"They've already left." Headman Shen frowned and said, "Xiao Si'er, I'm not saying anything harsh on you, but how could you still fall asleep after such a big incident?"

Shen Xiaosi grabbed his hair and said awkwardly, "I was too excited last night. I tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep. I fell asleep at dawn. I thought I would just take a nap, but it's already here now..."

He suddenly thought of something and slapped the bull closest to him, cursing angrily, "You bastards didn't even call out to me!"

"Dad, it's okay if you don't come. Boss Xia isn't here to see you anyway. He's here to discuss something with Uncle!" Shen Daniu rubbed his arm, which was hurt by the beating, and said, "Don't hit me so often next time. Don't we still have Erniu and Xiaoniu?"

Shen Xiaosi snorted angrily: "How do you know I'm fine? Just stay away..."

"What can you do?" Shen Daniu suddenly thought of something and immediately said, "Dad, you don't want to talk to Mr. Xia about Yinglan, do you?"

When Shen Xiaoniu heard what his elder brother said, his face immediately darkened and he said angrily, "Dad! If you interfere in this matter again, I will never come back! She did it voluntarily, and it won't work no matter what you do!"

"Besides, Mr. Xia and Scar Brother are two different people. Let's not make things difficult for others, okay!"

After saying that, Shen Xiaoniu turned away. Shen Daniu and Shen Erniu shook their heads helplessly at their father and left as well.

"Xiao Si'er, don't worry about it..."

When Shen Xiaosi heard what Village Chief Shen also said, he smiled bitterly and said, "Her parents have done a great favor to our Shen family. We really treated her as our own daughter. Now that she is imprisoned, we can't just sit back and watch."

Shen Li sighed, patted his shoulder, and said, "Then let's wait for another opportunity and slowly think of a solution."

……

"sister in law……"

Xia Qingqing turned around while driving the carriage and looked at Huo Xiaoniu, wondering, "What's wrong?"

"I'm older now, and I want to help you, too."

Huo Xiaoniu's face was serious and her tone was earnest.

Xia Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "How about this? You can follow Sister Taohua and help her with odd jobs first. In the remaining time, you should learn more about reading and arithmetic. You have to keep up with all these..."

Logically speaking, a child of Huo Xiaoniu's age would be just a junior high school student in modern society.

But this is not modern times, so we still have to adapt to local conditions.

Let her study and do some work at the same time.

They arrived home just in time for lunch. When Hanzi saw the food being served, he jumped out of the carriage before it even stopped and ran into the yard.

"Brother Hanzi, be careful not to fall..."

Huo Xiaoniu was shocked and was really afraid that Hanzi would be accidentally run over by the wheels of the carriage.

As soon as Xia Qingqing entered the room, she saw Xiao Shunzi eating heartily from a bowl. When he saw her, he quickly stood up and called out, "Master Xia, you're back."

"Are you here to help again today? After all, you are the right-hand man of County Magistrate Liang. It's embarrassing to ask you to do these rough work here all the time." Xia Qingqing said politely.

"This is the task assigned to me by County Magistrate Liang." Xiao Shunzi swallowed his food and said, "You won't dislike me, will you?"

"How could that be?" Xia Qingqing said with a smile. "Oh, by the way, I just ran into Chief Xia and he said County Magistrate Liang hasn't returned yet."

At this point, Xiao Shunzi immediately became excited and leaned close to Xia Qingqing and said, "No! This time, our Lord Liang has made a great contribution. He has arrested a large number of bandits, and the news has reached the emperor..."

"Oh, that's amazing..." Xia Qingqing nodded and said, "By the way, when County Magistrate Liang comes back, you must let me know. The village head and I have something to discuss with him."

"Yeah, I remember."

"Eat."

Watching Xia Qingqing leave, Xiao Shunzi felt a little reluctant and wanted to share what he knew, but it seemed that Mr. Xia was not interested at all.

"Xiao Shunzi, let me give you some more dishes..."

"coming!"

……

After the meal, everyone rested for a while and then started to get busy.

"Iron pillar."

Xia Qingqing called Tiezhu over and asked, "What's the situation at Stone Mountain now?"

"Everything is stable. The people who have entered now are doing the cleaning work. The people who come to buy things are basically locals, so there are more than enough people."

"I didn't expect there to be so many coal mines under this rocky mountain. It seems like we can never dig it all out..."

It turns out that this was Xia Qingqing's intention in buying Stone Mountain. They didn't understand it at the time, but now they are really slapped in the face.

They would never have thought that the stone mountain was a natural dye.

It's fitting that Xia Qingqing is the only one who can earn this money.

"Well, the house at home is basically complete now. Next, you can focus on the situation on Stone Mountain."

"Just follow the plan on the drawings I gave you. Also, pay attention to safety publicity."

Xia Qingqing nodded as she spoke.

"Report any issues regarding the money to Sister Taohua daily, and for other issues, just come to me."

"Ah."

Seeing Xia Tiezhu's serious look, Xia Qingqing was very satisfied. Although Tiezhu was a rough man, he was still quite serious when doing things.

Therefore, the coal mine was temporarily handed over to Xia Tiezhu for management, and the seafood was temporarily managed by Huo An.

Both of them contacted Sister Taohua for financial issues, and handled other issues themselves.

Everything is in order for now and there is no chaos.

The weather was getting warmer, and the night wind was becoming milder. People in the village began to eat and chat in their own yards.

In fact, it was all to save the money for candles.

"Girl, go boil some water," Huo Gang put the small table in the yard and urged, "Captain Liu brought me some good tea. Go call your second sister-in-law and Miss Suxi out to try some..."

Ding smiled and said, "You can show off all you want. If it weren't for Qingqing, no one would bother with an old man like you."

"Mom, just make Dad happy." Xu Xiuxiu covered her mouth and suddenly laughed, "I saw Old Zhang today. He's really changed a lot. He bowed and nodded to me..."

Ding snorted and said, "To be honest, I'm not too angry now when he bullied me and your father, but I can't get over it when he bullies the eldest brother..."

Huo An came out and advised, "Mom, don't be angry. Think about it, Han Xin also suffered the humiliation of being kicked in the crotch. This is not a small matter."

……

The family was chatting when suddenly a man came running outside. He was a half-grown child from the village, named Manzai.

He panted and said, "Something happened at Shitou Mountain. Brother Tiezhu asked Sister Qingqing to go there!"

Huo Gang stood up immediately and asked, "What happened?"

"Someone's stealing coal!"

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