Jiang Yuwei smiled and nodded:

"Since I'm going to buy one, I'll naturally pick a good one. I want to buy a ewe and raise it at home."

The old woman pointed at the sheep standing on her head and said:

"Those five are ewes. Forget about the two pregnant ones. I'm afraid you won't be able to take care of them. You'll suffer if you buy them. Just pick one from the remaining three."

Jiang Yuwei shook her head and said:

"No, I want a pregnant ewe. I have raised sheep before, so taking care of a ewe is not a problem."

Jiang Yuwei walked forward and carefully looked at the two pregnant ewes. She saw that one of them was white and had a strong and tall body and a bigger belly. So she immediately took a fancy to it and pointed at it and asked:

"Auntie, how much is your sheep?"

The old woman looked at the sheep that Jiang Yuwei had chosen and frowned:

"This is my family's first sheep, and it's a pregnant ewe. It's about to give birth, so I have to sell it for at least one or two taels of silver to make it worthwhile."

After hearing this, Jiang Yuwei pointed at her own ox cart and said:

"Aunt, to be honest, I only spent one ounce of silver to buy this cow. Now you are asking me for one ounce of silver for this sheep, which is indeed a bit high. How about this? After all, your sheep is pregnant. I will give you sixty copper coins. Do you think it's okay?"

After hearing this, the old woman knew that Jiang Yuwei was not someone who could be easily fooled, so she coughed a few times and said:

"Sixty copper coins is too little. I feed my sheep so well. If you take it back and it gives birth to lambs, you can have more sheep. Sixty is not enough. No, it must be at least seventy!"

Jiang Yuwei looked at the sheep, thought for a moment and said:

"Okay, seventy is a deal."

As he said this, he took out his purse, counted out seventy copper coins and stuffed them into the old woman's hand. The old woman took the money with joy on her face. She counted it again before putting the money into her purse with confidence, and then handed the sheep to Jiang Yuwei.

Jiang Yuwei smiled and drove the sheep into the car. In fact, she raised sheep mainly for their milk. She had never drunk milk since she came here. If she had the chance to meet someone selling a cow in the future, she would buy a cow and take it home to drink the milk.

Ning Huaizhi saw Jiang Yuwei's happy face and smiled as well:

"Wan'er, you have to go cut more grass now. Your mother has caught a sheep for you to raise."

Wan'er clapped her hands and said:

"Okay, raise the lamb. Wan'er will definitely raise the lamb to be plump and white!"

Jiang Yuwei smiled and touched Ning Wan's head, then looked at the ewe lying on the cart, afraid that she would be frightened on the road and jump out again, so she hugged the sheep's neck with her hands and asked Ning Huaizhi to go home quickly.

After the three of them arrived home, Jiang Yuwei led the sheep to the sheep shed in the backyard. The sheep's belly was really big now, and Jiang Yuwei was not sure when it would give birth. She would not let it go out to eat on its own for the next few days. She thought that she and Ning Wan could just cut grass together to feed it. Anyway, her family had just bought three acres of mulberry land, and there were still a lot of leaves on it. It would not be a problem to pick them every day to feed the chickens, ducks and geese at home.

Thinking so, Jiang Yuwei carried a backpack and took Ning Wan to the back mountain to cut grass and pick mulberry leaves. The two of them came back with two large backpacks full of leaves, which were enough to eat until tomorrow morning.

After arriving home, Jiang Yuwei asked Ning Wan to feed the poultry in the backyard, while she washed the wild vegetables she had brought back from the headman's house today and made them into wild vegetable dumplings. She also fried a vegetarian dish and heated up the leftover meat dishes from yesterday and served them on the table.

The family of three was eating when they heard someone shouting outside the yard:

"Huaizhi, Yuwei, I've brought you bricks and tiles!"

Jiang Yuwei really didn't expect that the village head would bring back the bricks and tiles for her so quickly. She hurriedly got up to greet him, welcomed him into the yard, and then led everyone to pull the bricks and tiles directly to the backyard. Then she said to everyone:

"Fellow villagers, have you had dinner yet? If not, come and have dinner at my house!"

Everyone waved their hands and said:

"No, no, we have to go home early, and my wife is waiting at home."

The village head said to Jiang Yuwei again:

"Okay, Yuwei, stop busying yourself. We are here to deliver bricks and tiles today. I have already gathered all the people. When they heard that they were going to work at your house, everyone rushed to come. I saw that tomorrow is a good day for breaking ground, so we don't need to delay. I will ask them to come early tomorrow morning, okay?"

Jiang Yuwei smiled and nodded and said:

"I will follow the arrangements of the village head. Thank you very much today. Here is the money for buying bricks and tiles. Please keep it."

Jiang Yuwei took out a tael of silver from her purse and handed it to the head of the village. Seeing this, the head of the village waved his hand and said:

"It won't take that much."

Jiang Yuwei stuffed the money into Li Zheng's hand and pushed him out, saying with a smile:

"Go back quickly, Aunt Ning is waiting for you at home."

After seeing everyone off, Jiang Yuwei went back to the yard to eat. She didn't notice at all that a sneaky dark figure was outside, poking his head into her yard.

After finishing their meal, the family of three locked the gate and went back to the house to sleep.

Jiang Yuwei thought that she hadn't been to the space to turn the soil and harvest crops for a long time, so she entered the space and saw that the beans she had planted before had grown a lot. She hurriedly harvested them and put them in the hut.

She went to check on the small Gastrodia elata that she had planted before. Now they had grown very big. Jiang Yuwei did not plan to dig them out and sell them. She thought of just keeping them in the space so that she could dig them out and exchange them for money when she needed money urgently in the future.

Of course, what Jiang Yuwei was more concerned about at this time was how the century-old ginseng was growing, so she walked to the place where the ginseng was planted and observed it carefully. She saw that the ginseng had grown several times larger than when it was planted. Jiang Yuwei calculated that maybe she could dig it out and use it in a few days, but she didn't dare to dig it rashly. She thought it would be better if it could grow bigger, which would be safer.

Jiang Yuwei was really worried when she saw the soybeans all over the floor. She was sure that her family could not finish eating them, so she might as well dry them and make tofu. However, Jiang Yuwei remembered that tofu could only be made and sold on the same day, and the market was held every seven days. If she made the tofu and then sold it at the market, it would definitely be too late.

Jiang Yuwei thought for a moment and suddenly remembered that she had made gray tofu in her previous life, which was very delicious. Why not grind all the soybeans into tofu, and then make gray tofu and sell it at the market. This way, the price could be higher than ordinary tofu.

Jiang Yuwei had a plan in mind, so she took a bath in the spiritual spring water and came out. Unexpectedly, as soon as she came out, she heard some noise in the backyard. Jiang Yuwei thought it might be the noise made by the ewe.

But when she listened carefully, it sounded like human footsteps. Jiang Yuwei immediately became alert. She didn't dare to light a candle. She put on her clothes in the dark and went to Ning Huaizhi's room to wake him up softly.

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