After they returned home, Jiang Quan began to count and divide the money.
But the three sisters were not interested in his little things, so they just let him keep them for himself.
Although Jiang Quan was a little disappointed, who can resist money? Five hundred coins is enough to buy a lot of things. Humph, if they don't want it, it's a good bargain for him.
In the afternoon, Yingbao took the big deer to the pond to drink water and take a walk.
It is hot in the summer, so people go out early in the morning when it is cooler or when the sun sets. Some hoe the fields, some make adobe bricks, and some carry shovels to drain water into the paddy fields.
Nanpo has been quite lively recently, with several families planning to build houses here.
Like Tang’s son Chen Zhu, brothers Li Dayong and Li Eryong, and Chen Sanyou’s second son Chen Yin.
Whenever they had time, they came to the south slope to make adobe bricks and cut bamboo. Some foundations had already been laid, and they were just waiting for the bricks from the brick kiln to be delivered before they could start building the houses.
Suddenly, a group of people came towards this side on horseback. Some of them were drawing bows on horseback and aiming and shooting at Yoyo.
Yingbao was shocked and quickly urged Youyou to run home first.
Yoyo was frightened and ran towards home on all fours.
Yingbao followed closely behind, looking back from time to time.
Fortunately, he and Youyou were not within the range of the bows and arrows. Even if these people spurred their horses to chase them, they could not outrun the strong and sturdy Youyou.
Yingbao ran back home, immediately closed the door and shouted, "Dad! Mom! There are bad guys!"
Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang came out upon hearing the noise and saw several horse-riding guards gathered at their door. They couldn't help but frown, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
A guard said, "A deer just ran into your house. Hurry and chase the deer out!"
"That's the deer my family raises. Do you want to rob people's property?" Jiang Sanlang said coldly.
The leading guard raised his eyebrows and said disdainfully: "If you say it's yours, then it's yours? Get out of the way quickly, I want to go in and catch the deer."
Jiang Sanlang took out an iron fork from the gate and said, "Let's see who dares to break into a private house!"
At this time, Jiang Erlang, Jiang Dalang, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan also ran out, holding shovels, iron forks, wooden sticks and other weapons in their hands, and shouted angrily: "Who are you! What do you want to do?"
When they saw so many men, they hesitated for a moment, and one of them whispered, "Forget it. We are new here, and it is not appropriate to have conflicts with the local people. It will be difficult to explain if the eldest master finds out."
Another person said, "What are you afraid of? We are the young master's guards. What's wrong with coming to the mountains to hunt deer?"
"But the deer is raised by the villagers." Someone didn't want to get involved.
The leading guard snorted coldly, "Just give them a few dozen coins to buy it. I don't think they dare to say anything."
At this time, three more horses came over, and on one of the horses sat a boy of six or seven years old.
The boy pulled the reins and asked arrogantly, "Why are you surrounding people's gates instead of going hunting?"
"Young Master." The leading guard clasped his fists, "We had our eyes on a deer, but it was hidden in the yard by this group of unruly people."
Yingbao shouted angrily, "That's my deer!"
The boy's eyes lit up when he saw that it was a little baby he found in the market.
Seeing her with her hands on her hips glaring at them, he turned around and asked, "Did you steal someone else's deer?"
The leading guard was stunned and argued: "Young Master, the deer is a wild animal, how can it belong to his family? This group of unruly people are just bullying you because you are young..."
Before he could finish his words, the boy had already hit him in the face with a horsewhip.
The boy said angrily: "Go back! Don't follow me anymore!" He hated it most when people said he was young.
The leading guard was ashamed and annoyed, but still responded and rode back.
The boy turned and nodded to Yingbao, "Don't be angry, it was my guards who were rude. They won't steal your deer."
After a pause, he said, "So you live here."
Jiang Sanlang blocked the girl behind him and said coldly: "The villagers are humble, so I won't invite you in."
Then he asked Chunniang to take his daughter back to the yard and close the gate while he dealt with these people outside.
After a while, the group rode away on horseback.
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang asked what was going on.
