, the first thing is to protect your own safety." Wei Ruo urged again.

Brother Xiaoyong sometimes acts impulsively and recklessly, so she has to nag a little.

"Well, don't worry, Ruo'er, I know it." Xu Zhengyong agreed with a smile.

"By the way, Meimei brought you a lot of things." Wei Ruo said and pulled Xiumei up.

Xiumei looked a little shy, and after hesitating for a moment, she simply stuffed the cloth bag she carried into Xu Zhengyong's arms.

"What are you doing? Are you taking the opportunity to beat me up?" Xu Zhengyong asked.

The force with which he threw the package was almost as strong as someone else's force for beating him.

"Why beat you up and give you good things, those are all supplements, to replenish your body." Xiumei explained.

Knowing that the package was full of supplements for himself, Xu Zhengyong couldn't help grinning: "Meimei, you are so kind to me! Even if you don't want to be my junior sister, you can still be my wife!"

"What are you talking about!" Xiumei got annoyed immediately, and threw her fist at Xu Zhengyong.

Xu Zhengyong ran away in a hurry. When he ran away, he hugged the baggage tightly in his arms, and he was not willing to let go.

"Xu Zhengyong, stop!" Xiumei shouted.

Xu Zhengyong ran fast, shouting as he ran: "If you don't stop, you will be beaten to death if you stop! I was not injured on the battlefield. If I am paralyzed by you when I come back, how can I explain to my comrades in arms?"

Wei Ruo and the nanny shook their heads helplessly. They were used to this kind of fighting between the two. Anyway, nothing would really happen in the end, so they just let them go.

Wei Ruo and Xiumei stayed at Xu's house until dusk, but it was too late and had to leave, so they said goodbye to Xu's family, took a carriage and returned to Xiaowei's Mansion.

Two days later, there was also good news from the Wei Mansion.

Xu Zhengyong's promotion from soldier to deputy settled the general matter.

Wei Ruo asked Xiumei to deliver the medicines she had packed. He wanted to prepare more, but time was running out, and he was afraid that Xu Zhengyong would return to the barracks any longer.

At the same time, good news came from the Wei family, and Wei Mingting was also promoted.

The actual position was promoted from Vice President Qian to Chief Qian, and at the same time, the false position was also promoted from the sixth-rank captain Zhongxian to the sixth-rank captain Zhaoxin.

For a moment, the captain's mansion was immersed in cheers.

Wei Mingting has been in the position of Vice President for a long time, and has not been promoted for a long time.

A while ago, I was still worried that I might be dismissed or demoted.

Now it's better, the haze has dissipated, and I'm beaming.

"Hurry up, write a letter to the capital, and tell the good news to the people in the Bofu!"

The Yun family arranged for the eldest son Wei Yichen to write a letter to the Zhongyi Bofu in Beijing to report the good news.

Although the capital city will definitely know the news before them, as a junior, I should still write a letter to explain the situation in the mansion.

Then he ordered the mansion to prepare a celebration banquet for her husband. Of course, this banquet was just a gathering of family members for a meal. Wei Mingting had ordered that no extravagance be allowed.

Recently, the situation in Xingshan County is not good. Many people's rice fields are not in good condition. Moreover, the weather this year feels colder earlier than in previous years. All signs indicate that this year will be difficult.

Under such a background, it is really not appropriate to be too extravagant and wasteful.

At night, the Wei family gathered together.

Wei Jin, who rarely appeared in the dining hall, also appeared today for the first time.

Seeing Wei Jinyi, Yun was slightly taken aback.

"Mother." Wei Jin also greeted Yun.

"En." Yun replied, but didn't say anything.

Thinking about the special situation today, it is reasonable for him to come to have a meal together. She was also surprised because he hadn't come to the dining hall to have a meal with everyone for a long time, so she didn't recover for a while.

Wei Yichen came forward to greet Wei Jinyi: "Second brother, how are you doing?"

"Fair." Wei Jinyi's answer was as dull as ever, just like his expression.

"When will the second brother go to Huzhou Prefecture?" Wei Yichen asked again.

"It should take some days." Wei Jin also said.

"If you need anything, tell your brother." Wei Yichen said.

Wei Jin also nodded.

Wei Qingwan's eyes were on Wei Ruo. Today, Wei Ruo was wearing a light green satin skirt and a simple bun. She looked smart and bright.

When the father is promoted, the eldest daughter in the family will have more weight. Wei Qingwan knew very well that the more wealthy the family, the more attention should be paid to the order of seniority.

When it comes to marriage in the future, the eldest daughter will be more dominant.

Thinking of this, Wei Qingwan's expression darkened involuntarily.

Wei Ruo didn't pay attention to the expressions of other people. He was standing in the corner of the dining room, but his mind was on other things.

She has a lot of things to worry about recently. Apart from the sweet potatoes in Xiaoyang Mountain in the north of the city, the improvement of the wasteland in the south of the city, and the Xie family's medicine fields, Wei Ruo is also planning to use the five hundred taels of silver she just saved to buy grain and coal from other places.

Wei Ruozheng was in a daze, and Wei Mingting appeared in the dining room in casual clothes.

"Father." Wei Yichen stepped forward to say hello.

"Um."

Wei Mingting responded, and then his eyes fell on Wei Jinyi behind Wei Yichen.

"Are you willing to come out and walk around today?"

"Yes." Wei Jin also responded, his voice as dull as ever.

It seems that no matter who is standing opposite, he always reacts like this.

"It's so good, but we should move around more, instead of being bored in the yard all the time." Wei Mingting said in a relieved tone.

Immediately afterwards, Wei Mingting's eyes fell on Wei Qingwan and Wei Ruo.

"Father." Wei Qingwan called obediently.

Because Wei Ruo was thinking about the problem, his reaction was much slower. When he realized that Wei Mingting was looking at him, he called out: "Father."

"Yes." Wei Mingting responded.

"Sit down."

Wei Mingting spoke, and everyone took their seats one by one.

Now in Xingshan County, there are less rules. If it is in the Zhongyibo Mansion in the capital, according to the age of the children in the family, it is necessary to separate tables for men and women.

The big round table is full of various dishes.

Tonight's dishes are extraordinarily rich: home-cooked large yellow croaker, wheat shrimp, salt-roasted pork liver, steamed swimming crab, dumpling cake tube, tofu balls, boiled chicken...

You can clearly see a lot more seafood.

After the victory in the battle, some fishermen caught it after going out to sea. They specially sent the seafood to Xiaowei's Mansion to thank Wei Mingting for defeating the Japanese pirates.

Wei Mingting was delighted when he saw it, not only because of the delicious dishes in front of him at the moment, but also because it meant that the people in the city could resume fishing for a living, so it was a blessing for Xingshan County, a county with extremely poor agriculture. Big good news.

At this time, Wei Jin also asked Xiaobei to bring in a jar.

"What good things did Jin Yi bring here?" Wei Mingting asked curiously.

Chapter 82 Ruoer Can Make Wine

"It's plum wine, brewed by the elder sister herself. I just borrowed flowers to offer Buddha." Wei Jin also explained.

Everyone looked at Wei Ruo in surprise, and Wei Ruo calmly looked at the dishes in front of him.

Second brother asked for her opinion before doing this.

She originally didn't intend to show such courtesy to Wei Mingting, but the jar of wine had already been opened last time, and she ran away without drinking the taste for a long time.

And the jar of wine was almost full. Last time because the second brother was drunk, he put it aside after drinking two cups. In addition, Wei Ruo himself is not keen on wine. He would not drink it if he had nothing to do. .

The second brother said that his father loves alcohol but not alcohol, and giving him a taste is considered to be the best use of everything.

In addition, the second brother mentioned it to her, and she couldn't refute the second brother's opinion, so she didn't say anything.

"Ruo'er can still make wine?" Wei Mingting's eyes fell on Wei Ruo.

"I can make some, brew it casually." Wei Ruo replied casually.

"Then as a father, you have to have a good taste." Wei Mingting said.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, the big boulder of the Japanese pirates fell temporarily, and Wei Mingting's wine worms also came out.

Hearing this, Yun hurriedly asked someone to pour a glass for Wei Mingting, and then poured wine for everyone present except the young Wei Yilin.

It is an elegant thing to have a drink, so on such a festive occasion, the Yun family allows the older children to drink.

Wei Mingting tasted it first, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face: "Ruo'er, you really made this wine?"

"Yes." Wei Ruo responded indifferently.

"This wine is really good, sweet and elegant, with a rich aroma and fruity aroma." Wei Mingting commented.

Hearing Wei Mingting's comment, Yun Shi and Wei Yichen also took a sip.

The two also showed surprise expressions.

"Ruo'er's wine is so well brewed that it's even purer and sweeter than the restaurants in the county town." Wei Yichen commented.

Pure and sweet probably because Wei Ruo used the distillation method to purify, so the wine is fragrant and pure, as transparent as water.

However, many wines in this era, especially some small workshops, are brewed with rough craftsmanship, and the wines produced are relatively cloudy.

Yun also couldn't help but praise: "Ruoer's hand is really skillful, it's the first time I have drunk such a non-violent but full-bodied wine."

Listening to everyone's praise for Wei Ruo, Wei Qingwan looked down at the wine glass in front of her, and took a tentative sip.

She doesn't drink much, and she doesn't have too many opportunities to let her drink, so she doesn't know as much about alcohol as her parents and elder brothers do.

But Wei Qingwan could feel that the wine was really not bad, and the sweet and refreshing taste could be tasted, and she suddenly felt uncomfortable.

She raised her head to look at Wei Ruo, with a smile on her face, and praised with the others: "Sister is really amazing, it seems that nothing can trouble her, compared to her, I am really useless gone."

"How can Wanwan be useless? Wanwan has something that Wanwan is good at." Yun said hurriedly.

"That's right, sister, wine making is not something for ladies, isn't that what those sweaty wine masters in small workshops outside should do?" Wei Yilin hurriedly said.

"Yilin, what are you talking about?" Wei Mingting looked serious.

Wei Yilin was very afraid of Wei Mingting. When Wei Mingting's expression became serious, he immediately lowered his head, not daring to speak.

On weekdays, when Wei Mingting was not around, he would sometimes slander Wei Ruo secretly like today. No one in the family was angry, so he got used to it.

"It doesn't matter if it's unintentional, or if it's intentional to slander and disrespect your big sister, you don't have to eat today's meal, just get out and stand in the yard!" Wei Mingting said coldly.

Wearing this, Yun hurriedly pleaded for mercy for his youngest son: "Yilin should have made the mistake unintentionally, husband, don't be angry."

Wei Yilin lowered his head very low, and nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Wei Mingting did not pursue further.

Wei Yichen explained to Wei Yilin from the side: "Yilin, the craft of wine making is not as crude and shallow as you think. A good wine making recipe is usually a secret recipe passed down from generation to generation in a family, and there is a royal wine workshop in the palace. The master has an official position."

"Understood..." Wei Yilin replied in a low voice.

Actually, he also knows what the eldest brother said. He just said that just because he didn't want sister Wanwan to be compared to Wei Qingruo.

The rest of Wei Jin just pretended to take a sip, but actually didn't drink even a drop. Wei Ruo could see it, and also knew that after learning the lesson from last time, he would never touch wine lightly now. Even this kind of weak fruit wine.

One meal was used up, and the jar of wine had also run out, most of which were drunk by Wei Mingting, and the rest of them just had a few sips.

As far as Wei Mingting's drinking capacity is concerned, let alone a jar of fruit wine, he would not be able to get drunk even with seven or eight jars.

He loves wine, but he resolutely does not drink alcohol when he has official duties. Now that he has won a big victory, celebrating at home is a very rare opportunity to drink in the past few years. He has a jar of good wine and drinks very happily.

At the end of the meeting, Wei Mingting unexpectedly took the initiative to ask Wei Ruo for a drink: "If Ruo'er brews wine next time, let Dad taste it too, okay?"

Wei Ruo couldn't refuse, so he said: "Okay, I will remember my father's share next time."

I don't know when it will be brewed again next time, and the newly brewed wine can't be drunk immediately, it will be kept for a long time, so Wei Mingting wants to drink the wine she brewed next time, and I don't know when he will have to wait.

As for the few jars still in her warehouse, Wei Mingting only said that they were for the next brewing, not the ones already in place, so naturally they don't need to be taken out.

Wei Mingting said: "Okay, then as a father, I will wait for Ruoer's next delicious wine."

After the banquet was over, everyone left the dining room one after another. Wei Ruo just walked out of the dining room door when Wei Qingwan walked towards her.

Wei Qingwan took the initiative to talk to Wei Ruo, and sent a purse embroidered by herself:

"Sister, I embroidered this purse and gave it to my sister. I am not as capable as my sister. I can only embroider some embroidery. I hope my sister will not dislike it."

Wei Ruo turned to look at Wei Qingwan, but didn't reach out to pick it up.

Seeing that Wei Ruo didn't move, Wei Qingwan explained: "My sister has already remembered what my sister taught me on Qiqiao Festival, but I couldn't think of any good way to express my sincerity to my sister, so I embroidered a purse to express my heart." ."

Wei Ruo looked at Wei Qingwan sharply. Wei Qingwan didn't know whether it was a guilty conscience or something else, so she lowered her head to avoid meeting Wei Ruo's gaze.

"Okay, then I'll take it." Wei Ruo suddenly reached out and took the purse.

Immediately afterwards, Wei Ruo saw Wei Yichen coming out of the dining room, and gave him the purse.

"Ruoer, this is?" Wei Yichen looked at Wei Ruo suspiciously.

Chapter 83 Make Early Plans

"Brother gave me Tingsongyuan. I wanted to embroider a purse for him a long time ago. However, I am clumsy and can't embroider. Sister Qingwan just gave me one, so I will borrow flowers to present Buddha to my brother." Wei Ruodao .

Wei Ruo smiled brightly, then turned and left.

She doesn't care if it's appropriate to pass on the gifts that others gave her to others. Anyway, she is a girl from the country, and they will understand some rules if they don't understand them, right?

In short, she dare not accept Wei Qingwan's things, who knows if she is setting her up? Although she can't think of what Wei Qingwan can plan with a small purse for the time being, but as long as she doesn't give her a chance, her plan will only come to nothing.

Besides, she slandered her and wronged her, so how can she use something like a purse to deduct it?

After Wei Yichen saw clearly what was in his hand, he wanted to call Wei Ruo back, but Wei Ruo had already left.

"Wanwan, is this what you want to give to Ruoer?" Wei Yichen asked Wei Qingwan.

"Well, probably I didn't do well, my sister doesn't like it..." Wei Qingwan murmured.

"Ruo'er has such a temperament. She has been in the mansion for a while. She acts a little more straightforwardly, but she has no bad intentions. Wanwan, don't think too much." Wei Yichen said, not thinking that such a trivial matter is good. Think about it.

The two younger sisters are just very different in temperament, but they are both very good girls, and they are the two jewels of their Wei family.

"Yes... I see..." Wei Qingwan hurriedly said, with an ugly look on her drooping face.

"Brother purse is kept, thank you Wanwan." Although this kind of embroidered purse Wei Yichen can't use, but it is the hearts of the two sisters that must be cherished.

The capital, Zhongyi Bofu.

The news of Wei Mingting's promotion reached the capital very quickly. The news came from the middle of the capital, earlier than the letter from Xingshan County.

Hearing the good news, the Zhongyibo Mansion was immersed in an atmosphere of joy.

"The third one is doing well! This is a happy event, a great happy event, and a great happy event for our entire Bofu!"

The old man was very happy, and his face was filled with joy that he hadn't shown for a long time.

It has been three full years, and the third child has finally been promoted to another level! His hanging heart can finally drop!

Wei Minghong and Wei Mingyong also had smiles on their faces.

"Father, this is really a happy event. Now we don't have to worry about the third brother being dismissed." Wei Mingyong said with a smile.

"Father, for such a big happy event, shall we go to Xingshan County to express congratulations to the third brother in person?" Wei Minghong asked for instructions.

The old man objected: "You don't need to go in person. Although you are only on a job, but you have an job, how can you run around? I'm afraid you won't be caught, right?"

The old uncle continued: "You brothers, if you are really happy for your younger brother, show your sincerity. As an elder brother, you should also prepare some congratulatory gifts for your younger brother. It is bitterly cold in Xingshan County. Not good, it is foreseeable that the grain will not be harvested before the autumn harvest. You two are older brothers, and you should think more about your younger brother."

