As soon as Yunling finished speaking, the villagers were delighted, but Yun Chu, who had just come down from the mountain to gather medicinal herbs, blushed and quickly pulled Yunling aside, saying with a hint of reproach:
"Lingniang, you're exaggerating. I'm not that amazing."
"Sister is too modest. Didn't Dr. Zhong let you treat patients alone before, and even let you go out to take pulses for others? Why can't you do that in Yuecheng?"
“I’m a little worried since my master isn’t here, and besides, I can’t look after the sows.”
Yunling was amused by these words and laughed:
"Just do your best to see. The more you see, the more experience you'll gain. And by applying the notes you've taken before, you'll soon become a competent female doctor. Otherwise, do you really want to waste your medical skills by just picking herbs every day?"
Yun Chu was naturally unwilling to waste her time like this. She wanted to say a few more words, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that Yun Ling was right, so she didn't say anything more.
Yunling was overjoyed to have acquired a large grove of lychee trees and also solved the beekeeping problem. What made her even happier was that Wen Siqing had successfully negotiated the land deal. Perhaps it was true that when someone is lucky, even their farts can be mistaken for perfume.
Wen Siqing went from house to house to talk to them as Yunling had suggested. In the end, after some back and forth with the village chief, he spent fifty strings of cash and three mu of land to successfully obtain the forty mu of land closest to the mountain. Although the soil was not very good, it was not a problem for Yunling.
**
After acquiring forty acres of farmland and a lychee orchard, Yunling was constantly busy. She entrusted Yun Ruoxia and Tang Ling with accompanying Zhang Shi and Old Lady Yun to the county market, while she and Gangzi led people to weed and clear land.
It took her about ten days to gradually release her supernatural power, and the soil became almost like the kind of soil that is mature enough to grow rice, while the lychee trees also returned to their previous healthy state.
Winter has arrived, and apart from the nights being a bit cold, the daytime weather is not much different from that of autumn, although a sudden drop in temperature is not out of the question.
The two houses were almost finished, and with the addition of small items by Zhang Shi and Granny Yun, the house gradually began to feel like a complete home.
Seeing this, Yunling could no longer bear it. Seeing Zhang washing dishes in the kitchen, she asked her to boil a pot of water for washing. Although she had never known how to take a bath since she was a child in the apocalypse, she only knew that she was itchy and would follow others in scratching themselves.
But ever since she transmigrated here, she had been forced to wash and groom herself by Zhang Shi when she was a child, and she naturally got used to it.
"It's freezing cold, why are you washing up? If you catch a cold, you'll feel terrible."
"Grandma, the grime on my body is so thick it's like I'm wearing a cotton coat. A few days ago, I rolled up my sleeves and people asked me why I was so dark-skinned for a young woman. I was too embarrassed to say anything, I just said it was from the sun."
“You’re so delicate, but everyone goes through this. I heard from your great-grandmother that before I was born, she and my maternal grandmother fled together, stopping here and there, and it took them five years to finally reach Pingcheng.”
As Old Lady Yun recalled this story her mother had told her, her eyes flickered.
She said that my grandmother only dared to boil water for washing after she had established herself in Pingcheng. She witnessed my grandmother go in with black hair and come out with white hair.
Yunling and Zhang were deeply shocked upon hearing this. Just as Yunling was about to ask if something had happened during their escape that led to this situation, Old Lady Fan and her sister-in-law arrived, carrying a bag of rice.
“I noticed candles were lit in your kitchen, so I thought I’d come and bring you a bag of rice.”
Old Lady Yun quickly declined, refusing:
"Why are you sending rice? You have too much to eat at home, what's the point?"
Grandma Fan placed the rice directly on the stove, took two steps back, and said:
"We've come all the way from Pingcheng, and the Fan family owes it all to your help. We've been provided with good food and clothing, and this house we have is all thanks to you. We'll remember that. But right now we don't have anything good to give you, just this bag of rice. Please accept it."
"Don't even try that, you!"
"Grandma, let's accept Grandma Fan's kindness."
Old Lady Yun immediately glared at Yun Ling and said with displeasure:
"Hey kid, do whatever you want, don't make a fuss here. It's best to stay out of adult business."
"What's wrong with me? Am I not an adult? What can't I get involved in?"
Yunling tilted her head and said innocently:
“We’ve been through thick and thin with the Fan family, so why are we being so polite? Grandma Fan and Auntie, what do you say?”
“Of course, Ling’er is absolutely right.”
“That’s right. Our family has just acquired forty mu of land, which is great, but we don’t have enough men to cultivate it. I think it would be better to have Uncle Fan and Second Uncle help us cultivate it, and then the harvested rice can be divided between the two families.”
"No, this is absolutely not allowed."
Old Lady Fan and Sister-in-law Fan immediately refused in unison, saying that their family had contributed neither money nor labor to these forty mu of land, so how could they share the rice with others? It was extremely unfair, and they could not do that.
"Hey, didn't we just say that our two families have been through thick and thin together? Why are you being so polite? You all agree with that."
Old Lady Yun and Madam Zhang exchanged glances, each seeing the amusement in the other's eyes. Yun Ling, that wretched girl, has really gotten herself into something.
“Oh dear, you’re listening to this silly kid. We have few men in our family, and Hua Ge’er doesn’t often work in the fields. His father is getting old, so do you expect me to go and plant rice?”
Old Lady Fan knew it was their good intention, but good intentions aside, she couldn't take advantage of them, so she said:
“Our Fan family can help cultivate this land, but the harvested rice cannot be divided equally. We can take 20% of it.”
"You two big idiots! The times are chaotic right now, which is why our land taxes have been let pass by. But once things stabilize, do you think the taxes won't increase after this? You may not care, but how many children does your Fan family have? How can you bear to do that?"
Old Mrs. Fan was a little embarrassed by what was said, so her eldest sister-in-law spoke up:
"If we split it 30/70, our family will get 30%, which will give us 12 mu of rice paddies. That's enough. Any more than that, and we won't have the drive to catch up with your family. That won't do."
Since things had come to this point, Yunling and the others had no reason to persuade them any further, so they had no choice but to agree.
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