Chapter 449: Worried

"Look! The white floribunda is in bloom!" Everyone in the village came to see it that day.

I had seen the buds a long time ago, and I would take a look at it every day when I passed by, hoping that it would bloom and see this legendary magical flower.

"Oh my God! How can it bloom in so many colors?" Madam Zheng was a noble lady who had seen rare treasures, but she was also shocked by the flowers of various colors.

White, pink, purple, and light yellow, all on the same plant. It's amazing, no wonder it's a tribute!

Su Ying smiled. She had seen it in the countryside before and thought it was beautiful, but she didn't think it was magical.

There is also a tree called Hibiscus that blooms different flowers on the same plant, which also has white, pink and red flowers on the same tree.

If you see it so often, you won’t be surprised. This was in ancient times when traveling was not easy, so this kind of flowering really amazed everyone.

Children from the official girls' school and village school all came to watch.

Feng Qianer, Cen Hongying and others are growing rapidly.

Not only did he see how the colorful silkworms were fed, but he also saw with his own eyes the white silkworms growing in the deep palace.

Now, no one can easily enter Huanggou Village. There is a checkpoint at the entrance of the village road, and there is another checkpoint at Qingshi Mountain.

Those unruly people tried several times to sneak in and set fire in the dark, but were caught by the garrison and sent to the county jail.

Together with the previous few people, they were all tried and executed in public by County Magistrate Song. They were beaten with thirty sticks and then dragged to the mines to mine. Now the unruly people were completely obedient.

They dare not provoke Huanggou Village, nor confront the government, but they can bully their fellow tribesmen.

Cen Hongying ran away with a few girls, and when those families saw that their daughters were living a good life, they stopped making trouble.

But those who were jealous would not give up and would go to Cen Shitou's house every few days to make trouble, saying that his daughter had set a bad example and made the whole village lose face.

Cen Shitou's house was smashed to pieces, and the already dilapidated house became even more dilapidated.

When the in-laws who had promised Zhaodi marriage learned that she was a female student in the official school, they were even more unwilling to give in. Such a girl would be a golden phoenix that lays eggs.

If you go out to work as a helper, you must at least be in charge and earn a lot of money. If you stay at home, you will also have the ability to make money.

No matter how you look at it, she is a money-making machine. Every penny she spends is worth it. She blocks Cen Shitou and his wife every day to ask for a wife.

Helpless, Cen Shitou had to use his second daughter, who was less than nine years old, to pay off the debt.

Her husband's family looked down on her because she was skinny and only ate but didn't work. They had to pay for her even if they took her home. Compared to Zhaodi, she was worthless.

"My dear, I have a daughter here, I would like to give her to you, okay?" Cen Shitou was chased, beaten and scolded every day, and he really had no choice.

The one string of money was also snatched away by the clan members, and the money could not be paid to cancel the engagement. The second daughter was not liked by her family, so she had to have another one.

"Tsk tsk, my family can't afford to feed them, they are all mouths to feed!" The in-laws looked at the skinny third daughter with even more disgust.

"My dear relatives! I really can't afford to pay you back! You can take these two girls with you. It's up to you whether you marry them or sell them. Let's just call it quits, okay?"

Cen Shitou felt that he was forced into a desperate situation. If he had not stopped Zhaodi at that time and had not listened to others and hurriedly looked for a husband's family, he would have been in trouble.

It's time for their family to stand up straight. Lord Su said that female students are half-officials. Haven't you seen those families taking advantage of them and still acting ungrateful?

He followed others to smash things up at his own house, but when he left, he acted more arrogant than anyone else because his daughter was a student!

Why can't I stand up straight and am suppressed everywhere?

Cen Shitou couldn't understand it! Logically, those people should be thanking their family!

The stupid and cowardly Cen Shitou didn't understand that many people in this world act according to circumstances. If they just obeyed others, others would naturally bully them without hesitation.

"Well, these two girls will calculate the interest for these days and pay back five strings of cash by this time next year. Either your Zhaodi will marry you, or you can pay the interest compounded, a total of fifteen strings of cash!"

Seeing that Cen Shitou was such a coward and easy to bully, the mother-in-law started to ask for a huge amount of money.

"What?" Cen Shitou looked up in astonishment. "Didn't they say these two girls were used to pay off the debt? Why is it just the interest? Why is the interest so high?"

Cen Shitou's face turned red with anger. He was suppressed every day and felt suffocated. His in-laws were pressing him step by step. He felt like he was about to explode.

"Bang!" Cen Shitou picked up the axe and chopped it hard on the pillar, yelling with his eyes wide open.

"Don't push me too far! If you want these two girls, take them. If you don't want them, I'll just take these cheap lives!"

Seeing that they had pushed her into a desperate situation and could not squeeze her out any more, her husband's family had no choice but to leave with the two girls, grumbling and calling it bad luck!

My husband's family was not a philanthropist, so they took the two girls directly to the pawnshop in the county and sold them for two and three strings of cash respectively.

Then he went home happily, but he still felt sad because he didn't get the golden goose that laid eggs.

Cen Hongying in Huanggou Village knew nothing about this and sat in school every day, eagerly absorbing knowledge.

I am planning a bright future. I will have my two younger sisters sign up next year or the year after, so that they can become self-reliant women in the future.

Marry into a good family and live a happy and beautiful life.

"In two days, you will voluntarily form groups of two to learn silk reeling in the actual factory." Xie Qingyun arranged.

The cocoons of the colored silkworms have been dried in the sun for several days and sorted according to the depth of their colors.

"Sir, can we really do it?" The girls were not sure.

This is natural colored silk that is hard to come by outside. Can I make it myself?

"Why not? Don't you do these things at home on weekdays?" Xie Qingyun asked.

"I have done it, but that was ordinary silk. This, this is different!" Cen Hongying lacked confidence.

"Just treat it as ordinary white silk! When reeling silk, you need to be bold, careful, and quick, and don't hesitate." Xie Qingyun suggested.

After entering school, the girls no longer did heavy work. The most they did every day was picking mulberry leaves and weeding in the baidiezi fields.

Apply white vinegar and honey to your hands every night to make them softer and free of calluses and burrs.

Silk fabrics must be handled with smooth hands, and girls must learn all the operations of silk, as well as cotton spinning and other operations in the future.

The future of the textile industry will depend on them to build and develop it into an emerging industry.

The colored silk in the school is different from that in the village. The ones in the school are experimental products. After they are made, regardless of whether they are good or bad, they will be taken away for other arrangements.

It will not be confused with the village tribute.

The female students were busy learning silk reeling, and the outside was also very busy.

The women were reeling silk, and the men were coming back from other places to harvest wheat.

The Su family still paid everyone to harvest the crops, and then they plowed the fields and left them to dry before planting beans next month.

This time the men were not in a hurry to go out because the first crop of rice was about to be harvested.

The men came back with lots of money, and some of them took advantage of the break to build new houses.

Old Man Yang's family has been very worried these past two days. The old couple are going back to Chang'an, while Dalang and Erlang are busy making money outside.

The two daughters-in-law's stay or departure became a problem. There was no point in staying in the village as their parents-in-law, husbands and children were all gone.

Dalang and Erlang thought about following him to Chang'an, but with so many people crowding into Su's house, they couldn't bring themselves to do it.

Even if you want to rent a place, you won’t be able to find one immediately. It will take some time.

The key point is that if the Yang family leaves, I’m afraid more people in the village will want to leave!