Wei Minghong and Wei Mingyong looked a little embarrassed. They wanted to take this opportunity to go to Xingshan County, but they didn't want to go to Xingshan County, and their father asked them to share their wealth.

The two brothers hesitated for a while, and Wei Mingyong spoke first: "Father is right, I will go back and prepare for the third brother's promotion, so the congratulatory gifts cannot be shabby."

Wei Mingyong opened his mouth, and Wei Minghong was naturally not easy to let go. He bit the bullet and said: "Father, don't worry, even if you don't mention this matter, father, I will definitely arrange it early."

Although the two brothers were reluctant, they did not dare to fool the old man. After returning, they each prepared some things and took them to the old man. After the old man sorted them out, he sent someone to send them to Xingshan County.

In late July, Wei Ruo received a letter from Mojiazha.

Lizheng wrote back to Wei Ruo on behalf of the villagers, and he promised that after the harvest of this year's grain at Mojia Station, they would keep the grain for next year, and then sell the extra grain to Wei Ruo at the normal local price.

The rice seeds that Wei Ruo gave them are all grown in their village, and Wei Ruo taught them a lot of planting knowledge, which made the rice output of their village much higher than that of other surrounding villages for several consecutive years.

In the same way, the living conditions of Mojiazha, which was originally poor, have been significantly improved. They can have enough food and clothing, and in addition to being self-sufficient, they can also sell surplus food for money.

The villagers all remember this feeling, so no matter how the price of grain changes in the future, they will sell it to Wei Ruo at the usual price.

The coal has also been contacted, and a batch has been purchased in Huzhou Prefecture in advance, and it will be shipped over in a while.

Whether it is the current situation or the memory of the original owner, it tells Wei Ruo that this year will be a difficult one. The cold and lack of food will be the two major problems plaguing Xingshan County.

Faced with these problems, Wei Ruo must make plans early.

"Miss, do you really have to spend so much money on grain and coal? This is almost all your cash." Xiumei was a little worried.

Wei Ruo had spent most of the money he saved before buying Xiaoyang Mountain, and now he has to spend another five hundred taels of silver to buy grain and coal, almost emptying out the money he saved.

"Flowing water does not rot, and money can make money. Silver itself is just a cold lump of iron. Only when it can be exchanged for what I want, that silver is meaningful."

"Miss, it's good that you have a plan. When you really have to do something, don't allow yourself to carry it alone. The nanny, Uncle Xu, and I can share your worries and solve your problems." Xiumei said.

"Don't worry, good Meizi, your miss, I'm really good at making money!" Wei Ruo smiled, and then rubbed her stomach, "It's just that I do too many things that waste my brain, and my stomach tends to get hungry."

"Okay, okay, I see, I'm going to make some snacks! The seafood I bought last time has been dried, how about I go bake you a dried squid?"

"Okay, bake some more, and send some to my second brother."

"no problem!"

Xiumei went to take out the dried squid that had just been dried a while ago, went to Yingzhuyuan next door, and borrowed the charcoal fire from their small kitchen to grill it.

After roasting, it was directly divided into two parts, one part was left in Yingzhu Garden for Xiao Bei to take to Wei Jinyi, and the remaining part was brought back to Wei Ruo.

After eating a piece of fragrant and crunchy dried squid, Wei Ruo happily nestled in the room and worked all afternoon.

On the other side, Wei Jin also savored the dried squid sent by Wei Ruo.

Xiao Bei sighed beside him: "Master, Missy is so kind to you, she thinks of you for everything!"

Chapter 84 The first batch of sweet potatoes are ripe

Although Wei Jinyi didn't respond, he agreed with Xiao Bei's statement in his heart.

She really likes him as a brother, if one day she finds out that he is actually... I don't know if she will be sad.

Xiaobei couldn't help but asked again: "Young Master, are we really going to Huzhou Mansion? If we go to Huzhou Mansion, we won't be able to see the Eldest Miss."

"Go." Wei Jin also made up his mind.

Some things are inconvenient for others to do in the Wei Mansion, and they can only be freed when they go outside.

Seeing Wei Jinyi's change, Xiaobei was both happy and worried. The young master has been avoiding those people all these years, but now he has changed his mind. I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

A few days later, there was a reply from the Huzhou government. Mr. Heyou's letter of recommendation was very useful, and Layman Zanglin planned to meet Wei Jinyi in person.

So Wei Jin also prepared to leave for Huzhou Prefecture.

Wei Mingting personally ordered the Yun family to prepare luggage, carriages and horses for Wei Jinyi to ensure that Wei Jinyi will have no worries along the way.

The Yun family did not dare to be negligent, but she was somewhat disappointed. The second young master, who had never had a sense of existence in the mansion, had this opportunity to pay homage to Master Canglin, while her eldest son, the first young master, who had always been praised by her husband's classmates, could only stay. In this Xingshan County, I am struggling to find the next opportunity.

When Wei Jinyi went out, Wei Ruo didn't go to see him off, but just prepared a box of practice gifts for Wei Jinyi, which he gave to Xiaobei the day before.

After Wei Jinyi left, Wei Ruo sat in the yard, resting his chin with one hand, and sighed unconsciously:

"Suddenly felt that my decision was not very wise. There is only such a talkative person in the family. After leaving, I feel even more deserted."

Xiumei said: "Miss, I have nothing to do with this matter. It is your own decision. If you really feel bored, then I will be wronged and talk to you more every day."

"Good Meimei, don't be jealous of my second brother, you are the most important, you are the person who talks to me the most, I can do without anyone, but I can't do without you." Wei Ruo hurriedly explained.

Xiumei was amused by Wei Ruo and giggled, "Okay, miss, you are hungry again and want me to make you some delicious food, right?"

"No, no, it's all sincerity, no skill." Wei Ruo said with a smile.

Time flies to the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the weather turns cooler.

On the first day of August, it was a cloudy day, and the mood of the people was just like the weather on this day.

There is no other reason, only because this year's rice is not growing well, the rice ears are not full, and there are a lot of empty shells. You can predict this year's grain situation without waiting for the rice to mature.

At the same time, the sweet potatoes in Xiaoyangshan also ushered in the harvest.

Compared with the gloom and gloom of other Zhuangzi, Xiaoyang Mountain is full of joy of harvest.

The hired long-term workers turned over the land, dug up the sweet potatoes, and then picked them down the mountain one by one.

The long-term and day-worker farmers in other nearby villages stretched their necks and looked around.

In fact, they were already curious when sweet potatoes were planted on Xiaoyang Mountain.

Later they sold some vine leaves, and everyone probably knew that this was a new crop and could be eaten.

But if you just sell some leaves, it seems a bit worthless to plant such a mountain.

Today, when I saw the long-term workers on the mountain carrying loads of sweet potatoes down the mountain, I realized that these plants mainly eat the tubers in the soil.

I don't know if the red pieces are delicious or not.

Most of the first batch of dug sweet potatoes were sent to the warehouse, and only a small part was sent to the market for sale.

Looking at the situation this year, grain storage is more important than silver storage.

Of course Wei Ruo still needs to sell some of the sweet potatoes in exchange for some working capital, but this is not in a hurry. He needs to wait for the next few batches of sweet potatoes to be dug up, evaluate the total output, and then decide how much to sell.

Now, we only sell a few at first, which is considered to be a promotion of this new type of crop and pave the way for subsequent large-scale sales.

In the market, a charcoal fire rack was set up next to the small stall selling sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes were roasted on it.

Soon, the roasted sweet potatoes exuded an attractive food aroma, which attracted many people to stop and ask.

I have endorsed sweet potato vine leaves and dried sweet potatoes before, and everyone already has a certain understanding of sweet potatoes as a crop. They know that this food is edible and tastes good.

The price of roasted sweet potatoes is neither expensive nor cheap, five cents each.

But this year, everyone can already foresee that the grain harvest will be in short supply, and the price of grain in the rice shop is already rising. If you think about it this way, the price of sweet potatoes is considered a conscience.

After the first person bought it and tasted it on the spot and said it was delicious, it sold out quickly, and it was sold out in a short while.

Many people still want to buy again, but the baked sweet potato stall has closed, so they can only come back another day if they want it.

Listening to Songyuan, Wei Ruo is in a great mood.

Xiumei is also happy, every time the crops are harvested, the young lady's mood is very good. If the crops matured every day, the lady would be so happy every day.

What Xiumei didn't know was that Wei Ruo was not only happy because the sweet potatoes on Xiaoyang Mountain had a good harvest, but also because the sweet potatoes she planted in the yard had also matured.

Although the quantity is not comparable to that of Xiaoyang Mountain, Wei Ruo planted it himself and can get experience points.

Originally, there was only one hundred experience points short of the one thousand experience points needed to upgrade the space to the third level. This time, he directly obtained two hundred experience points, and the space was successfully upgraded to the third level.

Not only is there an extra piece of arable land in the space, but also to unlock a new space plant - shiitake mushroom mycelium.

After the upgrade of the space, Wei Ruo immediately planted it on the land of the space. Everything can be planted on the land of the space, and there is no need for her to deal with the soil and the environment.

Even if the environmental factors required to grow shiitake mushrooms and ordinary plants are completely different, it can be realized on the land in the space.

In addition, Wei Ruo also wants to plant shiitake mushrooms in the outside world. This situation is much more complicated, and requires the preparation of planting materials and a suitable planting environment.

There are several advantages to growing mushrooms under the current conditions: First, the growth cycle of this thing is very short, and it can grow within a week under suitable temperature and air humidity.

Secondly, this thing does not need to be planted in the ground and does not occupy land resources. Land resources in Xingshan County are very limited. Even if there is more wasteland in the south of the city, the per capita cultivated land area is still not rich.

The last thing that makes Wei Ruo happy is that Xingshan County is mountainous, and there are many caves on the mountains. When she went to Xiejia Bieyuan last time, she found that there were many natural caves formed on the nearby mountains.

If the humidity and temperature in the cave are suitable, it will be a natural mushroom cultivation room.

Chapter 85 Encounter with the Xie family brothers and sisters

"Meimei, please contact the nanny, I need her to buy something for me." Wei Ruo said enthusiastically.

First of all, Wei Ruo needs to prepare all the required materials, which are wood chips, wood shavings, rice bran or wheat bran.

These are the main ingredients for making mushroom bags.

Among them, sawdust and wood shavings accounted for the majority, each accounting for 40%.

And these two can go to the carpenter in the city to buy them at a low price.

The remaining rice bran and wheat bran are not difficult to obtain, and the price is not expensive.

The amount of the first purchase should not be too large. After the practice is successful and feasible, consider expanding the scale.

The task of purchasing was given to the nanny, and Wei Ruo himself needed to inspect the caves in Xingshan County to see if there were any caves with suitable temperature and humidity that met her requirements.

Wei Ruo made a plan and started to act.

This trip, Wei Ruo still brought Nanny Zhang along.

Nanny Zhang followed Wei Ruo, not only increased her status in the south of the city, but also got a lot of good things from Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo didn't let Nanny Zhang participate in other things she did, but asked Nanny Zhang to help him cover up so that he could enter and exit the Captain's Mansion conveniently.

Nurse Zhang is also kind, and because of the benefits from Wei Ruo, she didn't say much.

She is a person who is afraid of trouble, as long as Wei Ruo doesn't cause anything, she will naturally not bother to go to Yun's to tell Wei Ruo's secret.

The mountains in the western mountains are more barren and steep.

If the mountains in the north of the city still have the potential to be cultivated into terraced fields, then don't even think about the mountains here. They are barren, steep and full of rocks. They can only be used as Maoshan for chopping firewood. Only the nearby Chaifu and Orion can do it. visit.

The carriage couldn't go up the mountain, so it had to stop on the nearby road. Seeing that Wei Ruo was planning to go up the mountain, Nanny Zhang worried: "Miss, I advise you not to go up this mountain. There is nothing on the mountain, it's really not worth it."

"It's okay, I'll go for a walk. This mountain is steep, and there may be a lot of valuable medicinal materials. This trip will not be in vain." Wei Ruo said.

The nearby villagers don't know much about medicinal herbs, so Wei Ruo feels that the probability of picking medicinal herbs on this dangerous mountain is still very high.

Of course, her main purpose is to see with her own eyes whether the number, size, temperature and humidity of the caves on the mountain are really a natural cultivation room for mushrooms.

When Nanny Zhang saw this, she stopped persuading her, but she herself was unwilling to go up this mountain: "Then Miss, this old slave will wait for you by the side of the road with this carriage. This mountain is too dangerous. Legs and feet can't bear it."

"Well, it's okay, just wait for me down there, and sleep in the carriage for a while when you're tired." Wei Ruo didn't plan to take Madam Zhang up the mountain, otherwise she wouldn't know what to do when she found the cave. explain to her.

Wei Ruo and Xiumei went up the mountain together, and they did this kind of thing a lot before.

For Xiumei, as long as her lady doesn't sneak up the mountain alone behind her back, she will be Amitabha.

She is most afraid that her young lady will run away to the deep mountains and old forests alone without telling her. She must worry to death.

The two were about to go up the mountain, when a group of people came from another trail in the distance, they looked familiar from a distance, but when they got closer, Wei Ruo recognized each other.

are brothers and sisters from the Xie family.

Xie Ying also recognized Wei Ruo, so she quickened her pace and trotted towards Wei Ruo.

"Ruo Ruo!"

"Slow down, be careful not to fall." Wei Ruo said.

Xie Jue, who followed Xie Ying, also said the same thing: "Yingying, did you hear that, Miss Wei also told you to be careful, this path is full of weeds, dead branches and gravel, it's a big deal if you fall of!"

"I'm fine, you two don't worry about me." Xie Ying didn't think she would fall, she was amazing!

Immediately afterwards, Xie Ying asked Wei Ruo: "Ruoruo, why did you come here?"

"I'm going to collect herbs in the nearby mountains." Wei Ruo replied, but I will not talk about the cultivation of mushrooms with Xie's brothers and sisters for the time being.

Hearing this, Xie Ying's eyes lit up: "Ruoruo the one you gave me last time, I'll give it to my mother, and my mother will have someone stew it the way you said and drink it and say it will work!"

"As long as it works." Wei Ruo said with a smile.

"So I'm going to collect herbs this time too! When I get them, I'll tell you how to use them!" With the previous successful experience, Xie Ying is very motivated this time.

Xie Jue was listening in a daze, and asked: "Sister, what medicine did you bring back for mother last time? Is mother sick? Why do you need to take medicine?"

"This is about our girl's family, I won't tell you!" Xie Ying dragged Wei Ruo aside, deliberately not letting Xie Jue listen to their conversation.

Xie Jue had a headache for a while: "Sister, at least I have a share of my mother, can I care about my mother's physical condition?"

"No, no!" Xie Ying refused.

Xie Jue couldn't convince Xie Ying, so he turned to Wei Ruo: "Sister Wei, tell me, what's wrong with my mother?"

"Master Lingtang is fine, please rest assured Mr. Xie." Wei Ruo replied.

Xie Yingchong said proudly, "Brother, just give up, Ruoruo and I are on the same boat."

Xie Jue sighed helplessly: "Alright then."

Xie Ying dragged Wei Ruo up the mountain while chatting with Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo asked Xie Ying: "By the way, why are you here?"

"You forgot, my family has a separate courtyard near here. My brother and I walked around this courtyard, and then walked around the neighborhood by the way."

Xie Ying is an active person, always staying at home, she feels bored and flustered.

Now that Xie Jue was here, she took a chance and asked Xie Jue to take her out.

After walking for a while, Wei Ruo found some horse chestnuts.

Wei Ruo picked them like a baby.

"Ruoruo, what is this?" Xie Ying asked curiously.

"This is called Aescin, also known as Chonglou. It is a good thing to detoxify snakes. You can see that it is easy to identify. Generally speaking, there are seven leaves in a circle, and there are six. This thing is quite hard to find. Yes, I didn't expect to be so lucky today, and I'll see you when I go up the mountain." Wei Ruo explained.

Xie Ying wrote it down carefully, and Xie Jue, who was at the side, also listened with gusto.

Following Xie Ying to search around, they also found the same one, and quickly called Wei Ruo to come and identify it.

"Yes, this is Echinacea."

Getting Wei Ruo's affirmative answer, Xie Ying dug carefully.

After digging out a complete plant, he proudly showed off to Xie Jue: "Look, bro, I dug well."

"Well, my sister dug the most beautiful one." Xie Jue praised without principle.

Sister's must be the best, there is no doubt about it.

