Gu Jing and Ye Qingyi worked much faster than Gu Jiu expected.
"Is this a small piece left?" Gu Jiu asked uncertainly, pointing to the land Gu Jing marked for her.
"Yes." Gu Jing nodded: "We can finish it before noon."
As expected, the two of them finished their work completely at noon, and then went to the back mountain to collect firewood and dig some granola.
When Gu Jiu was about to go back, he happened to see Gu Zheqi. The other party was still dressed in white and holding a folding fan. The only difference was that he had an extra cake.
Gu Jiu stood high and saw from a distance that a carriage was leaving the village.
It was a real carriage with a carriage, which was completely different from the one she sat in the open air when she entered the city.
"Master! Milk! Mother! Look what good things I have brought back for you?" Before entering the door, Gu Zheqi's voice rang throughout the yard.
Hearing the noise, Mr. Gu, Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Wang all came out of the house quickly.
"Grandpa, look, this is a new pastry in the city. Even my husband has never tasted it." Gu Zheqi held up the pastry with a proud face.
Mrs. Wang immediately burst into laughter after hearing this: "Among the children in our family, we, Qi'er, are the ones who are the most filial to our elders. If we have something rare and good, we will take it first to honor our elders if we can't bear to eat it."
Before he finished speaking, Gu Jiu and Gu Jing entered the gate carrying firewood.
Wang rolled her eyes and said angrily: "But some juniors are not good enough. They are selfish and don't know how to respect their elders! Not to mention serving the eggs to the elders, they don't even want to let others eat them. see!"
Gu Jiu understood the meaning of the words, but was too lazy to pay attention to them. He put down the firewood and was about to enter the house when Gu Zheqi suddenly called out to her.
"Girl Jiu, I'm happy to let you have a taste of this pastry today. Come on, come and get it!" Gu Zheqi took out a piece of pastry the size of a winter date from the oil paper bag.
"Keep it for yourselves and eat it!"
Gu Jiu pulled Gu Jing into the house without squinting.
Inside the house, Gu Jing took out the oil paper bag from the cabinet and asked, "Sister, should we give it to my grandparents to try too?"
Gu Jiu looked at the oil paper bag in Gu Jing's hand and shook his head: "When your cousin takes it out, your grandparents will take at most half of it, but after you take it out, you won't be able to eat a piece."
Besides, they only like what Gu Zheqi brings out. After all, they have worked hard to cultivate Gu Zheqi, and people will always save face for themselves.
"Ah? Then I'd better not take it." Gu Jing opened the oil paper bag, carefully took out a small piece of pastry from it and ate it.
"It's delicious! Try it, sister!"
"No, you can just eat it yourself." Gu Jiu reached out and rubbed Gu Jing's head, then turned and walked to the window. She always felt that Gu Zheqi was hiding something, or that he was planning something.
After a few people stood outside the window for a while, Gu Zheqi entered the house laughing with Mr. Gu under a burst of compliments.
In the next few days, Gu Zheqi was obviously more diligent and more focused on his studies. He often discussed knowledge with Mr. Gu.
However, Mrs. Zhao still didn't come back. Gu Youcai was anxious at first, but after Mrs. Gu talked with him, he couldn't help but adopt an indifferent attitude, and even began to look forward to something vaguely.
"Mom, are you sure this is okay?"
"That goes without saying, when will my mother make a mistake?"
"Then my son can rest assured!"
Listening to the vague joy of greed in the corner, Gu Jiu left the yard calmly and continued to do his own thing.
It is impossible to guess the darkness of people's hearts. The more unbearably backward a place is, the more it can break through the lower limit of cognition. And all she can do now is to keep adding chips to herself.
After collecting enough silkworm cocoons, Gu Jiu put on new clothes, carried a small baggage on his back and arrived in the town as scheduled.
"Come on, let's go and see what's going on?" A girl wearing a yellow headband pulled her companion past Gu Jiu, her voice full of curiosity.
Gu Jiu estimated the time and walked in the direction of everyone's progress.
"This is a girl from any family who is so young, yet she is rushing to get married! She is not afraid of losing her life!" A middle-aged woman said while looking at the slowly approaching pink sedan.
"I heard that she was sold by the family's maid who signed a death contract and was used as a housekeeper. This girl also has tricks and actually climbed up!"
"How did I hear that this girl and Mr. Zhao are from the same hometown? It's not a bad thing for this girl, after all, most of the town belongs to Mr. Zhao."
"..."
Everyone said something to each other, and Gu Jiu quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter.
Mrs. Zhao came up with her family members and people from the same village, and asked for the money to be refunded and released out of sympathy. However, Mrs. Zhao felt that she had lost face and refused to agree. After a while, Gu Qi was asked to marry in as a concubine.
