Chapter 59
Tan Ji slowly stepped forward.

He pursed his lips, looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, his eyes were completely dark, and he couldn't see any emotion at all.

After a while, he opened his mouth slowly, said "um", and said:
"It is my fault."

It was not Sheng Jiaojiao's fault, she was good enough, she was the most brilliant and eye-catching woman among all the women Tan Ji had ever seen.

However, Sheng Jiaojiao didn't understand this sentence without beginning and end.

So Sheng Jiaojiao turned around and stopped talking.

She decided that since everything in this life has been reshuffled and started anew, she has to start anew for everyone.

At least on the surface, she can't be too special to Tan Ji, otherwise everyone around her will think that she wants to marry Tan Ji.

Even Tan Ji himself thought so.

How embarrassing she is, and it will be even worse if it affects the brotherhood between Tan Ji and Qi Zhang.

After that, Tan Ji didn't speak again, and Sheng Jiaojiao didn't look back.

The two of them stood awkwardly at the entrance of the village, one in front of the other, quietly as if they didn't know each other at all.

At the end of the dirt road, I finally saw Qi Rong driving his mule.

Sheng Jiaojiao took a few steps forward, then turned her head, and saw that Tan Ji was still standing there without moving.

She hesitated for a while, and finally said:

"I'm fine, you go back."

She just can't let go of face, the rest is fine.

Tan Ji looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, frowning his eyebrows. He felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart, as if he had done something to offend Sheng Jiaojiao.

I don't know what to say next.

"Brother Ji, Third Sister."

Qi Rong stopped the mule, jumped off the cart, ran in front of Sheng Jiaojiao, and looked at Tan Ji standing behind Sheng Jiaojiao, his face was full of excitement, and said:

"Brother Ji, my swordsmanship is getting better and better, when will you make a gesture with me?"

It's true that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and it's not as tall as Sheng Jiaojiao, so it's about to show off swordsmanship with Tan Ji. Sheng Jiaojiao stretched out a hand, patted the top of Qi Zhi's head, and walked straight to the cart.

Tan Ji kept looking at Sheng Jiaojiao's figure, she never looked at him again, so Tan Ji looked at Qi Rong again, and said:

"Come to Dongying tomorrow, and I'll see your sword skills."

Qi Rong happily agreed, turned around and ran back happily, turned back after halfway running, and waved at Tan Ji.

Compared with Qi Rong's enthusiasm and joy, Sheng Jiaojiao seemed too deserted.

She sat with her back to Tan Ji until the cart left.

And Tan Ji just stood there and watched Sheng Jiaojiao sitting on the cart until she disappeared into the end of the dirt road and was no longer seen.

After returning home, Mrs. Qi Er has already returned from Ergou's house.

She glanced at Sheng Jiaojiao's face, her lips moved, but she still didn't ask what Sheng Jiaojiao was doing.

He just put a handful of copper coins on Sheng Jiaojiao's table and said in a low voice:
"Those apples were sold, I did the math, and made dozens of dollars."

She had read the account book, and had already remembered the purchase price of apples written by Sheng Jiaojiao in her heart.

"very good already."

Sheng Jiaojiao seemed a little lethargic, she took out the ledger, wrote an account on it, raised her eyes, and saw that Mrs. Qi hadn't left yet.

So Sheng Jiaojiao asked:
"Second aunt, is there anything else?"

"Oh me"

Second Lady Qi looked at Sheng Jiaojiao carefully, and she keenly noticed that Sheng Jiaojiao seemed to be in a bad mood.

But Sheng Jiaojiao couldn't see anything on the surface. Even though she cared in her heart, she was cold and reticent all the year round, so that she didn't know how to ask words of concern when no one else was around.

After thinking about it, he said:

"How many apples are there in the house? Can the peddler who sells apples to the four brothers still supply us with apples? I thought, this is a business, I can go to the village, ask door to door, and sell all the apples." Go, and add some income to our family."

She thinks she can.

Because selling apples to Ergou Niangzi today made it easy for Qi Erniangzi.

Although so many apples were given to Mrs. Ergou in the way of half selling and half giving away, they actually earned tens of dollars for Ergou's family.

There wasn't much money, but the taste of making money made Er Niang Qi a little addicted.

She is a natural, business material.

It is a shameful thing to take money from the folks in the village, but Mrs. Qi Er doesn't think that she has earned dozens of dollars from Mrs. Ergou today. A sense of accomplishment.

