Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

20. Literacy

Although Qi Zhengyang is the younger brother, his words carry more weight in the Qi family than his older brother's.

He said he couldn't provoke Su Jinru anymore, and his brother Qi Zhenglin naturally listened to him. He was also someone who didn't like to cause trouble, and he suspected that Su Jinru might be hiding some money, otherwise she wouldn't have built a house.

However, he knew that it was impossible to get any money back from Su Jinru.

Without any proof or evidence, who would take away the money they've been holding onto?

If it's impossible, why do it?

In fact, Li Meili wasn't confident she could get the money back. She had just been suppressed by her sister-in-law Su Jinru for years, and had been holding a grudge.

Now that Su Jinru and her brother-in-law are divorced, she feels this is a chance to get revenge. She goes to Su Jinru to ask for money. Su Jinru is a helpless woman, and maybe she can get some money back by intimidating her. Even if she doesn't get it back, she can at least deflate Su Jinru's arrogance.

Unexpectedly, he was scolded by Su Jinru instead. Although Su Jinru was divorced, she was not ashamed or cowardly as expected. On the contrary, she was very imposing and her words were even sharper than before. She used to be more restrained, but now she was unrestrained and spoke lies in a very serious manner.

Li Meili has truly learned what it means to have nothing to lose and nothing to fear.

Previously, Li Mei had never had a direct conflict with Su Jinru. Li Mei thought it was because Su Jinru had her parents-in-law and brother-in-law protecting her, so she didn't dare to act rashly against her. Now that these people were no longer protecting her, she realized that she couldn't afford to offend her either.

Well, well, since her brother-in-law has said so, and her own husband is too weak to help her, she doesn't dare offend him either, after all, she'll still have to rely on him for her livelihood in the future! He has a salary, and if they ever need money urgently in the future, they can't rely on anyone other than her brother-in-law.

Despite her resentment, Li Meili had no choice but to promise her brother-in-law that she would never provoke Su Jinru again, due to his power.

Only after receiving assurances from his brother and sister-in-law did Qi Zhengyang feel relieved. He declined their invitation to stay for dinner and returned home.

Facing his cold and deserted home, Qi Zhengyang felt a sense of emptiness in his heart.

However, he believes he will bring the two children back in the future.

He's better than Su Jinru in every way, and he'll definitely have a better life than her in the future. The education of their two children also depends on him.

Now Su Jinru has taken both children away in a fit of pique, isn't it all to get revenge on him? What good will it do to have backbone when she's too poor to raise the children? Life is more important than backbone.

Qi Zhengyang felt that he had something more important to do now, which was to stockpile grain.

From now on, we will eat from the same pot, and all the grain will be handed over to the state. We cannot keep any grain for ourselves.

Therefore, he not only had to borrow money to buy and store grain, but more importantly, he had to hide the grain in a secluded place so that no one could find it.

He could only dig a cellar in his house to hide the grain underground.

Being home alone at this time actually presented him with the best opportunity.

Qi Zhengyang had just spoken with his brother and sister-in-law. He said that he would study hard during this time and try to get into university because his current diploma is only a vocational school diploma. He wanted to take advantage of this time to improve his education.

Of course, the older brother and sister-in-law hoped that Qi Zhengyang would continue to work hard. If he succeeded, they, as his older brother and sister-in-law, would naturally benefit from it.

They readily agreed and said they wouldn't bother him while he was studying anymore.

With his brother and sister-in-law no longer bothering him, Qi Zhengyang could finally dig a cellar at home in peace.

Liu Yulan's family was worried that Li Meili would come with her husband and children to demand an explanation!

After all, Liu Yulan had hit Li Meili. Li Meili relied on the fact that she had many children in her family—her eldest son was sixteen, her second son was fourteen, and her third son was thirteen. They were all grown men, as tall as adults. Therefore, Li Meili was a tough and unruly person in the village, someone who would not suffer the slightest loss.

However, Su Jinru told her parents that she had already spoken with Qi Zhengyang, and he promised to persuade Li Meili to stop harassing them.

Liu Yulan and her husband were skeptical, feeling that Li Meili wouldn't give up so easily.

But a day passed, then two days, and then more than ten days passed in the blink of an eye. Li Meili never came again, and everything remained calm.

Only then did Liu Yulan and her husband feel relieved.

A month passed quickly, and Su Jinru's house was completed.

She not only paid the workers their wages, but also provided them with a sweet potato for lunch. She said it was a very large sweet potato, weighing five or six ounces, enough to fill them up. Everyone was very touched and felt that Su Jinru was a very honest person; she didn't try to appease them with a smaller one.

The workers knew what they were doing, so they naturally produced good and fast work.

The weather was also kind to us; for more than a month, it didn't rain a single day, and the sky was clear every single day.

Sunny weather makes it easier for the adobe bricks to dry, which speeds up the process.

It's quite a rare occurrence in the village that Su Jinru's family built their house so quickly.

If she hadn't paid someone to build it, but instead asked someone to help for free, not to mention having to repay that favor later, the process wouldn't have been so fast.

Although it cost her some money, and she had to borrow it, she felt it was worth it.

Time is money, time is life.

The fact that Su Jinru built this house so quickly is due to a combination of favorable timing, location, and people, as well as her vision and strategic thinking.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes that Su Jinru planted in her space were harvested a month later.

Back then, most families ate a porridge made of corn and vegetable leaves, and the corn was coarse and tough, so it was hard to swallow. Being able to eat sweet potatoes and potatoes meant that the family was considered well-off.

Naturally, the best grain is rice, but rice takes three months to grow in this space, while sweet potatoes and potatoes only need one month.

At this point, Su Jinru was already quite fortunate to have sweet potatoes and potatoes to eat.

In two more months, the rice will be ripe, and she will be able to eat white rice.

Having solved the basic staple food problem, Su Jinru reduced the area planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes by half this time. On the remaining land, she planted some sweet corn, edamame, and vegetables.

This way, we can have a wider variety of foods to eat in the future.

At that time, people were lucky to have enough to eat. Su Jinru was able to endure such hardship before, but she had experienced an era of material abundance and enjoyed a good life. Naturally, she tried her best to make herself live more comfortably and eat better, rather than just not going hungry.

After moving into the new house, Su Jinru still shared a room with An Xin. Her daughter was still young, so even though they shared a room, An Xin went to bed early at night, which didn't affect Su Jinru's ability to enter the space to farm.