The hills where the herbs are grown are dark with people, adults and children, old and young, digging pits with shovels.
The ruins were cleared out in a large area and coffins were lined up on top.
Seeing them coming, a villager darted off to report to the village chief, who soon came over.
Song Wangyue took out ten silver tickets of one hundred taels and gave them to him.
The village chief quickly waved his hand, “It doesn’t take that much.”
An ordinary thin coffin would only cost two taels of silver a piece, a hundred and ten pieces would only cost more than two hundred taels of silver, and only Master Gu, Madam Gu and Young Master Gu’s would cost more.
“Take it ……”, Song Wangyue pointed to those digging pits on the hill, “Give it to them and count it as wages.”
The village headman refused to take it, “This is not acceptable, the village people help each other when there is a white matter in the village, not to mention that Master Gu has not helped us much over the years.”
Anyone in the village who was in need could borrow money from Master Gu, and Master Gu had never pressed for repayment, so they couldn’t be ungrateful just because someone had died and ask for money even for digging a pit.
Song Wangyue insisted on putting the silver cheque in his hand, “You take it first, after the Gu family is buried there is still a need to clear the ruins, we have times when we can’t get through, you can use the remaining money to advance any expenses.”
Cleaning up the ruins?
The village headman subconsciously glanced towards the continuous ruins, although this area was not small, but after clearing it out, no crops could be planted at all, and the money was spent for nothing.
Then he realised that Song Wangyue had given him a thousand taels of silver, and his hand couldn’t stop shaking as he held it. He was so old that the biggest silver cheque he had ever handled was the 100 taels given by Song Wangyue yesterday, but now it was a thousand taels.
It was not until it was dark that Song Wan Yue and Song Shen went back.
Grandma Song had prepared a meal.
After this afternoon, Grandma and Master Song seemed to have slowed down, and when they saw the two enter the house, they greeted them and went to wash their hands and eat.
The old man Song set the table, Grandma Song served up the rice, after the two sat down, Grandma Song gave Song Wan Yue clip dishes, “Your grandfather and I have nothing to think about at home this afternoon, should we ask a monk for the Yi …… Gu family to overtake?”
The Gu family members belong to the death in vain, it is said that such people are not able to be reincarnated.
“No need.”
After saying that, Song Wangyue chucked the dish into her mouth and nodded, “Grandma’s cooking is just delicious.”
Seeing her digress, Grandma Song and Elder Song looked at each other, thinking that she was having a hard time in her heart and didn’t want to mention it, so no one said anything else.
There was the sound of footsteps coming from the doorway and several people looked over.
Da Ya was leading Er Ya with her left hand and carrying a bundle in her right hand into the courtyard.
Since Daya had returned, Er Ya had gone back to live, she was so happy to see Song Wan Yue, she let go of Daya’s hand and ran over, “Grandpa, Grandma, Sister Yue’er, Second Brother.”
Grandma Song treated her like her own granddaughter and asked her if she had eaten yet.
“Not yet.”
When Grandma Song got up to go and serve them rice, Daya said, “I’m looking for Yue’er for something.”
Grandma Song gave a start as she got up.
Song Wan Yue put down the chopsticks in her hand, got up and took Daya back to her house.
Daya handed her the bundle, “This is what Young Master Gu told me to give you.”
After saying this, she paused and wanted to say something else, but her mouth opened and closed, and she turned around in silence and went out.
Outside came the sound of Grandma Song greeting her for dinner.
Song Wan Yue looked at the bag quietly, and only after a long time did she reach out and untie it. On top was a thick pile of silver cheques, all in tens of thousands of taels a piece, and underneath was a box, which was opened and contained all kinds of beaded flowers.
Song Wangyue closed the box, wrapped it up with the silver tickets and put it in the cupboard.
……
Three days later, the coffins were all bought.
The first thing they did was to watch the burial of Master Gu’s and Mrs. Gu’s coffins, and when they got to Gu Yi’s, they all looked at her quietly and saw that she was only pursing her lips and staring at the coffin, not making any other moves.
When the remaining coffins were all buried, Song Wan Yue asked the old man Song to go back, “You send a message to the village head grandfather, just say I have something to do and ask him to come over.”
After a few people left, she asked Village Chief Gu to send someone to call over the village chiefs of several nearby villages.
Hearing that it was Song Wangyue calling them, several people came quickly and saw Song Wangyue and Song Shen walking on the ruins while talking about something. They quietly pulled the village chief Gu aside and asked what they were being called for.
“Miss Song said she wanted to clear the ruins.”
Cleaning up the ruins?
A few people’s eyes lit up and
The ruins were not small, even if several village people worked together they could do it for a few days.
Song Wan Yue and Song Shen saw them coming, and when he tied up the cart, Song Wan Yue pointed to the ruins behind him and said, “We plan to build the family’s workshops here.”
A few? ”
The eyes of several village leaders lit up once again.
Village Chief Gu asked, “Miss Song, do you mean that this work of clearing the ruins and building the workshop should be done by several of us from the village together?”
“Not only that, the people who will come to do the work in the workshop in the future will also be chosen from several villages.”
The village chief Gu almost slapped his thighs with joy, and several other village chiefs were also overjoyed and took a stand, “Don’t worry, Miss Song, whether it’s building the workshop or doing the work, we will definitely keep a good check.”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “I trust you all, so I’ll leave the rest to you, whether it’s clearing the ruins or building the workshop, we’ll just pay for the money and the plans.”
“No problem.”
Several people spoke in unison.
“Then please go back to your people and get started.”
Several of the village chiefs quickly dispersed.
Village Chief Song was also about to untie the reins when Song Wangyue shouted at him, “I’ve discussed this with my second brother and would like to ask Grandpa Village Chief to help us manage all this.”
“What, what do you mean?”
Village Chief Song was a little confused.
“It means that we just pay for the debris removal and the building of the workshop, and you will do all the worrying.”
After hearing this, instead of being annoyed, the village chief Song was overjoyed.
He was a bit upset when he came late and heard the old guys talking about the ruins, but no matter how he said it, Song Wangyue was a member of the Song family village, so such work should be done by the Song family village.
“Don’t worry, the village head grandfather will definitely do it for you guys.”
“Then thank you, Grandpa Village Chief. ”
The village headman said, “Go back with the carriage and call all the strong workers in the village to come here! Tell them all to take their work gear and tell them to be quick, if they come late and the work is taken by another village, they can wait to cry at home.”
Song Shen smiled and answered, and went to catch the carriage.
Song Wan Yue gave a word to the village headman, and after returning home in the carriage, she went to the county with Song Shu and Liu Cui Lan.
Xiao Zheng was leaving yesterday and only waited another day when he heard that the Gu family was being buried today.
“Uncle Xiao, I want to ask you something.”
Song Wangyue sat opposite him.
“Go ahead.”
“What is the name of the child of the abolished King of Qin.”
Xiao Zheng’s heart skipped a beat, “You, what are you asking this for?”