It seems that you are going to flee from famine, don't be anxious or panic

Chapter 263 Integrity

Duan Zhili copied the contents of the contract to Zhou Youfeng, who immediately said excitedly, "That's 200 taels of silver this month. This is really making a fortune. Brother Jian is amazing. He's a real money man."

Ning Yu said arrogantly, "Of course, don't you see who my brother is?"

After hearing this, both of them felt that it made sense. Yes, who is Brother Zheng? He is their fortune star.

In this way, they will not have to worry about not having money to buy food, and they can also stay in the inn in Xia Cang City for a night.

The ox cart soon arrived home, and everyone in the family was waiting anxiously, waiting for them to bring back good news.

After hearing the price of strawberries, except for a few people from the Ning family, everyone else opened their mouths wide with surprise. One tael of silver per pound, wow, about 20 strawberries in this pound can buy dozens or even hundreds of pounds of grain.

After a moment of excitement, Duan Zhili handed the deposit to Huo Yu and said, "This is a 25-liang deposit. The money for the birthday banquet will be paid on the same day. The rest will be paid once each delivery is made."

Seeing this, Huo Yu only took 5 taels of silver and then said, "The rest of the money, you can divide it among yourself."

Ning Yan's family does nothing except providing seeds. The rest of the planting, watering, plowing and weeding are done by the three families of Duan Zhili, Sun Huzi and Zhou Youfeng.

So Huo's family gets 2% of the profit, and the rest is divided according to the number of people who work.

They had agreed on this in advance. They had thought that Huo and the others took too little and had been humble in trying to get more, but Huo and the others didn't care, so the rest of the people stopped arguing and accepted their kindness.

So now Duan Zhili said directly: "Thank you."

Then he turned around and distributed the money to others. After working hard for almost a month, everyone felt at ease after getting a few taels of silver.

Sun Huzi suggested to Duan Zhili, "There's nothing much to do in the fields right now. Let's go into town tomorrow, buy some things, and have a good celebration. We can also thank Uncle Ning, Aunt Ning, and their families. What do you think?"

Zhou Youfeng said, "Okay, then don't divide the remaining few taels of silver. Use it as money for tomorrow's shopping."

Duan Zhili said, "Okay, let's do it this way."

The next day, Sun Huzi and his men went into the city and bought a lot of food, meat, and vegetables. They had grown them in their fields, so they could just pick them directly from the ground.

Then the group had a lively meal, the first big meal in so many days.

After the meal, it was soon the day of the old lady of the Yun family’s birthday.

The banquet started at noon, and Duan Zhili and his friends got up early to pick strawberries.

In order to make the strawberries look better, several elders worked overtime to weave more than ten small baskets. Each basket could hold just five pounds of strawberries. Each basket was covered with oil paper to prevent them from being exposed to the sun or bumps.

After everything was packed, Duan Zhili, Ning Yu, and Zhou Youfeng prepared to drive to the Yun family.

When they arrived at the back door of the Yun family, it was just 9 o'clock. The steward saw them coming and hurried to greet them. Today's task was specially ordered by the eldest son, so he had to do it well.

Although he couldn't see any difference between them, their clothes were even not as good as the maids in the mansion.

So although he was serious about his work, he was not very polite when speaking to a few people.

When the steward came over, he said, "Ox carts cannot enter. You guys carry these things into the yard."

When Ning Yu heard about putting it in the yard, she kindly reminded him, "This thing can't be exposed to the sun or bumped into. It's best to put it directly in the house."

Upon hearing this, the steward said with a somewhat arrogant look: "I don't need you to teach me how to do things. Although I don't know how you gained the trust of the eldest master, I think the things you brought are not up to standard.

"It's already a great honor for you to be allowed to put it in the yard, do you really want to put it on the banquet table?"

When the others heard this, their expressions froze. After a glance at each other, Ning Yu said, "Go call out your eldest son. I want to ask him if this thing of ours can be served at the banquet."

The steward snorted and said, "You can't just see our eldest master whenever you want. Put your things down and you can leave."

Ning Yu heard this and said, "Then wait a moment. I believe your eldest son will come out."

Today is the first day that Strawberry has been shown, and the eldest son of the Yun family will definitely use it to show off. As long as they spend some time here, the eldest son will definitely come over if he can't see anything.

Duan Zhili and Zhou Youfeng didn't say anything when they heard Ning Yu's words, and just waited here with him.

