A man came out from behind the stone and said in a cold voice, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Qianqian said, "Fanhua, I want to ask you for a favor and go back to the city to transport a few truckloads of food."

"No, no." Blossoming said without thinking.

Zhao Qianqian was not angry, and continued: "But the food we brought will soon run out, and if we don't bring the grain, everyone will starve."

Fanhua said coldly, "That's your business."

Zhao Qianqian raised his eyebrows: "Each of us has a task, you come with us, and you also need to assign tasks."

"It's not my job."

"You're not here to help, so why are you following me?"

Fanhua said, "I have my own business." After saying that, he turned around and left.

At home, Fanhua is a person who doesn't speak much, but I didn't expect this person to be so difficult to communicate.

Zhao Qian's eyes flashed: "Lord Shen asked you to go."

Blossom paused: "He didn't come again, when did he say that?"

Zhao Qianqian said: "What he said when he left, let me have something to find you, no, only you can do this now, otherwise I won't let you go on a trip."

Fanhua turned around and looked at Zhao Qianqian coldly: "How much?"

Zhao Qian smiled lightly: "Then, this is the list, you show the list to Chengshuang, she will prepare it for you, it is estimated that ten carts of food, six hundred catties of wheat seeds, fifty catties of rapeseed seeds, and then let Ling Feng transfer seventy or eighty people over, and the personnel can adjust as many as they can."

Blossom stretched out her hand.

Zhao Qianqian was puzzled: "What do you want?"

Fanhua said coldly, "If you don't give silver, how can you buy it?"

Zhao Qianqian chuckled, and immediately took out five silver tickets from his backpack and handed them to her: "Here are five hundred taels, if it's not enough, you go to Chengshuang, let her give it to you, explain it to Ling Feng, everyone who comes must bring enough farm tools, quilts, cotton clothes and other things to keep out the cold, it's too cold on this mountain."

I don't know if she listened or not, she stretched out her hand to take the silver ticket, and disappeared into the forest in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Qianqian returned along the road, and heard Xing'er anxiously looking for her in the grass from a distance.

"Miss, where are you?"

"Apricot, I'm here."

"Miss, where have you been, the slave has been looking for a long time."

"Oh, I'll go over there and see how much wasteland there can be cleared."

"Miss, take the slave and maid with you wherever you go in the future, if you get lost, the young master will take the slave's life." Apricot had red eyes, and it looked like she had just cried.

Zhao Qianqian secretly thought: Li Xiaoran naturally didn't care about me getting lost, but was just angry with this little girl in order to spy on me.

She didn't want to implicate the innocent, looking at the little maid's pitiful appearance, she couldn't bear it: "Okay, I'll call you wherever I go in the future."

"Miss!"

Zhao Qianqian glanced at the thing handed by Xing'er, it was a hand warmer, but she saw a shocking whip mark on Xing'er's hand, and the blood stains had not yet dried.

"What's wrong with your hand?"

Xing'er dodged her eyes, "No, not much."

Zhao Qianqian grabbed her hand, lifted up the sleeves of her clothes, blood stains stuck to her clothes, and Xing'er hurriedly retracted her hand.

"Who hit it?"

Xing'er lowered her head: "The slave maid accidentally got it herself."

"You are obviously a whip mark, how could you have done it yourself, who is so ruthless?"

Xing'er lowered her head a little more: "Miss, don't ask."

Zhao Qian paused and put down her hand: "I'm not cold, you take the stove, let's go, let's go to the woods to have a look."

Xing'er is Li's maid, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, isn't beating Li's maid slapping Li's face? Except for Li Xiaoran in the cottage, I am afraid that no one else dares to treat Li's maid like this.

Zhao Qianqian didn't drop Xing'er this time, if she lost it, it is estimated that it will be another beating.

"Apricot, how old are you?"

"The slave is twelve years old."

"Where do you live?" How can such a small family let you come out to do things?"

Apricot whispered, "My family is dead."

"Then how did you come to the cottage?"

Xing'er looked left and right in a panic, and whispered, "Miss, don't ask, it's not early, let's go back."

In fact, it is still early, but with this little girl following, it can't go far, so it's better to go back to the cottage and walk around.

Entering the cottage Zhao Qianqian chose the mountain road, the mountain road in this can be driven by two carriages side by side, and there are many small branches of the main mountain road.

Zhao Qianqian felt strange, so she chose a small path to walk around, and Xing'er stopped her: "Miss, that side is the family area of the cottage, except for the people who have exclusive homes in the village, the rest of the people live over there, there are many people over there, and they are more miscellaneous, so let's not go." Chinese Net

Zhao Qianqian asked, "Do you also live over there?"

Xing'er said, "Madame is in the village, I live in the courtyard of the lady, and if the lady is not in the village, I will live there with other maids."

"Do you live over there now?" Zhao Qianqian asked.

"Now that the young lady comes to the cottage, I will live on the young lady's side to serve the young lady, and I will live in the young lady's courtyard tonight, if you have anything to do, you can call the slave maid at any time."

"Are there many people there besides those who go out with the lord of the village?"

Xing'er asked alertly, "Miss, why are you asking this?" No one from outside is allowed to inquire about the inside of the cottage."

Zhao Qianqian said: "Oh, I think, if there is more manpower in the village, please ask them to help open up the wasteland and farm together, there are too many wastelands outside the cottage, we don't have enough manpower, if they help to farm, we can have more, and everyone will have food next year."

Xing'er said, "But most of the family is full of women, the elderly and children."

Zhao Qianqian said: "Women and old people can also farm, they can be graded every day according to the amount of land they farm, and when the grain is distributed next year, the grain will be distributed according to the total amount."

