Before leaving, Xiaoguo placed a sickle on the donkey cart. There was not much grass left at home, so he could cut some grass for the cart on his way back.

"Mom, I'll go back and get Big Black and Little White out first."

Zhuangzhuang saw that home was not far away, and his mother would not let him touch the sickle, so he simply went back to herd the cattle.

Xiaoguo agreed and let Zhuangzhuang go back. The place where they were cutting grass was not too far from home, so he could go back alone to herd the cattle.

Watching Zhuangzhuang walking towards home, Xiaoguo continued to bend down and cut grass. People passing by greeted Xiaoguo, but Xiaoguo could not call out all the names and only recognized some of them he had dealt with before.

The original owner rarely went out before, so she didn’t know many people. This was even more so after Xiaoguo came. The only person she usually contacted was Sister Yang.

Whenever someone greeted Xiaoguo, he would stop and respond.

"Xiao Guo!"

Xiaoguo, who was bending over to cut grass, knew who was coming without looking up.

"sister in law!"

Mrs. Yang walked over to Xiaoguo, looked at him chopping a cartload of grass, and asked, "I went to your house today to look for you, but you weren't home?"

Xiao Guo nodded, "Yes, I just got back."

Xiaoguo didn't say where he was going, and Mrs. Yang didn't ask any further questions. She just talked to Xiaoguo about the meeting in the village.

"Is there a meeting in the village?"

Xiaoguo asked Mrs. Yang in confusion, "Is there anything happening in the village?"

According to Xiaoguo, Taohua Village is different from other villages. In other villages, small meetings are held every few days, but in Taohua Village, meetings are usually held unless there is something important.

"Yes, I was notified this afternoon. I went to look for you. When I saw you were not at home, I went there by myself."

As Mrs. Yang was speaking, Zhuangzhuang came over leading the cow and greeted Mrs. Yang. Xiaoguo reminded him not to go too far and to come back after cutting some grass.

Zhuangzhuang responded and led the cow away.

"You've grown a lot, cow."

Mrs. Yang stood aside and spoke as she watched the strong cow being led away.

"Indeed, it grows very fast."

Xiaoguo also admitted that this cow grows really fast. It can eat and grow at the same time, which is good!

The two chatted for a while, but Xiaoguo remembered the business, so he stopped talking and asked about what happened just now, "There was a meeting in the village, what was it about?"

When Sister Yang heard this, she continued, "The village is talking about harvesting food. Isn't it true that the crops in the fields are almost ripe? Our village is special. Most of the men are not at home, leaving only women. If you need it, you can hire people from other villages to harvest food. It costs 10 wen per mu of land. This time we are counting the number of people hired to harvest food."

After listening to this, Xiaoguo nodded. She didn’t need it anyway. Her own land was just that small and she could just harvest it slowly.

"Hey, sister-in-law, do you hire anyone?"

Sister Yang shook her head when she heard Xiaoguo's question. "No, we have a lot of land, but we don't grow much grain. I, Xiaohu, Xiaohua and my mother-in-law are the four of us who can harvest it."

Xiaoguo thought so too. The food supply was limited and families with many people could collect it themselves. Who would spend money to hire someone?

Every family had at least four or five mu of land, which added up to dozens of coins. It was not a lot of money for people in the county town, but for the relatively poor Taohua Village, people would rather make the most of every penny, so how could they spend dozens of coins to hire someone?

"Is there no one in the village who hires people to collect food?"

Xiaoguo guessed that no one had signed up, but when Mrs. Yang heard that, she curled her lips and pointed to a place.

"Yes, there is one special person."

Xiaoguo looked in the direction he was looking and saw the person at the center of a group of people, Li Zhaodi.

A group of women surrounded Li Zhaodi, chattering about this and that, and one could vaguely hear compliments.

Mrs. Yang looked at Li Zhaodi with disdain. Xiaoguo was very curious. As far as she knew, Li Zhaodi should not have any conflicts with Mrs. Yang.

