I traveled through time and space to hunt and support my family in ancient times

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Ming and Jiang Yue finally returned home safely. The whole family was overjoyed, especially Cai, who was so excited to see her two children that she wiped away tears: "Mom has been praying for you all day long. Thank God, you are finally back!"

Jiang Youshan looked at his emaciated children and felt distressed: "Dad is useless and let you go out to suffer. Look at you, you have become so thin."

Jiang Xue hugged Jiang Yue tightly and kept crying, "Sister, sister."

Jiang Lei felt that he was a man, so he held back his tears and just kept giving delicious food to his brothers and sisters.

Jiang Ming tried to comfort his family, but he was not happy at all in his heart.

The prince lost power, and Lord Zhai was dismissed from office. As soon as they came back, they heard the extremely bad news for them.

Living with the emperor is like living with a tiger. The current old emperor is suspicious and has been worried about the strange phenomenon in the sky. General Zhang died in the battle, and Daqian Kingdom lost another city. The prince who recommended Zhang Shide became the target of public criticism...

Zhai Qingya was promoted too quickly, and it was inevitable that the Fourth Prince would take the opportunity to suppress the Crown Prince when he lost power. The Fourth Prince's territory could not be controlled by the Crown Prince's faction...

Jiang Yue shook her head and said, "Brother, we peasants are just cattle and horses in troubled times, so don't worry about official affairs. Rest at home for a few days, and then go to Honglin Academy to study when school starts. Although the political situation is unstable, the most important thing for us small families is to protect our family, but the future is still long, so don't give up the path to officialdom you want to take easily."

"Well, I know."

"Yue'er, are you hungry? Mommy will cook you some egg noodles."

Cai wiped away her tears. She was already six months pregnant. She looked clumsy when she stood up.

"Mom, I'm not hungry. Don't we have some roasted sweet potatoes? You should take a good rest and take care of the baby."

The sweet potato in Jiang Yueyang's hand was given to her by Jiang Lei.

"Dad, how is the grain we harvested?"

"After paying taxes on our harvest, I put all the money in the west room. It's enough to last until the new wheat comes in next year. We also grow crops on all the land except the paddy fields. COFCO is all thanks to your grandfather and Fubao. God bless us, there is no heavy snow this year, so the wheat in the field will not freeze to death."

"Why don't you hire someone?"

Jiang Youshan smiled naively: "Every family has sent a man to do corvée labor. They are short of labor. The work at home is enough to keep them busy."

"That's true." Jiang Yue then asked, "Is there anyone causing trouble when I'm not home?"

"No, no, it's the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. Your cousin Fubao has gotten married and has a new cousin-in-law. You can go over there when you have time. The village is in hibernation, so no one is coming to our house to cause trouble. It's just that..."

"What is it?"

Jiang Xue pouted: "That old man is back!"

"So, Dad, did you help your dad?"

"How can you talk like that, kid? No, daddy avoids seeing me and doesn't give me any help."

"Sister, you don't know how lively it is over there. It has been lively for several days. I heard from Jiang Zhi that Jiang Youguang was almost mad because his official position was taken away. Fan wanted to show off her power and ordered Qian, who was in confinement, to cook. Qian was not convinced and resisted. She had a big fight with Fan. Fan felt wronged and asked Jiang Changping to support her..."

Jiang Xue took a sip of water and continued, "Sister, you don't know that Jiang Youcai's family has established a foothold in Qingzhou and worked as a buyer for a hotel. Jiang Changping found a job as an accountant. He likes to form factions, so he found a group of thugs to break Jiang Youguang's leg and force old man Jiang to split up the family."

"The situation over there now is that Old Man Jiang came back and wanted to live with Jiang Youtian. Liu lived with Jiang Youguang. Jiang Youcai lived on his own. They sent Old Man Jiang back and left in a hurry."

"So the two old men separated like this?"

"Well, who knows what the plan was, maybe it was Jiang Zhi who said that they had a falling out, and Li was very harsh, but when they divided the family, they didn't say that they would not take care of the elderly, so they let Old Man Jiang stay."

Jiang Xue pursed her lips and said, "Well, when we were collecting grain, she came to our house once to borrow a bullock cart... But before our father came, Li persuaded her to go back."

"Also, Chen was having a fight with Jiang Changshun, so she went back to her parents' home and only came back before the New Year."

"What's she making a fuss about?"

"Who knows? Jiang Changshun is a soft-hearted person, just like old man Jiang."

"Let them do whatever they want, just don't come to our house!"

On the second day of the New Year, the family went to Aunt Cai to pay New Year's greetings. Wan Fubao followed Ge back to her parents' home. Jiang Yue did not see the new bride, so Aunt Cai prepared a large table of food to entertain them.

After eating, Jiang Yue felt that this year's New Year was not as interesting as last year.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the officials brought in ten families of disaster victims. They had fled from the south. The war had left them homeless. The refugees were wearing ragged and torn clothes, and they could only flee northward. Those who had relatives went to live with them, and those who had no relatives sold their children. Their lives were miserable! The counties they passed by would not take them in, so they had to continue northward.

The first wave of refugees from Muchuan County numbered more than 300 people. The county magistrate received them all and dispersed them to various villages. The ten households from Wangshan Village had a total of more than 20 people. After that, Muchuan County had no way to accommodate more refugees, so it could only drive them away and let them continue to move north.

In order to prevent these ten disaster-stricken families from gathering to cause trouble, the village head dispersed them and asked them to scatter around the village. He also called on every household in the village to give out some food to help these new families through the difficult times. Jiang Youshan responded positively and gave out half a bag of soybeans that he had harvested this year. This family in the village gave a handful of dried vegetables, and that family gave a handful of brown rice. All for the sake of the village head.

Once these disaster victims survive the winter and weeds grow in the mountains, things will be better.

On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Mr. Cui came. Jiang Xue and Jiang Lei had been taught by him for two years. They were both smart and clever children. In fact, they could have gone to the college in the county last year.

"Ordinarily I shouldn't interfere, but your Jiang Xue and Jiang Lei are both good talents, and Jiang Ming was able to enter Honglin Academy. Their talents are no worse than Jiang Ming's."

This is thanks to Mr. Cui.