Chapter 514 Don’t Worry (Thanks to the Reward from Book Friend “Xiaojia”)
"If my eldest brother and his friends didn't bring home the money they earned outside, but instead used it to buy wine and meat, they probably wouldn't even be able to get through the door when they got home. Not to mention my father, my sisters-in-law wouldn't let them off either."
Yang Heshu seemed lost in thought. After taking a sip of tea, he asked with a smile, "Have your three farmhands found wives?"
The three children were stunned and shook their heads together, "We don't know."
Yang Heshu smiled and said, "Go back and ask. After all, you are the owner of a small farm. You should also care about the farmhands."
The three of them nodded blankly.
Yang Heshu and the others went to take a look at the shop that Manbao had bought. Before they even got there, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "This is a great place. How did you buy it?"
“I knew the previous store owner, so he sold it to me.”
Yang Heshu thought for a moment and said, "This seems to be the Shi family's shop."
"Yes, yes, it was Uncle Shi who sold it to me."
Yang Heshu smiled at her, "You know quite a lot of people."
Manbao smiled sheepishly, "The county town is so small. I've been here so often that I've gotten to know him. Do you know him too?"
Yang Heshu stood across the street with his hands behind his back, watching the Zhou family members busying around in the shop. He smiled and said, "You said it all, the county town is so small. I've been here for almost two years, so of course I recognize him. The Shi family is not an unknown family either."
Yang Heshu's smile faded slightly, and he said, "The Shi family has fallen~~"
Bai Shanbao glanced at Manbao, then turned his head to look at him and asked, "Is it because of gambling?"
Yang Heshu nodded slightly, stood up and walked into the shop, saying, "In the fall, the old man of the Shi family passed away, and Shi Xiaoen started selling land and shops. I heard that he owed a lot of money."
Manbao was not very happy and asked with a sad heart, "Sir, why does the county allow gambling houses to exist?"
Yang Heshu looked down at Manbao, who stared at him intently with a pair of clear, glass-like eyes. Yang Heshu then looked away and said calmly, "The court doesn't prohibit gambling, and His Majesty also enjoys cockfighting."
Manbao's eyes widened. "The emperor gambles too? Isn't he afraid of losing everything gambling away?"
As soon as Manbao finished speaking, she felt something was wrong. She frowned and asked, "Can the emperor lose everything?"
"I think it will be difficult," Bai Shanbao said, "If he runs out of money, he can come to us."
Manbao's face turned bitter. Yang Heshu found it funny and patted her head and said, "You are still young. You don't need to worry about such things for the time being."
Bai Shanbao said with a stern face, "When we grow up, we won't have to worry about such things."
Zhou Dalang had already spotted County Magistrate Yang and hurried out to greet him, "Why are you here, County Magistrate?"
Yang Heshu smiled and walked forward, saying, "I heard that Manbao bought a shop in the city, so I came to take a look."
The people in the Zhou family were very welcoming to Yang Heshu's arrival.
Nonsense, their family is going to do business in the county town in the future, so of course they have to have a good relationship with the county magistrate. After all, they have a backer, right?
Zhou Dalang brought out all the chairs he could find in the shop for them to sit on. Yang Heshu smiled and waved his hand. He strolled around the lobby on the first floor and said with a smile, "This shop looks good. When are you planning to open it?"
Zhou Dalang said, "The shop is short of tables, chairs and benches, and we also need to buy some kitchen supplies. It will probably take several days, so we are thinking of opening after the third day of the Lunar New Year."
Yang Heshu nodded and said, "That's right. When that day comes, please leave me a message and I'll come to congratulate you."
Zhou Dalang was very excited and agreed immediately.
Zhou Erlang and Zhou Silang had not returned yet. They only came back drunkenly when they had cleaned the shop inside and out and were about to close the shop and go home.
Zhou Erlang took out a document and showed it to them, saying with a smile, "It's already been recorded. Lao Si and I saw him record it with our own eyes."
Zhou Dalang asked, "Does it cost a lot?"
"It didn't cost much," Zhou Silang said with a smile. "I only spent a little over a hundred coins to treat him to a good meal."
Zhou Dalang was relieved and put away the documents and the house deed.
Manbao curiously leaned over to take a look, and Zhou Dalang patted her on the head and said, "Go home quickly, your parents must be worried."
Manbao didn't care anymore. The shop was not hers anyway, and her elder brother and sister-in-law would naturally take care of it. She would just wait until she had time to come to the county town to eat delicious food, or ask her elder brother to bring it back for her.
Manbao climbed onto the oxcart and sat next to Bai Shanbao. He discussed with him the matchmaking for the farmhands. "I don't think we can let them find wives on their own. It's been two years and they still haven't found one. I think we should arrange matchmaking for them."
"Didn't you say that they have no money and people won't marry them?"
"It's been two years, and they still haven't saved any money?" Manbao glared. "We just gave out big red envelopes for the Chinese New Year the other day."
Bai Shanbao agreed, mainly because he felt that County Magistrate Yang's proposal was strange, so he also wanted to go and see why he asked them to pay attention to the farmhands getting married.
As a result, they had just made a move when the head of the Baizhuang Village bowed and said, "I was just about to tell the young masters that the three farmhands are planning to get married."
Manbao spit out the water he had just drunk. Bai Shanbao's eyes widened. "Are all three of them going to get married?"
"Yes," said the head of the Baizhuang village, also helpless. "They just told me the night before last that they were planning to get married and wanted to inform the masters."
Manbao: "It's almost Chinese New Year, and you're telling us now. Is it too late to prepare for the banquet? There's also the betrothal gifts and house furnishings."
The head of the Baizhuang Village laughed and said, "Miss Man, they are all marrying widows who have been married for the second time. Two of them have children. Their families are poor, so why would they be so particular? They don't have any betrothal gifts or dowries. They just brought bedding and planned to have a meal together for the three families."
Manbao and Bai Shanbao opened their mouths in surprise. This was the first time they had ever seen a wedding like this. It took them a while to come back to their senses. They asked with a stammer, "No wedding ceremony or wine?"
The head of the Baizhuang nodded and said, "I went to check it out today. They have cut-out "囍" characters on the windows and doors. They said that we'll have a meal with the bride tomorrow and it will be a done deal."
He said, "Fortunately, the house is ready, and they can live in it when they get married. But there are more people in the manor, so whether to hire them all or not is up to the young masters to decide."
Manbao asked, "Do they have land?"
The head of the Baizhuang Village shook his head and smiled, "They are all women. They can't take their husband's land with them when they remarry. How can they own land? There are two with children, but they are still young. Even if they can inherit their father's permanent land, they will have to farm in their original village..."
"Oh, they're not from our Qili Village," Manbao finally remembered, scratching his head and looking at Bai Shanbao, "Why not just keep them all? Don't you dislike the vegetables they grow without much care and the chickens they raise?"
"Of course it's not good," Bai Shanbao muttered. "We have over a hundred chickens, and we only lay a few more eggs than yours. Okay, let's keep them all and pay them the same as theirs. Tell them that if they do a good job, we'll give them a raise next year."
Bai Zhuangtou immediately bent down and responded.
(End of this chapter)
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