"Everyone in Dongjia Village is capable, you and Manager Xu are all capable."
"In the past, people in our village would just go to town to do some small business, either selling food or working as peddlers. Unlike you, boss, you have bought several large farms and even opened a horse trading company. We admire you very much."
"Alas, there are probably not many people left in our village. We originally worked in the village, and the situation in the village is not good."
"I heard the war is over, and everything will be fine after all."
"The war is over, but my home is gone too."
"It doesn't matter whether I have one or not. I'm living a much better life now than before. If my family doesn't care about us, why should we care about them? I just need to live my own life well."
Everyone was talking to each other.
When Wang Shiwen arrived, they had already circled the ridge of the field.
"Boss, would you like to have lunch here at noon? I've asked them to prepare it."
Chunxiao looked at Dongsheng and said, "We have to eat at noon. Why don't we eat first and then go to town to buy things? We have a carriage, so we won't be late."
Dongsheng nodded and said, "I'll listen to you."
"What are you laughing at?" Chunxiao looked at Xiaohua, who was covering her mouth with her hands while laughing. "If you've thought of something funny, tell us about it."
Xiaohua immediately put on a serious face and shook her head. "Nothing, I just suddenly thought of something. Oh, Miss, let's go. I'll go wash your hands with you."
At noon, everyone gathered in the yard to eat. Originally, everyone would go back to their rooms to eat after finishing their meal, but today the host came, so they held their bowls and ate and chatted outside their rooms.
Chunxiao and Dongsheng were sitting at the table in the main room in the middle of the east fourth room, eating, and Wang Shiwen was with them.
"Next time, go to town and ask a carpenter to make some large tables and chairs, the kind that can seat eight people at a table. If they want to eat together, they can sit together. If they don't want to eat together, they can go back to their rooms to eat. But it would be bad if there weren't large tables. I wanted to tell you that last time, but I forgot when I left."
"Boss, there's something I just learned about in the last few days. A widow from the village has taken a fancy to a man from our village. She's a farmhand and has a child. He's also interested in her. What should we do about this? We can still make decisions about marriages between people from our village, but it's harder to deal with people from the village. I've warned him not to do anything wrong and put him in a difficult position. He knows it himself, and it's the beginning of the year. I'm thinking of removing the widow from the list. Maybe that would be a good idea."
Chunxiao put down her chopsticks. This matter was indeed difficult to handle, but such matters would only become more and more frequent in the future. The widow was already living a hard life, and it would be cruel to take away her job quota just because of admiration.
"Keep an eye on the people in Zhuangzi and keep them under control. You need to let me think about this matter. I'll get back to you when I'm done."
On the way back, Chunxiao kept thinking about this matter. One was a servant with a contract, and the other was a villager. The man had no household registration and was registered under her name. How should she get married?
Although Dongsheng was driving the car, he knew that she was worried about this matter when he heard her chatting with Xiaohua.
"Actually, Chunxiao, why should you worry about all this? They were all bought by you. They weren't free to begin with. Unlike ordinary people, the servants I've met don't live as freely as they do. You've given them enough. Don't you feel that the better you treat them, the more they ask for?"
"Of course I understand what you said, but to be honest, I don't want to use them as servants. In fact, as long as they are loyal enough, I would feel more at ease if they were employed by me as ordinary people." Perhaps this is caused by the idea that everyone is born equal that is engraved in her bones.
"Why? Isn't the purpose of buying people to use them for our own purposes? Honestly, if you just issue an order in Zhuangzi not to allow this kind of thing to happen, then nothing will happen and you won't have to worry."
"Maybe our perspectives are different. I still hope they can live a good life. If I can help them live a good life through some measures, I am willing to try."
Xiaohua sighed aside, "It's not a difference in concepts. After all, our young lady is kind-hearted. Brother Dongsheng, we just need to help her think about the decisions she has made. There is no need to persuade her." She knew her young lady's temperament very well.
Dongsheng didn't say anything and drove the carriage to the town.
When they arrived, Dongsheng looked at Chunxiao hesitantly and said, "I went up the mountain to catch two rabbits a few days ago. I'm out of thread at home, so I want to buy some to make a hat for my dad."
"Can you also do needlework?" Chunxiao asked curiously.
Dongsheng felt a little embarrassed by her question. "I can only sew simple things. When I was in the military camp, I had to sew my clothes and pants myself when they got torn."
Chunxiao smiled and said, "Let's go in." The three of them arrived at the cloth shop. She picked out some gray yarn for Dongsheng, and seeing some nice shoes nearby, she bought two more pairs for herself. Zhou had actually made quite a few shoes for her, but they had all been destroyed in the fire at home, along with their clothes. After leaving the cloth shop, they headed straight for the embroidery shop. Buying cloth to make clothes was too much trouble these days; it was more convenient to buy ready-made clothes.
The styles of clothes in the embroidery shop in the town are naturally not as good as those in the county, but there are still many that look good. She looked at each set, then tried them on herself, and asked Xiaohua and Dongsheng to make a decision for her. In the end, she bought six sets of winter clothes, four for herself and two for Xiaohua.
"Miss, why did you buy clothes for me when you bought them for yourself? It's not appropriate for a girl like me to wear the same clothes as you. Our cloth has arrived today, so I can make two sets for myself when I get home."
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