After the cannon fodder father and daughter married into the family, the whole family regretted it

Chapter 531 Three Years (Two Chapters Combined into One)

Old Master Fang, who had not gotten off the kang since returning to the village, was so angry that he got up, and with his eyes reddened, he chased Fang Tong around the yard twice!

If his hand hadn't been broken, he would have taken off his shoes and hit someone.

In the end, Fang Tong left because he was afraid that the old man would be really angry and blame him again.

Old Master Fang felt a breath stuck in his chest, and he turned his head to see the hanging meat.

"Throw it away! Throw it away! I won't eat his food."

Old Mrs. Fang was reluctant to give it away. Ten kilograms of meat was enough for the old couple to eat for a month.

"Boss, don't be anxious..."

"Throw it! Are you trying to piss me off to death with that beast?"

Old Master Fang stared with his red eyes, looking like he was going crazy.

Old Mrs. Fang swallowed her saliva, not daring to anger him.

He picked up the meat and threw it toward the door.

She thought that she would pick it up again after the old man came into the house.

Unexpectedly, Fang Tong was already waiting at the door, and he threw the meat accurately into his arms without any hesitation.

He quickly stuffed it into his arms, but his face was full of worry: "Uncle, I didn't expect you to dislike me so much. Oh, forget it, if you don't want to accept my meat, it means you don't want to see me. I won't bother you anymore."

The Zhou family next door heard this resentful tone.

Old man Zhou snorted twice. Old Fangtou really doesn’t know how to enjoy his blessings. He doesn’t even eat the meat his son gives him, which hurts the child’s heart!

However, when will his son give him ten kilograms of meat? His teeth have been very good in the past two years, so he can bite it. But in a few years, when he loses his teeth, he won’t be able to eat it.

Mrs. Fang was silent for a moment: "Third brother, you haven't left yet?"

Give the meat back.

Fang Tong nodded and approached the old lady stealthily: "Aunt, when you decide to divorce your husband and remarry, come to me and I'll take care of it for you!"

"Ah! Rebellious son, I'll beat you to death!"

Old Master Fang was so angry that his blood rushed to his head and he wished he could eat Fang Tong alive.

Fang Tong ran away. It was really scary. This old man had such a bad temper. Didn’t he just say a few fair words?

The ten kilograms of meat were a bargain for Goudan and his friends, and the brothers ate it with relish.

The villagers changed their minds and said that the third son was kind and filial, but Old Man Fang was unreasonable and insisted on pushing the child away. He was ungrateful and deserved to have given birth to three sons but only be able to keep one.

Old Mrs. Fang can no longer come to Fang Tong to pee on her cat.

Because Mr. Fang didn't allow her to go out casually, he felt a sense of crisis.

He himself is disabled, but the old lady is still energetic. If she really runs away with someone, he will be so embarrassed.

He was upset and started to torment the old lady even more.

But Old Lady Fang is not so hardworking and patient anymore. After all, she was once the most beautiful girl in the area, and there were men who remained single for the rest of their lives just for her. This shows that she is charming.

Why should I be ordered around like this by Old Man Fang? He has no hands anymore, shouldn't he be careful to please himself?

Every time these thoughts came up, Old Mrs. Fang would interrupt them quickly. She was a traditional woman who followed the three obediences and four virtues. She believed that if she married a chicken, she would follow the chicken; if she married a dog, she would follow the dog. She could not let the Fang family down.

But if you endure it, it will explode one day.

Fang Tong didn't care anymore. If he wasn't worried about his reputation affecting his children, he would have ignored the Fang family.

When people are busy, time passes quickly.

Strawberries were harvested right after the beans were planted, and then watermelons came in the summer.

Fang Tong didn't expect that he could make a fortune with just these two things.

Qian Fengping kept a small portion of the strawberries to make strawberry jam, left two cans for the children to use for making water, and supplied the rest to the cake shop.

Strawberry cake became popular in the cake shop and helped the owner gain a foothold in Beijing.

That’s right, the boss still cooperated with the noble man, whose surname was Jin.

The Jin family is a leading aristocratic family. He only held two banquets, using strawberry cake and thousand-layer strawberry rolls, and the cake shop became famous.

Four stores were opened in Beijing at once, and the storefronts, capital, and labor were all paid for by Wu Dongjia.

It is enough that the Jin family can lend him leverage.

Of course, Wu Dongjia paid the price of 30% of the profit.

This 30% was entirely taken from his profits, and he did not touch Qian Fengping's share at all.

After working together for so long, he began to value Qian Fengping more and more.

Every innovation in cakes is thanks to her.

Wu Dongjia is a businessman who is the best judge of people's value, so he naturally won't push talented people away.

On the contrary, he blocked all troubles.

So far, no one has approached Qian Fengping about the secret cake recipe.

Fang Tong was very satisfied with this, and the cooperation between the two parties became more harmonious.

Fang Tong was planning to sell the remaining strawberries in various restaurants, but Mr. Zhou accidentally got a basket of strawberries from Zhizhi and came to him.

Zhou Zijing, who had returned from the capital, took over and introduced Fang Tong to a Mr. Huang.

