Chapter 245: You know a person’s face but not his heart
"Dad, Mom, why did you come out? Aren't you sick? Go back to your room quickly!" Ye Caiping suddenly remembered that Old Mrs. Ye was still sick.
Old Lady Ye smiled and said, "I feel much better after taking the medicine. The doctor also asked me to come out for some fresh air. I am also tired of being cooped up in prison."
"Okay, you guys just sit in the corridor." He looked around and said, "Hey, where are the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, Yong'er, and Peng'er?"
Jin'er said, "My aunt and second uncle have all gone home. They have borrowed a bullock cart and are going to talk to the owner of Shunkelou and Aunt Fatty about the supply of goods. Only my uncle said he is sick and doesn't want to move, he wants to stay here to recuperate."
Ye Daquan, who was sitting in the back looking sick, jumped up and said, "Can you chase me away?"
Jin Er chuckled: "No, no, I don't dare, my uncle is in our home and he is well taken care of."
Ye Caiping chatted with them for a while and then went into the room.
Then turn on the system.
I spent one tael of silver to buy an exquisite glass ornament and two vases. I spent another 30 cents to buy a book on glassmaking.
She wanted to spend more money on ornaments and books, but the glass was only worth so much, and the books were even less valuable.
With the remaining 48 taels, she bought 48 20-year-old wild ginsengs.
Ye Caiping remembered that the 30-year-old tree cost 10 liang per tree, but the 20-year-old tree was directly cut to 1 liang per tree.
After shopping, Ye Caiping carried 40 ginsengs to the kitchen. Seeing Xiaoyan cooking, she handed the ginsengs to her:
"I stew a pot of ginseng chicken soup every day, adding some red dates and wolfberries, until everyone's complexion returns to normal."
Xiaoyan took it with shaking hands: "So many ginsengs, too valuable, you want me to keep them?"
"It's not too expensive. It's only 20 years old. It's clear and moist. If it's too old, it might be too nourishing. Your great grandmother is sick, and you don't want to worry about asking her to get things every day. Just put it in the kitchen."
Xiaoyan stopped being pretentious, this was her aunt's trust in her: "Okay."
After leaving the kitchen, Ye Caiping went to Jin'er's room again.
Jin'er and Huan'er were drawing, and when they saw her they looked up: "Mom."
"You two go and inform everyone to continue working in the workshop tomorrow."
"good!"
The two maids ran out quickly, and Ye Caiping returned to the room and began to plan the glass workshop.
Unexpectedly, in less than half an hour, a group of villagers came in a mighty manner.
Ye Caiping heard the chattering sound and hurried out, only to see a group of people standing in the outer courtyard. They were all employees of the Hu La Tang workshop.
Of course, there are also some curious villagers like Mrs. Zhao.
Seeing her, he got excited: "Cai Ping, will we continue working tomorrow?"
"???" Ye Caiping nodded: "Yes! I asked Jin'er to inform you, why are you here again?"
The villagers looked at her sincerely and said, "We are here to visit you. We wanted to come last night when we received the news, but we were afraid to disturb you from resting. We wanted to come this morning, but the head of the village wouldn't let us come, saying that we should let you rest."
"We only dared to come now that Jin'er and the others had come to inform us."
Only then did Ye Caiping realize that almost everyone of them was carrying a basket with vegetables, eggs, brown sugar and rice.
Mrs. Zhao came over and said, "Cai Ping, what exactly is going on with that bandit?"
Ye Caiping said, "In fact, it was Magistrate Lu who wanted to rob my workshop and deliberately framed me. That notorious thief has been in jail and has not escaped. Now Magistrate Lu's evil deeds have been discovered by the prefect, and he has been imprisoned."
The villagers listened and were in an uproar.
"County Magistrate Lu is such a person?"
"My two pigs were stolen before, and the thief refused to admit it, so I reported it to the government, and it was Magistrate Lu who made the decision for me."
"I heard that Magistrate Lu is a good official and he doesn't oppress the people... How come..."
"Our parents...actually did such a thing?"
Ye Caiping listened to these words and sighed softly. At that time, she also thought that he was a good person.
Mrs. Zhao said sharply, "Why, you still want to speak up for him? Do you really believe that Cai Ping is harboring a bandit? You can only know a person's face but not his heart. Haven't you heard this saying?"
The villagers were startled and shook their heads quickly: "Of course we don't believe it. Caiping doesn't want to die, so why would she hide a thief? Besides, Magistrate Lu has already put her in jail, proving that Caiping is innocent."
