Chapter 12: Almost seen as a thorn in the side
"Of course, I don't know how to punish trespassing in the middle of the night." Cheng Qingwan nodded and said with a smile.
"The law of the Ling Kingdom, those who trespass on people's houses without permission shall be punished with rods."
The young man's voice came from behind him, and everyone hurriedly looked over, only to see him walking over with a man and a woman.
Cheng Qingwan looked at the person who suddenly appeared, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said: "Then I will hand over the person to the adult, and I hope that the adult, don't let our mother and daughter down." ”
Yuan Qi nodded slightly, and he should be satisfied.
"My lord, my lord's life, I really came here accidentally." Song Daqiang saw the face of the person in front of him clearly, and hurriedly howled.
"Azhu, bring people to the pavilion chief."
Ah Zhu heard the order and dragged the person out in response.
Aunt Wang didn't care about being angry, and cried and shouted all the way to chase out.
After the two left, the air froze suddenly, and Cheng Qingwan looked at the girl standing behind Atong, thinking that it should be the person who was hiding in the corner that day.
"This is Atong's sister, who only came here a few days ago." Yuan Qi opened his mouth to explain.
Cheng Qingwan came back to her senses and watched the girl slightly possess her, so she could only smile and nod.
"Why did the adults come here all of a sudden?"
"Ah Tong came to tell him, saying that Ah Zhu has been gone for a long time, and he is afraid that something will happen, so he will take a look."
Cheng Qingwan smiled lightly and did not answer.
Yuan Qi stood in place, swept the yard, looked at the wheat in front of him, took two quick steps, and carefully observed for a long time.
"Your wheat grows very well, and it looks like it has a lot more than the others."
"yes, that's what I'm worried about." Cheng Qingwan walked over and said, "By the way, can your attendant lend me one, Azhu can do it." ”
When Yuanqi heard this, he immediately remembered that before going out, Atong said that Cheng Qingwan and Azhu had a personal relationship.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the person in front of him: "Why do you want Azhu, can't Atong?" ”
"Atong wants to accompany his sister and protect you again, he is too busy." Although Cheng Qingwan felt that there was something wrong with this, she still smiled and said, "If Ah Zhu has other things, then forget it." ”
"On the day of the harvest, I will let him come." Yuan Qi looked at this piece of wheat and continued: "However, can Miss Cheng teach me how to make wheat twice as abundant as others?" ”
Cheng Qingwan was stunned, her brows furrowed slightly, and she looked embarrassed. You can't tell him that this is the seed of the 21st century.
"If you don't want to, I won't force it."
"It's not ......" Cheng Qingwan sighed and whispered: "Maybe it's because I take care of it." ”
Yuan Qi believed it, and said with a serious face: "Next time I sow seeds, can I come to learn." ”
Cheng Qingwan nodded subconsciously and responded.
After sending the people away, she kind of gave a sigh of relief, lay down on the bed, and quickly fell asleep.
The next day, when Ah Zhu came to deliver the medicine, he learned that Song Daqiang had been scolded twenty times with a cane, not ten days and half a month. I can't get out of bed.
In the past few days, the weather has been hot, and Cheng Qingwan has stayed at home.
Widow Liu and Song Qiaoqiao sometimes came over and did embroidery with Cheng Hua'er.
"Qiaoqiao is smart, I just taught her the day before yesterday." Cheng Huaer took Song Qiaoqiao's embroidered flowers in full bloom and praised them.
"My daughter is a red cha, fortunately I have you, otherwise in another year or two, she won't even be able to embroider a wedding dress, which will definitely make her husband's family laugh." Widow Liu said with a smile.
Cheng Hua'er pursed her lips and didn't say anything.
When it was night, after sending the people away, he hurriedly handed the embroidery to Cheng Qingwan.
"Auntie, I don't know how to do embroidery."
"Wanwan, Aunt Liu reminded me, I marry every girl who makes her own wedding dress, you don't know how to embroider at all, how can you marry in two years." Cheng Hua'er's face was full of anxiety: "It's all my fault for this, when you were young, you studied for two days, and then you shouted that your hands hurt, so I didn't let you learn again." Thinking that I can buy it in the future, who knows that now our family is surrounded by walls, and even your dowry will not be able to make up. ”
"A-Niang, it's useless for me to hold my feet temporarily. You also said that the wedding dress can be bought later. The fact that the family is surrounded by walls now does not mean that it will be the same in the future. ”
"But if you don't know how to do embroidery, you will eventually be looked down upon by your husband's family."
Cheng Qingwan rubbed her forehead: "Then I won't marry." ”
"Nonsense!"
Cheng Qingwan was frightened, and hurriedly said, "Okay, good, listen to you." Harvest the wheat first, okay? ”
The girl looked at Cheng Hua'er and nodded, and hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief, she had never even coaxed her own mother like this.
In late June, the sun grew stronger. Cheng Qingwan took people to harvest wheat in her backyard early in the morning, and it took three days of busy work to harvest all the wheat.
Cheng Hua'er and Widow Liu's mother and daughter have been drying wheat in the yard for the past few days.
"A-Niang, we have to find a time to go to the town, take a little wheat and sell it, and buy a stone mill by the way." Cheng Qingwan said while putting the sun-dried wheat into a bag.
"Okay, then I'll go to the village chief's house tomorrow and ask if I can lend us the ox cart."
