In the year of disaster in the book, the villain girl is the real winner

Last year's drought caused the price of grain in Yongning Prefecture to rise to five cents per liter. These one hundred cents can buy twenty liters of grain!

But Old Lady He still controlled her emotions and said, "In previous years, after selling the grain during the spring and autumn harvests, I would give one or two hundred coins to the second and third wives, so that you could spend it on your own little homes. Last year, there was a drought during the autumn harvest, and there was not much harvest at home, so I only gave you fifty coins. This year, I have more money, so I will give each of you one hundred coins first. If you do a good job, each wife will have two hundred coins after the spring harvest."

"Thank you, Mom! Mom, you are so kind to us!"

Jin was so excited that she had already grabbed a small string of money into her own hands to prevent He Huaian from snatching the cannon and spending it on eating, drinking and having fun in the county town.

"Thank you, mother. We in the second branch will do our best for the spring plowing and harvest this year." Xu said happily.

Even He Qingya and He Qinglu, who were sitting next to Xu, laughed again.

Seeing how Old Lady He used methods of beating, controlling, and giving some sweet treats to keep people in line, He Qiudi couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

As long as it can eliminate He Qingya's anger, it will be better than anything else.

When Xu looked up, Old Lady He rolled her eyes impatiently: "Don't you think your second room will stop working without this little string of money?"

Looking at the face that was extremely similar to her enemy, Grandma He’s good mood for the day was about to be ruined.

She really didn't like Xu.

After being scolded by Old Lady He, Xu lowered her head quickly: "My daughter-in-law doesn't dare."

Xu knew that her mother-in-law hated her face because it looked so much like her mother's, but she knew this and that was why she lived a humble life in the He family.

Seeing Xu being so humble in front of her, Old Lady He felt relieved again.

Old Lady He added, "After making clothes for the little ones, there should be some good fabrics left. During the spring ploughing and autumn harvest period, I will make two more sets of clothes for the second and third rooms who performs well and works harder."

Jin's eyes lit up: "Mom, don't worry, I will work hard, surpass the second house, and win these two sets of clothes!"

This fabric doesn't look cheap.

The cloth used to make a set of clothes is worth at least three taels, if not five taels. It is incomparable to those coarse linen and ramie cloth.

It must be the first one in the entire Pomegranate Village.

It's very decent to wear it out.

If I wear it back to my parents' home, my brothers and their wives will be envious to death.

Xu stammered and didn't dare to look up to speak, but she was pinching the hem of her skirt with her hands, obviously excited.

She also wanted good fabric to make new clothes.

Dad and Mom are old and don’t like to wear new clothes, but she still wants to wear them.

He Qingya and He Qinglu also looked excited.

Uncle San and Aunt San have never been able to work as hard as Dad and Mom, so these two sets of clothes belong to Dad and Mom.

My parents haven’t made new clothes for many years.

They were all old clothes that my uncle and aunt didn't want anymore. My parents got them because my third uncle and aunt looked down on them.

He Qiudi looked at the happy expressions of her second sister-in-law and two nieces, and thought to herself that she had to work hard to correct Old Lady He's mentality and ask her to treat the second and third wives equally. After all, what is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality of wealth.

This is to prevent Old Lady He from being pushed into the refugee crowd by He Qingya and trampled to death.

He Qiudi has a headache.

The task of saving this family of the best is a heavy one.

She was able to be reborn after death because she had the body of the original owner. Now that she had the opportunity, she naturally had to do something for the original owner to comfort her spirit in heaven.

Besides, she knew the ancient times, and if the He family had a tragic ending like in the book, she would have a hard time.

Only by preserving the He family would it be more beneficial to her.

After dinner, Xu stayed to clean up.

He Qiudi walked up to Sanya and stuffed the two hidden steamed buns into her hands.

"Give one to your sister."

After He Qinglu saw clearly what was in her hand, she smiled with joy, turned around and quickly pulled He Qingya back to the east wing.

Looking at the backs of the two sisters, He Qiudi gave herself a thumbs up.

As long as she was around, she would never let He Qinglu be captured and stewed alive by the confused disaster victims.

After his parents passed away one after another, He Qinglu was captured and stewed alive by the disaster victims, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back for He Qingya.

This was also the main reason why He Qingya swore before her death that if there was an afterlife, she would make sure that all the members of the He family would die without a burial place.

No matter what, He Qiudi could not let tragedy happen again, whether for herself or for the poor girl He Qinglu.

"sister."

After entering the room, He Qinglu stuffed a steamed bun into He Qingya's hand and ate one herself.

"Where did it come from?" He Qingya frowned, staring at the steamed bread in her hand in a daze.

"My aunt gave it to me."

He Qinglu ate with relish, and was in high spirits when she talked about He Qiudi.

He Qinglu added: "Sister, I think my aunt has become a better person after she encountered the bandits."

He Qingya ate the steamed bread slowly: "I hope so."

She felt a little regretful as to why she didn't follow her aunt yesterday.

If she also saved Master Yan, wouldn't these things be hers?

Unfortunately, no if.

Old Mrs. He went into the room, took out the pork and cut it, leaving one third at home and planning to take the remaining two thirds to the county town.

This one-third of front leg meat weighs more than ten pounds, with just the right amount of fat and lean.

He Qiudi licked his lips and thought that the He family’s food should have improved a lot during this period.

She is going to the city to buy some hand-rolled noodles to make noodles with lard and chopped green onions!

