Xiao Yunying went outside and gave the oxcart rental money to one of the drivers to help her transport grain from her home. She gave him an extra two coins.
She stood at the back door watching the oxcart disappear into the distance, brushing the dust off her clothes.
"Now we have a solution for vegetables that don't look very appealing."
Otherwise, her family really couldn't finish eating it all, and it would be a waste not to eat it. There's also the food and meat in the supermarket, which will be replenished anyway. She would never be stingy when it comes to food.
It was past lunchtime, and she was too lazy to cook, so she took a bag of hot and sour noodles from the supermarket and cooked them.
After dinner, I went to Yingying's house and told her about the job I was going to offer her at Jinxiuge.
The little girl happily agreed. Duan Yingying's mother didn't go; she had to stay home to take care of Duan Xiaoxiao and do some housework.
"Then come to my house tomorrow morning, and I'll take you into the city to familiarize yourself with the way."
The little girl nodded with sparkling eyes, which cheered Xiao Yunying up.
After leaving Duan Yingying's house, she turned around and went back to her parents' home, where she told Mu Lianrong and Xiao Yuntao about what she had seen that morning when Ge Changjian was beaten beyond recognition by the people from the gambling den.
"I heard a scream when I left, I don't know if it was a broken leg or a chopped finger."
Her gloating was too obvious. Xiao Yuntao, who was embroidering flowers on her spring clothes, smiled and said:
"Alright, Third Sister knows, look how happy you are."
Mu Lianrong gathered the scraps of cloth, intending to sew a pair of insoles, and said:
"Don't even mention Yunyun being happy, I'm happy to hear it too. I think he deserves it, he's just getting his comeuppance."
Xiao Yunying leaned forward and asked, "Third Sister, aren't you happy at all when you heard about this?"
Xiao Yuntao stopped her embroidery and sighed, "Little sister, to be honest, I feel relieved to hear about this, after all, he treated me so badly before..."
But I don't want my family to have any further involvement with the Ge family because of my situation. Right now, I just want to sever all ties with him completely.
"I understand, Third Sister. From now on, we won't pay any attention to the Ge family. Let them do whatever they want; it's none of our business."
Xiao Yuntao hummed in agreement, picked up the little clothes in her hand, and showed them to Xiao Yunying, asking, "How do you think these little clothes are? Will Xin'er like them?"
"Third sister, is this a dress you made for Xin'er? It's so pretty, and the little butterflies on it are Xin'er's favorite."
The mother and her two daughters chatted about embroidery patterns, and naturally changed the subject.
As evening approached, she figured the children would be back soon, so she went home.
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By mid-March, when almost all fifty acres of land had been cultivated, she had people gather the pulled weeds together and burn them, then bury the ashes back in the ground as fertilizer.
That afternoon, Xiao Yunying stood at the edge of the field, watching the farmhands work diligently, and in her heart praised Chen Yuancheng for his accurate judgment of people.
It could also be due to good training.
A noisy commotion came from behind her. Xiao Yunying turned around and saw a group of people, about eight or nine in total, walking towards her in a hurry.
She was startled. What was going on? Had she done something that made the whole village come looking for her?
She always settled the wages for clearing land every five days, and she never missed a payment.
In a short period of time, she went through everything she had done recently in her mind to make sure that she hadn't done anything that would cause public outrage.
Leading the way were Lin Shi and his aunt, their faces filled with anxiety. Beside them was another family, with a young woman constantly wiping away tears.
Before Xiao Yunying could ask, Aunt Lin said anxiously, "Yunying, my Lin Yi and her youngest son have gone missing. Can you ask your farmhands if they've seen them?"
Xiao Yunying frowned and asked seriously, "The child is missing? When did he disappear?"
The woman, who had been wiping away tears, said in a sobbing voice, "My child went out to play this morning and didn't come back for lunch. He usually eats at his uncle's house, so I didn't think much of it."
He hadn't returned by afternoon, and I got a little worried, so I went to his uncle's house to ask. But his uncle said the child hadn't gone anywhere that day; he'd searched the whole village, and no one had seen him.
Aunt Lin added, "My Lin Yi also said after lunch that she was going to the foot of West Mountain to pick some grass fluff. When I went to West Mountain to help her look for her child, I found that Lin Yi was also missing."
I just heard from an old lady at the village entrance that she saw a horse-drawn carriage leave. Your family is the only one in our village with a carriage, so I came to ask if it was possible that a naughty child climbed onto your carriage and followed it into town without the driver noticing.
Xiao Yunying's first reaction was that it was definitely not her family's carriage.
Because Dai Jincai was in charge of raising horses, Xiao Yunying dismantled her own stable and built a new one behind the courtyard where their farmhands lived, so they could raise horses there.
Although I can't watch them all the time, if they want to enter the city by carriage, they will definitely come and tell me.
The key point is that she hired quite a few long-term workers, and even the Dai family's three-year-old grandson was playing in the dirt next to the field.
To put their minds at ease, Xiao Yunying asked Aunt Dai to gather all the farmhands in the field.
The land was divided into neat plots, so the people weren't too scattered and quickly gathered together.
"Did anyone drive a horse-drawn carriage into the city today?"
The farmhands looked at each other, wondering what had happened. Uncle Dai counted the number of people and said, "Master, we are not missing any people, and no one would drive your carriage into the city without permission."
Seeing that she looked unwell, Aunt Dai asked, "Master, has something happened?"
Xiao Yunying explained, "Two children went missing in the village. Someone said they saw a carriage leaving the village entrance this afternoon, so they came to ask around."
One of the farmhands looked hesitant, but finally mustered up his courage and said, "Master, I have something to say."
Xiao Yunying looked at him and said, "Speak boldly about whatever it is."
The farmhand said, "In the afternoon, I went to the well in front of the greenhouse to fetch water and saw a man dressed in black, who didn't look like an ordinary farmer. He was wandering around the greenhouse. I went up to him and asked him what he was looking at, but he didn't say anything. He just glanced at me and left."
He scratched his head, then hesitated before continuing, "However, I haven't been in the village for long, and I don't know all the people here, so I'm not sure if he's from outside."
Lin Shi hurriedly asked, "What does he look like?"
The farmhand recalled the man's appearance: "He was a little over seven feet tall, very strong, and looked like he knew martial arts. Oh, and he had a long scar on his left forehead, like a scar left by a sharp weapon."
Lin Shi muttered, "It's over. He's not from our village. Has my son been kidnapped?"
Upon hearing this, the woman, who had been wiping away tears, felt her legs go weak and knelt on the ground.
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