Although Ning Lu is young, he has followed Ning Yan's code of conduct since he was a child. Later, influenced by Huo Xi, he is not a person who will suffer losses, so both of them trust him very much.

The steward was a little flustered when he heard this, but he managed to calm down. He took out some silver and said to Ning Yu, "These are the accounts payable. Please check them, put the things down and you can leave."

Ning Yu glanced at the silver notes and found that there were only 15 taels, 10 taels less.

Seeing this situation, he was even more unwilling to buy it. He sat directly on the ox cart and asked the orange in front to stand a little further back. He leaned directly on the orange's back, crossed his legs, and took a handful of melon seeds from his purse to eat.

Seeing Duan Zhili and Zhou Youfeng looking at him, he spread out his palm and asked, "Want to eat?"

Zhou Youfeng was not polite and grabbed some directly, then asked: "What is this?"

"Sunflower seeds, mint flavor, my brother's favorite." Ning Yu said.

Duan Zhili also grabbed some, looked at them and asked, "How do you eat this?"

There were no melon seeds in Donglin Kingdom yet, and Duan Zhili had never seen such a thing, let alone eaten it.

Ning Yu demonstrated it to them, and then both of them learned it instantly. Then the three of them started cracking melon seeds here, and no one paid any attention to the housekeeper standing by.

Zhou Youfeng said as he ate it, "This thing is quite delicious."

Ning Yu said, "Each person can only share what you have. I don't have much myself."

Ning Jian only planted a few sunflowers, and when they were fried, they weighed a little over three pounds. After sharing them among several people in the family, no one got much.

So Ning Lu gave each of them more than 30 melon seeds.

When they heard this, they slowed down their eating. If they ate too fast, the food would be gone soon.

The steward became anxious when he saw that the three men ignored him, but he did not give in to Ning Lu. Instead, he went straight back to Yun Mansion and came out with a few servants after a while.

Prepare to take the thing down directly and forcefully.

Ning Yu didn't even raise her eyelids as she continued to persuade him, "I advise you to be more restrained and call your eldest son out. Today's matter will be easy to resolve. Otherwise, you will be the one who suffers in the end."

"You, a young boy, actually speak such nonsense in Yun Mansion. You really don't know your place." The manager snorted disdainfully.

Then he said to the servants, "Take the things off the car for me."

"Yes." Several servants responded quickly and were about to move forward.

Duan Zhili and Zhou Youfeng stood aside silently upon seeing this. Ning Yu was their "master" in martial arts, so these people would definitely be easy to deal with, so they wouldn't be in the way anymore.

In just a few breaths, the four or five servants who approached were kicked to the ground by Ning Lu one by one, and he didn't even let the car get close.

Seeing this, the steward shouted angrily, "Do you know where we are? How dare you come to our Yun Mansion and act wildly? You really don't know how to live or die. Just wait for me."

After saying that, he went back into the Yun Mansion.

Zhou Youfeng said, "Are you going to call for help again?"

Duan Zhili said, "I remember that wealthy families all train their own thugs to guard the house. Could it be that these are the people they called this time?"

Zhou Youfeng said, "When those people come, we'll go too. We've been training for so long, we can't be cowardly."

Duan Zhili said: "Yeah."

After moving into the house, Ning Yu taught Huo Yun and Ning Jing martial arts almost every day. At first, only Sun Yuexi followed to learn, and later, after they obtained Ning Yu's consent, the whole family, young and old, followed to learn.

I have been learning it for more than 20 days. I am not sure whether I can fight or not, but it is true that my body has been strengthened and the muscles on my body have been developed.

However, their plan to fight failed, because the person who came out again was the servant who followed Yun Jingyu that day, and another young man in silk clothes.

Seeing Ning Yu and the others, the servant quickly said, "I'm sorry, everyone. Our eldest son has heard about what happened with the housekeeper just now, and he asked me to come and apologize."

After that, he continued, "Our eldest son has to entertain guests and cannot get away, so let the second son come to give you justice. This is the second son of our Yun Mansion."

Today is the old lady's full birthday, and the celebration is grand. Almost all the important people in Xia Cang City are here.

The eldest son of this Strawberry family has been teasing his family for several days, and they were just waiting for her to show up today. However, after waiting for a long time, there was no sign of Strawberry, so he sent a servant to see what was going on.

When the servant was halfway there, he saw the butler leading a few thugs from the mansion out. When he asked them about it, the butler hesitated and refused to tell the truth.

