Chapter 397 Ancient Village Old Lady 22
Before Feng Qingyou could say no, Feng Erya interrupted him.
"Brother, don't refuse. I'm already old, and I don't know how much money I can use in this village.
If those little bastards knew I had so much money, they would definitely find a way to deduct it from me.
They pretend to be decent people outside. If they really want to take the money away from me, they can probably find a way to steal it.
I don’t want to let them get away with it.”
Feng Qingyou said angrily: "My family has made a lot of money this year thanks to you, so we still have enough money to build a few houses.
Besides, building a house doesn’t require so much material.
If you're worried about those guys, just leave the money with me. I'll save it for you and you can come and get it when you need it."
But Feng Erya didn't think so.
"Brother, after the New Year, send all the children to school.
Even if you fail to pass the imperial examination, it's good to know more words.
Reading more books will always be useful in the future.
If anyone in my family is interested in these skills of mine, I will ask them to come and learn from me.
These skills did not originally belong to his Wan family.
I am the aunt of the Feng family. No one can interfere if I want to teach anyone the skills I have developed.
If there is someone in the family who is good at studying in the future, various expenses will inevitably be inevitable.
These pots of flowers are really lucky this year. We found rare treasures in the mountains. Who knows if such a good thing will happen again next year?
Just listen to me, use this money to build a house, and use the money you earn to send all your children to school."
The old brother and sister talked for a long time, and finally Feng Erya persuaded Feng Qingyou to agree to accept the money.
In fact, once the money is given out, it doesn’t matter whether they use it for education or for building a house.
What’s important is that there is a plot in the original story that Feng Xiyun, a grandson of the Feng family, has a talent for studying.
After he passed the imperial examination and ranked second, he met the Wan brothers on the street while waiting for his official appointment in the capital.
Because they left their old mother alone in the countryside and ignored her, the three brothers lived a life of luxury with their wives and children.
After leaving the village, they never returned to visit Feng Erya, so Feng Xiyun started arguing with them.
At that time, several time-traveling girls had already become prominent figures, and they had either princes or generals behind them.
Feng Xiyun was suppressed by several time-traveling women, which resulted in him serving as a county magistrate in a remote mountainous area for many years.
Although the Wan brothers and their children gained a bad reputation in Kyoto, it had no impact in other aspects.
Since the original plot was that he ended up like that because he helped Feng Erya, she planned to help him this time.
Even without her help, the other child would have been able to pass the exam.
But with this money, I can find a better teacher, and maybe in the future I can establish some connections with the teacher, which will make my child's life smoother.
After the Chinese New Year, the whole village started to get busy again.
As the weather gets warmer, villagers start working outdoors.
The spring planting had just ended and there was not much work to do in the fields, so the caravan was about to set off again.
This time the convoy consisted of thirty vehicles.
Ten of the trucks contained goods that had been ordered in the provincial capital, and the remaining twenty trucks contained the goods that were to be sold this time.
Of course, the number of people in the convoy also increased, and now there are already eighty of them.
The patriarch said that the caravan has no plans to expand for the time being, and it would be good to just keep the current scale and make a few trips a year.
Wait until a successful candidate in the village passes the imperial examination and we have someone to back us up, then we can consider expanding our business.
The villagers all understood what it meant.
Now there is only one scholar named Sun in the village who has achieved academic honors, which is still a bit weak. However, if the village can produce a juren, the situation will be completely different.
At that time, even the county magistrate did not dare to easily touch the business of Liuhe Village.
This year, Feng Erya planted pepper and cotton seeds in her own vegetable garden.
She is so prestigious in the village now that even if she doesn't grow any vegetables at home, someone will deliver them to her every day.
What's more, those pepper and cotton seeds only planted half of the vegetable garden.
At this rate, it will not be possible for the entire village to grow peppers and cotton next year.
Promoting a crop is a long and arduous task.
Although she also had pepper and cotton seeds in her space, she had compared them before and found that they were not the same varieties at all.
Although the fruits produced by these seeds found in the mountains are not as thin as the wild varieties recorded in books, they are still very different from those cultivated in later generations.
You can see the difference from a distance.
So there is no other way but to do it step by step.
The business in Liuhe Village has now become stable. When there is farm work, people do it. When there is no farm work, the whole village is busy doing handicrafts.
Although people from other villages don’t know what happened in Liuhe Village in the past two years, life here has visibly improved, which is known to several surrounding villages.
The reason why it was kept secret so well was that the village head and the clan leader had made preparations in advance.
Everyone who stayed in the village was threatened and beaten.
They also have plans for the caravan.
That is, they try to hide it for a while and send the goods to other counties for sale.
We will keep all the places around here that know the ins and outs of the village for now and develop them when the time is right.
Matchmakers received many commissions to come to Liuhe Village to propose marriages, but since Liuhe Village was not responsible for marriages, no one agreed to marry someone from another village.
The two couples that were supposed to be together were both from our village.
Now everyone in the village knows that life in their village will get better and better, so naturally they don’t want to marry a girl from another village who knows nothing and delays their family’s ability to make money.
The girl also didn't want to marry into another village and live a hard and difficult life.
Isn't it something that the village has to solve itself?
Even though the matchmaker came so many times, she didn't miss any of the good things in Liuhe Village. All she could see were ordinary items like woven mats.
Many farmers can do this, but it really didn't attract the attention of the matchmaker.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and Liuhe Village has completely changed.
Every household has built a new house. Some families with many children have built a large yard and then several small yards in the middle of the yard.
Although it is not as regular as a siheyuan, it also has an advantage. When the door is open, they are still a family. When the door is closed, every couple has their own little home.
Some elderly people simply divided their homes and lived separately, with each family having a new house built.
Now that I have the ability to cook, I can support the family. How I want to live in the future depends on myself.
Feng Erya had already moved into the new house.
This is the residential land newly approved by the village head. It is next to Feng Qingyou’s new house, and next to it are the houses of Feng Qing’s several sons.
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