Even if you simply dig a herb, it must look better than others.

Xie Ying finished digging Aescin, then ran to see Wei Ruo picking grass on the ground.

"Ruoruo, isn't this a withered weed? Why are you picking it?" Xie Ying asked.

Chapter 86 Exploring the Cave

"This is called Prunella vulgaris, and it's just the right time to pick it this season." Wei Ruo explained.

"Prunella vulgaris? What is it used for?"

"Prunella vulgaris is very effective in treating scrofula, and because of the high mortality rate of scrofula, Prunella vulgaris is very precious and valuable. However, Prunella vulgaris grows very ordinary. It is different from weeds. It grows in summer. When the inflorescence is like withered grass, it gets its name and is ignored by people." Wei Ruo explained.

"I didn't expect it to be so common and useful." Xie Ying knelt down to help Wei Ruo pick it.

"In addition, Prunella vulgaris can also be used to make herbal tea. If you cook it with lotus leaves and light bamboo leaves, you can get a delicious herbal tea." Wei Ruo added.

"Ruo Ruo, do you still know how to make herbal tea?" Xie Ying asked.

"It's very simple to make herbal tea, just put the ingredients into the water and cook together, there is no skill, I also make Shaoxiancao and Guiling jelly, which is a little more complicated, but they are all good things to cool and relieve summer heat. "Wei Ruo said.

"Ruoruo, you are such a treasure! I want to take you home and hide you inside!"

Xiumei on the side couldn't help but said: "Miss Xie, kidnapping is against the law. If you want to take my lady back, I'm going to report to the police!"

Xie Ying flattened her mouth: "With you here, can I tie up your lady? How about I give you money, and you help me tie up your lady."

Xiumei immediately asked Wei Ruo: "Miss, Miss Xie said she would give me money. If you give me more money, can I think about it?"

Wei Ruo nodded: "It can be considered. If I give enough, I can consider taking the initiative to cooperate with being kidnapped by you, and then share half of the stolen money with you."

Xiumei agrees: "Yeah, yes, after we get the money, I will go to the Xie Mansion to rescue the young lady!"

Xie Ying was stunned: "Okay, you two, work together to calculate my money in front of me!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and gestured to throw the freshly picked Prunella vulgaris on Wei Ruo's body, but after looking at it twice, he was reluctant to throw it, so he changed the direction and threw it heavily into Wei Ruo's medicine basket.

Xie Jue stood five steps away, watching the three little girls fight and couldn't help laughing out loud.

This Miss Wei family is really an old spirit, no wonder she can subdue her little sister who does her own way.

After walking for a while, Wei Ruo saw a cave.

Wei Ruo walked towards the cave curiously, but Xie Jue hurriedly stopped him: "Sister Wei, don't go there, this cave is dangerous."

"Dangerous?" Wei Ruo turned to look at Xie Jue suspiciously.

"The caves in Xingshan County are relatively large and deep, and some caves have complex internal structures. I'm worried that there may be some wild animals or snakes, rats, insects and the like inside." Xie Jue explained.

"Thank you for your kindness, my lord, but I still want to go in and have a look. Don't worry, I am a maid, and we have experience in dealing with snakes, rats, insects and ants. If we encounter any problems, we will be able to deal with them."

Xie Jue believed these words, but for the sake of safety, he decided to go in with him.

"I will follow behind you. If there is any danger, I can help in time." Xie Jue said.

"Then I will go too." Xie Ying strode forward.

Xie Jue hurriedly held her back: "Yingying, what are you going to do?"

"You all go, why can't I go? I'm also very good." Although Xie Ying has never practiced martial arts, she is very good at horseback riding and archery, much more capable than ordinary girls.

"But there may be snakes, rats, insects and ants in this cave, aren't you afraid?" Xie Jue asked.

"If not afraid, why should I be afraid?" Xie Ying was not timid at all.

"If Yingying wants to go, I have an anti-insect ointment here." Wei Ruo immediately took out a porcelain box from the backpack he brought.

After unscrewing the box, there is a light yellow waxy paste inside.

Wei Ruo put the pulp of his index finger on the paste and kneaded it carefully, then smeared it on Xie Ying's wrist and ear base.

Xie Ying put her wrist in front of her nose and smelled it, "It smells good, there is a faint fruity scent, sweet, and it smells good."

"Well, I specially made the fragrance. Didn't I learn how to do it from my husband recently? I just used it on this ointment. It used to be that the ointment had an obvious smell of medicine, which would be unpleasant." Wei Ruo explained.

"Practice what you have learned, Ruoruo, you are really amazing!" Xie Ying couldn't help but praised Wei Ruo again.

Xie Jue, who was behind Xie Ying, was also amazed at this. This Miss Wei family is really interesting. The treasures on her body seem to be endless, and she can constantly surprise people.

Xie Jue looked at Wei Ruo with admiration and approval in his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

Xie Ying asked Wei Ruo: "Ruoruo, can you give some of your ointment to my brother? I'm also afraid that he will be bitten by insects and ants."

Wei Shuojian stuffed the whole box of ointment into Xie Ying's hand: "This is for you."

"If you send me off, what about you?" Xie Ying asked.

"I still have, I made several boxes at a time." Wei Ruo replied.

"That's good!" Xie Ying stopped being polite to Wei Ruo. After accepting Wei Ruo's ointment, she turned around and handed it to Xie Jue.

"I'll paint a little for you, save some, and return it to me after you paint it."

"I know, I know." Xie Jue replied with a smile.

After all four of them applied the insect repellent ointment, they entered the cave together.

Xie Jue walked in the front, guarding the three girls behind.

The cave is a bit narrow and the road is complicated. After walking for a while, Wei Ruo said, "Let's go out, this cave is not what I want to find, and the road here is narrow and has forks. It may be dangerous to continue going forward."

Although Xie Jue and Xie Ying didn't know the reason, but after Wei Ruo said so, they stopped staying, turned around, and retreated from the cave.

After exiting, Xie Jue asked Wei Ruo: "Sister Wei, what kind of cave is she planning to find? I used to play around here when I was young, and I know something about the area. Maybe I can help you."

Looking at Xie Jue's serious face, Wei Ruo thought for a while, and then expressed his thoughts: "I want to find a cave with a large space, and the temperature inside is right, warm in winter and cool in summer."

"Large space, warm in winter and cool in summer..." Xie Jue thought about it seriously, "It seems that there is such a cave on the mountainside along this trail that meets your requirements."

"Master Xie, do you remember how to get there?" Wei Ruo asked hurriedly.

"Well, I remember, I will show you the way." Xie Jue said.

"Thank you so much, son!" Wei Ruo said gratefully.

"You don't have to be so polite with me." Xie Jue looked at Wei Ruo with a gentle smile.

After the polite greetings, Xie Jue walked to the front and took Wei Ruo, Xiumei and his sister to the halfway up the mountain.

After bypassing several large rocks, a spacious cave entrance appeared in front of us.

Xie Jue was still at the front, and the three girls followed behind...

Chapter 87 Prescription for Xie Ying

This time, the cave was very spacious from the entrance, and several people could stride in with their backs straight. Even the tallest Xie Jue didn't need to bow his head.

After walking seven or eight steps, the space inside becomes even bigger.

Inside is a complete and huge irregular space, with no branches or forks, and the cave can be seen at a glance.

The cave is not deep, but the entrance is wide and high, so the outside light can still shine into the cave, so that people who enter the cave can see the whole picture of the cave clearly.

The caves are mostly surrounded by stone walls, and occasionally some places are earth walls with vines growing on them. It can be seen that this cave is very strong, and generally there will be no problem of collapse.

Wei Ruo can also see flowing water on the stone wall on the right, which shows that the humidity in this cave will not be low.

In terms of temperature, the temperature in the cave at this time is very comfortable.

Wei Ruo walked around the stone wall and checked the situation of the entire cave.

She found some wild mushrooms in some corners, off-white, slender, unusable species.

But this also proves that the environment of this cave is suitable for the growth of mushrooms.

"What does sister Wei think, does it match what you think?" Xie Jue asked after Wei Ruo walked around.

Wei Ruo nodded: "Well, this is very suitable for the cave I want to find."

Xie Jue couldn't help but smile: "That's good."

He thoughtfully did not ask Wei Ruo why he wanted to find such a cave.

If Wei Ruo didn't say it at the beginning of the day, it would be inconvenient to reveal it. If that's the case, he'd better not ask too many questions. If Wei's younger sister wants to say something, she will naturally say it.

The cave is almost finished, Wei Ruo said to the Xie brothers and sisters: "Okay, I've finished watching, this cave is pretty good, but we'll talk about what to do next time, let's go out first."

"Then shall we continue to collect herbs?" Xie Ying asked.

"If you want, let's continue walking up the mountain and gather more herbs." Wei Ruo said.

"Go, I'm going to pick some useful herbs myself, and then go back to nourish my mother's body." Xie Ying said.

She has money, but the money was given to her by her mother. Using the money from her mother to buy herbs for her mother is not her ability. If she picks her own herbs, the meaning is different.

Xie Jue looked at his younger sister who was in high spirits, and helplessly said to Wei Ruo: "My younger sister is not satisfied yet, so please ask the younger sister of the Wei family to continue to take us to look for herbs."

"Okay." Wei Ruo agreed.

After leaving the cave, the group went deeper into the woods.

The further you go into the mountains, the higher the probability of finding precious herbs.

Finally, at dusk, the four came down from the mountain.

When they came down, Xiumei and Xie Jue each carried a bamboo basket, and the basket was full.

Wei Ruo wrapped a bag with a cloth bag, Xie Ying didn't have a cloth bag, so she took off her brother's robe and used it as a bag to hold the remaining herbs.

Most of these herbs are not very valuable, and the sum of them may not be as valuable as Xie Jue's cloud brocade robe.

Is there any way, my sister wants to use it, how dare Xie Jue refuse?

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Xie Ying wanted to give Wei Ruo most of the herbs, and only kept a few for her mother to make herbal tea.

Wei Ruo refused: "If you pick it yourself, it will naturally belong to you."

Xie Ying: "No, I just need some Prunella vulgaris to make herbal tea for my mother."

Wei Ruo: "What you pick yourself is yours."

Xie Ying: "But if you didn't tell me and teach me, I wouldn't know them at all, and I wouldn't pick them back."

Wei Ruo: "Teaching belongs to teaching, learning comes from picking. The knowledge you have learned is your own, and the fruits of your own labor are also your own."

Xie Ying thought for a while: "That's fine."

Xie Ying turned her head and said to Xie Jue: "Brother, you have to take care of these herbs, don't throw them away, even if there is one less!"

Xie Jue smiled and promised repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I got it, I must have seen it well."

Wei Ruo smiled, and then asked: "Do you have a pen and paper?"

"What do you need a pen and paper for?" Xie Jue asked.

"The herbs we picked today can just make a nourishing medicinal soup. The medicinal properties are mild and suitable for women to take. I will write it down. When you go back, you can process the medicinal materials according to the method I wrote, and then mix and cook them." Wei Ruo said.

Xie Ying said that she wanted to gather herbs for her mother's health. Now that the herbs are picked, Wei Ruozi wants a good person to do it to the end, so he gave Xie Ying the prescription.

"Ruoruo, do you still want to give me a prescription?" Xie Ying asked.

"Well, although herbal tea is simple, it has no nourishing effect, and now that the weather has turned cold, it is not advisable to drink more herbal tea." Wei Ruo said.

Xie Ying was very happy, she came forward to hug Wei Ruo and said, "Ruo Ruo, you are so kind!"

Xie Jue didn't have a pen and paper on him, so he hurriedly asked the servants who followed him from afar to go back to the other courtyard to get it.

When he and his sister went out, the servants would definitely follow them. When they were on the mountain just now, these servants were always there, but they were far away from each other so that they could play with Wei Ruo more comfortably.

After the servants of the Xie family took back the pen and paper, Wei Ruo found a relatively flat stone and wrote down the prescription.

Xie Jue, who was watching from the side, couldn't help laughing at Wei Ruo's crooked words.

Xie Jue didn't laugh at it either, but felt a little cute.

It seems that the Wei family sister is not good at everything.

Then her sister pinched her arm mercilessly.

Xie Ying gave Xie Jue a white look, and warned him not to laugh at her good sister's words, even though they were indeed ugly.

Xie Jue finally stopped laughing.

Wei Ruo wrote very carefully, and by the way, clearly wrote about the treatment of the herbs picked today.

After finishing writing, he handed the prescription to Xie Ying, and then bid farewell to the two.

After separating from the Xie family brothers and sisters, Wei Ruo and Xiumei returned to the carriage parked by the side of the road along the way they came.

Looking at Wei Ruo, who came back so late, Zhang Momo said helplessly: "Miss, you are going to kill me. If you don't come back, I will go back to rescue the soldiers! It's okay for me to hide it for you, but you Don't let anything happen, then I won't be able to eat and walk around!"

"Understood, next time I will try to be earlier." Wei Ruo said.

She also knew that it was a little late today. There is no way, Xie Ying refused to leave in the situation on the mountain just now, and it is impossible for her to drag Xie Ying.

Nurse Zhang sighed: "Forget it, forget it, as long as you are fine."

Wei Ruo and Xiumei got into the carriage, and on the way back, Wei Ruo began to think about the next arrangement.

I have found a suitable cave, and this one is enough for now. After the later experiments are successful, Wei Ruo will consider expanding the scale.

Chapter 88 Successful planting and quick returns

If Wei wants to use this cave to grow mushrooms, he has to find Lizheng in a nearby village to negotiate.

Although this mountain is a barren mountain, everyone can go to the mountain to cut firewood and pick herbs, but if you want to rent the cave for a long time, you still need to reach an agreement with the villagers.

After the investigation is clear, we will see how to make arrangements.

Xie Jue and Xie Ying returned to Xie's other courtyard first.

Xie Jue asked people to take these herbs down for processing, to dry those that should be dried, and to wash those that should be washed.

"Brother, you can't mess up these herbs for me." Xie Ying urged.

"Sister, don't worry, you picked it yourself, and I will definitely keep it safe for you." Xie Jue said with a smile.

"And the ointment just now, return it to me, don't try to keep it private."

Xie Ying stretched out her palm and asked Xie Jue for ointment.

This time Xie Jue didn't take it out, but brazenly asked Xie Ying for it.

"Yingying, leave this ointment to me."

"Brother, what do you want ointment for?" Xie Ying asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just think it smells good, and I want to keep it to smell it, and when it's hot, I'm often harassed by mosquitoes when I study at night. Applying this ointment may help me avoid this trouble."

"I will give it to you if you need it." Xie Ying is very generous to her family, as long as Xie Jue has a legitimate reason, she will not be stingy and refuse to give it to him.

Then Xie Ying added: "But don't forget that you have to return the gift to Ruoruo, last time I asked you to bring some good things back from the capital, but you haven't brought them back to me until now, so I don't even have a gift Send it home."

Xie Jue shouted: "Sister, you have wronged me. From the last time until now, I have been in Xingshan County and have never left, let alone the capital city. How can I bring you something back? "

"Then what have you been doing in Xingshan County? Haven't you finished your work yet?" Xie Ying asked.

"Some of them are already busy, and there are still some things that need to be dealt with." Xie Jue replied.

The war is over for the time being. He should have gone back, but because of the matter of the Seventh Prince, his grandfather ordered him to stay longer in Xingshan County.

"Well, I'm going to Taizhou Mansion in two days. His Royal Highness Seventh is in the city now, and I need to go there for some things. Then I will spare some time to come back and buy some new things for you and Wei's younger sister." Xie Jue said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, you have to buy it carefully. Mine is not important. People have given me things several times. I return them decently. Don't be ashamed." Xie Ying urged.

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass my sister." Xie Jue promised with a smile.

The brothers and sisters chatted and laughed for a while, and then left the other courtyard with today's harvest and returned to Xie's main house.

After receiving Wei Ruo's notice, the nanny acted immediately, and while telling her husband to buy what Wei Ruo needed, she went to talk to the village near Xishan instead of Wei Ruo.

The process of the conversation was surprisingly smooth. The nanny just said that she planned to hire people from the village for a monthly salary of 150 Wen, and Lizheng agreed without hesitation.

In order to respect Lizheng, according to Wei Ruo's wishes, the nanny handed over the power of selection to Lizheng, and asked Lizheng to select suitable and capable young people in the village.

