Inner Thoughts Exposed: Reborn General's Farming Daughter Has a System

Chapter 166: Chapter 166: Temporary Peace

Zhou Shuran still needed a while to process her sadness, trauma, and guilt. On the other hand, Zhou Wenzhi, who didn’t know whether he should feel sad or relieved because of the divorce, had a very complicated feeling.

It had been a few days since the Sun siblings departed to the north with Merchant Yang’s caravan.

The Xiao family had a good stay in the county. They had started to move their items over to the Zhou family’s old house.

When he heard that Zhou Anran was selling their family’s fields in Hejia Village, Magistrate Xu offered to buy them from her. Since he offered a reasonable price, Zhou Anran didn’t hesitate to sell them.

Meanwhile, no one had placed an offer for the house until now.

"It’s a house that you and Xiao Wei have built together, the fruits of your combined efforts for several years. Why don’t you just keep it?" Zhou Wenzhi suggested this to his daughter.

Zhou Anran pursed her lips. "I will think about it, Father."

He nodded. "The price of a house hasn’t been very good recently. I don’t want you to regret your decision later."

Besides the previous fields in the county, the Xiao family now had a total of sixty mu of land. They could have bought more, but their energy was limited.

They didn’t want to chew more than they could swallow.

Next week, they could start transplanting the young rice plants to the fields.

"Shu’er, come here," Zhou Anran smiled when she saw her younger sister came out.

Although they had repeatedly assured her that it wasn’t her fault, it still took a while for Zhou Shuran to come terms with it.

In order to ease her guilt, she had been very attentive to Xiao Qingya too, always bringing her more snacks after she returned from opening her stall in the county’s market.

Whenever Xiao Qingya was outside, chasing after chickens or Xiao Xue, she always went out to watch just to make sure the little one was safe.

"Try these pastries, Xi’er bought it from a newly opened shop not far from here." Zhou Anran shoved the pastries to her younger sister.

Zhou Shuran nodded, and she tried it, eating quietly.

On the side, Xiao Qingya was eating walnuts. Like an heartless owner, she told Xiao Xue to crack them open using its teeth.

[Host, you have no soft heart for cute thing at all.] The System complained.

Xiao Qingya snorted. [What’s cute about you?]

Despite saying that, she couldn’t resist herself from stroking the little kitten’s white and soft fur.

[System, do we enter peaceful period now? There are no old witches going after us.] As she said this, she checked her account balance.

Now, she was a little more rich. Her little bag had her Master’s precious talismans while the System’s storage had the fertilizer and medicines.

Her balance was also in thousands system points. She had become a little rich for now.

[Host, did you forget about your father?] The System reminded the little one.

Xiao Qingya scrunched her little face. [Let’s talk about something else!]

She ignored the System and turned to the Ling siblings, her personal detectives. [Did you find anything when you visited the yamen?]

They became incredibly excited when she asked that. They had just returned, bringing some news.

[Little Master, your uncle is punished with unpaid labor. He is forced to do hard labor all day...] Ling Bo began to narrate Zhou Shiming’s life after he entered the yamen.

Zhou Shiming truly experienced a difficult life. Sometimes, his cellmates would steal his food when the yamen officials weren’t looking or they would even beat him up for saying arrogant things.

Gradually, he also learned to surpress his temper.

On the other hand, Chen Huayun’s life wasn’t better either. Her daily activity was yelling with her shrill voice for the yamen officials to release her.

[Little Master, you don’t know that some yamen officials now use a cloth to plug their ears whenever they passed by her cells. Poor things!] Ling Yu shook her head and put her hand on her forehead dramatically.

Xiao Qingya was rather satisfied with their report, so she went to find her eldest brother to reward the siblings with incense sticks.

Xiao Jingran burned the incense sticks as per his little sister’s request. Then, she ran back to the living room.

"There are a lot of eggs and goat milk again?" Zhou Wenzhi was surprised when Guo Tianliang came to report.

Meanwhile, Xiao Qingya had a secret proud look on her face, very satisfied with the farm animals.

It was because she had given them more spring water that they were producing a lot. The System also gave her a few more bottles of spring water as rewards.

"Father, we already have a lot of eggs in the kitchen. We should sell the rest. It’s already too much for our family," Zhou Anran commented after she inspected the basked brought by Guo Tianliang.

Zhou Shuran nodded. "Let’s sell those at the county’s market this afternoon."

Suddenly, Xiao Yuxi came, jumping into the room with Xiao Fenghao in tow. The latter had recovered completely two days ago and was already couldn’t hold himself back from running around again.

"Selling what?" Xiao Yuxi asked. "I bring some freshly-picked peaches from our new fields. Can we sell them too?"

Xiao Qingya had used both the spring water and fertilizer on the few peach trees on their newly-bought fields. Although the effect might not be so obvious yet, the siblings still picked some peaches to try them.

The taste actually wasn’t bad, more refreshing.

They also wanted to pick some for the family, and by the time they realized it, they have picked too many.

"Let’s sell the peaches too." Zhou Anran nodded.

In the afternoon, the Zhou sisters went to sell their goods. After they prepared their stall, Zhou Anran immediately spotted a familiar person.

She couldn’t help but stiffened, quietly praying the person wouldn’t notice her. Alas... her wish didn’t come true.