Rebirth of the Evil Stepmother and the Four Villainous Children

So Zhou Rongrong chatted with others in front of Xie Wuyou, and briefly told the children about her relationship with Xie Wuyou, and raised her hand to swear that she really didn't know what was going on.

I definitely didn't flirt with him just because he was good-looking.

Sibao’s eyes were wide open, with drool at the corners of his mouth. The main character was a little baby captured by beauty. He was really good-looking. I mean, are there humans who are so good-looking?

Sibao thought his mother was already the most beautiful person, but when he looked at Xie Wuyou, he thought he was even more handsome, with his tall stature and straight back, and his temperament.

In Sibao's eyes, this is the most beautiful person. People in the class say that everyone has a father. If she also needs a father, this person is the best choice. Moreover, Your Majesty, isn't he very rich? Mother said that if you have money, you can do whatever you want.

Sibao's little head would turn around from time to time to peek at Xie Wuyou. When Dabao saw this, he turned Sibao's little head back in disapproval.

The eye warning was given, but Sibao couldn't help it. The little girl's eyes almost rolled to the back of her head. She was just a face lover.

Zhou Rongrong discovered that Sibao would definitely be deceived by a handsome man when he grew up.

But since the people were already there and still looked like this, Zhou Rongrong naturally couldn't just ignore it, so she asked them to sit on the ground.

"Tell me, what's the purpose?"

What purpose could Xie Wuyou have? He just wanted to do whatever he wanted. But he couldn't say that. If he did, Zhou Rongrong wouldn't know how to treat him. He shrank his neck and said weakly.

"That's right, I just wanted to repay you for saving my life."

Zhou Rongrong said: "Repay the life-saving grace? So what do you mean by pretending to be my husband? This is how I repay the life-saving grace. Didn't we agree on this at the time? Just like this, we have nothing to do with each other?"

Zhou Rongrong remembered clearly that she had rejected him. What was going on?

"Besides, if you really want to repay me, you can just give me money or support me. Is that all? What's the point of pretending to be my husband?"

Xie Wuyou said weakly: "You, your husband is dead. I found out that he was killed because he caused trouble."

On the day of Jiang Huaizhi's wedding with the original owner, no one knew what had happened and he left the house without even going through the bridal chamber. On the way to Zhao County, he met a group of bandits who hacked people to death without any reason.

After throwing the body off the cliff, the people sent by Xie Wuyou actually found a skeleton. The skeleton was covered with knife wounds and was about the same size as him.

Zhou Rongrong didn't seem to be upset after hearing this, but the children were sad for a while but then they were fine. After all, they had really forgotten a lot about Jiang Huaizhi.

But what Zhou Rongrong didn’t understand was.

"Why? Jiang Huaizhi was just a farmer, why was he hacked to death? And they deliberately threw the body off the cliff. If the bandits killed someone, they would not need to deal with the body. What was he doing there at that time?"

Zhou Rongrong was even less clear about things that the children didn't know, and she just felt that this matter was strange.

Xie Wuyou asked: "Do you need me to check?"

Zhou Rongrong immediately refused when she thought of the children's backgrounds.

"Please don't cause any more trouble for me. Just pretend that this person doesn't exist. What about you? When will you return to Beijing?"

He had never thought about going back. Why would he go back? It would be better to stay here, he said aggrievedly.

"I, I want to stay here. I'm very useful. I can farm, cook, and clean. Oh, and I can also teach Erbao martial arts. Erbao is very talented, and you teach him very well, but he needs to practice internal strength. Without internal strength, he will not be able to defeat a master if he only has fists and feet."

He said so much because he hoped he could stay, stay in Dashan Village, and stay with Zhou Rongrong.

Zhou Rongrong also knew that people who practiced martial arts in this era were all practicing internal strength, but the problem was that she didn't know how to do it. If she really wanted to practice internal strength, she really needed someone to teach her.

But this person is Xie Wuyou, not Jiang Huaizhi, and he still wants to use Jiang Huaizhi's identity to stay by his side?

