When asked by Xie Xiaowen, Si Sheng shook his head innocently, "I haven't figured it out yet."

Xie Xiaowen said angrily: "Oh, you are such a sour scholar, with a thick head. Didn't I tell you this: You take your daughter to the Lu family farm and write a deed of sale, and Butler Lu will give you forty taels, one hand

It’s so simple to just hand over the money and hand it over to the person, why haven’t you figured it out yet?”

"Isn't it sixty taels?"

Xie Xiaowen said anxiously: "Oh, why can't I explain it to you? The total is sixty taels, but I can only give you forty taels. You gave me five taels first. Butler Lu..."

It's over, why did the bald tongue come out? Xie Xiaowen covered his mouth and looked at Si Sheng's face with an increasingly evil smile in horror.

Si Sheng approached Xie Xiaowen step by step and asked through gritted teeth: "I'll give you five taels first?"

"No, no, no," Xie Xiaowen trembled and stepped back.

"Write a deed of sale? Are you going to be a child bride or a school girl?"

"Yes, yes, yes...child bride."

Si Sheng searched around for someone who could help.

At some point, Wang Zeran stood behind Si Sheng, holding a wooden stick in one hand and a broom in the other, stretching out his hands for him to choose.

Si Sheng glared at him angrily and grabbed the broom.

The broom fell like raindrops on Xie Xiaowen's body. Xie Xiaowen was a scholar. How had he ever seen someone take action at the slightest disagreement? Is Ye Sisheng crazy?

Xie Xiaowen blocked the broom with his hand and shouted: "Ye Xiucai, you are an insult to elegance, you are an insult to elegance."

Si Sheng didn't care about being polite. The scum who tricked him into selling his daughter still had the nerve to be polite. Si Sheng swung the broom tightly, panting and asked: "Tell me, is it a child bride or a girl who is studying with you?"

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Xie Xiaowen couldn't bear it anymore and cried: "Ouch, ouch, stop fighting, yes, yes, I'll accompany you to study."

Si Sheng's men didn't stop and asked: "How many taels did you take?"

"Five taels, just five taels. I didn't take more, just five taels."

Si Sheng chased after Xie Xiaowen, but when Xie Xiaowen saw that the door that had been closed just now was now open, he grabbed the door and ran out of the main room as if he was seeing the Goddess of Mercy, the savior of the world.

Si Sheng chased after him and scolded him, "Well, you Xie Xiaowen, you tricked me into selling my daughter, and made my daughter jump into the fire bed. Your conscience has been eaten by dogs. I still treat you as my brother. You are worthy of my brother."

?You are so unkind and unjust..."

Si Sheng accidentally fell into the courtyard with a "chirp" sound, and Xie Xiaowen took the opportunity to run out of the courtyard, running faster than a rabbit.

Wang Zeran ran over and closed the door, and then Si Sheng got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his body, and said without changing his face, "No random learning, a gentleman must be disciplined."

Wang Zeran looked at Si Sheng's back in confusion. Does this mean that Xie Xiaowen was not disciplined, or that Si Sheng himself behaved improperly?

Suxue stepped forward and took a closer look at the wound on Si Sheng's forehead. She was relieved when she saw that it had not been touched. The wound was caused by bandits at the Lu family farm. Suxue had already given medicine when she came back.

Si Sheng walked into the kitchen. The millet porridge had been cooked. He dug around in the corner of the kitchen for a long time before he found a wilted radish and a handful of spinach. Si Sheng sighed, this was all he could eat.

Si Sheng bent over and scooped out half a ladle of water from the water tank, poured it into the basin to prepare for washing vegetables. He picked up the bucket and handed it to Wang Zeran, saying: "Wang boy, stop looking at it. There is no water in the tank. Go to the hospital."

Get a bucket of water from the well inside."

Wang Zeran hesitated for a moment, then picked up the bucket and left the kitchen.

"Dad, I'm going to help."

Suxue had long seen a well in the yard with a windlass on it. She had only seen it on TV and didn't know how it was actually used. Now she followed Wang Zeran to see how strange it was.

Suxue walked around the windlass and had a rough understanding of this simple device. It was actually a lifting device made using the principle of a wheel and axle.

Suxue turned around and saw Wang Zeran standing by the well for a long time without moving, "Why don't you fetch water?"

Wang Zeran muttered: "I, I don't know how."

Suxue was a little surprised that this kind of water puller should be very common now, but Wang Zeran didn't know how to do it, "Don't you use this kind of water puller at home?"

Wang Zeran said: "I have never fetched water, it was all done by my family."

Suxue knew that Wang Zeran was probably the kind of child who grew up pampered by his family and never had to worry about housework.

"Your stepmother doesn't need you to work either?"

Wang Zeran shook his head and didn't want to say more. Suxue knew that he kept secrets about his stepmother and family matters, so she stopped asking.

Suxue pointed to the wellhead and said, "Open the manhole cover first." Wang Zeran obediently removed a wooden cover from the wellhead.

Suxue recalled the operation she saw on TV, hung the bucket on the hook of the hanging rope, and threw it into the well. The gravity of the bucket drove the windlass to rotate "lulu" through the well rope.

When the pulley stopped, Suxue asked Wang Zeran to turn the handle. Wang Zeran grabbed the handle and pushed it, and the bucket was hoisted up. Suxue grabbed the rope and pulled the bucket to the well platform to take a look, "How come there is so little water?"

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"Come again." Suxue pushed the bucket half filled with water down the well again.

Wang Zeran's head is full of black lines. Can you pour out half the bucket of water before throwing it away?

This time, Wang Zeran did not rush to shake the windlass as instructed by Suxue. Instead, he lay beside the well and shook the well rope. Seeing that the rope was tightened, he estimated that the bucket was filled with water, and then he shook the windlass and pulled the bucket up.

"It's a full bucket, Wang Zeran, you can do it, the blue is better than the blue." Seeing that the bucket was filled with water successfully, Suxue happily patted Wang Zeran on the shoulder.

Wang Zeran glanced at Suxue and said nothing, but the corners of his mouth turned up quietly.

Wang Zeran was very strong. Once the bucket was full of water, he picked it up and left.

The two returned to the kitchen and Si Sheng had already cooked the dishes: a plate of fried shredded radish and a plate of cold spinach.

Si Sheng filled three bowls of millet porridge and brought them to the table. He said to Suxue in a somewhat apologetic tone: "Xue'er, this is the only thing we have at home. It contains cereals and vegetables. Let's make do with some."

"Dad, I'm thirsty. Some hot porridge is just right." Suxue won't embarrass her father. With the conditions at home now, it's good to have food. Besides, she and her father still eat in the portable space at noon.

After having a delicious meal that is unprecedented in this era, I am not hungry yet.

Si Sheng pushed the porridge bowl in front of Wang Zeran, "This is yours."

Wang Zeran looked at the porridge that was obviously much thicker than the ones in Si Sheng and Suxue's bowls. He was stunned for a second. He couldn't resist the tightening of his stomach. He picked up the bowl and started eating like a storm.

When Si Sheng saw that Wang Zeran had eaten a bowl quickly and secretly glanced at the pot, it was true that a half-grown man was living in poverty, so he said that he shouldn't keep this kid.

Suxue stood up, looked into the pot, and said to Wang Zeran: "There is something else in the pot..."
Chapter completed!