Chapter 401: Chapter 340: Five Sheep Promissory Note

Jixiang’s grandma is completely blind. The terrain of Biansha Village is complicated, so to avoid causing trouble for her grandson, she only moves around the yard and rarely goes out.

A wooden cane worn smooth and shiny.

“Sister, grandma wasn’t born blind. She was injured twenty years ago while helping the guerrillas, and that’s why she can’t see.”

Jiang Mingyue hadn’t expected there to be such a story.

Perhaps mentioning such glorious memories sparked interest even in grandma. She picked up her resting blind cane, went into the room, and emerged holding a box in her left hand. Jixiang quickly went to take it, while Jiang Mingyue supported the elderly lady.

The box was a grass-woven frame, now blackened by time, but the fine craftsmanship was truly impressive.

The lid opened, revealing neatly arranged items, and grandma reached in to retrieve three items one after the other.

Jiang Mingyue saw the first item clearly; it was a red five-pointed star, made of metal.

The second item was a hairpin. Surprisingly, it was a solid gold golden hairpin, with a red ruby set at the top.

Jiang Mingyue’s eyes lit up. This was obviously a treasure. The hollow carving was extremely intricate, appearing to be a piece from the Republican period. With the addition of the ruby, it could sell for 150,000 yuan in a few decades.

The old lady’s bony hands shakily unfolded a yellowing paper, with a corner bearing carbon black marks, indicating it once nearly ended up as fuel for fire.

“What’s this?”

Jixiang quickly became the interpreter, as she couldn’t comprehend a word of grandma’s lengthy explanation.

“Sister, grandma says this is a grain loan note, established by the leaders of those guerrilla soldiers who had run out of food. In the village, only grandma had a few sheep, so they borrowed three and made a note promising to repay in the future. The golden hairpin was also left behind by them. When grandma got hurt, the doctor they brought said the eyes couldn’t be treated, so they compensated her with the only valuable item.”

Leaving Jixiang’s house, Jiang Mingyue did not visit other places and returned the long way home, carrying those three items.

Of course, she also left things for the grandma and grandson: a ten-pound bag of rice, a fifteen-pound bag of cornmeal, and twenty eggs, ten of which could hatch into chicks. She instructed Jixiang to do this, and if successful, the grandma and grandson would have endless eggs to eat.

After closing the yard gate, Yan Jinzhi hadn’t returned yet, and at this point, it was indeed impossible for him to return.

Jiang Mingyue entered the space to harvest a batch of wheat and planted a batch of corn. The plum wine, grape wine, and corn wine were all packaged.

For Zhao Family Five Tigers, the wine lees must be prepared tonight; their people would come to collect them on schedule.

Jiang Mingyue first packed a bag, finished with the space, and went to bring some pastries for Xiao Ran to eat. The little one’s self-initiative to learn was something most peers couldn’t compare to. It was worth rewarding.

However, she encountered her cousin hurrying home.

“Were you chased and beaten?”

Jiang Ming’an rolled his eyes at his sister, slumped onto the wicker chair, and directly drowned himself with the teapot; he was so thirsty that speaking felt like torture.

“Ah! Finally comfortable! By the way, Yueyue, I found you a big client. Hurry and get ready; it’s placed in a forest on the outskirts. Come, I’ll take you there now.”

Jiang Mingyue glanced at the dark, gloomy sky. If it were someone else, she’d ignore it, but her cousin was different. Not because of affection, but because he was reliable. To be honest, if she could manage just a tenth of his scheming, she might have been a small overlord in her past life, but that wasn’t the reality.

Jiang Mingyue didn’t waste words, packed her backpack, instructed Xiao Ran briefly, and got onto the back seat of her cousin’s vehicle to head towards the outskirts.

“Mr. Li wants anything we have, but Yueyue, I played a trick on him. Selling him at good prices, but not selling if the prices match Pan’s. The plum wine and grape wine you once sold to Pan for fifty yuan a jar, I negotiated sixty, and the corn wine for fifteen, all significantly higher than Pan’s. Sell everything you have.”

Jiang Mingyue couldn’t help but roll her eyes at her brother.

“I won’t sell the grape wine; I brewed only fifty jars total, and you took twenty. There must be plenty left in your courtyard cellar. You’re just greedy. As for plum wine, since I re-planted several, this batch yielded several times more than the last. But you took some, I also sold a batch to Pan, now there are less than fifty jars. Are you sure you want to sell?”

“Cough, cough… Yueyue, having too much money is just like that. It’s more important to enjoy it. In my opinion, you might as well keep those two; we can just sell the corn wine.”

“Since cousin says so, of course I’ll listen to brother.” And send them to Yan Jinzhi later, haha!

“Brother, is it safe during the day?”

“Don’t worry, Huang Mao has cleared the area within five miles. The food factory is coincidentally sending a batch of goods along this road. Your Brother Xie happens to be the escort leader, so we can definitely cover it up.”

“I knew it, brother’s actions always set my learning example.”

Jiang Mingyue didn’t see the coy grin on Jiang Ming’an’s face.

Arriving at the location, Jiang Mingyue released a large batch of corn wine, and all fish over two pounds from the fishpond were netted out. Additionally, a substantial batch of dried chicken and rabbit; dried chicken and rabbit have been the bestsellers these last few months, so Jiang Mingyue processed and dried them all.

Then came canned chicken oil, truffle sauce, and a batch of dried matsutake. As for morel mushrooms, the price hasn’t been suitable, so Jiang Mingyue kept them for herself, thinking they’d be more nutritious as home cooking.

She also prepared a few frames of preserved eggs.

“What about grains? They also want grains. The prices are quite good, giving six cents for sweet potatoes and four mao for rice.”

“Indeed good.” Jiang Mingyue emptied the warehouse of sweet potatoes and rice.

“All right, you go meet Huang Mao at the road, I’ll wait here.”

This time’s deal, Jiang Ming’an took home a box of small yellow croakers.

“Later we’re going to find Jiang Zhengye, Yueyue, you go call Xiao Ran.”

Jiang Mingyue paused, “Huh?”

Jiang Ming’an raised an eyebrow, “What’s wrong? Don’t tell me you have something to do? Did you get to see Yan Jinzhi?”

The affirmation in his tone and the sudden uptick in his voice carried a noticeable intensity.

Jiang Mingyue dared not fuel the fire, yet couldn’t bring herself to lie to her big brother.

“Brother, I promise I won’t do anything with him. You know, he’s so busy, all I can do is bring him some food, really, brother.”

Vaguely ambiguous, but Jiang Ming’an knew his sister too well; the nameless fire in his heart intensified.

“No going, it’s almost dark. You, a young lady, shouldn’t be running into someone’s face. Men’s vile thoughts, don’t I know?”

Jiang Mingyue realized it would be tough to slip away tonight, so she obediently followed orders.

“Then I’ll go change clothes.”

“You’re not going for a blind date. There’s no need; you’re fine like this!”

Jiang Mingyue: “…” She dared to say, had she insisted just now, given her brother’s current temper, he might have gone and found a woman to supervise her.

The guide sighed, daring not to have any extra thoughts.

“Let’s go!”

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