Sheng Jiaojiao looked at the second aunt quietly, and when she heard the second aunt said that she would sell apples to earn income, Sheng Jiaojiao, who had no energy at first, finally became interested.

She nodded and said:
"Perhaps there are still goods in stock. I will ask the four brothers to find the peddler, try to get some more apples back, and supply them to us for a long time."

While talking, Sheng Jiaojiao felt sorry for the second aunt.

The second aunt lived in an environment that did not allow her to fully develop her talents.

If someone could have discovered her talent earlier, maybe today, the second aunt would not be farming on this high loess slope.

She might become a street girl.

Maybe become a powerful businesswoman.

No matter what it will become, it is a pity that the second aunt has the talent for doing business, but is stuck in farming.

So Sheng Jiaojiao said again:

"There are still some apples in the backyard. The four guys bought them from a peddler in the morning. Those apples can be sold."

She gave all these apples to the second aunt, as long as the second lady Qi can sell them, no matter whether they can sell the apples or not, they will make a profit.

The "purchase price" of the apples was actually only fabricated by Sheng Jiaojiao herself. No one knows better than her where these apples come from, and there is no cost at all.

Hearing Sheng Jiaojiao's words, Second Lady Qi's eyes that had been dark all year round suddenly lit up.

She seems to have lived to the age of 30 before she suddenly found the direction of her life, just like her hobbies, with a very rare smile on her face.

This made her look a lot kinder and kinder.

Sheng Jiaojiao is happy to see Miss Qi Er like this. Life has placed too many shackles on women. In her previous life, she was a person who was trapped in a deep palace by heavy shackles and could not be free.

That's why Sheng Jiaojiao was happy to see Second Lady Qi break through the layers of cages that bound her.

She hoped that everyone in the Qi family would be happy in this life.

Even for several days, Mrs. Qi Er went out to sell apples in the village. She could get back money every day, sometimes more, sometimes less, but in the end, it was all earned.

There has never been a time when Apple's "purchase price" has fallen.

After Sheng Jiaojiao looked at it for a few days, she stopped caring about Second Mistress Qi, she just asked Qi Rong to pick two big baskets of apples from the apple tree every day.

Then wait for Miss Qi Er and Niu Ju to come back at night to pay the bill.

In the past few days, Sheng Jiaojiao never mentioned Tan Ji again. She taught the children in the village as usual, leaving some children who didn't pay attention to the lecture every day. Do some work.

For example, learning to make paper by myself, watering the vegetable field in the backyard, identifying medicinal materials, etc.
Girls her age in the village have already been proposed by matchmakers, but Sheng Jiaojiao is still not interested.

She is not in a hurry, she just lives her leisurely life every day.

But Qi Rong liked to mention Tan Ji more and more, he would repeat Tan Ji's name several times in Sheng Jiaojiao's ear every day.

As long as he went to Dongying, as long as Tan Ji was in Dongying, he would come out to guide him in sword practice. As he practiced, Qi Rong's swordsmanship improved by leaps and bounds. Even Qi Zhang came home from a rest and praised Qi Rong's progress.

Sheng Jiaojiao didn't seem to respond at all, she often found books for Qi Zhang to read, and sometimes asked Qi Rong to bring books to Tan Ji, but she never went to Tan Ji again.

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After the tree was planted, the one who asked Chaozong to taste the sweetness, he seemed to think that the money would be quick, because there were many trees in the noble man's house.

A batch of trees were pulled over from the jumping horse lake fair before.

A few days ago, the king of the county sent more and more precious trees over.

Some of those trees have been planted, but some have not yet been planted, and they are all piled up in the place where their servants live.

So sneak a few trees away and no one will find out.

Moreover, Chao Sect is not the only one who secretly sells trees now.

So Chao Zong went to visit Qi's house several times, and each time he went to Zhou's to buy trees.

When Zhou encountered this kind of thing, she didn't have an idea, so she went to Sheng Jiaojiao to find a solution.

Sheng Jiaojiao agreed with one gulp.
"Buy, how much he wants, how much we give, but every time he has to make a receipt, because of something, how many trees were sold to us, and how much we were charged, we all need receipts."

"Wouldn't this increase the appetite of this Chao Sect?"

In the room, Mrs. Zhou was a little worried. She originally meant to make friends with Chao Lai for Qi Zhang, but in the end, it made Chao Zong want to go, and Chao Zong sold more trees every time. The price is more expensive every time.

