Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Xue Lingyao seemed to be thinking about something, carrying the basket and walking towards the Jinshui River.

Xue Yi followed behind her, occasionally hitting the sand on the ground with a branch.

At this moment, Shen Zhao had already returned home. He tied up the camel and horse, fed them with fodder and water, and hurried back to the wing to check on the shop.

After the last live broadcast, all the goods in her shop were sold out, even the tattered tent with a price tag of 99999 was bought by someone.

It's so crazy!

However, what is even more crazy is that the account balance is as high as 13 million yuan.

I really have to thank all the fans in the live broadcast room for their ancestors!
Shen Zhao happily put a bunch of key chains in his eldest brother's backpack. One of the key chains came with a note asking him how he was doing and if he needed any help.
Because his more than 10 million yuan was all obtained by relying on the gold, silver, jewelry and rare toys given by his eldest brother, it is impossible for him to enjoy this huge sum of money alone.

While waiting for his brother's reply, Shen Zhao quickly ate some rhubarb.

The little fellow jumped towards her joyfully, his thin curly tail almost shaking like a propeller, obviously recognizing his little master.

The eldest aunt smiled and said, "Look how happy this little thing is. It didn't want to talk to anyone when you were not around."

Shen Zhao patted the puppy's head and said to his aunt in a gentle voice, "Thank you for taking care of it. My mother and I bought some cloth and food in Dunhuang County, and we'll give them to you and your sister-in-law."

After saying this, she went to the side room, brought out two pieces of flowered cloth, a bag of ointment rings and maltose, and stuffed them into her aunt's arms.

The New Year is coming soon, and these things are just right for making some new clothes for my sister-in-law and her family.

The aunt didn't hesitate and went home happily with the cloth.

Zhang Shanyue took a piece of pork from under the eaves, cut it into slices, and prepared to stir-fry it with green garlic and yam.

Shen Zhao sat at the table and helped peel the yam. He whispered to his mother, "Mother, are we going to the La Festival?"

"Of course we will go, but your cousins will handle it. My mother and I don't need to go." Zhang Shanyue answered while cutting bacon.

Sacrifices have always been performed by men, and they are also the ones who worship the ancestors and gods. He and his daughter only need to prepare meals at home, because the sacrificial process is a bit bloody, as pigs and sheep have to be slaughtered on the spot, and then the meat has to be cooked and shared.

Of course, nowadays we slaughter pigs and sheep, but the previous custom was not only to kill animals, but also humans.

Shen Zhao hummed, put the peeled yam into the yellow basin, and began to pick the green garlic.

While cooking, Shen Heng returned the ox cart and said to his sister mysteriously, "A Zhao, guess who I saw just now?"

Shen Zhao added grass to the stove and followed his lead and asked, "Who did you see?"

"Qin Yi's mother!" Shen Heng sat down next to the stove, picked up a piece of grass and put it in his mouth, and laughed, "That woman looks like she was beaten up, her face is all black and blue, and she is crying to someone."

Shen Zhao was surprised: "Who dares to hit her?"

Qin Yangshi appears to be gentle on the surface, but in fact she is not easy to mess with. I have experienced her methods in my previous life.

"Who else? Of course it's her good daughter-in-law!" Shen Heng gloated, "I heard from my sister-in-law that the Qin family was in a big fuss during the few days we were in the county city. Gao Qiuqiu relied on her youth and strength to push and shove with her mother-in-law from time to time."

"The three elders just don't care?" Zhang Shanyue asked.

Shen Heng: "How can the Third Elder manage it? He can't stay at the Qin family all day. Besides, Gao Qiuqiu is totally unreasonable. When the Third Elder and the stingy man come, she pretends to be pitiful and cries and says that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law abuse her."

Shen Zhao thought about it, turned to his second brother and said, "You are not allowed to interfere in the Qin family's affairs."

"Why should I get involved in his family's affairs?" Shen Heng said dissatisfiedly: "Who do you think your second brother is?"

Shen Zhao said earnestly, "Gao Qiuqiu and Qin Yang are not easy to deal with. Whoever gets involved with them will be in trouble. Don't listen to those gossips in the future. Learn some characters at home. Maybe you can apply for a civil servant in the future." Shen Heng immediately frowned and said in a bored tone, "I know."

After dinner, Shen Zhao boiled two pots of hot water, took a bath in the side room, and washed his hair twice.

Then she lay on the warm kang and recalled her eldest brother's letter.

The letter said that the army had arrived near Loulan and, if nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to enter the pass in twenty days.

Shen Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and still sent fifteen container houses to the new address given by his elder brother. He also loaded firewood, water, and some food into the containers to ensure that the soldiers could survive in the extremely cold and dry weather.

The old emperor was really crazy. He actually let the Han army march into the Western Regions in the cold winter.

If he hadn't been supporting that team, it is estimated that less than a hundred people would have come back alive.

Later, Shen Zhao sent two mechanical watches and two compasses, because his eldest brother said in the letter that General Zuo and Marquis Chen Wu had both offered jewels, and they wanted to replace them with a pointer watch that could tell time at any time.

By the end of the year, Shen Zhao received another letter from his elder brother, saying that he was almost at Yumen Pass and would be home soon.

He also said that their team encountered reinforcements led by the King of Qi and asked her not to send anything over.

Shen Zhao had no idea who the King of Qi was. He had never heard a word from this person in his previous life.

Shen Zhao threw the letter into the stove flame and watched it burn up.

She didn't plan to tell her parents the news, for fear that they would let it slip.

On New Year's Eve, Shen Zhao and his mother cooked a table full of dishes and invited his aunt and her family to come over for the New Year's Eve dinner.

The two little girls, wearing red cotton robes and festive tiger-head hats, kowtowed to their elders respectfully.

Shen Zhao gave each of them a pair of silk flowers and personally tied them into the sisters' braids.

The eldest cousin's wife, holding her son, also bowed to Shen Zhao: "Rui'er, kowtow to your aunt!"

The little baby smiled with his black eyes open, and he looked very smart.

Shen Zhao gave him a small silver lock and tied it to his cotton jacket with a red rope.

Zhang Shanyue also gave the baby a set of small clothes, which were to be worn when the baby was 100 days old, and he gave them away now.

After the greetings, the whole family sat around the table and had a reunion dinner.

Afterwards, a big bonfire was lit in the yard. Shen Heng and his cousin put on ghost masks and performed a sacrificial dance around the bonfire, thus completing the New Year's Eve ritual.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, my aunt's second daughter returned to her parents' home to pay New Year's greetings, and my cousin came over and called my second uncle's family to come over for dinner.

As soon as Shen Zhao and his mother arrived at his aunt's house, they saw his second cousin beating a child in the yard: "I told you to be naughty! You took everything. Is this something you can take?"

The five-year-old kid was crying loudly but he refused to put down the things in his hands.

Shen Zhao took a look and saw that it was the small silver locket that he had given to Rui'er. Somehow the child was holding it tightly in his hand and would not let go.

But he didn't know what to say at the moment, so he stood there with his mother in silence.

When seven-year-old Zhaodi saw her aunt coming, she immediately felt that she had a backer. She stepped forward and grabbed the small silver lock in the little kid's hand, shouting, "This is my brother's thing! Give it back quickly!" (End of this chapter)