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

Chapter 55: Here Comes the Outsiders

After returning from the south slope, Yingbao stayed at home to teach her younger brother to speak and endorse, and went to the cave to sort out the crops when she had time.

The golden fungus cut off last time has been dried out after a period of drying, and none of them are moldy, so she put them in a bucket.

Now there are mushrooms emerging from the ten mulberry trees, and the golden-yellow snow fungus is translucent and very gratifying.

The cotton seeds that have been planted have emerged and are thriving.

After sacrificing the stove, Jiang Sanlang took time to go to Nanpo again, and asked Wang Ke and his son to go back to celebrate the New Year first, and then come back to do work after the New Year.

Jiang Sanlang also measured out five buckets of wheat and one bucket of rice for him as an advance salary.

Wang Ke happily picked up the wheat and rice, and took his two sons home.

There are still three mouths waiting at home, and they probably have eaten up the little food left before.The five buckets of wheat and one bucket of rice that Jiang Sanlang gave just happened to continue, allowing his family to last until February and March.

As long as in February and March, wild vegetables and elm sprouts grow in the wild, the family will not starve to death if they deal with it carelessly.

By April, the sophora flowers all over the mountains can also fill their stomachs, and the children can go to the river ditch to catch some small fish, shrimps, loaches and mussels, and the days will be ready for the summer harvest.

In this way, his family can be regarded as slowed down.

For so many years, the poor people have survived like this year after year, until they can't support it anymore.

In a blink of an eye, Yuanchun has passed, and the ice and snow have melted.

Another new year begins.

During this period, the imperial court really issued a conscription order, and many young men in Chuanhe Town were forced to go to the battlefield.

The same is true for East and West Chen villages, where more than a dozen males were confiscated at one time.

Even the patriarch Chen's family was not spared, and finally his youngest son was drafted into the army.

This conscription is very strict. In order to make up the number of soldiers, it is not allowed to buy more soldiers without authorization to replace the expedition. Therefore, the patriarch Chen had to push his youngest son to apply for the conscription.

But no one expected that the old man of the Jiang family was old enough to go to Lizheng to divide the households for his three sons after making up for the food requisition.

In order to confirm his son's household registration as soon as possible, Old Man Jiang also gave Sun Lizheng half a catty of dried golden ears.

Sun Lizheng didn't take his things in vain, and sent his household registration to the county government office for filing the next day.

The advantage of the division of households is that the county government will not issue a conscription order to the only male in the household.

If there is anything bad about it, it is that each household must pay one dime for the annual labor in the future.

In other words, the three brothers will have to do 30 to [-] days of hard labor every year in the future.

This is also something that can’t be helped, it’s a blessing in disguise, and it’s better to go to an unknown battlefield and die in the local labor force.

The three brothers of the Jiang family thus escaped conscription and saved a sum of money for pawns.

Just after the first lunar month, Sun Lizheng brought people to Jiang's house to recalculate the household and so on.

In the end, the three brothers of the Jiang family were all rated as second-class households. After the summer harvest and autumn harvest, they will receive taxes according to the second-class households.

Jiang Sanlang was not surprised and readily accepted this assessment.

When spring comes, I am as busy as a spinning top and can't stop at all.

When my daughter wanted to transplant fruit trees on the south slope, she had to dig the tree hole first. After digging the hole, she had to take the chicken manure outside the yard to the south slope for fertilization.

"Sanlang, a group of locals came to our village."

While kneading her face, Chunniang said to her husband, "Then foreigners still want to set up a girls' school here."

"What kind of school do you want to run?" Jiang Sanlang was surprised, "No wonder a new house was built over the ethnology school."

He has been living on the south slope recently, digging pits and planting trees, and his daughter is there to help. Unexpectedly, within a few days, a new house was built next to the ethnology school for a group of locals in the village.

"It is said to be a school for teaching female dolls to learn medical skills."

After Chunniang finished kneading the dough, she took off large dough balls from the dough and started kneading the steamed buns.

"Learn medical skills? That's good, just for Bao'er to learn too." Jiang Sanlang said.

My little girl is smart and smart, and she is destined to be different from ordinary village girls. If she learns some skills, she will be able to find a husband's family in the city in the future.

Yingbao immediately became curious when she heard such an ear.

