Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

Soon, the Sun family had servants carry Xiao Ru away from the side door in a sedan chair. It was a time of famine, so the old Sheng family simply set up a table and had a good meal, and that was considered marrying Xiao Ru off.

Xiaolan's family sighed and understood Xiaoru's idea. After all, the Sun family was a wealthy family and one of the richest families in the county. In the future, she would be able to live a life without worries about food and clothing. More importantly, she would not have to work in the fields. Except for the status of a concubine, everything else was the life Xiaoru was willing to live.

But Xiaolan's family didn't have a good impression of this family. After all, Grandpa Sheng and Sheng Nuo wanted to kill her in order to arrange a ghost marriage for the youngest son of the Sun family. Xiaolan escaped death, and the Sun family turned their attention to Liu Laifu's family in Liujiazhuang, which was about ten miles away from Shengjia Village. The little girl in this family was just ten years old. This family was a cruel family. In order to make a few more taels of silver, Liu Laifu did it himself, but the Sun family also spent a lot of money.

"The Sun family is a ruthless family. The Sheng family is very different from them. Xiaoru is still a concubine. Even if something happens in the future, her family will have no say. I don't know whether it will be a blessing or a curse for Xiaoru to marry into the family." Zhang said.

"There are so many private matters in a big mansion, and the rules are so complicated. I really don't know what Xiaoru is thinking. She thinks she has entered a blessed nest. The Sun family is not like us farmers, who are honest and kind. Just the fact that the eldest son of the Sun family has a bunch of concubines is enough for her to bear." Xin sighed.

"Everyone has their own destiny. Let me make it clear first. If you two sisters ever think of becoming my concubines, don't blame me for driving you out and no longer recognizing you." Zhang said sternly.

"Mom, don't worry. We are not crazy. We would not waste such a good life on being treated as toys by others." Xiao Lan said.

Xiaoting couldn't agree more with what Xiaolan said.

Because the Sun family gave the Sheng family a betrothal gift of 800 taels of silver when they took a concubine, the money was finally kept by Cui. Although it didn't sound good for Xiaoru to become a concubine of a wealthy family, the Sheng family did benefit from this incident.

The family that Wang chose for Xiaoru at the beginning was a middle-class family in the county town. They could live well and the other party was a scholar. Xiaoru would be the wife of a scholar if she married him. Although she had to plan her life, it was still pretty good. Xiaoru was very proud and was not satisfied with the marriage arranged by Wang, but she could not resist her mother. When she saw that the family was slow to make a decision, and when she knew that the eldest brother of the Sun family had asked someone to tell her father that he wanted to make her a concubine, she happily agreed despite Wang's objection.

Wang was very troubled by this, but she had no choice, because Sheng Nuo was very satisfied with this marriage, so the family mentioned this matter to Mr. Sheng. This year, Xiaoru's marriage was delayed again and again due to the sudden disaster and epidemic. Wang was not satisfied with this marriage, but things did not develop according to her wishes. In the end, Xiaoru was carried to the Sun family.

Xiaoru's marriage did not cause much stir in Shengjia Village. After all, for a farmer who could not get enough food, being a concubine in a wealthy family was better than starving to death. In any case, Xiaoru's quality of life was definitely better than in the village.

The weather was getting colder, and it was the right time to plant radishes. Xiaolan's fields were far from home, so they didn't dare to plant radishes outside. Now every household was hungry, and if they saw radishes growing in the fields, they would probably be stolen before they were fully grown. The family decided to plant the radishes in the manor, which would be easier to look after.

When Zhang Shanfeng moved, he brought with him the radish seeds that had not been planted last year, so Xiaolan's family didn't have to spend money to buy more.

First, plow the land, and then make ridges. Use a shovel to break up the large clods of soil, and the ridges will be made entirely of fine soil. Then use your index and middle fingers to make pits, with a distance of one foot and a depth of about half a finger. Since the soil of the ridges is fine, it is easy to make pits. Pour water into each pit. Then sprinkle radish seeds into the pits. Radish seeds are small, so sprinkle about five or six seeds in one pit. After sowing the seeds, cover them with soil. When the radish seedlings emerge and grow to about four leaves, it is time to thin them out to two. When they grow to five or six leaves, thin them out to one more.

Xiaolan's family has many people, and they planted radishes on almost five acres of land. They didn't have enough radish seeds, so Shengxuan and Zhang Qingfeng went to the town to buy some.

After finishing these, the family began to clean up the wasteland and forests along the river bank. The forests could be used as firewood, and the wasteland could be reclaimed to grow cabbage.

Six mu of wasteland was reclaimed first, and all of it was planted with cabbage, and the rest would be cleaned up slowly. Some time ago, the world was not peaceful, and the family's carriage was placed in the front yard and the cows were placed in the back yard. Xiao Lan estimated that she would be able to settle down after the autumn harvest next year, so she planned the locations of the pig pen, chicken pen, cowshed, horse shed, vegetable cellar, and threshing ground.

Her family was not like other families who didn't have enough food to eat, and they didn't dare to move too much to save energy. Her family had a full meal every day, and now it was different from the tense atmosphere some time ago. The world was not as chaotic as before, and Xiaolan's family could free up their hands to plan the farm.

"Let's clear out this patch of mixed forest this year, and when the conditions are better next year, we'll see if we can find some fruit tree seedlings to plant." Zhang Shanfeng said.

"That's a good idea. We'll have fresh fruits to eat at home in the future." Xiao Lan said with a smile. "Grandpa, let's build a house here. I want to build a soap factory."

"What is soap?" Zhang Shanfeng wondered.

"Soap can be used to wash clothes, hands, shampoo, and bathe. I can't make it now, but when the town is settled, I'll buy all the necessary things and show you how to make it." Xiao Lan said with a smile.

Zhang Qingnian heard the conversation between Xiaolan and Zhang Shanfeng and said with a smile, "No one in our family can compare to Xiaolan's intelligence. All our intelligence comes from Xiaolan."

The whole family laughed and agreed.

The people in the village saw Xiaolan's family busy as they wanted to help but they were powerless. They had only plain food to eat every day and they had no energy to do so.