Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 61

Measuring The Land
After bandits destroyed the farmland and robbed the villages, the old women in the village were left with nothing to do but gossiping other people while the men in their families went to Chunshan Town to find temporary jobs.

Driven by curiosity, an old woman stood up, patted the dust off her clothes, and said, “I’m going to see whose guest the owner of that horse carriage is.”

After saying that, she walked away quickly. Behind her, several other old village women looked at each other for a moment, then stood up and followed her.

At the same time, in front of Duan Yixin’s house, the coachman jumped down from the driver’s seat, set up the small stepping stools next to the carriage, and then helped Cao Jianbo’s assistant get off the carriage. When the assistant saw the dilapidated thatched house in front of him, the corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

He stared at the dilapidated courtyard and thought, ‘This young lady is really interesting. She can buy land for sixty taels of silver, but the house she lives in looks like it can be blown away with a gust of wind. How stingy is she in her daily life? Her future husband will be miserable.’

As the assistant was thinking about it, a handsome man suddenly sneezed three times in a row inside a tent in the far northern border area.

“Achoo~! Achoo~! Achoo~!”

When his personal assistant saw this, he was surprised and asked worriedly, “Wangye, are you alright? Do you have a cold?”

The man touched his itchy nose and replied calmly, “I’m fine.”

The personal assistant scratched his head in confusion and could only think, ‘Wangye has never been sick since he started practicing martial arts fourteen years ago, and he is as strong as an ox. Is he really not catching a cold? Could it be another plague caused by the Xiong Nu?’

Regardless of his worries, the personal assistant just replaced the cold water in the cup with hot water and stood aside to help the man grind ink.

Back to Yunshan Village, after Duan Yixin and Tang Sanniu got off the horse carriage, Cao Jianbo’s assistant turned to look at them and said, “It will take some time, so let’s measure the land first.”

After saying that, he ordered the coachman to take out the measuring tools from the carriage, and the two began to work.

Not far from Duan Yixin’s home, the old village women heard the assistant’s words. One of the women widened her eyes and asked, “Did I hear him correctly? From his clothes, that man was clearly working in the government office and said he was going to measure the land?”

The oldest woman nodded and said, “Although my ears have not been very good these years, I also heard him say that he is going to measure the land.”

As soon as she finished speaking, another woman stood next to her, pointing at the assistant and the coachman and saying, “Look! They really measured the land! It seems that Xin Niang really bought a piece of land! No wonder I saw her leaving with the village chief this morning. It turned out that they were going to the town to buy land!”

When the old women saw this scene, they couldn’t contain their excitement and curiosity.

Seeing that none of the four people noticed them, the gossipy woman said, “I wonder how much land she bought. I will follow that official and see with my own eyes!”

“Me too!”

“Yeah! Me too!”

“Hey, wait for me!”

Under her leadership, all the old village women hurriedly followed the assistant and the coachman when they measured Duan Yixin’s land from a distance.

Seeing the assistant take the land measurement seriously, Tang Sanniu knew that measuring forty acres of land would take some time.

He looked at Duan Yixin and said, “Xin Niang, how about you go back first? It seems that it will take them a while to finish measuring the land. I will stay with them and help you take a look.”

Knowing that staying here was a waste of time, Duan Yixin nodded and said, “Then I will trouble Village Chief to take a look for me.”

Tang Sanniu nodded to her and then walked up to the assistant and the coachman.

When Tang Sanniu saw the assistant deliberately taking a bigger step when he measured the land, he thought, ‘This Xin Niang is really capable. I don’t know what she did to make this Da Ren willing to cheat to give her more land.’

After watching the assistant measure the land for a while, Duan Yixin left and returned to her home. It was already past nine in the morning, and she needed to prepare breakfast before it was too late.

Unlike people in her original world who eat three times a day, most people in this world only eat twice a day, at ten in the morning and five in the evening, to save food. Since there is a long time between breakfast and dinner, Duan Yixin plans to cook more food to thank Tang Sanniu and the Assistant for their help today.

With less than an hour left, Duan Yixin couldn’t cook many types of food. After thinking about it, she decided to make fish porridge and a few side dishes. After deciding on the menu, she rolled up her sleeves and became busy in the kitchen.

After Tang Sanniu and the assistant returned from measuring and marking the land, they smelled a very fragrant smell coming from the house. Smelling the fragrance on an empty stomach, the three of them swallowed their saliva loudly.

Just as Tang Sanniu was about to call her, Duan Yixin came out of the kitchen carrying a pot of steaming fish porridge.

Duan Yixin saw them standing outside the fence and said politely, “Please come in, Da Ren. I had just made breakfast. How about eating first before going back?”