Chapter 164: Dream of Heavy Rain (Part 1)
In fact, most people in Donghe Village also know this news.
Everyone knows what is happening in the nearby villages.
But they didn't realize how special Jiang Xiangchuan was, he just had a foot injury.
But the people in Xingshan Village thought Jiang Xiangchuan was very capable, and everyone was grateful to the Jiang family.
Could it be that he can't see anything because he's lame?
At most, people would gossip about it after dinner, and no one would think too much about it.
Everyone is more concerned about their own lives.
Even though the Cui family bought land, everyone couldn't help but feel envious.
Village head's home
Zhu couldn't help but mutter, "Do you think doing business is really that profitable?"
She was a little enthusiastic and wanted to do some business.
The village head said, "Do you think doing business is that easy?"
Zhu said, "I know running a business is not easy. If it were easy, everyone would be setting up a small business."
"I'm just thinking about Zhaoxi. She's already sixteen, and it's time for her to get married, but the girl I liked before asked for a really high gift."
Their family couldn't afford that much money.
Furthermore, the girl's parents looked down on their family, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
In fact, it’s not mainly because of the bride price, but the other party’s attitude.
That condescending attitude that looked down on them made her feel angry.
It’s mainly because she feels sorry for her son.
The village head understood the situation better. "I also asked around. There were other families proposing marriage at the time. It happened right before our family arrived. They still looked down on our family, so they deliberately asked for a higher gift."
"If our village were a wealthy, large village like Yangliu Village, with good conditions, people would probably be more polite to us."
"You, don't be so hard on yourself."
"Just find Zhaoxi a girl who is willing to live a good life with him."
Although Zhu Shi felt uncomfortable, she also understood and said, "That's what you said."
Later, someone came to propose to that girl, and his conditions were better than hers.
Deliberately asking for a high bride price is also to make them give up and avoid damaging their reputation.
If their family was well off, this wouldn't be the case.
So she also wanted to make more money.
But she has no skills.
"If our family had more land, and we could buy more fields for Zhaoxi and build a bigger house, there would be a girl willing to marry Zhaoxi."
"Zhaoxi is a hardworking, capable, filial child with a good temperament."
The village head was silent for a moment before saying, "Our Donghe Village is a small village. The conditions are not very good and the land is barren. If someone asks about Donghe Village, even if it's the village head's son, they will think twice."
That's the fact.
The village head also hopes that conditions in Donghe Village will improve.
"Zhaoxi is sixteen years old, don't worry, I don't think he thought much about it."
Zhu was a little disappointed when she thought about the situation in the village. She seemed to have thought of something and said, "We have a cow at home. Do you think we should let him go out and become a peddler, selling some things? I heard it's not bad."
"But we don't have anything to sell."
Zhu thought so too.
She was thinking about this matter in her mind and didn't feel sleepy at all.
"Oh, don't forget, the Cui family bought five acres of land. When the time comes, they'll ask the villagers to help cultivate it. Tell them as soon as possible. Whoever finishes their work early can go to work on the Cui family's land."
"Don't worry, I told you early in the morning."
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At the Cui family, after dinner and washing up, the family went to bed early after finishing their work.
That night, Jiang Zhiluo strangely dreamed of a mountain path.
It was raining and a carriage was moving forward in the rain.
There were three scholars sitting in the car, one was Jian Yunci, and the other two could not be seen clearly.
Jian Yunci said, "The rain is a bit heavy."
He lifted the curtain and said to the driver, "Uncle Ding, let's find an inn or a farmhouse up ahead to shelter from the rain."
"Yes, sir!"
"Brother Jian, I really didn't expect it to rain so heavily on the road. If I had known, I would have listened to you and not been in such a hurry to get going."
"You also want to go to the provincial academy as soon as possible to prepare for the next imperial examination."
In the carriage, Jian Yunci was talking to two other scholars.
The driver drove the carriage forward, and I don't know if it was intentional, but he deliberately drove towards the potholes.
The carriage was getting faster and faster.
rumble
Thunder and lightning roared in the sky.
The rain was coming down hard, and suddenly the horse started running like crazy, shaking the entire carriage violently.
It looks like it's about to fall down at an angle.
Jian Yunci and the others were completely caught off guard and fell off the carriage.
It was raining so heavily that the vision was blurred.
There happened to be a few large rocks where Jian Yunci fell, and his body was completely covered by the rocks.
If it were normal ground, he could get up.
But there were several sharp stones on the ground, and another scholar fell on him.
Jian Yunci was in so much pain that he couldn't get up for a while.
Soon, the wheel rolled over Jian Yunci's hand.
Jian Yunci's whole body was shaking with pain.
He fainted on the spot.
After Jian Yunci fell unconscious, the scholar who was on top of him and the coachman named Ding both stood up.
The scholar said, "His hand is broken."
The driver named Ding said, "It went very smoothly."
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The next day, when Jiang Zhiluo woke up, she felt a little absent-minded when she thought about what happened in her dream.
Could it be that Jian Yunci's hand was crippled because of a conspiracy between the scholar and the coachman named Ding?
But it was very strange, why did she dream such a dream?
Jian Yunci has nothing to do with her.
But the day Jian Yunyin fainted by the river, she had also had a dream the day before.
The consciousness in the dream seemed to ask her to save Jian Yunyin.
Are you still asking her to save Jian Yunci now?
But Jian Yunci's hand was crippled, and that was something that had already happened, and she couldn't change anything.
Moreover, she was not sure whether the dream she had dreamed of was true or false.
Even if it was true that she said she suspected the scholar and the rickshaw driver who was with Jian Yunci, no one would believe her.
Jiang Zhiluo felt very conflicted.
But I still have to be busy every day.
When she and Mrs. Cui had time, they would cultivate the front and back yards and plant some vegetables.
She also made kudzu root powder from the kudzu roots her father gave her and dried it in the yard every day.
After a few days of work
By making chili meat sauce and braised food, and after deducting daily expenses, Jiang Zhiluo's three taels of silver suddenly became eight taels of silver.
With money in hand, it is easier to hire people to cultivate the fields and pay everyone their wages.
After finishing their spring plowing work, many families in the village helped the Cui family farm.
Jiang Zhiluo also paid everyone ten cents a day.
That day, Jiang Zhiluo went to the escort agency to deliver chili meat sauce.
I just heard what Wei Xingye's followers were saying.
"I didn't expect that Miss Chen had a broken leg."
"The doctor said it will take Miss Chen at least two months to recover from her leg. Miss Chen can't go out during these two months. I think she'll go crazy."
"But it's true that she can't come to see our young master. Our young master is busy practicing martial arts right now, so why would he even think about Miss Chen?"
When Jiang Zhiluo heard this, her expression changed.
She only taught Chen Huadie and her maid a lesson that day and did not hurt her leg.
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