Chapter 217 Fresh Things
The place where the hut is located is extremely safe, because the large beasts and the like are all in the back mountain and cannot be seen on weekdays.
They are avoiding people, and people are also avoiding them.
Shen Qingci asked the lady in charge to find some people to re-build the thatched hut. He also repaired the road up the mountain and built the fence higher. Even if there were beasts, it would be fine.
After hearing this, the lady in charge hurriedly went to do these things. Most of the villagers here have received the great kindness of the Shen family. The heavy snow that year was the clothes and food brought by the Shen family for them. , In the second year, they did not receive their rent. This is what kept them alive. I heard that the master of the Shen family lives here now, and he has to cover the one in the mountain. A lot of people volunteered to come to the thatched hut, and within a few days, the hut was rebuilt.
As Shen Qingci wished, he built the wall very high, so that he would not be afraid of any wild beasts. The road in the mountain was also repaired.
And the villagers here even brought the vegetables they grew, and the eggs laid by their chickens, all of which have been standing outside for a long time.
"What are they doing here?" Shen Qingci asked incomprehensibly, "Is there something wrong?" She asked the lady in charge, "If there is a problem in the family, the rent can be waived, and there are many such things in the house. A little food."
"No," the steward lady smiled, "the girl is so kind-hearted, our village is not comparable to other villages, the girl says every year that if the harvest is not good, the rent will be less. Or not accept it, we have always done it according to the girl's wishes, even in the winter when it snowed the most, we had the fewest dead here, thanks to the kindness of the girl."
"These villagers know that the girl came here, and they all brought their belongings to see the girl. In fact, it doesn't mean anything. They just want to thank the girl for saving her life back then."
"That's it..."
Shen Qingci had lived with Lou Xuefei in the village for about four years. She knew very well the life in the village, so she had always been very generous to the villagers.
Life is not easy, living is even harder.
She has always helped as much as she can, and of course she never thought about it. Others keep her kindness in their hearts. She doesn't take it as a kindness. She is just doing what she can do.
If she is really poor, then it is impossible not to collect rent, just because Yipinxiang really makes too much money, so she doesn't care much about rent.
"Girl, what are you going to do with the people outside, do you want to accept it?"
The lady in charge asked Shen Qingci, "It's all the eggs from the chickens they raised, and the things that grow in the fields."
"Let's take it," Shen Qingci actually hadn't eaten it for a long time, these are the vegetables just picked from the ground, and the farmers' eggs are also delicious.
"Let's see..." She thought for a while, "Bai Meiyi will give you some scraps of silver. You go and buy these things. It's not easy for them to save them."
When he came, Shen Qingci knew that he might need a smaller amount of silver, so he changed a lot of broken silver and copper plates, which just happened to be used now.
The lady in charge liked the three girls even more.
Their girls are good, capable and kind. Such people will definitely live a long life, and there will be good people who will be rewarded.
Bai Mei took a few pieces of money and gave it to the lady in charge. She also let the lady in charge watch and give it to her. If it was not enough, she asked her for it again. Bai Mei didn't feel any distress after taking out so many coins.
She has been rewarded the most by the girl since she was a child, and the girl gave not only silver beads but gold beads. The girl in her family likes silver beads, so she beats a lot of them, and she also carries them close to her body. Of course, she likes to use silver beads to beat them. Rewards, especially her and her sister, are the most rewarding.
So these copper plates, she really can't take it seriously.
The steward's wife took the money and bought everything the villagers sent back. It was no less than what they sold to others. In fact, it was still a lot, and almost every family would get a pen or two more.
"If any of you has eggs or something in the future, you don't have to sell them, just bring them to us."
The lady in charge smiled and said, "My girl said that if the eggs raised by the villagers are brought, it's fine to keep them all."
And indeed, this is what Shen Qingci meant. If the people in the village have eggs to sell, she will take them. Anyway, everyone in their house wants to eat eggs. The mansion has to eat a lot of eggs in a day. Even if they can't finish it, there is still Prince Jun's mansion and the three county masters' homes. These are all things to eat. finished eating.
The cook in the house brought all these things back to the kitchen. There were chickens, ducks, fish, and pumpkins planted in the ground. They were indeed very fresh. The ground was just picked.
What they ate on this day was the meal made from these. It was indeed different from the one made in the house. I don't know if the ingredients were fresh, or the spring water here was good. Whatever the reason, they felt that the meal was very fragrant.
Even Mammy He thought so, and she also found that Shen Qingci ate more food than usual. Mammy He almost always went to worship the Bodhisattva. She dreamed that her sister could do it. Eat more, maybe her body will be better, and she will grow up faster, and now Shen Qingci has no menstrual period, it is a thorn in her heart, and she thinks about it from time to time, which is It hurts a lot.
So she really felt that this place was too right. It was because the water in the mountains raised people, so it made my sister look much better than in the mansion.
On the second day, there are still villagers who come to deliver some fresh vegetables, as well as some pickles and other things made at home. These are not eaten outside. The difference is that Shen Qingci likes to eat these, so they all let the lady in charge take them. It is best to take a few more and see which one is delicious. When you return to Beijing in the future, you can buy them and continue to eat them.
"Girl, look, someone gave us something nice."
Bai Mei suddenly shouted, still in that surprised voice.
Shen Qingci walked over, and saw Bai Mei and Bai Zhu each holding a black puppy in their arms. They may have been weaned for a long time. They were all small, and they also had big wet eyes. What's the matter? It all makes me feel so miserable.
"Where did this come from?"