Chapter 123
"Okay, that's fine, don't talk about it, what does it look like to be crying? I said I won't plant it if I don't plant it. You let Jiao Niang have the ability to plant it by herself."

Niu Niangzi couldn't help but get up and walk out of her earthen house.

As soon as he left the door of the earthen house, he saw Xiong Jun approaching from outside the fence with a smile on his face.

Seeing him, Xiong Lin's originally stern face showed a helpless smile, and said angrily:
"Huashengzi, what are you doing again?"

Xiong Jun came over and said to Xiong Lin:
"Sister, please lend me some money."

"Borrowing money as soon as you come, what are you doing, why do you ask me to borrow money every time you come?"

With a helpless face, Xiong Lin slapped him across the face. Seeing Xiong Jun dodging to the side cleverly, she asked angrily and amusedly:

"How much do you want to borrow this time?"

Seeing Xiong Jun raised a few fingers and said another number, Xiong Lin was startled immediately,
"How much? Our family doesn't have that much money,"

From last year to this year, Xiong's family seems to know that Niu's family has prospered with Qi's family, so they come to borrow money every three days. Xiong Lin has no income now, and Niu Ju and Niu Yuan are the only ones in the family who can make money. She thinks about it all day How to make money, but actually haven't put it into action.

Niu Ju, who was standing in the room, felt her heart sink when she heard Xiong Jun's voice. She was really annoyed by this uncle.

Because every time Xiong Jun came to the Niu's house, it meant that the Niu's house had to pay a sum of money.

And it's still unpaid.

Xiong Jun looked at Niu Ju in the room, and said with a smile:

"Sister, I'm doing business with someone this time. If I make money, I promise to pay you back the money I made before."

He couldn't count how much money he had borrowed from Niu's family, and he just borrowed money every time, and never issued an IOU, because he was illiterate, and neither could Xiong Lin.

It is useless to type the IOU.

Xiong Lin raised her hand with a smile, hit Xiong Jun on the head, and said:
"Based on what kind of business you are, there is nothing you can do. I really have no money here."

"You don't have money, but the eldest girl does."

Xiong Jun, who was grinning, rolled up his sleeves and entered the door, cupped his hands at the cold cow and chrysanthemum, and said:
"The girl really looks better as she grows up. How about borrowing some money from uncle? Uncle is going to look through the book."

"I do not have money."

With a stern face, Niu Ju turned around, clenched her fists and said to Xiong Lin outside the door:

"Aniang, all the money my father and I have is going to be used to plant the land by the water, and we don't have any money to lend to anyone."

"You, you are going to die!"

Niu Niangzi, who hadn't expected Niu Ju to turn her back at all, immediately caught fire. She pointed at Niu Ju and began to curse,
"I told you, we don't plant this land, why do you insist on planting this land? What an unfamiliar little white-eyed wolf, come back, come back to me."

Just as she was cursing, she saw Niu Ju walking out of the door, gave her a cold look, and went out to Qi's house.

Xiong Lin chased her for a few steps. Niu Ju's footsteps are not as fast as Niu Ju's, who is eating bitter water every day. Now Niu Ju walks like a gust of wind. She seems to have endless strength every day, not only is she full of energy , and the mental head is also particularly good.

She didn't listen to Xiong Lin, and walked away in two or three steps.

Xiong Lin stopped panting, and finally couldn't chase anymore, so she put her hands on her knees, feeling angina painful.

And behind her, Xiong Jun also chased after her panting, and said angrily:

"It's against the sky, it's really against the sky, sister, your girl can't stay."

"what?"

Xiong Lin, who was bending over and panting, didn't understand what Xiong Jun meant for a moment.

But seeing Xiong Jun coldly said:

"Get married. The owner of the merchant who is doing business with me is from South County. He told me recently that he wants to buy a few young ladies to carry on the family line. The price is not low."

Originally, Xiong Jun hadn't thought about it. He wanted to cling to the boss, so he wanted to go to the north of the county to catch some beautiful slave girls and sell them to the boss.

But just now when he looked at Niu Ju, it was really a female college student or something. Compared with a year ago, Niu Ju is completely reborn.

Isn't such a girl cleaner than the slave girls in the north of the county?
Maybe the owner of the Nanjun merchant would give Xiong Jun some extra money if he was happy.

With some hesitation on Xiong Lin's face, she asked:
"From Nanjun? Isn't that going to marry to Nanjun?"

She has never been out of Zhishou County in her life, so she feels that a place like Nan County is too far away.

It's as far away as a moat.