Zhou Rongrong was very annoyed. On the one hand, Xie Wuyou was a great martial arts master and a good teacher for the children, but on the other hand, Xie Wuyou had ulterior motives towards her, which everyone knew.

But looking at Erbao and Sibao's bright eyes, you two idiots who keep covering their faces, do you know why this man is here?

He was trying to seduce your mother. If your mother didn't still have some sense, do you believe that with just this face, your mother would have been seduced by him and turned into a slut? !

Xie Wuyou said quickly when he saw something interesting was going on.

"I can continue to pretend to be Jiang Huaizhi, you don't have to worry, this way I can do things more easily."

Zhou Rongrong thought about it and agreed, but this face was still better than the original one.

"Then you can wear the human skin mask when you go out. You don't need to wear it at home. Aren't you afraid of skin allergies? You should just make friends with Erbao and leave. Don't have any bad intentions."

"Okay, don't worry, I will definitely do it."

After spending two days to deal with the matter of this brutal bandit, Zhou Rongrong started to get busy again. Now Xie Wuyou was responsible for picking up and dropping off the children. When he had nothing to do, he would follow Zhou Rongrong around. Wherever Zhou Rongrong went, he would go. When Zhou Rongrong went to talk to him about the workshop, he would also follow her.

Zhou Rongrong didn't want him to follow her at all, but this man said that they were husband and wife outside, and they were one body. If people knew that Zhou Rongrong was the one making money outside and he didn't make any money at all, he would be accused of being a gigolo.

In fact, Xie Wuyou was overthinking it. From the moment he appeared as Jiang Huaizhi, he had been accused of being a gigolo.

The workshop by the river has been built, and Zhou Rongrong will not really make potato starch at this time. The main reason is that Uncle Zhou made a calculation and thought, oh, isn’t this a coincidence?

The remaining potatoes will be just enough for next spring, and they are grown in the village, so they will definitely not be sold to Zhou Rongrong.

After discussing with Zhou Rongrong, he decided to keep the potatoes for seeds. Now the village chief was very familiar with the cultivation of crops like potatoes, and he didn't want Zhou Rongrong to waste them and pile them up in his own cellar.

Zhou Rongrong didn't want to build a new workshop and put it there, besides, she had to support Liu Dazhuang and his group and it was really a bit too much for her to bear.

After walking around, I found that there were not many trees in the mountains and forests, but there were a lot of bamboos. Paper was very expensive in the Great Zhou Dynasty. A piece of good quality paper cost two hundred copper coins, and better ones even cost half a tael of silver, or even more than ten taels.

Paper is a necessity for scholars. Even for a family like theirs, with four children studying, the monthly expense of paper is a considerable amount.

What's more, many people can't afford to buy paper. They only write on paper when necessary. Usually they spread sand on the ground and practice with writing sticks.

After reading some information and experimenting with the feasibility of making paper from bamboo, Zhou Rongrong decided to start making paper in her workshop by the river. Bamboo grows very fast, and basically every hilltop or home has bamboo planted in it.

The materials are easy to obtain. Unlike the paper sold in bookstores, it does not need to be made from trees. It takes more than ten or twenty years for a tree to grow to be made into paper, so the cost is naturally high. What's more, this technology is mastered by wealthy families.

There is no sinking market for paper at present, so Zhou Rongrong plans to use bamboo to make paper to seize the lower-level market.

However, the process of making paper is very complicated. If Zhou Rongrong hadn't soaked the bamboo in medicine, it would have been impossible to make paper in just a few days.

When Zhou Rongrong took out the clean paper she had made, the only two people left had their eyes widened and their jaws almost dropped to the ground.

Uncle Zhou only knows that paper is a valuable thing, and he has lived for so long and has never heard anyone talk about how to make paper. Is this possible?

Xie Wuyou was surprised that the papermaking technique was extremely profitable and only mastered by large families. This technology was a secret that was not passed on to outsiders. Where did Rongrong learn it from?

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