Female-to-male: I live on farming

Li Danniu was probably worried that they would go back on their word, so she knocked on their door in the evening.

She also brought the family's land deed. Qin Ke looked at the words on it and could only recognize most of them. He didn't expect that after twenty years of hard study, he would become illiterate again. He took a look at it and handed it to Lu Youqing.

Lu Youqing read it word by word, and nodded at Qin Ke after confirming that there was no problem.

Li Danniu watched Lu Youqing sitting back at the table to draft the contract, blinked, and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that you can write, Madam Lu. Your handwriting is so beautiful."

She is illiterate, and has admired those who are literate and educated since she was a child. In fact, she can't understand what the words say or how they are written, but seeing her smooth movements and elegant temperament, she sincerely admires her.

The contract was made in duplicate. Lu Youqing knew that Li Danniu could not read, so he read it to her: "…If you think there is no problem, sign and seal it here."

Qin Ke picked up the brush. He had taken calligraphy classes at school when he was in junior high school, but he only learned the basics. He only remembered the posture of holding the brush.

However, when Lu Youqing saw his actions, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.

But the words he wrote were not worthy of being published. Looking at the name that sounded like dog crawling, Qin Ke smiled embarrassedly and then pressed his handprint below it.

Li Danniu couldn't write, so she just pressed her fingerprints directly.

Qin Ke picked up one of the sheets and blew away the ink stains on it, then handed it to her along with ten taels of silver, and said, "If you are free tomorrow, come here to help in the morning, otherwise you will miss the spring ploughing."

"it is good."

Qin Ke took Li Danniu to plant watermelons on his remaining four acres of land. Although Li Danniu didn't know what Qin Ke was planting, she had seen common crop seeds, but she didn't ask anything. She just did whatever Qin Ke asked her to do. Qin Ke was very satisfied with this.

Moreover, Qin Ke unexpectedly discovered that she was not only exceptionally tall, but also had great strength, not much worse than the average man.

Unexpectedly, his momentary kindness resulted in his accidentally picking up a treasure. When Lu Youqing heard that he planned to hire Li Danniu to help in the fields, he did not raise any objections.

However, during a casual chat in the evening, Lu Youqing suddenly said, "You can observe her by the way. If she performs well during the spring plowing period, you can consider hiring her as a long-term worker."

Her idea coincided with Qin Ke's. The end of spring plowing did not mean there was nothing to do in the fields. If it did not rain for a long time, they would still need to draw water for irrigation themselves. They would also need to inspect the fields occasionally and pull out weeds.

When Lu Youqing saw that Qin Ke bought so much land, especially some fruits that had never appeared in the Great Yan Dynasty, he knew that he was not intending to be a simple farmer forever. In this case, it would be better to cultivate someone who knows him well from now on.

There were still ten acres of land to be reclaimed. Qin Ke estimated that time was tight, so he asked Li Danniu to rent a cow from the village chief's house to plow the land for a few days.

The ox yoke, also known as the ox shuttle, is a curved piece of wood that is put on the neck of an ox when plowing the land. Although this farming tool is a bit primitive, it is better to have it than not. With its help, Qin Ke saved a lot of effort.

While Qin Ke and Li Danniu were busy with the spring ploughing, they were unaware that rumors about them had already spread in the village.

"I think they are having an affair. I heard that Qin Ke bought the few acres of wasteland that no one wanted from the Li family. If he didn't have a relationship, why would he buy it?"

"Moreover, recently Li Da Niu has been going to Qin Ke's house every day to help with farming. I didn't expect that Qin Ke would be really incompetent when he is not capable, but when he is capable, two of them would come at once. That's his vision..."

The other party didn't finish her words, but everyone knew what she was going to say and burst into laughter.

Lu Youqing stood quietly behind the group of people, her cold face expressionless, but her fingers gripping the edge of the wooden basin were exerting slight force, and her originally fair skin was faintly flushed due to the excessive force.

It wasn't until a woman dressed like a young lady in her twenties who was leaning sideways to get clothes noticed her and froze there in embarrassment.

"Lu... Madam Lu."

In an instant, the atmosphere that was filled with chatter and laughter just now became solemn and silent. Everyone's face showed expressions of astonishment and helplessness, especially the few people who were talking happily just now.

There is nothing more embarrassing than saying bad things about someone and being caught by the person who did it.

Lu Youqing glanced at them coldly, without any emotion in her eyes, neither sadness nor anger, she just found a seat a little further away from them.

Since deciding to throw away the face cloth, Lu Youqing no longer resists going out. When Qin Ke is not busy, he usually washes his own clothes, but he has been going out early and coming back late recently, so Lu Youqing took the initiative to take over the task of washing clothes.

Normally, Lu Youqing didn't like to interact with the people in the village. Most of the time, he would choose to spend time with others. However, he was copying books today and forgot the time, so he didn't expect to hear these words.

The villagers who were feeling somewhat guilty at first saw Lu Youqing's arrogant and cold look, and inexplicably felt that she was looking down on them. They coughed a few times, rolled their eyes at her, and deliberately raised their voices and said, "Some people don't know what they are so arrogant about. A woman who was bought and disfigured, who knows how many men have touched her before."

"That's right. It might come from that kind of place."

They themselves did not notice that when they said these words, there was a hint of jealousy in their tone.

Although Qin Ke's family generally did not interact with other people in the village, a little observation would reveal that Lu Youqing had never worked in the fields and usually stayed at home doing housework.

You have to know that especially during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest seasons, every household and every person in the village has to go to the fields to do farm work. How could a disfigured woman who was bought be so idle every day? Moreover, the clothes she wore were not made of the coarse linen cloth that ordinary people wore. They were the kind of silk fabrics that only people in the town wore. The surface of that kind of silk was straight, fine, and smooth to the touch.

Lu Youqing stood up and said in a cold voice: "First of all, where I come from and what kind of person I am have nothing to do with you; secondly, Li Da Niu came to my house to farm because my husband hired her to work. Different people have different opinions, but some people have dirty hearts and see everything as dirty."

After saying that, regardless of their ugly expressions, he picked up the dirty clothes and found a place farther away from them.