And angrily said:

"Jiao Jiaoer, I went to the market to inquire. Now the servants of the noble mansion are selling trees, and the price is not as expensive as that of Chaozong. We can buy trees from Chaozong and go to others. I bought a lot of trees."

Sheng Jiaojiao was sitting on the kang, flipping through a handwritten book in her hand, with an unreasonable and graceful expression on her face, which seemed to have thousands of demeanors, and her uprightness exuded a formidable aura.

She sneered and said:

"If you really can't buy someone else's, let the Chaozong come to the door and ask us to buy trees. We will buy as many trees as he wants us to buy."

"Jiao Jiaoer, he is bullying us."

What Zhou said was very helpless. Chao Zong was now taking advantage of the abolition of the prince to bully the Qi family. He saw that the Qi family was spending more and more money, and it was becoming more and more bottomless.

"That's right, we want the servants of the noble mansion to oppress us. From now on, this person called Chaozong will be used to take bribes forcibly, and it will be in our hands."

Isn't Chao Lai trying to win over Qi Zhang?Chao Lai wins at the front, Chao Zong goes and oppresses at the back, when the Qi family gives Chao Zong Qu enough money, Chao Zong wants to get rid of the Qi family, but it will not be clean.

At that time, Chao Zong will become a member of the Qi family, this is a dark line.

On the bright side, the Qi family was oppressed by a waste man in the abolished prince's mansion in this way. They dared not speak out and couldn't express their suffering. Who would think that the Qi family was in the camp of the abolished prince?
The Qi family bought a bunch of trees and brought them home. With some money, they could not only remove their family from the deposed prince camp, but also provide cover for Sheng Jiaojiao's apple tree.

This is a double-edged thing, why not do it?

Zhou Shi looked at Sheng Jiaojiao and shivered suddenly.

Suddenly her back felt a little chilly, her knees softened, and she sat on the kang.

Sure enough, people who read a lot are so different?She hadn't noticed Jiao Jiaoer's scheming in the past, she could be so powerful.

It seems faintly intimidating
"Oh, I haven't been here for a few days, why did you even plant trees in your house?"

A sharp voice, with a hint of disapproval, sounded outside the yard.

Mrs. Zhou's thoughts were disturbed, and she hurried out of the room to see that it was Mrs. Zhou who had returned to the Zhou family in anger.

She is here again today.

Seeing Mrs. Qi and Zhou coming out, Mrs. Zhou walked into the courtyard of Qi's family, and said in a strange way:

"Auntie, let me tell you, no matter how developed your family is, you wouldn't be able to build it like this with money. Hey, why are there still sheep here?"

Mrs. Zhou, who hadn't been here for seven or eight days, was surprised when she saw four or five sheep tied under the tree in the yard of Qi's family.

Qi Zhou who welcomed her into the yard explained politely:

"They were all bought by Jiao Jiaoer, who said they would raise some sheep so that they could be sheared and made into jackets."

"Oh, your family has made too many jackets."

Mrs. Zhou was talking, her eyes were fixed on the fattest sheep under the tree.

Seeing the sheep lowering its head to eat the grass under the tree, he asked in surprise:
"Your family planted a tree, why is there still grass growing under the tree?"

Looking at it again, Mrs. Zhou didn't know what to say. During this time, the Qi family had planted a lot of trees in the front and back yards, which looked lush and leafy, and seemed to breathe a lot fresher.

People in Zhishou County have never seen such a beautiful tree.

Moreover, it is impossible to grow grass in the yard of any household. Unless it is a vegetable field that is specially carefully taken care of, it will be all yellow and bald.

Even in Jishou County, where there is grass, it looks yellow and hard, with shallow roots. I have never seen such soft grass that grows into leafy leaves.

In fact, Mrs. Zhou didn't quite understand why, she only knew that after the tree was planted, Sheng Jiaojiao asked Niu Ju to come back from the market to buy a sheep today and another sheep tomorrow.

Two days ago, the sheep were tied to the roots of the tree, and the family even specially fed the sheep with small vegetables from the field, so they didn't take much care of the sheep.

Those few sheep ate, drank and littered under the tree. After the sheep excrement and urine were excavated, no one cleaned them up, so their sheep's hooves stepped on them again, and the soil under the tree was trampled and fattened.

(End of this chapter)

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