Farming and reading family

Gao E never thought that this would be the reason.

If this is the reason, why does the Wei family have so many mechanisms?

Maybe... the Wei family is not an ordinary silversmith?

This also explains why Wei Rongbo swallowed charcoal to make himself unable to speak, and why the government officials tortured Wei Rongbo like that.

But their identities remain a mystery.

"What if I buy that house?" Gao E asked tentatively.

The Wei family’s secret should not be in the mansion, otherwise the government would not sell the mansion so easily.

Or perhaps the government wanted to find someone who knew the Wei family's secrets by selling the Wei family's mansion.

Wei Rongbo wrote down a word with difficulty: Yes.

Gao E felt relieved when she saw this. Since Wei Rongbo asked her to buy it, there must be no problem. "There's no rush for this matter. Does Uncle Wei have any secrets?"

This time Wei Rongbo was silent for a long time and still did not make a decision.

"I won't ask about Mr. Wei's secret. But if there really is a secret and someone is coveting it, for the safety of my family and Mr. Wei, I will rearrange Mr. Wei's residence." Gao E explained.

Although the people of Baotou Village are united now, there are many people and they will definitely talk a lot. It would be bad if someone who doesn't care about discussing this matter was heard by someone with ulterior motives and caused trouble.

Wei Rongbo hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

"I asked one by one, and Mr. Wei nodded or shook his head." Gao E felt relieved to see Wei Rongbo's cooperation.

Wei Rongbo nodded.

"Does Mr. Wei have a secret?" Gao E asked directly.

Wei Rongbo nodded.

"Who else knows?"

Wei Rongbo hesitated for a moment and wrote a word on the sand table: son.

"Your son?"

Wei Rongbo nodded.

"He wasn't caught?"

Wei Rongbo nodded.

"Will he be in danger?"

Wei Rongbo shook his head.

Gao E suddenly realized that if this was the case, Wei Rongbo had swallowed the carbon to preserve two secrets.

Gao E felt relieved after knowing this: "I will arrange for Mr. Wei to go to a new place as soon as possible. The conditions there may not be as good as here."

Wei Rongbo bowed hard to express his gratitude.

After talking with Wei Rongbo, Gao E felt a little heavy-hearted. What a mess.

She turned around and saw Lu Qingluo: "Ride your horse to He County and ask Jin Ruyi to wait for us at the intersection leading to Ghost Crying Mountain early tomorrow."

Lu Qingluo nodded and left.

Gao E sat in the yard and thought for a while. It couldn't be said that she was careless about this matter. She just didn't know anything about the Wei family.

At that time, Jin Ruyi only wanted to save Yunshuang and her brother, and saving Wei Rongbo seemed just a by-product. Who would have thought that Wei Rongbo had a secret that others were plotting against.

Fortunately, Mo Xun was cautious when rescuing Wei Rongbo, so this matter is not a big deal as long as no one comes to investigate.

In the evening, Chen Ke came back for dinner and excitedly talked about those books with Gao E, and Gao E listened attentively.

There was no mention of the fact that his prescription was stopped and the credit was given to He Tangchun. Since he was reborn and did not want to take the imperial examination, he should know something about officialdom.

We'll talk about it when he really asks about this matter.

The next day before dawn, Gao E asked Lu Qingluo to drive Wei Rongbo away. When they arrived at the Hexian intersection, Jin Ruyi was already waiting there.

"What's the emergency?" Jin Ruyi asked as she got on the carriage. Only then did she realize that Wei Rongbo was also in the carriage. "What are you doing..."

"Send Uncle Wei to Ghost Crying Mountain. There are many gossips in Baotou Village." Gao E said directly.

Jin Ruyi wondered what this had to do with the fact that there were too many people and too many gossips: "Okay."

On the way, Gao E told Jin Ruyi about the situation of the Wei family. She was also surprised. She thought Wei Rongbo was simply framed.