Yingbao: "They just wanted to hunt Yoyo."
"Who are they? How dare they be so rampant?"
Jiang Erlang spent the whole morning at home with his new wife making snacks in preparation for tomorrow's return visit gift. He had no idea that Chen Laoshuan from Xicun had already returned from the city and brought a large group of people with him.
"It was brought back by the Chen family in Xicun. It is said that they are from the Wei family in Fucheng." Yingbao said.
"The Wei family from Fucheng? What are they doing here?"
Their poor little mountain village was seldom visited by nobles. This was the first time in Jiang Dalang's thirty-plus years of life that he had encountered so many neatly-dressed horse-riding guards.
Jiang Sanlang shook his head: "I don't know, but these people must be the servants of Chen Laoshuan's former master."
The feud between my family and Chen Laoshuan's family is a foregone conclusion. It is possible that Chen Laoshuan wants to use those servants to take revenge on my family.
"Brother, don't let Dani, Erni, Yuanbao and Huzi and the others go out and wander around recently. We have to be careful of this group of people." Jiang Sanlang said.
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang nodded, "Don't worry, we know what to do."
Jiang Dalang turned to his second brother and asked, "Aren't you taking your sister-in-law to the county town to visit your parents tomorrow? Erni and Huzi aren't going, are they?"
"Well, Yan Ru and I can go back."
"Then let Erni and Huzi live in my house, and I will let Dacheng look after them." Jiang Dalang said.
Jiang Erlang: "Okay."
Yingbao knew from the book what these people were doing here, but she couldn't tell her parents.
So she had to go to the county town to find Wu Daozi and talk to him. "Second Uncle, I want to go to the county town with you tomorrow. I promised Mr. Wu that I would bring him some golden ears to taste."
Jiang Erlang nodded: "Okay, we should also thank Mr. Ming."
"Baoer, is dad going too?" Jiang Sanlang was a little worried about his daughter being alone.
Yingbao: "No, I can go with my second uncle."
It's inconvenient to talk when there are so many people around, so it's better for her not to bring her father with her.
The next day, Yingbao got up early, washed, packed a bamboo basket, and put a lot of things in it.
After eating the egg noodles cooked by her mother, Yingbao got on the mule cart and sat with Aunt Yanru.
Jiang Erlang waved his whip and drove the mule cart on the road.
Yan Ru couldn't let go of the small, soft baby in her arms. Seeing that her hair was tied casually, she wanted to comb her hair and braid it again.
Yingbao's hair is much thicker and longer than when she was a child, so she can barely braid it into a complicated bun.
Yan Ru took out her makeup box and used two pink ribbons to braid her niece's hair. She twisted it around and made two beautiful hanging buns for her and inserted two blue pearl flowers on each side.
He held up the bronze mirror for Yingbao to look at herself, and asked with a smile, "Does it look good?"
Yingbao blinked, a little bit unbelieving that the little person in the mirror was herself, and nodded: "It looks good."
For the first time, she felt how beautiful she was. She couldn't help but touch the colorful ribbon hanging from her hair ring. Her eyes curved into crescents.
"Second Aunt, your hairstyle is really beautiful." Ying Bao praised: "I have never seen it before."
In fact, she had seen more complicated and beautiful buns, but that was in her previous life.
Yan Ru smiled and tapped Ying Bao's nose, "Xiao Bao is pretty, no matter what hairstyle she has, she will look good with it."
Yingbao narrowed her eyes and smiled, nodding vigorously: "Yeah, Second Aunt is pretty too."
Yan Ru is really pretty now. She looks radiant and much more beautiful than when I first met her.
Yan Ru chuckled and took out the snow skin cream to rub Ying Bao's face.
"I made this snow skin cream myself. Try it. Is it comfortable?"
Yingbao nodded and let Yanru fiddle with it, occasionally asking about the methods of making the snow skin cream and rouge and powder.
Yan Ru seemed to know everything and told her how to make powder and rouge, and how to mix snow skin cream.
Yingbao listened with great interest and decided to plant more flowers in the future and try to make rouge and powder herself.