The Blessed (Book 1)

131. Act Separately; Family Finance

The next morning, Ling Jingxuan and Yan Shengrui got up early. After regular exercise, one pulled the handcart to Yuehua Ditch to catch fish, while the other took the two little bun and Xiaohu to practice martial arts in the yard. As for cooking and cleaning, it was all left to Song Gengniu’s family. In the simple yard, one could hear the kids’ innocent and hearty smile.

After someone from the restaurant fetched the fish, Guarantor Liu brought thirty workers here in person. Everyone was strong, dark-skinned, one could tell Guarantor Liu really put a lot of thoughts on this. Although after they saw Ling Jingxuan’s house, they had about one second’s doubt, it was gone soon. Ling Jingpeng and Jinghan took the job of arranging work for the workers-they brought them to open up wasteland.

“Godfather, godfather…”

After the carriage was parked, Tiewa who wore his new clothes ran into the yard happily, with Han Fei and Zhao Dalong who also wore clean clothes following behind nervously. Seeing their companion, the two little buns moved forward to welcome them, the three of them held each other’s hands and made circles there with great joys.

“Hehe…be careful. Don’t get your clothes dirty.”

Looking at them, Ling Jingxuan helplessly shook his head. Do they need to be so happy for going to school? Still a bunch of kiddos.

“Jingxuan, how do we look? Is it possible Mr. Chu wouldn’t like our Tiewa?”

Since the village head and the old xiucai kept making trouble for them before, Han Fei had trust issues about scholars. Now finally they got a chance to send Tiewa to town for school, he was really afraid he himself might ruin such a rare opportunity. Bays of being parents! For the kid, he was nearly not like the usual him now!

“Don’t be nervous, Mr. Chu is a very nice man, not much older than we are, and he also has a son, I heard he is nine years old, also a handsome young man.”

Noticing that they were so nervous that their bodies even went stiff, Ling Jingxuan tried to comfort them. If they kept it that way, he was afraid that they’d directly pass out when they saw Chu Ci.

“Oh? Really? That’s good, that’s good…”

But Rome is not built in a day! The couple’s nervousness wasn’t eased much only by a few words of Ling Jingxuan. Early in the morning, without doing any farm work or what, they even got their clothes wetted, from which one could tell how nervous they were.

“Then I will go to town with them. When those workers come, you make the arrangements. I also told Jinghan and Jingpeng to let the workers dig a ditch around the edge. If possible, let the team responsible for building walls come too, and they all start their job from tomorrow at latest.”

Knowing that they could not calm down for a moment, Ling Jingxuan stopped his futile work trying to comfort them but turned to Yan Shengrui and said so. So many things got together. So they could only act separately.

“Hmm, I know what to do. Be careful. Come back early.”

Lifting his hand, Yan Shengrui brushed a lock of hair on his face behind his ear.

Nodding, Ling Jingxuan turned to Lady Yang and her daughter who were standing aside, “Mrs. Song, it’d be a hard work. Remember giving them water. And stew the big bones I asked Shuisheng to buy this morning, and make steamed buns and send them over at noon. We should let them have enough food. Shuiling, help your mom. Make the schoolbags when you have time.”

“Yes, Master Xuan!”

The mother and daughter respectfully bent over, after a day’s adaptation yesterday, today, they already accepted everything. Although this family was a bit poor, the master was good to them. Though that approachable to let them eat with them on one table, their food was the same with the master’s. And the master’s parents and two younger brothers were also good to them, especially the two little masters, they nearly took Xiaohu was their own elder brother, let alone Ling Jingxuan was their savior. The only one they feared of should be Master Yan. Not knowing why, they always felt that he had some kind of unapproachable feeling. Every time they saw him, they had some kind of untold fear.