Lizheng declined at first, but after listening to Xu's mother saying that if they make it, they will expand the scale in the future and need to hire more people, Lizheng readily agreed.

Because it is not easy to push only one or two people, but if there are ten or twenty job opportunities, it is relatively easy for him to arrange, so there is no need to worry too much about the villagers' opinions on his arrangement.

This is good news for them, a poor mountain village located in the west of Xingshan County. They don't have any skills, and their family is only a bit of Susukida. There is not enough food when the weather is good, let alone in recent years.

There is a job for them to do, and there are two hundred Wen a month, which is enough to feed the family.

After the materials are collected, configure them according to the ratio given by Wei Ruo.

Filled into a cylindrical medium, like a piece of dead wood.

Then it was sent to the cave, and the follow-up work was handed over to the hired villagers Li Erniu and He Dong.

The content of the work is not complicated. The main thing is to take care of it, to ensure that no wild animals or people enter the cave to destroy it, and then to observe the growth of the mushrooms and report regularly.

Seven days later.

When the first batch of shiitake mushrooms were grown, the nanny went there personally. After setting the picking standards, she asked Li Erniu and He Dong, who were in charge, to pick all the shiitake mushrooms that reached the standard size. down the mountain.

Immediately afterwards, the nanny sent someone to deliver some to Wei Ruo at Wei Mansion.

Seeing the first batch of shiitake mushrooms successfully cultivated outside, Wei Ruo was overjoyed.

It took only seven days to harvest. The cultivation cycle of shiitake mushrooms is really much shorter than other crops!

"Miss, what to do with these mushrooms?" Xiumei asked.

"Immediately take it to the market and sell it." Wei Ruo said, "Then let Uncle Xu and the others follow the standard of the first cave I found, find a few more caves like this around that area, and expand the scale of planting."

"Miss, shiitake mushrooms are not a staple food, and they are not easy to preserve. If there are too many mushrooms, we will throw them at our hands if they cannot be sold." Xiumei worried.

"Don't worry, I don't plan to sell all of them after the scale is expanded. We use the shiitake mushrooms that cannot be sold to make dried shiitake mushrooms and make shiitake mushroom sauce. These can greatly extend the preservation time of shiitake mushrooms." Wei Wei If there is a countermeasure already.

"Dried mushrooms and mushroom sauce? I haven't tried them yet, so I'm looking forward to them!" Xiumei was eager to try.

"Wait until it's done, I'll give you a taste first!"

"It doesn't matter how many times, as long as the lady can grow more crops and earn more money!"

Wei Ruozheng and Xiumei were chatting happily about the shiitake mushrooms, and someone from the front yard came to inform that Miss Xie's family had brought Wei Ruo a gift and was waiting for Wei Ruo to sign for it in person.

Before he left, he specifically said that Miss Xie Jia sent a lot of things, and asked Wei Ruoduo to take someone with him.

Xie Ying made it a point to call Wei Ruo back several times, so Wei Ruo wasn't very surprised when she heard this.

I just don't know what gift Xie Ying prepared for her.

When Wei Ruo came to the front yard, many people were already standing in the front yard, even Yunshi and Wei Qingwan came.

"Miss Wei." An honest-looking old man came up and said to Wei Ruo with a smile on his face, "I am the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion. I am here to give the miss a gift by order of my young master and miss."

Wei Ruo looked at a carriage pulling goods behind the butler of the Xie Mansion, and asked, "All these?"

Chapter 89 The Xie Family's Generous Gift

"Yes." The housekeeper gave an affirmative answer, and then presented the gift list with both hands, "This is the gift list, Miss Wei please have a look."

Looking at the densely packed words on the gift list, Wei Ruo didn't know how to respond for a while, brother and sister Xie Jue and Xie Ying's handwriting was a little too arrogant, right?

A car full of cars, is it nothing more than a New Year's gift to the capital's Bofu from Xiaowei's Mansion during the Chinese New Year?

Mr. Yun stepped forward, looked at the gift list in Wei Ruo's hand, and his face suddenly changed.

The item of Yun Brocade alone is very scary. This satin is only available in the Xiaowei Mansion today, and it is all old clothes made in the past.

With the decline of Zhongyibo Mansion, there has been no cloud brocade material in the mansion for many years, and no more clothes made of this material have been made.

There are also a lot of decorations and medicinal materials, which are not common and cheap things.

Mr. Yun hurriedly said to the housekeeper of Xie's residence: "Housekeeper Xie, this gift from Mr. Xie and Miss Xie is a bit too expensive, isn't it?"

The housekeeper smiled and said: "Not much, not much, Miss Wei is very kind to my young master and wife, these gifts are nothing."

The recipe that Wei Ruo gave to Xie Ying, Xie Ying cooked for Mrs. Xie. Mrs. Xie was not only moved by her daughter's act of picking and decocting the medicine, but also the medicine was really useful to her.

Although Mrs. Xie was not seriously ill, but as a woman, she was suffering from physical weakness and anemia. After taking the medicine, Mrs. Xie's night sweats, nightmares and lack of deep sleep improved greatly, and her energy and spirit also improved. few.

Just for this point, Xie Jiabei's gift in return is not too generous.

Wei Qingwan didn't see the contents of the gift list, but she could guess from Yun's reaction that the gift must be very expensive.

The Xie family gave out a whole carload of precious gifts just like that.

And Wei Ruo can have such an opportunity, and it is all because she and Xie Ying became classmates and became familiar with each other day by day.

If she was the one who went to study at Xie's house, then now...

Wei Ruo also felt that this gift in return was a bit too expensive, but the Xie family had already delivered the gift to the door, so there was no reason for anyone to send it back.

"Please thank the housekeeper for telling your young master and miss for me, I have received their gifts, I like them very much, next time I will treat them to tea." Wei Ruo said.

"Okay, I will convey to Miss Young Master what Miss Wei said verbatim." The housekeeper said with a smile.

Then Wei Ruo told Xiumei: "Meimei, move everything to my yard."

"Good lady!" Xiumei stepped forward to move.

"Sister, may I ask Cui He to move it for you?" Wei Qingwan stepped forward and said softly.

"No need, your maid is not as strong as my Meimei, and this box is heavy, so it won't work if you're tired." Wei Ruo declined.

Wei Qingwan originally wanted to refute, but after seeing Xiumei, a woman, lifting a huge wooden box, she could only swallow all her rebuttals.

Seeing this, Yun ordered the guard Jing Hu to help.

Jinghu is strong and strong, one is worth two.

Jinghu and Xiumei moved very quickly, and moved all the things in the car back to Tingsongyuan after a few round trips.

After everything in the car was emptied, the housekeeper of Xie's house bid farewell to the Wei family, and took the empty car back to Xie's house.

Wei Ruo walked back, and when he passed Yun's side, he said, "Mother, I still have some things to do, so I'll go back to Songyuan first."

Yunshi looked at Wei Ruo, wanted to say something, but chose not to say anything, and finally nodded: "Well, go back."

After Wei Ruo left, Yun saw Wei Qingwan lowering her head, her expression was not very good.

"What's wrong with Wanwan?" Yun Shi approached and asked with concern.

Wei Qingwan bit her lip and shook her head.

"Wanwan, if you have something to tell your mother, don't hold it back. If it breaks, your mother will feel distressed. Is there something that makes you unhappy?" Yun said.

"Mother, I'm really fine. My sister and Miss Xie's family get along very well. I'm very happy for my sister. It's impossible for me to be unhappy." Wei Qingwan replied.

"Well, mother knows that you must be happy too. Ruo'er has really adjusted well these days. Not only does she behave in a graceful manner, but she also makes friends of the same age." Yun said.

"Well, my sister is really amazing. I was just thinking about going to Fucheng with my mother to attend the magistrate's wife's garden party in a few days, and I didn't come back to my senses for a while." Wei Qingwan explained.

Wei Mingting won the battle this time, not only because of his promotion, but also for the embarrassment of the captain's house. The prefect's wife's garden party has been held in the past few years, but in the past, Wei's family who lived far away in Xingshan County was not invited.

After receiving the invitation letter from Fucheng, the Yun family began to prepare.

She plans to take her two daughters with her. Wei Ruo is busy there, and she doesn't spend much time with her on weekdays, so she hasn't told Wei Ruo yet, but Wei Qingwan often comes to Cangyun Garden to help her with family affairs, so she just Talk to Wei Qingwan first, so that she can be mentally prepared.

"Is Wanwan worried about her poor performance?" Yun asked.

Wei Qingwan nodded lightly: "Yeah, I haven't met the lady in Fucheng yet, I'm afraid I'm not polite enough, and I'll make a joke."

"Wanwan doesn't need to think too much, with Wanwan, your knowledge and cultivation will definitely not be a problem." Yun comforted.

Wei Qingwan hung her head and did not answer.

Yun said again: "But you reminded me that you are going to Fucheng, and you should prepare some more decent clothes for you."

Hearing Yun's words, Wei Qingwan couldn't help being overjoyed.

Thinking about this, Yun turned around and walked to the mansion, before telling Wei Qingwan: "Wanwan go back to rest earlier, it's rare to rest, don't be tired."

Mr. Yun came to Tingsongyuan, where Wei Ruo was packing up the things sent by Xie's family.

Xiumei was walking into the house with those pieces of cloud brocade in her arms. Wei Ruo was checking the items according to the gift list, sorting the items into categories, and storing them in her warehouse according to the categories. Some of them were expensive, and she would put them in her later in the space.

There are also those medicinal materials, which are not easy to buy in Xingshan County. With these, she can prepare more medicines.

After tidying up these things, Wei Ruo planned to use these medicines to prepare some things, except for keeping them by himself, and preparing them for Xu Zhengyong.

Mr. Yun looked at Wei Ruo, hesitated for a while, and said, "Ruoer, Madam Zhifu sent us an invitation letter, inviting us to attend the garden party next month."

"Oh." Wei Ruo didn't raise his head, his gaze was still on the box in front of him.

"Mother wants to make you some nicer clothes, and then wear them to the garden party." Yun said.

Wei Ruo paused for a moment, Yun said "you", so Wei Qingwan must be included.

Chapter 90 Yun's Shame

Wei Ruo let out a sneer in his heart, then raised his head, pretending not to hear the meaning of Yun's words, smiled and said to Yun:

"Is my mother going to make clothes for me? It's the first time since I came back home that my mother wants to make clothes for me. What kind of clothes are you going to make this time? It's going to be winter soon, so the clothes should be thicker, right?"

Wei Ruo asked several questions one after another, Yun looked into her clear and bright eyes, and was a little at a loss for what she was about to say.

Wei Ruo continued: "When I first returned home, although those clothes were new, they should have been made according to the figure of Qingwan sister. Presumably my mother didn't know my height, so she could only match the figure of Qingwan sister. I need to measure it. This time I will make clothes, so I have to ask the master to measure it for me."

Hearing this, Mrs. Yun couldn't help feeling a little ashamed. At that time, she really didn't know the stature of her biological daughter who was far away in Huzhou Prefecture, and it was difficult to judge the clothes, so she took the new clothes that she made for Wanwan years ago and hadn't worn them yet. I went to Tingsongyuan and prepared it for Ruo'er.

But later, seeing that Ruo'er was wearing those clothes gracefully, gracefully, gracefully and gracefully, and there was hardly any incongruity that could be seen, so she didn't think there was any problem.

In the past, the mansion would make clothes twice a year, but in the middle of this year, there was a war, and she had to worry about her husband who was on the front line and was busy with family affairs.

After all the calculations, Ruoer has not made clothes according to her stature since she returned home.

Yun said with a guilty tone: "That's what it should be, and it will definitely be measured."

Then when Yun looked at the brocade in front of Wei Ruo, he hesitated.

But after thinking about it for a while, I decided to say: "Ruo'er, the material of these two pieces of cloud brocade is very good, why don't you use this material to make new clothes for you? The material is expensive and the color is beautiful. You wear this Clothes made of material are more decent when you go to Fucheng. Mother will make up for you when there is good material in the house."

"What does mother mean, if Miss Xie's family didn't happen to send me these cloud brocades, our Captain's Mansion won't be able to go to Fucheng to participate in the garden party next month?" Wei Ruo asked.

"Being a mother doesn't mean that. It's okay if you don't have one, but if you happen to have one, then it's a good thing that is icing on the cake." Yun said.

"If you want to use cloud brocade to make clothes, it's only for me." Wei Ruo said.

Yun frowned: "Ruo'er, you and Qingwan are sisters. Wanwan has always cared about you and thinks of you in everything. You should also show your demeanor as the elder sister. The Xie family took so many Here comes the gift, mother doesn't want anything else from you, just these two pieces of cloud brocade with different patterns, you two sisters make a whole. And this is what mother borrowed from you, when you get good material, you will definitely return it."

The smile on Wei Ruo's face didn't fade, and he explained unhurriedly: "Mother doesn't know, the reason why Miss Xie's family chose to give me two bolts of cloud brocade satin is because of the comparison between the material of the clothes I usually wear and hers. It's a lot worse, and the clothes don't fit very well, so she gave them specially, so she must hope that I can wear the clothes she gave me, right?"

Hearing this, Yun's heart tightened.

Wei Ruo continued: "This piece of cloud brocade is too much to make one suit, but it is not enough to make two suits. The materials of these two styles were all chosen by Yingying herself, so she must want to see my clothes. Wear both."

After Wei Ruo said this, Yun couldn't continue to ask for Yun brocade and satin to make clothes for Wei Qingwan. In addition, Wei Ruo said that the mansion hadn't tailored clothes for Wei Ruo alone, so Yun couldn't help but Feeling guilty, she completely gave up the idea of using cloud brocade to make Wei Qingwan a new set of clothes.

But Yun immediately thought that if Ruoer made the new clothes of Yun brocade and Wanwan didn't, Wanwan would be sad.

So he looked at the things in front of Wei Ruo, and after thinking about it, he said: "If the cloud brocade is not good enough, Ruo'er picks some things that you don't need for Wanwan, so it should be used to appease Wanwan. When you go to Fucheng, the two of you will wear If there is a difference, it is inevitable that she will feel bad."

Wei Ruo still had a faint smile on his face:

"Mother doesn't know something. Now that I am on good terms with Miss Xie's family, if she gives me a gift, I can't let her take it lightly. I will definitely return the gift later. Otherwise, I just accept the other party's gift but don't know how to return it. When the time comes It's not just my own face that's lost, but also the face of the whole school captain's mansion. Could it be that mother wants to hear outsiders say that my Wei family doesn't know how to behave, and only wants to benefit from other people's family?"

"Even if outsiders don't gossip, if I always reach out to take the benefits from Xie's family, but don't know how to appreciate them in return, then sooner or later I will be looked down upon by Xie's family. How can they befriend me? Mother said, right? ?"

Yun's dumbfounded.

Wei Ruo continued: "It must cost money to give a gift, and it needs to be a lot. It can't be much lighter than what the Xie family gave me. But my monthly money is so much, it is difficult to get enough money Those who returned gifts to the Xie family, some of the gifts I received, some I don't need, and the common ones are not easy to be recognized. I will pick them out another day, sell the ones that can be resold, and exchange them for silver to return the gift to Miss Xie's family. ."

Xiumei moved her things in and came back when she heard her young lady opening her eyes and talking nonsense.

How could it be possible for Miss to sell the gifts that others gave her? If there is no money, Miss must find other ways to earn money.

Yun said: "But this method of selling gifts from others in exchange for money is not very good. If people find out, they will be laughed at."

Wei Ruo: "Then where does mother think my money will come from?"

Yun Shi was dumb again.

Wei Ruodao: "I also hope that my mother will understand my difficulties. I have just returned to the residence not long ago. I don't have any foundation, and I don't have any savings. When I communicate with other ladies, I will inevitably have to give some things, and I need some personal savings. "

After Wei Ruo said this, Yun felt quite uncomfortable. Ruo'er has only been back home for a few months, these things are really difficult for her, it is not easy for her to do what she is doing now.

The situation of the daughter is difficult, and the Captain's Mansion is also in a state of lack of money, and there is no way to give out too much money for the daughter to let the daughter buy things like Miss Xie's family.

"My mother knows about it, so I will treat it as if my mother never said anything about it. You should handle these gifts yourself," Yun said.

After finishing speaking, he thought of something else, and after thinking about it for a while, he said, "Speaking of which, if you are the eldest daughter in your family, your monthly payment should go up."

"That's not good, if my monthly payment is increased, what will Sister Qingwan do?" Wei Ruo asked.

