Farmer’s Blessed Girl

The clan elders also saw Lao Zhoutou's expression.

Seeing them look over, Lao Zhoutou immediately said: "No way, the family is still waiting for renters to cook the pot this year, don't look at Man Bao's salary, even a handful of vegetables in the capital will cost money to buy, even if you don't buy meat. If you only eat green vegetables, that little money is not enough."

The clan elders almost exited, so why do you want your whole family to stay in the capital?

But seeing Zhou Man's happy face, and remembering that day Qian Shi arrogantly said that Zhou Man had to be filial to her because she was brought up, in the end he suppressed his words and didn't say anything.

After returning, the clan elders told the clan leader about Tanabe.

Patriarch Xia frowned and asked, "Is she telling the truth, or is she lying to us? What does this mean? Urging me to give her the rent? Or are we afraid that we will come to fight the autumn wind in the future?"

"I don't think so. She also knows a lot about farming. She stood in the field and watched the wheat for a while, and then estimated the approximate yield with us. I took a closer look and found that she estimated it privately with us. It's not much different, but that's it, talking about the drought last year, she said without blinking that this year's rent is no longer needed, to help the orphans and the widows and run a clan school."

"Yes, but her uncle is very stingy. If he hadn't stared at her, the land that Xu Li rented for a long time would have been donated to the clan."

"Looking at the appearance of the Zhou family, it seems that they are indeed not rich in the capital."

"You look at the clothes they wear, do they look like they are not rich?"

"If you lose, you don't lose. This is our Xia clan's territory. Naturally, you need to dress better. If they wear bad clothes, who can look down on them?" An old clan said: "It's just an official, I heard that the imperial court still For those who send cotton silk, the clothes they wear don’t look like the cloth sold by the cloth shop outside, it may be issued by the government.”

The son of the patriarch Xia also said: "Dad, I heard that the two brothers of the Zhou family changed the door lock of the house yesterday. I heard that they were thinking of buying some old furniture in the old market to make up for it. The house is rented out."

Patriarch Xia: "...really so poor?"

He looked incredulous, "Don't talk about the Zhou family. Look at the clothes and accessories of her and the two young masters of the Bai family. Does it look like they have no money? Don't be deceived by her."

"She's already so strong, why would she want to lie to us?" an old clan said: "But it's true that she dresses well, but as an official, she always has to be better, and she doesn't want to be inferior in communication. What's more, what else?"

"As for the two sons of the Bai family, they are from an aristocratic family, and they still have some background."

Patriarch Xia came back to his senses and asked, "Why are you suddenly talking good about her? What are you trying to do?"

The clan elders were silent, and after a while, they said, "I didn't want to do anything. Don't you suspect that she has bad intentions? We just thought, maybe she is really difficult."

Patriarch Xia snorted coldly: "No matter how difficult it is, she can't change her ulterior motives. At this time, it is completely ill-intentioned to let us run a clan school..."

"You can't say that, what she said is not unreasonable. There are too few people in the clan who study. There was no school in the past, but now that there is one, the husband's repair is enough, and the clan takes turns cultivating the field. The supply is, why stop the children from making a living?"

"Reading not only costs your husband's repairs, but also books, ink, paper and inkstone, your husband's three meals a day and clothes for the four seasons, not to mention building a school. These all require money..."

"There are so many people in the clan, just come out when the time comes."

Patriarch Xia was a little irritable: "Wulang and Qilang are going to go to the school, as long as they pass the test, they can try it after three or two years. Even if they fail the jinshi test, Mingke and other exams can be tried. , when the time comes, the selection of officials will require the family's contribution..."

But Xia Wulang and Xia Qilang are not their grandsons, why do they use their own money to provide them?

Before they had no choice, now they can also send their children to school, right?

Seeing that the matter seemed to have returned to the origin of the dispute over the past few days, Patriarch Xia suddenly stopped talking.

What made him even more tired was that even his son and grandson did not approve of him. Obviously, they also wanted their children to go to school, not to pay for their nephews and cousins.

Patriarch Xia waved his hands tiredly and asked, "Where are they?"

"I went to Xia Yi's house. After all, it is the closest family. I have to go and see what I say."

Patriarch Xia thought, that's to anger people, right?

Man Bao really didn't want to be angry. Even if she went with this idea, she couldn't show it. There were a lot of young people from the Xia clan behind her, all of them were her cousins, cousins ​​and nephews. even though she didn't know any of them.

Xia Yi's house is on the edge of Hongtian Village, with fields in front and several families in the back.

When he arrived at the place, Man Bao nodded with satisfaction. It was indeed very dilapidated. There were several mud houses, and the walls outside were somewhat peeled off.

It's still summer, and in winter, people will freeze to death.

Man Bao paced over, sighed as he approached, and asked, "Isn't Uncle Yi Tang repairing houses before?"

A cousin replied, "I come back two or three times a year, and I live for three or two days at a time. Who has the patience to repair it?"

Mainly, who would have thought that Xia Yan's granddaughter would come back alive? It's okay to go back, and it can really make the clan spit out what he eats in his mouth.

Man Bao looked at the house of Xia Yi's house and sighed, and his heart tutted.

This is destiny.

When Xia Yi's two sons and one daughter saw Zhou Man and the others coming, they stood in the courtyard with some hatred and stared at them, not allowing them to enter.

Except for the little girl who was only seven or eight years old, the other two were about the same age as Man Bao, but she looked at their sizes and firmly believed that they were smaller than her, so she asked with a smile, "Are you my cousin?"

The three stared at her and did not answer.

Seeing that she didn't seem to mind, the young people who followed were more fond of her, so they took the initiative to explain: "They are younger than you."

Some of the young people who followed were much older than her, and they had an impression of the past, and sometimes the adults in the family would say so, so they revealed openly: "Back then, your grandfather said that he would adopt a successor, Yitang Uncle kept waiting, but only when your mother was about to get married did you start talking about kissing, so they are all younger than you."

Man Bao:  …

Bai Shan couldn't help but lowered his head and laughed.

Man Bao was a little uncomfortable, so he looked at the courtyard of Xia Yi's house, and found a lot of furniture in the courtyard, and sighed: "How can this be done? If it is placed in the open air, no matter how good the furniture is, it will be broken. Don't move in?"

It was the young cousin who replied, "It's a mess inside, how can I put it, and I don't know if there are any pits on the ground."

This is indeed pitiful enough. This is a home where you are sure that you will not return to your hometown, so you are trying to ruin your qualifications?

See you tomorrow, hahaha