Ning Youfu stepped forward in disbelief and looked Ning Pengpeng up and down, feeling very surprised.
Because Ning Pengpeng is still wearing the satin clothes prepared for her by the Pei Mansion!
It looks very expensive, and the hairpin in the bun is a gold hairpin, right?
The eyes are a bit dazzling. Not only is Ning Youfu's eyes falling on Ning Pengpeng's hairpin, Liu, Wang and Zhao Juan, who is looking out from the oxcart with the curtain open, all look at Ning Pengpeng's head with shining eyes.
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"What nonsense are you talking about? What am I asking you?
What is going on?
What's going on with you two?"
Ning Pengpeng's expression was very ugly. What she feared most about opening a store was that customers would come to her door while the store door was closed.
If Ning Youfu didn't give her a reasonable reason, she would directly kick the person away and find someone to be the shopkeeper.
"Mom, it's like this. This time the county magistrate comes down and all men over eighteen years old and under forty-five years old go to do corvee service.
Because our family is divided into families, each family meets the age limit for corvee service.
Originally, the son wanted to ask the fourth child to help him talk to Li Zheng about paying money to avoid the corvee.
However, the county magistrate has said that the number of corvees must not be small.
Therefore, we can only find someone in the village who is willing to do the corvee instead to give him money.
However, the fourth child told me that he could not find anyone to replace me, so yesterday I was anxious and took Mrs. Liu back with me."
Hearing what Ning said, Ning's face turned red.
"I didn't mean to say that I couldn't find it. It's really hard to find. We four brothers have to find four people to replace us. How can there be so many people in the village willing to go?"
"So, what are you going to do now?"
After listening to Ning Laosi and Ning Laosi's words, Ning Pengpeng still frowned and did not let go.
"This...Juanzi's stomach suddenly hurts badly, so I asked my second brother to help set up a bullock cart and take her to the medical clinic in the town."
Speaking of this, Ning Laosi suddenly realized that Zhao Juan's stomach still hurts!
He turned around quickly and happened to see Zhao Juan who was looking out with the curtain raised. She looked like she had a stomachache.
"I think she's doing much better than me. Doesn't it look like she has a stomachache?"
Ning Pengpeng snorted coldly. Ning Laosi still didn't understand that Zhao Juan's stomachache just now was completely fake, just to force him to agree to provide money to his father-in-law.
After figuring this out, Ning Laosi's face suddenly turned as black as ink.
Zhao Juan also knew that her plan was leaked, so she timidly held her belly and looked at Ning Laosi, fearing that he would lose his temper.
Ning Pengpeng didn't care about the turbulent undercurrent between Ning Laosi and his wife. All this was done by Lao Si himself.
I just brainwashed him during the Chinese New Year. I didn't expect that his ears would become soft again after being out for such a month.
No matter what he says, he deserves it.
He stopped talking to Ning Lao Si, and just called Ning Lao Ning and Ning Lao Er over, frowning and asked.
"Why can't I find someone willing to do the corvée service on my behalf? If the money is not enough, then just provide more."
In Ning Pengpeng's heart, things like corvee were originally very far away from her.
After all, in modern society, there is no such thing.
Even if you want to be a soldier, you must have good physical fitness to be qualified.
But whoever wants to go can go.
Therefore, when I heard about corvee service now, I naturally subconsciously raised the issue of giving money.
Moreover, she only reacted now.
Because she divided her family into different households, they were originally one family and only needed one person to serve as a corvee.
But now, all four brothers have to do corvee service.
If you don't want to go, you'll get four pieces of silver.
Fortunately, their family is not short of this little money, otherwise, just the money from the corvee would have broken the backs of these brothers.
Hearing Ning Pengpeng ask this, Boss Ning looked helpless.
"Mom, because of the money from selling sugar cane before and the money from weaving straw curtains these days, many families, many families in our village are not willing to let their family members do corvee labor.
After all, those who went to do corvée work in the past would always fall seriously ill when they came back.
As a result, fewer people are willing to go.
But the county magistrate is not allowed to exchange money for corvee labor, and the number of people must be sufficient. Therefore, the people in our village cannot afford to hire people now.
Li Zheng is also worried, and the fourth child said yesterday that he couldn't find anyone, so we came back in a hurry yesterday to discuss how to deal with this matter."
Boss Ning is also full of anxiety now. He is living a good life now, but if he goes to do corvee labor, the shop cannot be opened, and there is no man in the family, it is not an option.
Ning Pengpeng choked after hearing Boss Ning's words.
In total, she made the whole village rich, which led to the current situation?
"Mom, why are you riding so fast?"
Just when Ning Pengpeng and Ning Lao San were staring at each other, Ning Lao San finally arrived driving the carriage.
Ning Pengpeng cleared her throat and spoke directly to the four brothers of the Ning family.
"This is Qing Niang, the martial arts master I specially invited to teach these children.
From now on, she will live in my yard.
After the children finished reading, they came to my yard and exercised with Qingniang.
Boss, I know what you said now, and you will go with me to see Youzhi later."
Hearing Ning Pengpeng's words, everyone was startled and looked at Qing Niang.
Unexpectedly, this young woman is actually a martial arts master?
If she hadn't worn her hair in a woman's bun and said she was a big girl, some people would have believed her.
Aunt Tan had been staying in Ning Pengpeng's yard, trying not to get involved with a few gentlemen if she could.
After all, the old lady is not here now, and she is afraid that something will happen if something happens.
Liu Hu used to work with Mr. Ning early in the morning and come home late at night, and later went to help in the fields. Aunt Tan basically kept her daughter-in-law hidden in the yard during the day and would not open the door easily.
Therefore, even if she heard some lively noises outside this time, Aunt Tan resisted her curiosity and did not come out to investigate.
It wasn't until Ning Pengpeng knocked on the door that Aunt Tan pricked up her ears and asked in confusion.
"Cuihua, did I hear wrongly?
Is the old lady back? Why did I hear the old lady’s voice?”
Zhu Cuihua listened attentively, and then her face showed joy.
"Mom, you heard it right, it's the old lady's voice!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, quickly threw away their sewing work, and ran out together to open the courtyard gate.
They were startled when they saw a bunch of people standing at the door.
"Old madam, you are finally back!"
When Aunt Tan saw Ning Pengpeng, her eyes turned red and she quickly stepped forward to help him.
"Where's Liu Hu?"
Ning Pengpeng looked around, but couldn't see Liu Hu, so she raised her head and looked into the yard. She didn't see the dark-faced Ning Laosi behind her, who was slightly stiff.