Chapter 419, Government Order
"Hey, what are you thinking about?"
Seeing Xiao Yeyang sitting there in a daze, Daohua stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes.
Xiao Yeyang came back to his senses and asked with a smile, "What did you say?"
Daohua glanced at him and said, "You look absent-minded. What are you thinking about?"
Xiao Yeyang smiled and said, "I'm thinking about how to find a gold mine."
Daohua looked a little suspicious, but she didn't ask any further questions. Instead, she said, "Do you have any ideas?"
Xiao Yeyang shook his head: "Apart from the clue of the thorn grass, there is nothing else to find. We can only send more people to search one place at a time."
Seeing Daohua frowning, he smiled again and said, "Okay, stop worrying about it."
Daohua: "How can I not worry? This is related to my reward. Oh, it's really troublesome. I can't explain the reason. Grandmother and mother will definitely not allow me to go out, so I can't go to look for it myself."
Xiao Yeyang shook his head and said, "Not to mention that the old lady and aunt don't allow it, even I won't agree to you going out to look for it. Running around outside every day is extremely tiring. How can a girl like you endure it?"
Daohua: "There is no reward without effort. How can I find the gold mine if I just sit there and do nothing? If I can't find the gold mine, then my position as the county lord will be wasted."
Xiao Yeyang: "Didn't I already say I was involved?"
Daohua: "I don't want it. This is such a huge contribution. How can I repay you if you give it to me?"
Xiao Yeyang's eyes flashed, and he looked at Daohua with a smile, a hint of mischief between his brows: "Why do your words sound so familiar to me, oh!" As he said that, he patted his head with his hand.
"I remember now. When I was shopping before, I happened to meet a girl who was selling herself to bury her father. A young man gave her some money, and the girl said, 'I have nothing to repay you with, I can only...'" She looked as if she couldn't remember anything.
"The only thing is what?" Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua with burning eyes, as if asking her to solve his doubts.
As for Daohua, her face was already filled with anger. She quickly glanced at the other people in the room and saw that her master and mother-in-law were whispering to each other, and her third and fourth brothers were fighting over the cold tomatoes. They were not paying attention to her, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he stretched out his hand and twisted Xiao Yeyang's arm fiercely: "I told you not to talk nonsense, I told you not to talk nonsense."
"It hurts! Let go of me, I was just kidding." Xiao Yeyang begged for mercy with his teeth bared.
Without letting go, Daohua did a 360-degree turn and angrily said, "Will you dare to do it again next time?"
Xiao Yeyang shook his head repeatedly: "I won't dare to do it again, I won't dare to do it again."
Daohua's expression eased a little, and she turned 360 degrees before letting go.
Xiao Yeyang rubbed the place where he was twisted with a grin, looking at Daohua with a wronged look on his face: "You are too cruel, I must have been twisted blue by you."
Daohua remained calm and said: "To deal with you, I have to use ruthless tactics. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will..." She pretended to twist Xiao Yeyang again.
Xiao Yeyang quickly dodged away with a look of fear on his face.
"Big sister, what are you doing?"
Yan Wenkai suddenly spoke, Daohua was startled, looked up, and found that her master, mother-in-law, third brother, and fourth brother were all looking at her and Xiao Yeyang. She immediately withdrew her hand in embarrassment.
Gu Jian snorted coldly, glanced at Xiao Yeyang, and warned him with his eyes to behave himself.
Xiao Yeyang lowered his head silently, and couldn't help but complain in his heart that Gu Jian was biased. It was clearly his apprentice who pinched him, but he came to warn him? It was too much of a mistake to distinguish right from wrong.
Granny Gu smiled and glanced at the two of them before saying, "Didn't Yang say he wanted to send tomatoes to Beijing? Are you ready?"
Daohua nodded quickly and said, "I'm ready." Then she looked at Xiao Yeyang and said, "Just sending tomatoes is too simple. We just harvested the yams. Do you want to send some as well?"
Xiao Yeyang: "Okay, that yam tastes very good to me, even better than what I ate in the palace when I was a child. I'm sure the emperor's uncle will like it."
Daohua raised his chin and said with a smile, "Of course you didn't even look at who planted it."
Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua with a smile, his eyes full of doting: "Yes, yes, our Miss Yan is the most amazing."
Seeing him like this, Granny Gu's eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled, but Gu Jian couldn't bear to watch and turned his head away with a wooden face.
Yan Wenkai nudged Yan Wentao beside him and frowned, "Third brother, do you ever feel like the little prince and the eldest sister are just too affectionate sometimes?" He rubbed his hands together and said, "Why do I always have the urge to go over and punch the little prince?"
Yan Wentao glanced at Xiao Yeyang and Daohua, then looked at Yan Wenkai, thinking, you just realized now that he has had the urge to punch the little prince for a long time.
Daohua really wanted to go find the gold mine herself, but unfortunately reality did not allow it.
After cheap dad brought people to visit the yam field, Old Lady Yan stayed with Grandma Gu for a few days, and then returned home with Daohua.
Inside the carriage, watching her granddaughter peeking out from behind the curtains, Old Lady Yan couldn't help but lecture her, "Yunxi and Yunyan have finally come. As their host, you should have treated them well. Instead, you've been away for over half a month."
Daohua lowered the carriage curtain and said, "Grandma, I'm going home now."
Old Mrs. Yan glanced at her granddaughter but didn't say much. She felt that the carriage was moving a little slowly, so she lifted the curtain and looked outside. Seeing many passers-by carrying luggage on the road, she smiled slightly.
"Now that people in Sha County can grow yams, they have a way to make a living and are gradually returning."
Daohua nodded and said, "When I first came here, I saw the vast wasteland here. There wasn't even a village within a few miles. I really felt it was a pity."
Old Lady Yan smiled and said, "Your father is now trying to settle the refugees. Slowly this place will become popular."
When returning home, Daohua found that her eldest uncle and second uncle were both there.
Li Xingchang looked at the rice flowers and smiled: "The yams you planted on your farm are really good."
Daohua asked with a smile, "Uncle Eldest, Uncle Second, have you ever been to my farm?"
On the day of the visit, she was helping out in the back while her third uncle and eldest brother were in charge of the front. She didn't see her two uncles.
Li Xingchang: "You did go, didn't you? You're really good at managing the farm. Not only do you grow crops well, but you also raise poultry well."
Daohua smiled and sat down next to Madam Li: "Mother, what were you and your two uncles talking about just now?"
Madam Li smiled and helped her daughter smooth her hair. "Your two uncles wanted to buy some land in Sha County, but your father has already issued a decree that only native people and refugees are allowed to purchase it. They're too late."
Li Xingchang said with some regret, "We should have bought it when my brother-in-law took office. Now, even buying sandy loam land in other counties is much more expensive than before."
Daohua patted his chest and laughed, "Fortunately, our family took action first, otherwise I wouldn't have a big farm in my hands."
Mrs. Li knew that her daughter had recently bought a large farm of ten thousand acres. She smiled and said, "It's because Ningmen Mansion is in the north, where the land is vast and the population is sparse. If you were in the south of the Yangtze River, you wouldn't be able to buy such a farm."
(End of this chapter)
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