After the vicious adoptive mother gave up, the scumbag children regretted it

Jiang Chen's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect the village chief to think this way. However, he didn't learn a lesson, but only tasted the sweetness. Naturally, he would not agree with the village chief's words.

"Village chief, you think too much, these are all accidents. Even if this incident didn't happen, what was supposed to happen would have happened.

I still say that you not only have Dacheng as your child, but also other children and grandchildren, a whole family."

Village Chief Jiang was also feeling guilty, but he felt better after he said it. He said meaningfully, "Jiang Chen, I'm old now. If I die someday, this family will all be counting on you to take care of us."

Jiang Chen understood what he meant and assured him, "Don't worry, I'm not an ungrateful person. I would be more than happy to have more brothers to help me."

"Okay, I believe you. You are the most promising person in our village. It will be better if Shen is gone. When you pass the imperial examination, there will be many ladies from wealthy families who will marry you. It will be more helpful to you."

Jiang Chen thought the same thing. "I don't want to think about anything now. I'm just waiting for the imperial examination next year and the day when I can turn my life around."

"Study hard and I'll take care of the house for you. My old bones can still hold out for a while."

"Yes, for the sake of the younger generations, you have to cheer up."

What both of them said was very touching. If you didn't know them, you would think they were father and son.

Village chief Jiang was in better spirits. He took some medicine and drank some porridge, then came out to deal with the situation. The Jiang family members were relieved that the old man was still strong.

There are many cases in the village where sons have met with accidents and the elderly cannot bear it and leave, and have to hold funerals one after another.

Shen Nanzhi was leading people to dig a well. He invited a well-drilling team from the county. It was Mr. Xie who helped him find the best well-drilling master. The experienced old man led the team, and the success rate was as high as 80%.

Without modern detection technology, it would probably be very impressive.

There were always talented people in ancient times, and Shen Nanzhi never underestimated the ancients.

The old man who dug the well was named Hu. He was in his early forties but looked like he was in his fifties. He was exposed to the wind and sun for many years, so his face was dark, his eyes were bright, and he had a messy beard. He looked unkempt and loved to smoke pipe.

Shen Nanzhi took out some cigar tobacco, but not much, just enough for a pipe, and let Mr. Hu taste it.

She would not give her true heart easily, and she already regretted giving the tobacco to Village Chief Jiang.

"Mr. Hu, try this."

"You still got any tobacco?"

"I used to give it to my elders, but they later divorced. There's no point in me keeping it, so I'm giving it to you."

Old Man Hu had heard of her story. It was rare for a woman to return home after getting divorced. Fortunately, everyone in her hometown was kind-hearted and was able to protect her from being bullied.

"Thank you very much. Don't worry, young lady. Eight out of ten wells I dig will produce water. I will not intentionally waste your money. This is a moral principle."

"It's rare to find an elder as moral as you. If you can follow morality, you are a good person."

Mr. Hu felt very comfortable listening to this girl, who was good at talking.

Taking a puff of the tobacco she gave him, his eyes narrowed instantly. It was rich and fragrant, even better than the one Mr. Xie gave him as a reward. It instantly made him feel refreshed. "Good, good stuff."

Shen Nanzhi smiled with her eyes curved. Everyone has something they like, and gift-giving is a science. If you give well, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

Mr. Hu finished smoking the pipe with great enjoyment and wanted to have another one. But when he looked at the remaining cigarettes, he put them away with a sad heart. He had to smoke sparingly.

They were only here today to survey the terrain and select a suitable location before starting construction. After collecting Shen Nanzhi's tobacco leaves, Master Hu Lai was particularly serious and selected three locations. "At least two of these three places can produce water. Where do you want to hit?"

They were all near the river, arranged vertically. Shen Nanzhi said, "Catch them all. If they all come out of the water, keep them all."

“That’s three wells.”

"I need to irrigate the land. With three wells, these one hundred acres of land can be cultivated into top-quality farmland. One well only costs ten taels of silver. Thirty taels is a good deal for so many good farmlands."

Even if there is no water, Shen Nanzhi can irrigate it from the space. When she bought the farm, she dug a pond to grow lotus roots and raise fish. It was a running water pond, which cost a lot of money.

"Okay, young lady, let's start the work tomorrow. I'll find more people to work together and finish it as soon as possible."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. I will take care of the meals tomorrow. There will be plenty of rice and pork."

"Boss, don't brag. We are serious. Do we really have pork to eat?"

The guys laughed and tested her, which boss would be willing to cook meat for her?

It was good enough to have coarse flour steamed buns to fill your stomach. Usually the village would raise funds to dig a well and the whole village would share the money, and they were very frugal.

Shen Nanzhi smiled cheerfully: "Of course there is. My Shen family is a butcher and seller of meat. We don't lack this little bit of meat, but you have to do your job well and be worthy of my meat."

"sure."

With so many of them, they attracted the attention of the people in the neighboring Mopan Village. When they saw Shen Nanzhi and Shen Qingshan here, they were all surprised and puzzled. Why did the Shens come back?

It just so happened that she was an acquaintance, Aunt Hu, who had once come to the city with Shen Nanzhi. She was a hardworking and upright person, and she had a good impression of Shen Nanzhi.

