Going to ancient times with a sign-in system: Stepmothers are not to be trifled with

Chapter 18
"Li Quan met General Wang."

Before the man could speak, Li Quan, the housekeeper of Li Zhifu's family, spoke first.

"Butler Li, this is...?"

"My lord's niece is in this village. I heard that bandits came here a while ago. My lord and his wife were worried, so they sent me to the village to see Miss Biao."

"Master Li's niece lives here?"

It seemed that these words were just repeated, but when he said these words, the man looked at the village chief Wu Tangchi with a questioning look.

"My lord, yes. Ms. Guo has been in our village for more than half a month, and she lives in the yard not far from the village." After finishing speaking, she pointed in the direction of Xiao's yard.

While the few people here were talking, Chen Lianhua had already met five mothers who were going down the mountain with a basket on their backs.

"Sister Guo, hurry up and go back to the village. Someone came to the village to look for you, saying that you are from Qingyang Mansion."

"Qingyang Mansion?"

Guo Xiaoxiao murmured suspiciously, and then responded, "Hey, I'll come back now, thank you sister-in-law."

Several people came to the village in a hurry, Guo Xiaoxiao saw the person coming from a distance, and he knew it in his heart.

But looking at the bags after bags of things, he asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, why are there so many bags?"

"Hey, don't mention it. Here, the tall one standing over there, the food collector, most of these are rations hidden by the villagers. If they are all taken away, how will the villagers live..."

Hearing the sound, Guo Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered the half bag of grain he had left at home, and immediately searched for it in those bags.

After a while, Guo Xiaoxiao closed his eyes and walked towards Wu Tangchi, "Uncle Village Chief, I heard my sister-in-law said that someone is looking for me, do you know who is looking for me?"

"Daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, Housekeeper Li from Mr. Li's family in Qingyang Mansion is looking for you." He said, looking at the two who were still talking.

Guo Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Thank you, Uncle."

Li Quan, who had been paying attention to the movement, talked to General Wang, then turned to Guo Xiaoxiao, cupped his hands and said, "Miss Biao, Mrs. Madam sent you something shortly."

"Well, thank you for your trouble."

"Not serious."

"Let's go."

"Hey."

Looking at Li Quan who was driving away behind Guo Xiaoxiao in the carriage, General Wang thought for a while, and then walked towards the ox cart, "Leave half of the grain. Besides, did you find the grain from the yard over there?"

Glancing at the direction of General Wang's finger, the men looked at each other in blank dismay.

Before General Wang could ask again, a man responded, "My subordinate found half a bag of black flour and two catties of brown rice there."

"that's it?"

"That's all. That house doesn't even have a cellar."

Uh…

As soon as these words came out, General Wang was surprised.

Who in this farmhouse doesn't have a cellar?

Just half a bag of black noodles?

He saw it just now, the woman was accompanied by four dolls, and the village chief called her "Xiao's daughter-in-law"...

The niece of the dignified magistrate's family actually married a widower and became stepmothers for several children?

This seems to be a bit inconsistent with the character of that prefect Li...

After thinking about it for a while, the man looked suspiciously at the direction Guo Xiaoxiao was leaving again, and said, "The food in this village is calculated according to the price outside, so I must have figured it out for the general, and there must be no loss!"

The three of them were a little confused when they heard this.

Recently, the villages that went to "requisition food" all gave money, but the money was only half of it. How come here...

Seeing the man looking at them with a straight face, the three of them didn't dare to ask questions, so they responded quickly, then turned around and got busy...

After half an hour.

Wu Tangchi looked at the money stuffed in his hand, felt a little panicked, and wanted to ask, but before he could say anything, he saw a group of people leaving with food.

Seeing this, the villagers also became uneasy.

The change in style of painting was so weird that they were a little overwhelmed.

Until Li Quan drove away in the carriage, Wu Tang looked thoughtfully at the direction of his departure, then turned his head to look at Xiao's house...

Xiao family.

Guo Xiaoxiao looked at the food that was sent back intact, and saw the broken silver on the table, a little dumbfounded.

She knew that it must be because of Steward Li's appearance, otherwise the food would not be returned, let alone the money.

"Ziqing Ziyang, move these to the kitchen, and the stepmother will cook something delicious for you later."

"Ziqing, come and help stepmother move these into the house."

"it is good."

What Li Quan sent was not much, twenty catties of white flour, ten catties of millet, five catties of meat, a large piece of suet, and two catties of coarse salt.

However, before he left, he carried a few children on his back, took out a few bank notes from his sleeve pocket and handed them to Guo Xiaoxiao, "Miss Cousin, Madam told me not to reveal my wealth, and it is the best policy to take good care of myself."

"Yes. Uncle Li, come back and thank Uncle and Aunt for me."

"Miss Biao, if those people who collect food come again, just give them food and write down their appearance. The man who came here today is surnamed Wang. Although he is a lieutenant general, his status is not bad."

Hearing this, Guo Xiao smiled happily, and nodded obediently: "Okay, thank you Uncle Li."

"Hey, let's go. Remember to send a letter if you have something to do."

"Okay, Uncle Li, take your time along the way."

"Got it."

Watching Li Quan go away, Guo Xiaoxiao looked at the sky, turned around and entered the kitchen with a low laugh.

Picking up the large piece of oil and cutting it into small pieces, he said, "Ziqing, come and help light the fire."

"Hey, here we come."

"Ziyang, wash two radishes. Ziqing trims the onions and peppers."

"it is good."

Seeing that her brothers and sisters were all arranged by Guo Xiaoxiao, the little girl stood at the door of the kitchen, poked her head and asked, "Mother, what is Xiaosi doing?"

"Xiao Si, Xiao Si is in charge of watching his brothers and sisters do things, and they are not allowed to be lazy, okay?"

"Hmph! Mother is lying. Xiaosi is already four years old, not a three-year-old baby. Xiaosi can also help mother with things." After finishing speaking, he turned and walked towards his sister, squatting beside her, and took care of the green onions carefully. .

Guo Xiaoxiao ignored the little girl's angry expression, but while cutting the meat, he used a shovel to turn over the white lumps of oil in the pot.

Slowly, Bai Shengsheng was replaced by Wei Huang, and the smell of meat wafted from the kitchen.

Xiao Ziyang brought in the washed radishes, peppers, and green onions, "Stepmother, look at the pot, I'll cut the radishes."

"Okay, cut slowly."

"Uh-huh."

Seeing that there was more and more oil in the pot, Guo Xiaoxiao took out a crock and began to fill it with oil.

Put the oil dregs into a big bowl, Guo Xiaoxiao scooped a scoop of water and poured it into the pot, put two slices of ginger, and poured the cut radish into the pot, then said: "Ziqing, Watch the fire."

"Uh-huh."

"Stepmother, the peppers and green onions are also cut up."

"Okay, thank you Ziyang."

Xiao Ziyang blushed and said "No thanks", and then walked out of the kitchen with his two younger sisters in a sensible manner.

Under the eaves, Xiao Ziyang looked at the two younger sisters solemnly and said: "Sister, the stepmother is very good, we must be obedient, we must not be greedy, and we must help the stepmother."

"Brother, I know."

"Yeah, my mother is very good, and Xiao Si also wants to help my mother."

(End of this chapter)