Female-to-male: I live on farming

When she woke up the next day, Lu Youqing had returned to normal, but Qin Ke still didn't let her touch cold things. As usual, she made her a bowl of brown sugar ginger water and watched her drink it before leaving.

Li Nanqiao stared at Lu Youqing for a long while, and suddenly murmured: "My wife, the scar on your face seems to have become much lighter. I see you every day, but I didn't even notice it."

Lu Youqing paused with her hair tied up and looked at herself in the bronze mirror. Since her disfigurement, she had accepted the fact but became reluctant to look in the mirror.

Looking at the blurry image in the bronze mirror, she turned her face to the side and couldn't help but touch the scar.

The scar became much lighter than before, and its area was getting smaller and smaller. Qin Ke was right, the scar on her face could really be removed, but how was this possible? How could an ordinary person from a small village like him get the ointment that even the royal family didn't have?

He had more and more secrets, and he became less and less willing to hide them from her.

One day, he will confess to her, Lu Youqing thought silently with his brows lowered.

When Qin Ke went out, he first looked for Aunt Li in the village. He thought for a long time and the softest and easiest animal to catch was rabbit fur. He didn't even have to go out hunting, as Aunt Li in the village had more than a dozen rabbits at home.

After building the house, the villagers were not so hostile to Qin Ke anymore. After Qin Ke explained his purpose, Aunt Li happily sold him two rabbits.

However, looking at the lively rabbit in his hand, Qin Ke was in a dilemma. He could only kill some fish at most, but it would be difficult for him to slaughter and skin the rabbit.

Li Nanqiao saw him frowning at the two rabbits, and stepped forward to ask, "Boss, what are you going to do?"

Qin Ke looked up and seemed to see his savior, so he asked hurriedly, "Can you kill rabbits?"

Li Nanqiao was silent. She didn't expect that Qin Ke, who looked big and rough, didn't dare to kill the rabbit.

"Well, remember to be careful when peeling the skin." Qin Ke reminded Li Nanqiao as he stared at his back holding the rabbit.

Li Nanqiao took the rabbit directly to the forest at the foot of the mountain to kill it, and buried the internal organs with the soil. She heard that Qin Ke wanted two rabbit skins, so she took the rabbit skins to the river and washed them before taking them back.

Qin Ke asked Li Nanqiao to stew two rabbits as a dinner. He took the cleaned rabbit skins, marinated them with salt, removed the hair on the surface, soaked them in lime powder, cleaned the remaining fat on the skins, and placed them in the yard to dry before tanning them.

Lu Youqing walked forward and whispered, "Let me do it. Should I sew it according to the pattern you drew?"

She knew why Qin Ke processed the rabbit skin, which she couldn't do anything about, but she couldn't really let him sew a menstrual belt.

The pattern Qin Ke drew was in the shape of a modern sanitary napkin that prevents side leakage, covered with a thick layer of gauze.

Lu Youqing threaded the needle according to Qin Ke's instructions. Her stitches were very dense, and she sewed the edges of the rabbit skin and gauze together firmly.

"Next time something like this happens, just tell me and I'll do it. Otherwise, it will be bad for your reputation if it gets out."

Qin Ke nodded obediently. He knew her considerations, although he didn't care deep down and thought it was a big deal.

After finishing this matter, Qin Ke started to work on hiring people. He had no experience in this kind of thing, so he asked Lu Youqing to go with her.

Lu Youqing would never refuse his request. Just as Lu Youqing said to Qin Ke that night, the world has not been very good in the past two years. No one in the court cares about state affairs. They are busy taking sides and fighting for power. The whole court is in a mess.

Nowadays, people only care about balancing the forces of all parties, not what they actually did. In order to fight for power, all parties have amassed huge wealth, and the only ones who suffer are the ordinary people at the bottom.

When we arrived at the human traffickers, there were indeed a lot of people there, ranging from middle-aged men in their thirties to teenagers around five or six years old who had not yet reached adulthood.

The only thing they had in common was that they were all ragged and skinny.

Lu Youqing thought about it and picked a boy who was about fifteen or sixteen years old. Although he was a little thinner than the others, his eyes were the most innocent and clear.

The most important thing in choosing a servant is loyalty. He may not be capable enough, but he must be loyal to his master.

"Hey, ma'am, you have a really good eye. This guy came from the south. He has nimble hands and feet, a healthy body, and very good teeth." The trafficker came up and started selling to them with a smile.

"The south, is that the one in Pingjiang?"

"That's right, madam, you are really well-informed," the trafficker clapped his hands, and spoke kindly to others as if they were free. "Over there, there was no one left in the city due to the war. This guy escaped from there. His family members were all killed, and he was the only one left. He couldn't survive, so he voluntarily sold himself into slavery."

Lu Youqing frowned. War had already broken out at the border before she left Kyoto. Before the court sent troops to quell the war, she had already been sold out.

Now the war seems to be still at a stalemate, and I don’t know who the court will send troops.

Qin Ke paid the money, collected the boy's indenture, and asked the human trafficker if he had any carpentry skills among his hands.

Sure enough, the human trafficker shook his head, and Qin Ke had no choice but to ask him to inform him if there was such a person.

The young man walked up to him with his head down. Qin Ke looked down and saw that he didn't even have a decent pair of shoes and was walking barefoot on the ground.

"Okay, let's go."

Qin Ke walked in front holding Lu Youqing's hand, and the young man followed closely behind them.

After achieving his goal, Lu Youqing prepared to go to the bookstore again to take the books he had recently copied and get some new books.

Qin Ke asked the young man to wait beside the donkey cart. He also planned to buy a book about law on the way. He had never had time to learn more about this dynasty.

When they went back, Qin Ke was still driving. He let Lu Youqing sit in the car, and the boy sat outside with him.

"What's your name? How old are you this year?" Qin Ke finally had time to inquire about the boy's information.

"Han Qi, I'm fifteen years old."

Qin Ke suddenly felt guilty about employing child labor, but when he thought about the early maturity in ancient times, when some children were married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he could not look at it with the concepts of the past life.

"I'm a few years older than you, so I call you Xiaoqi. The one in the car is my wife. We have a simple family and there's nothing else to say. You don't have to be so reserved." Qin Ke smiled and comforted him when she saw that his body was stiff.

Qin Ke briefly inquired about his basic situation on the way. Han Qi was originally from Pingjiang, which was the border between the Great Yan Dynasty and the Huns. The city became chaotic at the beginning of last year, and they broke in not long after.

His parents, his older brother and his second sister all died at the hands of the enemy in order to cover his escape. He escaped from the city alone. When he was hungry, he ate wild vegetables, and when he was thirsty, he drank rainwater. Only then did he manage to get here.

Qin Ke felt deep sympathy. He had always lived in a peaceful era and could hardly imagine how difficult life was for the people under the war.