After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Wei Zhan and Xiao Chengyu stayed at Jiang's house for two days.

On the third day, Cui Zhaochen prepared to take them back.

Wei Zhan was fine, knowing that if he didn't go back, he might be grounded for another half a year, so he sat in the carriage obediently, waved goodbye to Huzi and the others: "I'll come back when the Chinese New Year comes!"

Xiao Chengyu refused to leave, kicked, beat and grabbed the guard who was holding him, and shouted for help at the top of his voice.

"Ahh! Help! I don't want to go back! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

The guards didn't dare to push hard, and let the young master break out of his arms without paying attention.

Xiao Chengyu ran to Yingbao in a hurry, hugged her tightly and said, "Wuuuuuuuu...I don't want to go back, Sister Yingbao, save me..."

Ying Bao patted him helplessly, "Then you don't want your parents?"

Xiao Chengyu kept shaking his head, tearing and snot profusely: "No, no, no."

Ying Bao was speechless, wiped his face with the hem of his clothes, and coaxed: "Then you go home first, and come play with your brother Wei Zhan later, okay?"

"Not good." Xiao Chengyu grabbed her tightly, sobbing and crying, feeling wronged. "Auntie won't let me."

Yingbao thought for a while and said: "Then sister gave you a jar of peach juice, you take it home and give it to your mother to taste, maybe she will agree with you to come here for a few more days."

Xiao Chengyu blinked, thought about it with his immature brain, and found it very reasonable.

Because the peach juice is so delicious, it can also digest food, and he has never had a stomachache after eating too much. A Niang must like it.

"Then, then I want two jars." Xiao Chengyu began to raise conditions.

Give one jar to his mother, and he wants to drink the other jar himself.

Yingbao: "Okay, two altars are two altars."

As long as this troublemaker is sent away, even if he is given three altars.

Anyway, the peach tree next to Pupil Spring in my Dongfu has already blossomed and bear fruit, and the peaches produced are big, red and sweet, very delicious.

In this season, peaches and grapes cannot be taken out. She alone can't finish eating, so she can only boil peach juice or grape juice, and occasionally take out a jar for her younger brother to drink.

Boiling juice alone couldn't solve the problem, so she brewed some peach wine and wine in the cave.

I once bought a jar of distiller's yeast in the capital, plus a jar of compensation from Xiao's family, it can be used to make a lot of wine.

When the wine is ready, you can take out some as a gift for others during the Chinese New Year, or drink it for yourself.

Yingbao ran home and brought two jars of peach juice to Xiao Chengyu.

Seeing Wei Zhan's resentful face, he gave him two more jars, and then sent them away.

Back home, Jiang Quan kept looking at his little cousin, chasing her and asking, "Where did you get so much peach juice?"

"I cooked it before, but I kept it in the house and didn't take it out." Ying Bao said without changing his expression.

Jiang Quan suspected that the little cousin was lying, but he had no evidence.

"Come with me to the county seat?" He asked.

Yingbao: "I won't go." As long as there are two brothers in the county seat, the first cousin and the second cousin, there is no need for me to participate in everything.

Moreover, a house is being built at the shop recently, so I went by myself, and the accommodation is inconvenient.

Jiang Quan shook his head regretfully, and began to register the golden-eared snow fungus that his little cousin moved out.

Their shop mainly makes a lot of money from golden fungus and white fungus, and the rest is small business.

However, this year's gourds are brilliant, and many people go to specialty shops to buy them.

The gourds grown by the people in the village are basically handed over to Jiang Quan for sale, and each family has made a lot of money.

Even the gourd growers in the West Village made a fortune as a result.

Jiang Quan brought several baskets of mushrooms and a dozen gourds back to the county seat, accompanied by his elder brother Jiang Cheng, Yuan Bao and Jiang Jie.

Jiang Yunniang's family was also picked up by her eldest son Zhang Yukun. Before leaving, Jiang Liu's family felt sorry for her daughter and secretly gave her 20 taels of silver.