She came down the mountain to say hello: "Shen, it's really you? You've lost a lot of weight and are much prettier."

"Aunt Hu, I'm just getting a divorce, not leaving my hometown. Don't be so surprised to see me."

Aunt Hu asked, "What are you doing?"

Shen Nanzhi was full of bad thoughts and was worried that he would not have the chance to cause trouble for the Jiang family, when someone came to tell him the truth.

"My cousin bought these fields. If we don't clean them up and plant crops, we can harvest a crop in the fall."

Aunt Hu's jaw dropped in surprise. "Didn't they say they sold it to someone in the county? Why did it happen to you?"

"Oh, the old man heard that the people in your village were not honest, and he was afraid of being bullied by xenophobic people, so he sold it to my cousin. It just so happened that I had that much silver in my hand, and keeping it would attract people's attention, so it was better to buy it into farmland, so my cousin helped me buy it."

"is yours?"

Shen Qingshan said: "Of course it belongs to my niece. From now on, you should stay away from this hill. This is my niece's land and has nothing to do with your village.

If anyone dares to bully my niece, no one in our Yushu Village, young or old, will allow it."

Aunt Hu laughed dryly, "No, don't be angry, Village Chief Shen. I have a good relationship with Shen, but I have never bullied her, right?"

Shen Nanzhi: "Aunt Hu, please call me Nanzhi, or Miss Shen. I'm single now, so it's not appropriate to call me Shen."

A married woman cannot even be called by her own name, only a surname. Shen Nanzhi is quite disgusted by this.

"Oh, okay, Nanzhi, I forgot about it. Let me tell you something new. A lot of things happened in the village when you were away for a few days."

Shen Nanzhi happily gossiped with her and grabbed a handful of melon seeds. "Tell me, what's new? Did my ex-husband's family get into trouble? I'm just having fun listening to it."

Aunt Hu laughed dryly, "You are really not tactful at all. You are hoping that the Jiang family will suffer misfortune. They have already compensated you so much money, isn't that unlucky enough?"

But it seemed that the land was sold collectively by the villagers, so the Jiang family didn't even need to sell their house or land. As long as they could keep their family business, it didn't seem like they were in any bad luck.

The whole village is unlucky. Aunt Hu couldn't laugh anymore.

Shen Nanzhi watched her expression change quietly. It was not too late to think it through now.

"It's not your ex-husband's family, it's the village chief's family, and Widow Xu..."

When Shen Nanzhi heard that Chen the Hunter and Widow Xu were really together, she couldn't help but be surprised, "Are they really going to get married?"

"You couldn't have imagined it, did you? The villagers were also surprised, but when they thought about it, they were a good match. Hunter Chen was not young, and Widow Xu was hardworking and honest, but she had a bad fate.

The three children are all sensible and not too old to be raised. They will provide support for Hunter Chen in his old age, and the family will have a good life. "

As for this matter, Shen Nanzhi was not in a position to comment. Everyone had their own needs. Since Hunter Chen loved Widow Xu, he had to help her raise the child.

As for whether the children will be close to each other when they grow up, it depends on fate.

If he adopted those three ungrateful cubs with her, Chen the hunter would suffer a lot, but there are also filial and sensible ones, not all of them are ungrateful.

"They are having a wedding, I am going to give a gift."

"It's too early for weddings. The village is currently holding two funerals."

"Why two? Who died?"

Jiang Dacheng is dead, Shen Nanzhi knows it, who else?

"A young man from the Lin family went up the mountain to look for someone and was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. The village chief paid him fifty taels of silver as compensation, but it couldn't buy him back his life.

But Lin Xiaonier was particularly attentive. The one who died was her cousin, and those who didn’t know would think he was her real brother.”

Shen Nanzhi understood Lin Xueqing's meaning as soon as she heard it: "She is probably thinking about her cousin's fifty taels of compensation."

"What? Oh, why didn't I think of that?"

Aunt Hu suddenly understood something. She immediately understood what she couldn't understand before. Fifty taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Anyone who can save three or five taels is a wealthy family. Fifty taels is enough to build a blue brick and tile house.

"I have to warn the Dalin family. I'm leaving now."

Aunt Hu got so many melons and left in a hurry.

Shen Nanzhi looked at the small mountain road and said, "Let's seal that road later to prevent people from the village over there from causing trouble from time to time."

Shen Qingshan nodded: "Okay, my uncle will arrange for someone to do it. It's our land now, and we can't let them leave if we don't want them to."

"If there is a shortage of manpower, I will hire some long-term workers. It would be embarrassing for me to have the villagers helping me all the time and not want to take their wages."

Shen Qingshan thought more long-term, "Why not wait for an opportunity to buy some servants? They are more loyal and more cost-effective than long-term workers."

"Buying someone?"

Shen Nanzhi was not used to the ancient people's way of thinking. She was used to hiring people. In her previous life, her company had tens of thousands of employees.

"Yes, I'll leave it to my cousin to buy people. He has acquaintances. He bought the people from that family who were sold. There are maids and farmhands. In the future, there will be servants. Nanzhi, you will make money. In the future, you will need more manpower. Having more servants will save you a lot of trouble."

Shen Nanzhi: "..."

Her uncle thought so highly of her. If it weren't for the windfall from the bandits, she would be penniless now.