It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 215

In order to completely divert the attention of Madam Li and the obviously interested Mr. Fang and Mrs. Chai, Jiang Yan remained silent for a moment before tentatively proposing, "How about I teach you how to read?"

Jiang Yan effortlessly captured the excitement and enthusiasm that burst out from everyone, and then she also became happy.

But she still had some sense, and worried that her words had given them too high expectations, she made a statement in advance: "I have things to do in Rongcheng County, so I can only help you with the rest of the journey. I can't guarantee that you will learn a few words."

Kui Niang quickly expressed her opinion: "It doesn't matter. I'll learn as many as I can. It's a win-win at any rate."

Others also said they would not force it.

In the next half day, whenever they had a break, Jiang Yan would write the words they wanted to learn on their boxes with charcoal. Except for the bottom layer and the side that was against the back, the other four sides and the inside of the lid were all written.

This idea was proposed by Kui Niang, and it was similar to the Dongshan Village method of recording words on ancestral tablets. However, its shortcomings were obvious, as it completely revealed her identity and origins to Jiang Yan.

Although Jiang Yan was somewhat touched by this trust, she still found it difficult to understand. She wanted to persuade them to keep it, but she also felt that she should not underestimate their intelligence and experience.

After all, what they said might have been agreed upon in advance and was false, just like her name and origin.

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The group arrived in Rongcheng County before sunset. They thought they would encounter a similar situation as in Rongding County at the city gate, but they did not expect the entrance fee to drop back to the level after the New Year last year.

Jiang Yan felt relieved, as the person who took over the county would be unlikely to be worse than the previous County Magistrate Huang.

After bidding farewell to Grandpa Fang and the others, Jiang Yan followed her memory and crossed most of the county town to the residence of Uncle Jiang Fu. The courtyard was pitch black, the outer door was closed, and there was no sign of smoke from cooking fires...

Jiang Yan first leaned against the courtyard wall and waited for a while but still heard no movement. After initially judging that there was no one in the courtyard, he began to knock on the wooden door.

The neighbor on the right heard the incessant knocking on the door and finally couldn't stand it any longer. He carefully opened the door a crack and said, "Stop knocking. No one has lived in this yard for a while."

Jiang Yan thanked the neighbor who reminded him, and then asked, "Uncle, did the family say whether they were going back to the village or moving somewhere else?"

"A family?" The door opened a little more.

Jiang Yan: "Yeah, a family."

"Are you from Dongshan Village?" The neighbor asked, questioningly, but he had already made his judgment. "Jiang Fu's wife moved out with their two children more than half a year ago, and this yard has been rented out to a few bachelors."

After saying that, he was also curious: "Did Jiang Fu's wife not return to your village?"

Jiang Yan didn’t know. If she knew, would she deliberately lure people out to make it easier to find out?

But at this moment, the person in front of him had a gossipy tone in his voice, and Jiang Yan had no time to regret it.

She thought that she must do her best to eliminate the possibility of Aunt Yu becoming the heroine of the neighborhood gossip.

Jiang Yan sighed pretentiously, "I don't know either. I followed my master to Xiakou County for nearly a year. I finally saved up half a month's leave to go home and reunite with my family. Who could have imagined that everything would go wrong along the way... and I couldn't leave the city at night, so I had no choice but to shamelessly find my uncle's house to stay the night."

The neighbor listened in silence for a moment before asking, "Is life with the owner easy? Is there a lot of work? Do you have enough to eat? How much monthly salary can you get?"

The darkness still affected Jiang Yan's hearing. As she gave her cautious answer, her mind was still distracted trying to figure out whether her neighbor's curiosity was mixed with concern or something else.

Until the neighbor couldn't wait to ask: "Do you think the owner will accept me at my age?"