After becoming a top-notch peasant woman, she continues to be a top-notch

Because they were afraid that Zhen Yue would borrow money, not even dogs dared to pass by the Qiao family’s door recently, except for the village chief who knew the situation.

However, the village chief and Zhen Yue do not live in the same direction, so the village chief would not come here unless there is something important.

The Lin family, who were the closest to their home, were even less likely to show up. Lin Xiaohu and Zhen Yue were no longer seen, and Qian was too busy to go under the banyan tree to listen to gossip, so the Qiao family didn't know that their family had become a family that everyone in the village needed to stay away from.

But even if I knew Zhen Yue didn't care, it would be best this way, so that she wouldn't have to come over and chatter all day long.

Little Achu can already turn over. Zhen Yue is counting the days. The weather has not been hot recently and it has even started to get cool in the mornings. Although the vegetables can survive cold weather thanks to her special powers, it would be too eye-catching if they are not frozen to death in a snowy day. So Zhen Yue plans not to grow vegetables in the field after the real winter comes.

The main reason why she wanted to grow soybeans was that she wanted to germinate the soybeans and make them into bean sprouts in winter. She could definitely make some money by selling them in winter, and she could also make tofu and soy milk.

Originally, Zhen Yue wanted to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, but when she asked the seed seller, she found out they didn't have any. Zhen Yue thought that maybe these two things either had not spread to this land or they existed but people didn't know about it.

However, it is not easy to grow vegetables in large quantities in winter, so except for radishes and cabbages, the rest will not be planted for the time being.

Zhen Yue took another look at the pigs in the pigsty. The two pigs were now quite fat and could be slaughtered and sold in winter. The chickens could also be eaten.

Zhen Yue touched his chin and felt that he could continue to raise a few more pigs, chickens and ducks.

But... Zhen Yue looked at the house again... It seems that this house should be repaired first, otherwise when winter comes and it snows heavily, the house may collapse.

There were so many things, Zhen Yue wanted to write them down one by one, but she didn't have paper or pen.

Forget it, we need to buy paper and pen. She has been learning to read with Qiao Da recently, so she should be almost familiar with it. I think no one will be too surprised even if she can write, after all, she is smart!

After all the seeds were sown in the soil, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone had worked hard during this period, so Qiao Chen asked Qiao Dashan to buy a chicken and kill it, and also bought a pound of meat. Everyone had a sumptuous meal in the evening, otherwise everyone would be tired and thin.

Qiao Chao was also a little silent when he looked at his dark arms. They were dark to begin with, and now they were even darker. He glanced at Zhen Yue. Her arms were the only ones in the family that were still white.

Zhen Yue, however, proposed to repair the roof and walls of the house, "Let's do it before it gets too cold."

We haven’t even had two days’ rest yet and the work has started again.

Qiao Dashan: "I'll get some hay tomorrow."

Qiao Chao: "Just use tiles directly, so there's no need to repair it so often." It won't leak when it rains. Every time it rains heavily, he and Zhen Shi have trouble sleeping.

Qiao Chenshi: "This tile is a bit expensive."

Qiao Chao: "Nothing, I just made some money recently. One or two taels should be enough for five rooms in my house, right?"

The five rooms in the house include the kitchen. Qiao Chenshi and Qiao Dashan share one room, and the three sons share one room. As for the three little girls, Xiaonian sleeps with her parents on a small wooden bed in the room.

Xiaohua and Xiaocao both slept in Qiao Chen's room. There was also a wooden bed in the corner. Occasionally, Xiaonian would come and sleep with them.

Qiao Dashan: "Why do we need so much? I'll go ask tomorrow if it can be cheaper."

Qiao Er: "Then I will go with Dad tomorrow."

On the second day, Qiao Dashan and Qiao Er came to the tile shop to inquire about the price.

The housekeeper of the tile shop said, "The cheapest black clay tiles are one penny for three tiles, and the green tiles are one penny for one tile. It depends on how much you want." As for the other tiles, they were not for ordinary people to use, so the housekeeper didn't say anything more.

Qiao Dashan calculated the number of tiles the family would need and the price, then told Qiao Chao and Zhen Yue about it when he got home.

"You'll probably need two thousand tiles for your home. If you buy black clay tiles, a few hundred wen will be enough." If you buy green tiles, two thousand wen won't be much less even if you bargain.

Qiao Chao looked at Zhen Yue. He knew nothing about tiles. He only knew that most of the tiles in the palace were yellow.

Zhen Yue: "Let's use clay tiles first." When we make a lot of money and build a big house, we can use green tiles.

After spending six hundred coins to buy two thousand worth of clay tiles, Qiao Dashan and Qiao Er went to get them back in a donkey cart.

On the way back, they passed the big banyan tree again, and everyone soon saw the clay tiles on the donkey cart.

"Oh! Why are you buying so many tiles? Dashan, are you going to build a new house?" Mrs. Zhou walked over and touched the tiles, secretly glancing at Qiao Dashan and Qiao Er, preparing to take a few tiles.

But Qiao Er kept staring at her, "Auntie Zhou, be careful not to break it, or my sister-in-law will get mad."

When Mrs. Zhou heard him mention Zhen Yue, she immediately retracted her hand. Her head of the family said before that she seemed to see Lin Shi from the Lin family being beaten by the Zhen couple. Later, she saw Lin Shi and he was indeed bruised and battered, but he didn't dare to complain? What a coward!

The others also asked if they were going to build a house. "No, Uncle Dashan, isn't your family still in debt? How do you still have money to buy tiles and build a house?"

Qiao Er: "We didn't build a house, we just repaired it. The money for buying tiles was also borrowed." Anyway, the family all said it was a borrowed money.

"No, who can lend money to your family? Don't you still owe the loan shark?"

Qiao Er was stunned, "Huh?"

Mrs. Zhang: "Didn't your family borrow money from a loan shark to buy the donkey? Isn't it hard to pay back the money? Tell me, how much do you owe in total?"

Qiao Er hesitated and couldn't say anything. The village chief had asked before, "Didn't their family borrow money at high interest?" Qiao Dashan also shook his head and said he didn't know.

Looking at the crowd of people, Qiao Er saw that Mrs. Zhou was eager to touch the tiles, so he could only yell, "I, I don't know anything, it was all borrowed by my sister-in-law. Make way, we want to go home."

Qiao Dashan immediately urged the donkey to walk faster, but the donkey was not moving very fast. Mrs. Zhang even caught up with him and said, "Hey? Tell me how much money your family owes. I won't tell anyone else."

Qiao Er: "Aunt Zhang, I really don't know. Please move aside. If the tiles break, my sister-in-law will beat you."

When the others heard this, they immediately moved away from the donkey cart.

But Mrs. Zhang kept asking questions, and it seemed like she was determined to find out how much money their family owed. They clearly owed so much money, yet someone still lent them money to buy tiles?

Did the Qiao family know any wealthy families?

Zhen Yue was originally helping to take the grass off the roof in the yard, because Qiao Dashan would bring back the tiles today, so when they came back they would have cleaned the roof and could put the tiles back up.