Wei Ruo: Defeat magic with magic

Chapter 91 Underestimating Wei Qingruo

"You are the elder sister. In a general family, the eldest son and eldest daughter should have more monthly income than younger siblings. This is a rule. Wanwan is a sensible child, and she won't have any objections when she finds out about it." Yun Shi road.

Yun firmly believed that with Wei Qingwan's heart, she would not care about such things.

"That's right, Sister Qingwan is so kind, she really wouldn't be sad about such a thing." Wei Ruo said with a smile.

"Yeah." Yun Shi nodded, "Then you should be busy first, and mother will go back to Cangyun Garden first."

"Okay." Wei Ruo smiled and sent Yun away.

After Mrs. Yun left, Xiumei couldn't help laughing: "Miss, I find that your nonsense is getting better and better now!"

Wei Ruo sighed and said, "Is there anything I can do? It's not because I was forced out. Ever since I became the eldest lady of the captain's mansion, if I want to reason with people, I can't think as much as I used to. ."

"If I just say that I don't like Wei Qingwan, and I don't want to give Wei Qingwan my things, I will definitely be scolded. It doesn't mean that I don't care about sisterhood, or that I don't have the demeanor of a elder sister."

"But as long as I talk about things with etiquette and face, I can convince others to be convincing. Although Yingying made up a lot of words, I think she should also support me in doing so, otherwise she will arrange today The housekeeper will not specifically ask me to check it in person when he gives me a gift."

Why Xie Ying saw that her clothes didn't fit well, and Wei Ruo made up the words that her clothes were poorly made.

The purpose is to use these reasons to prevaricate Yun's, so that Yun can't continue to ask her for things.

"But Miss, what if Mrs. Cai was not persuaded by you and insisted on taking your things to Second Miss?" Xiumei asked.

"Then I'll burn the things with a torch, and no one wants it. Don't try to force me to give things to people I don't like!" Wei Ruo replied.

Xiu Mei burst out laughing with a "puchi", and then asked: "Miss, do we still have to prepare a return gift for Xie's family?"

"Not for the time being, their gifts are expensive, and the prescription I gave you, Miss Ni, is not an ordinary thing. They didn't suffer too much. Besides, they are just returning the gift. I will return it again. It's nothing. Keep it in mind , Thinking of people's kindness, it is more important to treat sisters with sincerity, and they will come forward when they need it, and they don't have to remember the gains and losses." Wei Ruo said.

"Well, Miss is right."

After leaving Tingsongyuan, Mrs. Yun explained to Wei Ruo the monthly money increase, and invited people from Jinyifang to the mansion to measure Wei Ruo's size and prepare to make new clothes.

The news quickly spread to Wangmeiyuan.

Wei Qingwan's face paled for a while.

Mother not only did not ask Wei Ruo to take out the brocade brocade to make new clothes for her, but instead raised Wei Ruo's monthly payment. What is going on?

If Wei Ruo did not agree to take out the brocade brocade to make new clothes for her, her mother would probably blame Wei Ruo for being ignorant. Why not only did she not blame her but also rewarded her?

"Mammy, what do you think is going on here? Why did my mother suddenly increase my sister's monthly payment? Is it because she is on good terms with Miss Xie's family?" Wei Qingwan asked Li Nanny.

Nurse Li doesn't know the answer to this question either. After the incident last time, Madam and her have been estranged a lot, and she has to ask Nanny Zhang to handle any important matters.

"I really underestimated Wei Qingruo, now it seems that she does have some skills." Nanny Li gritted her teeth.

Deliberately going to the gate of Wei Qingruo's courtyard to kowtow and apologize didn't work. Later, she specially asked the lady to give Wei Qingruo the purse that Wei Qingruo confiscated. This Wei Qingruo is much more difficult than she originally thought!

"Grandma, what should I do in the future? Will my mother send me back to the He family after a while? Mammy, I don't want to go to the He family. The He family is just a family of merchants with a low status. Being treated well by others, even if you have money, you can't use many things." Wei Qingwan asked worriedly.

Nanny Li looked at Wei Qingwan like this, feeling distressed and worried.

She knows that the fate of herself and her daughter is bound to that of Wei Qingwan. If Wei Qingwan is really sent to the He family, then her daughter will also go to the He family. Maybe we won't see each other for the rest of my life.

"Miss, don't worry, these things are nothing serious at the moment. Even if the eldest lady has the ability to please the madam, the madam will still love you a lot." Madam Li comforted Wei Qingwan.

"Nurse, I can't do anything but worry." Wei Qingwan murmured.

"Miss, don't worry, everything will be fine. Wait for the garden party next month. Miss will go to Fucheng. Broaden your horizons and make more friends. There are people there who are much more prominent than the Xie family."

Nurse Li's words did not comfort Wei Qingwan, how could the prominent families in the prefecture look up to her easily, even if they did, they would not treat her like the Xie family treated Wei Qingruo.

The behavior of the Xie family is really rare, and they don't know where Wei Qingruo caught their eyes.

August 15th is the holiday around the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wei Ruo and Wei Qingwan are both on leave, so they don't have to go to class.

Wei Ruo is staying at home, busy with shiitake mushrooms, and has just tripled the scale. There are more materials to purchase and more books to look at.

At the same time, the production of dried shiitake mushrooms and shiitake mushroom sauce has to be arranged. Shiitake mushrooms can't last for too long after being picked, so they have to be processed as early as possible, so she needs to make arrangements for follow-up work before a large number of shiitake mushrooms mature.

Xiumei is helping Wei Ruo chop mushrooms in the yard, and they will take them to the small kitchen next door to cook later.

Although Wei Jinyi and Xiaobei were not at home, before leaving, Wei Jinyi said that the courtyard door was open, and Wei could go in and use the small kitchen if necessary.

At noon, the boy in charge of taking care of Wei Yilin went to Wangmeiyuan to inquire because he couldn't find Wei Yilin.

"Yilin?" Wei Qingwan heard the voice and walked to the door, interrupting the conversation between the boy and the maid, "Yilin hasn't been here today, what happened? He's not in his yard?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that it's almost dinner time, and the young master is not in Yuyu Garden. Since the second lady doesn't have it here, I'll look for it elsewhere."

After the boy explained to Wei Qingwan, he hurried to the next place to look for Wei Yilin.

Wei Qingwan sensed something was wrong, "Cui He, let's look for it too."

The boy went to Aoju Garden to ask Wei Yichen again, but Wei Yichen was not there either.

Knowing that Wei Yilin was missing, Wei Yichen immediately put down the books in his hand, got up and searched together with Wei Yilin's servant.

Chapter 92

Wei Mansion was searched all over, even Tingsong Garden and Yingzhu Garden, where Wei Yilin was unlikely to go, were searched, but there was no sign of Wei Yilin.

It was confirmed that Wei Yilin was no longer in the house, and Wei Yichen and Wei Qingwan quickly reported the matter to the Yun family.

Yun's family immediately dispatched all the people in the mansion to look for it.

Listening to Songyuan, Wei Ruo sent him away to ask if anyone had seen Wei Yilin before lazily lying back on the bed.

It's a rare rest time, let's take a nap, taking a nap is a very happy thing.

"Miss, do you want to go out and help find it too? The people from Wangmeiyuan have already gone out, running up and down, very busy." Xiumei frowned and asked with some worry.

"It's not bad for so many people to go out. Besides, I don't like that stinky boy Wei Yilin, and he doesn't like me either. I guess he doesn't want to be found by my nominal eldest sister." Wei Ruoshen A big lazy waist.

"Miss, I'm just worried that if something really happens to the young master, when Madam asks later, I know that you, miss, have nothing to do with sleeping in at home, and you will be blamed again..." Xiumei lowered her head and murmured.

Hearing that Wei Ruo opened his eyes, he became more conscious.

What Xiumei said was correct, and she might not only be punished by the Yun family at that time, but if someone added embellishments and said that she, the elder sister, was indifferent to the younger brother in the family, and didn't care if everyone got lost I don't know how to be criticized for a while.

After a while, Wei Ruo turned over and propped up his upper body.

"Put on clothes and put on clothes, your lady, I'm just a hard worker, I can't rest!"

Wei Ruo resigned himself to getting up and getting dressed, then took Xiumei out of the car.

The servants in the family went out to search all in a carpet-like search. Except for Wei Qingwan who used a carriage, the rest went out on foot, so the carriage that Wei Ruo used to ride in was still there.

Although he went out, Wei Ruo had no direction to speak of. Wei Shuojian went to the south of the city. Even if he couldn't find anyone, he could still take a look at the situation in the south of the city.

Going out to the south of the city, Wei Ruo got off the car and walked around.

Xiumei is helpless, Miss is checking the progress of land reclamation in the south of the city under the guise of looking for someone.

Wei Ruo watched as he walked, and found that the people who opened up wasteland were poor people without land. What Wei Ruo saw along the way were either emaciated old people or children with yellow and emaciated faces.

They are all waiting for the crops to grow on this land, and when they look at their newly reclaimed land, there is light in their eyes.

There was a little boy with a thin body and sallow skin, wearing thin and worn clothes, nestled in his grandfather's arms, when Wei Ruo passed by, his eyes looked at Wei Ruo, full of novelty.

Then his grandfather hurriedly hugged him tighter, and whispered: "Don't be naughty, this is the official lady."

Obviously the child's grandfather was very afraid that the child would offend Wei Ruo because he was ignorant. They could tell the difference between Wei Ruo and their identities from Wei Ruo's clothes.

The little boy was so frightened that he immediately looked away, not daring to look directly at Wei Ruo again.

Wei Ruo stopped and turned to Xiumei, "Meimei, I'm a little hungry, do you have anything to eat?"

How can Xiumei know that her lady is not hungry, but wants to get some food for these old people and children.

"It's in the car, I'll go back and get it." Xiumei said.

"Well, bring some more... No, bring everything in the car." Wei Ruo said.

"Okay. I'll take them all and leave one for the lady. If you don't have any more, you can distribute them to the elderly and children around here? They all look pitiful." Xiumei said.

Let her help to say what her lady didn't say, the provincial lady is embarrassed to say this.

"Well, let's go."

"okay!"

Xiumei turned around and ran back to their carriage parked on the official road.

Xiumei took out a bag of dried sweet potatoes from the car. As soon as she got out of the car, she saw a large number of people from Xiaowei's Mansion.

Xiumei was very surprised, so she grabbed Madam Zhang, whom she was familiar with, to ask about the situation.

"What's the matter with Nanny Zhang? Isn't everyone looking for the young master? Why have you all come to the south of the city?"

Nanny Zhang looked anxious: "Miss Xiumei, you and the eldest miss really have the foresight! The young master must have sneaked to the south of the city! Early this morning, two servants at home were driving a bullock cart. A load of straw came to the south of the city. The young master probably escaped from the ox cart at that time! The guards who were looking for someone found the young master's accessories on the ox cart."

Didn't expect Miss to come to the south of the city, but it's the right thing to do?

Xiumei opened her mouth, not knowing what to say for a while.

At this time, Nanny Zhang said again: "I don't know how the young master is doing now, but I heard people say that there are still remnants of Japanese pirates in the nearby mountains recently. Young master, a child is very dangerous."

"What? There are remnants of Japanese pirates nearby? How come? Didn't the Japanese pirates be repelled after the last battle?" Xiumei became nervous all of a sudden.

"Yes, most of them were beaten to death, but a few Japanese pirates escaped and hid in the area of Wangyue Mountain. I heard that they are very tenacious. They live by eating grass roots and bark, and occasionally steal food from the people who are opening up wasteland in the south of the city. , It was when the people saw it while stealing things, and they just reported it to the government this morning, and the government has not yet sent anyone to deal with it." Zhang Nanny explained.

Immediately afterwards, thinking that Wei Ruo was still walking outside, Xiumei was a little worried, so she ignored the task that Wei Ruo gave, and quickly ran to the place where she was separated from Wei Ruo just now.

While waiting for Xiumei to come back, Wei Ruo was not idle, walking along the newly reclaimed ridge and observing.

The land nearby has undergone great changes. The original weeds have disappeared, and the land has been divided into pieces, flat and square, with clear boundaries.

The progress of reclamation and improvement in most areas is very good, and it is estimated that you can try planting in the second half of this month.

Wei Ruo continued to walk towards the mountain. She planned to visit the medicine field that she and the Xie family ran together.

The terrain near the mountain has become more complicated, and the population is much sparser. From a distance, three or two people can be seen opening up wasteland.

These places were bought by some wealthy people in the county. However, there are very few people who buy these places for reclamation, so they are sparse, and only a few people can be seen from a long distance.

Wei Ruo continued walking, bypassing a large rock, and two small adult men appeared in front of him.

Two men covered their heads with turbans and wore ordinary people's clothes. There was a boy between them. The boy had a familiar face to Wei Ruo...

Wei Yilin!

The little ancestor that the whole Wei family was looking for appeared in front of her so suddenly?

Chapter 93 You Are Completely Stupid

The moment Wei Ruo saw the three of them, the two men and Wei Yilin also saw Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo quickly regained his composure, and turned his eyes indifferently to other places, pretending not to know Wei Yilin.

She pretended to be a passerby, not recognizing Wei Yilin nor the two people beside Wei Yilin as kidnappers, and walked to the side as if nothing had happened.

The two men looked at Wei Ruo vigilantly, seeing that Wei Ruo's expression was the same and he didn't recognize them, they gradually relaxed.

As long as they are not discovered, they will adhere to the principle that more things are worse than less things, and they will not do anything to passers-by.

Wei Ruo turned around naturally, turned around, and started walking back.

At the same time, Wei Ruo said silently in his heart, little ancestor, don't make a sound, don't call me, pretend you didn't see me! Don't make a sound, I'll go back and find someone to save you! If you make a sound, we're all done!

Wei Yilin saw that Wei Ruo clearly saw him, but turned his head and walked away. Wei Yilin, who had never called Wei Ruo "big sister" in all sincerity, shouted loudly: "Big sister!"

Wei Ruo's body froze, and his whole body was completely cold.

While cursing Wei Yilin's prodigal **** in his heart! While running quickly.

But within two steps, he was caught by one of the men.

"Don't be rough, don't be rough, I'll go by myself!" Wei Ruosheng was afraid that the other party would be cruel to him, so he hurriedly begged for mercy.

This place is desolate and open, and the probability of someone coming to rescue her immediately after she calls for help is very slim, and if no one can come to rescue her in time, her uncooperative behavior will result in violence from the other party, and she may even die on the spot.

If Wei Ruo wanted to survive, and if he could suffer less flesh and blood, he would be captured very cooperatively.

Wei Ruo was taken to Wei Yilin's side by men, and they tied them up together.

Then the two men communicated in a language that Wei Yilin could not understand.

Wei Ruo roughly knew that the two men spoke the language of the Japanese country. In fact, when he saw the two men for the first time, Wei Ruo guessed their identities as Japanese pirates.

Although the two used turbans to cover their Japanese pirates' unique hairstyles, their figures and appearances were far from those of the yellow and emaciated ordinary people who were opening up wasteland in the south of the city.

After a brief discussion, the two Japanese escorted Wei Ruo and Wei Yilin up the mountain.

The two Japanese pirates found a cave, which was only one or two meters deep and more than one meter high, which could barely accommodate two adults.

Then Wei Ruo and Wei Yilin were thrown in like objects.

After being locked in the cave, Wei Ruo looked at Wei Yilin who was facing him, and smiled, "That's all right, let's die together."

"Who made you so cold-blooded and ruthless? Seeing that I was dying, I turned around and wanted to leave." Wei Yilin didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him, and even felt a little happy.

Hearing this, Wei Ruo smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Wei Yilin dissatisfied, what time is it, why is she still in the mood to laugh?

"I thought you were just a little stupid, but now you're totally stupid."

"Who are you calling stupid?"

"Aren't you stupid? In that situation, how could I rescue you from two Japanese pirates with high martial arts? Am I a god? I pretended not to know you, and the two of them thought I was fine when they saw that I was fine. I don't know if they are kidnappers, they will let me go. After I leave, I can call rescuers to save you. Do you think I have a better chance of saving you by myself or call the Wei family's guards and government officials? Is there a high chance of success in saving you together?"

Wei Yilin was dumbfounded by Wei Ruo's question.

At that time, he really thought that Wei Ruo was ruthless and ungrateful and would leave. If it were Sister Wanwan, she would definitely not be like this, but he never thought about the way Wei Ruo said to deal with the problem.

