Qin Shi did not return to her parents' home.

Although her family home was also in the mountains, unlike Qiaoyun who didn't know the way, she still couldn't go back!

When she was beaten during her postpartum period, her family didn't say a word in her defense. Instead, they blamed her for being spoiled despite having plenty of food and drink.

So she became obedient and well-behaved, and never went back to her parents' home again.

Li Laoshi learned from Qin Shi's tearful account of losing money that Qin Shi had a maternal family.

Everyone was talking about giving gifts for the festival, and he made conversation out of curiosity. When he saw Qin Shi's expression change, he realized she was really angry, so he quickly shut up.

Everyone sat together to eat, drink, and rest for a while.

Normally, they wouldn't eat eggs, but now they would eat the little bit of egg white stuck to their fingers before crushing the eggshells and scattering them on the ground.

Some people couldn't bear to eat it themselves, so they found a place to store it and took it back with them.

The whole village spent two days planting rice seedlings in all the paddy fields. The remaining farm work was planting peanuts and cotton.

The farm work in the dry land can wait a few days; the important thing is for everyone to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

The last time the pharmacy took a break was twenty days ago; this time, it's only closed for five days.

This continuous pharmaceutical production has depleted the stock of motherwort, and even the bamboo tubes have run out, so time is needed to replenish the stock.

The main reason is that all the pharmacy staff have important matters to attend to.

The first thing is that Xu Genqing wants to send a holiday gift.

This had been agreed upon long ago. Qin even went to the town's mill to grind the new wheat into flour, exchanged it for noodles, and steamed brown sugar buns and vegetable buns for Xu Genqing to deliver to the Ding family.

She wanted to show her in-laws that she now had steamed buns to eat, was living a good life, and that Lianhua was pregnant.

The second thing was that Wu Yang was getting engaged, a piece of news that left Jiang Zhi a little confused.

According to Mr. Li, the woman is Shi Houzi's older cousin.

When Jiang Zhi received this news, the two sides had already agreed on the marriage and were about to get engaged, so they needed her, the village chief, to act as an intermediary.

Xiaoman also mediated the situation herself, but her parents asked her beforehand.

Now that Wu Yang is about to get engaged, the two families have informed the village chief.

She recalled how she had been so frustrated teaching the Shi family how to plant rice a couple of days ago, and how no one had mentioned it to her then.

And then there's the Shi family girl, who's not very bright, only fourteen years old: "Isn't she a bit too young?"

Li Laoshi scratched his chin thoughtfully: "The eldest sister of the Shi family is a bit young and hasn't grown up yet. I think it's better to have an older wife."

But money can't buy happiness. As long as Wu Yang is willing... as the village chief, are you going to interfere with his marriage and having children?

"in spite of!"

Jiang Zhi merely sighed; she had no objection to the marriage, nor would she interfere.

He was just the village chief, not the head of each household. He was only in charge of food and drink, not marriage.

Moreover, the current concept of promoting eugenics is somewhat advanced; in the minds of ordinary families, carrying on the family line is the most important thing.

Wu Yang is an outsider in the village. His elders are in poor health, and he has a younger sister.

Moreover, he was a quiet and hardworking man who was so honest that even Li Laoshi wanted to take care of him.

The key is that they've reached the age where they should get married.

Although the family built a house, it was thanks to the collective effort that they were able to build it; their actual financial situation was still quite weak.

In other places, it's foreseeable that he'd be a bachelor for life, or he'd have to use his younger sister to exchange for a marriage.

In the realm of marriage, there is no choice; as long as the girl can bear children and provide shelter from the rain, one can marry her.

Now that Wu Yang is marrying the Shi family's daughter, at least Wu Yang's girls won't have to be remarried when they grow up.

Jiang Zhi was only curious that the marriage was actually proposed by Shi Houzi, and the Wu Yang family all agreed, only needing her to be a witness.

Poor kids are so precocious! Stone Monkey is only eleven years old, but he already seems to be in charge of the family.

Li Laoshi analyzed for Jiang Zhi on his fingers: "Don't underestimate Shi Houzi just because he's young. He's a clever little devil."

