Chapter 270 Change
Nong Hui knew that her mother had made her decision, and no matter how much she cried and begged, it would not change anything. She then returned to her yard dejectedly.
Nong Hui didn't go to her mother to make trouble for two days, and Mrs. Nong didn't take it seriously. She knew her daughter best because she was the one she gave birth to and raised. The child's temper would only last for two or three days, and she would run away after being left alone for two days.
Little did they know that Nong Hui, who had grown so bold, took a maid, dressed up as a man, and drove her own carriage south.
By the time her family realized she was missing and sent a message to Nong Qi, Nong Hui had already been gone for a day and a night.
Mrs. Nong was furious and anxious. She scolded Mr. Nong, who had finally returned home on his day off, and then ordered someone to quickly catch up with him: "Send another letter to Xiaoqi and have someone over there go to meet him on the road."
No matter how anxious her family was, Nong Hui, who had spent money on the road traveling with a caravan, lived a leisurely and comfortable life. Whenever the caravan stopped to sell goods, she would follow to watch the excitement. This made her understand a lot about the people's livelihood in Dajin today.
It can be said that Miss Nongba was lucky. The caravan she met was also a legitimate caravan registered with the government. After receiving the money, they would take care of her safety along the way until she arrived at her destination safely.
Nowadays, many caravans engage in this kind of business of carrying people, but sometimes those who are unlucky will encounter unnecessary twists and turns. By the time Nong Hui reacted, the caravan had already arrived outside the gate of Qinghe County.
Xiaoliu almost cried the moment she saw the person. Ever since they received the letter from the mansion saying that the eighth young lady had secretly come to Qinghe County with a personal maid, Nong Qi and Xiaoliu were almost scared to death.
Xiaoliu, in particular, almost regretted it to death. If he hadn't made such a blind suggestion in front of the young master, the young master wouldn't have sent a letter to the mansion. If the young master hadn't sent a letter to the mansion, the eighth lady wouldn't have thought of running away secretly.
After a period of fear, Xiaoliu had made up his mind that if anything happened to Miss Eight on the road, he would not live.
It was not until he saw the lively Nong Hui and the maid Qiaohua that Xiaoliu felt that his life was saved.
Not to mention the scolding Nong Hui received when she got to her brother Qi, Luhua Town was also experiencing its most important event in decades.
The ancestral hall and school in Luhua Town were officially completed.
Originally, it would take less than twenty days to build a school and a clan temple, but there were so many idle people in Luhua Town.
Cui Qingyi is well aware of the principle of giving a sweet date after a slap in the face. She has already established the murder in Luhua Town. The people of Luhua Town are now afraid of her, so she only needs to give an order to gather the people together to work.
But Cui Qingyi did not choose to do so. She asked someone to put up a recruitment notice at the place where Uncle Fan and his colleagues worked, recruiting laborers. She would provide one meal a day and a wage of 15 cents. No matter whether it was a man or a woman who had some strength, they could do this job.
Before posting the notice, Taozhi was a little worried, "Master, do you think the people of Luhua Town will come to work?"
Cui Qingyi didn't care: "If they come, they can work and earn money. If they don't come, let Uncle Fan go back to the county to find someone. We have to let the people see that Luhua Town will not fall apart without them."
If the people remain unmoved by the way to make money even though it is right in front of them, the sky of Luhua Town will not fall, but it will affect Cui Qingyi's subsequent arrangements for Luhua Town.
At this moment, all her plans revolve around the people of Luhua Town, but if they do not change, Cui Qingyi will still choose to develop Luhua Town, but the people here will have to stand aside.
Aunt Lu Liu's two daughters-in-law left home that day, and within two days they were sent back by soldiers guarding another exit of Luhua Town.
The eldest son's wife, Chunmei, held her little girl in her arms, whom she had not seen for a few days, and tears flowed from her eyes.
In fact, the two women regretted their departure not even a day later. It was the desire to go home that supported them to the exit. However, the moment they stood at the exit, instead of feeling relieved, they fell into confusion again. The road outside was so wide that they had no idea where to go.
It seemed as if the world was so big that there was no place for them to stay.
The soldiers who were waiting to be discovered were sent back on horseback. Looking at the old woman standing outside the door with a hunched back, Chunmei suddenly thought, forget it. Even if she could be found, what would it matter? It had been more than ten years and everything had changed.
Early in the morning, Chunmei changed into clean cloth clothes, dragged her little girl, who looked at her eagerly, with one hand, and her sister-in-law with the other, and turned to tell Aunt Lu Liu: "Mom, you stay at home. I will send the child to school and go to work with my sister-in-law."
While waiting for Chunmei and her two sisters-in-law to arrive, Uncle Fan had already started working with the craftsmen. Seeing that there were men working with bare arms everywhere, Daoxiang was a little scared. The beatings she had suffered over the years made her afraid of men's strong arms.
Fortunately, her sister-in-law Chunmei held her tightly and prevented her from turning around and running away.
Chunmei was actually not used to it either, and her throat was dry from nervousness.
Just as she was thinking about how to open her mouth, Aunt Cui came out from the makeshift kitchen and asked, "Are you here looking for work?"
Chunmei nodded. Aunt Cui didn't ask any more questions. "The work assigned to the women is to move bricks and push mud and water with a wooden cart. They will provide lunch and fifteen cents a day for wages. Are you up to it?"
Chunmei said without hesitation, "We can do it. We can both do it."
The two sisters-in-law were assigned to supply bricks and mortar to the craftsmen who were building the school. When they started working, they had no time to think about so many things.
Cui Qingyi always adhered to the principle of not keeping idle people. She gave the girls who were rescued from the brothels a few days to rest, and provided them with good food, drink and medicine every day. After four or five days, she drove them all to work at the ancestral hall.
She ignored Cui Qingyi who was crying and wanted to go home. It was not because she was cruel or had other ideas.
Although the Jin Dynasty was open-minded, in the feudal era, a prostitute was always a prostitute. Even the prostitutes in brothels who redeemed themselves were criticized and had a hard time, let alone these girls who had been released from secret prostitution.
Cui Qingyi was more patient with these unfortunate girls and explained the truth to them in detail: I understand that you want to go home, and I'm not stopping you from going back.
You will stay here for a month, and I will pay you for your daily work. You should also take this time to think carefully about whether it is good or bad to go back to your original place.
If you are still determined to leave after a month, I will not stop you but will send someone to take you home."
As the saying goes, it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Don't lose the life you have finally saved because of a momentary impulse. Cui Qingyi feels that it is not worth it.
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