In my previous life, there was no girls' school here.

She took out Yoyo, put it on a saddle and put on a rein skillfully, and stepped on a bench to ride on the back of a deer. She was going to see what the outsiders were like.

I don't know when several houses were built next to the Chen Clan School, and a large yard was also built.

The yard has not been finished yet, and several villagers are helping to pick up the earth and build the wall.

But there seemed to be people living in the house, and there were two well-dressed children standing at the door, obviously not from the village.

Because they were far away, Yingbao didn't see their faces clearly, and only vaguely felt that they were a boy and a girl.

The girl is slightly bigger than Erni, and the boy is about the same size as Yuanbao.

Yingbao urged Yoyo to get closer, and saw that the two children had also spotted her and were looking this way.

At this time, a camel-colored dress woman came out of the room, about thirty years old, dignified and demure.

She also saw Ying Bao and waved at her.

The Yingbao god sent a ghost to urge the deer to pass.

The woman smiled and asked, "Whose child are you?"

"Jiang Sanlang's family." Yingbao resisted the excitement, and kept looking at the girl next to her.

This girl looks like Sister Wen, with exactly the same eyebrows and eyes, but why did Sister Wen come to an unknown small mountain village?

"Jiang Sanlang's family." The woman smiled more gently, and asked softly, "What's your name?"

"Yingbao, my name is Yingbao." Yingbao replied loudly.

The boy next to him froze, looking a little ugly.

Both the woman and the girl laughed.

"So it's called Ying Bao, what a good name."

The woman spoke softly: "Do you want to come down and play for a while?"

Yingbao nodded quickly.

The woman stepped forward and took her off the deer, touched the braid of horns on her head, and said with a smile, "Come and get to know her, this is my daughter, named Wen Shu. That is my son, named Wen Hengyin."

Gentle?

Yingbao almost screamed, the young lady's name is actually Wen Shu!

Ying Bao's eyes were shining, she stared at Wen Shu without blinking, and said over and over again in her heart, don't reveal your secrets, don't get excited, there are many people with the same name and surname in this world, she must never mistake someone, she must ask slowly before confirming.

Wen Shu also smiled at her, and stepped forward to hold Yingbao, "Yingbao, how old are you?"

Yingbao raised three fingers, "Three years old." In two months, she will be three years old.

"I just turned nine years old. I belong to the rabbit. You belong to the monkey."

"Yeah." Yingbao nodded vigorously: "Sister Wen guessed right."

The boy next to him snorted and muttered, "It's still a guess? You idiot."

Ying Bao turned her head to look at him, she looked like six or seven years old, her little face was plump, pink and delicate, if she tied two braids for him, she would definitely look like a girl doll.

"My younger brother is born in the year of the snake. He is six years old."

Wen Shu led her to the side, took out a piece of light green flower cake from the food box on the table and handed it to Yingbao, "Try the mung bean cake made by my mother."

"Thank you, sister Wen."

Ying Bao took the pastry, ate it in small bites, squinted her eyes and couldn't stop looking at the little girl in front of her.

Willow leaf eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, straight nose and fine mouth, soft and fair skin, the more you look at it, the more you look like Sister Wen.

"Sister Wen, where is your hometown? Why did you come to us?" Yingbao boldly asked because of her small size.

Wen Shu smiled: "My hometown is far away, and my father is weak. He wanted to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to cultivate, so he came here."

Yingbao rolled her eyes, and asked again: "Is the Grandpa Wen who came back from our place last time a relative of yours?"

Wen Shu nodded: "That's my grandfather, he told my father that this is a good place for health care."

"Oh." Yingbao understood. "Then your family runs a pharmacy?"

Wen Shu lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said, "My family doesn't have a pharmacy, but my father used to be a doctor in a pharmacy."

Wen Hengyin suddenly snorted behind his back, dissatisfied: "Are you from the police station? Ask this and that."

Ying Bao ignored the kid's sarcastic remarks, hugged Wen Shu and laughed like a villain.

"Sister Wen, can I be your friend?"

"Okay." Wen Shu touched the little boy's head, feeling warm in his heart, and said in a warm voice, "You can come and play with me anytime in the future."

This little doll is so cute, giving people a warm feeling, not at all like my cousins.

(End of this chapter)