Li Zhaodi enjoyed the flattery from people around her with a proud look on her face.

"Zhao Di, you are so generous. You are the only one in the village who signed up."

"That's right, we Zhaodi are not short of money, thirty cents is nothing!"

"That's right, everyone knows that our Zhaodi is an official's wife!"

When Li Zhaodi heard the word "official's wife", her eyebrows curled up to her hairline with joy, and she covered her mouth and laughed loudly.

The group walked to Xiaoguo and Yang Dasao. Li Zhaodi glanced and saw Xiaoguo. She wanted to say something to her, but before she could open her mouth, she saw the clothes she was wearing. Her face suddenly changed color, and it seemed as if ink could drip out of it.

Damn Qin Xiaoguo, why is she wearing new clothes, and the style is so novel! How can she, a poor widow who can barely make ends meet, have the money to buy new clothes!

Seeing that Li Zhaodi stopped talking, the others curiously followed her line of sight and saw Qin Xiaoguo happily leaning on the donkey cart and looking at them.

Of course, I also saw her new clothes, which were of unique style and very pretty.

“That dress is pretty nice.”

Someone spoke the truth in everyone's heart, and everyone nodded silently in agreement.

Li Zhaodi stared with her eyes wide open, glared at the woman who spoke, and took a hard stab at her in her heart!

No one dared to talk casually anymore, and no one even glanced at Xiaoguo. Although they all felt itchy in their hearts and wanted to see the style of the clothes and make one for themselves when they got home, but looking at Li Zhaodi's expression, they decided to give up. It would not make sense to lose the big picture for the small one. It was more important to curry favor with her!

The group quickly came to their senses, and one person started to make a move, and the noisy atmosphere was restored in an instant.

But the noisier and more praiseworthy the voices became, the more uncomfortable Li Zhaodi felt. These voices seemed to be mocking her.

Xiaoguo looked at Li Zhaodi, whose face looked like she was performing all 72 transformations. He found her funny but lost interest in watching her. He pulled Sister Yang aside and started talking to her, not affected by the sound of Li Zhaodi at all.

Li Zhaodi walked away with a gloomy face, and the people behind her followed her noisily. The narrow path suddenly became wide.

Mrs. Yang glanced at the people who were leaving. Xiao Guo felt amused and laughed out loud. She didn't know how Li Zhaodi had offended her. Mrs. Yang was usually cheerful with others and seldom rolled her eyes at others.

"Alright, stop laughing!"

Mrs. Yang pushed Xiaoguo and looked at him unhappily.

"How did she recruit you?"

Xiaoguo laughed enough and looked at Mrs. Yang and asked seriously.

"Nothing, just this afternoon..."

During the meeting this afternoon, Li Zhaodi squeezed into the crowd to pick up Xiaoguo, who was not present, and made up lies for her. Sister Yang couldn't stand it anymore, so she stood up and competed with her. In the end, neither of them got left behind, and they were pulled apart.

Xiaoguo understood the whole story and was deeply moved. Mrs. Yang actually competed with Li Zhaodi for her.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Xiaoguo knew that this true feeling could not be expressed in words.

"Hey! You're being polite again!"

Mrs. Yang told Xiaoguo this not for the sake of Xiaoguo's gratitude, but because she was really angry with Li Zhaodi.

Xiaoguo smiled sweetly. No matter what, she still wanted to thank her!

"Sister-in-law, don't bother with her in the future. Li Zhaodi is that kind of person. She was always against me when we were in Qinzhuang. When you see her in the future, just pretend she doesn't exist. Anyway, she is just a bit bad-mouthed and doesn't dare to do anything."

Xiao Guo comforted the angry Mrs. Yang. As for Li Zhaodi, to be honest, based on previous memories, she was just a talkative person and didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary, so Xiao Guo usually didn't take her seriously.