Chapter 65 – Sibling Rivalry

“The amulet.” Xiumei replied.

“You specially begged for me?” Xu Zhengyong asked with a smile.

“Yeah, this is a bit of concern for senior brother as a senior sister.” Xiu Mei replied with a haughty face.

The one who taught Xiu Mei kung fu and the one who taught Xu Zhengyong kung fu were the same person, so the two of them were indeed from the same school.

“I’m the senior brother, you’re the senior sister!” Xu Zhengyong retorted.

The two have been fighting for years about who’s bigger and who’s smaller, and anyway, it’s just that neither one of them wants to be the bigger one.

Xiu Mei: “I was the one who worshipped first, you worshipped later, of course I’m the senior sister and you’re the senior brother!”

Xu Zhengyong: “I was the one who studied under my master first, you came later, of course I’m the senior brother and you’re the senior sister!”

Xiu Mei: “What’s the use of following and learning first, worshipping the master mainly depends on the ceremony! Learning by following doesn’t count!”

Xu Zhengyong: “I’m older than you, you’re the same age as sister Ruo’er, sister Ruo’er calls me brother Xiaoyong, of course I’m your senior!”

Wei Ruo and the Xu family couple were already not surprised by these two’s bickering over whether they were senior siblings or junior siblings.

They used to fight almost once a month, and lately it was the fact that they saw each other so little that made them stop for a while.

Everyone had a good laugh.

After arguing for a while, Xiu Mei took the rare initiative to admit defeat: “Let’s put it this way, you go to the army, and if you can come back alive properly, I’ll recognize that you entered the division before me in the future, and call you a senior brother.”

Hearing this, Xu Zhengyong, who should have been so happy that he jumped three times in place, fell silent, putting away his playful appearance and looking extraordinarily serious.

“Are you afraid I won’t come back?”

“If you can’t come back, you’ll be my senior brother for the rest of your life!” Xiu Mei grunted, then parted her head and ran back to Wei Ruo’s side.

Xu Zhengyong also came back, with a smile on his face, and the purse that Xiu Mei had given him had already been put into his clothes.

“Meimei’s things are given, and mine.” Wei Ruo also prepared Xu Zhengyong’s practicing gifts.

Wei Ruo set a small wooden box on the table, and when he opened it, inside was a bunch of small porcelain vases.

“They are all standing medicines, each with words labeled on it, you take the medicine in the corresponding bottle when you need it.” Wei Ruo said.

Xu Zhengyong glanced at the bottle and said, “Sister Ruo’er, why is your writing still so ugly?”

“You still have the nerve to talk about me!” Wei Ruo said without a trace of humor.

Xu Zhengyong touched his nose, “Didn’t say you didn’t say you didn’t say you, I don’t dare to say you, my Ruoe’s sister’s character, ugly but also ugly with characteristics, ugly but also ugly and especially lovely!”

“I won’t give it to you if you say it again!” Wei Ruo covered the box and made a gesture to carry it away.

Xu Zhengyong rushed forward and grabbed the box.

“Yes yes yes, I want it, how can I not want the gift that sister Ruo’er prepared for me? Even if I can’t use it for the rest of my life, then I have to bring it with me, hehehe ……”

Xiu Mei gave Xu Zhengyong a blank look, “Look at your unproductive appearance.”

Xu Zhengyong made a face at Xiu Mei.

Then Wei Ruo personally went to the kitchen and pounded goat’s milk tea for everyone.

Wei Ruo herself seldom goes down to the kitchen, it is usually Xiu Mei who comes, and it is only when she gets together with the Nurse’s family that Wei Ruo has this interest.

Taking this opportunity, the Nurse again gave Wei Ruo the proceeds and account books of the past two months of the Four Treasures Jade.

Originally, it was three months or half a year, but now Wei Ruo is in the school lieutenant’s residence, the nanny thinks that now Wei Ruo is in a difficult situation in the Wei family, it is always good to have more silver. The silver that Wei Ruo saved before, a lot of it has been used in the recent purchase of Xiaoyang Mountain.

“Miss here is a total of three hundred taels of silver, the sum of the past three months’ proceeds from the Four Treasures of the Huzhou Prefecture, with the two months’ proceeds from the opening of the Four Treasures here, as well as the proceeds from the sale of the sweet potato vine leaves a while back and last year’s stock of dried sweet potatoes.” The milkmaiden gave the silver to Wei Ruo.

Two stores are going to pay for themselves a little faster than one.

The Sibaozhai in Xingshan County’s earnings are slightly worse than the one in Huzhou Prefecture, so it is clear that Xingshan County is indeed a bit poorer.

The proceeds from selling groundnut leaves and stock of dried sweet potatoes are much less compared to the first two.

But Wei Ruo is not too little, some earn should not be too thin profits, not to mention that this is also for the subsequent large number of sweet potatoes ripe preparation.

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After that day, Xu Zhengyong reported to the army.

After that, he temporarily lost contact with the Xu family and Wei Ruo.

In addition to going to Xie’s house for classes these days, Wei Ruo was planning the next step in her money-making plan.

The work in the south of the city was going very smoothly, and the side of Xiaoyang Mountain was also developing according to Wei Ruo’s expectations under Nurse’s management, without any problems.

Wei Ruo and Xie Ying’s medicine field was going well with the help of Mrs. Xie.

They succeeded in acquiring land from the government in the south of the city with poor terrain.

In order to show fairness, the land with a good shape was distributed free of charge to the poor families who did not have land.

As for the poor terrain allowing people to pay for it, the price is usually not high, much lower than the price of those lands north of the city that can be planted.

For example, the piece that Xie Ying and Wei Ruo purchased in partnership cost a total of five taels of silver, yet there were ten whole acres of land.

So simply the silver needed for the land is not expensive, expensive follow-up labor costs, improvement costs, but in this regard they have Mrs. Xie this solid backing really do not need to worry about.

Wei Ruo also in and Xie Ying partnership before knowing that Mrs. Xie’s mother’s family is a rich merchant, Mrs. Xie’s dowry has a full one hundred and twenty-eight units, and there are many other fields and stores, and are in some affluent places, the annual revenue is very considerable.

Although Mrs. Xie came from a merchant family, she was highly valued by her husband’s family.

When Mrs. Xie just married over, the Xie family had not yet made a fortune, and the family’s financial situation was not good, fortunately, Mrs. Xie used her own dowry to maintain the family’s expenses, and only then did the Xie family survive the toughest times.

That’s why nowadays, after the Xie family has prospered, no one in the whole family has any opinion about Mrs. Xie’s origin, and Mrs. Xie’s husband has never had any intention of taking a concubine.

Wei Ruo naturally can not live up to the trust of the Xie family mother and daughter, will be the entire planting process is well organized, from sowing to the late maintenance, pest and disease defense, are taught.

Xie Ying also did it with great vigor, and now every day when she saw Wei Ruo, she would discuss the matter of the medicinal field with her.

This enthusiasm was so high that it made Wei Ruo somewhat nostalgic for the former Xie Ying who was so indifferent to herself.

Once upon a time you ignored me, now you want to be inseparable from me.

The medicine field is in full swing, naturally attracted a lot of people’s curiosity, there are also some people moved to learn Xie family’s mind.

Anyway, the land in the south of the city was cheap, and now that the county office had promoted the technology of improving the land, they could also learn from the Xie family and go planting together, who would mind having more land and more food for their own family?

Yun also moved this mind, after all, this improved ability is his family Ruo’er come up with, no reason to just let others take advantage of it.