Farming and reading family

After being scolded by Gao E, Peng Can obediently carried the hoe and the basket on his back to dig the white reed roots.

There are so many Imperata roots on the hillside on the side of Batou Village that they cannot be cleaned up and crops cannot be planted.

Peng Can didn't dare to be lazy, and he persuaded a few older children to go digging with him. The Chinese New Year was approaching, and no one could dig before the fifth day of the New Year. No matter what, they had to dig enough to feed the pigs for the next few days.

Gao'e had previously purchased a lot of beans, and as the Lunar New Year approached, Gao'e led the Chen family women in making tofu, bean curd sheets, dried tofu, and bean sprouts...

Even though food is scarce, they still want to celebrate the New Year in a lively manner.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, firecrackers were heard in Batou Village, and everyone gathered around the short firecrackers, smiling widely.

Anyway, they also have firecrackers to celebrate the New Year.

Everyone in the Chen family had gone out, and Gao E was alone at home taking care of the children. She couldn't help laughing when she heard the noises outside.

Jin Ruyi knocked on the door and came in, seeing Gao E alone, looking at the brazier and laughing: "Why don't you go out?"

"The child is young and afraid of noise." Gao E turned her head and glanced at Xiaowu in the basket.

Jin Ruyi also glanced at Xiao Wu and said, "I want to discuss something with you."

"Hmm?" Gao E looked at Jin Ruyi in confusion.

"Give me my indenture contract." Jin Ruyi said directly.

Gao E looked at Jin Ruyi, this was too direct.

"You will get the ransom money. I have to go to Hannan, and you have to help me take care of Jin Chao." Jin Ruyi said naturally.

Gao E thought for a moment and asked, "Because of Ye Linchuan?"

"Yes." Jin Ruyi nodded. "If you have my indenture, you will be implicated."

"Have you figured out what to do?" Gao E thought quickly.

"I haven't thought about it yet." Jin Ruyi was also very direct. "I just want to verify one thing."

"You don't have any money." Gao E didn't know where Hannan was, but she felt it was very far away.

"Mo Xunyou."

"Are you planning to borrow from him?" Gao E wanted to laugh.

"As long as it's yours."

The two people started joking.

Gao E didn't really want the three of them to sell themselves, it was just an excuse to take them in. Not just anyone could come here.

After the firecrackers were over, the villagers built a big bonfire and gathered around it in circles, making the New Year celebrations even more lively than in previous years.

The servants who were staying at the Chen family came back first. When Gao E heard that they had returned, she asked them to light a fire in the yard to stay up all night.

When the people from the Chen family came back, they found that there were so many people in the Chen family now.

At midnight, the two elders of the Chen family began to give New Year's money to their descendants. The grandchildren knelt there one by one to wish them a happy new year, and the whole family was very happy.

After the Chen family received their New Year's money, Gao E began to give it to the servants and people who were staying at the Chen family.

It was just a copper coin tied with a red string, but everyone who received the New Year's money was very happy, especially Qin and He, who cried with joy.

They didn’t even have any New Year’s money at home before, and they would quarrel and get angry every year because of the New Year.

After receiving the lucky money and saying blessings, everyone went back to their caves to sleep, and woke up before daybreak to celebrate the New Year.

There were no relatives to visit during the Spring Festival, so after dinner the people of Batou Village walked around the village to look at their own fields and everything in their village, thinking about where to build their own houses and what they would look like.

They didn't know that because of this year's Chinese New Year, there will be a new custom in Baotou Village: walking around the village on the first day of the New Year.

But at that time they didn't just walk around the village, but had various rituals, even lion and dragon dances, to pray for good weather and good harvests for the whole year.

After the fifth day of the New Year, the New Year is completely over and people go to work early in the morning.

Peng Can obediently went to dig up the Imperata roots. Fortunately, there were so many of them that he could dig them as long as he was willing to put in the effort.

The sow was at the peak of her life when she was bought. She gained a lot of weight in a few days. It was obvious that she was pregnant with piglets.

Gao E felt a headache every time she saw the sow, and then she thought that Peng Can was unreliable, so she decided to just raise pigs at home in the future.

Jin Ruyi came to find Gao E, and wanted to laugh when she saw Gao E frowning at the pig.

Sometimes she felt that the distress that a pig brought to Gao E was the same as the distress that Ye Linchuan brought to Gao E.

"Is there something?" Gao E felt that Jin Ruyi was making fun of her.

"I have already talked to Jin Chao. He will follow you first. I will leave tomorrow." Jin Ruyi said very directly.

Gao E thought about it seriously and said, "I'm also thinking that when I have a lot of money in the future, you will be a good manager."

Jin Ruyi is indeed a good business person: "After I finish dealing with this matter..." She didn't say anything else.

The two people have not known each other for long, but they both feel that the other is someone they can trust.

"Okay." Gao E didn't hesitate and directly took out Jin Ruyi's selling documents and burned them. "I didn't go to the government office to get the documents, and there is no record there."

Jin Ruyi nodded: "Then you have to go to the government office for the rest, otherwise it will be troublesome if you don't admit it later."

Gao E didn't care about this: "Say hello when you leave."

"Okay." Jin Ruyi nodded.

Gao E prepared some travel expenses for Jin Ruyi, including food and one hundred taels of silver notes.

When I was preparing, I thought to myself that I clearly had no money, so why was I acting as a money-giving boy? Maybe I can only meet one person like Jin Ruyi in my lifetime.

Jin Ruyi got up before dawn, and some members of the Chen family also got up.

"What are you doing?" Lei saw her second sister-in-law carrying a small package and sending Jin Ruyi out.

"I asked her to go on a long trip to help me with something." Gao E evaded the question.

Lei suddenly realized and without asking how far the journey was, she watched her second sister-in-law and Jin Ruyi leave.

Many people from Baotou Village also got up, and some were washing their faces in a nearby stream.

"I don't need to say anything to your son?" Gao E asked uncertainly.

"No need." Jin Ruyi said that he had already made arrangements.

"What about his father?"

Jin Ruyi paused and said, "If I can come back, I will tell him."

Gao E thought that Jin Chao's configuration was a bit like the male protagonist in a tragedy drama. It was so embarrassing that the mother wanted to kill her own father.

"Okay, I get it. Just be careful out there and do things within your ability." Gao E looked at Jin Ruyi.

"I really just went there to verify one thing this time." Jin Ruyi said with certainty.

"Okay." Gao E said she understood.

"Then I'll be leaving." Jin Ruyi didn't hesitate to leave. She took the money Gao E had prepared for her and left.

Gao E watched Jin Ruyi leave without looking back and smiled to herself.

But Mo Xun and Yan Congfang couldn't laugh. They never expected that Jin Ruyi would appear in front of them so suddenly, and it was Ajin who was beside Gao E before.

Especially Yan Congfang. Although the incident between him and Jin Ruyi happened several years ago and the Jin family finally resolved it properly, there is still something to this matter.

There were two reasons why Yan Congfang came to He County again: one was that Mo Xun was assassinated, and the prefect Shi asked him to find out the real murderer; the other was to find out the method of making that kind of dry food.