It would be a shame to throw away the leftover hot pot soup, but the whole family can’t finish it.
After discussion, everyone decided to keep a portion for tomorrow's meal and distribute the rest to the people outside Zhang Village who were on good terms with them.
Chu Qi even filled a basin with it and sent it to her good friend Li Yue the next day.
This was the first time in Li Yue's life that peppers could be used to cook dishes. If he hadn't known that Brother Ye's royalties were enough to support his life, he would have almost thought that the other party had tasted the poison because he couldn't survive...
But the smell of the "hot pot soup" was indeed very tempting. Li Yue hesitated for a moment and accepted the soup base.
As mentioned before, soup base dishes are picked up with serving chopsticks, so there is no need to worry about unhygienic issues.
After delivering the soup base, Chu Qi went to the vegetable market again and bought five chickens to take home as backup. The fox would be staying at home for several days, so it was necessary to prepare some food for it.
Chu Qi treated the fox as a temporary pet, so naturally she couldn't treat the pet badly.
The Ye family has been idle recently, so Chu Qi is planning to tear down the old thatched house and build a new one.
Thatched roofs cannot be used, and all tiles are used.
In fact, the original thatched house was not only that small.
After all, this was a house that had once housed more than 20 people from Huang Ying's deceased mother's family. It couldn't be too small. However, as the population gradually decreased, the house lost its popularity and was washed away by strong winds and rain, so it collapsed.
It was naturally difficult to keep it after it collapsed, so they simply shoveled away the earth wall, leveled the ground, and planted vegetables.
But leveling due to force majeure and proactively demolishing and renovating is another matter.
For this, Huang Ying led the Ye family to burn incense at the Huang family's ancestral tablets before starting the construction.
During this construction, since there was no other place to live for the time being, Chu Qi used another "skill" he knew.
That is, making tents.
The temporary tent doesn't have to be very good, as long as it is habitable.
Made of ninth grade linen.
Lay three layers of straw on the ground, then put a bed board on it, and it can be used as a temporary residence.
The living place was too simple, and Chu Qi thought that she couldn't let her family down, so she asked workers to come back to do the task of making the earthen walls.
As construction began, the movements from the Ye family attracted the attention of the villagers. The village chief even secretly asked whether the Ye family had found a way to make a fortune.
On the third day after the Ye family hired the workers, rumors gradually spread in the village that the Ye family had discovered an ancient tomb and therefore became rich.
Somehow, the news reached Zhang Town and even alarmed the mayor.
The mayor is a position appointed by the county lord of Zhang County and is responsible for the full management of affairs within Zhang Town.
Even if someone reported the case to the police, it had to be reviewed by the town mayor before being reported to the county magistrate for a court session.
The town mayor Zhang Linzhen is over fifty years old. He is a distant relative of the Zhang County magistrate. Many years ago, he was a businessman who inherited his family business.
He was spoiled by his family since he was young. He is extremely lazy and rogue. He can hardly read or write, but he has a long-term vision.
Not long after the county magistrate came to take up the post as an official, he spent a large sum of money to show his filial respect and got himself the position of town mayor.
Even though this position was not recognized in the Qian Dynasty and had no "real power", in Zhang Town, he was truly a little local emperor.
Ever since Zhang Linzhen became the mayor and removed the original mayor from office and suppressed him wantonly, the Zhang family, to which Zhang Linzhen belongs, has seen its business soar to new heights.
From being a small fortune, he became extremely wealthy through business operations.
However, in recent years, as Zhang Linzhen has grown older, his mind has become more confused.
He actually spent a huge amount of money to build a pleasure building for his concubines to live in.
As the big project started, the Zhang family's assets were depleted. The Zhang family's living standard declined and they could not live as extravagantly as before.
Zhang Linzhen was recently worrying about not being extravagant, when news came that Ye Qingyun's family had made a fortune by digging up an ancient tomb.
He personally asked his servants to go to Zhang Village to inquire about the situation.
The villagers who happened to ask were the ones who spread the rumor.
When the opportunity arose, the villager began to talk:
For example, the Ye family was reluctant to eat minced meat before.
Why do we have to eat meat every meal starting now?
Oh, I passed by Ye's house that day and saw several chickens waiting to be eaten in the chicken coop...
He spoke with spit flying, a fierce light flashing in his eyes.
The actual situation is that the villager was jealous of the Ye family's good food that day, so he went to steal their livestock in the middle of the night, but was discovered by Chu Qi's cat, who then went to remind Chu Qi...
As soon as Chu Qi came out, the thief realized he was discovered, and he was so scared that he ran away. Unexpectedly, he fell into a pit and broke his leg. Then he held a grudge against the Ye family.
After much thought, he came up with this method to take revenge on the Ye family.
In his opinion, even if the ancient tomb was not dug up, the Ye family must be doing something shameful.
Otherwise, how could he suddenly become so rich?
Even if it wasn't, if he publicized this matter, it might attract thieves to patronize the Ye family...
No matter how you look at it, he is not at a loss.
The villager named Zhang didn't care whether the story was true or not. The Ye family had been living a good life for a long time and had been envied by others. Once the rumor came out, it spread all at once.
Zhang Linzhen's servant told Zhang Linzhen the results of the investigation.
Within three days, Zhang Linzhen inspected the Ye family on the pretext of suspecting that they had robbed the Ye family's tomb.
The result, of course, was nothing.
Zhang Lin was unwilling to give up after finding nothing, so he started to investigate the source of Chu Qi's money.
If nothing can be found, the Ye family will be detained for a year or so on the charge of having suddenly made a fortune but not being able to prove the source of the money.
There had indeed been such a precedent in Zhang County, and the charges were very legitimate. Even if the case was reported to the county magistrate, there was nothing that could be done.
As a last resort, Chu Qi had to reveal the identity of the person who was selling stories in the bookstore.
Ye Qingyun, the top student on the list, was involved in an incident called "robbing an ancient tomb", which had already attracted much attention from scholars.
Even the scholars studying in Yuzhen heard the rumor in just three days.
As everyone was watching, Chu Qi's vest was exposed, immediately attracting all the attention of the readers of the story.
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Zhao Shi was one of the readers whose attention was attracted.
Recently, a bookstore revealed that the finale of "Jianghu Love Song" will be on sale at the end of the month.
Zhao Shi was looking forward to it very much. He finally waited until the end of the month, but he never expected that there would be a scandal that the author was going to be arrested.
The author was arrested, where can he go to watch the finale?
On the day when Chu Qi's alias was exposed, countless readers who were immersed in fantasy shed tears.
"What, the author is not my dream fox girl Jiang Nu"?
This explosive news shocked the readers.
There were also readers who reacted quickly and crowded into Li Yue’s bookstore that day.
Zhao Shi shouted the loudest:
"Boss, go to Zhang Town and help Mr. Chu Qi clarify the matter!"
The pen name "Chu Qi" has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Even if they knew that the person's real name was Ye Qingyun, readers like Zhao Shi were unwilling to change his name.
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