Wenyou walked to the river, looked at Baiyunxi's calm appearance, and raised her eyebrows curiously.
"Has Aunt Bai expected it?"
Seeing that Wenyou was rarely interested, Baiyunxi smiled slightly and handed her a small mazaar.
"They are all young and energetic teenagers. Who doesn't have a temper? If he knew that he was a piece of meat in someone else's mouth, he would have been plotted long ago. It would be strange to be happy."
She just wanted to use her daughter's words to tell Xiao Wu that she had been plotted against her a long time ago.
Wenyou sat next to her, looking at Bai Yunxi's side face, which was peaceful and gentle under the afterglow of the setting sun. As a mother, she protects her children and shields them from outside intrusions. There is no right or wrong, only responsibility.
It is also very hard for a helpless woman to drag her family up as far as she can.
Feeling Wenyou's comment, Baiyunxi turned his head. "Why are you looking at me like this? Do you think there is something wrong with the way I handle things?"
Wenyou shook her head, "In my world, there is only success or failure in doing things, there is no right or wrong."
Listening to Wenyou's tone, Baiyunxi smiled,
"I personally agree with your point of view. Strictly speaking, I am not a good person. I don't have great love in my heart. I only care about the people and things around me. How other people do has nothing to do with me. Aunt Bai is not a saint and has limited abilities. She can take care of herself.
Our one-third-acre land has reached its limit.”
"So, within sight, I will never allow anyone to ruin my life. To be honest, I don't have a good impression of Chen Jiao and her son. For someone I don't like, I naturally don't want her hanging around."
Speaking of this, Baiyun Xi felt the fishing rod in her hand move. She flicked it hard, and a fish jumped out of the water. She threw it on the grass. The soft dog pounced on it, picked up the fish, and handed it to the owner's feet.
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Baiyunxi rubbed the dog's head and removed the fishhook, "The last one will be gone after eating it."
After being fed, the soft dog purred, found a quiet spot with the fish in his mouth, and began to enjoy the food.
Baiyunxi put earthworms on the fishhook again, threw them into the water, and then opened his mouth.
"Chen Jiao and her son just want to find a reliable man to live with. There is nothing right or wrong about this, and I don't object to it either. But they regard Xiao Wu as their target, so of course that's not okay."
Wenyou nodded, she also agreed with Aunt Bai's approach.
In her previous life, mother and daughter Chen Jiao, besides being concubines of Israeli servants, were canaries raised in cages as outhouses by some wealthy children. They were not suitable to be the housewife at all.
Xiao Wu is a typical young man from a poor family. Since he wants to pursue an official career, his partner must match him.
It's best if you can read and write, and help him take care of the back house. Although women usually stay close to home, they actually have a lot of social interactions.
If you don't have the ability and skill, no one will want to know you.
Chen Jiao and her daughter came here to enjoy happiness. Apart from being dependent on men, acting coquettishly and making smiles to please men, they were incapable of doing anything serious. No one from a better family would be willing to marry such a person back home.
"Okay, I've done everything I can do anyway. How far will it go? But I have no right to interfere."
Everyone has his own trajectory. She can only interfere with how it goes, but as for the outcome, she can't control it.
When there was another fish in the bucket, Baiyunxi packed up his fishing gear and went home with Wenyou.
In one day, rumors still spread in the village, all about Myolie and Bai Anbang.
After Bai Yunxi heard this, she had no choice but to find out that the matter hit Songzhuang's eyes. She didn't publicize it in a big way because she was afraid of being scolded by Zheng.
I heard that the lobby sister-in-law came to Chen Jiao's door again and scolded her, started a fire, and smashed her water tank. The mother and daughter were so frightened that they hid in the house and did not dare to show their heads until Bai Yuntang came back and took Zheng Jiao to the house.
Shi persuaded him to leave.
Although Xiao Wu spent most of his time studying hard at home, he did not stay shut in. Rumors on the street would naturally reach his ears.
Bai Yunxi only found that his face returned to normal after being dark for two days.
However, Xing'er couldn't sit still. With red eyes and white face, she ran to her house twice, but Wen Youyou intercepted her both times. She directly carried her to Chen Jiao, or jumped in from the courtyard wall.
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I don't know how the threat was made, but it made both mother and son blush. From then on, Xing'er didn't dare to come to the house again.
Bai Anyan stayed at his father-in-law's house for two days and then drove his bullock cart back. The man was restless and had a lot of work in the fields, so he couldn't live comfortably.
When Baiyunshan returned from the county again, he was given the land deed directly.
"When I was passing through the town, I happened to meet Li Mao. He told me that the land deed had been issued. What are you going to do next? If you want to use your cousin's property, just ask. I won't go out in the near future."
Baiyunxi took the land deed and looked at the big red seal on it, finally feeling at ease.
"That's what my cousin said. I really need you to help me with my advice. I want to renovate the sloping land a little, build a few rooms, and build a shed."
"I need to hire people to level the land. My cousin can help me introduce which family in the village is more practical and works hard. I want to hire a few people. As for the wages, they are the same as the day laborers in the town."
When she first started, the scale was naturally not too big. She only needed to repair five or six acres, and it only took seven or eight days to do it quickly.
Baiyunshan nodded, "It's not a big deal. I'll ask you later and I'll send you a letter tomorrow."
After sending Baiyunshan away, several people came together to read the land deed, and finally Baiyunxi put it in the locker.
It costs money to hire workers, money to build a house, and there are still lots of homesteads that need to be fenced with brick walls. Baiyunxi started looking through her savings again.
The last time I bought Xiaofangzhuang, I used a year's harvest. I didn't use the savings in my hand, and I saved some food.
After the autumn grain comes in this time, and another year's grain is used to build a duck farm, the family's income will be able to increase.
She quickly trimmed the ground before the freezing weather. She knew the habits of poultry. In addition to professional feeding, they also liked to have fun and eat green grass. Therefore, they had to use a fence to create a boundary to facilitate future activities.
The cousin found people very quickly, and there were five young men, all of whom were members of the Bai clan. Bai Yunxi understood this, and if there was work and money to be made, naturally he would stick to his own family members first.
There are several people led by the second child, plus the three children and four children, seven people are enough.
As for these two people, after recovering from their illness, they were very diligent and worked hard every day, determined to repay her for saving her life.
Although Bai Yunxi liked them very much, she had promised at that time that if they wanted to return to their ancestral home, she would give them travel expenses, which was regarded as fulfilling her daily good deed.
The two children thought about it for five or six days and said they were willing to stay. They had no relatives in their ancestral home and would have to face bullying from their clansmen when they returned.