Chapter 231 Conspiracy
"The Lei family can know about it and even get involved, so why can't our family?" Cao Qingzhu was also extremely dissatisfied.
Mrs. Cao rolled her eyes and waved her hands, saying, "They are on guard against us, so we must not alert them. We must outsmart them!"
Cao Da, you often follow Jun Zhu, he is close to the Lei family boss, what useful information did you hear?"
Cao Da bowed and said, "Lei Dafu never talks about medicinal herbs. He talks most about prey. The eldest son often asks about the situation of the villagers down the mountain. I know that there is a village chief in charge, but the most important person is a woman named..."
"Shen Qing!" Mrs. Cao gritted her teeth and blurted out two words, her wrinkled face so gloomy that it seemed like water was about to drip out.
It's not proper for a woman to show her face in public!
Cao Da's face lit up with joy, and he quickly responded, "Yes, that's the name. I heard she's very powerful. The whole village trusts her immensely and always puts her first in everything.
And it was she who led the villagers to make money, but Lei Dafu never mentioned how they did it.
Mrs. Cao snorted and said disdainfully, "How could Lei Dafu, an outsider, know this? I'm afraid the entire Lei family only knows a little bit.
Besides, what's the point of knowing how to make money? You have to get inside and get the core technology!"
Cao Wenzhu and Cao Qingzhu were stunned. After a long while, they asked hesitantly, "But how do we get it?"
Not to mention the villagers, even the Lei family members are on guard against them. Not to mention breaking into the interior, even breaking into the exterior is impossible.
Mrs. Cao looked at the house below which was not even half built and said with a confident smile, “If we ask them to help pick herbs, they will definitely not be willing.
But what if I asked you to help build a house? How could you disagree?"
Cao Qingzhu said anxiously: "Grandma, what's the point of building a house! It's tiring and you won't learn anything."
What is valuable is the medicinal herbs, but it is impossible to identify the herbs when building a house.
Mrs. Cao smiled and said, "You can't learn anything from building a house, but you can get in touch with people. Shen Qing has a daughter who has reached the age of marriage this year.
I heard there was a sister-in-law living with them. She was probably an abandoned woman who was divorced by her husband's family. Now she must be crazy about getting married.
Cao Da, you and Jun Zhu will go down to help build the house tomorrow. There's no need to seduce them; these two women will definitely come over and get to know you."
Cao Da's eyes widened in surprise, "But Madam, I already have a wife and children!"
Cao Wenzhu and Cao Qingzhu were equally shocked and asked in disbelief, "Grandma, you want your eldest brother to marry a country woman?
How can a village woman be worthy of a handsome and elegant elder brother! "
Has the Cao family fallen to this point?
Mrs. Cao glared at her two grandchildren and said indignantly, "What nonsense are you talking about! You two already know that you are village women. How can you be qualified to be the eldest grandson's wife of my Cao family?
But your eldest brother is already eighteen years old, so it's OK for him to have a concubine. Once he passes the imperial examination and enters the capital, marrying a noble lady from a wealthy family will be no problem."
With the eldest grandson's literary talent, knowledge and appearance, Shen Qing's daughter would rush to him like a bee seeing nectar!
After all, Liu Cuihua had only taken a liking to Jun Zhu before, and it was obvious that she was trying to curry favor with her.
Oh, by then, I hope Liu Cuihua and Shen Qing don't have a rift over competing for Jun Zhu as their son-in-law. That old woman will laugh her teeth off...
She looked at Cao Da again and instructed: “Although you are a servant, you are a servant of my Cao family!
Even if you haven't married yet, an abandoned woman can never be your legal wife. But for the sake of the Cao family, I can only let her be your concubine. Don't worry, the Cao family will still support her with export grain."
Just think of it as an extra servant to serve tea and water. She can still afford to pay for a bite to eat.
When he heard the word concubine, Cao Da's eyes flashed with joy. How could he, a servant, have two women serving him?
He never thought that he could enjoy the blessings that those officials enjoyed after coming to the mountains!
He suppressed his joy and said excitedly: "It's not a grievance. For the Cao family, it doesn't matter if I feel a little wronged!"
Mrs. Cao continued, "I gave her an abandoned woman a home, so that she could be buried in her husband's ancestral tomb after her death, and she would not have to become a lonely ghost. She would be grateful to my Cao family and would be devoted to me forever.
As for Shen Qing's daughter, it goes without saying. Which woman doesn't plan for her husband? Especially one from a family that she had never dared to think about before!
By then, whether it’s herbs or crafts, everything they know will be told to you and me in detail. I don’t think it’s any use for Shen Qing to hide it and be on guard~”
The three of them were stunned when they heard this.
Cao Da was the first to react and praised: "The old lady is really amazing, she has a lot of experience and knows how to control a woman."
Cao Wenzhu and Cao Qingzhu often heard their grandmother say that a woman should follow her husband wherever she goes, and obey her father at home and her husband after marriage. They thought that the two women would definitely regard the Cao family as their heaven after they entered the family, and would tell them everything they knew.
Grandma is really amazing. Not only will the family have two more people to serve them, but they can also earn money...
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Shen Qing was so busy that he was almost ready to take off.
Not only is she busy, but everyone in the family is busy. Everyone wishes they had eight hands so that each hand could do their own thing.
However, no matter how busy you are, the vegetable garden cannot be left uncultivated.
It concerns the vegetable supply for the whole family throughout the winter and is a top priority among family matters!
Since the bricklayer could be hired in the evening and would be in place tomorrow, Jiang Xiangzhong and others went to the top of the mountain to harvest Coptis chinensis, while Shen Qing took Jiang Yu, Huo Bing and Jiang Shui to take care of the vegetable garden.
Transplant what can be transplanted, thin out what needs to be thinned, and fertilize what needs to be fertilized...
Looking at the vegetables growing well in the vegetable garden, Shen Qing felt a special sense of accomplishment.
The main house should be finished by the end of the month. The brush workshop is in front, next to a large vegetable patch. Next spring, we'll plant fruit trees all the way from the back of the house to the mountain range.
The fruits she has now include pears, gooseberries, and prickly ash - all of which she secretly stored to eat in the winter.
Unfortunately, it was too late to divert water and dig ponds this year, and we couldn’t eat fish in the winter, so we could only prepare a variety of meats;
The rabbits at home can't be moved, the chickens, ducks and geese need to be kept for laying eggs, and the lambs are not yet grown. Fortunately, I went to the city yesterday and bought a lot of meat.
But tomorrow the bricklayers will start working, and the usual grand scene of dozens of people eating will return. Even some shredded meat and minced meat will be enough to go in. I wonder when the Lei family will go hunting in the mountains again...
She turned to look at Jiang Yu and asked, "Do you know when the Lei family plans to go hunting?"
Huo Bingjiangshui shook her head. Jiang Yu thought of what Chuntian had said to her and said, "Chuntian said that the Lei family man is going into the mountains to hunt the day after tomorrow. She might not be able to bring me any fruit."
Chuntian also said that there were many fruits in the mountains that were not available outside, and she would ask her elder brother to bring them out for her to try.
She wanted to refuse, but then she thought her sister-in-law might like it.
Jiang Shui keenly noticed something unusual and asked curiously, "The Lei family man went into the mountains to hunt, so why can't she send him some fruit?
Could it be that the men picked these fruits?"
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