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Soong Xintong only wanted to inform Grandma Qiu. If Grandma Zhang and the rest really dared to hurt her, there would be witnesses when she went to complain.

Soong Xintong looked at the blue sky outside the house. "Grandma Qiu, then I'll go back and clean up the house."

Grandma Qiu raised her eyelids and nodded. "It's easy to get dust on the roof after resting. It's best to cover it with a cloth cover or it'll be very troublesome to clean it."

"Yes, I know." When Soong Xintong walked out of the yard, she saw Goudan, who was cowering. She turned around and glanced at Grandma Qiu in the kitchen. She lowered her voice and said, "Goudan, let's go to my house to play with Big Treasure."

Goudan rubbed his head, which had been burnt so badly that it looked extremely ugly, dejectedly said, "Xiaobao, you're going to laugh at me."

"No way, he dares to laugh at you, big sister will beat him up for you!" Soong Xintong said with a smile.

Goudan gritted his teeth, "Then..."

Before he could finish, Grandma Qiu's voice sounded in the room, "Goudan, you're not allowed to run around."

The courage Goudan had just mentioned scattered again as he walked into the house with his back hunched. "grandma, I didn't run."

"Look at your hair, go to sleep."

Soong Xintong smiled and went home alone. She cleaned up everything in the house and also neatly piled up all the wheat stalks Aunt Xie had brought for tomorrow's use.

After cleaning up, he carried the fatty intestines he bought back to the stone slab at the source of the stream and leisurely washed them.

Washing the fattening intestines was a very troublesome task as it was also very difficult to get rid of the fishy smell. In the current situation, Soong Xintong had seen her grandma use flour or vegetable oil to wash the fats, but it was still better to wash the flour cleanly.

After washing for almost an hour, he finally washed all of the fatty intestines clean. His waist and back ached from the pain as he sat on the stone slab to rest for a while. He also found quite a few broken ears in the puddle.

After digging out less than half a catty, he found that they were all of high quality.

Soong Xintong looked towards the direction of the academy. Since Scholar Lu had entered the city today, there was no sound from the academy.

Soong Xintong hesitated for a moment before walking towards the academy. The gate was tightly shut. She tiptoed and looked in. After confirming that there was no one there, she wanted to climb over the wall.

But nothing happened, so a woman with a basket walked out from the courtyard. Seeing Soong Xintong standing outside the courtyard, she walked over and gestured at her, asking, "Who are you? What are you doing here? "

Soong Xintong was stunned. Was he a mute?

The woman made a few more gestures, but Soong Xintong was confused by it. She asked tentatively, "Are you Scholar Lu's family?"

The woman nodded.

Is this Scholar Lu's mother? Soong Xintong looked in disbelief at the woman in the green skirt. She only had a peach wood hairpin in her hair. Although she dressed simply, the woman's beauty and temperament was not something that could be concealed by this coarse cloth.

No wonder Scholar Lu had a warm and elegant temperament. He must have inherited his mother's legacy.

Soong Xintong looked at the woman, and the woman looked at the thin girl.

"Madam, Scholar Lu saved my brother from the water a few days ago. We are grateful, but our family is poor, so …" Soong Xintong, under the woman's sharp and bright gaze, didn't know what to say anymore. She placed the ear root on the 1.3 meter high wall, turned around after running two or three steps, and said to the woman, "Madam, this is called ear root. Eating more can heat and detoxify the body, reduce swelling and treat sores, and remove moisture.

With that, he turned around and left.

The woman looked at Soong Xintong's running back. Was she that scary? He then lowered his head to look at the neatly stacked side of the wall, and the corner of his mouth raised upwards.

Soong Xintong let out a sigh of relief after walking away. She didn't know why, but she felt an inexplicable sense of fear for Scholar Lu's mother. She always felt that she had to be careful in order to not anger such a beauty.

It seems that I have to avoid her when I return in the future.

By the time he got home, it was already a quarter of an hour past ten. It was still early.

However, Soong Xintong started to think about dinner again. She steamed half a catty of rice and made a steamed sausage. The three of them ate until their mouths were full of oil and water.

After dinner, Soong Xintong sat in the yard and watched the twins write on the ground. Big Treasure and Little Treasure were both smart kids, they already knew how to do twenty types of addition and subtraction, after a while, they would teach them the multiplication formula. With these abilities, even if they couldn't do imperial examinations in the future, they could still become an accountant.

Soong Xintong looked at the red ribbon in the sky and took a sip of her tea from the bowl beside her. She felt that her life had been quite unrestrained, just that this bowl could be changed into a white porcelain teacup.

The next day, Soong Xintong woke up early and made pancakes out of a mixture of black and white flour. The three siblings each took a bite of the pancake, and before long, the people from Xie Family arrived with a basket on their backs and a load on their shoulders.

This was the first time Soong Xintong saw Uncle Xie and his two eldest sons. They were all tanned by the sun and revealed their white teeth with a smile. They looked very simple and honest.

"Grandma Qiu, Uncle Xie, Aunt …" Soong Xintong and Big Treasure Little Treasure called out to everyone one by one, then they took out the small basket containing the pancakes, "Grandma Qiu, come eat some pancakes."

Grandma Qiu quickly waved her hand. "We've already eaten. We've eaten. You guys can keep them for yourselves."

Goudan smelled the fragrance of the pancake oil and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Soong Xintong handed the basket over to Dabao. "Hurry, get some cakes for Grandma and the rest."

Big Treasure took the basket and stuffed one into each of their hands. Then, he pulled Goudan into the house. It was a rare occasion to hear Goudan show off his skills. "Goudan, I can write now."

"Really?" Goudan was very envious.

Little Treasure also shouted, "I can, I can, too! I'll teach you, I'll teach you. "

Goudan agreed, "Sure."

The tall and strong Xie Daniu gave Soong Xintong a simple and honest smile, "Xintong, uncle thanks you for finding us such a job, but this four cents a catty is too expensive, why don't we exchange it for a catty for a catty instead?"

"Uncle, I'll give you guys four taels of gold. I earned that too." Soong Xintong knew that her father had the best relationship with Uncle Xie before he died, so she naturally gave them a good price. "Grandma, it's getting late. Let's go into the mountain quickly, shall we?"

"Deal." Grandma Qiu didn't say anything else and instructed, "Righteousness, follow your father to rest and fix the rooftops. Wealthy men, carry baskets on your back, and follow us up the mountain."

"Yes, Grandmother." The tycoon was Aunt Xie's second son. He was twelve years old and two years younger than Soong Xintong. He had already gone with Uncle Xie to do some light jobs.

Soong Xintong went back to her room to inform Big Treasure and the others. After that, she carried her basket and hoe with her as she walked in.

In the morning, the four had dug a total of nine hundred kilograms. In the afternoon, Uncle Xie and joined in, and the six of them dug about thirteen hundred kilograms.

It was only a quarter of an hour later that the group moved all the earrings back into the yard. They were arranged neatly and looked extremely good. Some of them had just been dug out and cleaned, so there was still water on the ground for ventilation.