jdhmnovel Chapter 190 Another Autumn Harvest
Chapter 190 Another Autumn Harvest
Of course, what the middle-aged woman, her parents, and her younger brother want is not just this kind of painless revenge. What they want is to make the middle-aged man disgraced and die without a burial place.
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, who just wanted to make money and eliminate a group of bandits at the same time, didn't know that their careless actions gave the middle-aged woman's family an opportunity to follow the clues and uncover a series of corrupt and law-breaking behaviors of the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was personally reported and exposed by his wife. Not only was he beheaded and his property confiscated, but even his mistresses and their children were implicated as well.
Only his wife, because of her meritorious reporting and her father privately finding the right person to intercede for her, was able to break up with the other party at the right time before he went to prison.
The middle-aged man harmed her younger brother, and in order to prevent her from having children, he made her drink bitter medicine all year round. Taking these two things into consideration, it was completely reasonable for his wife to break up with him.
She successfully jumped out of the quagmire with her dowry and returned to her parents' home. The middle-aged man who was personally reported by her after she collected some evidence did not realize until the moment he was thrown into prison that his ex-wife's revenge on him was not just a severance of ties with him as he thought.
The middle-aged man who had done everything he could to climb up the ladder regretted it deeply, but at this point, it was too late for him to have any other ideas.
His former father-in-law understood very well that one must root out the trouble. Neither he nor his mistresses or their children were able to get away with it under the nose of his former father-in-law.
Their whole family died in complete silence, and the subsequent troubles that Gu Wenxuan and others were worried about disappeared completely without their knowledge.
Gu Wenxuan, who had always been on guard against potential hidden dangers, knew nothing about this incident that had caused great changes in the officialdom of a certain state. She had been busy doing farm work these days.
While her grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts were busy drying vegetables and picking mushrooms, she went to their hidden valley with Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan and a few others.
The tasks of drying vegetables and harvesting beans were given to Bai Jingshan, her second brother Gu Wenhai and Jia Yuelan, while Gu Wenxuan, together with Bai Jingzhou and her cousins Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai, worked hard to make this year's wine.
In order to make her skin better, Gu Wenxuan would never take off her veil unless necessary, and she also insisted on applying the skin care products that Bai Jingzhou made for her every day.
The skin care products made by Bai Jingzhou himself are not only effective and harmless to the skin, but also because most of the raw materials are obtained from the mountains, they don’t cost them much money at all.
After persisting in this way for a period of time, although she has not yet recovered the healthy light wheat-colored skin of her previous life, her skin feels obviously more delicate and smoother than before.
After drying all the vegetables that could be dried and brewing the wine, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou hurried to the farm to supervise the farmers in their rush to harvest.
As for the fields owned by their two families around Baijia Village, Bai Chong and Old Man Gu have taken over them voluntarily.
They took other family members to the fields to participate in the harvest. After harvesting each crop, they would use the little free time in between to help Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou whenever they had time.
After working day and night to harvest the grain and fruits, Gu Wenxuan distributed the portion that belonged to the farmers. She also proposed that she was willing to exchange the old grain for the new grain in the hands of the farmers.
The farmers were having a hard time, and they were reluctant to eat the new grain themselves. Instead, they took it directly to the town or county town and exchanged it for more old grain that could last longer.
The exchange ratio given by Gu Wenxuan was very fair, and the old grains they took out were all dry, clean, and well preserved, unlike some grain stores which took out old grains that were adulterated or even moldy.
In addition, she had the old grain directly brought to the farm, saving the farmers the trouble of going back and forth themselves. The farmers then happily took out the new grain they had just received.
In this way, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou no longer have to go to the grain store, as the old grain they hid in the small valley last year has been almost replaced.
Gu Wenxuan arranged for people to transport the new grain by car to an uninhabited river bank. Fang Youfu and others would be responsible for slowly transporting the grain to a small valley on rafts for proper storage.
After the grain and fruits on the farm were harvested, Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou and Fang Youfu and others went to the small valley to harvest buckwheat, oats, peanuts, squash, cabbage, radish and some seasonal medicinal herbs.
The crop yields in the fields in the small valley were slightly better than last year, but the pressure they felt during the harvest this year was not much greater than last year.
On the one hand, the crops they grow are relatively easy to harvest. On the other hand, they have new partners to work with this year, so many of the trivial tasks have been shared by others.
Although Bai Jingzhou was very busy and tired every day, he still prepared food for Gu Wenxuan carefully every day, just like last year.
Although the others were just being picked up, they didn't mind being picked up at all because there were delicious food waiting for them.
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou's families did not sell any of the new grain produced in the village, the farm, and the small valley. In addition to the grain they transported to the small valley, Gu Wenxuan also stockpiled a lot of new grain at home.
In addition, she also bought a large piece of residential land in Jiajia Village through Jia's father and mother, intending to start building a solid fortress that they could defend after the autumn harvest.
The residential land selected by Gu Wenxuan personally is located next to the home of Jia's father and mother, and its area is about twenty times the size of a normal farmyard.
Gu Wenxuan plans to build three high walls here to enclose the newly purchased residential land with the high walls and the back mountain.
It has been mentioned before that Jiajia Village is located halfway up the mountain. The land that Gu Wenxuan bought is located at the back of the village and is directly connected to the upper half of the mountain.
With the upper half of the mountain serving as a natural barrier, there is no need to build another wall on the back side of this residential land.
Jiajia Village is just a very small village. There is no village head belonging to Jiajia Village. The people who are usually responsible for deciding the affairs of the village are the patriarch and elders of the Jia family.
When Jia's father and mother proposed to buy a residential plot, the head of the Jia family asked them one more question, "Why did you suddenly think of buying such a large piece of land?"
It’s half the size of their village, which is totally out of the ordinary.
Following Gu Wenxuan's instructions, Father and Mother Jia truthfully told her about some of the measures that Gu Wenxuan had taken to prepare for a rainy day.
According to Gu Wenxuan, she would not only pay for the land, but also select strong laborers to do odd jobs and aunts and sisters-in-law to cook from among the Jia family members when building the walls and the house.