Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

That was not all. A quarter of an hour later, Taoist Xuan Lingzi asked about the properties of various medicinal herbs. Shen Miaozhu was naturally not stumped.

Among them are some commonly used ones such as great burdock, bupleurum, platycodon, etc., and even Shen Lingzhu still remembers their functions.

But after Shen Miaozhu finished reciting a part, Xuan Lingzi asked the disciple to take a few prepared medicines for identification. The senior sister looked embarrassed: "I have only recited them when they grow in the soil.

Of the dried ones, I only recognize a few that I’ve seen, and I don’t recognize the others.”

Shen Lingzhu knew that her senior sister was deliberately hiding her abilities. Otherwise, it would be incredible that someone like you who didn't come from a medical family could distinguish Chinese herbal medicines at a glance.

Xuan Lingzi nodded and said: "You are very talented, and you will achieve something after training.

The Qixing Temple can provide you with a place to learn, but I'm afraid the medical skills you've learned won't be very useful. Learning some nourishing medicinal food and alchemy techniques would certainly be possible. What do you think, Mr. Shen?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Lingzhu wanted to say: You took the exam in vain, and thought you could further study medical skills.

Shen Miaozhu was originally looking for a job in medicine for her future career, so she nodded happily and looked at her uncle with longing.

Shen Huai thought for a moment and said, "Thank you for taking the trouble, Taoist priest. Please set a time and I will send the money along."

Xuan Lingzi said, "After five days, you can come to the temple every five days to learn for one day, starting with identifying medicinal herbs."

"Good." Five days was enough time for him to prepare some things. After things were settled, Shen Huai took the two children and said goodbye.

Shen Lingzhu was very happy for her senior sister, but soon after returning home, she saw her eldest brother carrying out books to dry under the command of her aunt. She felt something was wrong, "Second sister, why didn't my uncle take my eldest brother to the Qixing Temple for another checkup?

Besides, we didn’t bring back so many books.”

"It's obvious that my uncle had something else to discuss with the Taoist priest at Qixing Temple. The books were in a box that the Master secretly helped hide during the house search.

Don't run around with both your hands injured. Find a cool place to cool down." Shen Miaozhu started to prepare lunch and her aunt's medicine.

Shen Lingzhu volunteered: "I can light the fire for you."

"No need, the new stove is not usable yet.

Besides, the meal for the four of us is very simple." Shen Miaozhu prepared to find a few suitable stones outside the yard to set up a temporary stove.

Just now, my second grandfather came over and invited my uncle and the driver to his house for lunch, probably to take care of some relatives.

The young men who came to help refused to stay and left as well.

Seeing that she had been following her, Shen Miaozhu sent her to find her aunt.

"My aunt doesn't allow me to do anything, senior sister. I feel uncomfortable doing nothing." Shen Lingzhu stretched out her left hand where the wound had healed, indicating that she could help.

Shen Miaozhu couldn't drive her away, so she thought for a moment and said, "Wait, I'll find you some work."

Shen Lingzhu just nodded, and saw her senior sister ran to say something to her aunt, and soon she came back with her elder brother, holding a few strings of money: "Follow your elder brother to the weavers in the village and buy two pieces of cloth."

She took the task: "What color do you want?"

Shen Miaozhu: "There's no choice, they're all white cotton.

My aunt said that a piece of coarse white cotton cloth sells for two or three coins outside, and here I have seven hundred coins. Don't bargain when you buy it, just give them whatever they ask for."

Shen Xianzhu said, "The master's family has blue and red cloth, which they dyed in the county town and brought back to weave."

It would be better to buy white cotton cloth from somewhere else. Shen Lingzhu and her senior sister looked at each other and decided that they absolutely could not go to a relative's house to buy it. It would be so embarrassing if they refused to accept the money out of consideration for the relationship.

"White cotton cloth is enough." She can dye it herself later. Her senior sister reminded her not to have any unpleasantness with the villagers.

