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

Old Lady He spat, "This Wei, instead of staying in the city to take care of the eldest, fifth, and sixth sons' food, drink, and shelter, takes her children to visit relatives in the next county. That's what she meant."

He Qiudi lowered his head and thought.

Although this Wei was not the direct perpetrator of the tragic situation of my second brother's family.

But the misery of the second wife is closely related to the first wife.

Over the past ten or twenty years, the entire He family has been supporting the eldest wife with all their efforts.

What do you mean by offering up the eldest brother to become a high-ranking official? How can the benefits of the second and third wives be neglected?

In fact, after the eldest brother spent the family's money to donate to a teacher, he never gave anything in return to the He family.

Wei thought she was a daughter of an official family and never served her parents-in-law personally. Instead, she used the excuse that her salary as a teacher was low and she needed to spend money on gifts to her superiors, and she asked the He family for money every now and then.

In fact, Ningyuan County was a big county, and He Huaizhang, a small teacher, could earn dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver a year.

The He family only had 20 acres of fertile farmland and 30 acres of dry land. To provide food, clothing, housing and transportation for a scholar, the whole family had to tighten their belts.

Xu, who had not given birth to a son and was the daughter of Old Lady He's enemy, became the bottom of the He family's food chain.

Whenever the He family needed to deduct something, they would start with the second house.

After He Qingya was reborn, she believed that if it weren't for the need to support her uncle's family to live a life of officials, her parents would not have been forced to death.

The four members of the first wife's family all died tragically in their own ways.

He Qiudi couldn't bear to think about it.

The eldest wife deserves it.

But He Qingya would vent her anger on the rest of the people.

In this case, He Qiudi can no longer allow the Wei family to continue sucking the blood of the He family. Regardless of whether He Qingya will be reborn again, she has the obligation to mediate the conflicts among the He family members and cannot support the first wife's family of vampires.

Not only could they no longer give money to Wei, but they also had to make Wei return all the money they had cheated from the He family.

Old Mrs. He scolded Wei, and the younger generations all looked down at the blue brick floor in the yard, not daring to speak.

After Old Lady He finished scolding, He Qiudi said calmly, "Mother, it hasn't rained much since the beginning of spring this year, so everyone in the He family has to go to the fields to work. My sister-in-law probably ran away early because she was afraid that you would ask her and Qingshu to go back to Shiliu Village to work and serve you and father."

Old Mrs. He disagreed and said, "She is a government official's wife, how can we let her work in the fields? If this gets out, won't people laugh at your brother and our He family?"

Old Mrs. He was once a daughter of an official family in the capital, and some of her ideas have not changed after decades.

"How could that be? This is filial piety, an important assessment item for official promotions."

"Really?" Old Mrs. He frowned and said subconsciously.

"Mother, how could I lie to you? Being filial to your parents is as important as respecting your teachers."

“But your sister-in-law is a daughter of an official. If we ask her to go back to Shiliu Village to work, she will not only fail to do her job well, but will also make things worse. We will have to clean up the mess, which is better than not doing it at all.” This is also the reason why Grandma He did not want Wei to return to the village to help.

He Qiudi turned around and rolled his eyes behind Old Lady He's back.

Old Mrs. He loves her eldest son so much that she dotes on his family and even Wei, and she is satisfied with everything she sees of her.

She is just the daughter of an eighth-rank county magistrate, not a lady of an official rank at all. Who knows how she did manual labor in her parents' home when she was young.

After marrying He Huaizhang and giving birth to a son, you can now hold your chin up high and look at people?

"Mother, I think I can still do small things like cooking, delivering meals, washing clothes, and picking wild vegetables."

In fact, He Qiudi knew that even if he didn't send anyone to Wei County to deliver the message, his eldest brother would call Wei back to Shiliu Village to find a way to ask Old Lady He for the money when he knew that the He family had made an unexpected fortune.

She asked Old Lady He to call people back to work first, just to show others.

Especially He Qingya.

So that He Qingya would know that Grandma He did not blindly let the second wife's family work like a workhorse to make money for the first wife's family to spend.

Only if Mrs. He makes certain practical changes can He Qingya change her mind.

Old Mrs. He was still a little hesitant: "This..."

"Mother, this is a good time for my sister-in-law to help my brother gain a reputation as a filial son. If she delivers meals and washes clothes, the villagers can see her and her reputation will spread."

"Okay. Let's do this. Wei can cook anyway, and it's only a few steps to deliver the food. He can at least make some."

Old Mrs. He clapped her hands, called the old woman who was guarding the house, and left a message.

Let He Lao Da send someone to the next county to bring Wei and her two children back to Shiliu Village, and let them go home to help with the spring plowing and harvest.

