After dying early, I traveled to ancient times and became a boy

After the engagement, Feng Jingheng came to Ye Xunqing every few days, sometimes bringing two eggs, sometimes bringing a basket of vegetables grown at home.

Chen Jinhua was very dissatisfied with this. She said sarcastically, "Who doesn't have eggs? Who can't afford a few rotten vegetable leaves? Our Qing'er is about to marry you, and you're going to let him eat these?"

Feng Jingheng had no money on him, and he could not touch the money that Ye Xunqing placed with him. He also did not take the money that Ye Xunqing wanted to share with him, saying that it was for Ye Xunqing's support.

"Qing'er, I'm going to work in town tomorrow." Feng Jingheng said guiltily, "I'll buy you food when I get my wages."

Ye Xunqing took out the one or two ounces of silver from his pocket, stuffed it into Feng Jingheng's hand, and said, "Don't overwork yourself. You just finished your housework. What will you do if you tire yourself out?"

When Chen Jinhua saw the silver, she ran over and asked, "What are you doing?"

Ye Xunqing smiled and said, "Give my man some pocket money. Why, you won't give it to me?"

One tael of silver was equivalent to one thousand copper coins, enough to cover their family's expenses for half a year.

Feng Jingheng was also unwilling to accept it. He said, "You take it..."

"Do you think I can keep it with peace of mind?" Ye Xunqing glanced at Chen Jinhua and said, "Believe it or not? Once you leave this door today, this ounce of silver will no longer be mine."

Feng Jingheng thought for a moment and said, "I'll save it for you."

"I believe you." Ye Xunqing only said this.

Feng Jingheng must have regarded his order as the emperor's decree. He had to do whatever Ye Xunqing said.

Chen Jinhua was so angry that after Feng Jingheng left, she cursed at Ye Xunqing, saying that he was an ungrateful little beast and that she had raised him for so many years, but he had turned against her.

After she was tired of scolding him, Ye Xunqing asked her, "Second Mother, aren't you curious where I got this little bit of silver from?"

Chen Jinhua was so busy cursing that she didn't think about where the money came from. Ye Xunqing is a brother, he can't just work hard for others, right?

"Could it be that the second son of the Feng family gave it to you?" Chen Jinhua asked doubtfully.

"It's profitable." Ye Xunqing pointed directly at the basket of mushrooms drying in the yard and said, "Recently, the wealthy families in town love to eat mushrooms and pay very high prices. If Er Niang wants to make money, she must seize the opportunity. We are family, so I'm telling you this. If it were someone else, I definitely wouldn't tell you."

Chen Jinhua was half-believing and half-doubting. After she came back, she told Ye Laosi about Ye Xunqing making money with mushrooms. After hearing that Ye Xunqing gave one or two taels of silver to Feng Jingheng, Ye Laosi came over with a whip in hand.

Ye Xunqing had not been afraid of Ye Laosi before, and he was even less afraid now. He sat on the edge of the bed, yawning and saying, "You've accepted eight taels of silver this time. If you can't pay it back, Feng Jingheng will beat you to death."

Ye Laosi felt like the world had turned upside down. Ever since this debt collector fell into the water, he seemed like a different person. Not only was he no longer timid, he also became much more aggressive with his words. More importantly, he was no longer afraid of being beaten.

Ye Xunqing smiled and said, "Father, if you have the energy, take the third and fourth sons up the mountain to pick mushrooms. They are rare and can be sold for a lot of money."

Ye Laosi thought of the people he met when he came back just now. They did say that they wanted to go to the mountains to look for fragrant mushrooms.

"Hmph! You ungrateful bastard!" Ye Laosi walked away angrily with the whip in his hand.

After a while, Ye Xunqing heard the news that they had left.

"I don't know who is the ungrateful bastard." Ye Xunqing said disdainfully, "Who told you to marry a concubine? You don't even remember it."

Ye Xunbai climbed up from the bed, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "Brother, what are you talking about?"

"Nothing." Ye Xunqing lay down again, "Xiaobai, go back to sleep. When you wake up, we'll go find uncle to give him some money and make dinner."

"Yeah." Ye Xunbai also lay down, hugging his brother's arm, smiling in his dreams. Ever since his brother came back from heaven, there were delicious meals every day. They basically didn't eat at home anymore, and the food they ate was better than before.

After waking up naturally, Ye Xunqing stretched, changed Xiaobai into a new set of cotton short-sleeved clothes, and then went to Ye Zongkuan's house carrying the cotton cloth for his aunt and grandmother.

Along the way, they met many people. After seeing him, some greeted him warmly, but more people ridiculed him for being indecent.

Now that the rice seedlings were almost planted, the able-bodied young men couldn't just sit at home and wait for the harvest. They had to go out to work or find other ways to earn money. Ye Zongkuan, for example, didn't need to go out. He was the only pig butcher in Yejia Village, and his family had enough pigs to slaughter until the New Year.

The boys and girls and the women could not go out to work, and they did not have much energy, so they could only busy themselves at home, doing needlework, weaving some woolen cloth, and making baskets to sell.

"Qing'er, where are you going?" Ye Xiyun and his sister came over from the small road. They did not hate Ye Xunqing because of the rumors, but were happy that he broke off the engagement.

Ye Xunqing said loudly, "I went to the market the other day and saw some beautiful cotton cloth, so I bought a few feet to give to my aunt." As he spoke, he opened the bag of cloth and said, "Brother Yun, can you help me take a look at this pattern and see if it's beautiful?"

There are two colors of cloth inside, one is indigo and the other is light red. Both are made of cotton and look beautiful.

"This thing is not cheap." Ye Xiyun looked at Ye Xunbai's clothes again. "A set of clothes must cost dozens of copper coins, right?"

Ye Xunqing replied, "Cloth is cheap, five coins a foot. Finished clothes are more expensive. Xiaobai's suit costs forty-five copper coins."

"This is patterned cotton cloth. If you change it to white linen, you can buy a foot of it for one penny." Ye Xiyun said, "If you want to buy white next time, come to my house and buy it. My mother will give you a discount."

Not every household has a loom, and it's not cheap.

"Okay." Ye Xunqing said, "I'll buy it from your house next time."

People in ancient times mostly wore clothes made of white cloth because it was difficult to dye them in different colors. If only they could be dyed in more colors... Ye Xunqing kept this idea in mind and would try it when he had the chance.

"Where are you going?" Ye Xunqing asked.

"We're going the same way as you." Ye Xiyun replied, "Mother asked us to go to Uncle Zong Kuan's house and ask when they'll slaughter the pig."

"Let's go that way." Ye Xunqing put away the cloth under the jealous gazes of the people around him, and then said, "Brother Yun, if you have time, go to the mountains with Sister Lan and pick some fragrant mushrooms to sell. Xiaobai and I can afford colorful clothes because we pick mushrooms."

Ye Xiyun was confused, "Ah? You are not..."

Ye Xunqing patted him and said, "Don't say a word. I won't tell anyone else."

When the people around saw Ye Xunqing's new clothes, they believed his words even more, so they all went home to get baskets to look for mushrooms.