Lord Huang took a look at the quality of the items and wanted them all, and sent them to the capital.

When the watermelons were ripe, they were picked just as Zhou Zijing came with Mr. Huang.

After tasting the watermelon, Mr. Huang bought the whole thing.

This time, both parties signed a document, and Fang Tong will take full responsibility for any rare fruits and vegetables of such good quality he grows in the future.

Fang Tong looked at the three big words "Purchasing Department" on the document and swallowed his saliva.

The Purchasing Department is responsible for purchasing things for the royal family. Did the emperor eat their strawberries and watermelons?

Fang Tong covered his chest and thought that he should leave a few more for his family to try. He also thought about what the emperor usually ate.

In short, these two people made a lot of money. Fang Tong and Qian Fengping hid some of the gold and silver in three burrows, and exchanged the rest for silver notes, which were available in various money houses.

Fang Tong did not treat his brothers unfairly. He gave each of Tiezhu and the others fifty taels of silver.

After Qin Yan found out, he wrote a document stating that he would share the future income from farming with Uncle Tiezhu and the others.

Tiezhu, Erwa, Goudan, Cheng Xiaohu, and Sun Dacheng each received one portion, and Fangtong received five portions.

Discuss the interests clearly early on so as not to affect the relationship.

Erwa and the others are not stupid, they know that they can earn more by sharing the profits.

In fact, they just contributed their effort, and fifty taels was enough, and they were given a share of the profits, which meant they were treated as their own people.

Otherwise, go and see the people in the county who are carrying heavy bags and working hard. Can they earn ten cents after working so hard all day?

Several people appreciated this favor and worked harder.

Then comes the autumn harvest, when the rice comes out. God is kind to us this year and it is a bumper year.

Fang Tong paid the autumn tax, returned to Huai'an Prefecture and stayed there for a few days before returning to the village.

Build a greenhouse!

We need to build greenhouses to grow vegetables, strawberries, and garlic sprouts!

Just try it anyway. The greenhouse also has a fire wall, which is an earth wall with a gap in the middle. The stove is connected to the hollow space, and when the fire is lit, the wall will become hot.

The village chief heard about it and came to take a look. He thought Fang Laosan was very smart and was curious whether he could grow vegetables this winter.

His grandson also comes to help every day.

Winter came quickly, and after two snowfalls, Fang Tong's dishes were also a success.

He sent them directly to restaurants and inns like Juxianglou and sold them at five times the usual price.

Who makes winter vegetables so rare?

The owner of Taotie Tower came to visit once more, hoping to have long-term cooperation, and for this purpose he brought out his son - Yu Zhenghai, who used to be a classmate of Qin Yan and Fang Nanzhi, and is now a good friend.

Our two families have a good relationship. You can't just think of Juxianglou when you have good things to do, right?

What else could Fang Tong do? He accompanied Mr. Yu for two drinks and signed a new document.

He worked as hard as he could, hoping to finish his work before the New Year so that he could go find his wife and children during the New Year.

As a result, Qian Fengping came back with the children first.

Nonsense, it’s better to celebrate the New Year in the village. The whole village is full of acquaintances, and you can brag to everyone. That’s the atmosphere of the New Year.

Oh yes, Qin Yan passed the year-end exam and ranked first, so he will be able to go to Class B when school starts again.

Fang Nanzhi invited the Zhou family's grandfather and grandson to come back and spend the New Year together.

Mr. Zhou once again rejected his son's letter inviting him to join the family for the New Year reunion and resolutely followed his apprentice.

The two families celebrated the New Year together for three years.

Three years later, June was the rainy season.

Fang Nanzhi finally got his master's approval and was able to take people's pulses and prescribe medicine on his own.

Qin Yan was promoted to Class A two years ago. Not long after that, his teacher talked to him and asked him to try to take the college entrance examination.

But Qin Yan declined, thinking that he was young and needed some time to grow up. In addition, he wanted to take the provincial examination directly after the college entrance examination and pass it in one fell swoop.

In this way, he could go to Beijing. Even if he did not take the imperial examination immediately, he could try to take the examination for the academy in the capital, or even the Imperial College.

The gentleman may have seen his ambition and did not force him.

After two years of reflection, Qin Yan finally decided to take the college entrance examination this year.

Just two months later, the college entrance examination was held in Xin'an Prefecture.

It was the area that was most severely affected by the flood before, but after four years of development, order has been restored.

A year ago, Fang Tong received a reward from the imperial court for his new wheat seeds, which included a set of court robes for a ninth-rank official.

This means that the emperor approved of his new wheat seeds. If he was also good at farming, he would definitely become a ninth-rank official in the Ministry of Agriculture.

This was not something Fang Tong understood on his own, but was made clear by the adult who came to give the reward.

These words made Fang Tong work harder on farming as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

He was just an ordinary citizen, could he become an official without passing the imperial examination? When he first heard the news, he woke up from his dreams with joy for several nights in a row.

Fang Tong didn't know that this was all due to the efforts of the Zhou family, otherwise an ordinary commoner's name would not even be noticed by the emperor.

At most, the emperor's men would reward him with some gold, silver, and jewelry afterwards.