Just thinking about it smells so good.

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He Huaian moved a large water jar into Old Lady He's room and filled it with water. Old Lady He put the remaining pork in the well where the water had just been drawn. Then she called Dalang and Sanlang, who were wearing new clothes, He Qingya and He Qinglu, and asked them to carry baskets of pork, eggs, tea leaves and cloth and drive the mule cart into the city.

He Qiudi said that she wanted to eat salted duck eggs, so she didn't let Grandma He put the eggs back.

This was Master Yan's thank-you gift to Qiudi. Only when she asked for it did Old Lady He take it out.

After the salted duck eggs are made, I will send them to my eldest son and his family. It’s the same.

Shiliu Village is about five or six kilometers away from the county seat.

Driving the family's donkey cart past the village entrance, He Qiudi discovered that the well at the entrance to the village was not producing much water, and the large reservoir outside the village that relied on well water for storage was less than half full. It was only early May, the weather was not hot, and the reservoir could still store some water.

He Qiudi looked at the main ditch that brought water into the pond. The silt had already appeared in the ditch and there was little water flowing through it. He was afraid that in another month or two, the water storage pond would dry up.

This year, Shiliu Village is hit by drought again. The crops in the fields cannot be grafted, and most of the villagers will have no harvest in the autumn.

Fortunately, there is a lot of water in the space. We can’t let Shiliu Village suffer from disasters again this year and let the elderly and children starve to death.

in ancient times.

The tribe is still very important.

Otherwise, with no one to keep each other warm, you will easily be bullied no matter where you flee from famine.

The He family has a high prestige in Shiliu Village. If they can save Shiliu Village, they will definitely be able to keep most of the villagers alive until the disaster is over.

Otherwise, when the disaster victims from other places began to flee to the capital, there would be only a few villagers left in Shiliu Village. The dozen or so people in the He family would be caught in the flood of refugees. If they were unlucky and encountered an accident, they would be blown away by the wind and drowned in this difficult trend of the times.

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He Qiudi sighed in his heart and took more than half an hour to reach the "Haohan Academy" in the county town by donkey cart.

"Haohan Academy" is located at the foot of the mountain, in a relatively remote location. From entering the county town to here, there are no bustling streets.

There is a street in front of the academy, with bookstores, grocery stores, grain stores, restaurants, and many aunts and uncles setting up small stalls on the street.

He Qingqiu took out a small notebook and wrote down the layout of the academy: it was not prosperous enough and not suitable for developing big business.

Dalang drove his donkey cart to a stop at the gate of the academy. Old Mrs. He got off the cart and explained her purpose to the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper asked them to wait for a while at the entrance of the academy and then let them in.

Not long after, He Qiudi heard two familiar and surprised voices: "Mother, sister, Dalang, Sanlang, Erya, Sanya, why are you here!"

He Qiudi said enthusiastically: "Fifth brother, Sixth brother, we are here to see you."

Thinking of the endings of his two brothers, He Qiudi couldn't help but sigh.

They will be good officials serving the country and the people in the future.

Just because He Qingya thought that the two of them would be able to protect the He family and hinder her revenge after they became successful, she planned to make one of them break his leg, thus ruining their official career and becoming an old scholar teaching in a private school in a village outside Beijing, while the other one died in battle early to protect the people of Ningyuan County.

He Huaijin and He Huaibi took them to the teahouse at the entrance of the academy to sit down and rest.

When He Laowu and He Laoliu saw clearly what was in their nephew and niece's backpacks, they couldn't help but gasp.

"Has the family become rich?!" the more lively He Huaibi asked with a breath of cold air.

Old Mrs. He missed her son, so she happily recounted what happened at the banquet.

Hearing this, the brothers He Huaijin and He Huaibi were terrified and kept asking how He Qiudi was and whether the wound on his forehead was serious.

Only after they were sure that He Qiudi was okay did they both breathe a sigh of relief.

Upon learning that they were here to deliver something to him, He Huaijin shook his head and said, "Mother, bring all the food to the city for us and my brother. What will we eat at home?"

He Huaibi also said, "That's right, mother. My fifth brother and I can earn some money by copying books in our spare time. This money is enough for us to buy some meat to honor the dean and the teacher."

Old Mrs. He said, "Don't worry, we have a lot of meat, chicken and duck eggs left at home. Your sister wants to make salted duck eggs, so the duck eggs will be left at the He family. As the saying goes, respect your teachers, the He family has so much good food, and it is also a courtesy to give it to your dean and teacher during the holidays. The spring ploughing holiday is coming soon, so don't go back to help, just stay in the city and study hard."

Only then did He Huaijin and He Huaibi agree to accept the pork and eggs.

Old Mrs. He was worried about the pork at home and wanted to go home early, so she told her two old sons to study hard and take good care of themselves, and then she hurried to the old house with a few younger ones.

As a result, my sister-in-law was not at home.

He Qiudi's heart was fluttering with joy.

Great.

You can take this portion of pork and eggs for your brother back home.

The eldest brother’s family is the original sin that caused the second branch of the He family to suffer.

If it wasn't for the purpose of supporting the first wife, Old Lady He wouldn't have been so harsh to Xu, whom she didn't like in the first place, for ten years.

Xu had an inferiority complex, and after giving birth to two daughters, she felt even more ashamed at home.

The impression He Qingya had since childhood was that the rest of the He family, led by Old Lady He, liked to bully her mother.