The sedan stopped in front of the small door, and Gu Qi walked out of it wearing a brand new pink coat. She put makeup on her face, her eyebrows were delighted, and she raised her hand to see a handful of colorful candies.
The surrounding area instantly became crowded and noisy. Gu Jiu left the crowd and went to the designated location to wait for the bus.
As expected, the car arrived on time in the evening. Gu Jiu sold the cocoons and returned to the inn. Accompanied by the waiter, he knocked on the door. Almost instantly, the door opened from the inside.
After entering, Gu Jiu discovered that there were no less than four hundred pamphlets in the room.
"so much?"
"This is enough for one day tomorrow." Hong Ge poured a glass of water and handed it to Gu Jiu while saying.
"Can it be sold out?"
"Yes. When you left last time, didn't you say that it would be great if there were dedicated people to help promote the sales?"
Gu Jiu nodded and motioned for the latter to continue: "I contacted the sisters in the previous pavilion and asked them to help me find out. Guess what? Although I didn't find him, one of the sisters gave me a good idea. "
"Not everyone in this city is rich, so there are a lot of people who are worried about food and clothing."
"I contacted those women and children and gave them two copper coins for every booklet sold. In this way, I could sell hundreds more copies every day."
Hearing this, Gu Jiu's eyes flashed with shock. Hong Ge was smarter than she expected.
But one thing she was curious about was that there were so many literate women in the city. She originally thought that a story would reach its peak after selling 100 copies.
"Then what kind of stories do you think these ladies like? I'll try that next time."
"Huh?" Hong Ge looked at Gu Jiu in surprise when he heard this: "Most of the people available to buy are men!"
Gu Jiu:???
Gu Jiu thought for a while, and found that most of the stalls were bought by men that day, but she always thought that those people were buying for the women at home. I didn’t expect to see it myself…
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, by the way, look at this." As he spoke, Gu Jiu took out a piece of paper from his arms and unfolded it to reveal the writing inside.
"Is...my new name?"
"Yes! Ling Yang. Taken from Long Qi Yang Yang, and Ling Yang Yang."
Ling Yang, Hong Ge silently recited the name in her heart and nodded.
"From now on, my name will be Ling Yang."
The days in the city passed quickly. Watching the lights rise and fall, the day of separation came in the blink of an eye.
"Lingyang, I have to come back in March next year when I go back this time." Gu Jiu said while eating the little Chaos that Lingyang bought.
The city gate opens from mid-October every year until March of the following year and is only accessible but not accessible. There are no good people in the Gu family. The original owner's mother and younger brother are still at home. She takes the original owner's position, so she can't just take care of herself.
Ling Yang nodded. Gu Jiu was different from her. She still had family, so she couldn't be here forever: "I originally wanted you to go back and buy more food, but it suddenly occurred to me that you have land in the countryside."
Gu Jiu was startled: "What happened?"
"No, it's just that I found a lot of people died in the battle, and I guess the price of food will increase."
Gu Jiu nodded, thinking that although one acre of land would definitely be enough to eat, he couldn't help but buy seventy kilograms of multi-grain noodles when he passed by a rice and grain shop and put them in the space.
When they arrived in the town, Gu Jiu got out of the car and walked home, meeting Gu Qi halfway.
"Oh, I didn't expect Sister Jiu to have a day to wear new clothes!" Gu Qi stretched out her hand in a high-key manner, revealing the bracelet on her wrist and showing it to Gu Jiu.
"Is something wrong?"
"Of course, I came here specifically to thank my sister today. If my sister hadn't been stupid, how would I have had the opportunity to eat meat every day!"
Hearing this, Gu Jiu showed an expression of realization and stretched out his hand: "Then how much money do you plan to give to express your gratitude?"
Gu Qi turned her wrist and looked at Gu Jiu in disbelief: "Gu Jiu, are you really stupid?"
"Then you plan to give me more?"
"You... you fool, just wait and suffer in the village for the rest of your life!" Gu Qi turned around and left in anger, while Gu Jiu went to buy a small pot without any hesitation.
The three of them don't need a big pot, so switching to a smaller pot can save some firewood. In winter, the rice is still hot even when it's cold.
…
It hasn't rained once since she passed through the soul. Instead, the sun hangs high every day.
It was almost time to harvest, but the corn in the field was still growing very small. The villagers became anxious and ran to the village chief's house one by one with increasing frequency.
The village chief had no choice but to gather everyone together and discuss a solution together.
"Village Chief, this is not okay! How can our baby still study like this?"
As soon as the village chief finished talking about the solution, someone jumped out to deny him.
