"What conditions?" The serious atmosphere made Yu Jiuer want to laugh for some reason.

Lao Cheng, can you please stop looking like I'm bullying you? The trump card is in your hand right now!

But this man didn't beat around the bush, he was very straightforward, so she wasn't worried that he would play tricks on her. As long as he promised to keep her secret, everything else would be fine.

"You have a good brain. Find a way to help me get rid of that lousy governor Pan Yang! I hate him!"

"Did that donkey have nothing to do all day and just kicked you on the head?" Yu Jiuer glanced at him sideways and felt that he was like a child who didn't get any candy and was suffering from injustice.

Cheng Ming flattered, "My head was kicked and broken! I am relying on your head not being kicked by a donkey, so I want you to help me think of a solution. Don't worry, your secret is absolutely safe with me, Old Cheng!"

"Okay! Let me think about it!" Yu Jiuer had a plan in mind and said, "Why don't we just become sworn brothers? From now on, you will be my brother, and I will help you drive away flies and help you become the governor. Let's build Yinshan together, how about it?"

The honest Cheng Ming didn't realize that Yu Jiuer was setting a trap for him, and nodded innocently: "It's a deal! We'll become sworn brothers when you get better!"

Yu Jiuer covered her mouth with a triumphant snicker. Now that he was her brother, wouldn't Xiguanying be hers?

How can a brother not love his sister? This is a blessing in disguise!

After the discussion here, Yu Jiuer heard the voices of people outside supporting her. Her heart dropped sharply and she felt a sore nose.

She blinked, trying hard to hold back the tears that were about to fall.

She has to pamper such lovely people as much as she can!

Only after the crisis was resolved did Yu Jiuer fall asleep peacefully.

The next day, Wang Meng brought news that 800 family members of farm workers had come to work.

This number was within Yu Jiuer's expectations. After all, many people still had farmland at home.

The crops on the farm have not yet been harvested, so it is normal for them to be worried.

Once the rice fields are harvested in October, they can be reassured.

After resting for seven days, Yu Jiuer regained her vigor and energy, and was full of energy and vigor. Thinking about the agreement with Cheng Ming, she prepared a banquet and asked someone to invite General Cheng to the backyard of the county government office.

They swore brotherhood reverently in front of the big banyan tree in the backyard of the county government office.

"God is above, the earth is below. I, Cheng Ming (Yu Jiuer), have become sworn brothers today. From now on, we will be together in wealth and poverty. Brothers and sisters will protect each other as a family. We will be in the same boat in the future and will face difficulties and obstacles together..."

After the ceremony, Yu Jiuer asked casually, "Mr. Rong, do you have any objection to our sworn brotherhood?"

Cheng Ming sat down and tasted the wine that Yu Jiuer poured for him and said, "I didn't tell him to avoid his nagging. He will know it later!"

"Brother Cheng also knows how to act first and ask for permission later? That's progress!"

Cheng Ming said proudly: "He who keeps company with the good becomes good, and he who keeps company with the bad becomes bad! Don't you see whose brother I am?"

"Today we become sworn brothers, and I will give you a gift, big brother!" Yu Jiuer kept the secret.

"what gift?"

"From today on, brother, besides me as your relative in Yinshan County, you have other relatives!" Yu Jiuer smiled mysteriously.

Cheng Ming glanced at her belly: "I know, my unborn nephew!"

Yu Jiuer smiled and shook her head: "It's not the one in my belly, it's your blood relative!"

Cheng Ming was a little surprised, but he knew that Yu Jiuer would not speak out of turn for no reason, so he looked like he was all ears.

"Cheng An!"

As soon as Yu Jiuer finished speaking, Cheng An came in with red eyes and knelt down at General Cheng's feet.

Cheng Ming jumped up in shock: “I don’t have a illegitimate child as old as you!”

Then he looked up and saw an elderly couple following Cheng An in.

Cheng Ming took a closer look and yelled in shock: "Dad, Mom?"

"Ming'er, my son, I thought I would never see you again!"

The family held their heads and cried.

Cheng Ming left home to join the army at the age of fourteen. Eleven years have passed before his family finally meets again.

On the way back from the coast of the Western Regions, Yu Jiuer carefully looked at Cheng Ming and Cheng An's eyebrows and found that the two men's eyebrows and eyes were surprisingly similar. If Cheng Ming shaved his beard, they would probably look even more alike.

In order to dispel her doubts, she hid it from Cheng An after she came back and ordered people to rush to General Cheng's hometown to investigate.

The investigation indeed revealed the problem.

After Cheng Ming calmed down, he asked hurriedly, "Why are you here? Where are my brother and sister-in-law?"

"Your brother and sister-in-law are gone. This is your brother's child, Cheng'an. It was all thanks to County Magistrate Yu who saved him!"

