Farming and reading family

Gao E sent Uncle Zheng to the door and saw Lu Hao acting suspiciously in the yard. He only came over after seeing Uncle Zheng leave.

"Are those the new people who followed your girl to fight?" Lu Hao was still frightened.

Now I understand what Sister Gao meant when she said not to provoke her.

"Yeah." Gao E nodded. "Do you know those thugs?"

"I know two of them, they're clerks in the government office, and the rest are probably related to them."

Gao E nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Lu Hao didn't know what Sister Gao knew: "I heard that the county magistrate seems to treat these outsiders very well, so you'd better be cautious."

Hearing Lu Hao say this, Gao E suddenly remembered that He Tangchun had dinner with a group of people, and they seemed to be some outsiders.

She suddenly realized that He Tangchun seemed to be attracting investment, and the effect was quite good.

"It's okay." Gao E didn't care.

When the villagers heard that Gao E only wanted money to repair the yard, they thought she was too kind and immediately robbed Yu Shengke of all his money. They originally wanted to rob him of all his money, but Yu Shengke had too many silver notes on him, so they only took one.

Zheng Fengan handed the silver note to Gao E.

"This is a bit too much." Gao E looked embarrassed.

"Just take it. You were frightened today, and he won't dare to cause trouble again." Zheng Fengan knew a lot, but Yu Sheng was really too rich.

Gao E shook her head: "This silver is what the villagers want back. I'll ask Master An to repair my front door. Uncle Zheng can use this silver to buy something for the village."

Zheng Fengan looked at Gao E and thought, this is one hundred taels, and Gao E just doesn't want it?

"How about this, I'll talk to the villagers and ask them to keep the silver for now. When the time comes, we can use it to pay for what the village needs. We can't keep spending your silver." Zheng Fengan suggested.

"Okay." Gao E agreed.

Although most of the villagers were self-sufficient, they still had to buy salt, iron and other things. Even if there was no silver, Gao E would pay for it.

After seeing Zheng Fengan off again, Gao E turned around and almost bumped into Lu Qingluo who was standing behind her.

"Can you be so magnanimous?" Lu Qingluo looked at Gao E in disbelief.

"What?" Gao E didn't know what Lu Qingluo was talking about.

"You let the person who is causing you trouble go easily." Lu Qingluo was curious.

Gao E smiled. "As the saying goes, the King of Hell is easy to mess with, but little devils are hard to deal with. Sending him to the government office at this time is to protect him. The people he hired are either clerks or have some connections with them. Now that they've been injured and suffered a loss, will they let him go so easily?"

Lu Qingluo didn't expect this and was a little confused.

"You don't have to understand, just wait and see." Gao E didn't continue explaining.

Lu Hao was worried about running into those people, so he waited until it was almost dark before riding back to the city. When he arrived at the city gate, he was stopped.

Liu Saner and Lu Hao have known each other for a long time, but they rarely interacted with each other before, and only became familiar with each other recently.

"I heard that someone asked you to find thugs for him yesterday and you refused?" Liu Saner climbed onto Lu Hao's shoulders.

"We didn't agree on the price." Lu Hao looked regretful.

"It's a shame you didn't agree." Liu San'er looked relieved. "I heard they were all beaten up. It was so tragic. Not only did they beat up the middleman when they came back, but now they're blackmailing that stranger with all their money."

Lu Hao pretended to be surprised: "Doesn't our county magistrate protect those outsiders?"

"What do you mean by protecting those outsiders? It's just a meal together." Liu San'er didn't care. "I'm going to go over and get some money later. Do you want to come?"

"No, no." Lu Hao waved his hand. "He saw me yesterday."

Liu Saner thought about it and said: "Then you go back first. I will treat you to a drink later. I can't let you treat me all the time."

"Then I'll wait." Lu Hao said seriously.

After separating from Liu Saner, Lu Hao whistled proudly. Some money really cannot be earned.

The stranger would be in a much worse situation if he were harassed by a group of thugs like that than if he were sent to the yamen.

He Tangchun knew about this matter in the afternoon, but did not ask about it.

He was a little confused about what Chen Xiangyue meant. He had helped Gao E with the Li family's affairs before, but now he was bringing people to buy Gao E's land to cause trouble for Gao E?

However, he was very curious about how much money Gao E had. After carefully calculating the assets Gao E had, he found it quite shocking.

Although it has not been cultivated yet, it will be amazing once it is cultivated.

Those who were pestering Yu Shengke knew all the ins and outs of the yamen very well. They didn't give Yu Shengke any chance to go to the yamen, nor did they give him any chance to leave. They just kept pestering him.

That night, Gong Zhinian and Xue Weizhou hosted a banquet for Chen Xiangyue. During the meal, they learned that when He County was hit by a flood, the Chen family saved Baotou Village with their own strength.

"Brother Chen, why didn't you tell us earlier? You kept it a secret from us and it made things so difficult for us." Xue Weizhou smiled bitterly.

"What does this have to do with what you bought? Do you two also want to force the purchase like Mr. Yu did?" Chen Xiangyue looked at the two people with a smile.

The two people waved their hands hurriedly and dared not talk about it anymore.

No wonder Chen Xiangyue was so polite to a woman. It turned out that there was such a thing. They really looked down on others.

Afterwards, the two men began to inquire about land in other places. They didn't dare to think about Gao's land.

Gao E didn't know that because of this incident, the villagers decided not to sell the land to outsiders, even if the price was high.

Chen Qing thought that those people wanted to buy the sloping land that Gao E had bought before, and did not think much about it. Their Chen family also bought a lot of sloping land.

In the evening, Chen Jie took Lei outside to enjoy the cool air, and the two talked about selling the land.

"You mean we should just keep farming like this from now on?" Mrs. Lei was a little depressed.

"We have a lot of land, so we will definitely have to hire long-term workers. We don't have to pay taxes in the next two years. When our lives get better, we can hire people to farm the land and we won't have to work ourselves." Chen Jie was very happy just thinking about it.

Anyway, he didn't want to farm, he never did since he was a child.

Lei still wanted to do business: "Now that we have some extra money, how about we start a small business during the slack season?"

"What do you want to do?" Chen Jie did not object.

"That acorn jelly." Lei became excited. "Second sister-in-law said it's delicious fried, so we can sell it in winter and summer."

Chen Jie thought about it and nodded: "Okay, when we move down there, we won't be in the same yard anymore. We can do whatever you want."

Lei imagined it happily.

Chen Qing took Master Xie to discuss building a house with the villagers. Yang circled around them several times, but Chen Qing ignored her, so she had to go home first.

When she reached the door, she saw Yu Ning and Qing'er talking and laughing in the yard. She quickly walked over and pulled Yu Ning into the cave.

Chen Yuning stood up and didn't move. She didn't dare to shake off her mother's hand, nor did she follow her mother in.

There was a stalemate and everyone looked at the mother and daughter.

"Let me in." Yang was a little annoyed.

Chen Yuning mustered up the courage to whisper, "I want to chat with Qing'er for a while longer."

"What's there to talk about?" Yang said, pulling Chen Yuning. "You're about to get married, so don't hang out with troublemakers."