Farming and reading family

Duan Shenghui spoke to Chen Tao in an imperative tone and did not ask Chen Tao's opinion at all.

Gao E frowned when she heard this, and stood up and walked to the door: "Chen Tao, come here."

When Chen Tao heard Aunt Gao calling him, he ran over immediately.

When passing by Duan Shenghui, Duan Shenghui tried to pull Chen Tao, but Chen Tao slipped away and quickly ran behind Aunt Gao.

"Hey, you..." Duan Shenghui looked at Chen Tao angrily. "Our whole family is here, what do you mean by hiding here?"

Chen Tao didn't know about this, and when he heard it, he just frowned.

Gao E saw Chen Tao's reaction and knew that he didn't have a good relationship with his uncle's family. "I told you before that you can only leave Baotou Village if you succeed in becoming Mr. Du's disciple or if your father comes to pick you up. It's the same now."

Chen Tao nodded.

"What do you mean?" Duan Shenghui looked at Gao E with disdain. "Can't I take him away?"

"Yes." Gao E looked at this domineering second-generation rich man.

I was giving face to Chen Tao before, but now Chen Tao doesn’t like this person either, so there is no need to give him face anymore.

"I am his cousin, and my uncle is the richest man in He County." Duan Shenghui looked at Gao E.

"Where is your sister?" Gao E narrowed her eyes.

"Don't mention that..." Duan Shenghui subconsciously wanted to curse, but suddenly realized that the other party knew about his family's affairs. "Why do you care so much?"

"Chen Tao is with me and is under my care." Gao E looked at Duan Shenghui with a smile.

Duan Shenghui felt that he was being despised. Ever since the Duan family got into trouble, he became particularly sensitive and felt that anyone who did not follow his wishes was despising him.

It would have been fine in Qinzhou City, but his family had fallen on hard times, and those villains who flattered the powerful and looked down on the weak became arrogant.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse. How could anyone in He County dare to look down on him? Besides, his uncle is the richest man in He County.

"Who do you think you are?" Duan Shenghui pointed at Gao E.

Gao E looked at Chen Tao: "Can you fight?"

When Chen Tao heard Aunt Gao ask him this, there was some excitement in his eyes, but he did not nod.

"Lianxin." Gao E knew Chen Tao's attitude.

After all, it was quite excessive for Chen Tao to say that he could beat his own cousin.

Lianxin took a step forward, grabbed Duan Shenghui and threw him outside.

Duan Shenghui lay on the ground in a daze, forgetting to cry out in pain.

Several followers hurriedly helped him up and brushed the dust off his body.

"Chen Tao!" Duan Shenghui finally reacted. "Come out right now."

Chen Tao happily hid behind Aunt Gao. He was still a child and was afraid.

"Unless Mr. Chen comes today, no one can take Chen Tao away." Gao E looked at the furious Duan Shenghui.

Duan Shenghui looked around and said, "Go and catch him for me."

The followers on both sides looked at Lianxin at the gate of the Chen family and retreated instantly.

They didn't see clearly how their master was thrown out just now.

"Useless things." Duan Shenghui supported his waist and kicked the followers.

The followers didn't dare to dodge and just stood there and let him kick them.

After the commotion, some people from the village came to watch and pointed at Duan Shenghui.

"Madam Scholar, what does this man do?" someone asked jokingly.

"They're stealing the child." Gao E said directly.

"Ouch!" the man screamed. "That big guy needs to be identified and kept a close eye on."

So everyone stared at Duan Shenghui as if he were a monkey.

Duan Shenghui was a little annoyed by being stared at like that, and raised his arms to try to shield his face: "What are you looking at? My uncle is the richest man in He County."

"The nephew of the richest man in He County has come to our village to snatch children. Everyone, watch carefully." Someone shouted.

Seeing that these people were not afraid but joined in the commotion, Duan Shenghui turned around in shame and anger and got on the carriage and left.

The people behind burst into laughter.

Gao E said hello to those people and left, closing the door and looking at Chen Tao.

"Don't you like your cousin?" Gao E took Chen Tao to sit in the main room.

"He always bullied me before." Chen Tao lowered his eyes, his eyes full of pride.

Even his father had never helped him vent his anger like this.

"Then do you know why your cousin came to see you?" Gao E was puzzled.

Chen Tao was puzzled: "He has always looked down on our family. Who knows why he came to me?"

"Oh." Gao E thought that Chen Tao didn't know about these things at all. "Your cousin's family encountered some problems. They couldn't make it in Qinzhou City, so the whole family moved to He County."

"What?" Chen Tao jumped up, thinking that they would block his door and bully him in the future.

"You don't have to be afraid of him. As long as you are here, no one will dare to bully you." Gao E promised.

Chen Tao felt a little embarrassed when he heard Aunt Gao say this: "Thank you, Aunt Gao."

"You've made progress. You know how to say thank you." Gao E smiled. "Okay, go to school now. Be more careful next time. If they suddenly kidnap you, I won't be able to do anything."

Chen Tao nodded.

After leaving Gao E, Chen Tao began to look at the account book again. Building a yard for Tao Meiyun required purchasing a lot of things. Fortunately, the total cost was more than two hundred taels, which was acceptable.

In the afternoon, I discussed logging with Master An.

Build a yard for Tao Meiyun, build a yard for my own home, build a paper mill, build a silkworm room, build livestock pens, and also build a house over by the mussel pond...

Every place needs large and small pieces of wood, not to mention the construction of academies later.

Suddenly I felt that it was a good decision to buy those timber from those hills, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do with such a large amount of timber.

"The pond hasn't started raising fish yet, so there's no need to build a house so early, right?" Master An wondered.

Besides, you can just build a small house, there is no need to build a yard.

"I'm useful." Gao E didn't explain further. "Someone will need to live in it."

Master An stopped asking after hearing Gao E's words and said, "This will require quite a bit of manpower."

"Master An, please see how many people are needed and I will find a way." Gao E said directly.

Master An nodded.

Anyone in Batou Village who is free and a strong laborer basically works for the Chen family, and it is obvious that there are not enough people.

The people in Luoyun Village paid more attention to land preparation, and their houses were not fully built.

The people that Yu Zhao had brought with him before had all been assigned to Master Xie. If he wanted to recruit more people, he could only recruit long-term workers from outside.

Chen Xiangyue was already overwhelmed by his daughter's affairs, and then the Duan family came again, which made him even more exhausted.

Even though he knew that Duan Shenghui went to Baotou Village today, he didn't have time to stop him. He just thought that Gao's personality would not let his son suffer any loss.

Only when he saw Duan Shenghui coming back angrily and complaining to him did he feel relieved.

After comforting Duan Shenghui, he planned to go see his son in the evening.

At night, he paid the gatekeepers to leave the city, but he fell asleep in the carriage. He did not realize that he had arrived at Chen's house until he was woken up by the coachman.

Gao E had already gone to bed. When she heard that Mr. Chen was coming, she had to get up and get dressed, and asked someone to go next door to call her eldest brother over.

Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why Mr. Chen came to her house in the middle of the night.

After hearing the reason, Chen Qing nodded. Now that his second brother is not at home, he should be careful if a man from outside comes in the middle of the night.