On the way back home, Jiang Hui asked her, "That guy named Gao Hai, although he's a little weak, he's still a scholar. If he passes the imperial examination and becomes a top scholar, he'll have a bright future."
Ke Xin sneered, "Brother, your sister's reputation is such that most people wouldn't dare marry her, let alone a scholar!"
Two people who have never met, don't say that they don't mind your reputation, they just like you. She would never believe it even if she was beaten to death. Besides, people like the scholar are given some benefits every year. If they choose her for her looks... it doesn't make sense. As for why he came to propose marriage, she really couldn't guess.
Jiang Hui disagreed: "My sister is clever and smart, why hasn't anyone married her? You're not right. There are so many people with good taste. If you don't like this one, we can just look for another one."
try to find?
Ke Xin smiled bitterly. With the previous experience as a lesson, she no longer dared to look for a man. If something happened to her, she didn't know if she would be lucky enough to travel through time again.
When I got home, it was already dark. I could have dinner as soon as I entered the yard. What a happy thing it was.
Jiang Wuli ate the big pot of food without chewing a single bite. He stretched his neck and swallowed it directly. He did not forget to say: "Jiu'er, if there is any work tomorrow, let your aunts do it. You can concentrate on cooking when you have nothing to do."
He was used to eating delicious food, and his mouth really couldn't swallow these tasteless pig food.
Xue Ying chuckled a few times: "Look at how Dad has become so picky. Now he even thinks dishes with meat are not tasty."
"Not to mention grandpa, even I, who don't care about food and drink, think this dish is unpalatable." Jiang Zhong also echoed.
Speaking of this, Ke Xin remembered something and said, "Auntie, Second Auntie, you all know how to clean the pig's offal now. When you cook tomorrow, I'll teach you. I'll train you to become great chefs and be able to handle the job on your own."
Xue Ying and Zhuo Qiaohong were very surprised. They looked at each other in disbelief: "Seriously? You didn't trick us."
"Are you rich? Or are you pretty? Is it worth it for me to cheat you out of your money or your sex?" Ke Xin shook her head in amusement. "When you make money, you can open a snack bar next to the town college. It's protected from the wind and rain. You can make more money than this, but it will be hard work."
Xue Ying said: "We are not afraid of hard work, but we are afraid of not making money. We are afraid of being poor."
"That's right. It's better to work harder now than to be penniless when you are old." Zhuo Qiaohong also agreed.
As long as you have money, hard work is nothing.
......
There were no shining stars in the night sky, and even the moon was hidden in the clouds.
Ke Xin was collecting peppers in her space again. She quietly put them in the corner of the kitchen in the dead of night, waiting to make chopped pepper sauce and all-purpose dipping sauce tomorrow.
After picking the peppers, I planted another batch. I was exhausted after finishing all this. Before going to bed, I was thinking about going to the mountain tomorrow morning and pretending to get some back.
The next day, before the cock crowed, she went up the mountain carrying the basket like a thief.
Along the way, she didn't see a single person. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't afraid. But then she thought that she was also a soul from another world, so what was there to be afraid of? Besides, ghosts are afraid of humans, so she wasn't even more afraid.
She mustered up the courage to go up the mountain. It was quiet all around. Ke Xin took out a full basket of peppers from the space. Don't underestimate the basket. It weighs more than 20 kilograms. With her small body, it is really a bit too much for her to carry.
When I was going down the mountain, I ran into a villager who had come out early in the morning to collect firewood: "Kexin, you're up the mountain so early in the morning? You're really diligent."
Ke Xin felt that this person was a bit unfamiliar. After thinking carefully, she realized that this was Wang Xiu, the wife of Hu Shunzi who lived at the entrance of the village. Ke Xin greeted her, "Good morning, Aunt Hu. My grandfather said that the early bird catches the worm."
Wang Xiu smiled and praised: "Good boy."
After he finished speaking, he sighed deeply: "You are lucky, with your grandfather, parents and children protecting you. Su Yan is also capable, but her sister-in-law actually spent five taels of silver to marry her off to the landlord as his seventeenth concubine. She is such a pitiful child."
After saying that, there was another burst of regret, and then without waiting for Ke Xin to ask anything, Wang Xiu went up the mountain.
She watched Wang Xiu leave, her mind racing with thoughts about Su Yan. When had this happened? Why hadn't she heard Su Yan mention it? But she hadn't seen her working much lately.
The pace of going down the mountain quickened. Just as I reached the bottom, I met Brother Fu. He put the basket on his back and brushed the dust off her body. "Next time you go up the mountain, call me and I'll carry it for you."
"Brother Fu, I heard from Wang Xiu that Li Dong'er married Su Yan to the landlord as a concubine. Is that true?"
Brother Fu nodded slightly: "It should be true. I heard Dad mention it last night."
Then this thing is probably true.
Ke Xin walked behind Fu Ge with her head down. She didn't hear what he said clearly. All she was thinking about was Su Yan. When she passed by Li Dong'er's house, she found that her door was open, so Ke Xin rushed in.
Li Dong'er, who was sweeping the yard, saw this and scoffed, "Oh my! How can such a busy man have time to come to my house? What? Are you going to marry Su Yan?"
Ke Xin stared at Li Dong'er's trembling face while smiling. She asked coldly, "Did you really betroth Su Yan to the landlord next door as a concubine?"
In the room, Su Yan heard Ke Xin talking, opened the door and rushed out, hugged Ke Xin and started crying, but she only shed tears and never asked for help.
Ke Xin patted her back: "Don't be afraid, I'm here for you."
This Li Dong'er is such a piece of shit. Even if he looks down on Su Yan, he can't ruin her life. A concubine is just a plaything that can be bought and sold. She would rather be the wife of a poor family than the concubine of a rich family.
Su Yan shook her head at Ke Xin and whispered in her ear with a choked voice, "No, don't beg her."
Ever since she knew about this matter, she went to ask her elder sister-in-law for help, but her elder sister-in-law said that she could be set free if she was given twenty taels. She didn't even have two hundred taels, let alone twenty taels, and her elder sister-in-law's words implied that she should find Ke Xin.
Twenty taels, it’s not as simple as two taels. Su Yan gave up the idea of asking Ke Xin for help.
Ke Xin couldn't bear to see such a good friend end up like this. She held Su Yan's hand, looked directly into Li Dong'er's smiling eyes, and said, "Tell me, what will it take for you to let Su Yan go?"
Li Dong'er saw that Ke Xin was truly devoted to her sister-in-law, and held up two...three fingers: "Just give me thirty taels, and I won't let her become a concubine."
"You're really asking for too much! You even dare to ask for thirty taels." Ke Xin said while biting her back teeth.
Li Dong'er smiled nonchalantly and said, "So what if I ask for too much? If you don't want to, I'm not forcing you."
She is cruel enough and has more tricks up her sleeve than before. I really underestimated her.
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