【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

The chief clerk was also looking at Yun Xi. Oh, she looked like a disaster victim, very shabby, but she spoke very gently. "Where are you from? Do you have your household registration documents with you?"

Yun Xi lowered her head and answered respectfully, "I am from Lishugou Village, An County, under the jurisdiction of Rongcheng. When the natural disaster struck, I hid in the mountains. I am lucky to have survived until now. Now my family is penniless and I have very little money. Life is difficult..."

Simply explain the situation, and express the tribe's reluctance to leave the land. "Our house is still there. It's a blue brick house left by our ancestors. We can simply repair it and live in it. If we are divided into other places, how can we explain to our ancestors?"

The chief clerk glanced at her and said, "The disaster relief measures in the notice were recently issued by the imperial court. They aim to relocate the victims as quickly as possible. Since you don't want to move, you must be careful with your words and actions and work hard to cultivate the land."

Yun Xi lowered her head obediently, "Yes, we farmers are all honest people."

The chief clerk nodded and asked her to go back first. He would send someone to Lishugou Village tomorrow to measure the land for them and write the documents.

In that case, Yun Xi will go back first.

Walking along the broad streets, the sight of prosperity was palpable. Clan leader Li sighed, "We Li family members only know how to farm. If we could do business, we could settle down in the city."

Yun Xi didn't say anything. It was not easy for merchants to survive at that time. She glanced at a row of people selling themselves in the distance and was a little confused. "Didn't the imperial court distribute land and money to the disaster victims? Why do those people still need to sell themselves?"

Chief Li looked at them and shook his head. "Not all of them are good citizens. Some of them have lost their masters, and now they are free, they don't know how to live. Moreover, some villages are unwilling to take them in, so they have no choice but to sell themselves. Some of them probably sell themselves because their families are in financial difficulties."

Yun Xi felt a little uncomfortable when she saw the children. "Chief, what do you say? I should buy two babies for Yanran and Xia Qing to be child husbands and child brides?"

This time, Chief Li reacted quickly. He had Yu Qian'er pull her along and run away, cursing, "During this year of disaster, your family can barely afford to eat or drink, and you're still trying to buy someone else? You're crazy!"

Yanran and Xia Qing were confused and didn't know what was going on. They watched their mother being scolded and glared at the clan leader.

The system laughed, "Host, you are stupid. How can you be childhood sweethearts if you were raised together? It's all nonsense."

"Can't I? I think those childhood sweethearts and innocent couples have it too." Yun Xi followed the team out of Rongcheng with regret, patting the two children's backs soothingly, "It's okay, it's okay, the clan leader is just joking."

The system doubled over with laughter and explained, "There's an anti-incest code in our genes. Think carefully about your childhood friends. Do you have any feelings of love?"

Yun Xi said: "That really doesn't feel like love."

"That's it. Some childhood sweethearts are just made up of adults talking about them so much that they think it's love, while others mistake friendship and family for love. That's why they always say childhood sweethearts can't resist the gift of heaven. That's the reason." The system chuckled, "You'd better not get into childhood sweethearts."

"alright."

The luggage on the way back was not as heavy as the pears on the way here, and everyone was familiar with the road, so it only took five days to get back to Lishugou Village.

Patriarch Li called on the people on the mountain to come down and move the food. Yu Qian'er and Yun Xi first carried the food back to Yun Xi's house, and then brought in miscellaneous supplies. Yun Xi also helped her, and the two helped each other.

Li Chunsheng rushed down from the mountain and saw his stepmother cleaning up in the yard. He stammered, "Why did you buy so much?"

"The house is short of everything, how can I not buy some? Hurry up and help me put it in order. Take two sets of toothpaste and toothbrushes, one for you and one for Meizi. Put the pots and pans in the first room of the west wing, which will be the kitchen from now on. I'll make clothes when it gets colder. Tomorrow I'm going to plant the cabbage, radishes, and spinach, and then go up the mountain to get food. I really don't have a single day to rest. Oh, by the way, the pears sold for 160 taels. Divide it by head, and our family will get 8 strings of money."

Yun Xi made arrangements casually.

"Okay, how much did it cost this time?"

Li Chunsheng followed his younger brothers and sisters to move things and put them away, and chatted with his stepmother at the same time.

All the food was stored in the cellar, with only a bag of rice, a bag of wheat, a bag of corn, half a bag of peanuts and half a bag of beans on the surface.

"A calf cost thirty strings of cash, a carriage cost five hundred coins, and except for sugar, the groceries didn't go up much in price, and some were even cheaper, so I spent twenty strings of cash. Grain cost forty-four strings of cash and nine coins, and chickens, ducks, geese, and piglets cost one string of cash, for a total of ninety-six strings of cash and four coins." Yun Xi counted on her fingers, "I'll keep the gold and silver hairpins as heirlooms. I won't touch the one hundred taels of gold for now. I'll put the one hundred taels of silver and the one hundred strings of copper coins aside for spending. Add the eight strings of cash I got from selling the pears, and you'll have two hundred and eight taels left, one hundred and ten strings of cash and six coins. I'll spend the copper coins first."

No one knew that Yun Xi had put the hundred coins in the space, so copper coins were used for payment.

Li Chunsheng also felt that his stepmother was very generous with her money. He forced a smile and said awkwardly, "It's worth buying. By the way, I can grow radishes, cabbages, and spinach. I'll go plant them later. You and your brothers and sisters can go and have a rest."

"Okay, then you plant it. I'm so tired."

After packing up, Yun Xi took her children back to the house, washed up and went to sleep. It was not easy to go out for a while, sleeping in the open air, and not being able to eat or sleep well.

I slept until the evening, drank a bowl of rice porridge, and continued to sleep.

The next morning, Yun Xi saw that vegetables were planted on both sides of the yard and in the backyard. She praised Li Chunsheng with satisfaction. In the morning, she cooked a pot of rice porridge, steamed rice and made rice balls. After drinking the porridge, they took the rice balls and sacks to the mountain to pick autumn crops.

As Li Chunsheng walked, he said, "The chestnut, walnut, pine, and persimmon trees on the mountain that we often visit have all been picked and are piled up in the ancestral hall. Now we have to look elsewhere or dig wild vegetables."

"Okay, let's go."

The mountains were greatly affected by the earthquake. Trees fell, mountains collapsed, and streams dried up. Fortunately, it did not affect the fruiting of trees. Some trees had their bark stripped off, but they were still alive and well. Their vitality is really tenacious.

Yun Xi found a large red date tree. The branches were bent with the weight of the red dates, which was particularly pleasing to the eye. Li Chunsheng went straight to pick them without saying a word, "Mom, come and pick them. They must be sweet dates."

Li Yanran stuffed red dates into her mouth and mumbled, "Mmm, it tastes good."

"Okay."

They picked a full sack of dates from one tree, and then walked a little further and found a few more trees. They couldn't pick all the dates, so they asked the villagers for help.

After eight days of picking autumn fruits in the mountains, they had almost finished picking them in the nearby areas. At this time, the secretary of the prefecture came with yamen runners. He first changed the villagers' household registration, gave them money and grain seeds, appointed the clan leader as the village chief, and finally distributed land to everyone.

Each person received one string of money. Yun Xi received five strings of money, and the deposit she kept outside amounted to 116.6 taels.

Only rice seeds were distributed, 20 kilograms per household, and a brand new household registration booklet was also given, which recorded detailed information about each family member.