Bab 2: Chapter 2 Follow the Script
Jiang Lizheng also quickly asked his second and third sons to go home and wait for the servants to unload the things on the cart. He then arranged for people to harvest the rice and hire temporary workers, the more the better. The family had a lot of fields, more than 800 acres, and with so many twenty people, how long would it take to get them all?
Old Mrs. Yang did not have time to say anything to her eldest son. She first told her second daughter-in-law, Zhang, who was in poor health, and her third daughter-in-law, Qin, who was pregnant, to pay attention.
Zhang and Qin agreed and decided to take their son and daughter back.
Seven-year-old Jiang Xiu'an and six-year-old Jiang Xiaomai were unwilling to do so: "I want to follow my elder sister!"
Eldest sister Jiang Xiaomi: "."
She squatted down, pinched their delicate and fair faces with both hands, and said viciously, "How many times have I told you to call me sister!"
After spending the past two days together, the two of them really liked this older sister, so they were not afraid of her at all and hid away with giggles: "Big sister!"
Jiang Xiaomi was both angry and amused.
Natural disasters are coming and the world is about to fall into chaos. The only ones who can live without worries are these children who are ignorant of the world.
But it is often these children who suffer the most.
Jiang Xiaomi laughed and laughed but couldn't laugh anymore.
"Go home and stop making trouble for your elder sister." Old Lady Yang scolded with a smile, and then touched Jiang Xiaomi's little head lovingly: "Let grandma take a look at my Xiaomi, why are you so thin?!"
"I'm too tired from traveling." Jiang Xiaomi pouted slightly, acting half-seriously and coquettishly.
"Ouch!" Old Mrs. Yang felt so distressed, but she still coaxed the child as she did when he was a child.
"Father-in-law, mother."
"Grandfather grandmother."
Jiang Suying then had time to take her son Jiang Xiumian to pay a visit to Jiang Lizheng and Old Lady Yang.
"Hey!" Jiang Lizheng quickly responded, "As a family, we don't care about these empty formalities."
"What's the use of grandparents? We don't call them that here." Old Mrs. Yang hugged Jiang Xiaomi and said to her eldest grandson with a loving smile.
Ever since her eldest son passed the imperial examination and took up a position in the capital, she has only seen her eldest granddaughter and grandson once in the past five years. That time, they looked like young ladies and young masters from official families, and she was both happy and uncomfortable.
Jiang Xiumian was a bit socially anxious and didn't know how to respond. After saying "eh", he stood there motionless.
Jiang Xiaomi, on the other hand, grumbled unhappily and hugged Old Lady Yang's arm affectionately: "I don't like being called that either, but everyone in Beijing calls me that."
"Don't worry about them. We can shout as much as we want. Grandma has missed you so much these years. Do you miss me?"
"I miss my grandparents so much."
"Hey! My little darling!" This made old lady Yang very happy. She had always favored her eldest granddaughter, and now seeing her being so soft and coquettish, she immediately wanted to open her heart to her.
Even Jiang Lizheng's eyes narrowed into slits as he smiled.
Jiang Yipei and Jiang Suying looked at each other calmly: Can you believe that Jiang Xiaomi didn't know Old Lady Yang until five minutes ago? With such a sticky look, who can tell that they are not the two real grandchildren?
Jiang Xiumian also admired his sister's adaptability very much!
He really can't do it.
God knows, it has only been two days since their family of four came to this strange dynasty to replace the original owners. Although he has resigned himself to his fate and accepted the current situation, he really can't be as smooth as Jiang Xiaomi.
She was too much.
Harvesting rice was a big deal, so the family exchanged a few pleasantries and then hurried home.
Jiang Suying followed her newly-minted mother-in-law and daughter and walked in front. Jiang Lizheng, Jiang Yipei and Jiang Xiumian specially followed behind to talk: "Boss, what exactly is going on? Please explain it clearly."
Jiang Lizheng was not an ignorant old man in the village. He was the head of three villages in one li and had raised a son who was a sixth-rank official in Beijing.
Although Jiang Yipei's words could scare the villagers, he knew that the imperial edict from the court had to be sent to the local area at full speed, much faster than the speed of the third family who had to travel with their families. It was impossible for them to get home while the edict was still on the way.
Moreover, the second and third sons obviously knew something, otherwise they would not lie with their eyes open.
Jiang Xiumian turned his head to look at his father.
When Jiang Yipei saw Jiang Lizheng's anxious look, he immediately started to pretend to be anxious as well - because he had arranged a lot of things in the past two days, and he was really not too anxious now.
So he sighed in distress and said, "I can't hide it from Dad. Let's go home and tell him."
As he said this, he looked at both sides, which meant that it was a big deal and no one else could listen.
Who wouldn't feel heart-pounding when seeing his worried look of not being able to eat? Jiang Lizheng's face became visibly solemn, but only Jiang Xiumian knew that his father had been working on the new script he had rushed out in the past two days since he got off the car.
The expression, tone and words when getting off the car were all carefully considered, in order to create panic and not give the tribesmen time to think, and make them work overtime to harvest the rice.
"Okay." Jiang Lizheng frowned, trying hard to suppress the ominous premonition in his heart.
"Dad, brother, let's go to the fields first."
As soon as I entered the yard, Jiang Yitao and Jiang Yiyu were driving a car with their men and were about to go out.
"Have the tenants been notified?" Jiang Lizheng asked.
"Notified?"
"What about my in-laws?"
"I've notified them." Jiang Yitao replied. After asking his eldest brother, he sent someone to notify his father-in-law, mother-in-law and his third brother's wife's family.
"Okay, go ahead! Your brother and I will go to the fields later!" Jiang Lizheng waved his hand and went into the house with Jiang Yipei.
Jiang Yipei didn't say anything. After all, the Jiang family had a good tradition. Even though the original owner Jiang Yipei passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, he often helped his family with farm work. With their eldest brother as a role model, the younger brothers and sisters were not the type to be cunning and deceitful.
"Brother, Xiaomi! Let's go too!"
Jiang Xiubin, the eldest son of Jiang Yitao, the second uncle, put the backpack containing the sickle on the mule cart and jumped in front of Jiang Xiaomi and Jiang Xiumian.
The Jiang family pays great attention to the education of their children, and eliminates the bad idea of letting the eldest brother/uncle support the whole family from the root.
A man should be responsible, and a girl can be pampered but not arrogant.
Even the six-year-old Jiang Xiaomai was very calm and did not hide behind adults when seeing strangers like some other children.
Although Jiang Xiubin studied in the county school, he would return to the village to farm during the busy farming season. He did not reject farming and regarded it as a form of entertainment, which made him happy even though he was tired.
"Okay! Xiaobin!" Jiang Xiaomi shouted deliberately.
"Hmph!" Jiang Xiubin turned his head away angrily.
He was only ten years old when his uncle's family went to the capital. He wanted to go with Xiaomi, but his parents disagreed and said they should wait a little longer. However, three years ago, when his aunt and Xiaomi came home, the thirteen-year-old boy wanted to see the prosperous capital and had agreed with Xiaomi to go back together, but his parents still said they should wait a little longer.
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