Ye Caiping said, "Okay, this is the truth. Don't worry, go back to work. No one will dare to bully us anymore."
The cassava matter was only reported today and has not yet been officially implemented, so she did not reveal Magistrate Lu's real purpose.
The villagers then burst into smiles. It didn't matter whether they were county magistrate or not, it was not as real as getting a monthly salary!
"These are my family's eggs, you guys should eat them well."
“This is my family’s brown sugar.”
Ye Caiping couldn't refuse, so she had to collect them one by one. After a long time, the villagers left one after another.
After the villagers left, Ye Lizheng, Wang Shuantou and Ye Ershu came together.
Ye Caiping was very grateful to them.
At that time, his family was imprisoned in prison, and their lives were uncertain, but the furniture workshop was still being built, and Wang Shuantou continued to supervise the making of tools. He never said he wanted to withdraw his shares.
If it were another family, let alone continuing to build the workshop, they might have already broken into her house and taken things, which would have offset the principal invested in her.
Ye Caiping was deeply grateful for this trust alone.
Ye Lizheng and his companions also brought some brown sugar, eggs and other things.
Ye Caiping welcomed them into the living room and chatted with them for a while.
When leaving, give them gifts in return.
After thinking about it, it happened that Shen Manman sent her a cart of things, which contained a lot of cakes and food such as wind chicken and bacon. It should be considered that she had a large family, so there were three or four boxes of each cake.
Ye Caiping kept a box of each for herself, and gave two boxes of snacks and two strips of bacon to each of Ye Lizheng's four families.
Ye Lizheng, Wang Shuantou and others did not refuse and left with a smile.
After they left, Ye Caiping brought two baskets, put two boxes of snacks and two ginseng roots in each.
First, Ye Daquan's family was mentioned.
Mrs. Du was hanging clothes and smiled when she saw her: "Why are you here, little sister?"
Ye Caiping put a basket in her hand and said, "I've caused trouble for everyone by going to jail this time."
"What nonsense are you talking about? We are a family, and we are divided just by saying this." Mrs. Du took the basket with a smile. She thought it was some brown sugar eggs, but when she saw the ginseng, she exclaimed, "Ginseng? We can't accept such a valuable thing."
"Sister-in-law said this is a good thing." Ye Caiping returned her words and said with a smile, "This ginseng is not worth much. Sister-in-law, please give more nourishment to the family members recently."
Mrs. Du was happy, but she was a little afraid to take it. Finally, she accepted it: "Okay, then I won't be shy."
"Have you discussed the delivery business? After such a long break, are they still willing to take the goods?"
"It's settled. We're all willing. Oh, Yong'er has taken the cow out to graze. It will be sent back to your house in the evening."
"That's good. I'll go to my second brother's house first."
After Ye Caiping said goodbye, she went to Ye Er's family.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Wei chopping pig grass: "Second sister-in-law, where is the second brother?"
"Looking for Sanquan and Tieniu." He said without stopping his hands.
Ye Caiping handed over the basket and said the same thing.
Wei originally felt somewhat resentful towards Ye Caiping for causing them to go to jail, but now when he saw the ginseng in the basket, all his resentment was thrown out of his mind, and he was so happy that his eyebrows and eyes were smiling:
"Is this ginseng? I've never seen a whole ginseng before! And there are two of them!"
"This is for you, my second brother and my second sister-in-law, to nourish your bodies."
"Okay, okay, thank you, little sister."
Ye Caiping smiled, chatted for a few words, then turned and left.
Wei went back to the house excitedly and put the snacks on the dining table in the main room. After thinking for a while, he locked the two ginseng roots in the cabinet.
One is enough to maintain your body, and the remaining one can be sold! Maybe you can exchange it for two or three hundred taels of silver!
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After Ye Caiping left, Shen Zhiyan wrote a letter.
Hand it to Duanwu: "Send it out!"
Duanwu took it, and before he could turn around, Shen Manman ran in: “Wait, I have a letter here too, let’s deliver it together.”
Shen Zhiyan snorted and laughed: "What are you talking about with your grandmother again? Why are you so talkative, little mouth of yours?"
"What do you care!" Shen Manman pinched her waist and handed a stack of letters to Duanwu: "Go!"
Duanwu said with a smile: "Miss, your stack of letters is about to crash the carrier pigeon."
"Then send a few more."
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