An eight-year-old kid emptied his scumbag father's warehouse and followed his grandparents into

Si blushed as she ate a chicken wing Jing Changning had given her. She said in a low voice, feeling embarrassed, "I just don't know how to do anything. I feel so useless. Thanks to my eldest and second sisters-in-law for their hard work."

When she was cooking just now, she wanted to help, but even if she tried to light the fire, it was snatched away by Tang Shuang and Aunt Feng. She was not sure if she could really light the firewood. Now she felt that she was really useless, just a freeloader, like a burden.

"Why didn't you do it? Didn't you serve the dishes with us? Haha!"

"That's right, sister-in-law, you are well-educated and well-mannered, but we two are just rough and uncouth. When we go to Lingnan, the children will still rely on you and Uncle San to teach them."

"That's right, don't be embarrassed, otherwise we servants won't dare to eat it anymore." The three concubines ate with a sweet smell in their mouths, but they didn't feel embarrassed at all. It's not that they can't cook, it's just that they didn't get to join the team just now, and now they are even more unsure of their ability to cook such delicious food. They just want to rush to wash the dishes and fetch hot water after the meal. At least they can do something, and no one will blame them anyway.

Compared to them and the second uncle who had eaten their fill and were having a great time in the big bunk bed, the other two rooms were in a gloomy mood and had many quarrels.

Jing Yongqiang's family was fine. Although they didn't bring much silver with them, they were all very filial, friendly, and harmonious. As soon as the official said they could go out and buy things, everyone pooled their silver and banknotes together. When they added up all the money, including some valuable hair accessories, it was worth at least two or three hundred taels.

Although the mother-in-law was no longer there, the two daughters-in-law of their family were usually frugal and simply listed the necessary things one by one. They could only send one person out. Originally, the eldest daughter-in-law was to be sent out, but because she did not go with Zhuang and the others, they were worried about her safety. In addition, they bought a lot of things, so they simply gave some silver to Scarface. In the end, there was one extra man going out.

The things they bought were similar to those of my second uncle's family. Since they couldn't afford to buy a cart, mainly because they didn't know it was available, they finally spent ten copper coins to hire an ox cart to deliver the things back.

The old patriarch's family was a mess, noisy and noisy, and they didn't leave until it was almost dark. Originally, their family had the most people, and their daily life was pretty good. At least they could call servants and maids at will.

But when it came to collecting money, everyone backed away. Even the old patriarch pretended to be poor and asked his old wife to take out twenty taels of silver. Others who were not so stingy responded, and no one would go beyond the elders of the family. Some said they didn't take out anything, and even if they did, it was just a few scattered pieces of silver, which totaled no more than fifty taels. The old patriarch was very upset, but it didn't come to the point of searching him, so he could only sulk with a pipe in his mouth.

He couldn't raise a good son with this kind of personality. His son and daughter-in-law were usually lazy and gluttonous. When they saw that there was so little money, no one took the initiative to buy anything. They just lay down on the big bunk as soon as they entered the house. No one even suggested what to buy. Only the younger children complained that camping was too cold and asked for cotton coats and pants.

The old couple knew that their sons and daughters-in-law were all greedy for money. As the patriarch and the head of this branch of the family, he was selfish and self-serving. He usually embezzled a lot of the money he received from the General's Mansion, so he was usually very lenient with his children and grandchildren, and lacked discipline.

He even had five hundred taels of silver hidden in the soles of his shoes, not to mention his stingy old wife, who saw that he liked to go out and flirt with other girls and couldn't control his heart, so she liked to take his money.

They had gotten the news since the General's Mansion was sealed. With so much time, who wouldn't be trying to hide the silver and banknotes? He didn't believe his son and daughter-in-law didn't have a hundred or eighty taels on them.

Seeing that no one took the initiative to go out, the old patriarch finally made the decision and asked his two legitimate sons to go out to buy things. However, before they left, he did not allow them to take all the fifty taels of silver, saying that he had to keep half of it to save his life, so he withheld it from him.

The last two sons each brought back two quilts and two large bags of clothes and shoes. They didn't buy much food and only bought seven or eight bowls. They were really stingy.

They figured that the officials provided them with food along the way, so even if it wasn't tasty, at least they wouldn't starve to death and could get by. They didn't care if their sons, daughters-in-law, and parents were hungry, but they made sure to fill their own stomachs, eating only two bowls of wontons before returning.

In fact, their sons and daughters-in-law, no matter whether they were born legitimate or illegitimate, all had plans, and their calculations were smooth. When they really couldn't hold on, the worst that could happen was that they would buy some food from the officials at a high price. It was better than taking out all the money and dividing it up among everyone. After all, people from the same family are like one family.

The old patriarch's family was so stingy that they naturally didn't care about Old Lady Wang and the others. It was Su who scraped a piece of silver from the bottom of her shoe and begged her second son to buy her two cotton-padded jackets, one for herself and one for Old Lady Wang, without considering that her daughter-in-law and granddaughter would also be cold.

As it got dark, everyone in the four rooms bought some things, and things weren't so noisy anymore.

After a good night's sleep, Jing Chunxi couldn't fall asleep that night. His grandmother had been called away by his third uncle and hadn't returned for a long time. There was no light on the bunk bed. He heard snoring next to him. Jing Chunxi went into his space and planted the seeds and vegetable seedlings he had bought that day.

Thinking that they would not be able to eat much vegetables along the way, I just planted some vegetable seedlings and kept the seeds.

She had never seen the seeds the boss's wife gave her before, so she scattered about ten seeds of each kind in the ridge near the stream, hoping to see if they could survive or whether they were edible.

The biggest gain was: she found that all the plants originally planted in the ground survived, especially the rooted vegetables that were originally planted. They were quite big to begin with, and now they have become lush green after two or three days of planting. She should finish eating the vegetables and radishes she bought, and then she can just pick them directly from the space.

Later on, these vegetable seedlings will definitely be able to be transplanted and there will be enough for them to eat.

I feel happy just thinking about it. With the mule cart as a shelter, I won't have to worry about food in the future. Among the things I had collected from the kitchen, I found a few boxes of pastries. They were all made with Poria cocos, Chinese yam and red dates. I put a piece in my mouth and tasted it. It was still very soft. I plan to put it on the mule cart for the glutinous rice balls tomorrow. My grandparents can eat one piece every day to nourish their stomachs.

After planting, she added a few pounds of refined rice into the rice bag. Today, her aunts cooked at least seven or eight pounds of refined rice. If she didn't add it, her aunts would definitely continue to cook coarse rice and coarse noodles in the future. She didn't want that choking feeling, and her grandparents and the little glutinous rice dumpling would definitely not be able to stand it.