Chapter 603: Imperial Examination Family-Raising System (12)

"There's such a good thing? How come I haven't heard of it?"

"I haven't heard of it either."

"Haha! Who told you to live at the village entrance and never come to the village end when you have nothing to do? Naturally, you wouldn't know. The few households at our village end have already been earning money for quite a few days following the Song family third branch."

"Oh my! Is there still a need for people now?"

"Yes! After finishing the house, I heard they are going to build a Farm, and at the very least, clearing out that Xiao Chai Shan also requires manpower. After clearing it, they still need to plant some grass and trees. Anyway, there will be work to do from now on, and you don't even have to leave the village."

"I'm going home right now to have my man find the village head and sign up!"

The women living at the village entrance, terrified of being a step slow and missing out on a good opportunity to earn money, scrambled to rush toward the village end. Seeing Song Yanqing, who had cast aside his crutches and was walking extremely steadily, they were instantly shocked:

"Isn't this Er Lang of the Song family? Is his leg healed?"

"Wasn't it said that even if it were treated, he would still be left with a limp?"

"I heard they invited Doctor Cui from Baoji Hall. Didn't Song Laosan's back injury also get healed? Ever since the Song family third branch got engaged to the Xie Family, happy events have truly come one after another! It seems the saying about 'blessing through marriage' is true!"

"If I had known Song Erlang's leg injury could be healed, I wouldn't have stopped my mother! She had always wanted to propose a marriage for my little sister."

Quite a few women felt a sense of regret.

Some of them had daughters at home who admired Song Yanqing, and others had nieces or younger sisters on their maternal side who favored him. Previously, it was because Song Yanqing was still young and hindered by a father who had an unhealed back injury and was bedridden year-round, so they wanted to wait a bit longer. A while ago, when they learned he had broken his leg, they completely gave up on the idea.

Unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better; not only were the father and son of the Song family cured of their back and leg injuries respectively, but the family had also built a house of green bricks and tiles.

"Did you see the new house of the Song family third branch? A full five large, imposing Main Rooms! I heard they are going to build a Farm of ten or twenty mu behind it. Tsk tsk! Even wealthy masters don't live in places this big, right? Lao Wangshi must be regretting it so much her intestines are turning green, right? If she hadn't split the third branch off, she could have followed the Song family third branch to enjoy a good life."

The women with various thoughts: "..."

It wasn't just Lao Wangshi; they all felt regret!

"That's not for sure. Although the hill and the homestead were bought in the name of the Song family third branch, I heard it was the Xie Family who paid the Silver. Song Laosan asked his in-laws to borrow money to build the new house; isn't it because they were only allocated a small Ear Room during the family split and had no place to make a wedding room for his son, that Zhurong agreed to lend it? Could he agree to let Lao Wangshi move in? Besides, Song Laoda is still around. Not living with the eldest son but running to live with the youngest son—she wouldn't be afraid of having her teeth laughed out by others!"

Wang, who heard the villagers' discussion: "..."

She wasn't afraid of the villagers laughing at her at all!

If she could really move into the newly built large mansion with the third branch's family, she would move over without a second word.

She could even vacate a Main Room for the eldest son's family; wouldn't that be even better?

It was a pity that the third branch's family had split off too early.

Wang was indeed filled with regret.

Ever since she learned that the third branch had enclosed ten mu of land at the village end and hired villagers to build a new house and a Farm, she couldn't help but peek over here every day. Gazing at the bustling construction scene in the distance, she couldn't move her feet for a long time.

She had also tried to find the third branch to make a scene, but a single sentence from the third branch—"We have already split the family"—blocked all her words.

As for regretting the split and wanting the third branch to return to the big family of the old Song family... she had mentioned it, but the third branch had to agree! The family separation document had already been sent by the village head to the yamen to be registered.

One could only say, the family split happened a few days too early!

Wang regretted it so much her intestines were turning green.

Seeing the figure of her second grandson at this moment, she widened her eyes in even greater surprise, then stepped forward to chase after him: "Xiao Er! Xiao Er!"

Song Yanqing stopped, nodded toward her, and greeted her with a calm expression: "Grandmother."

"Xiao Er, is your leg healed? Was it really healed by Doctor Cui?"

"Yes."

"!!!"

At this moment, Wang couldn't describe the feeling in her heart.

Heavens!

What kind of evil had possessed her back then? Why did she have to split the third branch off, and why didn't she pay for Xiao Er's leg treatment!

If the family hadn't been split, or even if it had been split but she had paid the Silver to treat Xiao Er's leg, she wouldn't be this regretful today.

Song Yanqing did not change his inner thoughts because of Wang's softened attitude.

If she hadn't arrived that day, his father would very likely have been paralyzed due to his back injury, and he himself would very likely have missed this year's Imperial Examination due to his leg injury.

The current happiness upon happiness was all created by her and had nothing to do with the old Song family.

Song Yanqing walked straight to the new residence that had already been built. He saw his father with his hands behind his back, standing straight, chatting happily with a short, sturdy man with a strange face. His mother and several women were lighting fires to cook on a temporarily built earthen stove, and his ten-year-old sister was not idle either, pouring tea and serving water to the busy workers and the villagers who were helping.

"Mother."

Song Yanqing walked to Lin Shi's side.

"Is there any work that your son can do?"

As soon as Lin Shi saw her son arrive, she first looked at his knees and asked with heartache: "Does your leg hurt?"

"It stopped hurting a long time ago."

"It's good that it doesn't hurt. You, just study with peace of mind and prepare for the Imperial Examination. Your father has already arranged everything here, and besides, the village head is here too. There are elders for everything; you don't need to worry."

Song Zhisheng, however, was happy to see his son arrive and waved at him: "Yanqing, you came just in time! This is the Farm manager hired by your in-laws. He wants to finalize the specific layout of the Farm. You come and talk to him."

Song Yanqing then walked over, performed a bow, and began to converse with the other party.

She had left the planning drawings for the Farm with him. Although he didn't carry them on his person, he would unfold them to look at whenever he had free time, so he could be said to be familiar with them by heart.

The Farm manager nodded as he listened, and at the end said: "Since the employer described it this way, I understand. Tomorrow I will bring people over to start work. First, we will dig the lake; the mud dug out will be just right to fill and raise the foundation of the houses and the vegetable plots, so as to avoid rainwater backflow..."

After a detailed discussion, upon learning that the Farm manager was going back to the town, Song Yanqing completely ignored the word "employer" in the other's mouth. His heart was filled with the wooden box hidden in his sleeve pocket. His lowered eyes concealed his shyness as he entrusted the wooden box to the Farm manager to pass on to Xie Sanniang.

Half an hour later, Xie Yang, who had received the gift, heard the Main System chuckle:

【A product of the Sub-system, an Antique Hairpin that can improve hair quality and carries a natural faint fragrance, the points are probably between 1500-2000. Host, he must have used all the points from copying books to redeem this gift for you. Are you touched?】

Xie Yang raised her eyebrows and put on this hairpin in front of the dressing mirror.

Although her hair was like a waterfall after she took the Physical Fitness Potion, who wouldn't love a more professional hair care Prop?

She had been very fulfilled lately.

Every morning she jogged a lap along Yingyue Lake to warm up, and then practiced the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique.

It was just that this body was already ten, so she would treat it as strengthening her body.