Traveling through time as a peasant girl to turn things around

Everyone had been busy these past few days. That evening, after midnight, Guoguo and Chai Zhen woke up. Chai Zhen picked up Guoguo and went to the east courtyard. Chai Ping'an was also up and had cleared out a plot of land. Little Milk Bag waved his hand, and a pile of grain bags appeared. Chai Zhen felt it out and saw it was rice. Little Milk Bag waved his hand again, and several more piles of food appeared on the ground: soybeans, white flour, yellow flour, rice, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. Chai Zhen looked at them and said, "That's enough. We don't have a car for more." Little Milk Bag: "Okay." Wheat seeds, rice seeds, corn seeds, potatoes, and soybeans. Some will be sent to the capital. "Grandpa, we can't send vegetables. The journey is too long, and they'll go bad if we wait too long." Take a few winter melons and pumpkins.

We could pack some fruit, but Guoguo still wanted to send food to the soldiers on the front lines! Chai Zhen: "Okay, let's do as Guoguo says. My Guoguo is kind." Chai Zhen and Chai Ping'an covered the food with a tarp. "Go to sleep, Ping'an, we're going back too." "Okay, Guoguo's father, go back. I'll close the door." Chai Ping'an waited for his father to leave, closed the fence, and placed a large bar inside. Then he went back and put some horse feed and water. Then he went back to the house to rest.

Early that morning, Li Biaotou arrived on horseback. Eighteen of them, full of energy and spirit, each one a dashing figure! Old Lady Li saw them and said with a smile, "Come in, wash your hands, and eat!" The fourth brother, hearing the sound of horses' hooves, also stood up and said, "Have you decided? Will you join the army or go into business? My family's going to the capital again these days, and we'll just be going back and forth from home." Li Biaotou said, "We all want to work with the Chai family. You decide, fourth brother. Whatever you say, we'll do! We'll listen to you! We discussed this with our family when we got here." "That's right. If you want to join the army, we'll team up, and if you want to go into business, we'll follow you," said Xiao Ma. The fourth brother said, "Then I won't join the army. I'll stick to farming. There's plenty of work at home, and I'll make a lot of money, but I haven't earned any fame!" This time, he decided to go to the front line to deliver food again, so he could stay a while longer. "Okay, I'll do as you say." "There aren't enough carriages. Do we have to go to the county to find one?" Li said. "My escort agency has twenty carriages. I'll rush back this afternoon." "Okay, I'll go with you. Let's have a meal and rest for a while."

At noon that day, Zhang Qingshan arrived. Sun Gui and Chai Zhen all went to the school and held a meeting. Chai Zhen said, "The Ministry of Revenue personnel are returning to Beijing with wheat seeds, rice seeds, soybeans, and some vegetables. The county can only send people to protect them. In addition, my family is going to the front to deliver food. Let's see if the county can find more carriages to collect food. It's winter now and it's not easy for the soldiers at the front. The escorts are Li Biaotou and others, as well as Sun Quan, my fourth son, and Coach Chai Hua." Zhang Qingshan said, "I will go back immediately to collect food and donate it voluntarily. I will go back and look for as many carriages as possible, and the carriage drivers should be yamen runners." Sun Gui said, "Uncle, does our village want to donate food?" Chai Zhen said, "No, the common people will have enough food this year, let's talk about it next year." Sun Gui said, "Okay. My family will donate one thousand kilograms of food. It's just that my horse can't go far. Let's see if we can send some of the pigs in our village." Chai Zhen said, "The food left for our villagers will be sent to the front." Sun Gui said, " Good!" Zhang Qingshan: "If our Dayan village is like yours, why worry about the enemy not being destroyed and the country not being rich! Hey!" "Second uncle, go to your house to see, you grow vegetables in the greenhouse!" Chai Zhen: "Let's go now." Sun Gui, Zhang Qingshan and Chai Zhen, when Zhang Qingshan saw the greenhouse vegetables of the Chai family, "This!" Surprised! "Amazing! Amazing!" Chai Zhen introduced, this is spinach, this is leek, leek meat dumplings are delicious! Garlic sprouts, cucumbers, eggplants, there is a big fire in the middle, light a fire when it's cold. Cover with a straw fan at night to keep out the wind and cold, adults, look, this transparent thing is glass. Windproof and light-transmitting! Zhang Qingshan praised it again and again! "Go back and let other villages learn to build greenhouses, grow vegetables to eat, and sell them for money." ... The three looked at the greenhouse vegetables for a long time, and Zhang Qingshan ate lunch before leaving.

I was in a hurry to get back to work, collect food, find a car, and deliver food to the yamen runners for a meeting. ... We agreed to set off in three days.

In the evening, Lu Xi called her son and said, "Are you going to the capital?" Xiao Dong asked if his mother wanted to go back. Lu Xi lowered her head, her heart only had her son. She had been cold for more than ten years. As long as she was with her son, nothing else mattered. Lu Xi raised her head and said, "As long as mother has you, mother will follow you and take care of you!" Xiao Dong already had the idea to protect the little boy, and said firmly, "If possible, I want to be the emperor, and son will protect you and Guoguo's family. Without the Chai family and Master Huo, son would not be able to see you and would have died long ago. Son has lived the life of ordinary people and encountered many things. Ordinary people are in dire straits and suffer every day. Son wants to do something for the people, but he cannot do it without rights. Some time ago, someone came to kill his son, and he had no ability to protect himself. If possible, son is willing to live here, without worries. But why can't this world accommodate me! I have been sold from one place to another since I was a child, beaten and scolded, cold and hungry,..." Lu Xi hugged her son and burst into tears, " It's all Mother's fault for not protecting you. Think about me, the mother of a nation, and yet I couldn't even protect a baby. I hate you so much!!! We in the Duke's Mansion are no pushovers. This time, Mother will return to the capital to talk to your grandparents and support you as emperor! For my son's sake, Mother will also return to the palace to eradicate those who harmed you. "I don't want Mother, my son. I don't want Mother to do anything I don't like. I want to live here, right here. There are other things with my son, the Chai family, Master Huo, and the others—those are the men's business. I don't want to be separated from Mother," Lu Xi said. "I'll go back and talk to your father and grandfather, and then we'll come live here. Wherever you are, Mother will be there." Xiaodong nodded, "Yes," a smile spread across his face. He didn't want to be separated from Mother, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud now that he'd grown up. Lu Xi looked at her son and said, "Sleep with Mother tonight!" Xiaodong nodded, his face flushed. He turned and walked out. "I'll tell Great-Grandfather to bring my bedding."

Chai Zhen also agreed that Xiaodong should sleep with his mother. "Hey, go ahead! Xiaodong! Your mother has suffered so much!"

In the room, Lucy brought out a new set of underwear for Xiaodong. "Put it on, son." Lucy made the bed for him. Xiaodong: "Mom, you rest first. I need to study for a while." "Mom will stay with you while I sew." Xiaodong looked at his mother, her face light with joy. He took out his book and silently read, reciting the homework assigned by the teacher. He soon memorized it, then took out a pen and began to write it down. He understood the meaning. He would explain it to the teacher tomorrow at school to see if he understood it correctly. Having reviewed the old knowledge and previewed the new, Lucy said, "Mom, let's go to bed!" "Okay, go to bed!" Lucy put down her work and lay down with her son. Face to face, mother and son smiled. Lucy said, "Close your eyes together and go to sleep." Xiaodong: "Okay." After a while, Lucy opened her eyes and touched her son's face. "That's wonderful!" Lucy finally fell asleep.