Chapter 104 The person has been found

Chapter 104 The person has been found

Since their character and temperament were acceptable, and they had all shown her kindness, Ms. Chen felt that she had no reason not to get along well with her new family and relatives.

With both sides willing and eager, their relationship quickly transformed from awkward and distant to harmonious and close.

For nearly a month afterward, Hao Yu and Jiang Yuan first went to Wang Xiaozhi's house to help them build a new house, and then they began to busy themselves with farming.

Although they do not need to work in the fields themselves, they do need to buy cattle and supervise the tenants in real time.

Xie Wanniang, having a good impression of Chen, would get together with Chen almost every day during their free time to chat.

After the two became acquainted, Xie Wanniang learned from Chen that her parents not only gave her the loom she used as part of her dowry, but also prepared a fairly generous and respectable dowry for her.

Even the betrothal money given by Hao Yu was used by her parents as dowry money for her.

Although the decision was made by her parents, her brother and sister-in-law didn't say anything unpleasant.

On the day she returned to her parents' home after three days, her family was quite welcoming to her and Hao Yu.

It can be said that, apart from some superstition and the constant worry that her "power" might increase dramatically, evolving from "husband-killing" to "killing all men," her family is actually quite good.

They lived comfortably at their husband's family home, and when they returned to their parents' home, no one in their family caused them any trouble. Of course, most importantly, Hao Yu showed no signs of being cursed by her husband. Not to mention serious illness or injury, Hao Yu hadn't even sneezed once in the month since they got married.

This made Chen, who had been living in constant fear and even doubting whether she was truly a jinx to her husbands, relax a little.

Amidst everyone's daily hustle and bustle, May arrived. It seemed like only a blink of an eye, and Xie Wanniang had already been in Mingfu Village for almost a year.

She missed her adoptive father and also longed for her life in the Xie family.

What she didn't know was that several clansmen sent by her adoptive father had already found out that she was in Mingfu Village.

The Xie clan members have also been busy with spring plowing. Several Xie clan members who were assigned the task of finding people by her adoptive father Xie Daoheng have started their intermittent search mode since the start of the busy farming season.

When it's time to plant, they diligently cultivate the land, finishing what needs to be planted. Then, taking advantage of the gaps between planting other crops, they continue to go out together to find people.

They searched until the second day of the fifth lunar month, and finally managed to find out most of Xie Wanniang's details.

From them, Xie Daoheng learned that Xie Wanniang had drifted downstream to Mingfu Village last May and was then rescued by a boy named Jiang Yuan.

According to what they found out, Jiang Yuan was a pretty good person. Not only did he not take advantage of their kindness, but he also did his best to help and protect their daughter.

Of course, the most praiseworthy person is his daughter. The little girl not only survived a planned assassination attempt, but also managed to make a living all by herself despite being alone and penniless.

As for the rumors that she had "amnesia," Xie Daoheng didn't really believe them.

He planned to secretly meet with Xie Wanniang first. If she really had amnesia, he would treat her. If she was just using "amnesia" as an excuse not to go home, he would let her be.

He didn't blame Xie Wanniang for living but not going home; he only blamed her brain-dead mother and her worthless father and his family.

After spending half a day arranging affairs at the academy, Xie Daoheng went down the mountain early the next morning under the pretext of visiting a friend. He was led by one of the Xie clan members who had found Xie Wanniang and took a carriage to Mingfu Village.

His arrival was quite opportune, as Xie Wanniang didn't go into the mountains with Jiang Yuan, who had finished his work in the fields, because they were making zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).

There was a knock on the courtyard gate. She went over and asked, "Who is it?"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Xie Daoheng responded with mixed feelings, "Your father."

Xie Wanniang: ......

No, this really is her father!

She opened the door and greeted everyone one by one, "Father, Brother Wei, Uncle Bao."

Xie Daoheng lifted his foot and was the first to step into the courtyard, taking the opportunity to look Xie Wanniang up and down. "Not bad, you haven't lost weight."

Xie Wei then smiled and called out, "Sixth Sister."

Xie Wanniang, who was initially quite nervous, immediately relaxed when she saw that her father did not intend to interrogate her. "You and Brother Wei, please go to the main room and sit down. I will make you some tea and food. Let's sit down and talk slowly."

Xie Daoheng nodded. "Where should I park the carriage? Show me a place."

Xie Wanniang slapped her forehead, "There's a livestock shed and a parking area in the backyard. Uncle Bao..."

Xie Bao, the driver, was an old servant of the Xie family. He smiled and nodded, "This humble servant greets the Sixth Miss. The Sixth Miss is busy with her work; this humble servant will drive the carriage to the backyard by himself."

Xie Wanniang was indeed overwhelmed with other matters, and she said, "Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Bao."

After saying that, she quickly ran to close the courtyard gate, and then immediately ran to the kitchen to boil water and make tea.

By the time she brought the tea to the main room, Xie Bao had already unloaded the cart and fed the horses.

When Xie Wanniang came out of the kitchen carrying a wooden tray, Xie Baozheng was washing his hands with freshly pumped well water under the watchful eyes of her cousin Wei.

Seeing Xie Wanniang, Xie Wei smiled and pointed to the hand pump well, "This thing is wonderful. I wonder which skilled craftsman Sixth Sister commissioned to make it?"

Xie Wanniang smiled and said, "There are no skilled craftsmen. It's just that we borrowed some of the structure from pumps and dragon-bone waterwheels to save effort."

The piston core of the hand pump well and the scraper of the keel waterwheel are made of the same material.

In Xie Wanniang's previous life, although the promotion and popularization of hand pump wells came very late, the principles and functions of their application had already taken shape as early as the Warring States period.

That was a lever-operated water-lifting tool called "Jie Ru," which provided some ideas and technical foundation for the later invention of hand pump wells.

However, people later mostly used windlasses as water-drawing tools, while hand pumps became less common.

"Brother Wei, you should stop researching that hand pump well and come have something to eat with Uncle Bao."

Xie Wei nodded and went into the main room with Xie Bao.

At Xie Daoheng's suggestion, the two chose their seats and Xie Wanniang took out teacups and poured each of them a cup of hot tea.

After pouring the tea, Xie Wanniang went to get the pastry box and snack box. "The pastries are just jujube blossom pastries and mung bean cakes. Please make do with these."

There are quite a variety of snacks: dried apricots, dried pears, dried chicken, dried fish, garlic peanuts, roasted chestnuts, pine nut candy, and candied winter melon, all neatly arranged in the small compartments inside the food box.

In addition to these, Xie Wanniang also went to bring over two plates of fruit.