Widow Liu hesitated when she heard this, and said, "I'm afraid the village chief's family won't borrow it, and their mother-in-law can't agree to it." ”
Cheng Qingwan remembered what the village chief dealt with last time, and immediately said: "Auntie, don't go to the village chief's house to borrow it, I'll think of a way." ”
"Miss Cheng wants to use an ox cart? Will the carriage work? Ah Zhu hugged a pile of wheat and walked over and asked, "You can go and ask our family, you don't have to go out recently, the adults should borrow you." ”
"As long as you can carry something, you can do it." Cheng Qingwan responded, and suddenly thought of what Atong said last time, and she wilted again.
Ah Zhu looked at her face and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"I'm wondering if Atong will misunderstand again if I go this time."
When Ah Zhu heard this, he hurriedly said, "Did he say anything to you?" ”
Cheng Qingwan nodded.
"This ...... In fact, Atong's sister likes adults, and the old lady also said that she would be accepted as a concubine. Ah Zhu's face hesitated, and he said hesitantly: "Ah Tong's parents are dead, and there is only such a relative left, and everything follows her." What he said, please don't take it to heart.
"She is her concubine, so what does it have to do with me?" Cheng Qingwan asked rhetorically.
Ah Zhu just smiled and didn't speak.
Cheng Qingwan didn't take it to heart, she looked at the almost 600 catties of wheat, thought about it, and decided to pick up the carriage, first take the 200 catties of wheat and sell it, buy a carriage, and by the way, buy a stone mill, and then grind the rest into flour.
Thinking so, after lunch, she took a piece of cured meat to Yuanqi's house.
Before he got closer, he saw Yuanqi dressed in green clothes, standing in the courtyard with his hands to discuss something with the village chief.
She walked in, and within two steps, she was stopped by Atong.
"Atong, don't be rude."
The conversation between the two came to an abrupt end, and the village chief looked at her with a look of surprise.
"Cheng Qingwan, why did you come here, if you have something to say later."
She glanced at the arrogant man lightly and pursed her lips: "I'm not looking for you." ”
The village chief burst out laughing: "You're not here to find me, are you still here to find Lord Yuan?" Okay, okay, I know that your family is going to take the wheat to the town to sell, and the matter of borrowing the ox cart will be talked about later. ”
Cheng Qingwan frowned, feeling that this person was quite noisy, took two steps towards the young man, and asked softly, "Can you borrow me your carriage tomorrow?" ”
Yuanqi nodded and responded: "I'll let Azhu send you tomorrow." ”
"Okay." Cheng Qingwan nodded and handed over the meat in her hand: "Thank you." ”
Yuanqi didn't take it, but pushed the meat back.
"If Miss Cheng really wants to thank her, there is only one appropriate thank you gift, which is to tell me how to make wheat abundant."
Cheng Qingwan swallowed, thought for a while, put her hand into her sleeve, took a packet of wheat seeds from the system, and handed it to him.
"You can grow your own."
Yuan Qi knew that it was a seed at a glance, and took it with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, girl." ”
Cheng Qingwan handed over the meat with a smirk: "Since the adults got what they wanted, let's accept this piece of meat as well." ”
Yuan Qi took the meat and said with a smile: "Miss Cheng, in a few days I will open a school here, specializing in the study of children in the village, you will also come, right?" ”
Cheng Qingwan looked at his beautiful eyes and responded.
"My lord, village chief, let's have some tea." The woman walked from the back room with a teacup, and looked at the person in front of her and was slightly stunned: "Miss Cheng is also here." ”
Cheng Qingwan looked over and saw her with a delicate face, a slender figure, dressed in green clothes, standing there shyly.
Yuan Qi picked up the teacup and handed it to the person next to him with a smile: "The cloud tea brought from the capital, try it?" ”
"My lord, this is for you." After the woman finished speaking, she knew that she had lost her words, and hurriedly said, "Ling'er will go make another cup immediately." ”
Cheng Qingwan looked at Ah Tong not far away and looked at her like an enemy, and immediately said, "No need, I don't like tea." It's getting late, and I have to hurry home to accompany my mother. ”
After saying that, he immediately turned around and left.
After walking a long way, she breathed a sigh of relief.
It's so dangerous, and I was almost regarded as a thorn in the side of the brother and sister.
Cheng Qingwan walked home quickly and told A-Niang the news, and the mother and daughter put the sun-dried wheat into a bag overnight.
Early the next morning, he took the wheat into the town in a carriage.
Cheng Qingwan sat outside and kept asking Ah Zhu for advice on how to drive a horse.
"You learn what to do without having to drive a carriage."
"I'm going to buy a carriage, so I don't have to trouble you later." Cheng Qingwan propped her head and said with a smile.
"It's... You're because of Atong. Ah Zhu said: "Yesterday, the Lord had already punished him, and he also gave an order for Ling'er to leave for Beijing immediately." ”
"It's not because of them, it's mainly because it's inconvenient." Cheng Qingwan said very seriously: "Before I went to find Yuanqi, I thought about buying a carriage. ”
"But a horse alone costs seventy or eighty taels of silver, and even an ox cart costs seventy or eight taels of silver, so the girl should not buy it yet."
Cheng Qingwan choked for a moment, and responded coyly.
In about half an hour, we arrived at the place.
Cheng Qingwan carried the wheat and talked to the shopkeeper about the price, but she didn't expect that she couldn't add a penny for half a day.
In the end, he sold 200 catties to the boss for 6 wen a catty, and the group bought a stone mill here, spent 200 wen, and the boss finally gave 2 taels of silver.