Wu Yang's brother-in-law is simple-minded and a neighbor, so he'll have someone to rely on in the future.

The eldest sister of the Shi family is mentally challenged. If she does something wrong after marrying into another family, she will inevitably be beaten, and her family can't control her.

With you as the village head of Xujia Village, and the rule against beating wives, his older sister will suffer less in the future.

Thinking about it that way, it's true; the Shi family benefited the most.

Although she decided to wash her hands of the matter, Jiang Zhi still needed to go to both families to find out the truth.

Wu Yang's family's reply was simple: Wu Yang's father was a timid farmer who had spent his whole life doing farm work, and he wouldn't utter a word even if you hit him three times.

Wu Yang's mother was someone who couldn't speak when she met people.

Regarding the marriage between Wu Yang and the Shi family, Wu Yang's elders had only one opinion: "Wu Yang is getting old and should get married. Although the Shi family's women are not smart or beautiful, they can cook, wash clothes, gather firewood, work steadily, and bear children for Wu Yang."

This wish is simple and unpretentious!

Outside the Shi family's shack, Jiang Zhi asked the same question, while Shi Lao Da and Shi Lao Er talked more.

Just as Li Laoshi said, they valued Wuyang because it was close to his home, so that Shi Houzi would have a brother-in-law to rely on in the future, and they wouldn't have to worry about the silly big sister being beaten to death by her husband's family.

Most importantly, Wu Yang is now able to make money.

Wu Yang works at the pharmacy and earns thirty coins a day, which is a rare high wage.

Upon receiving the news from Xiaoquan, Shi Houzi immediately thought of marrying his eldest cousin off to him, fearing that if he was too slow, someone else would snatch her up first.

To my surprise, my father and uncle, who are usually so difficult to reason with, agreed to this as soon as it was mentioned.

The Shi family's greatest wish is to marry off their daughters, as they have many daughters.

The news that the Wu and Shi families were going to become in-laws spread quickly.

This is another joyous occasion following the construction of houses in Xujia New Village. Everyone is talking about it, and most of them agree. Some even say that if they had known Wuyang would marry a fool, they would have preferred him to marry one of their own relatives.

Although this village of migrants comes from diverse backgrounds, the households have maintained harmonious relationships and have not experienced any conflicts over the past year.

Both families are from this village now, which is better than a stranger suddenly arriving.

While everyone in the village was celebrating the festival, Jiang Zhi was busy delivering festival gifts to the people at the post station, as well as to Zhang Juntou, who had already moved to Lihua Town.

The gift was simple, naturally it was steamed buns.

She also received many steamed buns, all from various households in the village.

At the post station, Cao, the postmaster, was very polite when he received the steamed buns. Nowadays, the vegetables at the post station are all taken from the village. Although they pay for them, it is much cheaper than buying them in town.

Jiang Zhi exchanged a few polite words with him before getting straight to the point: "Cao Yicheng, we have some green grain to sell in Xujia New Village. Could you help us find out which passing merchants are interested in buying it? We'll put it up for auction in a month!"

In one month, the tender corn will flower and tassel. Magistrate Zhang promised to sell the green corn, but he could not go to the county town.

Last year, apart from selling a small portion in the city, most of the rest were packaged and wholesaled on the field side, so the price naturally couldn't be high.

Now, she wants to release the news as soon as possible and use an auction method.

Cao Yicheng had been at the post station for almost half a year, and he also knew about the fact that Xujia Village had planted two crops of corn.

Moreover, Xu Gensheng and his group would occasionally come to the post station to chat, and they even knew that last year when they sold green grains and were sent to the county government... so they naturally knew about the high prices!

"Village Chief Jiang, this matter is easy to handle! However, I have a request, but I don't know if I should say it?" Cao Yicheng, who had been polite just now, suddenly became enthusiastic.

Jiang Zhi smiled slightly. Generally speaking, when people say "it should be said, but it shouldn't be said," those words are definitely things that shouldn't be said.

With green grains fetching high prices, it's impossible for Cao Yicheng to sit idly by and remain unmoved by a mountain of gold.

"Cao, the postmaster, please speak!"