But if you think about it carefully, Wei Ruo's approach is actually more useful, because neither Wei Ruo nor his sister Wanwan can save themselves from the two ruthless Japanese pirates. Under such circumstances, it is definitely more useful to move rescuers.

Wei Yilin realized that he was reckless, but facing Wei Ruo, he refused to admit his mistake:

"So what? Who knows if you will really find someone to save me after you leave? Now we are all arrested, and we are going to die together! When I die, you can be buried with me, and it is also for my sister Wanwan Revenge!"

"Oh, Wei Yilin, you can die if you want, I won't die." Wei Ruo sneered.

"Just brag, these two people are not from Xingshan County at all, they are Japanese pirates, they kill without blinking an eye! You will have the ability to survive from their hands? I don't believe it!" Wei Yilin mocked.

Wei Ruo hooked the corners of his mouth, and didn't say anything more to Wei Yilin.

She leaned her back against the stone wall of the cave and took a short rest.

She has roughly grasped the current situation. The two Japanese pirates outside were probably survivors of the war.

As for Wei Yilin, he probably ran to the south of the city because of something wrong, and happened to be caught by two Japanese pirates in disguise, and took them as hostages, just in case they would be useful if someone found out.

What she has to do now is to find a way to delay the time and fight for the chance of survival for herself, because if there is a trouble, they will definitely choose Wei Yilin, who is relatively easy to take, as a hostage instead of her.

Moreover, these Japanese pirates act viciously. She is a thirteen-year-old girl, who knows what they will do to her, and it would be good to just give her a happy one.

Hearing a pirate coming in, Wei Ruo opened his eyes.

Wei Ruo said immediately: "Two warriors of the Yamato nation, I have a way for you to make up for your mistakes."

Wei Ruo heard some Chinese words from the conversation between the two Japanese pirates just now, and guessed that the two have learned some Chinese after they have been on the East Coast for a long time.

Wei Ruo's words stunned Wei Yilin, and then showed a look of contempt. Does she know what she is talking about? She told the two Japanese pirates that she could help them make up for their mistakes?

But the Japanese pirate in front of him stopped, and asked Wei Ruo in Chinese with a not-so-standard pronunciation: "What do you mean?"

"You were defeated. Although a few people survived by chance, neither died nor were captured, but according to the habits of your Yamato people, you who died in battle should commit seppuku and apologize to your emperor." Wei Ruo didn't worry Analyzing without delay.

"You know, us?" The Japanese pirate showed a very surprised expression.

Wei Yilin was also stunned, staring at Wei Ruo suspiciously: How did Wei Qingruo know so much?

"I know a little bit." Wei Ruo replied, "I just said that I can help you make up for your mistakes. Do you know what the idiom "make up for your mistakes?"

Chapter 94 Hostages Are Different

The Japanese pirates looked at Wei Ruo with a surprised expression, and it seemed that they were seriously thinking about the feasibility of Wei Ruo's words.

After thinking for a while, the Japanese pirate continued to ask in broken Chinese: "What can you do?"

"I am a person who is proficient in agriculture. I have a lot of agricultural technologies that can change the nature of the land and increase food production."

Wei Ruo knew the situation of the Wa country, it was an island country with extremely poor land resources, the agriculture was very underdeveloped, and the cultivated land was very limited.

I also know some customs of the Wa country, and know how to hit their pain points.

"Can you grow more, food?"

"Yes, I can find ways to grow more food, whether it is barren land, coastal saline land or steep mountains. Once successful, more people in your country will be fed."

In this case, Wei Ruo's paintings are mostly made up of big cakes, and the improvement that can be done on the land is still limited. In some places, the cost of improvement or follow-up maintenance costs are really high, and there is no value for improvement.

"How do I know that you are not lying?" the pirate asked.

"The method of improving the land in the south of the city that you saw was my idea. You have been wandering on the east coast for a long time. You should know that this place used to be barren. I can improve this place and help you Wa Kingdom The improvement was successful." Wei Ruo replied.

"Wei Qingruo, what are you doing? Why are you telling these two Japanese pirates? Are you going to help them grow food so that they can eat and drink enough to beat us? They are Japanese pirates, robbers, **** who kill without blinking an eye !" Wei Yilin scolded.

Wei Ruobai glanced at Wei Yilin, could she not know what he said? She also hates and hates these Japanese pirates, but she has to see what their situation is now, right?

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years! She had to save her own life before she could think of a way to deal with these people.

If the life is gone, the rest is all nonsense.

Now that the Wei family is looking for someone across the city, and Meimei is nearby, she still has a chance to escape.

And what she needs to do is to keep her body safe from harm as much as possible before they find her.

Wei Ruo ignored Wei Yilin, continued to smile and said to the Japanese pirates: "Don't worry about this brat, he's not clear about his mind."

"He said he was Captain Wei's son, and he called you, sister, and you too, Captain Wei's daughter." Although the Japanese pirates are not proficient in Chinese, they still have a clear mind.

"Yes, it's true that I'm Captain Wei's daughter, but I'm in your hands now, and I want to live, so I'm willing to provide my value and win a mutually beneficial result for both of us. This has nothing to do with my identity Relationship." Wei Ruo said flickeringly.

After listening to Wei Ruo's words, the Japanese pirate didn't answer immediately, but retreated outside the cave and discussed with another Japanese pirate.

While the two pirates were mumbling and discussing something, Wei Yilin asked Wei Ruo: "Wei Qingruo, what do you want to do?"

"What are you doing? Live, can't you see?"

"You are shameless for doing this!"

"Wei Yilin, do you know what is shameless and what is stupid?"

"You are betraying the country and countless border guards, you... you are ungrateful!" Wei Yilin thought for a while before he thought of the word "ungrateful" to scold Wei Ruo.

"Who did I betray? Did I kill them? But you, running around, making me unlucky to follow you, you are the one who killed me!"

"You!" Wei Yilin was at a loss for words again.

"If you have words, keep on cursing, and I'll make it a lullaby." Wei Ruo said calmly.

Being **** by two Japanese pirates and locked up in a cave is quite a scary thing, and having a voice yelling at the side can ease the scary atmosphere.

After a while, the pirate came back.

"If, you can really do what you said, we won't hurt you."

"No problem." Wei Ruo readily agreed.

"But we will not let your brother go, and we may kill him." The pirate said.

Letting Wei Yilin go is tantamount to exposing their whereabouts. They may keep Wei Yilin as a hostage. If there is any problem at that time and they cannot take it away, they will kill them for safety.

"I don't have a good relationship with him. He wants me to die. You think, if he had a good relationship with me, he wouldn't call me sister at that time, let you find me. If you really love someone, you want the other person to live well instead of dragging him Go into the water. So you can do whatever you want," Wei Ruo replied.

Wei Yilin beside him widened his eyes in disbelief.

Want to refute, but find that I can't find any words to refute.

"That's good." The pirates naturally didn't want Wei Ruo to impose additional conditions on them.

"Since we have reached a consensus, you should treat me better, and don't let me be disabled by you before I go to Japan with you." Wei Ruo continued.

"You, want, what?" the Japanese pirate asked.

"You guys loosen my ties so that I can feel more comfortable, and my hands won't have any problems due to long-term poor blood flow. Don't worry, there is no other exit from this cave, and you can guard me at the entrance so I can't get out. Yes, I don't have any martial arts, I can't beat you at all." Wei Ruo said.

The Japanese pirate hesitated, looked at Wei Ruo for a while, and then thought about the scene where they captured Wei Ruo just now, but if she knew martial arts, she would not have been caught so easily by them just now. Finally nodded in agreement.

The Japanese pirates tied Wei Ruosong loose.

After finishing these, the two pirates returned to the cave.

The two seemed to be plotting something. Although they couldn't understand what they said, Wei Ruo guessed that the two should be discussing how to escape the pursuit of the officers and soldiers of Xingshan County and escape to Japan.

Wei Ruo, who was free, leaned against the stone wall with a leisurely posture.

In contrast, Wei Yichen, who was opposite her, had his hands tied behind his back, and he fell crookedly on the ground, feeling very uncomfortable.

Not only was his posture uncomfortable, but his psychology was even more uncomfortable. He heard what the Japanese pirate said just now. They said they would not let him go, and they would kill him directly if there was a situation.

He doesn't want to die, he wants to live!

Although he was righteous when he argued with Wei Ruo just now, but when the fear of death struck, he began to envy Wei Ruo again.

At least those Japanese pirates said they would not kill her!

Wei Yilin felt unspeakably annoyed, but facing Wei Ruo, he still didn't want to admit that his choice was not as smart as hers.

Wei Ruo didn't bother Wei Yilin to see his expression, and didn't want to know what was going on in his head.

She took out a small brocade bag from her bosom, took out dried sweet potatoes from it, and started to chew.

Wei Ruo usually has the habit of bringing snacks for herself when she goes out, so asking Xiumei to go back to the carriage to get food just now was indeed an excuse she made, and she wanted to distribute the food to the poor people.

Wei Ruo looked leisurely and enjoying the sweet dried sweet potato, Wei Yilin's eyes almost popped out.

Chapter 95 Anti-killing

He got into the mansion in the morning and sneaked out of the bullock cart to the south of the city, and was caught by two Japanese pirates. It's already afternoon, and he hasn't drunk a drop of water or eaten any food. .

"Gulu~"

My stomach suddenly let out a growl.

Wei Yilin was angry, anxious and annoyed.

Wei Ruo pretended not to hear, and continued to eat his own.

Wei Yilin has never experienced this kind of hardship in his life, and the more he thinks about it, the more uncomfortable he feels.

"Wei Qingruo!" Wei Yilin shouted.

"What are you doing?"

"You...you..." Wei Yilin looked at Wei Ruo, wanted to say something but didn't say it.

"You want to eat, but you're too embarrassed to ask, right?" Wei Ruo, who didn't finish Wei Yilin's speech, helped him.

"No!" Wei Yilin immediately denied.

"It doesn't matter if you think so, because I won't give someone who expects me to die the food I made carefully."

"You!" Wei Yilin was once again gnashing his teeth in anger from Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo smiled lightly, and continued to nibble on her sweet dried sweet potatoes leisurely.

"If you don't give it, you won't give it! Who cares about it!" Wei Yilin said angrily.

Half an hour later...

"Gulu~Gulu~"

Wei Yilin's stomach growled even worse. Wei Yilin, who had never been hungry before, experienced such a long period of hunger for the first time in his life.

The young master's temper has been frustrated a lot.

Seeing Wei Ruoxiao's carefree appearance, Wei Yilin also realized that some of what Wei Ruo said was right.

People like Wei Ruo can at least live a more comfortable life before being saved.

"Wei Qingruo, if they want to kill me, do you really plan to leave me alone?" Wei Yilin asked.

"When I saw you for the first time today, I would save you, but after you yelled that 'big sister' that you never sincerely yelled on weekdays, I can't control your life It's gone." Wei Ruo didn't hide his true thoughts.

Wei Yilin's expression froze, and a feeling of shame welled up in his heart.

He looked up at Wei Ruo twice, wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.

After all, if he apologizes to Wei Ruo, it will appear that he is very shameless, and this will make him feel sorry for his sister Wanwan. He has promised her sister Wanwan and only recognizes her as a sister.

"Then can you give me something to eat, I'm hungry." Although I couldn't say the apology, but I was hungry, so I bit the bullet and asked Wei Ruo for food.

"No." Wei Ruo refused without thinking.

Wei Ruo pretended to give Wei Yilin a face, while paying attention to the direction of the cave entrance.

After making sure that no one outside looked inside, she carefully took out a small bottle from her body and poured the medicine powder inside on top of the remaining dried sweet potatoes in her bag.

Weigh the bag and mix well.

Wei Ruo's little move, even Wei Yilin didn't see it, he thought that Wei Ruo was eating alone, watching him hungry.

After a while, Wei Ruo shouted to the entrance of the cave: "Two good guys outside, I have something to eat here, do you want to eat?"

"Wei Qingruo, what are you doing? It's fine if you don't feed me, but you still want to feed those two crazy Japanese pirates? Are you still human?" Wei Yilin scolded.

"Wei Qingruo, did you hear that, it doesn't matter if you don't give me something to eat if you have something to eat, but you can't give it to them, they are devastated!"

Wei Ruo ignored him, staring at the direction of the cave entrance.

One of the Japanese pirates came in, and Wei Ruo offered to hand over a bag of dried sweet potatoes: "This is dried sweet potatoes, very delicious."

Wei Ruo still held a piece in his own hand, and took two bites as he spoke.

The Japanese pirates only hesitated for a while, and then snatched away Wei Ruo's bag containing dried sweet potatoes.

They are hungry, very hungry, and basically haven't eaten anything good these days.

The man took Wei Ruo's bag and ran to the entrance of the cave, sharing the hard-earned food with another pirate.

In the cave, Wei Yilin continued to curse Wei Ruo: "Wei Qingruo, are you worthy of thousands of soldiers? Are you worthy of the suffering people in Xingshan County?"

"Wei Qingruo, you have no conscience! You are a traitor! How can there be someone like you in our family! I will never admit that you are my sister in my life!"

Wei Ruo is not in the mood to pay attention to Wei Yilin, she is now fully focused on the entrance of the cave, listening carefully with both ears outside the cave, not letting go of any sound.

After a while, Wei Ruo finally heard two "dong dong" sounds of heavy objects reaching the bottom.

Wei Ruo, who was not bound by a rope, tiptoed towards the entrance of the cave.

Outside the cave, the two Japanese pirates fell to the ground after eating dried sweet potatoes mixed with drugs.

Wei Ruo clenched his fists tightly, feeling lingering fear.

From obedience, negotiating conditions, procrastination to asking for untiement, and offering dried sweet potatoes is for this step.

The indifference to the quarrel with Wei Yilin was due to her pretending to be calm. This was the first time she encountered such a thing, and she felt a lot of fear and trepidation in her heart.

Until this moment, she dared not really show fear.

But now she can't relax completely, she still has something to do, she must kill these two people!

What she was carrying was just drugs and not poison. If she didn't make up the knife for a while, the two of them would wake up.

Wei Ruo knelt down and took off one of the Japanese pirates' sabers.

The hand holding the knife trembles a little. She knows how to save people with a knife, but kills people with a knife...

In her mind, the only murder scene in her previous life appeared in her mind, which made her heart tremble.

She is afraid, afraid of killing people.

Wei Ruo said to himself: Wei Ruo, you must kill these two people today. They are Japanese pirates, thugs who plunder the lives and properties of our people. Their hands are covered with blood and human lives!

What's more, if you don't kill them, once the things you were caught by them are exposed, you will only have a dead end!

Regardless of whether you have been humiliated by them or not, as long as you have been kidnapped and caught, people outside will think that you have been humiliated, and there will be no way for you to survive.

After some ideological struggle, Wei Ruo suddenly clenched the knife with both hands and stabbed it down, resulting in the life of a Japanese pirate.

Immediately followed by the second.

Blood flowed out, soaking the clothes of the two Japanese pirates.

Wei Ruo is not afraid of blood on weekdays, but at this moment, looking at the blood, she clearly felt the fact that she had killed someone.

Scared, but not regretful.

"Wei Qingruo, you killed them..."

Suddenly, Wei Yilin's shocked voice sounded from the entrance of the cave.

After Wei Ruo ran out, Wei Yilin, who was tied up, wanted to know what happened outside the cave, so he didn't know where the strength came from, and squirmed like a caterpillar to the entrance of the cave.

Then I witnessed the scene where Wei Ruo killed two Japanese pirates.

His eyes were full of shock, and his face was full of disbelief.

Chapter 96 Did he have hallucinations

While Wei Yilin was digesting all this, Wei Ruo poured the drug in the bottle onto the veil, stepped forward quickly, and covered Wei Yilin's mouth and nose with the veil.

Wei Yilin is still tied hands and feet, unable to resist.

He stared at Wei Ruo with wide eyes, and lost consciousness amidst more disbelief.

After he fell into a coma, Wei Ruo untied him from the rope, so as not to cause damage to his limbs due to poor blood circulation for too long.

Then Wei Ruo turned around and carefully checked the pulses of the two Japanese pirates, making sure that they were dead. Then he cleaned up the scene and took away the remaining dried sweet potatoes and bags on the ground.

Finally fled the scene staggeringly.

She avoided the crowd who were looking for Wei Yilin, she couldn't let people see her in such a mess.

"Miss! Miss!"

