Chapter 19 Zhao Yunjing, are you trying to get rid of me?!
Zhao Yun Jing's heart pounded, his face flushed, and his mind went blank; he couldn't think straight at all.
Zhou Mujiao turned her gaze and saw his helpless expression, and couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Brother Zhao?"
Zhao Yunjing looked at her in silence for a long time before finally managing to say a few words: "Don't take what Doctor Li said to heart. You're still young. Let's think about marriage a few years from now!"
He didn't dare to look at Zhou Mujiao's reaction at all, and rushed into the house after speaking.
Aunt Zhao, who had already cried twice on the sixth and ninth days of the lunar calendar, still wanted to cry now.
If it weren't for the fact that Shiba had just made a fuss, she wouldn't have noticed that Chuliu and Chujiu were no longer stupid.
"On the sixth and ninth days of the month, your mother gave birth to you, but she didn't take good care of you and made you suffer for so long. Your mother is really not a good mother."
"No, no, Mother is the best mother in the world!"
The mother and her children were crying together when Zhao Yunjing suddenly rushed in. Aunt Zhao was startled: "Yunjing, what happened?"
Zhao Yunjing's face was still hot. He said in a deep voice, "It's okay," picked up his hoe, jumped into the puddle, and continued digging the well.
Aunt Zhao then noticed the new pit in the yard, and that it contained water. She exclaimed with delight, "That's wonderful! Now we can draw water from this well, and you won't have to fetch water in the dark every day!"
Zhao Yunjing pursed his lips and said, "We can dig a well on the mountain now, and vegetables are growing in the garden. Mother, our Zhao family's luck has changed! From now on—"
Just then, Zhou Mujiao came in, and he immediately stopped talking and continued working in silence.
Aunt Zhao looked at her eldest son, then at Zhou Mujiao, her face full of suspicion. The two of them were fine when they left, so why are they acting so strangely now? Is something wrong with the child's father? Or did the two of them have a fight?
It doesn't look like it.
Zhao Yunjing dug a well, and on the sixth and ninth days of the lunar new year, he helped transport the mud. Zhou Mujiao directed Xiao Wu and Shiba to spread all the mud on the other side of the vegetable field where no seeds had been sown. Aunt Zhao was responsible for leveling it. With the whole family working together, it took two days to finally finish digging the well.
There was a stream next to the well at the foot of the mountain. Zhou Mujiao asked Zhao Yunjing to carry several loads of fine sand back and spread it under the well. That way, when they got up the next morning, the well water was clear and sweet.
Eighteen took a small sip with the water spoon, squinted her eyes, and exclaimed, "Mmm~~ This water is so delicious! Eighteen could drink three bowls in one go!"
Xiao Wu snatched the water ladle, spilled the water, and earnestly instructed, "My older sister said that water must be boiled and cooled before drinking, otherwise drinking raw water will cause worms in your stomach, make you sick, and stunt your growth!"
Upon hearing that the president wasn't tall, Shiba was so frightened that she threw down the water ladle and buried her head in Zhou Mujiao's arms: "Mother, Shiba won't drink tap water anymore. Shiba wants to grow tall, very tall!"
Zhou Mujiao joked, "How tall will you be at eighteen? As tall as your older brother?"
"Yes! Yes! I want to be as tall as my older brother at eighteen! I want to be a general at eighteen! Whoosh whoosh whoosh! I'll kill all the bad guys! Then no one will bully my older brother and Chu Liu and Chu Jiu!" The little girl was very excited.
When I grow up, I'll be a general...
Everyone laughed, but Xiao Wu didn't.
He never knew how to better protect his older sister. But if he grew up and became a general, he would kill all the bad guys who dared to bully his older sister, just like he did when he was eighteen!
Xiao Wu tugged at Zhou Mujiao's sleeve: "Sister, I want to be taller than Brother Zhao, and I want to be a general too."
"Xiao Wu will definitely become a general, and a great general at that, a war god who will strike fear into the hearts of the enemy!" Zhou Mujiao encouraged.
"Sister, what does it mean to be terrified at the mere mention of someone's name?"
"It means that when the enemy hears your name or smells your scent, they are so afraid that they wet their pants."
The children chuckled, and Shiba raised her little hand: "Sister! I want to make the enemy wet their pants too! I want to be a great general!"
"Alright, Xiao Wu will be the Great General, and Shi Ba will also be the Great General. So what do you want to do on the ninth and sixth days?"
After thinking for a moment, the two children said shyly on the sixth day of the lunar month, "I want to be an official! I want to receive money every month!"
"Chu Jiu also wants to be an official! Chu Jiu also wants to find an official's daughter to be his wife!"
Zhou Mujiao chuckled. Just as she was about to speak, Zhao Yunjing's voice cut in: "Whether you want to be an official or a great general, you must rely on your own efforts. Don't try to take shortcuts. You must be upright and honest!"
The children nodded, their eyes sparkling with anticipation for the future, while Zhao Yunjing remained expressionless.
Zhou Mujiao's heart stirred: "Brother Zhao, what do you want to do in the future?"
"Big brother wants to make a lot of money!"
"My older brother wants to build a big house!"
"Sixth and ninth day of the month, you're all wrong! I know what Big Brother wants to do!" Eighteen raised his hand. "Big Brother wants to marry Sister! Big Brother wants Sister Ajiao to be Eighteen's sister-in-law!"
Even Zhou Mujiao, who hadn't changed her expression even with a gun pointed at her head, felt a flush on her face. She turned her gaze and saw that Zhao Yunjing's ears were red. Noticing her gaze, he stood up abruptly: "I'll go pave the road!"
An eighteen-year-old male is still considered a child in modern society, but in this era, he is already the pillar of a family.
Watching Zhao Yunjing's retreating figure, a strange feeling arose within her. Zhou Mujiao walked out and watched him working on the floor with a hoe. She felt very at ease and reassured.
With the whole family pitching in, it took five days to finally level the path down the mountain. In the end, Zhou Mujiao still had Zhao Yunjing fetch sand from the stream and pave it all the way up from the foot of the mountain. She walked along the stream for a while and found a pile of large stones, so she used an oxcart to bring them all back and paved the yard and house with stones.
Apart from the fact that the house is still a mud-brick house, this Zhao family courtyard is already very close to a modern farmhouse.
Zhao Yunjing dragged a large log back from the mountain, soaked to the bone. When he saw Zhou Mujiao, his face inexplicably turned red again: "Um, Ajiao, come here."
The two stood halfway up the mountain, looking at the scenery before them. Zhou Mujiao took a deep breath, feeling refreshed and relaxed.
When she was still the president of Shengshi Group, she had imagined her vacation countless times, but she never relaxed for a single day until her death. Now that she had transmigrated, the days passed slowly. Zhou Mujiao thought that this might be another way of making her wishes come true.
Zhao Yunjing pulled a cloth bag from his pocket and shoved it into Zhou Mujiao's hand: "Take it."
Opening it, there was a stack of silver notes.
"The ginseng and lingzhi sold for five thousand taels, and it's all here. As for the wild boar, I've calculated that the Zhao family spent about twenty taels, plus the fifty taels for the oxcart. In total, I spent seventy taels."
"so what?"
Zhao Yunjing paused for a moment and said, "All this money is yours. Keep it safe. I will find a way to pay you back the money I spent as soon as possible."
Zhou Mujiao laughed: "Brother Zhao told me to keep this money safe and settled the accounts with me so clearly. Does he think Xiao Wu and I are a burden and want to get rid of me?"
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