I became a farmer's wife, and the cruel and powerful officials forced me to give birth to a chi

Jing Qishan added: "Dazhu treats you very well."

"I am his savior. Dazhu's wife was there and advised me to take it, so I took it." Li Yujiao explained.

Jing Qishan couldn't help but feel relieved.

The chill on Li Yujiao's back finally disappeared.

She just felt confused and then went to cook.

She also bought a clay pot on the day she went to buy chickens and ducks, and today she planned to make a clay pot rice with preserved meat.

While the rice was soaking, she cut some bacon and lit a fire to cook the rice. When the rice was almost cooked, she poured the bacon in and sprinkled the sauce she had prepared on it.

In this era, seasonings are not sufficient, so she plans to buy some beans and ferment a pot of soy sauce in a while, so that the dishes will taste better in the future.

Jing Qishan also smelled the aroma of cured meat inside.

He suddenly felt that his recent thoughts were a bit childish.

No matter what happens in the future, Li Yujiao is taking care of him wholeheartedly now. Why should he always wonder if she is going to find a strange man?

They are not actually husband and wife, so it is normal for her to want to remarry in the future.

It would be better to just accept her care steadily.

So, when Li Yujiao came in with a pot of clay pot rice wrapped in a thick sweat towel, she saw that Jing Qishan's eyes were very calm, unlike the scrutiny and suspicion he had before cooking.

He even praised her cooking.

Li Yujiao said: "Then you should eat more."

Finally, Jing Qishan said, "Why don't you install a lock at home? If you want to go out in the future, just lock the door."

When Li Yujiao heard what he said, she knew that someone had been there during the day.

The person who came must not be Chun Ge. If Chun Ge came, he would definitely not install a lock.

They are either from the Jing family, or some people who come here to gossip.

She agreed, "Okay, after I finish picking tea these few days, I'll have the locks of our house fixed."

……

Next, Li Yujiao went to pick tea for another five days and earned more than four hundred and eighty coins.

On the day of receiving her wages, Li Yujiao specifically asked Dazhu: "Brother Dazhu, I want to ask you something. Is there a carpenter in our village?"

Dazhu couldn't help but say, "Yes, aren't Agui and Aping the brothers? You can ask them for anything you want to do."

"What about reinforcing the doors and windows, adding fences, etc?"

Dazhu thought for a moment and said, "These are easy to do. I can call a few people over for you, and you can cook a meal for them. After all, if you work, you have to provide meals. This is the custom in the village. Then you can pay each person 20 cents. Now is not the busy farming season yet. If you just say a word, there will be a lot of people willing to come and do the work. Maybe it can be done in three days."

Li Yujiao estimated the silver she had in her mind. With the reward from the government, as well as the money left over from selling the wild boar, processing the big pillars, and picking tea, she had about three taels of silver on hand.

Seeing that Li Yuzhu didn't say anything, Dazhu asked her, "Are you in trouble? If you are in trouble, I can lend you money first. If you can pay it back, you can pay it back. If you can't, forget it."

"No, no," Li Yujiao quickly refused: "I don't like to owe others money. Once I owe money, I will feel uncomfortable all over and unable to sleep or eat."

"Do you have that one tael of silver? I estimate that one tael of silver can do it. Your yard is not big. If you don't build a wall but only a fence, it won't cost much."

Li Yujiao said quickly: "Yes!"

"That's enough. I'll bring someone over to fix it for you tomorrow."

"So fast?!"

Dagui said, "We should repair it quickly while the weather is good these two days, otherwise it will be troublesome if it rains soon."

……

The next day.

Li Yujiao was still sleeping when she heard Dazhu shouting outside: "Yujiao, the workers are here!"

Li Yujiao woke up immediately.

Jing Qishan also woke up and heard the noise outside. It seemed that many more men had come.

He frowned.

Why did she bring so many men here so early in the morning?

Li Yujiao rubbed her eyes, then immediately tidied her hair and clothes, put on her shoes and got out of bed.

Jing Qishan's brows furrowed even more tightly.

Li Yujiao opened the door and saw Dazhu, Agui, Aping and several other men standing outside. A quick glance showed that there were about ten people, each of them holding a weapon, some with axes and some with hoes.

Seeing that Li Yujiao looked like she had just gotten out of bed, Ah Ping couldn't help but joke again: "Mrs. Jing San, Brother Qi San is in such a state, and you are still up so late."

Jing Qishan inside heard it and couldn't help but shout: How dare you!

How dare you make fun of him? Are you trying to kill yourself?

If he could move, he would...

But Li Yujiao was not afraid of jokes at all. She said cheerfully, "A Ping, it's better to avoid such jokes. My Sanlang will be unhappy if he hears them. I got up late because I was too tired from picking tea these days."