Hearing Xiumei's voice calling her, Wei Ruo was overjoyed, seeing that there was no one else around Xiumei, Wei Ruo quickly ran towards her.

"Meme, I'm here!"

"Miss!"

Seeing Wei Ruo's distressed appearance, Xiumei panicked, "Miss, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, you take me back to the carriage, I have to clean myself up right away. Then I tell Wei Yilin where it is, and you take someone to find him."

Xiumei doesn't know why Wei Ruo did this, but she has known Wei Ruo for many years and Xiumei knows that in an emergency, she must immediately follow what Wei Ruo said.

With Xiumei's help, Wei Ruo managed to avoid the others and returned to the carriage.

During Wei Ruo's time tidying up, Xiumei went to look for Wei Yilin according to the address Wei Ruo provided.

Nurse Zhang had a sad face: "If something happens to this young master, what should we do?"

"It's okay, nanny, let's keep looking, maybe we will find it." Xiumei comforted her while walking in the direction Wei Ruo gave.

"Mommy, look over there, does it seem like someone has fallen on the ground?" Xiumei pointed to a place halfway up the mountain and asked from a long distance away.

"Wait a minute, my eyes are not very good, I can't see clearly."

"Don't look at it, just go up and have a look!" Xiumei dragged Madam Zhang up the mountain without saying a word.

When she got closer, Mammy Zhang was frightened out of her wits.

"Dead, dead!" Nanny Zhang was usually in a deep house compound, and she rarely saw such a scene, and her face turned pale with fright.

"Nurse, where is the young master!" Xiumei pointed to Wei Yilin beside the corpse.

"Huh? Young Master? Are you okay, Young Master?" Zhang Momo felt a little timid when she thought about it.

Xiumei stepped forward and hugged Wei Yilin: "The young master is fine, he just passed out."

Then tell Nanny Zhang to call for someone: "Mommy, hurry up and tell other people to come over! I'll watch here!"

Nurse Zhang was stunned for a while before realizing: "Okay, I'll go right away."

Nanny Zhang staggered down the hill, shouting loudly as she walked.

During the time when Nanny Zhang was calling for someone, Xiumei looked around again out of caution to make sure that there was no trace of her lady.

"Yilin! Yilin!"

Wei Yilin was awakened by a noise, opened his eyes, and saw Yun.

Wei Yilin was hugged by Yun, and in front of him were Wei Qingwan, whose eyes were red from crying, and Wei Yichen, who looked worried.

Surrounded by the guards of the Wei family who came to the south of the city to look for Wei Yilin, almost all the people in Xiaowei's mansion were present, except Wei Ruo.

After being dazed for a while, Wei Yilin cried "Wow".

"Mother! Mother!"

Yun Shi hugged Wei Yilin distressedly.

Wei Qingwan also surrounded her, "Yilin, it's great that you're fine!"

"Sister... sister..." Hearing Wei Qingwan's voice, Wei Yilin cried even louder.

After crying for a while, Wei Yilin looked around and asked, "Mother, where is Wei Qingruo? Where is she?"

"Yilin wants to see big sister?" Wei Qingwan asked, surprised and puzzled, why would Yilin want to see Wei Qingruo at this time?

"Yes, where is she? Where is she?" Wei Yilin asked.

"Yilin, what's wrong with you? Why do you suddenly want to see your big sister so much?" Yun was also puzzled.

"I saw her...she..." Wei Yilin remembered the last scene he saw.

His mind is blurred. Why did Wei Qingruo, who was greedy for life and flattering the Japanese pirates one moment, kill two Japanese pirates with his own hands the next moment?

"Mother, where are those two pirates? Where are those two pirates?" Wei Yilin asked anxiously.

"Yilin, don't worry, it's okay, it's okay, those two pirates are dead." Yun quickly comforted.

"Who killed it? Have you seen it?" Wei Yilin asked.

He desperately wanted to confirm whether the last scene he saw was real.

"I don't know about this yet. When we found you, they were already dead." Yun replied.

They haven't found the answer to this question yet. It seems that someone found the person first, killed the two Japanese pirates, and rescued her son.

I just don't know why the other party didn't show up.

"It was Wei Qingruo, it must be her, she killed the two Japanese pirates!" Wei Yilin became more and more sure that what he saw was true.

"Yilin, what are you talking about? If the eldest sister saved you, she has no reason not to tell us after saving you." Wei Qingwan said hastily.

"No, she is with me..."

Wei Yilin was halfway through speaking when Wei Ruo appeared: "What's wrong with brother Yilin? Are you looking for me?"

Wei Ruo squeezed into the crowd and appeared within Wei Yilin's sight.

Wei Ruo's face is bright, only a little dirt and dust on the clothes.

Walking in the fields south of the city, getting dirt and dust on your body is quite normal.

Wei Yilin stared at Wei Ruo with wide eyes, with a very complicated expression.

Seeing that Wei Yilin was staring at Wei Ruo, Wei Qingwan clenched her fists, and hurriedly said, "Yilin, you must have made a mistake, my sister came here just now, it can't be the two Japanese pirates she killed ."

Wei Qingwan selfishly does not want Wei Ruo to be credited with saving Wei Yilin, so she specifically emphasizes that if Wei Ruo just came here, it is impossible for him to appear here.

What she didn't know was that what Wei Ruo wanted was exactly such an answer. Compared with the little credit for saving Wei Yilin, the fact that she, a thirteen-year-old girl was kidnapped by Japanese pirates for more than an hour, was much more terrifying.

"Impossible, I clearly saw it!" Wei Yilin shook his head, that picture was too real.

"Yilin, you were frightened today and passed out, maybe it was a hallucination when you were unconscious." Yun guessed.

"I..." Hearing Yun's and Wei Qingwan's persuasion, Wei Yilin was not so sure.

Could it be that he had hallucinations?

Could it be that all the memories about Wei Ruo just now are false?

Wei Yilin: doubt life

Chapter 97 Punishes Wei Yilin

Wei Yilin asked Wei Ruo unwillingly: "Where's your dried sweet potato? Didn't you give those two Japanese pirates some dried sweet potato?"

"I asked Xiumei to take my dried sweet potatoes to the people who reclaimed wasteland nearby. If you want to eat, I'll find some when you return home." Wei Ruo replied.

"Impossible, I saw it clearly, you stunned two Japanese pirates with dried sweet potato medicine and then killed them, right?" Wei Yilin asked again.

Before Wei Ruo could speak, Wei Qingwan spoke first: "Brother, my sister just arrived here, and all the dried sweet potatoes were given to the people nearby. You must have dreamed about these things. Although the person who saved you hasn't Found it, but don't worry, we will continue to search for the surrounding people, and I believe it will not be long before there will be results."

Wei Yilin looked at Wei Qingwan, why did his most trusted sister Wanwan say it was a fake...could it really be a fake.

Wei Yilin was silent.

"Okay, Yilin, you must have been quite frightened today, go home first, and then we will discuss what happened today slowly." Wei Yichen said.

It's not a problem to be around here all the time, the most important thing now is that people are okay.

Then Wei Yichen arranged for everyone to go home.

Not long after everyone returned to Xiaowei's Mansion, Wei Mingting came back.

Others are in the army, so it is not so convenient to come and go, and the Yun family did not send him any news at the beginning. When he knew, the Wei family had already found Wei Yilin.

"Go and bring Yilin here." Wei Mingting ordered.

"Husband, Yi Lin was frightened and is recuperating..." Yun explained.

"Recuperate? What is there to recuperate? He sneaked out, and all these sufferings are all his own responsibility!" Wei Mingting's expression was serious and his eyes were piercing.

"But my husband, Yilin is only seven years old..."

"Seven years old is already a boy!"

Seeing her husband's resolute attitude, Yun didn't dare to dissuade her anymore, so she let her servants go to Yuyu Garden to bring Wei Yilin over.

Hearing that his father was looking for him, Wei Yilin's heart was already hanging high on the way here.

After entering the door, Wei Yilin panicked completely when he saw his father's serious face.

"Father... I... I know I was wrong..." Wei Yilin was so frightened that he took the initiative to apologize and admit his mistake.

"Go and squat in the yard." Wei Mingting gave the order without any sympathy.

"Dad, I..."

"Don't make me say it a second time."

Wei Yilin's heart trembled, and then he quickly turned around and walked to the yard, gaiting according to Wei Mingting's request.

Immediately after that, Wei Mingting came out, asked someone to bring an incense burner, lit incense on the incense burner, and placed it under Wei Yilin's crotch.

Immediately afterwards, someone brought a bowl, filled it with water, and placed it on top of Wei Yilin's head.

Seeing this situation, Yun couldn't hold back again: "Husband, isn't this a bit too strict for Yilin, he's only seven years old..."

"Strict? If he was not so lucky today and was rescued, he would probably have died in the hands of the Japanese pirates at this moment! He dared not even take his life. What can't be endured?"

Yun's dumbfounded.

Indeed, compared to dying, suffering a little now is considered light.

At first Wei Yilin was able to persevere, but when a quarter of the incense in his crotch burned, his legs began to tremble uncontrollably, and the bowl above his head shook violently.

When the incense burned a third, he staggered and fell to the ground, and the bowl on his head fell to the ground.

"Get up, continue, light the incense again." Wei Mingting said expressionlessly.

Wei Yilin's face was full of pain, his legs trembled, but he had to follow Wei Mingting's request.

This time, he persisted for a shorter period of time. He collapsed shortly after the incense was lit.

But Wei Mingting still did not soften his heart, and still asked Wei Yilin to continue with a blank face.

Mr. Yun was full of reluctance, so she chose to turn around and leave, and went back to the house, pretending not to know.

I don't know how long it took, Wei Yilin could no longer stand up, and Wei Mingting let him go back.

After Wei Ruo returned to Wei's house, he went back to the house.

Xiumei made Wei Ruo some calming tea. Although her young lady saw a lot of dead people and blood, it was the first time for her to kill someone. Xiumei was worried that she would not sleep well at night.

Wei Ruo did not sleep very well in the first half of the night, and there was indeed a murder scene in the dream, with blood flowing all over the floor.

It wasn't until the middle of the night that I slept soundly.

After resting overnight, Wei Ruo got up early the next morning. Hearing that Wei Mingting was at the mansion, Wei Ruo packed up and was ready to see his father.

"What is Miss going to do?" Xiumei asked.

"Avenge Wei Yilin."

Wei Ruo strode out of Tingsong Garden and went to Cangyun Garden.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Wei Mingting and Wei Qingwan and Wei Yilin standing in front of him.

Wei Yilin's legs trembled, which shows that he was really scolded yesterday.

Today, Wei Mingting intends to continue training Wei Yilin, but Wei Qingwan, who learned about this, came to plead with Wei Mingting.

Unfortunately, Wei Ruolai is presenting a warm scene of sister's kindness and brotherly love.

Seeing Wei Ruo come in, the conversation was interrupted. Wei Mingting looked at Wei Ruo and asked, "Why is Ruoer so early today?"

"I want to talk to my father about something. I don't know if it's convenient for him." Wei Ruo didn't hide it.

"Say what you have to say." Wei Mingting said.

"It's about my little brother Yilin. My daughter thinks that the way father punishes my little brother is inappropriate." Wei Ruo said.

Hearing this, Wei Yilin raised his head and looked at Wei Ruo in surprise.

Sister Wanwan is sure to intercede for him, but why would Wei Qingruo also intercede for him?

"Ruo'er is the same as Wanwan, do you think you shouldn't continue to punish her as a father today?" Wei Mingting asked.

Just now Wei Qingwan told Wei Mingting about this matter, because Wei Yilin is still young, yesterday's punishment has already made Wei Yilin unable to walk today, I hope he can postpone today's punishment for the sake of Yilin's young age.

"Father, that's not what I mean, but I think the teaching of my younger brother should not be limited to one or two days. My father is usually busy with official duties, and his time at home is limited. He only disciplines him for a day or two when he is around. In the military camp, she no longer disciplines her, and my daughter feels that this method has little effect." Wei Ruo analyzed.

As soon as this remark came out, Wei Yilin was dumbfounded, this woman didn't come to intercede for him! But to harm him!

But Wei Mingting felt that Wei Ruo's words made sense, so he continued to ask: "What method does Ruo'er think is better?"

"My daughter thinks that Yilin and Sister Qingwan should be separated first." Wei Ruo replied.

The faces of Wei Qingwan and Wei Yilin turned pale at the same time.

If it was normal, Wei Yilin would have spoken insultingly to Wei Ruo at this moment, but today, he only dared to stare at Wei Ruo with unbelievable eyes.

Wei Qingwan lowered her head, bit her lip, and asked in an aggrieved voice: "Does my sister think that I brought my younger brother down?"

Chapter 98 What Ruoer said is true

She looked like she was going to cry or not, which was very pitiful, but Wei Ruo just smiled and explained calmly:

"Sister Qingwan doesn't have to think so. Sister Qingwan's temper is naturally good as a lady of the family. She is gentle and pleasant, kind, caring and sensible. But just because you have a good temper doesn't mean you are suitable to teach your younger brother. Brother Yilin is stubborn and likes to be taught. What is needed is strict discipline, not blindly caring and pampering."

Immediately afterwards, Wei Ruo turned his head to Wei Mingting and said, "Father, you are busy with official duties, and your mother has no time to spare because of the affairs of the mansion. The most people who get along with brother Yilin in the mansion is sister Qingwan, but now brother Yilin's temper is not good for you, father." You see. I said this not to say that sister Qingwan is not good, but that she is really not suitable for teaching brother Yilin."

Wei Qingwan's hands in the sleeves were clenched into fists, and her face turned pale visibly.

Wei Yilin finally couldn't help it anymore: "Sister Wanwan is not wrong, sister Wanwan is not incompetent!"

"Shut up." Wei Mingting cut off Wei Yilin's words with a cold reprimand.

At this moment, he has no right to speak.

Wei Yilin's fussy and dependent appearance on Wei Qingwan made Wei Mingting feel that the eldest daughter's worries were justified.

After our Wei family became a general, his son had no ambitions, behaved arrogantly and did not know the rules, and was very dependent on his sisters at home. How could he become a great weapon?

Wei Qingwan's heart trembled, her fingers pinched the hem of her skirt, she had the urge to speak, but she didn't have the courage to speak at this time, so she could only press her lips together tightly.

After Wei Yilin stopped drinking, Wei Mingting carefully looked at the eldest daughter in front of him, pondered for a while and said: "Ruoer, continue to talk."

"My daughter thinks that I should find a master of martial arts for my younger brother Yilin, and teach Kung Fu carefully and strictly. As a man of the Wei family, if he can't succeed in writing, he should follow in the footsteps of his father and take the road of martial arts. Don't waste time and cultivate He looks like he has lost both civil and military skills."

Wei Ruo's words are convincing, and his analysis is well-founded.

After pondering for a while, Wei Mingting nodded, "Ruoer's words are reasonable. Some things are neglected by my father, but Ruoer sees them clearly. Now I will do what you said, Ruoer. From today on, you are not allowed to Yi Lin sets foot in Wangmei Garden again, and Yi Lin is not allowed to run around in the mansion in his spare time, and Wanwan is not allowed to go to Yu Yu Garden to visit Yi Lin privately. I will also find someone to make arrangements for the master who teaches martial arts as soon as possible."

Wei Mingting made a decision, Wei Yilin was hit hard, his legs were trembling and he couldn't stand, he staggered and fell to the ground.

Wei Qingwan hurriedly stepped forward to help her, her eyes full of concern.

Wei Yilin threw himself into Wei Qingwan's arms aggrievedly and cried: "Sister, I don't want to be separated from you, and I don't want to learn martial arts, sister..."

"Brother is not afraid, dad is doing it for your own good." Wei Qingwan hurriedly comforted her, her expression distressed and anxious.

Wei Mingting didn't make a sound beside him. Originally, he didn't notice the problem at this level. Now after the eldest daughter said something, and seeing the second daughter's care and love for the younger brother, his brows could not help but frown.

When he was at home, his strict demands on his youngest son always had no effect. The older the younger son was, the less he would be disciplined. Perhaps the root cause was here.

"Wanwan, go back to Meiyuan first." Wei Mingting said with a serious expression.

Wei Qingwan's body froze, feeling the blood flowing backwards all over her body.

She braced her body and slowly straightened up: "Yes, daughter...retire..."

Wei Qingwan slowly walked out of Cangyun Garden step by step, and when she came to the door, she looked back reluctantly, as if she was leaving not only Cangyun Garden, but this home.

