After wearing it: I traded a pig for a man.

In the Song family courtyard, Song Minglang's arm was swollen beyond recognition.

Granny Yang cried and cursed at her parents from the side.

"Stop howling!" Old Man Song kicked him angrily. "Are you afraid others won't know? Aren't you ashamed?"

Song Minglang felt a little guilty. He hadn't expected that the loan shark would come directly to his home.

Fortunately, when they arrived, all the neighbors were out working in the fields. At least no one knew he owed interest to loan sharks.

"Father, what should we do?" Song Mingzhen's face turned pale.

Song Minglang has been very generous lately. She originally thought he had made a fortune and was planning to coax him so that when the next batch of slaves arrived, he could help her buy a man even more handsome than Jiang Che.

But now, let alone buying a slave, she might even be sold to pay off her debts.

Song Mingzhen became increasingly frightened as she thought about it, and her eyes showed signs of fear.

"How would I know what to do?" Old Man Song stomped his feet in anger.

"How could you be so bold as to borrow..."

He started to speak, but then worried that passersby might overhear.

Song Minglang glanced at him: "What can I do? Wasn't that IOU written by Mother? Didn't you eat the meat Jiang Yuning sent? Didn't you spend the Jiang family's money?"

The IOU for forty-five taels of silver wasn't spent by him alone.

No one in the family can escape it.

"What are we going to do, Minglang? You still have to take the imperial examination; you can't go to jail!" Granny Yang cried and cursed, "It's all Jiang Yun Ning's fault! She forced me to write an IOU. Why should she abandon you now that she's doing well? No way!"

She scrambled to her feet: "Mom will go get an explanation for you!"

Song Minglang felt annoyed by Granny Yang's nagging.

This whole family, whether it's the parents or the sister, none of them have any brains.

They're all idiots.

"Mother," he called out impatiently, "Going now will only make the Jiang family hate us even more."

In that case, you really won't get anything.

When Song Mingzhen heard him say this, she thought he had come up with some idea.

Her eyes lit up instantly: "Brother, what should we do? I'll do whatever you say."

Granny Yang and Old Man Song also fell silent, their three pairs of eyes fixed on Song Minglang.

The sun had risen to its highest point, but the oppressive heat of the past few days was gone.

At the entrance of Qingshan College, a large number of students flocked to Jiang Yunning's ice jelly stall.

Shen Yan grabbed one with his left hand and dragged another with his right, finally leading Jiang Anhe and Zhang Manjin through the crowd and onto the oxcart safely.

Jiang Anhe's lunchbox was so big that the food inside was enough for three people.

"Mmm, so delicious!" Zhang Manjin ate his scrambled eggs with tomatoes and couldn't help but ask, "Anhe, your mother's cooking is so good. Your mother is amazing, isn't she very gentle?"

He had never seen his mother since he was a child. His grandfather said that his mother and father had gone to a very, very far place.

But now that he's grown up, he knows that his father and mother are never coming back.

So he always envied others who had parents.

"Grandma made this," Jiang Anhe said, her cheeks puffed out. "Auntie grew the tomatoes. Auntie is amazing."

I've made scrambled eggs with tomatoes for two days in a row, and Zhang Manjin and Shen Yan both really enjoy it.

Jiang Anhe has eaten this at home many times, but she doesn't like it as much as she did at the beginning.

"Put this soup in your rice, it smells so good." He watched the two of them eating vegetables and rice, and couldn't help but share what he thought was the best way to make it taste good.

The three of them ate happily on the oxcart, while Jiang Yuning's hands were cramping from collecting money at the front.

"Slow down, slow down, be careful not to spill it."

"Alright, Jiang Che, put more sugar in this bowl."

Shen Yan was quite full and leaned back against the oxcart. After Jiang Anhe and Zhang Manjin finished eating, he helped them off the oxcart.

"Could you bring me some tomatoes next time?" Shen Yan wasn't embarrassed at all. "I'll let my parents try them when I get home."

Jiang Yunning wasn't a stingy person, and without even looking up, she said, "Okay, I'll set up a stall for you this afternoon."

"Aunt and Uncle, I'm going back to the academy." Jiang Anhe waved to the two of them.

Zhang Manjin also called out, "Uncle and Aunt, I'm going back too!"

Shen Yan, who had already taken two steps, turned around with a mischievous grin: "Little lady, I'm leaving too."

Jiang Yun Ning waved to the group, turned around with the empty wooden bucket in hand, and saw Jiang Che with a dark expression on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" She was startled and looked at him with some confusion.

Jiang Che pursed his lips and remained silent, tidying up the stall in silence.

He really started to hate Shen Yan, who shamelessly joked and laughed with Jiang Yun Ning.

After loading the oxcart, the two headed home.

Before even entering the courtyard, I could hear a commotion inside.

"Oh dear, here are twelve of them."

"Haha, Jiang Che takes good care of things, cleaning the pigsty several times a day."

The sound of laughter drifted over, and Jiang Che heard his own name called.

Jiang Yun Ning jumped off the oxcart: "What's wrong? Why are you so happy?"

"Yun Ning, our sow gave birth to twelve piglets!" Liu Yuzhi said, holding a bundle of hay.

"She's given birth?" Jiang Yun Ning asked in surprise. "She's already given birth? So quickly?"

Lin Yanzi chuckled: "It wasn't that fast. You and Jiang Che had barely left when the pig started squealing. It just gave birth, didn't it? It's been almost two hours."

As the two were talking, Jiang Che had already run towards the pigsty.

Jiang Yun Ning found their eagerness somewhat amusing and followed them.

Inside the pigpen, Liu Yuzhi had already laid out dry hay and was helping each piglet learn to nurse. When she looked up, she saw Jiang Che staring intently at the piglet in her hand.

"Jiang Che, what's wrong with you?" she asked, puzzled.

Jiang Yun Ning smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you're here to see his daughter give birth. You take such good care of her every day, you're raising her like a daughter."

Jiang Che was speechless. "I don't have a daughter that ugly."

His daughter must look just like Jiang Yun Ning, equally quirky and clever.

Thinking about it made my cheeks burn.

"Go eat quickly, the kitchen has saved some food for you." Wang Cuihua took a few pieces of rags and went into the pigsty, urging the two to go eat first.

I had just washed my hands and sat down when there was a knock on the door.

"Is Cuihua home? Yun Ning girl?"

Jiang Yun Ning shook the water droplets off her hands, opened the door, and saw Granny Yang peeking inside on tiptoe.

His face immediately turned cold.

"What's wrong?" She was already prepared to start yelling.

But contrary to her usual behavior, Granny Yang handed over the basket she was carrying: "I just heard that you buy wooden buns here."

Jiang Yun Ning looked at her with a puzzled expression, somewhat surprised.

"You know the price, right? Two coins a pound." Song Mingzhen had been here many times, so Granny Yang should know the price.

"I know, I know." Granny Yang laughed happily, her wrinkles deepening at the corners of her eyes.

Pay by weighing.

Jiang Yun Ning was prepared for trouble at every step she took. She even checked the wooden steamed buns and found nothing unusual, nor had she added stones to weigh them down.

"Seven catties in total, fourteen coins." Jiang Yun Ning counted out the coins and handed them over.

Granny Yang reached out and took it, then tucked it into her sleeve.

"Yun Ning, I was wrong before. I've changed now, and I hope you won't take it to heart." She lowered her head, looking like she was admitting her mistake.

After saying that, he turned and left without waiting for Jiang Yun Ning to speak.