Xing'er nodded as if she understood: "It sounds good, but I don't know if the young master will agree, now the owner and wife of the village are not here, he is in charge of the village, and everything has to be reported to him, generally speaking, people in the village are not allowed to go out of the village."

Zhao Qianqian nodded, it turned out that there were no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey was called the king, so it seemed that he had to meet Li Xiaoran.

"Then why did he agree to let us out of the cottage?"

"Because you have a saint's token, and seeing the saint's token is like seeing a saint."

Zhao Qianqian understood, it turned out that she could walk around casually in the village, but she didn't know why Li Xiaoran sent Xing'er to stare at her and didn't let her see him.

On the way back, I saw a familiar face, it was the man I saw in the bedroom of Wang Biao and his wife last night.

Xing'er saluted the man: "Second master."

It turned out that he was really the second master, and this person looked calm and sophisticated.

The second master glanced at Zhao Qianqian inexplicably, and asked, "Are you the niece of the Holy Maiden?"

Zhao Qianqian smiled and replied, "Exactly, I've seen the second master."

Unexpectedly, the second master bowed to Zhao Qianqian: "I've seen Miss."

Zhao Qianqian said: "The second master has tormented me, you are an elder."

The second master's eyes were gone, and a smile appeared on his face.

"I heard that it was the young lady who saved the son and the young lady of the village owner, you are the great benefactor of the cottage!"

"The second master is serious!"

Zhao Qianqian didn't want outsiders to know that Zhao Yu and Qingyao were the children of Wang Biao and his wife, so she didn't give a positive answer.

The second master seemed to be quite satisfied with this answer, and nodded with a smile: "Well, where are you going, Miss?" Try not to come out and walk around when it's dark, the guards don't know you, it's not safe."

Zhao Qianqian said, "Thank you for your concern, we are preparing to go back."

"If there is anything that Miss needs help with, please send a maid to find me." The second master said and turned to leave

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I don't know if these two masters can call the shots, if he is willing to help and let the people in the village help open up the wasteland, he will be able to persuade the bandits to abandon the darkness and turn to the light in the future.

"I just have something I want to ask the second boss to help, I don't know if I should talk about it?"

The second master turned around: "But it doesn't hurt to say."

Zhao Qianqian said: "You also know, I brought people to open up the wasteland, at the moment there is not enough manpower, and there is time to plant crops, and planting late will affect next year's harvest, I wonder if I can let the women and old people in the village help to open up the wasteland outside the cottage?"

The second master thought for a while: "It stands to reason that people in the cottage can't go out of the cottage, since the young lady has proposed it, I will think about it, and it will be feasible to reply to the young lady tomorrow?"

Zhao Qianqian curled the corners of his lips slightly: "Then I'll wait for the good news of the second master."

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After dinner, Xing'er came in to serve Zhao Qianqian to wash, in order to prevent her from being unable to pay the errand on Li Xiaoran's side, Zhao Qianqian was very cooperative.

Xing'er stood aside, looked at Zhao Qianqian, who was asleep, turned off the lights and retreated.

Hearing the door closed, Zhao Qianqian got up and changed into a night coat, took his backpack, gently opened the door, and quietly followed Xing'er out of the yard.

Tonight, she still chose to take the path, stopped in the grove outside Li Xiaoran's house, saw Xing'er enter the courtyard, quickly retreated, and then returned to Zhao Qianqian's yard.

Zhao Qianqian quickly turned back to the courtyard, and as soon as she lay down, Xing'er gently walked into the house, glanced at the sleeping person on the bed, and then retreated again.

Zhao Qianqian followed out of the door, and saw Xing'er enter a room in the courtyard, and after a while, the lights went out in the house, and Zhao Qianqian went out with confidence.

It seems that this girl will report her whereabouts to Li Xiaoran every day. I didn't expect that straw bale to be so wary of her.

Outside the courtyard of Wang Biao and his wife's house, the two guards who guarded the door yesterday were still standing there like door gods.

Zhao Qianqian easily entered the courtyard through the back door of the kitchen, and it seemed that no one noticed that the door was unlocked.

Zhao Qianqian came to the bedroom of Wang Biao and his wife, and searched for a long time on the wall of the painting, but still found nothing.

She hung up the painting again, and carefully studied the woman in the painting, who looked ahead with silky eyes, and stood in front of the painting with the feeling of looking at herself.

"Which direction is she looking?" Zhao Qianqian whispered in a low voice, looking in the direction of the woman's eyes, just facing the Li family's couch.

When I walked to the couch and lifted the curtain, there was a painting on the wall, which depicted a majestic man, in his fifties, dressed in armor, riding a war horse, holding a red gun, although he was in his fifties, his eyes were bright.

Lifting the painting, there was a handsome seal engraved on the wall, Zhao Qianqian pressed it hard, and then heard a creaking sound behind him.

A door opens from the side of the smoke and rain painting, and blue light shoots out from inside.

Zhao Qianqian quickly dodged in, there was a switch on the wall inside, press the switch, and the door was closed.

Zhao Qianqian looked at the place where the light came out, and it turned out to be a night pearl.

Zhao Qianqian looked in the secret room by the light, this is a warehouse where treasures are hidden, and the gold, silver and jewelry in it are piled up into a mountain, and the jewels in this treasure house are no less than those in the treasure house of the young master of the cottage Jinfeng Hall, and it seems that Wang Biao handed over less than half.

There are countless gold and silver hairpins inside, inlaid with pearls of various sizes, Li said that her gold hairpins were given to her by Wang Biao, and I don't know which big family took it for herself.

Chests of great and small treasures were arranged in several circles around the room, and in the center was a large, shining chest.