Because the eldest son assigned this matter to the housekeeper, and the servant could not do anything to the housekeeper, he reported the matter directly to the eldest son, and then he knew the whole story.

So the eldest son asked the second son to take him to deal with the matter.

Ning Yu raised her eyes and glanced at the second young master in front of her. He was in his early 20s and looked somewhat similar to Yun Jingyu, but his face was rounder and his body was fatter. He gave people a more approachable feeling than Yun Jingyu.

Ning Yu only glanced at the second young master and said without giving him face: "Are you still going to do this business? If not, we can find someone else to do it."

Upon hearing this, the second son, Yun Jingheng, shook the fan in his hand and said, "Don't be angry, little brother. Of course we will do this business."

After that, he continued, "I'm really busy today, so I can't give you an explanation for now. Tomorrow I'll send someone to your house to give you a thank you gift, and I'll definitely give you an explanation."

Then he said to the servant, "Why don't you pay the money to the brothers quickly?"

Upon hearing this, the servant handed the banknote to Ning Yu and said, "This is the remaining balance. Take a look."

Ning Yu glanced at the silver in his hand and said, "It seems that the steward didn't give this amount just now. It was 10 taels less than this."

Originally, the final payment should have been 25 taels of silver, but the manager just gave him 15 taels of silver, so Ning Yu ignored him.

When Yun Jingheng heard this, he stopped fanning himself and the smile on his face vanished. He had never expected that this steward was not only so contemptuous but also wanted to embezzle money.

Then he said to Ning Yu with a serious face: "Don't worry, little brother, I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter."

Ning Yu successfully exposed the steward's identity and obtained the promise of the head of the family. The Yun family is a large family and attaches great importance to its reputation, so he is not worried that they will not deal with the steward.

So he took the banknote in a good mood and asked them to take the strawberries off the cart.

After the strawberries were moved, Yun Jingheng signaled the servant to hand a food box to Ning Yu and said, "Thank you for your hard work, brothers. These foods are just a token of our gratitude."

The food box was very big, and it contained 5 dishes and a dessert, all of which were the dishes for today's banquet.

Ning Yu bowed politely and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Second Young Master. We will be leaving first."

Then he didn't take the food box, but patted the orange and signaled it to drive away.

Juzi was very obedient. After Ning Lu and the others came up, he drove away directly without anyone's instructions.

Watching the backs of the people leaving, the servant looked at the food box in his hand and said hesitantly: "Second Master, this..."

He didn't expect these people to be so disrespectful that they didn't even take the lunch boxes.

Yun Jingheng thought that these people were quite principled. Today's food boxes were filled with dishes from the banquet, five dishes and one dessert. One portion of the more expensive lamb and venison was prepared, and even the cheapest dessert was something that ordinary people could not easily eat.

I just heard from the servant that these people came here to escape famine. Two of them were scholars. Their families were from remote areas and they didn't have much background. I didn't expect them to be so tough and directly refused the food boxes.

Could it be that these people have other hidden identities?

Ning Yu had no idea about the second young master's wild thoughts and drove the carriage directly back home.

After returning home, he told Ning Yan and the others about this.

Bai Lifen said, "It's a good thing you went straight to the eldest young master. If you had contacted this housekeeper, I don't know how much credit he would have embezzled!"

Huo said, "If we had come into contact with this person first, the Yun family would definitely not be able to enjoy the fruits of our family's labor."

They would never sell strawberries to such people, and it would be a waste to sell them to such people.

"That's right." Bai Lifen said.

The matter was over after a few words, and they continued to do what they were supposed to do.

At 9:00 the next day, everyone was catching up on sleep in their rooms when the doorbell rang.

The weather nowadays is basically that the sun starts to rise at Mao time and the sun starts to set at Xu time, so their martial arts training time basically starts at half past Mao time in the morning and ends at half past Chen time, and starts at You time in the afternoon and ends at Xu time.

Two hours every day. If I have nothing to do after practicing in the morning, I will come back and take a nap.

Now the first crop in the field has been harvested, they have planted a new crop and watered it for the first time, so there is nothing to do in the field now, and after practicing martial arts, they all come back to sleep.

Zhou Youfeng's house was closest to the door, so when he heard the doorbell, he stood up and yawned and went to open the door.

When he opened the door, he saw a group of people outside, about seven or eight of them, which scared him.

He looked at the leader and asked, "What are you doing?"