"Luckily you discovered it early." Jin Ruyi was still frightened. "So what are your plans next?"

"If we buy the Wei family's mansion and others find out there are mechanisms inside, they might become more suspicious," Gao E said directly.

Jin Ruyi nodded: "That's what we should do."

The two men sent Wei Rongbo to Ghost Crying Mountain. Yu Zhao was practicing martial arts with his men. When he saw Gao E and the others, he hurried over.

Yu Zhao knew Wei Rongbo, after all, Wei Rongbo was the best silversmith in Qinzhou City.

Gao E asked him to keep it secret and tell Yu Zhao how to take care of Wei Rongbo. Yu Zhao wrote it down one by one.

After making these arrangements, Gao E and Jin Ruyi left together.

"Use your method to rub the cowhide again, and then make it into cowhide tents to provide to the tenants in Luoyun Village for the winter. Think carefully, those tents are not cheap." Jin Ruyi reminded.

"It's not like we're giving it to them for free. I'll ask them to provide manpower to make the tents. The commission will be equivalent to one year's rent, as long as the tents are not damaged." Gao E had already thought it through.

It is certainly unrealistic to build houses for the tenants in Luoyun Village before winter, but the cowhide tents are windproof and warm, so those tenants can easily spend the winter.

Jin Ruyi still felt that Gao E was being too generous: "In fact, those tenants are quite well-off. Maybe they can buy these tents."

"Forget it." Gao E thought that the leather alone for a tent would cost about fifty taels, and the tenant would definitely not buy it.

"Then why do you need so many tents?" Jin Ruyi thought that they would be a waste of money when the time comes.

"Put it aside for now." Gao E felt that she might be useful. "What if it comes in handy?"

Jin Ruyi didn't say anything more. It was all Gao E's anyway. At least she didn't just give it away like before.

Gao E said that she was not familiar with the people in Luoyun Village. Besides, there were many things that could be made of genuine leather and it had many uses. Maybe it would have other uses in the future.

The task of making tents was assigned to Jin Ruyi. There were many skillful peasant women among the tenant farmers in Luoyun Village. They only had to sow in autumn and not harvest, so they had plenty of time to do this.

As for buying the Wei family mansion, although it was a bit urgent, Gao E did not plan to go there immediately. If it was really that easy to be discovered, wouldn't she be walking into trouble?

Taking advantage of this time, Gao E asked Master Xie to calculate the cost of building Tao Meiyun's house in Zhulin. According to Tao Meiyun's requirements, it would cost more than four thousand taels.

This is enough money to build houses for the entire village of Baotou. It's really incomparable.

Tao Meiyu directly gave Gao E five thousand taels, and the rest was her salary as a supervisor.

Gao E did not refuse, otherwise she would look down on rich women.

In the blink of an eye, the autumn harvest is here and the village of Baotou begins to get busy with the harvest.

This year is a year of bumper harvest and there is no need to pay taxes, so everyone has a big smile on their face.

The two elders of the Chen family came back, but seemed redundant, so Chen Qing found an excuse to send them away that day.

All the harvested grain, except that from the Chen family, was piled together. After all, it was still a village collective, but they were not busy with collective autumn sowing.

Looking at so much food, the villagers wanted to disband, after all, the houses had been built.

"Uncle Zheng, we know this is not right, but we will all live in our own homes in the future, and it is not appropriate to gather together to eat from the same pot." The villagers discussed with Zheng Fengan.

Zheng Fengan was silent for a long time: "If we really disband, all the farm tools provided by the Chen family must be returned."

Everyone was stunned for a moment before realizing that most of the things they used this year were purchased by the Chen family.

"Let's buy it." Someone said.

"Yes, yes, yes." Someone immediately echoed, "We can't let the Chen family suffer any loss. We'll just pay for these things."

"From now on, the Chen family's affairs will still be our village's affairs, it's just that we can each live more conveniently."

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