The host's family had three fewer people to eat, so they naturally couldn't keep all the food they brought. At He Qiudi's insistence, they only kept a small portion of meat, a small portion of eggs, and a piece of tea cake, and took the rest home to be distributed.

After leaving a small amount of things behind, everyone carried their things back to the cloth shop.

It costs one hundred coins to make a set of clothes. For five children, a total of ten sets of summer clothes are needed. The labor cost alone is one or two taels of silver.

When Grandma He heard that it would cost so much money, she didn't want to make it anymore. She wanted to take it back and ask someone in the village who was good at making clothes to help her make it.

He was stopped by He Qiudi.

This fabric is very comfortable cotton, the dyeing and weaving craftsmanship is also very good, and the price is not cheap.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, cotton was not yet grown on a large scale. This kind of good cotton cloth might have been brought over from abroad and was not something easy to obtain.

If you don't want to spend money on labor and just hire someone to make clothes, you're afraid that the good fabric will be wasted.

He Qingya and He Qinglu were afraid that their grandmother would not make clothes for them because the labor cost was too high, so they were very worried. Fortunately, their grandmother was persuaded by their aunt and agreed to pay for them to have clothes made at the cloth shop.

Old Mrs. He was very heartbroken and paid a deposit of 500 coins, asking the people in the cloth shop to make the clothes a little looser for them so that they could continue to wear them for another two years.

After leaving the cloth shop, He Qiudi used his own pocket money to buy a scallion pancake for each person.

He Qinglu was eating the fragrant, greasy scallion oil pancakes which cost five cents each and looked very happy.

"Sister. It would be great if grandma and aunt could always stay this good." On the way, He Qinglu munched on a scallion pancake and said with a happy and satisfied look on her face.

He Qingya looked at He Qiudi's back, silently wrapped her own pancake in paper and stuffed it into her arms, intending to take it home for her father and mother to eat.

Today, my aunt and grandma both earned a lot of money and were in a good mood, so I was nice to them.

But when the novelty wears off, what happens next?

He Qingya didn't dare to expect what the days ahead would be like.

The worst that could happen was that she would be scolded by her grandmother and have her food withheld. She would be ordered by her aunt to do this and that, and when her aunt got into trouble, she and Qinglu would have to take the blame, be scolded, and be punished.

There's nothing else.

After leaving the cloth shop, Old Lady He took them to the market to buy some grain seeds, vegetable seeds, rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, pots and pans, two jars for pickles, and the spices for making braised dishes that He Qiudi asked her to buy.

The spices nowadays are not very complete and the prices are not cheap. He Qiudi thought of the complete set of marinade packages in the space, but it was barely enough, so he didn't force himself to buy all of them.

When passing by a weapons shop, He Qiudi spent more than three taels of silver to buy an ordinary hunting bow, a quiver, dozens of arrows and a short knife.

Old Mrs. He had already returned the money she had obtained from the bandits this morning.

After all, fifty taels of silver were given to the He family at the banquet, and it was not easy for Old Lady He to take money from her daughter again.

He Qiudi paid for these things himself, so it was difficult for anyone to say anything.

Old Mrs. He just thought that she was traumatized by the encounter with bandits yesterday and wanted to buy weapons to protect herself, so she let her do what she wanted.

Anyway, the second and third sons know how to shoot arrows, so we can just let them teach our daughter when the time comes.

They bought two loads of fine flour and japonica rice each. This was because they listened to He Qiudi's advice. In case the drought continued this year, the price of fine grains would continue to rise. They wanted to let their family eat more fine grains to fill their stomachs during the spring plowing and harvest time to avoid being unable to afford them in the future when they wanted to eat.

As for coarse grains such as millet, broomcorn millet, buckwheat, soybeans, mung beans, and sorghum, wait until after a while before buying them.

They can't carry back so much food today with just a few people.

The grain was tied to the donkey cart, and He Laotai, He Qiudi and Sanlang sat on it, while the other three had to walk home.

We purchased too many things today, and after the donkey cart was loaded with things, it could no longer carry so many people.

Suddenly, He Qiudi saw something placed in front of a middle-aged man, and she jumped off the donkey cart excitedly.

"Nah!"

Old Mrs. He was frightened by He Qiudi's behavior and wanted to jump out of the car as well, but fortunately Dalang was quick to grab the mule.

He Qiudi walked closer and found that he was not mistaken, it was actually a sweet potato that had sprouted!

Isn’t this a drought-resistant and famine-resistant magic weapon?

In the original owner's memory, he had never seen sweet potatoes.

She thought there were no sweet potatoes in the world.

Unexpectedly, traces of sweet potatoes can be seen in the two northwestern prefectures of the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Seeing customers coming, the stall owner shouted, "Selling sweet potatoes. Here are the sweet potatoes, three cents for one sweet potato, five cents for two sweet potatoes, fifty cents for all~"