Seeing Xie Jinyan's increasingly arrogant laughter, Xiao Fubao threw a punch, saying, "Even if I'm younger than you, it doesn't stop me from beating you up."

He, the son of the dignified princess, was actually beaten up by a wild girl! How infuriating, how infuriating…

When he wanted to fight back.

Xiao Heng hummed twice, seemingly casually, and then he saw Shen Changzhu, Shen Changyi, Niu Baozhu, and the other two Niu sisters huddled together, staring at him.

"What are you doing? I'm not going to hit her."

Shen Changzhu smiled and said:

"If you don't fight, you're a good child; otherwise, your second senior brother will play with you."

Xie Jinyan shrank back: His second senior brother is terrifying.

After dark, Xiao Heng brought a basin of water and some ointment into Xiao Fubao's room. He carried Xiao Fubao to the edge of the bed, and Xiao Fubao said somewhat uncomfortably:

"Little brother, Xiang'er will help me wash."

Xiao Heng said:

"I just wanted to see where you were hurt."

Xiao Heng rolled up Xiao Fubao's trouser leg and saw that the skin on her lotus root-like calves was chafed raw, a result of a month of wearing sandbags on her legs.

Xiao Fubao wasn't lying to Gu Yu; her legs really were chafed raw.

Xiao Heng gently applied his ointment to the wound. Xiao Fubao had knee braces on her legs, but the skin was still chafed a little.

Little Fu Bao's legs swayed slightly. Her little brother was so handsome and kind. She wondered who would be his wife someday...

Father said that if Second Uncle and Little Brother pass the imperial examination, the official matchmaker will send someone to propose marriage, and they will be able to find wives for Second Uncle and Little Brother.

Xie Jinyan was bullied by Xiao Fubao. He's six years old now, and he's always the one bullying others, never the other way around. But today, he was the one who got bullied…

Young Master Xie Jinyan was very unhappy.

That stinky Fu Bao.

However, there are too many people in Chou Fubao's family. They are all from her family. If they fight, the other nine will fight against him. It's not fair, it's not fair!

While Xie Jinyan was angry about being bullied, Xiao Fubao had already forgotten about it; she now had a piece of land given to her by her godfather.

That piece of land isn't far away.

Right where Haijia Village and Niushan Village meet, Xiaofubao was thinking about what she should plant, and decided to plant some medicinal herbs.

She can't grow it herself, but she can get others to do it.

She has many fellow students and cousins.

Moreover, she needs more than just one medicinal herb. She can also ask her parents to have every household in the village grow different medicinal herbs to repay the villagers who were willing to lend her mother money for her medical treatment, and to maintain harmonious neighborly relations.

Niu Dajiang told the clan chief about this matter, and the old clan chief immediately informed the villagers.

After hearing this, Chen pursed her lips and said with a disdainful look:

"If he really wanted to make us rich, why didn't he let us invest in his newly built commercial street? It's just some pickle shop and some medicinal herbs, those small favors."

Little Fu Bao said with a smile, "Some people have big appetites that can't be satisfied. They just want to gradually devour their master. Although our family's hair fragrance workshop is still a small workshop, it won't be small in the future."

"Besides, my uncle runs a medicinal herb shop. If my family didn't genuinely want to help the villagers get rich, why would we have you grow the herbs instead of just buying them from my uncle? We know the principle of keeping the profits within the family."

The little girl is quick-witted and sharp-tongued.

"Young lady of the Chen family, if you don't want to plant, then don't. Your family is already unlucky enough and poor enough, so being even poorer won't matter."

"That's what the rather elderly Mrs. You said."

This old lady You is the stepmother of the older sister You mentioned earlier. Her eldest daughter married into an official family as a second wife, and her younger daughter married her stepson. Although they were a decent family in the area, it was very unlikely that the married daughters could help their maternal family.

“Our family grows crops for two families. Since Sister Chen doesn’t want to grow them, then my family will do it,” Old Lady You immediately took over the job that had been assigned to the Chen family.

Xiao Fubao let her take it away, because she didn't want to involve the Chen family in the first place. She thought that Zhaocai had absorbed all the good fortune of the Chen family and spat out all the bad luck that she had absorbed from Master Mu to the Chen family. She was also afraid that something would happen to the things that the Chen family planted, and that they would attract bad luck.

When Chen saw that her family's allotted medicinal herb planting area had been snatched away by Old Lady You, she quickly changed her tune, saying, "Who said my family isn't going to plant any more? You're a pregnant woman who remarried, and you've brought two burdens with you!"

Old Lady You was a widow for several years, and coincidentally, the men of the You family also lost their wives at that time. However, after just over a year, the two got together.

She got pregnant and remarried, bringing her two daughters with her.

Although the You family is not a family with the same surname in Niushan Village, they are quite well-off, owning several acres of trees and several acres of vegetables.

Although she didn't treat her eldest daughter like her own, she wasn't a cruel stepmother either. So, after her eldest daughter got married, she would occasionally help Old Lady You out.

Life is pretty good these days.

“Your family isn’t poor, so why do you insist on coming here to compete with us poor people?” Chen said.

Mrs. You said:

"That's ridiculous! You didn't want it, and now you're blaming others for taking it? Niu Da and Madam Shen clearly meant well, wanting to help you get rich, but you're here nitpicking and complaining. Who told you to hold the bowl and curse the mother? Besides, who would complain about being too rich?"

"Alright, then let Aunt You plant those herbs. You're the one with a foul mouth, so don't blame others!" the old clan chief said.

The Chen family suffered in silence.

Every household in Niushan Village grows some kind of medicinal herb, and some families grow the same type, depending on their needs.

However, the important medicinal herbs were still grown by Xiao Fubao's family, while the important aromatic herbs were still bought from Xue Huaimin's shop.

This was to prevent others from discovering her secret hair fragrance formula too early.

Since the opening of Xiangfafang, it has been favored by the young ladies and maids of some wealthy families in Jiangzhou. The young ladies prefer to use fragrances such as osmanthus, plum blossom, rose and lily.

Gardenia and wildflower scents are relatively inexpensive and are very popular among maids from both ordinary and wealthy families.

This hair fragrance, if it has osmanthus, is called Osmanthus Dew; if it has rose, it is called Rose Dew.

Rose petal dew was especially popular among the wealthy young ladies and wives of Jiangzhou.

Regular hair oils don't have the effects of removing dandruff, reducing oil, or relieving itching, but Niujia's floral dew does.

One of the families, surnamed Tao, had a daughter who loved using things from the Niu family. She bought everything that the Niu family sold.

This Miss Tao also has a very powerful background, because her father was the salt inspector of Jiang, Xiang and Zhang prefectures. Being the salt inspector of Jiang, Xiang and Zhang prefectures was a very lucrative position.

Moreover, his family has a unique characteristic: they have many daughters.

Master Tao had one wife and three concubines. His wife had no sons, only three daughters, and each of his three concubines had two daughters and only one son.

Although his wife had no sons, Master Tao always cherished her, so he also doted on his legitimate daughters, Miss Tao the Second and Miss Tao the Sixth.

Miss Tao is still young and frail.

Therefore, the one who frequently bought things from the Niu family was Miss Tao the Second. Miss Tao the Second's own sister was married into a noble family, and the two sisters had a very close relationship.