Once Niu Ju is married to Nanjun, there is almost no chance of seeing her again in this life.

"Is Nanjun not good? It has beautiful mountains and clear waters. Compared with our place, I don't know how much better it is."

Xiong Jun seemed to be afraid that sister would disagree, and kept saying good things about Nanjun, whether it was here or there.

Gradually, the expression of resolute disapproval on Xiong Lin's face seemed to loosen a little.

She naturally knew that Nanjun was very good. There were so many people exiled by the old emperor's nine clans in Zhishou County every year. As long as those people talked about Nanjun, they would say good things.

In fact, among the eighteen counties in Daze, only Zhishou County has the worst living environment, otherwise it would not be regarded as a place of exile for criminals by the imperial capital.

It is precisely because there is nothing here, and every field can be planted half-dead, so that we can better train those who were exiled because of their sins.

Hearing Xiong Jun continue to instigate,

"Sister, as Aunt Niu Ju, don't you want Niu Ju to marry well? It's not like I said that being a poor man's wife is better than marrying a rich man as a concubine, or a rich man's concubine. , and their lives are many times better than those of poor families' wives."

As he spoke, he pinched Xiong Lin's fingertips and gestured for counting money.

Finally, Xiong Lin nodded hesitantly and said:

"I agree, even if your brother-in-law doesn't know whether to agree or not, you also know that there is only one child in our Niu family, Niu Ju."

"Then don't worry, if my brother-in-law really cares for Niu Ju, he will naturally agree."

Xiong Jun thought very simply, turned around and walked towards Niu's house with his elder sister, discussing the matter of marrying Niu Ju while walking.

And Niu Ju didn't expect at this moment that she was about to be betrayed by A Niang and Aunt.

She went directly to Qi's house to find Sheng Jiaojiao, and patted her chest to promise,

"I've taken over ten acres of land, and I've also bought the land planting treasure. Tell me what you want to plant, Jiaojiao, and I'll go buy seeds and plant them right away."

When she heard that she was going to buy seeds to plant the land, Sheng Jiaojiao smiled and took out a land contract from behind her, and took out a large bag of seeds, saying:

"These seeds are fine seeds that I, Tuo Etuo, brought over from Nanjun. They are the golden sore medicine that I want to use. You plant them immediately, and I will prepare the planting treasure for you."

Niu Ju couldn't write, and didn't even look at the contents of the land lease contract, so she directly stamped her handprint on the contract.

Sheng Jiaojiao was about to give her a detailed explanation of the terms of the contract one by one, when she turned around, she saw that Niu Ju had already stamped her handprint.

She was speechless for a while, and asked:
"Are you really not afraid that I will sell you?"

"Where will you sell it? Will you sell it to your house to be a girl?"

Niu Ju shook her hands, wiped off the ink marks on her fingers on her clothes, her eyes sparkled,
"That's fine too. Your girls live better than girls from rich families. I'm willing to come to your house to be a girl."

Upon hearing this, Sheng Jiaojiao stretched out her finger dumbfounded, poked Niu Ju on the forehead, and said helplessly:

"You."

Niu Ju didn't have time to gossip with her, so she took the contract that the seed made with her, and turned to look at her land.

Seeing her leave, Sheng Jiaojiao turned around and went to look for Mrs. Qi San again. The Qi family was too busy these days, and she hadn't had time to put farming on the agenda.

In the past, in the Qi family, everyone farmed the land, but this year it is obviously not possible. The three masters of the Qi family have to escort the luggage, and the task is quite heavy. The eldest girl and the old lady Qi have to do embroidery work with Wenxiu, and the second lady is going to the imperial capital. To deliver the letter, Lian Xin needs to make paper and train the little girls and servants.

There are three sons in the family, two of whom have served as soldiers, and there are not many people who can be sent by Sheng Jiaojiao.

There is only one Qi Rong left, and it is estimated that he will enter the barracks in the next year or two. The eldest lady Zhou took over the work of the second lady, and now runs to the market every day to sell embroidery.

There is only San Niangzi who is full of money and can arrange to farm.

When Sheng Jiaojiao found San Niangzi, she was competing with Lian Xin.

In the woods, Sheng Jiaojiao approached and listened, only to hear the third lady say impatiently:
"I'm a vulgar person. What do you mean by arranging a child to serve me? Lian Xin, don't think that if the Qi family buys you, you will treat yourself as a slave. It's nothing. I'm busy here. Don't bother."

Yesterday Jiao Jiaoer ordered her to irrigate the woods in the backyard of Qi's family with the manure soaked in the cesspit. Today, the third lady discovered that some tender green shoots had grown in the snow-melted woods, all over the place.

