CH 84.3

"Since you don't want to listen to my persuasion, why don't you do it yourself?"

The village chief wrote down the names of the applicants who came later, but the two families who came first refused to leave. He was also the head of a family. If he was asked to pay so much money, his wife definitely wouldn't agree.

Zhang Fangyuan looked through the paper, and there were almost ten villagers who signed up. The first uncle and fourth uncle of their Zhang family signed up, and Chen Si's family also signed up. There were so many people who signed up on the first day, and he was quite happy: "It's okay, since everyone responded so positively, let me pay for the additional money."

The village chief's eyes lit up: "Really?"

Zhang Fangyuan said: "My family has too much money, but it's not easy to save private money."

The village chief laughed: "Come on, you know how to brag, who can control your money?"

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"Many people in the village have signed up now, and there are only two days before the deadline for registration as the village chief said. I have discussed this matter with your father, and our family still has a paddy field that can be used as a fish pond." Liu Xianglan went to the field today to talk to Xu Shaochun, "I went to your little brother's house to ask. Zhang Fangyuan has already gone to talk to a merchant who sells saplings on the mountain. When the time comes, the merchant will bring back the mulberry trees and we can plant them soon."

These days, the village was in full swing because of growing mulberry trees and fish pond matter, and no one in the village didn't know about it.

When Xu Shaochun got the news, she was a little tempted to do it. Yesterday he went to the village school to deliver meals to Fei Lian. She saw that the two children of the Zhang family were dressed so beautifully. After some inquiries, she knew that Zhang Fangyuan bought the cloths from a merchant from Suzhou, and she was very envious.

When she looked at the young Xiao'e, who was fair and clean, dressed beautifully and freshly, she immediately thought of the happy days when she was still a daughter of the Xu family, and she felt bitter for a while.

Now she was too tired to think that she could live in such a beautiful way, but she also wanted her children to have a better life in the future. She thought that if the family became richer, it would be easier for her children to find a good family. In the future, her children could have a better starting point. She took this opportunity to find a way out with everyone to make money, but Fei Lian talked about this matter before she could open her mouth.

At home, Fei Lian scolded the villagers for not plowing the land and only thought about planting mulberry. They thought of crooked ways to make a fortune, and not plowing the fields in a down-to-earth manner to suffer losses.

"Forget it, Ah Lian won't agree. After opening the school, the family's life has become much easier, so I don't bother with these things. The village chief also didn't say that every family must follow suit."

Compared with when Fei Lian was still studying in the city, the family was indeed much better. Now that Fei Lian was teaching in the school village, her mother in law would cook meat dish every two days, and there was plenty of oil and water everyday. She thought that the condition of the family was better than last year.

Right now, there were not only shuxiu from the students, but also 2,000 copper coins Fei Lian received from the government every month. The Fei family already an upper-class family in the village.

[束脩 shù xiū: payment for private tutor]

However... She rubbed her stomach, and she felt that she was going to wrong the child, unlike the Zhang family, she couldn't prepare a big house for her children.

"I don't want to quarrel with my mother-in-law now. If something happens to my body, I will lose my child."

Liu Xianglan's eyes lit up immediately: "Do you have it? When did you know? Why didn't you come back and tell me?"

"I only found out two days ago, and I haven't had time to go home yet."

Liu Xianglan nodded, he held Xu Shaochun's waist and then looked at her stomach, the child was too young to show her pregnancy, and she couldn't see it at all: "It's okay, it's okay, there is no need for you to do it like other villagers, you can take care of yourselfmore. It's justified to take good care of your baby."

"I told you to hug those two little things from the Zhang family more often, and you would have a chance to have your own child. Isn't it true?" Liu Xianglan couldn't help being happy, and said superstitiously: "Hug Ruijin more often, maybe you can have a son."

Liu Xianglan couldn't keep her mouth shut, especially for such a good thing, so Xu He knew it within two days. Xu He prepared a basket of eggs and also caught two old hens from the old house. Knowing that his second sister loved beauty, he took one of the good cloth that Zhang Fangyuan had bought before, and packed it up for Xu Shaochun, so she could make it into clothes, as a congratulation.

When he was pregnant, Xu Shaochun also came to visit with a basket of eggs. Although it was for borrowing money, Xu He still should  return the gift. Now that they had settled down and lived in peace, he wouldn't keep remembering and worrying about the past.

Soon the registration came to an end. Zhang Fangyuan, the village chief and the landowners in their village calculated how many families wanted to open fish ponds to raise fish, and how many families wanted to plant vegetables and mulberry trees to raise silkworms.