"What's going on?"

Old Man Cheng sighed and recounted what had happened over the past decade.

It turned out that not long after Cheng Ming joined the army, his parents became seriously ill. In order to treat their parents, Cheng An's parents borrowed money at high interest from the local gentry. However, the local gentry fell in love with Cheng An's mother and did not want them to pay back the money but only wanted her.

Of course Cheng An's father refused, so he took young Cheng An and his mother all the way to the northwest, intending to seek refuge with his second brother Cheng Ming. However, they encountered a plague on the way, and Cheng An's mother died of the disease. Cheng An and his father were never heard from again.

Fortunately, Yu Jiuer's people found General Cheng's hometown and brought Cheng's father and Cheng's mother to Yinshan County.

They saw that Cheng An looked very much like their eldest son, and they cried and hugged him tightly. This was the grandson they thought had passed away!

Yu Jiuer added: "The people I sent out came back and said that Father Cheng and Mother Cheng were living in a very difficult situation in their hometown. They didn't have a good roof over their heads, good clothes on their backs, and they didn't even have a field."

Cheng Ming paused, and asked in disbelief, "Don't I send money back home from time to time? Why is it so hard? Where are the houses and fields at home? You didn't mention these in your letters?"

He went out to join the army, his family had fields and land, and they were doing relatively well. He also often sent money back home. How could this happen?

Cheng A Niang cried until her eyes were red. She said, "I sold the land to pay the interest. We haven't heard from you for more than ten years. We thought you were dead. How could we receive the money you sent us?"

"But I received your letter saying everything is fine!" Cheng Ming paused for a moment and suddenly realized the crux of the matter.

"It must be the local gentry who has the upper hand. He forged a letter to me and took my money for himself. He bullied my parents and humiliated my brother and his wife. How can this be possible?"

Father Cheng, who thought he had no children or grandchildren, suddenly had a son and a grandson again. The torture he had suffered before instantly dissipated, and he said happily: "It's all over, it's all over. From now on, our family will be together!"

"Dad and Mom, I am an unfilial child. I will serve you wholeheartedly in the future!" Cheng Ming kowtowed to his parents several times, then gritted his teeth and said, "As for that squire, I have plenty of ways to deal with him. Debts must be repaid."

"Uncle, I will take care of grandpa and grandma from now on. It's inconvenient for you to stay in the military camp, so they can stay in the county government office and live with me in the future!" Cheng An said from the side.

"Good child, this won't cause any trouble to the adults, right?" Cheng A Niang looked at Yu Jiuer a little shyly.

Yu Jiuer waved her hands repeatedly: "How could that be? I am sworn brothers with Brother Cheng today. From now on, you are also my parents. We will serve you together!"

"Good boy! Thank you!"

After the recognition, the eldest lady and four concubines also came in, and the family ate together happily.

After learning more about it, I found out that Cheng Lao and Cheng A Niang were good farmers in their hometown. When they learned about Yu Jiuer's farming plan, the two restless old people hurriedly asked: "Can we also join your farm?"

"I'd love for you two elders to come!" Yu Jiuer said with a smile, "I'm planning to build a vegetable greenhouse. If godfather and godmother are willing, come and help me manage the vegetable greenhouse! I'll assign some people to you two elders, would you mind helping to supervise?"

The two elders nodded quickly in agreement.

"That's great! Godfather and godmother, please enjoy the food!" Yu Jiuer hurriedly picked up some food for the two elders.

There is a lot to do on the farm, and she needs her own people to help manage it.

These cheap parents came just in time!

God was so kind to her!

After August, the northwest wind became stronger and Yu Jiuer began to build a vegetable greenhouse.

The second batch of potatoes has just been planted. Without a greenhouse in the winter, it will be difficult for them to bear fruit.

Yinshan Mountain enters the cold winter in October, and the long winter lasts until April of the following year. Such a place really needs a greenhouse.

She told Wang Meng her idea, and Wang Meng's eyes lit up: "Can this greenhouse really grow vegetables in winter?"

Yu Jiuer nodded and smiled: "Yes!"

He added, "But when it's the coldest, we need to burn firewood in the greenhouse to keep the temperature inside warm."

"Okay, I believe whatever you say. Just tell me what to do!" Wang Meng rolled up his sleeves and prepared to work. "But according to what you said, we need to build dozens of acres of greenhouses. Can we eat all the vegetables?"

"If you can't finish eating them, you can sell them. Think about it, if there are green cucumbers and green vegetables in the cold winter, would the wealthy families in Liangzhou Prefecture want to buy them?" Yu Jiuer has already thought of a way to make money for Yinshan County.

"The last thing those rich and powerful people lack is money. We have to find a way to make money from them!"

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