They arrived at the He family in the evening. Several people helped to temporarily pile up the things they brought from the car in the firewood shed in the backyard. These things would be used even when they arrived at the Wan family.

He's second uncle He Zishan also returned home after hearing the news.

According to Wan Changsheng's idea, he would just bring the people back in the next few days. Since Master Chun was busy, he didn't plan to hold a big celebration. He would just set up two tables and invite some elders and relatives.

He's parents agreed on the spot. It was the spring ploughing and planting season, and since it was a second marriage, the betrothal gift had already been doubled, so there was no need to spend more.

Mei Niang is getting married for the second time, so her parents are not planning to hold a banquet. Her uncles and aunts are coming to help with the dowry and take away all the things brought by the Chang family. In the next two days, she, as their mother, will help buy two new quilts and two new clothes for the mother and daughter.

With two more people, it was a bit crowded. The youngest son's family was not at home, so the room was empty, but they had to come back in the next two days. Besides, it was not convenient for Mei Niang to live in her brother and sister-in-law's room.

We have been paying off the debt for the past two years. The family had planned to build two more rooms by the yard after the autumn harvest next year. Daqiangzi is already fourteen years old, and Erqiang is almost twelve. They will be getting married in less than two years, so the rooms are necessary.

Now that things have come to this, Mei Niang no longer cares whether it is a few days earlier or later. Remarriage is a foregone conclusion, and she can no longer go back to Changjia Village.

Besides, after years of hardship, including paying off debts with the betrothal gift for her second marriage, she has done her best for the Chang family and her deceased husband.

She doesn't care what happens to her alone, and she is not afraid of death, but for the sake of her son's survival, the son must pay for his father's debts. She can't let her son bear these debts, right?

I've seen Wan Changsheng as a nice guy these past two days, so I decided to marry him.

The family agreed to set the date for five days later, which was March 20th. This was a good day for getting married, so Chang Shun would pick her up on that day.

Chang Shun had no objection, he liked quietness. His grandfather had a large family, and his mother lived with his grandmother. At night, he had to share a kang with his grandfather and two cousins. His grandfather snored loudly at night, and he really couldn't sleep.

What's more, I will feel a little uneasy when I move to my new home in a few days.

Others would say that he is sensible, but he knows that he is not a very likable child. He was a rather serious person in his previous life. In recent years, the atmosphere at home has been heavy, and he simply cannot act like a child with an innocent and lively manner.

If you study, you can't collect herbs to make money, nor can you learn medicine from others. As far as he knows, the master in the medical clinic does not teach skills to apprentices from the beginning, unless the apprentice is his own son or grandson.

I can put studying medicine aside for now. I am still young, so I can find an opportunity in a few years. I can study first and find time to collect herbs with my stepfather.

What is certain is that he knows more about medicine than his stepfather ten times more. He follows his stepfather to learn just for an opportunity. Then he can buy a copy of Baicao Ji and read it. Everything depends on human effort. At a young age, there is still time for everything.

The next day, He's mother took her eldest daughter-in-law to the town. It was still in time to buy cloth for new clothes for the mother and son, and they could only buy ready-made quilts, but they had to buy shoes.

Chang Shun saw that his grandfather and uncle had gone to the fields with his two cousins, and his mother was doing the washing at home, so he simply followed his little cousin to the slope to look for wild vegetables and to see how many medicinal herbs there were on the hill.

I told my stepfather that I should hand over half of my earnings, which seemed a bit unreasonable, but unexpectedly it worked.

Only when you have savings can you do what you want to do. Of course, it is impossible to do anything in the past few years and it is difficult to earn much. Everything is for preparation for the future.

In this dynasty, as long as the parents are still alive, the children basically hand over all their earnings to the parents, and have to ask for money if they want to spend any money. He can't stand this kind of life.

It is right to discuss this matter while it is not yet done and I am still young, and the other party has some ideas of coaxing children.

In March, the weather is getting warmer and wild vegetables grow very fast.

Also going up the mountain with them were several children from my great-grandfather's and little-grandfather's families. Each of them carried a basket or a backpack and chattered a lot, which gave Chang Shun a headache.

The place where we look for wild vegetables is on the shallow slope of the West Mountain. We dare not enter the forest at all, so there are very few kinds of medicinal herbs, and they are basically worthless. No matter how much of these herbs we collect, we can't sell them for much money.

Chang Shun didn't want to pick wild vegetables, so he wandered around the slope. Under the warm sunshine, he soon felt drowsy and simply took a nap on the small slope facing the sun.

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Although Wan Changsheng did not plan to hold a grand wedding, getting married was a big event after all, so he still had to go and personally invite the village elders, including the clan leader and the village chief.

When he returned home from the border, he only took twenty taels of silver to build a house. This silver was on record. The soldiers of the Great Zhou had monthly wages, although it was little, but after six or seven years they could save more than ten taels of silver. There was also some travel expenses when he returned home, and if he saved a little, there would still be some surplus.

The fifty taels that were hidden were because while doing odd jobs under the military doctor, he would occasionally receive rewards from injured generals, and his monthly salary was much higher than other places, especially in the last two years.

Occasionally when I take a vacation, I can find some herbs nearby and sell them to the pharmacy. Over time, I can accumulate a lot.

The first place Wan Changsheng went to was the clan leader’s house. The clan leader and the village chief were from the same family and were actually father and son.

A quarter of an hour later, Wan Changsheng walked out of the patriarch's house with a smile on his face.

The old clan leader and his father were cousins ​​of three generations. He was very dissatisfied with his fourth cousin for not letting Chang Geng, who was already married and had children, go to serve in the army, but letting Chang Sheng, who had not even had a child, go. As a result, the child is now 26 years old and still unmarried.

When other people's children were his age, they were already seven or eight years old.

Isn't it difficult to get married when you are old? A widow is fine, as long as she can carry on the family line.

Wan Changsheng ran to other people's homes and finally came to his eldest brother Wan Changgeng's home.

The two brothers had a close time when they were young, and their father was still alive at that time. It all seems like it happened just yesterday.

But when his 22-year-old elder brother allowed his wife and biological mother to force him, who was not even 17 years old, to go to the northern border with tears, he did feel resentful.

When he returned home seven years later, his elder brother did not mention a word about the rent of the land under his name. The local rent was at least 50-50, not counting the land. The rent of one acre of land alone was more than 800 kilograms of grain in seven years.

In fact, even if I gave it to him, he wouldn't accept it, but I still felt a little cold inside because he didn't say a word.

When the house was being built, everyone else came to help, but my eldest brother only came for one day before he was called back by my sister-in-law with an excuse.

The acre of land given to my mother was said to be given to my eldest brother after she passed away, but the house would be divided equally between them. If he built another house, my eldest brother would have to give him half of the silver. This was agreed upon when the family was divided.

Half of it was six or seven taels of silver. When he went to serve in the army, he did not take a single cent from the family.

But my brother didn't say a word about this silver.

He didn't plan to take it anymore, so he considered it as a fulfillment of the brotherhood in this life.

"My uncle is here." Twelve-year-old Wan Qing was preparing to take his younger brothers to the fields.

The eldest son of the eldest brother, Wan Qing, is twelve years old this year and is relatively honest. The second son, Wan Xiang, is ten years old, the third son, Wan Xi, is seven years old, and the daughter, Wan Qin, is four years old.

Wan Changsheng seldom comes here, so he is not very close to the children.

"Well, are your parents home?"

"I'm at home."

Wan Changgeng had already heard his brother's voice, and a trace of guilt flashed across his face. No matter in which way, he owed this younger brother.