Housekeeper Liu raised an eyebrow: “So what? It seems that you are not ignorant of the matter.”
“How can my master know who you are? He lent you the house for Second Master Gu’s sake.”
“Besides, living in someone else’s house and making such a dirty thing, you should have been kicked out long ago!”
He sneered: “You ruined the little girl’s reputation, and even went to the inn she works at to make trouble. If I had a daughter, I would never marry her to you!”
Aunt Huang stared and finally heard the explanation. She slapped Shanzi on the back: “You, you went to Xiao Fei’s inn to make trouble today?”
Shanzi said impatiently: “I didn’t make trouble, I just said a few words to Xing’er!”
Aunt Huang felt that the sky was about to fall after hearing this. Gu Fei was so cruel; how could her son offend her?
Look, they were being kicked out immediately!
However, this place was uninhabitable. Xing’er and Shanzi often meet each other, and who knows what will happen next?
Aunt Huang bowed to Housekeeper Liu: “Thank you very much. I will find a house tomorrow and move out as soon as possible.”
Housekeeper Liu snorted and left.
Aunt Huang waited for him to leave and couldn’t help crying.
She couldn’t control her son anymore. This couldn’t go on. She had to find him a wife!
The boy was growing up and was thinking about that matter. It would be better if he had a wife.
But where could he get the money to marry a wife now?
After paying back the ten taels of silver to Young Master Su, nothing would be left.
The mule cart couldn’t be sold. If it were sold, the family would have no income.
Aunt Huang touched the silver bracelet on her wrist. There was no way. She couldn’t keep it.
Alas, if she had known earlier, she should have picked up a girl on the road of fleeing famine, and now she wouldn’t have to worry.
Aunt Huang was tough. The next day, she returned ten taels of silver, packed up the things, put them on the mule cart, and moved away with her son.
*
It was mid-April, and that morning, Gu Qing went to the city and called Gu Fei to come home to see if the peppers could be picked.
Gu Fei hadn’t been home for a month or two. When she got home, she rushed straight to the fields.
She saw the green and red peppers hanging down densely in the fields. She was delighted to see them.
The whole family looked at Gu Fei eagerly: “Is it ripe? Can we pick it?”
Gu Fei nodded: “Let’s pick them. Pick fewer green peppers. From tomorrow on, send some to Yipin Pavilion, Zuixianlou, and my shop daily. Pick some red peppers and dry the rest.”
The Gu Family members were all pleased. It has been almost half a year, and they can finally have a harvest.
All the family members went to the fields to pick peppers. Even Xiao Cao helped. When she saw peppers falling on the ground, she quickly picked them up and put them in the basket.
Gu Fei shouted to her: “Xiao Cao, don’t pick them up. Your hands are tender and will hurt from the spiciness!”
Almost all the people in the Gu Family were strong laborers, and they picked them very quickly.
When the sun was about to set, Gu Fei looked around and saw that seven people in the family had picked peppers from four mu of land.
The picked peppers were placed in baskets on the ground and finally weighed. More than 4,000 kilograms of peppers were picked from four mu of land.
It took several trips by mule cart to bring all the peppers home.
Seeing that Gu Fei’s family had picked peppers, the Eldest Uncle, the Eldest Aunt, and the Younger Uncle also hurried over.
The family looked at the full of peppers. They didn’t feel hungry, even though they hadn’t eaten dinner. Mrs. Chen looked at Gu Fei with hope: “How much should we sell this fresh pepper per kilogram?”
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