Early in the morning of the second day, Lu and Liu Xiangxiang came back not long after they went to the ground, both of them had a wry smile on their faces, and after Lu sat down, he met the doubts on his face and said:

"In the morning, the two of us went to the field, and none of the hired farmers who arrived early on weekdays went today, because the rest of the work was done by the men, so we came back, and when we walked to the gate of the courtyard, we saw the fight on the opposite street, and took a closer look, only to find that the three men who were surrounded by the group of family members in the middle were the people we hired, but I Xiangxiang was a woman, how could I come forward to stop the fight, and I could only ask the ...... who watched the excitement on the side."

It turned out that after the Lu family hired a few peasant workers to return to the village yesterday, they went to the mulberry forest with several families who bought the land, and the situation was really bad, seventy percent of the mulberry seedlings were all rotten roots, and it seemed that the rest would not live long, so they only found the party who sold the land today, that is, the Xu Mansion in Longquan Town, saying that the Xu Mansion deliberately sold the waste land to them, shouting that they would return the land, and asked the Xu Mansion to compensate them for the mulberry seedlings.

As soon as the old man of the Xu family heard about their intentions, he only sent a housekeeper out to tell the peasants, saying that they had planted the land badly, so he would neither return the land nor lose money.

Both sides insisted that it was the other's fault, and they didn't know who made the first move under the dispute, and the Xu Mansion was so powerful that seven or eight strong and strong men surrounded those peasants and beat them up, so that Lu and Liu Xiangxiang saw the scene.

After listening to Lu's story, Yi Yu asserted: "That must be the Xu family's deliberate sneering of them, don't you know what your own land looks like, I'm afraid that I know that I can't grow things, so I sell it to others cheaply." "That piece of land is at the foot of the mountain, and it is very close to the river, and the Xu family also deals in more fields, how can they sell the land to others in a good way, think about it, you will know that there is a problem.

Liu Xiangxiang also nodded yes, and said, "Such a large piece of land was only sold for twenty taels of silver, what is it if it is not a lie?" ”

A few people were talking, and suddenly heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard, so Yi Yu ran to open the door, and saw the black-faced little girl Li Lezheng standing outside, and hurriedly invited him into the house.

Lu Shi turned his head and saw that it was him, got up and smiled: "But what is there to explain?" ”

Li Le's face was slightly concerned, and he asked, "My father heard that the peasant laborers you hired were beaten in Xufu, so he asked me to ask, but will it delay the affairs in the field?" There are also some peasant workers in our yard, but they are idle, and if they are used, they will be asked to go down to the field with you in the afternoon. ”

When Yi Yu heard him say this, she couldn't help muttering in her heart, how did Steward Li know that it was her family's hired farmer who was beaten, and he sent his son to ask about this matter just after it came out, obviously knowing their every move, even if the other party was well-intentioned, she would inevitably feel a little uncomfortable in her heart.

Lu Shi didn't expect this, she also saw the way those men were beaten today, and knew that they would not be able to work tomorrow, and they didn't finish their work yesterday, and now they are worried that some work in the field has not been done, and now Li Le came to ask, on the one hand, he wanted to ask for help, and on the other hand, he didn't want to touch the light of others, he lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and then said to him, "Then it's troublesome, I need to borrow two people to help me for two days, but I have to pay the salary." ”

Li Le shook his head and said: "That's not necessary, our workers here are all paid monthly money, and if they don't work, they sleep in the room, and they are idle." ”

Having said that, the Lu family was not good at taking advantage of others, and it was a little awkward to borrow it to live here, so he insisted on taking the money out, and the two pushed for a while, Li Le saw that she was resolute, and had no choice but to respond.

After Lu went to the inner room to withdraw 200 yuan and handed it to Li Le, he saw that the other party looked like he wanted to say something, and asked curiously, "But what else is going on?" ”

Li Le scratched his head, hesitated for a long time before he opened his mouth with a slightly red face, "It's really on behalf of my eldest sister to make a compensatory deal with you, her person is a little open-mouthed, I hope you don't be surprised." After speaking, he didn't wait for the three people in the house to reflect, and trotted out with the money in his hand.

Lu Shi was confused by his sudden apology, and turned around and asked the two, "What does this kid mean, when have we met her sister." ”

Liu Xiangxiang also shook her head in confusion, and after snickering secretly, Yu Yu replied: "Mother remember the maid who served tea in the front hall when we first came, and it was his sister who looked better." ”

Lu's memory is not bad, although it has been more than ten days at this time, but he generally has an impression, "What's wrong with her sister, she came to apologize to us, it's not a mistake." ”

Yi Yu didn't pick it up, only smiled and responded, "Yes." ”

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Not long after lunch, a few peasant workers came and knocked on the door, and the Lu family packed up their things and took them to the field.

After they left, Yi Yu closed the courtyard door from the inside, found two white flat porcelain bottles, one large and one small, in the corner of the kitchen cupboard, and first filled the four-inch high porcelain bottle with water.

After she cleaned her hands, she pulled out the stopper on the mouth of another small porcelain bottle, poured out a thin embroidery needle, gently punctured the tip of her left index finger, squeezed out a red blood bead and dripped it into the porcelain bottle filled with water, and then put the tip of the needle in and dipped it, before screwing the cork and shaking it gently.

The two porcelain vases were exchanged for embroidered lotus bags in the grocery store in the town with Lu on her back, one to hold the embroidery needles scalded in hot water, and the other to hold her diluted blood.

Strange to say, Yi Yu found out three years ago that if only one or two drops of blood were squeezed out of this small needle prick, it would coagulate on its own, erasing the red stain on the tip of the remaining needle, and even the pain would disappear after a while.

But if you squeeze a few more drops out, or prick a second incision within a day, a small mark will be left on the newly pierced incision, and it will hurt for a long time.

Yi Yu couldn't figure out the reason, but she had encountered enough strange things, so she didn't care, just squeezed out a drop or two when she needed to use it.

The mint in the flower garden of Youyuan has been planted for more than ten days, and under her maintenance, it has grown a four-inch-tall tender stem, and Steward Li will come to inquire every three or five days, and see that this thing is growing well, and he can't help but be even more kind to their mother and daughter.

Although she didn't know what Chang Gongzi wanted mint for, she knew that now this thing can fall on her head just because people are not familiar with the growth habits of mint, it is said that this mint can be harvested two or three times a year, and the remaining jade was controlled at four harvests a year when it was raised, so it was inevitable that they would find something wrong when they raised it later.

But the small bottle of water she mixed at this time was not for the mint in the yard.

Since yesterday she heard the Lu family say that the land that raised the dead mulberry trees, she has thought about it, and today she heard that the two parties have made a fuss because of this matter, and she knows that the waste land is already known to everyone, and the Xu Mansion is aware of this point so she insists on not wanting to retreat.

Speaking of those peasants, they were also pitiful, not to mention being cheated of money, and they also trampled a batch of saplings, twenty taels of silver is not a small amount, thinking that their family had saved for three years to save enough for Lu Zhi to save more than twenty taels of silver.

Yi Yu put away all the bottles again, then went back to the bedroom and opened the painted cabinet next to the bed, rummaged in it for a long time, took out a piece of clothing that he wore in winter, and took out the dark lotus bag hidden in the cuffs of the clothes.

She loosened the knot at the mouth of the lotus bag, poked her two fingers in, and pinched out something wrapped in a red cloth, and when the layers were uncovered, a pair of exquisitely carved Pisces green jade rings were revealed.

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One more arrives, thank you for the pink of the green apple township, the fruit calls for the ticket~~