After time travel, he devoted himself to helping his father with his career.

Mingjia wrote to her brother Mingjun. In addition to caring about his brother's study and physical condition, the rest was to share his daily life with him.

There is a long table on one side of Mingjia's study, with an unfinished painting on it. It was Dianzhou City painted by Mingjia. Mingjia wanted to give this painting to his brother as a birthday gift.

Mingjia has been allocating her time very well recently. In the morning, she comes to the study to read or draw a few strokes. When it's almost noon, she goes back to the backyard to have lunch with her mother.

Ming Jia would stay in Dong's yard until Xiao Qingshan was about to leave the office before leaving.

The time after dinner was entirely Mingjia's own. Because it's approaching her brother's birthday, Mingjia has been somewhat rushed recently.

Finally, Mingjia finished painting the birthday gift for her brother in mid-November.

Mingjia watched with her own eyes as Shuang'er put away the paintings and put them into exclusive boxes. "Okay, I can do other things with peace of mind."

Mingjia calculated her life privately. It was September when she arrived in Dianzhou, and her mother was six months old at that time.

Mingjia counted it twice on her fingers, and finally confirmed helplessly that her mother's delivery time was expected to be before the Spring Festival, and it would most likely coincide with her own birthday.

"Beautiful! It looks like I'm going to take over today's Spring Festival family dinner!" After Mingjia calculated the time, he felt more and more that he had a lot to do.

"Mom, after breakfast, I'll go out."

Before Mingjia had breakfast, she told Mr. Dong in advance that she would leave the house today.

Dong nodded to show that he knew, but still asked what Mingjia was going to do. Hearing Mingjia say that she planned to buy a place for Zhuangzi Chinese medicinal materials, Mrs. Dong immediately got up and returned to the bedroom.

"Mingjia, I originally planned to recover a little next year and then consider buying property in Dianzhou."

"Since you want to visit Zhuangzi, let's buy a place for our home together! It doesn't need to be too big, as long as it produces enough grain and vegetables for our family to eat!"

There are not many owners in the Xiao family, but there are still some servants. They have to buy food and vegetables every day, which is a big expense every month.

Mrs. Dong still felt that it would be better to have a village of her own, even if it was smaller. However, her health has not been good since arriving in Dianzhou, and Mingjia has been very busy.

Now, Mingjia wants to see Zhuangzi and buy Zhuangzi. Dong quickly went to get the banknotes and asked Mingjia to help buy a village together.

"Mother, do you believe my vision?"

Mingjia didn't believe what she saw in Zhuangzi. She knew nothing about farming.

Seeing Ming Jia's appearance, Dong couldn't help but smile.

"Don't forget, you are still the second young master of Zhou Tongzhi's family. Who in Dianzhou city dares to pretend to be inferior to you?"

Mingjia thought about it and realized that this was also the case. Mingjia didn't pick up the banknote handed over by Dong. Mingjia still knew how much money she had at home.

"Mom, my family has just prepared so many new year's gifts, and you are going to give birth soon. You can keep this money for your use!"

Afraid of what Dong would say, Mingjia continued.

"All my brother's money is with me! I will use my brother's money to buy property for my family. When the time comes, this Zhuangzi will be put into my brother's betrothal gift list."

When Mrs. Dong heard what Ming Jia said, she couldn't help but laugh.

"Puch!"

"Okay! Then this Zhuangzi will be regarded as the betrothal gift purchased for your brother in advance."

After Mrs. Dong said this, she was a little stunned. Taozi happened to come over and said that breakfast was ready.

Mingjia came over and helped Dong to go to the hall to eat together. Dong's expression quickly returned to normal.

After Ming Jia left, Mr. Dong sat on the soft couch with needle and thread in his hand, but he had no intention of doing embroidery at all.

"Grandma Shui, I remember you told me that ladies from wealthy families start saving for dowry from the time they are born, right?"

When Mrs. Shui was eating, she noticed that her wife seemed to have something on her mind, but she didn't expect it to be this.

"Yes, madam. It's a long-standing tradition of a big family. Those who are particular about their dowry even consider their posthumous affairs."

Mrs. Shui remembered that when the eldest lady of her family got married, the dowry included a coffin that would be a hundred years old. There were three dowry lists for the eldest lady.

After hearing Mrs. Shui's words, Mrs. Dong couldn't sit still.

"My master is now a sixth-rank magistrate of the state. In the future, Jiajia's husband's family will also be a child of an official family. If the dowry is too small, she will definitely be looked down upon by her husband's family!"

Mrs. Dong is not worried about her son's betrothal gift. In Mrs. Dong's concept, marry a daughter-in-law from a low-class family and marry a daughter from a high-class family!

Mr. Dong didn't have any requirements regarding his daughter-in-law's family background, so there wasn't much pressure on her as a betrothal gift.

But Mingjia can’t do it!

Ms. Dong herself did not have a dowry. When she was doing needlework with the village women in Tianjia Village, she was even mentioned about her dowry!

Mrs. Dong couldn't let Ming Jia suffer from this, so she had to consider saving a dowry for Ming Jia.

"Grandma Shui, do you think that if Jiajia gets married at the age of sixteen, will I have enough time to prepare the dowry in the past six years?"

Only then did Mrs. Shui understand what her wife was worried about. Mrs. Shui thought for a moment and said, "Madam, there's still time!"

But in fact, Mrs. Shui felt in her heart that Miss Mingjia might not want to get married at the age of sixteen, and it seemed that Miss Mingjia did not need her wife to prepare a dowry at all.

Mingjia went out of the city with Cheng Si and Chengwen, and successfully went to Mr. Ye to pick up Chuanwu.

"Chuan Wu, you guys are still used to being here at Mr. Ye's place?"

Chuan Wu sat on a small stool in the carriage and looked up at Ming Jia.

"Thank you for your concern, young master. Mr. Ye has a hard mouth but a soft heart and is very kind to us. Brother Chengwu also takes good care of us and takes us to practice martial arts every day."

Mingjia nodded, not forgetting to tell Chuan Wu.

"If you have any difficulties in life, you can raise them. I will send Shuang'er to deliver your Yueyin on time every month."

Chuanwu wanted to say that they didn't need monthly money.

They are all children and can't do anything. Although they have room and board at Mr. Ye's place, Chuanwu knows that Master Mingjia sends money here every month.

Chuanwu cherishes the opportunity to study with Mr. Ye and practice martial arts with Brother Chengwu.

After Mingjia finished speaking, he ignored Chuanwu and started discussing with Chengwen how many Zhuangzi places he wanted to see today.

Mingjia has developed a habit of always playing with chess pieces in her hands. When she has time to read, she turns the book with one hand and turns the chess pieces with the other hand.

Mingjia can now turn his left and right hands equally fast, and occasionally his right hand has tried to turn two chess pieces.

Seeing that Master Mingjia was already busy with other things, Chuanwu could only lower his head slowly. After a moment, he turned his head slightly and looked at Master Mingjia's right hand which had been spinning the chess pieces.

"Master Mingjia, you can already turn two chess pieces! How amazing!"

Chuanwu praised Mingjia in his heart, and at the same time slowly stretched his hand to his waist, where was the purse that Chuanwu had sewn by himself.

There is also a similar chess piece in the purse.