So this year, this forest may grow a piece of turf.

According to Sheng Jiaojiao's plan, the land will be fertilized all the way to the stables, and then a piece of pasture will be enclosed.

The scope of this ranch is huge, almost all the land behind Qi's house is enclosed.

Can that piece of loess raise horses?

Mrs. Qi San didn't even dare to think about it, but today she saw the germination of sweat and blood grass in the forest, and she had some expectations in her mind.

Maybe, it really works.

She was very busy today, as soon as she picked up the dung and was about to pour it under the tree, Lian Xin brought a little girl over, saying that it was specially allocated to the third room to take care of her.

The third lady is enough to hear it, she is too busy picking manure and soil, she really can't take care of the little girl.

However, Lian Xin was strict in her work. At such a young age, she never gave up. If the third lady didn't accept the little girl she brought, Lian Xin blocked the way of the third lady and wouldn't let her go.

Lian Xin looked up, opened her small arms, and said word by word:

"Mister has ordered, our family has too many things to do now, each room has to assign a girl and a servant to take care of it, if the third wife doesn't want it, it means that Lian Xin's errands are not good enough, Lian Xin immediately went to kneel in front of Mr. Plead guilty."

"Hey, I say you kid!"

The third lady was also angry, she put the excrement she was carrying on the ground, rolled up her sleeves, showing a pair of strong wrists,

"You haven't listened to what my old lady told you, have you seen how I beat the four guys? Today I will let you taste the power of my old lady's iron sand palm."

"Third aunt!"

A laughing voice sounded.

The third lady, Lian Xin, and the little girl behind Lian Xin all looked back, and saw Sheng Jiaojiao wearing a light blue satin-fronted gown, a light yellow brocade pleated skirt, and a kumquat tulle fan in her hand, smiling. standing in the distance.

Closer, there is a smell of manure.

"Jiao Jiao'er, you came just in time, hurry up and persuade Lian Xin, why is this kid so stupid?"

The third lady seemed to have met a savior, pointing to the seven-year-old girl behind Lian Xin, said anxiously:

"I'm too busy with the four members of my family. How can I have time to take care of the children for Dalang? Didn't they say that these children should be sent to private schools? Let them study and write, don't delay my time."

Qi Zhang brought a group of war orphans back to raise them. The Qi family didn't have any objections. Anyway, help them if they can. The Qi family is doing better now. If they can help these poor children, it's okay.

But feeding these children is just a matter of one meal, and one child must be allocated to each room. What's going on?
Sheng Jiaojiao stood in the distance and said with a smile:

"It's not about letting each house raise children, but letting these children serve in each house, serving tea and water, washing feet and sweeping the floor. The third aunt wants them to do anything, and the private school will naturally send them to it. If there are those who are particularly intelligent, they can be selected for promotion, and from then on they can concentrate on studying without having to do anything."

"What tea to serve? I have hands and feet. I don't need it."

The third lady felt that it was too much to do. She had to be served on such trivial matters as serving tea and water. Isn't she almost like a useless person?
Lian Xin looked at Sheng Jiaojiao with a troubled face, anyway, the third wife couldn't make any sense.

Sheng Jiaojiao held a round fan and beckoned to Lian Xin. When Lian Xin approached her, Sheng Jiaojiao said:
"It's okay, let the third wife go."

"But. All the rooms have been assigned people, and now there are no three rooms."

Lian Xin is also hesitant, she is only six years old, but she is already very precocious, she is worried that each house in the Qi family has a maid and a servant, but the third house does not have one, and it will give people the truth that Sheng Jiaojiao treats the third house poorly.

"There is no need to bring tea and water to the third wife, just let this girl go to the third room to sweep and clean every day, make the bed for the third wife, do the laundry, clean the utensils used in the third room, and change the teapot in the third room every day In addition to the new water, I will pair up with a stronger boy to go to the fertile land with the third lady."

The smile on Sheng Jiaojiao's face became more and more decent and solemn, with an indescribable grace and luxury, unhurried demeanor, gentle like water, as if all-encompassing in momentum, tolerant to everything, yet faintly revealing a sense of intolerance Doubtful sense of dignity.

Lian Xin obeyed and left with that girl.

In the woods, San Niangzi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that no one brought her tea and water, and then heard from Sheng Jiaojiao that she asked this girl to sweep the floor and make the bed for Sanfang.

The third lady frowned tightly and asked:

"Jiao Jiaoer, why bother, I can do all these tasks."

(End of this chapter)

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