However, when the two of them were halfway there, they met a tenant farmer driving an ox cart full of things.

The two of them quickly stopped and greeted him: "Uncle Xia, why did you pull so many things up?"

In addition to the bags of grain and fresh vegetables, there was also a small water jar, several earthenware jars and a few wooden blocks on the cart. The young man following the cart was carrying a large bag on his shoulder.

Uncle Xia stopped the car when he saw the two siblings. "Master, Third Miss, I'm sending some food and pickles to the Fifth Madam."

“My father just went to grind the fine white flour and shelled millet.

My mother also prepared two rolls of fine white cloth. She said if the cloth wasn't enough, she could find someone to trade it for some cotton thread and weave a full roll in three or two days. The boy's name was Xia Wang. When he arrived, his mother was worried the cloth would smell like pickles, so she insisted he carry it on his back.

Shen Lingzhu was overjoyed and quickly handed over the money, saying, "I'm going to buy some cloth. Here's the money."

The boy took a few steps back and said, "No money."

"Third Miss, you can't accept money." Uncle Xia winked at his son and asked him to come and stand next to him.

Shen Lingzhu thought about it and decided to leave it to her aunt. She guessed that all the things in this car were sent by the Xia family.

After a while, Mrs. Hu saw all these things and said, "Either you keep them and get paid, or you take them back the way you came.

Please send your eldest son to the capital to pick us up. My master and I are grateful for your kindness and cannot accept any more of your things."

"Fifth Madam, this is a gift from our family. Without you taking care of us and renting the land at a low price, our child's mother would have passed away more than ten years ago." Uncle Xia sincerely asked her to accept it.

"Over the years, the two boys have been able to study and learn to read for free at the Shen family school, all thanks to your support.

If you don’t accept the things, the child’s mother said when we came here that we don’t have to go home.”

"Well, my mother also said that from now on, I will stay with the young master and run errands." Xia Wang puffed out his chest. He was fourteen years old today, about the same age as the young master.

Shen Xianzhu shook his head. He had never needed anyone to serve him since he was a child. In the past, there were only cooks, doormen, servants and maids in his family. His grandmother and mother did not allow him to use any of them.

Shen Lingzhu listened secretly and said: Young man, you understand the window effect.

As expected, Mrs. Hu waved her hand and refused, "No, no, leave the things here. You can't stay here any longer. You need them at home right now."

"But my mother said..."

“You can only choose to keep one thing or the other.”

"..."

After the father and son unloaded their things, Uncle Xia still wanted to keep his son, saying that he would go home after helping to clean up the house today.

Mrs. Hu was unfazed by his enthusiasm and nodded in agreement. Before he left, she explained, "The land has been temporarily leased to the Qixing Temple. They will go to inspect it tomorrow.

The master and the Taoist priest have agreed that your family will continue to cultivate the land, and from now on, the rent will be paid to the Seven Stars Temple."

"Is the rent calculated according to the Qixing Temple?" Uncle Xia's heart tightened. In previous years, his family only had to pay 38% of the rent, and the males were exempted from military service by Master Shen, so they did not have to dig rivers and build city walls. He was envied by many people who paid 40% to 50% of the rent for the land.

"Aunt, the pawned items can be redeemed, right? How many years have they been pawned?" Shen Lingzhu asked more anxiously than Uncle Xia.

Mrs. Hu said, “You can redeem it after three years, and during these three years you will pay rent according to their calculation.

But don't worry, the master has asked the Seven Stars Temple to add you to the exemption list."

"Thank you, Fifth Master. Erwang, come and kowtow to Madam." Uncle Xia was overjoyed and wanted to kneel down to Mrs. Hu, but Mrs. Hu quickly asked the children to stop him.

After he left, Shen Lingzhu couldn't wait to ask, "Aunt, is the money from the land mortgage enough to settle the account?"