Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

early morning.

It's just dawn.

Qin Li got up very early today and has been busy working in the fields.

He will be setting off for Zang County tomorrow to have a look. The matter regarding the cashmere sheep must be settled as soon as possible. Then it will depend on whether he can buy it.

To get there from Yunding County, one needs to drive an ox cart, which takes five or six days to go back and forth, plus the time for business talks. Since he has been away from home for such a long time, he has to clean up the fields before leaving.

Yun Zhenzhen was not at home early in the morning. She was going out to borrow an ox cart. After the business was confirmed, it was time for the family to buy a cow.

Time is too short now, and it is definitely too late to sell it now.

Uncle Niu had agreed with him yesterday on the ox cart, contracting it for seven days, and paying him 140 copper coins based on 20 cents a day. He was to go there today to pay the money and lead the ox cart.

Tomorrow is Qin Li's first time going on a long journey, so he needs to prepare some dry food and water, wear condoms and change of clothes. As the family is poor but the journey is rich, he must not take too little money with him.

After returning home, Yun Zhenzhen fried the remaining lean meat from the braised meat into strips in a pan, and then dried them so that Qin Li could eat them on the way.

The next morning, Qin Li set off in a horse-drawn carriage. Yun Zhenzhen was worried about his safety on the road, so she specially hired Uncle Niu's eldest grandson to travel with him.

After seeing everyone off, the sun slowly rose.

The workers who were building the house came over one after another with their tools. Yun Zhenzhen followed them and watched the progress of the construction.

Forty or fifty people can build a house quickly. It changes every day and a basic outline has been formed. By the time Qin Li comes back, the house should be completed.

As she was speaking, Yun Zhenzhen heard a commotion coming from outside the courtyard gate.

Mrs. Yang was standing in the middle, talking excitedly.

"You don't know, but when the girl from Chenjia Village returned to her parents' home, she was all dressed in new clothes. Her head and neck were completely bare, covered in sparkling jewelry."

What Mrs. Yang said was sharing the glory. After all, she was also from Chenjia Village. When a girl from the same village got married, she felt like she had benefited from a great honor.

"Oh, I heard that the young master of the Wang family is a serious student and will take the imperial examination. The girl of the Chen family will become an official's wife in the future. We have to curry favor with her."

"After all, he's a good student and his family is rich. Unlike Yun Zhenzhen's nephew, what's the point of being a Tongsheng? He's just a peasant..."

Yun Zhenzhen: “…”

No, we were just having a nice chat, why did you start to pull each other down?

Aunt Yang took out a handful of wedding candy from her pocket and said, "I got this when I went back to my mother's house. You can't eat candy easily in town. Come, let me give you a taste."

The wedding candies in the village are usually mixed with flour and taste average, but the ones sold in the town are different. They contain real malt sugar, which most people cannot afford.

Chen Xiuxiu, who had listened to the entire conversation in the crowd, pinched the corner of her clothes unconsciously.

She also knew Chen Buya, they were from the same village. Although she was not as pretty as her, she was so lucky to have married Young Master Wang.

If I had met Young Master Wang first, I would have been the one to marry him.

"Xiu Xiu, here you go. I heard that this wedding candy is very sweet. Come and have a taste." The fool from Qinjia Village handed the snatched wedding candy to Chen Xiu Xiu with a flattering smile on his face.

She was the most beautiful girl in the nearby villages, so naturally she had no shortage of suitors, and Erlangzi was one of them.

Chen Xiuxiu looked at the wedding candy in his hand, and a hint of jealousy flashed in her eyes.

Originally, this wedding candy should have been hers.

Chen Xiuxiu pursed her lips, not wanting to pay any attention to the fool, and pushed the crowd away and walked away on her own.

The aunts behind me were crowded together gossiping.

Zhuzi's mother spoke curiously, "I heard that Young Master Wang didn't even come to pick up the bride in town, and that the girl walked to the town on her own. Is that true? If that's the case, how can it be considered a marriage?"

"Oh my God, this is too careless." Another aunt was a little surprised.

"You don't know this, right? Young Master Wang already has two concubines at home, and the girl from the Chen family isn't the principal wife, so why would they go to such lengths to marry her? A sedan chair was carried directly in through the back door."

"Become a concubine?"

The aunt, who was originally a little envious, immediately gave up the idea. Who would want to be a concubine with no name or status from a good family?

"That's right, you don't know, Madam Wang is notoriously cruel. She treats concubines like servants, beating and scolding them at every turn."

The person who was speaking was Song Shang's sister-in-law, Zhang. Her husband worked as a waiter in a restaurant in the town. He had heard about these things and was considered a know-it-all in the entire village.

"Oh my god, I thought Miss Chen had climbed up the tree and turned into a phoenix, but I didn't expect it, tsk tsk..."

Aunt Yang originally came here to show off, but she didn't expect everyone to feel sorry for her, and she was immediately furious.

"What do you know? If you marry into the Wang family, you'll have enough food and clothing and won't starve to death. You'll have a lifetime of wealth and glory. You're just jealous that you can't have that kind of good life. When Bu Ya gives birth to a big fat boy for the Wang family, Madam Wang will definitely not be able to bear to beat her..."

Seeing her furious, the onlookers also felt bored and dispersed on their own accord to go back to work in the fields.

Yun Zhenzhen went to the field. When she was cleaning up yesterday, she found that the potatoes were ripe and could be dug out.

In fact, it would be fine to leave the potatoes in the field for a few more days, but Yun Zhenzhen wanted to take advantage of the fact that the workers were still at home and there was no need to hire anyone else, so she could just dig them all out to save trouble.

There were many men from the village helping out at home, and soon half the village knew that the potatoes planted by the Yun family first were ripe and could be dug.

Yun Zhenzhen went home to prepare the tools for a while. When she came out, she saw a lot of people gathered at the edge of the field.

Although potatoes were planted, everyone was curious whether the yield per mu could be as high as several hundred kilograms.

Everyone gathered around, chatting in groups of three or four, and some who couldn't resist their curiosity started to pick at the potato leaves.

"Aunt Qin, come quickly."

"That's right, come here and let us see it."

As soon as she approached, a group of aunts surrounded her.

"The potatoes are finally ready to be harvested, and everyone wants to come and help when they hear about it."

Someone nearby laughed and said, "What do you mean by 'helping out'? She clearly came here to see if the production can be as high as she said, and she had to put it in such a nice way."

The aunt who had spoken earlier smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's true that I came to watch the fun, and it's also true that I came to help!"

There are also those who enjoy watching the fun and not minding the big things: "If the production volume is not that high, it will be finished. The boasting has been reported to the county magistrate, and he will probably be punished then..."

"You're the only one who can talk, but you can't hope for good things from others. Your family has already planted crops, right? If the yield isn't that high, you'll starve to death, you crow-mouthed bastard."

"That's right, if you say anything discouraging again, I'll beat you up."

"..."