The village has also gradually become busy, and every household has gone to the fields to pick cotton.

The same goes for the Jiang family. The whole family went out to pick cotton.

Jiang Sanlang also hired more than [-] people from other villages to help the family with work.

Chunniang, her eldest sister-in-law and her second sister-in-law cooked at home, and then sent them to the fields for the hired workers to eat.

After the cotton is picked, the ginning begins.

Almost every household in Dongchen Village has a cotton gin, and the collected seed cotton is quickly ginned.

Jiang Sanlang rolled the ginned cotton into rolls with oiled paper, five catties a piece, and sent some to his own shop, and the rest was ready to be spun into yarn for weaving.

At this time, the county government also sent people to buy cotton seeds and prepare to transport them to Fucheng.

The county government bought a lot this time, using twenty or thirty mule carts, and the journey was mighty and spectacular.

Fortunately, cotton cultivation has become popular in Chuanhe Town, and many families are willing to sell their excess cotton seeds to the government, saving time and effort.

After the cotton harvest was over, the villagers began to pull out the cotton stalks, tidy up the fields, and prepare to plant wheat.

The Jiang family still hired people to do these tasks, and they were responsible for their two meals a day.

On this day, Erni and Yingbao went to the field to deliver food.

The food is packed in wooden barrels, placed in big bamboo baskets, and carried by ponies to the cotton fields.

Halfway there, I saw a woman standing by the side of the road.

The woman's hair was gray and messy, her face was old, and the clothes on her body were patched and patched.

"Erni." The woman opened her mouth, looking at Erni with dim eyes.

Erni was taken aback, and looked over carefully, she was indeed her own mother, Leng Shi.

"Mom? How did you become like this?" Erni didn't expect her own mother to become like this, and she was really shocked.

Leng stepped forward and untied a bundle in his hand, revealing two small clothes and a bag of cloth belts inside.

"Mother sewed the little clothes for you." She stuffed the little bundle into Erni's hands: "You are already ten years old, and you will be able to use it right away."

Erni held the bundle, bit her lip, and couldn't help shedding tears.

She touched Leng's rough hands, choked up and said, "Mother, why are you doing this?"

Leng hugged Erni and burst into tears, crying and saying: "Mother is wrong, mother is sorry for your father, sorry for you and Huzi, mother is so regretful..."

After she was abandoned by Zuo Chengxiu, not long after she returned to her natal home, she was sold by her brothers to an old shepherd in her 60s for the price of two sheep.

The old shepherd is not a human being, he often beats, scolds and humiliates her, forbids her to go out, and forces her to have a child.

But for unknown reasons, she never got pregnant.

The old shepherd felt that he was at a disadvantage, so he ran to the Leng family to make a noise, and even got into a fight with the Leng brothers.

But the old shepherd was no match for the young and strong Leng Dalang, and he was beaten to the ground in a few strokes.

The old shepherd was carried home, and he died within a few days.

The villagers helped to bury the old shepherd, and Leng finally regained his freedom.

She didn't go back to her natal family, but chose to stay, and lived alone in that dilapidated house.

Because there were still a few sheep at home, she sold two and kept the remaining two for breeding.

But within a few days, Leng Dalang and his old lady came to the door again and forced Leng to remarry.

This time, Leng firmly refused to compromise, and warned her mother and brothers that if they dared to force her, she would report to the officials, saying that the old shepherd was beaten to death by them.

Leng Laoniang and Leng Dalang were afraid now, and they didn't dare to harass her again.

"Erni, mother doesn't ask for anything, I just want to visit you once in a while, okay?" Leng cried while hugging Erni.

She regretted it at the beginning. Looking back on those years, she was really stunned. She only thought that her natal family was the best, and she ended up like this.

Erni nodded: "You can come if you want, but... don't be like before. Dad is married, Yan Runiang is very kind to me and Hu Zi, you... just don't disturb them."