Peasant girls seek happiness

Chapter 28
Cheng Da got off the bullock cart, carried his suitcases and walked home. The villagers he met warmly greeted him: "Ah, Cheng Juren is back."

"Cheng Juren still walks by himself, let the bullock cart take you home!"

Cheng Dadu replied one by one with a good temper. Before he got to the door, he saw Chu Qi and her two village friends playing around the big elm tree opposite the gate.

"Chu Qi~" he called out, and the children turned their heads to look over. Chu Qi had a bright smile on his face and ran towards him, "Dad, you're back."

Cheng Da touched his daughter's head, "Why are you so thin?"

Chu Qi took his hand: "Father, come with me."

Pulling him behind the tree, he waved with the two friends who had become stiff: "My dad is back, let's play tomorrow."

Seeing the two little friends walking away, she greeted her father: "Dad, come in later, and I will report to you what happened when you were not at home."

Cheng Da looked at the serious little daughter a little funny, he thought for a while and sat down obediently, "Say it."

Originally, I thought I could hear the little girl saying that Jiaojiao bullied her again, but I didn't expect to hear a big explosion just as I sat down.

"You mean, your second uncle took 200 taels of silver from someone and sold the tax-free land and the number of places exempted from public servants?" He couldn't believe it, thinking that there was something wrong with his ears.

Chu Qi nodded, seeing that his father was about to leave in a hurry, he quickly stopped him, "Father, I haven't finished talking yet!"

"Go on!" Cheng Da calmed down, the matter had already happened, and it was not too late.

Chu Qi told him the terms of the contract: "...and compensation, Dad, you didn't sign this contract, so it shouldn't be counted!"

It's not a hint, she said: You don't need to deny it.

Cheng Da smiled wryly and stretched out his hand to pat her on the head, "Father knows about this, you don't have to worry about it."

In the end is to recognize or not to recognize ah?
Chu Qi looked at her father's back with some discouragement, and her words were in vain again.

In fact, I know in my heart that it is impossible, but I will not be reconciled if I don’t try.

Cheng Wu suddenly appeared and patted her: "Hey, I don't understand, why don't you want your father to recognize the contract? Do you know that if your father refuses to recognize it, your father's reputation will be ruined."

Chu Qi was taken aback, and was so angry that she patted him twice to relieve her anger: "Uncle Wu! Can you stop scaring me?" She squinted at him: "Also, you eavesdropped on my conversation with my father."

"Still eavesdropping? This tree can't stop your father."

Cheng Wu laughed at her: "These two strokes don't hurt at all like scratching an itch. You really should eat more and do more work, so that you will have strength."

She rolled her eyes, and sighed again to answer what he said before: "Uncle Wu, I just feel bad, and I always think about Cheng Jiaojiao's words."

Cheng Wu felt that she was too worried, "You must really miss it, or I will take you to Taoist Zhang to have a look?"

Can Daoist Zhang count anything?

Then he can figure out when my father won the exam and when he failed?
Cheng Wu was speechless.

If you can figure out the previous few trips, you still have to take the exam!

Thinking about it on Chu Qi, maybe it can be calculated?You have nothing to lose by trying it.

"Let's go!"

Cheng Wu was taken aback, "What are you doing?"

"Go to Xiaowei Village!"

Cheng Wu babbled while walking with her: "Didn't you say it's useless? Then you still want to go?"

Chu Qi nodded: "But you all said that he is good at calculation, so let's try it! Maybe I misunderstood it, and it's unreasonable to worry about it!"

When Daoist Zhang heard about the intentions of the two, he stroked his beard and shook his head: "I've counted your father. He didn't have good luck in the exam until he was 30 years old. He didn't listen to him before! Look, did he pass the exam at the age of 30? Don't worry.

After returning from Xiaowei Village, Cheng Wu said to her, "Don't worry now!"

Chu Qi was a little puzzled: "Did he really figure out that my father's [-]th birthday is the only way to win?"

"Yes! Everyone in our family knows about this."

"Why did he still take the exam before then?"

"It's not that your grandfather doesn't give up. Your father can always take the first place in the county school. And his father doesn't believe it himself!"

If this is the case, that Taoist really has two brushes.

Chu Qi felt a little creepy when he thought of him staring at her.

It was the same last time...

She will not come in the future.

Cheng Da entered the door and received a warm welcome.

The old man looked at his son with tears in his eyes, he couldn't get enough of it.

Cheng Da opened the box and took out the snacks he bought from Fucheng, "These are in Fucheng that are not available in our county. Mom and Dad, please try it. You all have a piece too."

He explained: "The ones they make now are said to only be bad for three days. I was afraid they would be bad when I brought them back from Fucheng. I didn't know if they were good or not, so I didn't buy more."

The main reason is that I have a lot of money in my pocket. Although I brought a lot of money for this trip, I also spent a lot of money to participate in the literary conference.

Everyone dispersed after gathering for a while. The women went into the kitchen and were busy preparing meals. The old lady said: "Go buy some meat, buy a knuckle and buy a fish. When the boss comes back, let's have a good meal."

And Cheng Da asked about the old man's contract.

The old man picked up the pipe, and Cheng Da leaned over to light it for the old man, smoked a few puffs before saying, "Chu Qi is not a big-hearted girl... Hey, you have to take care of it!"

Cheng Da hurriedly replied: "Yes."

Only then did the old man say: "Second brother is doing this wrong. You agreed without asking. I scolded him too. He won't be allowed to make up his own mind in the future."

Cheng Da smiled wryly: "Father, it's okay if there are other things, but this matter... can be big or small. He really should wait for me to come back and discuss it."

"Hey, Dad knows it too, and has scolded him, but now that the paperwork has been signed, it's useless to say more. Fortunately, the money has been brought back, and it's not a lot!" The old man smiled, "You take half of the money to go to Beijing, and the other half. I'm thinking about recruiting more permanent workers and opening up some wasteland."

No money is needed for the first three years of land reclamation, but manpower is needed.

The life of the people here is average, not because there is no land to grow food, but because there is a shortage of manpower, and they can only plant for one season. If the seeds are not enough, the harvest is not high, and after paying the food tax for a year, there is only enough to eat.

If you want to do it in different places, that's fine, but you need to have people to do it.

Without mechanization, there are not many people like the Cheng family who are willing to spend money to hire people. The key is that sometimes they can't hire people.

For example, this year, fewer people were hired than in previous years, and only the whole family, men, women and children, could go to the land together.

What else can Cheng Da say?He nodded, "It's good to recruit a few more, or I'll be too tired when the spring plows and autumn harvests come."

After arranging the kitchen, the old lady came in and saw the father and the two were still saying, "If you have anything to say, we can talk about it later after dinner. Let the boss go back and rest for a while. He is exhausted after driving for two days."

Cheng Da took the suitcase and went back to his room. Mrs. Yang was not there, and Yun Hui was studying.

"I said why didn't I see you just now, I thought you were out to play!" Cheng Da said a little strangely, you must know that this kid is smart, but after all, half-grown children are still very playful and less conscious.

Yun Hui said embarrassingly: "My mother told me to stay in the house and not go out until dinner time."

"Yo, what did you do wrong to be punished by your mother?"

Yun Hui shook his head: "No, my mother is afraid that someone will come to propose marriage."

Cheng Da put the box away, turned to look at his son, and sighed after a while: "My son has grown up too!"

We've all reached the age where we should talk about kissing each other.

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(End of this chapter)