However, the truth is that Zhao Zhongnian disappeared a year ago after going to Beijing with Bai Pingfeng. He was nowhere to be found. After arriving in the capital, he bid farewell to Bai Pingfeng. Bai Pingfeng never saw him again and had no time to pay attention to him, as he was busy fighting the war.
Zhang Qingyu came to the house several times to beg Ye Moxun, but he remained unmoved and had no intention of helping her. In the end, Zhong Qingyi couldn't stand it anymore and wrote a letter to Bai Pingfeng, asking him to help find out whether Zhao Zhongnian had left on his own or had an accident, and whether he was dead or alive.
Bai Pingfeng sent people to look for him, but they couldn't find him. After several unsuccessful attempts, he gave up. Last year, the war with the Duke of Zhenguo was fierce, and he was busy enough dealing with the war. Who would have the time to help find someone?
It's not like I'm anyone to him.
So Zhao Zhongnian has been missing for more than a year, and the Zhang family's life has become increasingly difficult. In the past, with Zhao Zhongnian supporting them, they could still maintain a decent life, and Zhang Qingyu and her two siblings didn't have to do anything and were fine.
When Zhang Qingyu left Songlin Village, he still had three hundred taels of silver. He rented a house in Fengcheng for half a year, but the rent kept increasing. After much deliberation, he decided that it would be more reassuring to buy a house so that he wouldn't have to worry about being kicked out by the landlord at any time.
So he took out 130 taels of silver and bought a two-courtyard house. The surrounding area was inhabited by poor people, so the house was much cheaper than in other places.
After buying the house, Zhang Qingyu only had 180 taels of silver left. When Zhao Zhongnian was earning money to support the family, she could live without spending a penny. But after Zhao Zhongnian left, the three of them, siblings and siblings, had to live on that little bit of silver, and everything cost money.
Even a single scallion costs money, and they are used to a life of eating meat and wearing silk every day. Zhang Shen is alright, though, because he has lived a somewhat impoverished life since childhood, unlike his two older sisters who have truly enjoyed immense wealth. These past few years have been very difficult for them.
After Zhao Zhongnian left, more than a hundred taels of silver were spent like water. In just one year, a hundred taels were spent, and now only eighty taels are left. Zhang Qingyu was the first to come to her senses.
Knowing that he couldn't continue to squander money like this, he had to find some work to earn money, otherwise what would he eat if he ran out of money? And if someone in the family caught a cold or something, where would he find money to treat them?
But she didn't know anything else, so she could only earn some money to supplement her family's income by doing some embroidery. Fortunately, she was good at needlework. She could not only make clothes, but also embroider. The handkerchiefs and purses she embroidered could sell for a higher price than ordinary people.
She also asked Zhang Qingling to do the embroidery, but the latter refused and was scolded by her. She had no choice but to follow along, but she often slacked off.
Like today, when she ran out to go shopping with the rich girl and bought things in the pastry shop, she secretly took the money her sister earned to spend. She herself was slow and sluggish at doing her work, and at most she could earn a few dozen coins a month, not much more.
In the end, Zhang Qingling left empty-handed. If it were another shop, she might have gritted her teeth and bought some pastries, but this shop belonged to Song Tantan, and out of guilt, she didn't buy a single one.
After opening her shop, Song Tantan changed back into women's clothing, but instead of styling her hair like a woman, she tied it into a high ponytail. The style of her clothes was also very special, like the clothes she wore when practicing martial arts.
That's the effect she wanted—to make it immediately clear that she's a trained fighter. Don't think she's young and can't take on the Demon Lord; she can be quite violent when she gets angry.
She's only twelve years old, not quite grown up yet, still very childish. Why doesn't she wear boys' clothes anymore? It's because her aunt won't allow it. She insists that she's a grown-up girl now and can't dress up as a tomboy anymore, otherwise it will be difficult to find her a husband in the future.
The problem is that they're worried she won't be able to get married. She said she doesn't want to get married, but her aunt is unhappy about it and forbids her from wearing men's clothing. Song Zhuiyan didn't come to the shop today; she said she had to plant rice seedlings.
It's the three acres of land in the space's old home, which has been planted all year round, all rice. Now the space has a lot of grain stored up, enough to last for several years. Tell her not to work so hard, just plant two crops a year, why make things difficult for herself.
But she wouldn't listen, insisting that it would be a waste not to plant them, that others couldn't plant them even if they wanted to, and that the space had a high yield, with one temple producing more than a thousand catties of grain, unlike outside.
Even with the same rice varieties, the fields outside can only yield a maximum of 700 jin of grain, and that's only if they apply enough fertilizer and manage the land properly. Otherwise, the average person can only harvest 300 to 400 jin.
Although they are both hybrid rice, the yields differ greatly. After thinking it over, I realized it was a seed problem. In the past, I would buy new seeds from the seed store every year before planting. After I traveled through time, I ran out of the seeds I bought, so I saved my own rice seeds.
It doesn't affect the yield when planted in the space; it can still produce high yields. However, when planted outside, the yield is reduced by more than half. With fertilizer from the biogas digester, the maximum yield is more than 700 jin (350 kg). Without fertilizer from the biogas digester, the maximum yield is more than 400 jin (200 kg), and the minimum is only about 300 jin (150 catties).
The courtyard on the other side of the house was filled with sweet potatoes, corn, and various green vegetables. Of course, these were all planted by the servants; Song Zhuiyan only planted the land in her space.
Zhong Qingyi didn't know that she had land in her space where she could grow crops. If he knew that his wife was busy farming all day long, he would be heartbroken. He always thought that Song Zhuiyan was like other noble ladies, being served properly at home, and that her hardest job was to sell pastries at a pastry shop.
The space is shade-free, so Song Zhuiyan doesn't have to worry about getting tanned no matter how busy she is. Apart from being a little tired, everything is fine. Apart from Song Tantan and Ye Moxun, who are the only ones in the know, no one else knows that she has been farming and raising pigs in the space.
Yes, the pig farm in the suburbs has been built and pigs have already been raised. They hire people to raise the pigs, and Song Zhuiyan goes there by carriage every few days to give some guidance.
Others might think she has a leisurely life, seemingly living the life of a wealthy lady, but in reality, she's very busy.
If the pigs in the space are fattened up but there's no opportunity to sell them right away, Song Tantan will transfer them to the supermarket so that her aunt doesn't have to continue feeding the pigs.
To paraphrase Song Zhuiyan herself: she's just destined to be a busybody, she can't stay idle.
That year, Xifeng took in more and more refugees. The largest number of refugees arrived at the end of last year, with over a thousand people pouring in. However, the refugees were not immediately allowed to enter.
Instead, they set up many tents outside the city gate of Xiangyang City for the refugees to live in, and distributed porridge outside the city gate at regular intervals every day.
The doctors and physicians in the city, including Ah Zhu, who possessed medical skills, were sent to treat the refugees, mainly to check if anyone was infected with any diseases. Those who were found to be healthy could receive a pass with the word "pass" on it, which allowed them to enter the city.
After entering the city, the soldiers would take the refugees to the resettlement locations, assigning them to a town or village. Once settled, the refugees could receive relief food from the local government office, for a maximum of one year. After that, they would have to rely on their own land reclamation and farming to support themselves.
The relief food consisted mainly of sweet potatoes and corn, enough to keep people from starving. There was no more than that. If you wanted to earn more food, you could sign up to build city walls, mine limestone in stone quarries, or make bricks. These jobs included a meal and daily wages.
After work, you can go to the accountant to collect your wages. If you need grain, you can get three catties of coarse grain and one catty of fine grain. If you need money, you can also get money.
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