The emperor has no heir?The empress only dotes on the harem by giving birth to children

Chapter 362 My Sick Husband Who Can’t Take Care of Himself (15)

Jiang Xianyun nodded with satisfaction.

Next.

The Jiang family hired a master builder from the town and bought bricks and tiles to be delivered to the village. They also hired some helpers in the village and officially started marking out the foundation and building the house.

As the days passed, houses began to be built slowly on the land at the entrance of the village...until two months later, the Jiang family's new house was built.

The new houses were not unique to him. They were all built in a row, similar in style to the ones in the village.

Jiang Xianyun's new house looked neat and tidy, with six entrances and exits, including an inner room and an outer room, plus a place in the middle for ancestral tablets. The whole house was large, with a spacious yard, a blue brick wall, and a double door.

After a period of time, the new house has been almost built, and the workers are doing the finishing work and building the outer wall.

At this time, Jiang Xianyun was at home.

Her cousin's wife was cooking, Jiang Xianyun was standing by to help, and even her sister was washing vegetables. Their family hired someone to build the house to provide a lunch. Two dishes, one soup, one meat and two vegetables, and a basket of steamed buns were everyone's lunch. For ordinary families, eating fine grains was a luxury, not to mention meat.

A pot of stewed meat and cabbage was served on the table. Jiang Xianyun divided it into two bowls and placed them on two tables.

"Little brother."

He called into the house.

"I'm coming."

"Go and call my cousin and the others to eat."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Jiang Xianwei ran out of the yard and headed towards the place where the new house was being built at the head of the village. The house was almost finished, and the workers would not need to come after the next two days.

after awhile.

A group of people came outside, all of them were covered in dust, but they all had smiles on their faces. Along with them came Jiang Xianyun's cousin, who was the one who led the workers in the village to work.

"Everyone sit down and eat."

His cousin smiled and asked everyone to sit down.

In the past, there were three dishes and a soup on the table, but today there was an extra meat dish. The host was really generous, which made them feel no need to be lazy when working.

"You're welcome, everyone, eat your fill."

"Okay, okay."

"One bite of vegetable and one bite of steamed bun, delicious. Dali, your sister-in-law's cooking skills are getting better and better."

"Haha, it's okay."

The yard suddenly became lively.

Father Jiang sat on a chair at the door of his house, looking at the people sitting in his small yard, with a smile on his face. From time to time, villagers he knew would talk to him.

"Jiang Er, you don't want to eat."

"No hurry, you guys eat first."

"I'm not saying anything, Jiang Er, I really envy you, the children in your family are all talented. Especially your Xiaoyun, your hunting skill is really inherited by you. Speaking of which, your Xiaoyun is already an adult, have you planned to find a husband?"

Father Jiang smiled faintly.

"No hurry, the child is still young, I want to stay for two more years..."

After lunch.

Everyone continued to work.

Two days later, when the house was finished, Jiang Xianyun went to take a look at it and confirmed that there were no problems. He then asked his brother to pay the remaining wages until those people left.

This evening.

Jiang Xianyun's family sat together and counted the accounts.

To be precise, it was her brother who was sitting there doing the accounting, and the abacus in front of him was making a clacking sound.

"It's too expensive. It cost ninety-eight taels of silver to build the house this time. I had thought that I could build a very large one with eighty taels, but it's over budget. I haven't even counted the money for buying the land."

Jiang Xianyun was sitting opposite him and eating melon seeds. When she heard this, she looked up and saw her brother's face full of heartache.

Dumbfounding.

I have to say that her younger brother is really good at housekeeping.

"It's worth the money. You get what you pay for. The house is really well built and very solid." Jiang Xianwei nodded.

"Now that the house is built, I won't need much money in the future. I can write letters to people when I have time, and it should be no problem to supplement the family income."

Jiang Xianyun: "..."

"as long as you are happy."

The original owner's family were all literate, because the original owner's grandfather was a scholar, and he taught them early. Later, her younger brother also went to school, but it was a pity that her grandfather died early, otherwise he would have educated her younger brother to become an official.

He glanced at the sky.

Jiang Xianyun stood up.

"Okay, take your time and let me go to sleep."

Jiang Xianwei nodded.

"Okay, sister, you should go to bed early, and I will calculate it again."

half a month later.

Jiang Xianyun and his family moved to a new house.

When we moved to the new house, we also invited the villagers to dinner.

Now her father has recovered and can walk normally without crutches, but his legs are disabled and he can't walk well, and he can't do any heavy work. But he can still grow some vegetables for food.

Her father was a carpenter, and after he recovered, he started taking on some jobs. In his spare time, he also made a set for his own home. Of course, it was not a high-end product, just the ones used by ordinary people, but it was still very impressive.

Life moves on.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

This afternoon.

Jiang Xianyun came back from the mountain carrying the prey.

I heard that the government was coming to recruit soldiers.

Many families in the village looked worried. After all, if possible, no one wanted their men to go to the battlefield.

Jiang Xianyun had learned from the system some time ago that the Xuanwu Kingdom and the Suzaku Kingdom had already started a war. Now that they were suddenly recruiting soldiers, there was only one possibility: the Xuanwu Kingdom could not hold on any longer.

When she got home, she threw the prey into the yard.

"Brother, kill the hare for tonight's meal."

Her younger brother Jiang Xianwei came out of the house and responded.

"Okay, sister."

After walking around the mountain, she was now sticky and sweaty.

Jiang Xianwei held the rabbit and looked up at his sister.

"Sister, I have some hot water in the pot in the kitchen. You can wash your face."

Jiang Xianyun: "Yeah."

She nodded slightly, took the bucket and went to the kitchen.

……

Later in the evening when eating.

Her brother sighed and told her what happened today.

"Hey, my cousin is going to Second Master's house. My uncle is old and in poor health, so my cousin wouldn't let him go. We have to gather at the village head tomorrow morning. I don't know when he will be back. It's really pitiful for my sister-in-law and two little nephews..." He also didn't say this because there is no mercy on the battlefield and he doesn't know if he can come back.

Jiang Xianyun listened quietly.

His father had a leg disability, so he was not included in the conscription this time. The government required that one young man from each household in the village go. If she was a male at this age, she would also go, but since she was a woman, she was not included in the conscription.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. The Xuanwu Kingdom has always had female generals, and there are precedents of women joining the army.

Decades ago, there was a daughter of the Zhang family who joined the army for her father and made great achievements in battle. Even the emperor wanted to marry his princess to her.

It was only later that people found out that she was a woman. She thought she had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, but unexpectedly the emperor was so pleased that he issued an edict to pardon her crime, reward her according to her merits, and amended the regulations that prohibited women from joining the army.

From then on, an additional regulation was added to the government offices within the territory of Xuanwu State.