Looking at the three people in the courtyard, Wei Qingwan felt for the first time that she was an outsider...

Wei Mingting's original intention of letting Wei Qingwan leave was just that he felt that his second daughter was too soft-hearted, and she would comfort her brother softly when he suffered a little bit, so it would be inconvenient for him to teach the child.

So after Wei Qingwan left, Wei Mingting punished Wei Yilin to chop firewood, allowing him to experience the daily hardships of ordinary people. Yesterday's punishment made his legs tremble and he could not stand still, but his hands were fine, which did not affect his chopping firewood.

"Ruo'er, first look at Yilin for your father, and go talk to your mother about something for your father." Wei Mingting said to Wei Ruo.

"Okay." Wei Ruo agreed.

Then Wei Ruo showed a sly smile at Wei Yilin from an angle that Wei Mingting couldn't see.

Wei Yilin still had tears on his face, staring at Wei Ruo blankly with red eyes, speechless.

Then Wei Mingting went back to the house and told Yun that he wanted to find a martial arts master for Wei Yilin.

"Why did Husband suddenly remember to let Yilin learn martial arts?" Yun asked.

"It was Ruo'er who reminded me that Yilin's current temper has already been spoiled. He doesn't read books well and acts recklessly. Today he can go out of the house privately and has no respect for his elders. I don't know what shocking things he can do tomorrow. When it comes to things, if we don't strictly discipline them, it will eventually become a disaster for our Wei family. And practicing martial arts is a good way of discipline."

"What my husband said is that this matter is also the responsibility of the concubine. It is the concubine who failed to discipline the child well." Yun lowered her head in shame.

"I can't blame you entirely. After coming to Xingshan County, you have to take care of all the big and small affairs of the mansion, and you are really busy. Now that I think about it, Wanwan's temperament is too weak after all. As the saying goes, a loving mother often loses her son. Using the older sister to teach the younger brother instead of the mother is too loving and indulgent, and the result is the same."

"I will talk to Wanwan about this matter later, so that she can correct this problem and be stricter with my younger brother." Yun said hastily.

"No need, I have ordered that their siblings are not allowed to communicate in private for the time being. If there is a need in the future, let Ruo'er come. Compared with Wanwan's weakness, Ruo'er's temperament is more suitable for teaching younger brothers." Wei Mingting said.

Wearing this, Yun was shocked, she didn't expect that her husband would not allow Wanwan and Yilin to communicate in private, and the person closest to Yilin is Wanwan, not even her as a mother.

"So...will it hurt Yilin and Wanwan's hearts?" Yun was a little worried.

"In Yilin's situation, he must suffer a lot to know what he can do and what he can't do. If he still cares about his mood at this time, how can he teach well? As for Wanwan, she is a sensible person. I also told her cause and effect, so I must understand the reason and not think too much." Wei Mingting said.

"My husband is right."

When Wei Mingting said this, the Yun family had no objection.

Wei Mingting couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "You and I discussed making Wanwan the eldest daughter of the family. We only left the position of eldest daughter to Ruoer because we were worried that Ruo'er didn't know the rules and it would be difficult for him to be the eldest daughter. It was because of his father's request. It's still my father who has the foresight, Ruo'er is indeed more suitable to be the eldest daughter, she acts decisively, is calm in situations, and can take care of the overall situation."

Chapter 99 Supervisor Wei Yilin was punished

Mr. Yun did not expect her husband to approve of the ability of the eldest daughter so much.

But it is true that what Ruo'er has done in recent days has indeed added a lot of face to the Wei family, she is also decent outside, and she has the demeanor of a elder sister both internally and externally. Much better performance than she first thought.

Yun agreed: "My husband is right, Ruoer is indeed more suitable to be the eldest daughter. But our Wanwan is not bad, she is gentle and considerate, well-behaved and sensible, every time I see her, I feel happy in my heart."

While agreeing with the eldest daughter, the excellence of the second daughter cannot be ignored, so the Yun family specifically mentioned the second daughter.

"Yeah." Wei Mingting couldn't deny this, he could only say that the two daughters have their own merits.

"That's it for Yilin to find a martial arts master. You should strictly abide by the rules I set today even when I'm not in the mansion, and don't be soft-hearted." Wei Mingting once again urged his wife who is easy to be soft-hearted towards her children.

He knew that his wife was easy to soften his heart, so he specifically warned her.

"Husband, don't worry, I will never let him down." Yun promised.

Although she feels sorry for her younger son and doesn't want him to suffer like this, she must abide by what her husband has set.

While Wei Mingting was negotiating with the Yun family, Wei Ruo supervised Wei Yilin's firewood chopping work in the yard.

The seven-year-old's small arms are holding a big hatchet, and the naked eye can see the effort.

Swing down the knife, the knife cuts in a little bit, and it is still a long way from splitting the firewood.

After just a few chops, I felt that my arm could no longer exert strength. When I wanted to stop, Wei Ruo's voice came from my ear:

"If you can't cut enough five bundles of firewood today, continue to cut five bundles again tomorrow, and if you can't cut enough tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow; until one day you can cut five bundles of firewood in one day."

"Wei Qingruo! You are really too much!" Wei Yilin couldn't bear it anymore, and glared at Wei Ruo with round eyes angrily.

"Excessive? Is there?" Wei Ruo asked casually with a smile.

"I know you are taking revenge on me for betraying you yesterday, right? I thought about it last night. Those things are too real. It is absolutely impossible for me to dream about them. They definitely happened for real!" Wei Yilin said with great certainty. Said.

Wei Ruo just smiled and said nothing.

Wei Yilin continued: "Wei Qingruo, I admit that I did something wrong to betray you yesterday, so even if I think about what happened yesterday, I will not tell others. I also thought about it later. If you let others know that you were kidnapped It's not good for you. Although I don't like you, but you are a daughter of our Wei family, I will not ruin your reputation."

Wei Yilin had a straight face, puffed cheeks, a little angry, but also very serious.

Wei Ruo still didn't answer.

What do you think of it? Anyway, if she doesn't answer or admit it, others won't believe what Wei Yilin said.

Who cares if he remembers it or not.

Wei Ruo didn't speak, Wei Yilin continued: "Also, I think you're pretty good at killing two Japanese pirates, so don't take revenge on me so narrowly, go and tell Dad to let him withdraw those orders just now .I can go to learn martial arts, but don't be separated from Sister Wanwan, let alone let you control me, I don't like you!"

"I don't agree." Wei Ruo asked with a smile.

"Wei Qingruo, I've already said that, what else do you want?"

"I don't want to. As the eldest sister, it is my responsibility to teach the younger brother, so I will supervise you, even if you may not like it."

Wei Ruo's answer is watertight, regardless of whether the partition wall has ears, anyway, don't want to hear what she said that she will be caught as a pigtail.

"Stop pretending, you didn't sincerely want to teach me at all, you just hurt me on purpose! And I don't recognize you as my elder sister, my elder sister is only sister Wanwan!"

"Don't talk so much, chop wood carefully, it is not advisable to be lazy." Wei Ruo looked relaxed.

"Wei Qingruo!" Wei Yilin was deeply annoyed by Wei Ruo's appearance.

"I want to call my sister, if you can't, I'll talk to my father later." Wei Ruo was not impatient.

Wei Yilin was so angry that Wei Ruo was speechless.

He turned his gaze back to the firewood in front of him, swung up the firewood knife vigorously, and dropped it hard, as if he regarded the firewood in front of him as Wei Ruo, and vented his dissatisfaction with Wei Ruo in this way.

By the time Wei Mingting came out, Wei Yilin had already cut off half of the bundle.

Wei Mingting actually knew that the tasks he assigned to his younger son would basically be impossible for him to complete. He did this deliberately in the hope that this would sharpen his will and make him truly realize his mistakes.

Seeing that under Wei Ruo's supervision, Wei Yilin lost his cowardice and insisted on chopping firewood, Wei Mingting became more certain that the eldest daughter is more suitable to teach the younger son.

"Ruo'er, let's go back today. In the days when I'm not at home, Yilin will trouble you to take care of him. If he doesn't obey, you can enforce the family law for me." Wei Mingting confessed.

Wei Yilin was so angry that he looked at his father's majestic face, both angry and wronged.

"Daughter knows." Wei Ruo agreed.

Then Wei Ruo left Cangyun Garden.

Before leaving, Wei Ruo looked back at Wei Yilin, who was staring at him fiercely.

In mid-August of the lunar calendar, the rice harvest in Xingshan County has also arrived.

People in Xingshan County have no joy of harvest, but more sorrow and depression.

Because of the lack of grain harvest, the grain harvested is not enough for many people to eat for the next year.

The situation of the Wei family is similar. Yun looked at the account book handed over by the manager of Zhuangzi, frowning.

The person in charge said that the best growing seedlings in Zhuangzi are the replanted seedlings brought by Wei Ruo later.

The harvest of other rice that is being harvested is only about one-third of last year, and one-fifth of what it was five years ago.

Although the part of the rice that was replanted later is not yet mature, judging from the situation of hanging ears, it is much more than other rice.

However, Wei Ruona only accounted for a small part of the seedlings in the past, and the grain output of Weijiazhuangzi is still much less than in previous years.

In addition to Wei Mingting's official salary, Zhuangzi is a great source of income for the Wei family.

Zhuangzi's lack of harvest means that the Wei family has no extra revenue, and the expenditure in the next year will become a problem.

Wei Qingwan came to Cangyunyuan to help Yun's family affairs after class was over from the county magistrate's mansion. Seeing that Yun's worries about food, she comforted her: "Mother, don't worry. Did you get an official award from the court again?"

Mr. Yun shook his head: "It is true that you have received awards, but most of the awards from the imperial court are honors, and the objects you get cannot be exchanged for money."

Besides, Wei Mingting only temporarily repelled the Japanese pirates along the coast of Xingshan County this time, but did not completely defeat all the Japanese pirates that plagued the entire southeast coast. Naturally, there were not so many rewards.

Speaking of this, Yun sighed again: "I knew Ruoer's rice seeds were so useful. I wish I had planted all of Ruoer's rice seeds back then. Now there should be no such troubles."

Chapter 100 New Store Opening

Hearing Yun's praise of Wei Ruo, Wei Qingwan involuntarily tightened her fists.

Now both father and mother feel that her elder sister is better than her.

Wei Qingwan followed Yun's words and said casually: "Yes, it would be great if my sister told us earlier."

Hearing this, Yun's expression froze slightly.

She doesn't know that the eldest daughter's rice seeds are easy to use, but the eldest daughter should know it herself.

However, this idea only stayed in Yun's mind for a while, and she soon realized that when the eldest daughter came back, their early rice was already being planted.

"It shouldn't be Ruo'er's fault. I remember that rice seedlings were already being transplanted in the field when she came back. At that time, she told me to change the rice variety, and I probably wouldn't believe it right away." Yun said.

In this matter, Yun still remembers it clearly. At the beginning, when her daughter said that she wanted to improve the land in the south of the city, she still opposed it. She didn't quite believe that the eldest daughter really had this ability.

"Yes... yes, my daughter almost forgot. It turns out that my sister came back at that time, I misremembered." Wei Qingwan's face hurriedly seconded.

Just as Yun was frowning about the food, things from the Zhongyibo Mansion in the capital arrived.

It was a gift from the old uncle and Wei Mingting's two elder brothers to congratulate Wei Mingting on his promotion.

Among them, there are several carts of rice. The first half of the journey by water is faster, and the land road after passing Hangzhou Mansion has delayed a lot of time, so it was not delivered until today.

Seeing the loads of things, Yun was overjoyed.

Although Yun's mind is also clear, the reason why her father-in-law and the two elder brothers are so enthusiastic must be because her husband has been promoted. He is the only official official in the Zhongyi House now, and he is almost the reliance of the Zhongyi House.

But I have to say that this part of the food met her urgent need.

In addition to food, the Uncle Zhongyi's mansion sent some cloth jewelry, which was given by the old uncle and the old lady.

"Third Madam, these are given to the young lady by the old uncle and the old lady."

The person who came to give the gift specifically confessed.

"Okay." While Yun agreed, she looked at Wei Qingwan beside her, with concern in her eyes.

Wei Qingwan's face was a little pale, but she still forced a smile on Yun's concerned eyes.

But her smile made Yun even more sympathetic.

Before the Yun family opened their mouths to talk about this matter, Wei Qingwan stepped forward and said: "Mother, my daughter is fine, my sister just returned home, it is right for grandparents to care more about my sister."

Hearing her daughter's sensible words, Yun's heart became more and more heavy.

Mr. Yun glanced at the cloth and jewelry in front of him, wavering in his heart for a while, and then said: "Wanwan, next time when the mansion is more free, mother will buy some for you."

In her heart, Yun really wanted to give some to Wei Qingwan, but she still had a semblance of reason. These cloths and jewelry were different from the ornaments last time. These things had to be worn out.

In the future, they still have to go back to the capital. When the time comes, the parents-in-law will definitely not like it if they let the parents-in-law know that she privately gave the things that the eldest daughter named to the second daughter.

No matter how much Yun Shi wanted to take care of his second daughter, he would not dare to go against his in-laws.

Hearing Yun Shi's words, Wei Qingwan was taken aback, and looked at Yun Shi in a daze.

"What's wrong with Wanwan?" Yun looked at Wei Qingwan suspiciously.

"It's okay, mother, I'm fine..." Wei Qingwan immediately came back to her senses, and repeatedly emphasized that she was fine.

"Well, as long as it's okay." Yun didn't think much about it, she knew Wanwan's temper, and it was inevitable that her grandparents' attitude would make her feel sad, but she certainly wouldn't have other thoughts.

Thinking for a while, Yun said again: "Mother has a set of pearl hair mask. I planned to give it to you when you were old, but now I plan to give it to you first, and Wanwan will wear it when I go to Fucheng."

Yun's consideration is not only because of today's events, but also the matter of Yun Brocade. She didn't want Wanwan to feel too wronged, and she didn't expect that when she went to Fucheng, Wanwan's clothes were much worse than that of her eldest daughter. .

"No, no, no, my daughter won't need it, and my daughter still has some dignity, so I'd better keep it for myself." Wei Qingwan quickly refused.

"It's useful, you are Mother's daughter, and everything that belongs to Mother will belong to you and Ruo'er in the future." Yun said in relief.

"Then...the daughter thanked mother." Wei Qingwan didn't refuse anymore, and said with a shy and grateful expression.

"Silly boy, tell mother what to say thank you, let's go, follow mother to the house."

Mr. Yun took Wei Qingwan's hand and walked towards her own room, planning to hand over the set of pearl face masks to Wei Qingwan now.

The things that Zhongyi Bofu named to give to Wei Ruo were sent to Tingsongyuan.

The box this time is not big, but the things are much more expensive than those copper ornaments sent for the first time.

"Miss, here is a set of gold jewelry! There are also some emerald jewelry, which seem to be precious things." Xiumei was pleasantly surprised.

Wei Ruo was also a little surprised. Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhongyi actually gave him some valuable jewelry.

Though the cloth is not as expensive as Yun brocade, but there is a whole box, and it is also satin, and the price is not cheap.

"Sure enough, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how the Zhongyi uncle's mansion declines, it still has some foundations." Wei Ruo muttered.

What made Wei Ruo curious was how the old uncle and the old lady would give him such a valuable thing, which never happened in the original book.

After thinking about it, the difference from the original book is that her achievements in the south of the city have brought benefits to the Wei family.

So the two elders didn't completely feel sorry for her granddaughter who hadn't met. Their actions were more out of consideration for the interests of the family.

But this is also good, at least real money will be paid, which Wei Ruo likes very much.

For several days in a row, the long-term workers in Xiaoyangshan were busy harvesting sweet potatoes, and several pre-purchased warehouses were filled to the brim.

The production of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato chips was also put on the agenda.

According to Wei Ruo's intention, the nanny specially selected women from poor families to learn how to make dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato chips, and then handed over a large number of dried sweet potatoes to them.

Each person pays five renminbi per day plus one big sweet potato per person.

This is not a high income, but for village women who have problems eating, it is a very good job. At least it can keep them from starving, and the work intensity is not too high, so they can do it.

At the same time, next to Sibaozhai, a grain store opened bustlingly.

The name of the shop is very simple and straightforward, it is called Xu Jiliang Shop.

The store mainly sells grains—rice and sweet potatoes, as well as fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms.

Dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato chips will also be sold at the same price as those sold in preserved fruit stores.