"Miss, okay, where do you want to turn over?" Baiguo returned to the yard with a hoe.

Qu Jingyao laughed happily when she saw the shiny hoe and pointed to the open space by the fence:

"Here, here, Baiguo, are you okay?"

Baiguo smiled without saying anything. She secretly exerted her strength to hoe the ground. The soil there was very soft and it didn't take much effort.

Some aunts and uncles who were going to town passed by the courtyard and asked Qu Jingyao through the fence: "Yao girl, are you going to grow vegetables?"

"Yes, auntie, it will be too late if we don't plant it now."

"Speaking of which, he is a child who knows how to live. You go ahead and do your work."

A quarter of an hour later, Bai Guo straightened up and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Looking at the water handed to her by her master, she smiled and said, "Miss, we have finished looking through everything. Do you want to look for anything else?"

Qu Jingyao shook her head and told her to drink some water and rest, saying that this would be enough. As she said that, she took out a bag of vegetable seeds.

I had asked the person who sold the seeds before, and he said that I could just spread them on the ground.

After Baiguo drank the bowl of water in a few gulps, she rushed to help her, but was rejected by Qu Jingyao, who asked her to rest for a while and asked her to go to the town with her later.

Baiguo asked the young lady what she was doing in the town?

"We've split up, but we still have to register a household, and there's your indenture contract." When Qu Jingyao mentioned the indenture contract, her eyes were fixed on Bai Guo. She tapped her forehead lightly and said that she almost forgot about it.

Qu Jingyao frowned slightly, and seeing that Baiguo didn't seem to have any resistance, she became suspicious. Is this kid so eager to sell his body?

"Bai Guo has signed the contract to sell her body. You can only be a slave from now on. Aren't you afraid..."

Before Qu Jingyao could finish her words, Bai Guo came up to her in three or two steps, and said with a worried look on his face, "Miss, I am not afraid of slavery. As long as I can stay by your side and stay in this family, Bai Guo will be very happy."

Qu Jingyao shook her head helplessly. Could it be that this child only wanted a home...

Is she thinking too much?

Qu Jingyao called her to help her bury the soil in the field first and then water it.

Baiguo breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest and said she was going to the river to fetch water. As soon as she finished speaking, she picked up the wooden bucket and ran out of the yard like a chased rabbit.

Qu Jingyao stood up straight, looked towards the distant mountains, and a faint smile slowly appeared on her face. In fact, life in ancient times was not bad.

"The young lady and the eldest master are back." Bai Guo walked up to her without frowning or breathing heavily, carrying a full bucket of water.

She looked towards the back mountain and saw the figures of her mother and elder brother. It seemed that the land there had been planted, and it would be faster with the cows around.

Qu Jingyao told Baiguo to water the land while she went to see her mother and the others. After she finished speaking, she ran out of the yard.

Baiguo looked at her master's back and curled the corners of her lips. She slowly walked to the corner of the fence and blew a whistle. A white dove quickly flew over and landed beside her hand.

"Send this to the master, quickly!"

As she spoke, she stuffed the small paper roll in her hand into the bamboo tube on the pigeon's leg, and with a gentle pull, the little thing flew away.

Qu Jingyao did not see this scene. At this time, she was holding Liu's arm and asking coquettishly why she was not invited to join them in the morning.

"I wonder who is sleeping like a pig." Qu Qingchen raised his eyebrows and joked.

Her face instantly turned red, and she angrily complained to Liu: "Mom, look at my eldest brother."

Liu shook her head helplessly and told her son not to speak like that to his sister in the future, as Yaoyao would also care about her reputation when she grew up.

Qu Qingchen laughed out loud with his face tilted back. Qu Jingyao's face turned even redder and she hugged Liu's arm and pouted her lips like a spoiled child.

But at this time, Manman in the space told her that Baiguo had just sent a message to the outside world.

Her expression instantly turned cold. She was so quick to reveal her true intentions. She wanted to see what Bai Guo was going to do next. However, Qu Jingyao was curious about the person behind her. Could it be the Wu family...

If it were the Wu family, why would they go through so much trouble?

"Yaoyao, Yaoyao? What are you thinking about?" Liu called her softly.

Liu's voice interrupted her thoughts, and she smiled awkwardly when she came to her senses:

"Mom, I'm wondering if we should register a new household. We also need to go to the government office to handle Baiguo's indenture. I thought I'd go to the town and see what's going on outside."

Liu was worried about her, so she took her hand and asked her elder brother to accompany her.

Qu Jingyao was even more worried about Baiguo being alone with her mother, so she comforted her and told her that she would take Baiguo with her and told her not to worry.

Liu felt more at ease when she thought that Baiguo knew some fighting skills, and told her to go early and come back early.

"Don't worry, mother. I still need to go to the village head's house. He will be needed to help me set up the household registration."

Qu Qingchen listened to their conversation and frowned:

"I'd better let you go. I'm going to sell these prey."

He pointed to the three hares and two pheasants in the basket.

Qu Jingyao thought about it and decided that the two of them would split up. She and Liu would go back to the courtyard first, while her brother would go to the headman's house to borrow an ox cart.

This time, she thought that when she arrived in town, in addition to transporting back the food from last time, she would also go to the pharmacy.

"Yaoyao, I want your Aunt Cuilian to come and make the pearl flowers with me, you..."

Liu asked her daughter carefully, thinking about the help the village head and his family had given them. When would they be able to repay this kindness?

Besides, the village head has an old mother who is paralyzed in bed.

Qu Jingyao thought about the situation at the headman's house. Ever since Grandma Xu fell ill and was bedridden, the family's situation had gone from bad to worse...

"Mom, go back and give Baiguo a call. Call Aunt Cuilian and Lingling over. You teach them. I'll take some to the embroidery shop in town and ask if I can sell them together with the handkerchiefs."

Liu nodded with a smile on her face, and when she returned to the courtyard, the package came to her.

"Madam, Miss, you are back. Miss has watered the vegetable garden."

Liu looked at the small vegetable garden under the fence and asked her daughter in surprise if she had planted it.

"Mom, this is what Baiguo and I made. Take a look at it. We planted some green vegetables and cucumbers in it."

As soon as Qu Jingyao finished speaking, Liu walked forward and squatted down to check.

"Baiguo, go to the headman's house and call Aunt Cuilian and Lingling." Qu Jingyao ordered with a serious face. Baiguo nodded, turned and walked out of the yard.

But the look in her master's eyes just now made her a little suspicious. Did the master discover something? No! She was very careful just now.

Baiguo, who was walking towards the headman's house while thinking, happened to hear the sounds of beating and scolding coming from the Qu family's yard.

"Mom, I'm worried about your grandson being alone in the town. I want to go back and take care of him. Isn't Huaer still here after we leave?" Mrs. Wu's voice came from afar.

Qu Huaer then started yelling and cursing at Wu.

"Sister-in-law, admit it. You're just lazy and don't want to serve mother, so you made an excuse to leave."

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