ebookland Chapter 279 It’s Time to Report
Chapter 279 It’s Time to Report
As soon as the carriage arrived at the village entrance, the villagers knew that Xie Jiaojiao and the others had returned.
Hanlu hurried to the backyard to call Sun Ruhua.
"Madam, the young master and the young mistress are back!"
Sun Ruhua threw down the grass in the vegetable garden and came out without even having time to wash her hands.
Jiang Weinan just stuck his head out of the car, saw her, and shouted: "Mom, we are back!"
Sun Ruhua hurriedly wiped her hands on the apron in front of her: "Oh, why did you come back without telling me? Look, I didn't even go to town to buy some meat today!"
Jiang Ruonan got out of the car at this time: "Aunt Sun, I'm here again!"
"Hey, Ruonan is here too? Get out of the car quickly. I haven't seen you for half a year. You've grown a lot taller than you did during the Chinese New Year. Where's your sister? Is she here?"
Jiang Ruonan smiled and shook her head: "Aunt Sun, my sister didn't come, but she really missed the food you cooked."
When Sun Ruhua heard this, she was very happy and asked him to go into the house quickly to get out of the sun.
Then Li Yan'er came out of the car. Sun Ruhua took a look and was surprised. Wow, how come another fairy-like girl came here?
Li Yan'er had her hair tied into a big pigtail today, with red ribbons wrapped around the pigtail. The ribbons had some wrinkles on them, like lace in later generations. They were also wrapped around the top of her head, like a headband. She wore a thin red and white shirt with a red belt tied around her waist.
Sun Ruhua was stunned again.
Li Yan'er bowed slightly to Sun Ruhua: "Hello, Auntie Sun, I am Ruonan's cousin and Jiang Weinan's cousin. My name is Li Yan'er. I am sorry to bother you these past few days."
Sun Ruhua reacted quickly and wanted to hide her hands that had just been pulling weeds. She quickly asked someone to come into the house: "Come in, it's too hot outside."
The family returned to the house in a lively manner.
Li Yan'er could see clearly now that this house was built differently from all the houses she knew in the village. Although it was a courtyard, wasn't this courtyard too big? There were also many mushrooms drying in the courtyard.
And this house, a two-story house!
This is something that wealthy families don't have. Rich families pay more attention to the number of entrances and exits of the courtyard and the size of the house, but no wealthy family would build a two-story house, as they are not doing business!
But Xie Jiaojiao actually built the house like this!
Xie Jiaojiao said to Jiang Ruonan: "Ruonan should stay in the previous room, and Yan'er should stay in the room where her sister used to live!"
Xie Jiaojiao called Hanlu over again: "In the next few days, you will stay by my cousin's side and serve her."
Cold Dew immediately received the order.
Because they were in a hurry today and there was only one carriage, they did not bring Qiuxiang along. Xie Jiaojiao actually kept Qiuxiang with her for a purpose, which was to keep He Hu with her for a while until they got a letter from the Jiang family!
After arranging for everyone to rest, Sun Ruhua started to kill chickens and ducks, and also went to the backyard to catch a rabbit. These rabbits were the ones that Xie Zhiyi had caught from the mountains before. Now there are quite a few rabbits raised in the backyard. When she doesn't need to eat them at home, she takes them to Jiangbo City and sells them to Xiangyuanlou. Xie Jiaojiao considered all these as raised by Sun Ruhua, and she also paid her money every time as an extra income for Sun Ruhua. Of course, Xie Jiaojiao also gave Sun Ruhua money on ordinary days.
The lunch was unusually sumptuous because Xie Jiaojiao said Jiang Ruonan wanted to eat the pancakes she made, so Sun Ruhua quickly washed her hands and kneaded the dough to make them for him.
Cuizhu went to the backyard and picked a big watermelon, put it in the well in a basket, and waited for it to cool down.
After everything was ready, Sun Ruhua arranged for everyone to have dinner.
Li Yan'er had never eaten such down-to-earth meals before, and the food smelled so delicious.
In just one lunch, Sun Ruhua's cooking skills conquered another person.
After lunch, Xie Jiaojiao asked Jiang Ruonan and Li Yan'er to take a rest, and she took Jiang Weinan and a bag of snacks to Niu Er's house.
It must have rained these days, the road is full of potholes.
They arrived at Niu Er's house, which was where Xie Jiaojiao and her family lived when they moved out of the Xie family.
Wang Xiuer was sorting the porcini mushrooms she had picked from the mountains today in the yard.
Niu Er was hitting some small furniture with a hammer nearby.
The two of them were talking and laughing, and seemed much happier than when they were at the Niu family before.
Seeing that the door was not closed, Xie Jiaojiao and Jiang Weinan stood at the door and knocked: "Niu Er, Wang Xiuer."
They both looked up at the same time, and when they saw the two people, they hurriedly invited them in.
Xie Jiaojiao looked at the furniture made by Niu Er and asked: "Are you making stools?"
Niu Er rubbed his head honestly and said, "Some of the stools at home were broken before, and I made a few myself when I had some free time these days."
Xie Jiaojiao nodded and handed over the snack. Mrs. Wang came out just in time and took it without hesitation. She quickly went back into the house and brought out two bowls of water.
Xie Jiaojiao and Jiang Weinan sat down and asked, "I've raised these ducks for a few months. I came here from home and saw a lot of them in the river. Have they laid eggs?"
Niu Er nodded quickly: "Some of them are laying eggs. I was thinking that if you don't come back, I will go to Jiangbo City to inform you myself."
Xie Jiaojiao smiled: "I came back thinking about this as well. Did you save some eggs at home?"
Niu Er nodded: "There are several hundred!"
Xie Jiaojiao thought to herself, "Well, if you process the eggs according to my method, I will give you two cents for each egg, which is one cent more expensive than the eggs sold outside."
Mrs. Wang had been listening, and when she heard Xie Jiaojiao say this, she immediately asked, "Jiaojiao, is what you said true?"
"Aunt Wang, when have I ever lied to you?"
Then Xie Jiaojiao told them how to do it, but she was afraid they wouldn't understand, so she thought of preparing the materials tomorrow and teaching them again.
After saying all this, Xie Jiaojiao pulled Wang Po aside and asked about her health again, because during lunch, Sun Ruhua casually mentioned that Wang Po had not been in good health recently.
When Mrs. Wang heard Xie Jiaojiao's concern, she was very touched. She held Xie Jiaojiao's hand and said, "Jiaojiao, thank you for giving Niu Er and his friends this job. If they can continue to do this job for a long time, they will have a way out."
Xie Jiaojiao was touched that Niu Er had such a grandmother standing by his side all the time, and patted her hand with her backhand: "Aunt Wang, what are you talking about? When Zhiyi comes back next time, let him show you. Or I will pay you money tomorrow and let Niu Er take you to the town to have a look."
Mrs. Wang hurriedly held her back and said, "Jiaojiao, don't do that. He just got separated from me and doesn't have much money. Besides, he has just started to live a comfortable life. Let him live comfortably like this!"
Xie Jiaojiao shook her head, thinking about how when they first came here, Mrs. Wang often helped them. When they first moved here, she even brought a small can of oil from her home to help them! This favor should have been repaid long ago!