Seeing how frank she was, these men no longer dared to make fun of her.

Dazhu said, "I asked you to come here to work, so don't make a fuss. Don't say things you shouldn't say, and don't ask things you shouldn't ask. Ah Gui, come and see how to build this fence."

Agui walked around Zuhuan and watched in amazement.

"This house is several dozen years old. It's in such a state of disrepair. The doors, windows, roof and beams all need to be repaired. A lot of bamboo and wood need to be cut. I have some wood, but I need to cut the bamboo right away..."

Agui assigned the work. I don’t know if it was out of sympathy, but Li Yujiao only needed to cook a meal for them at noon.

Li Yujiao was also not vague. After helping Jing Qishan clean up, she went to buy vegetables. She bought pork from the butcher, tofu from the tofu shop, and then went to various households to buy some fresh vegetables.

Jing Qishan felt that this day was too noisy.

Because there were strangers, the chickens and ducks were not let out, and all the chickens and ducks in the room kept clucking.

Agui and his friends came in from time to time to check the doors, windows and beams. When they saw him lying on the bed, they insisted on talking to him.

"Have you gotten better recently?"

"Is it comfortable to be clamped like this?"

"Your wife usually takes care of you alone, right? She has to work, make money, and take care of you. We all think she's a good woman."

Jing Qishan didn't want to answer any questions about his health.

But when people praised Li Yujiao, he felt sad.

During this period of time, she had indeed been taking good care of him, not only physically but also emotionally, but he still always suspected that she was going out to hook up with another man.

But there was always a shadow in his heart. When he thought about what she did in her previous life, he still hated her to the core.

I can only blame myself for having to lie down every day, otherwise who would need her care?

……

The doors of the ancestral house were knocked on for three days.

Three days later, the place looked brand new!

A bamboo fence was built, the doors and windows were reinforced with new wood, Agui also gave her a coat of paint, many tiles on the roof were replaced with new ones, and the stove was repaired.

Seen from a distance, this small courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence is nestled against the mountain and beside the water. There are chickens and ducks in the yard. When cooking, smoke rises from the roof. It is exactly the same as Li Yujiao's dream house.

What surprised Li Yujiao the most was that more than ten people did so much work, and including the meals, it really only cost more than one or two taels of silver!

The bamboo for the fence was cut at the foot of the mountain. Labor was not expensive in that era. The friendly price was one meal plus twenty cents a day. Paint and doorposts were all cheap.

Li Yujiao put the chickens and ducks in the fence in the yard. Listening to their calls, she felt like she was living in her hometown after retirement.

She also carried Jing Qishan to the yard.

"Look at our courtyard. Hasn't it become much more beautiful?" Li Yujiao said proudly.

Jing Qishan snorted coldly.

It's just a small farmyard.

He said calmly, "It is a little more pleasing to the eye than before."

Li Yujiao ignored him.

He can't move freely now and feels depressed. It probably doesn't matter where he lives.

Besides, they are not the kind of couple with affection, and they will not feel happy just because their family gets better.

Li Yujiao took out a hoe and started hoeing the ground next to the fence.

These days, while buying vegetables, she bought various tools, including hatchets, hoes, shovels and other tools commonly used by farmers. She planned to plant some vegetables around the fence so that she would not need to buy vegetables in the future.

Jing Qishan was lying on a bamboo chair.

In the past, he could only turn his neck, but in the past two days he found that he could lift his neck to the height of a fist.

In other words, the shoulder area has also gained some strength.

He heard Li Yujiao hoeing the ground and looked up at her.

Next to the green fence, Li Yujiao was half bent over, hoeing the ground.

Sweat was dripping from her forehead, and there was sweat about to flow down her chin. Her clothes were soaked to her shoulders.

Jing Qishan suddenly thought of the dreams he often had in his previous life: when he was fed up with the darkness of officialdom, he often dreamed of returning to a place called Minle Village. There was such a scene in the dream: there was a yard with a fence and a hardworking peasant woman, who worked with him to cultivate the land and reclaim wasteland.

They raised chickens and ducks, and later they would raise dogs and have a bunch of children.

Could it be that the current situation was not real, but a dream he had?

Just as I was daydreaming, Auntie Pang suddenly ran over and shouted, "Yujiao, go see Chun Ge'er!"

When Li Yujiao saw Auntie Pang's anxious look, she couldn't help but put down her hoe and asked, "Auntie Pang, what happened?"

"Brother Chun is going to be beaten to death by his sister-in-law!"

Li Yujiao didn't care about Jing Qishan and immediately ran away with Aunt Fat.