"Who is it?" The head of the family came out when he heard the commotion outside.
"Dad, I'm on my way and want to stay for one night."
"Come in, come in."
"Thank you, fellow."
Fengying exchanged a few polite words and learned that everyone in the village had the surname Li. The male owner of this house was called Li San, and the young man who had just come out to open the door was called Tiezhu.
Fengying stuffed a ten-liang gold ingot into Li San's hand, almost frightening him silly.
"It doesn't matter to us servants. Just prepare two decent rooms for my master."
"Hey, sir, come inside first," Li San welcomed the man into the house. "Mother, stop eating and go clean up the house for the sir."
When Fengying came, he brought a package containing new sheets. He had thought about this situation when he was packing his luggage, so he kept it with him in case of emergency.
"Ai."
The hostess of the house, Mrs. Sun, took out all the new quilts prepared for her daughter's wedding. She had just seen Fengying hand a silver ingot to Li San. She knew how many quilts such a silver ingot could buy.
Fengying borrowed the kitchen and ingredients, then rolled up his sleeves and got busy.
"You little nanny are really all-round." Liu Qinghuan looked at Fengying who was carrying someone else's chicken into the kitchen.
"What is a babysitter?" Ye Heng looked down at Liu Qinghuan.
“…”
Ye Heng didn't catch Liu Qinghuan's stem, so she lost her temper.
Ye Heng: Give me another chance.
"Tiezhu, take your bedding and go to Auntie Pang's house today."
Because this is the ancestral house, it has nothing else but many rooms, and four rooms can be cleaned up.
"Don't bother, fellow villagers. We can just sleep on the floor."
Liuguang didn't dare to stay too far away from his master and thought of sleeping on the floor in front of the kang.
"Okay, okay, okay."
Sun hurriedly went to look for bedding, and together with the bedding Li Tiezhu borrowed from Aunt Pang's house, it was enough.
"master."
At this time, Hua Jin also came over, looking exhausted.
"You must be frozen." Liu Qinghuan covered Hua Jin's red hands, and Hua Jin felt warm in her heart.
Ye Heng:?
Hua Jin received the deadly look from his master and prepared to commit suicide.
"Fengying is in the kitchen, I'll go to the kitchen. It's warm there, hehe."
Hua Jin pulled his hand back and quickly ran away.
Ye Heng put his hand over: "Mine is cold too."
Liu Qinghuan held Ye Heng's warm big hand and thought to himself, aren't you lying with your eyes open?
I just managed to fill my stomach, but the days are short in winter and it was already dark.
"Fellow villager, I have another favor to ask of you," Fengying approached Li San. "Could you please go to the village and ask for a few men to help clear the snow off the road tonight? As long as they dig it up before tomorrow morning, we'll pay one tael of silver per man."
"One ounce of silver?"
One tael of silver is almost the annual expenses for an entire family. In winter, there is no farm work to do, so this is really an unexpected windfall.
"How many people does the master want?"
Fengying was wealthy and generous. He took out a silver note worth one hundred taels and said, "Don't delay the master's trip tomorrow morning."
Li San held the one hundred taels of silver, his hands shaking...
"The journey is not short, you'd better hurry." Fengying thought that even if they dug all the way to the village, it would take at least ten miles, and it would be even longer if they walked to the city.
"Well, I'll do it right away."
That night, men from every household in Lijiazhuang went out. The white snow reflected the moonlight, but it was not too dark.
"You should rest early."
Ye Heng stayed in Liu Qinghuan and Hua Jin's room for quite a while, and only left after helping them wipe their hands and faces.
At first, Ye Heng wanted to wash people's feet, but was kicked away by Liu Qinghuan.
Ye Heng felt very disappointed and could only imagine how round and tender Liu Qinghuan's feet were.
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