Chapter 242 Strong Uncle and Strong Aunt
"Our family is quite special. The members of the family are not very old, so we call you this way." Fat Miao'er explained.

"That's not okay, you are the master's family, calling it like this will break the rules." Zhu Qiang and his wife still refused.

"This is an order." Fat Miao'er said with a straight face, pretending to be angry.

But she was so cute, not only was she not scary when she was angry, she almost amused the compass beside her.

"Could it be that we didn't listen to the first order we gave you?" Compass said in a deep voice.

"Don't dare! Don't dare!" Zhu Qiang and his wife shook their heads repeatedly.

"That's good. It's just a title. It's just a catchphrase. Don't worry about it too much. As long as you work hard, it's better than anything else." Compass glanced at the two of them and warned.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Master, don't worry, we will do our best." Zhu Qiang and his wife solemnly assured.

"Okay!" Compass nodded in satisfaction.

"Don't call me the master, the master, I'm a five at home, just call me fifth girl."

"This is my third brother Compass, the one just now is my elder brother Li Xiaodao, my sister Liu Ye'er, and my second brother Wei Shu are also at home." Fat Miao'er introduced.

"Fifth girl." Zhu Qiang and his wife called out and saluted respectfully.

"Let's go, let's talk when we go back, Ye'er is still waiting at home." Compass said.

Afterwards, the four of them got into the donkey cart and returned to Dashi Village, and the driver changed from compass to Zhu Qiang.

……

Inside the hall.

"I've seen Miss Four." Zhu Qiang and his wife bowed to Liu Ye'er.

"Please hurry up, both of you, there's no need to do this." Liu Ye hurriedly stepped forward, and gave the husband and wife a weak hand.

When she was a beggar in the past, she was used to being looked down upon by others, but now suddenly someone treats her so respectfully, somewhat uncomfortable.

"Thank you fourth girl!" The couple heard the words and straightened up.

"Uncle Qiang, Aunt Qiang, from now on, each of you will be given [-] cash per month. If you perform well, you will be given more money, food and housing. What do you think?" Compass asked.

Hearing this, Zhu Qiang and his wife looked at each other, nodded and said: "It's all up to the third young master."

Although the monthly allowance of [-] Wen was not much, the husband and wife felt the difference in Fat Miao'er's family and how friendly the children were to them.

Unlike those rich families, there are a lot of masters, wives, young masters, and misses. If the servants are not good, they will be beaten or scolded.

"Let's go, Uncle Qiang, Aunt Qiang, I'll take you to see where you live, and settle down," Luopan said.

"Okay!" The two nodded, picked up the old luggage, and followed behind the compass.

"Sister, let's go to the town and buy some fabrics." Fat Miao'er said.

"Why do you buy fabrics? Are you going to make new clothes?" Liu Ye'er asked in confusion.

"No, I see that the clothes of Uncle Qiang and Aunt Qiang are all torn. I want to make a new set for each of them. I can also make a set for my grandfather, second uncle, and younger uncle. It happens that Aunt Qiang knows how to sew." Fat Miaoer explained.

"Our Fat Miao'er is really careful." Liu Ye'er rubbed Fat Miao'er's head.

"It's not that I'm careful. I saw that the servants of the Wang family in the town all have uniform clothes. Uncle Qiang and Aunt Qiang should have them too." Fat Miao'er said crisply.

Half an hour later, Liu Ye'er handed over the bought fabric to Aunt Qiang's hands, which moved the couple very much, thank you very much.

Aunt Qiang cooked the dinner, and Aunt Qiang pushed Liu Ye'er out to help, saying that the kitchen was full of fumes and hot, and she could handle it alone.

Originally, Fat Miao'er's house had all kinds of seasonings, and Aunt Qiang's cooking skills were really good, so the four of them were very happy to eat a meal.

During the meal, Fat Miaoer asked the husband and wife to serve at the table together, but the two refused to live and die, and insisted on waiting on the sidelines, waiting for a few people to finish eating before eating.

In the end, it was really helpless, so they had to set aside some of each dish and let the two of them eat in the courtyard.

……

Three days later.

The story of Fat Miao'er's family buying people spread in Dashi Village, and became the talk of the villagers after dinner.

"Fat Miao'er and the others are really powerful. They not only built a new house, but also bought a servant. This is the first in our Dashi Village."

"That's not because they make a lot of money. It can be hundreds of taels casually. No one of us can compare."

"Where is that? Even the Zhang family and the Hu family who have a good relationship with Fat Miao'er have earned ten acres of land!"

"I heard that Fat Miao'er and the others planted a kind of Fanbang fruit, which seems to be called watermelon, and each is worth two taels of silver."

"It's nonsense, what fruit is so precious, worth two taels of silver,"

"I heard from Zhou's second daughter-in-law Ma Shi that she planted it in the back garden of Fat Miao'er's house."

"Yes, I've heard that too. I even ran out of the back garden to look at it. I didn't see anything special, but it's quite big."

"You didn't see that two days ago, there were several ox carts going to and from Fat Miao'er's house several times, and they were all here to pull watermelons."

Since shopkeeper Qi got the order, he personally led people to Fat Miao'er's house to pull watermelons. After pulling watermelons for a whole day and running several times, he finally transported all 110 watermelons to Wang's house, and then paid the remaining balance of [-] taels. Settle with the compass.

Now there are less than ten watermelons left in the back garden, all of which are not fully ripe. The shopkeeper Qi explained that if several people don't keep them for eating, he will come to pull them when they are ripe.

"I know, it's Wang Jiafu's bullock cart, I've seen it in the town."

"That's right, in our Qingyang Town, only the Wang family has the financial resources to buy a watermelon for two taels of silver."

"I don't know what that watermelon tastes like, and whether it tastes good or not."

"It's said that it's very sweet. Take a bite of water, it's refreshing and relieves heat."

"Don't say it, don't say it, besides, my halazi will flow down."

"By the way, who of you knows what kind of servants they bought?"

"I heard that they are a man and a woman, a couple in their 30s."

"I've seen the guy. He was still working in Frog Pond yesterday afternoon. I feel like I have strength all over my body, and I can work very quickly."

"The frogs raised in the frog pond will mature in half a month, and the few of them will be able to make a lot of money by then."

"The boiled frog they make tastes really good. My cousin in the town asked me two days ago why some children in our village didn't sell it this year. He thought it was weird. "

"Yeah, I don't know if they will keep the wild ones. It's just that they are free now. It would be good to catch a few for some copper coins and subsidize the family."

While the conversation was in full swing, Compass came over from a distance. He was about to go to the frog pond to see the size of his frogs and the construction of the flue.

"Compass, I'm busy!" A villager stepped forward to say hello.

"Well, let's go to the frog pond." Compass pointed.

"Luopan, I wonder if you still accept wild frogs?" the villagers asked.

"I'll go back and think about it, and I'll let you know when the time comes." After Luo Pan replied, he left in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)

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