The village head was afraid that Dong Hu would take the opportunity to blackmail Li Pozi, so he quickly pulled her away and said, "Dong Hu, do as you said just now.
Xiao Nian, tell me, how much is a jar of lard and sugar? Convert it into silver and take it out quickly.
Dong Hu, think carefully. You are the eldest of the Dong family. If you don’t keep your word, I will take the Geng family to report to the police.”
"Give it to me, why not? When did I ever break my promise?"
Dong Hu said in a low voice: "Qin Nian, you calculate, how much is it?"
Qin Nian said: "A jar of lard, two taels of silver, three catties of sugar, one tael of silver, a bowl of noodles, one tael of silver, plus the two taels you compensated us, a total of six taels.
I won't charge you a penny more. If you disagree, we can go to the government and let the county magistrate decide."
Isn't this called overcharging? In this case, the Dong family did not dare to report to the authorities and could only accept it.
Dong Hu squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Mom, give me some silver."
Mrs. Dong didn't want to take it. She stood there for a long time before she took out a big key from her bosom and opened the door of the cabinet on the kang.
With trembling hands, he slowly reached into the cabinet, and after a long time, he slowly pulled out a small cloth bag. He used his body to block the bag, took out six taels of silver from it, and placed it on the kang.
He hurriedly put the cloth bag in his hand back into the deep of the cabinet, locked the door, and then turned around.
Enduring the pain like a thousand arrows piercing my heart, he pushed the six taels of silver over and said, "Qin Nian, take it.
"Those things of yours are worth at most three taels, and you insisted on giving them back three taels. You are so young, how can you spend this money well?"
When Mrs. Li heard this, she flew into a rage: "Mrs. Dong, you old ghost soldier, are you shameless?
If your son hadn't stolen our things, would you have ended up paying for it?"
Mrs. Li became angrier and angrier as she spoke. She raised the wooden stick and was about to hit Dong Hu on the head. Qin Nian and Ye Meizi hurriedly held her back.
Ye Meizi advised: "Auntie Li, they have compensated us with silver, let's go back, we still have a lot of work to do at home."
The head of the village also advised: "Go back and don't bother with them.
Xiao Nian, take the silver."
Qin Nian picked up the silver and walked out of Dong's house. As she walked back, she was calculating in her mind. She had read a lot of time-travel novels in her previous life, and the spaces of the time travelers all had the function of storing things.
There must be a lot of silver in Mrs. Dong's small cloth bag. Qin Nian decided to take it as a punishment and let them also taste the feeling of having their things stolen.
After making the calculation, Qin Nian said to himself: Take Mrs. Dong’s money!
She didn't know whether it was brought in or not. She would look for it later.
After returning home, Geng Zhenhai, Geng Feng and Geng Tian started to work. Ye Meizi cooked.
She washed the rice while Mrs. Li lit the fire, and the two of them cooked rice.
Qin Nian peeled a few potatoes, washed a head of cabbage, and made potato stew with cabbage.
Geng Feng and Geng Tian each ate two large bowls of rice accompanied by the chili sauce made by Mrs. Li.
Another night falls.
Geng Zhenhai and the other two decided to sleep under the starry sky and not go to the village headman's house. Although there were not many people like them in the Dong family, it was better not to leave home just in case.
In the middle of the night, Mrs. Li and Ye Meizi had already fallen asleep.
Qin Nian entered the space, and Mrs. Dong's small cloth bag appeared on the table. Qin Nian poured out the silver inside, a total of twenty taels.
I felt heartbroken just thinking about Mrs. Dong paying six taels of silver as compensation. I would be so sad if I found out that twenty taels were missing.
They deserve it. Those who abuse themselves should be taught a lesson. I hope they can behave themselves in the future.
They worked for more than ten days in a row, and at the end of the month, Geng Feng's house was finally completed.
During this period, Qin Nian went to the county town several times to buy vegetables, rice and noodles.
Building a house is a physically demanding job, and it is very hard. Qin Nian is very willing to spend money on food.
Now that we have the ability, we must not neglect the health of our family.
Geng Tian is going home.
Mrs. Li had already prepared a jar of chili sauce and gave it to Geng Tian.
Geng Tian was so happy: "Grandma Li, you really did it for me?"
"Of course you do. Are you, Grandma Li, just talk and no action?"
Granny Li tapped Geng Tian's arm with a wooden stick and said, "Boy, come back for more if you haven't eaten yet. I'll make more for you.
You must come, I hate young men who are hypocritical, but I am not like that, I am always straightforward. "
Mrs. Li would praise her Xiao Nian whenever she got the chance.
Geng Tian laughed heartily: "Don't worry, I'm not a fake person."
Ye Meizi steamed a big pot of buns, put them in a clean bamboo basket, and asked Geng Tian to take it back.
Qin Nian brought ten kilograms of rice and made a clay pot of braised pork.
There were a lot of things, so Geng Tian put them all on Geng Feng's cart and pushed them back. He would return the cart when he had some free time.
Geng Tian helped here for twenty days, doing heavy work every day. Not only did he not lose weight, he became much stronger.
What puzzled Geng Tian even more was that he seldom felt tired these days. Even if he was tired, he would fully recover after taking a rest and a good sleep.
It wasn't like this before.
Geng Tian thought that it was because he could have enough food to eat here, but he would never imagine that having enough food to eat was only one aspect.
More importantly, he drinks spiritual spring water every day, which is very good for the body.
The inside and outside of Qin Nian's house were dry, the windows were installed, and the window paper was pasted on them.
The door noses of the room and the warehouse were nailed shut, so this time when people go out, they can be locked.
Geng Feng's house has not dried out yet, so the three of them are temporarily living in the warehouse.
While building the house, Qin Nian went up the mountain twice.
After this period of training, she was now able to cross the ridge by herself.
The corn she and Geng Feng planted grew more than a foot tall in just one month.
The same goes for potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants, they all grow rapidly as if they were blown by air.
Cantaloupe and watermelons have started to grow branches and will bloom in a few days.
Qin Nian sighed: Lingquan water is indeed unique. I guess the vegetables must be very delicious, different from ordinary vegetables.
What you can’t eat can be sold, and it should fetch a lot of silver.
That day, Qin Nian and Geng Feng once again carried bamboo baskets into the county town. It was July, and they went to collect disaster relief grain.
During this period, King Xuan visited several counties in Yizhou and personally supervised the distribution of disaster relief food.
He issued an order that anyone who dared to take bribes, break the law, or try to steal relief grain would not be let off easily.
I just returned to Yi County yesterday.
Mo Yue said: "Your Majesty, it's July now, and the disaster victims have started to receive relief grain again.
The grain allocated by the court is not enough for each person to have six catties per month. What should we do with the shortfall?"
Mo Xuan shook his head slightly: "The relief grain allocated by the court is not the limit.
I handed the emperor a memorial stating that the drought in the twenty-five counties of Yizhou was extremely severe.
The emperor should be able to increase disaster relief efforts, and the food problem will be solved easily."
Changing the subject, "Has Miss Qin's house been built? Did she come into the city today?"
Mo Yue said: "The house has been built. Miss Qin also came to the city today. The two of them came together to collect disaster relief food."
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