Chapter 22: Finding Someone to Dig a Well

After completing the transfer procedures, the Li Zheng blew on the half-dry handwriting and said: "Fortunately, that piece of land is not expensive, one and a half taels of silver. After you pay the money, I will hand over these transfer deed documents to the county yamen for stamping tomorrow..."

Jiang Wei took out the silver, but the Li Zheng stared at the handwriting on the procedure documents and exclaimed in realization: "Hey? Jiang Shi, when did you learn to write?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao followed his gaze. Those few half-dry, regular-script, complex-character words were written neatly and tidily; one look and you could tell it wasn't something a peasant woman in the village could write.

Her heart skipped a beat.

Was her mother about to be exposed?!

Who would have thought that Jiang Wei wouldn't even frown. She said plainly: "Before I fled to Yuhe Village, my father was a private tutor and taught me how to read and write."

"Oh, oh, so that's how it is!"

The Li Zheng didn't doubt it at all, and even had a bit of awe for Jiang Wei: "So you were once a young lady from a scholarly family! Sigh, Heaven really tortures people. It hasn't been easy for you, fleeing to this place of ours, separated from your family..."

He sighed a few times, and looking at the handwriting on the document, he couldn't help but praise it again: "Your father must have been a highly respected teacher to have taught you so well. Look at this handwriting; it's better than what some scholars write."

"Li Zheng, you flatter me."

Jiang Wei only smiled faintly, then patted Jiang Xiaoxiao's shoulder: "Xiaoxiao, you aren't young anymore; it's time to learn some characters. Study hard with me when we go back tonight."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was caught off guard and patted on the shoulder, her little face immediately collapsing: "Don't, Mother..."

The female lead is an all-around big shot who knows everything, but she isn't.

Although she also knows how to read, those are all modern simplified characters. These ancient complex characters...

She looked at the dense complex characters on the document and felt dizzy. It was bad enough that there were many strokes, but she also had to use a brush to write... This was torture.

"Mother, I'm still young; let's learn when I'm older."

The Li Zheng was amused by her bitter appearance: "Haha, Xiaoxiao, the little girls in the village don't even have the chance to learn to read. You aren't young anymore. Male children can go to private school at five. If your mother teaches you, study hard. You can be a literate mistress of the house after you marry in the future!"

"I'm not getting married!" Jiang Xiaoxiao hugged her mother's thigh. "I want to stay by Mother's side for a lifetime."

She couldn't bear to leave the thick thigh of her female lead mother!

Jiang Wei was also amused.

After the joking, Jiang Wei asked the Li Zheng again: "Liu Uncle, I want to dig a well on that piece of land at home. Do you know who in the village knows how to dig wells?"

"Dig a well..."

The Li Zheng subconsciously looked up at the clear, cloudless sky and sighed: "This weather is hot enough. I don't know when Heaven will rain. It's good to dig a well at home; it's convenient for daily water use."

He thought for a moment and said: "For digging a well, my maternal nephew knows how to do this. I'll go help you ask tonight."

"Then that's fine, sorry to trouble you."

"It's nothing, just a small matter." The Li Zheng waved his hand, then suddenly turned to look at Jiang Xiaoxiao, lowering his voice: "Regarding that matter with the Lao Li family, I went to see it yesterday too. Don't worry, they won't dare to come and trouble you mother and child again in the future."

Mentioning the Lao Li family, Jiang Wei's expression couldn't help but turn colder: "Humph, I assume they won't dare to come again."

"Li Shoude is about to take the examination soon. Now everyone in the village knows that his Lao Li family grabbed your Xiaoxiao to seek a future for himself. If the matter blows up and his reputation is affected, the loss will outweigh the gain."

Jiang Wei nodded: "I understand. If his family dares to come and make trouble again in the future, I will take this matter to the County Magistrate. Let's see if he can still take the examination for his honor!"

"Right, that's the logic. After all, it's not right for you to beat your parents-in-law. It's not good for your reputation in the long run. In the future, try not to do it if you can. It's the same to solve it in other ways."

The Li Zheng chattered a lot, and Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was listening from the side, couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

Although she was in a drowsy state yesterday, she vaguely saw her mother beat the Li Family Old Woman until she was unrecognizable.

If it were in modern times, it would be fine, but this is ancient times with serious feudal thinking. A daughter-in-law beating her mother-in-law is a great unfiliality, which would be struck by lightning and have people point fingers at her spine!

Even though they had already separated the family and broken off kinship, in the eyes of some people, they ultimately had an unbreakable connection.

Not to mention Jiang Wei used too much force yesterday; she was beating her to death. If something really happened to the Old Woman, it would be hard for her to escape the relationship, and she might even be bitten back by the Li family.

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head and sighed, thinking that this Liu Dahong was worthy of being the Li Zheng, the head of a village. He still had some ways in dealing with people and knew the pros and cons of some things.

After saying goodbye to the Li Zheng, Jiang Xiaoxiao followed her mother and left.

On the way, she asked with some confusion: "Mother, I can release water now, why do you still want someone to dig a well?"

Her Water-Attribute Ability can gradually strengthen. Although she doesn't release much water now, she can definitely provide for the family's water use in the future. Why does her mother want to do something unnecessary?

Jiang Wei curled her lips and said expressionlessly: "Dig a well so that you can release more water into the well when you have nothing to do."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Forget it, she thought her mother asked someone to dig a well to help her cover up the Water-Attribute Ability.

It was she who thought too much.

"You'll know later." Jiang Wei patted her shoulder without revealing too much.

At the same time.

Lao Li family.

In the main room, the Li Family Old Woman had thick gauze wrapped around her face, revealing only a pair of slanted eyes.

Those eyes were full of hatred, glaring fiercely at the woman kneeling in front of her.

"Didn't you say no one saw! How could that bitch Jiang Shi come to the door!!?"

"Mother, I don't know what happened either..." Sun Shi hung her hand, her hair disheveled, kneeling on the ground with a gray and white face. "It's not my fault; it was that Zhang family daughter-in-law who tipped them off!"

"Then how did the news about the Huang family leak out!" Li Shoude stood on the side with a gloomy face.

"I don't know either!" Sun Shi wiped her tears. "I only talked about the Huang family matter at home. Who knows who spread it."

"Who of you spread the news about the Huang family!" Li Shoude roared. He also had gauze wrapped around his nose, and his face was full of exasperation. He had completely lost the demeanor of a scholar in the past, and his gloomy gaze swept over everyone in the room.

If the news about the Huang family hadn't spread, he could still have gone to Jiang Shi to seek an explanation and force her to hand over the child! Now everyone in the village knows about this, knowing that he sold his brother's wife's child for his own future. How does this make him look in the eyes of the villagers!

All his calculations had failed completely!

Zhu Shi in the corner touched Li Shoude's gaze and couldn't help but shrink her neck and retreat.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====