Now, although it is just a set of clothes, it is actually the threshold to rising class.

Opportunity to move from farmer to scholar!

How many farmers have toiled their entire lives just for such an opportunity, and Fang Tong already has it.

Fang Tong was happy thinking that he could support his children and let his wife become an official's wife.

He worked harder to study the book his daughter bought, tried it out in the fields, and actually succeeded in using a few of them.

Zhou Zijing came forward and reported it to the higher authorities. If Fang Tong had reported it himself, he could only go to the county magistrate, but the Zhou family was different; they had a way to reach the emperor.

Now, Fang Tong also realized that the Zhou family took too much care of him.

He made a special visit to see Mr. Zhou and finally learned from him his expectations for Zhizhi's future.

He asked his family to help the Qin family in order to pave the way for Zhizhi.

Zhizhi is going to walk an unprecedented path, and she needs more people to stand behind her and support her.

To be honest, after listening to this, Fang Tong felt more pressure and worry than excitement.

It's a good thing that Mr. Zhou has high hopes for his daughter, but as a father, he also wants his daughter to live a simple and happy life.

Fang Tong returned home with mixed feelings. Seeing his daughter giving injections to two mastiffs, he twitched his lips.

The two mastiffs haven't been eating much recently. He thinks they will be fine in a couple of days, but Fang Nanzhi is very curious.

She studied veterinary medicine systematically and insisted on getting treatment.

Fang Tong looked at her and said nothing in the end.

Mr. Zhou said that although he was full of passion, he also went with the flow.

What he is doing now is just paving the way for Fang Nanzhi's possible choices in the future, but he will not interfere with how or where she goes.

Fang Tong thought, he would just let things take their own course, his daughter would eventually grow up on her own.

"Dad, have you arranged everything on the farm? We're leaving tomorrow." Fang Nanzhi turned around and asked.

Qin Yan is taking part in the college entrance examination, and the whole family will go to see him off.

I also plan to go two months in advance, half for study tour and half for familiarizing myself with the environment.

If you ask why he decided to study abroad before the exam, Qin Yan decided it himself. Anyway, he knew what he was doing and his family trusted him.

"Well, it's done. Your uncle and the others can do it." Fang Tong nodded.

In the past three years, we have been planting wheat, beans, watermelons, rice, etc., and we brothers have been working together. We all know what to do and when.

By the way, it’s worth mentioning that Erwa got married.

His wife is the girl from the Hu family.

Qian Fengping made several appointments with the wives of the village heads of Dawang Village and Xiaowang Village to go shopping for clothes, and they soon established a deep friendship.

Then it will be much easier to find out which child is not doing well, which daughter-in-law is not faithful to her husband, and which mother-in-law is mean and stingy.

The Hu family has no problem with their family tradition, but they are poor!

Old Man Hu's parents died early, and he raised his two younger brothers alone.

After helping his two younger brothers get married, he began to think about himself. He was old and could only marry a widow.

Fortunately, the two got along well. After more than ten years, the widow fell seriously ill.

Old Man Hu is a man of great loyalty and righteousness. In order to pay for his wife's medical treatment, he emptied his family savings and borrowed money from his two younger brothers, but he didn't expect that they were all ungrateful.

Not only did they refuse to lend money, they also kicked Old Man Hu out of the Hu family's old house, saying that Old Man Hu had left a suicide note and that the Hu family's old house was given to them.

But after asking around the village, how could the old house be given to the youngest son and not the eldest? Old Man Hu didn't believe it and asked the village chief to ask for an explanation.

As a result, the two younger brothers really took out the letter, which clearly stated that Old Man Hu was the adopted son of the Hu family, and the house would be given to the bloodline of the Hu family, namely the second and third sons of the Hu family.

Old Man Hu was confused.

The Hu brothers are really unkind. They should have known the truth earlier and not told it. Look at their eldest brother who raised them like a workhorse and wanted to kick them out.

But the widow couldn't hold on and died!

The Hu family fell into complete ruin. Old man Hu had to raise several children by himself, and the family lived in a thatched hut. They were extremely poor.

Fortunately, the whole family was hardworking and had been renting land to make a living.

After Erwa found out, he went to propose marriage the next day, but was rejected.

Miss Hu also has her own ideas. The two families are not a good match for each other. She has married up. What should she do if her husband's family bullies her in the future?

Fortunately, Erwa was thick-skinned and kept pestering him from then on. He also took care of and respected Old Man Hu.

A year later, he finally got his girlfriend and Qian Fengping had another matchmaker's feast.

Goudan and Sun Dacheng also got married.

Goudan’s wife was introduced by Mrs. Chen. She is a cake maker in the store.

The other party was the only cake maker besides Chen who had not signed a contract to sell himself.

But she came from a poor family and was just a servant in Wu Dong's family.

Her father used to be the steward of the Wu family. When he accompanied the master on his travels, he was stabbed for the master and died of illness within two days.

Her brother was Young Master Wu's study companion. Young Master Wu encountered a fire in the academy. Her brother tried to save his master, but he also died.

The Wu family was grateful for the servant's loyalty and freed the little girl from slavery, and Mrs. Wu adopted her as an adopted daughter.