Chapter 22

UNEDITED

The fish seemed like it really was selling well. It wasn't even midday when Ling Jingpeng came back. Ling Chenglong did not come with him, he probably went home to help with the farm work. After all, it currently was the farming season, stopping by everyday was already pretty good. Don’t forget to mention, because Ling Jingxuan threatened to tell the authorities on Da Wa’s family, Li Zheng also did not bring people to come trouble him. This situation was basically restrained. As for if Li Zhe ng or Da Wa’s family would resent him, Ling Jingxuan expressed indifference. Is the resentment towards him small? Adding on another problem wasn’t much, having one less problem was also not small.

“What? 20 Wen each one? How is it so expensive?”

Big bun when hearing Ling Jingpeng’s report that the jars with the skinny necks and big bellies were 20 Wen each, his little face choked red. Both eyes furiously glared at the jars. You can imagine how much it hurt him. There were 20 of them, in total it cost 400 Wen. In addition there were other things that were bought today, therefore today’s fish had no profit.

The corners of Ling Jingxuan’s mouth twitched. He secretly threw Ling Jingpeng a wink and the two of them hurried to move those jars to the cellar. With Ling Jingxuan’s instructions, the actions of the two were very swift and took yesterday’s wild grapes, put inside the pot and mashed them together. Then they sealed the jars with a cloth covered in mud to let the grapes inside naturally ferment.

“Ok, it can be drunk after a month. Jingpeng, is the market in town open everyday?”

Looking at the neat pile of jars in the cellar, Ling Jingxuan let out a gratified smile. If he wasn’t short of money, he wanted to pick more grapes and turn it into wine. Maybe this could get him a pot of gold in this era, although he didn't know if this era had wine or not already.

“It’s not like that. Market day is every three days. Tomorrow just happens to be market day. Big brother you want to go to the market?”Extending a hand to rub the two children’s heads, Ling Jingxuan patted the little bun’s butt. Compared to the stingy but very earnest Big bun, Little bun was no doubt even more lazy. But he still very earnestly woke up with him in the morning to go run and shadowbox. Right now he even added on practice writing characters. If possible, he hoped that Big bun could also be like this. After all they were only five right?

“En.”

Nodding his head, Little bun stooped down to pick up the wolf cub that was baring his teeth at Ling Jingxuan. Lulling on Tie Wazi, he turned around and left. Ling Jingxuan watched until they disappeared before going back to stirring. “Zhao family is a foreign family ba?”

Not everyone in Lingjai village was surnamed Ling. According to the memories of the original owner, there seemed to be a couple foreign households and Zhao family was one of them. As for the others, he didn't know.

“En, but Zhao family is not the same as the other foreign families. Brother Zhao’s parents passed away early and his wife also died when she gave birth. A few years ago he was the mother and father as he dragged along Tie Wazi. His days passed with great difficulty. Fortunately, although the Zhao family didn’t have much land, Brother Zhao could forge iron wares.Although it was barely enough, it wasn’t too bad. But… three years ago Brother Zhao suddenly got married to Brother Han. The village people felt that these two manly men getting married was ridiculous. Afraid that it would throw away the face of Lingjia village, clan leader and second grandpa gave them a new residence. Calling it an exchange is just a glorified name, in fact it was really chasing them out of the village. These few years Tie Wazi is the same as Xiao Wen, bullied by everyone everywhere he goes, quite pitiful.”

It was already hard for foreign households, adding on the fact that they were two married men, it wasn’t easy to say how hard it was for them.

“Hmph, it’s just the countryside nothing more. Acting like a large and influential family, do they really think that they are rich and powerful tycoons?”

Ling Jingxuan couldn't help but sneer. The emperor had married a man and turned him into an Empress, how far would they go? Although there were not a lot of men who married men, it was more commonly seen in big households. Furthermore, these men were usually concubines. But it wasn't like there wasn't any in the countryside. A house had a lot of manpower, and households with small lands would marry off their unfavored sons for two pieces of silver for household expenses. And there were some widowers with children who because they were too poor, were unable to marry a wife. They would marry a man to help the child and handle household duties. Basically almost every village had some, and had never heard of anyone looking down on them, so much that they felt they would lose face. Lingjia village was really the best.***