The Chief Minister's Ferocious Wife

   Chapter 66 Illusions

   The food prepared by Zhao Chuchu was eaten cleanly.

   Chen's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law helped Zhao Chuchu tidy up the yard by returning the dishes, and then they went back.

   After Zhao Chuchu was done, Xie Jun had gone to bed early.

  Xie Heng was sitting in his room, and he had removed the blindfold. Those dark eye masks Zhao Chuchu were just for Niu Tongsheng and the villagers to see.

   When Xie Heng returned to the house, Zhao Chuchu wiped it off for him, just covered with a cloth.

   "How did you avoid the key point with the knife?" Zhao Chuchu sat down opposite Xie Heng, very curious, "Deadly but not really fatal, but people are really useless."

   "People who are easy to cause trouble can't be killed if they can't be killed, so as not to come again and again, trouble." Xie Heng said lightly.

   "You know martial arts?"

   "I know a little bit."

   This is called a little understanding?

  Young man, is it too modest?

   "Learn from whom?"

   "Chuchu, I don't ask you about you, and you don't need to ask me."

   Xie Heng looked at Zhao Chuchu.

   Zhao Chuchu raised his eyebrows: "I just want to learn from you."

   "You don't have to be humble."

  No one knows the human body better than Zhao Chuchu.

   But Xie Heng did not dismantle it.

   "The Zhao family shouldn't dare to come over to cause trouble easily. You asked the village chief to buy mountains today, what are you going to do?"

   "Sow, why don't you dig the soil to eat?"

   Xie Heng laughed lightly.

   "With me, I won't let you eat dirt."

   "The Xie family is poor now, and your brother still needs a lot of money to treat his illness."

   "You don't have to worry about the silver. The mountains are not expensive. Even if you buy a mountain, you will need twenty or thirty taels of silver."

"enough?"

"Um."

   "Then I want to hire someone to open up wasteland?"

   "Generally, day laborers are fifteen coppers a day."

   Ancient labor was really cheap.

   "But now that the spring ploughing is about to begin, it is difficult to invite people for fifteen copper plates."

   "Then I will give out twenty-five copper coins, and I am sure many people are willing to help me."

   "Can you tell me what exactly you want to plant?"

   "Secret."

   Zhao Chuchu hadn't thought of the excuse for the origin of the seeds, and didn't want to tell Xie Heng now.

  Xie Heng nodded and didn't ask the crops any more.

   "Then why don't you buy fields?"

  Zhao Chuchu rolled his eyes at him: "People nowadays place more importance on fields than their lives. If it weren't for the fact that the mountains and rivers were exhausted, who would want to sell the fields? I just can't buy them if I want to."

   At least the fields in Lengshui Village will not be sold.

   "In addition to mountains, fields are also planted?" Xie Heng asked.

   "Arita can try." Zhao Chuchu said.

  After all, buying rice is also expensive. Xie Heng is half the size of a child. She eats so much. She has to stay here for at least the first half of the year. Before leaving, she must earn some money!

  Although the materials in space can also be exchanged for money, it doesn't work very well in a place where everyone knows her.

   Xie Heng pondered for a moment: "If you want to plant, I can rent some fields for you."

"Oh?"

   "Not all the fields in my name belong to others."

   "Hasn't all your fields been sold?"

   "The left hand is just the right hand."

   Zhao Chuchu: "…"

   There is a way to pretend to be poor!

   "How many acres do you have?"

   "Three acres of good paddy fields."

   "That's okay, plant it for me this year. How much do you usually get in a year?"

   "If you count early rice and late rice, there should be ten stones."

   That's it?

   Zhao Chuchu knew that a stone in ancient times was about 60 catties, and it took a year of hard work to collect more than 600 catties of grain. This is still in the shell, how much is left after the shell is removed? It was less than she expected.

  I have worked so hard to cultivate the fields for a year, and I rely on this harvest for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and I have to pay taxes... It's too difficult!

   "Then rent your fields to me. If there is no harvest, then you will give money. If you have a harvest, what do you think?"

   "You plant it, you don't need to rent it to me." Xie Heng shook his head.

   "Dalang, you seem to be richer than I thought."

   "Illusion."

   Zhao Chuchu had no intention to inquire about Xie Heng's secret.

   She also has secrets.

   The two of them were tacit, guarding this line, and being at peace with each other.

   Xie Heng is a smart person, and Zhao Chuchu's discussions with him will soon yield results.

   Zhao Chuchu returned to the room, Yuan Hui still hadn't slept.

  The original owner and Xie Heng lived alone at the other end of the house, so Yuanhui couldn't hear the conversation between the two of them in Xie Heng's room.

   "You haven't slept yet?" Zhao Chuchu checked Yuan Hui's injury.

   Yuanhui was seriously injured, but Zhao Chuchu used her healing ability, and her recovery was very fast.

   It's only been a day before people can sit up.

   "I can't sleep." Yuan Hui looked at Zhao Chuchu, "As long as I close my eyes, I'm afraid, seeing that wicked man rush over to kill me."

   "Do you remember what it looked like?"

   "It was too dark to remember, but I know I scratched him."

   "Don't be afraid, no one dares to harm you here, so rest in peace."

   Zhao Chuchu wanted to pat her, but she was injured and took her hand back.

   Yuanhui's fear was not faked.

   Zhao Chuchu was guarding her last night, and she had nightmares all night.

   "Where is your home? Shall I take you back?"

  Xie Jun is at home, sooner or later he will find Yuanhui.

   He was still young, Zhao Chuchu didn't want to scare him.

   "My home..." Yuan Hui mentioned this and showed a painful look, "I don't have a home anymore, I escaped."

   Zhao Chuchu: "…"

   Xie Heng is such a jerk.

   "Your parents don't care about you?"

   "Mother has passed away, father... father only sees mother."

   The family headed by the stepmother?

Zhao Chuchu said sternly: "Forget it, you should recuperate here first, but don't leave the room until the injury is healed, so as not to scare people and cause trouble. Yuanhui, although I don't know your identity, but I saved you, just I don't want you to bring disaster to our family."

"Ok, I know."

   Yuanhui nodded.

   Zhao Chuchu saw that she really couldn't sleep, so she had to take some tranquilizers before she fell asleep.

   Yuan Hui can't bear to carry it like this all the time!

   Zhao Chuchu carefully observed Yuan Hui and felt that this little girl might not be telling the truth.

   Although she was almost robbed, she still had a silk-wrapped gold bracelet on her wrist and a pearl earring on her left ear.

  Pearl is not affordable for ordinary people.

   Zhao Chuchu always felt that Xie Heng had ulterior motives for suddenly cooking last night.

   What exactly does Xie Heng want to do?

   The clues are there, but like a mess, Zhao Chuchu couldn't find the head.

   Forget it, it didn't hurt her anyway!

   Zhao Chuchu was also tired, put aside those thoughts and went to sleep.

  …

  Niu Tongsheng is a very efficient person.

   I went to the county town on the second day. On the fourth day, the county government came to measure the mountains that Zhao Chuchu wanted to make a book. Zhao Chuchu bought it at that time, so that he could make a land deed for Zhao Chuchu.

   Zhao Chuchu explained that Yuanhui was good, and went up the mountain with Niu Tongsheng and the yamen.

  The villagers of Lengshui Village followed curiously.

   When he heard that Zhao Chuchu wanted to buy mountains, his attitude changed immediately.

   (end of this chapter)