Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 358

"What did you eat last night?" Zhong Ruyi asked the man who was about to go out after breakfast. She always felt that he was hiding something from her.

"Last night? Last night we had fried tomato and eggs, fried mushrooms and bacon, and..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhong Ruyi interrupted him, "You know that's not what I'm asking. What did you eat when you got up in the middle of the night last night?" She had a serious expression and was determined to hear the truth from him.

Chen Dongzhi was silent for a moment, but still told the truth, "Get some pills prescribed by the doctor."

pill?

She nervously reached out and pulled the man over, feeling around his body, "Are you hurt? Why didn't I see it last night? Where are you hurt? Let me see."

Chen Dongzhi pursed his lips and decided to tell the whole story, "No, I'm not injured. The medicine is...it makes it temporarily impossible for a man to impregnate a woman."

Zhong Ruyi's face went blank. What did she hear?

Is Chen Dongzhi taking birth control pills?

She was a little incredulous, "Why? You don't want a child?"

Otherwise, how do you explain the fact that he took the birth control pill on his own initiative?

She was a little depressed, so she grabbed the man's ear and went into the house, asking him to take out all the hidden medicines and show them to her.

When she was holding the two small bottles and looking at them from left to right, Chen Dongzhi was still as silent as a gourd with its mouth sawed off.

"Why don't you explain? Why are you taking this medicine for no reason? How long have you been taking it?"

Chen Dongzhi stammered, "I've been taking it for almost two months."

He only said how long he had been eating it, but he didn't say why he wanted to eat it.

Zhong Ruyi looked at him with a stern face, and became at a loss when she saw that he began to sweat coldly.

"We are husband and wife. You have kept everything from me. In the future, I will not tell you anything either, just to make you anxious!"

She had a cold expression and looked serious.

Chen Dongzhi opened his mouth and went over his words in his mind before speaking, "...I don't want a child, so I asked the doctor to prescribe this medicine. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have kept this from you."

Zhong Ruyi looked at him in confusion, "Didn't you like children before? Why do you suddenly not want one?"

Doesn’t he like Xiaoxue, Xiaoman, Cuicui and Tiedan at home very much?

Why did you suddenly remember to take medicine?

Fear flashed in the man's eyes and his face was struggling. "Giving birth is too dangerous." He tried to convince Zhong Ruyi by telling her about his vague memory of Chen's mother giving birth to Xiaoxue.

?

Zhong Ruyi didn't expect that he had thought so far.

Although she really doesn't want to have a child so soon, she will give birth to the child if she really does.

But she didn't expect that Chen Dongzhi was secretly taking contraceptive measures. Thinking about the man's reduced appetite in the past two months and his less frequent clinging to her at night, she thought it was because he was too tired from working during the day, but she didn't expect it was the result of the medicine.

"If you don't want it, then don't take it." She wrinkled her nose and said, "But don't take that medicine. Medicine is poisonous. Even if you take it now, there is no guarantee that something bad will happen in the future."

Chen Dongzhi was anxious, "What if you don't take the medicine and get pregnant? If...if I could give birth, I wouldn't let you suffer like this!"

Hearing this, Zhong Ruyi finally smiled for the first time today. She glared at the man, "Humph! Do you think I won't be angry if you say that?"

Considering that he knew how to care for others, Zhong Ruyi didn't intend to be angry with him anymore and directly slipped into the space.

Chen Dongzhi was left with a dazed look on his face, thinking that he had really made his wife angry, and was running around anxiously outside.

Zhong Ruyi searched the small wooden house in the space several times. She remembered that when she first came in, she had patiently looked through every room, even opening the drawers of the bedroom one by one.

I had the impression that the thing was placed in the drawer, and sure enough, when I pulled out the drawer, the things inside were clearly visible.

If the man hadn't suddenly taken medicine, she wouldn't have remembered that there was this thing in the space, so she took it and left the space.

As a result, Chen Dongzhi was seen sitting on the bed with a frustrated look on his face, holding the two bottles of medicine in his hands.

"Here! We'll use this from now on." Zhong Ruyi, who suddenly disappeared and then suddenly reappeared, gave him a severe fright.

After taking the things his wife gave him, he looked at them twice and put them aside. Then he put his arm around his wife's waist and began to apologize and beg for mercy in a low voice.

It was not until the two of them went to bed at night that Chen Dongzhi understood the purpose of that thing. He instantly forgot about the two bottles of medicine and decided to use this from now on. Although it was a bit tight, it was better than taking medicine.

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The water melons in the village were harvested one after another. Shopkeeper Ding came several times and bought melons and then apples. Finally, he stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Now your village is the best in Liuyun Town!" He gave a thumbs up.

After hearing this, the surrounding villagers all raised their chins high, with a look of pride on their faces.

Zhao Ganwei was even more proud. Now their village was the most famous among the surrounding villages. There was a workshop in the village. Not only did all the young girls and wives in the village work there, but every household also grew water melons. The sale of one water melon was enough to earn the breadwinner of an ordinary family a day, and they sold hundreds of water melons a day, which was enough to equal the annual income of others!

Nowadays, when someone gets married, as long as they hear that the girl is from Xinghua Village, who wouldn’t rush to get the girl?

But soon he couldn't laugh anymore, because the government office sent someone to say that the county magistrate wanted to see him about something.

He had a premonition that nothing good would happen to him, but he didn't expect that someone would be so shameless as to go to the county magistrate to complain about him, saying that he only cared about his own village and didn't care about the lives of the surrounding villages.

Heaven and earth conscience!

As a village chief, he could get a few hundred coins a month from the government, and it was already very good if he could manage the village well.

Zhao Ganwei returned to the village with a bitter face, and the villagers saw him and asked him a few questions.

"Hey! Stop talking! Starting next year, our village won't be the only one that can grow water melons! The county magistrate has issued a strict order, requiring all the subordinate villages in Liuyun Town to learn how we grow good water melons. They want us to teach them so that everyone can grow them in the future!"

The county magistrate thought that after the water melons were grown, they could be supplied to the imperial court, which would also be a political achievement for him.

Another thing, if every household in Liuyun Town becomes wealthy by growing watermelons, it means that he has led the people well during his tenure and led them to a prosperous life. This will also be icing on the cake of his political achievements. Why not do it?

The news quickly spread throughout the village, and the villagers began to worry.

If these water melons were not from their village, and they were picking up the fruits of other people's labor for free, they would definitely be happy.

But now the watermelons have grown little by little in their hands. When should the seedlings be transplanted? How much water should be given so that the melons will not burst? Which melons should be left and which should be pinched? They have figured out all these little by little, and now they have to tell everyone everything. How can they feel comfortable?

The villagers were not convinced and made an appointment to go to the village chief's house.

"We can give you seeds, but how to plant them depends on your own ability! Why do you want us to teach you for free?"

Zhong Ruyi was also there. Zhao Ganwei came to see her that day and said that the county magistrate wanted to buy the workshops from her. She would be responsible for managing the workshops and would be paid three taels of silver per month. The profits from the workshops would be handed over to the government.

What a joke! There is no way Zhong Ruyi would agree to this.

Fortunately, the county magistrate only proposed this idea. Perhaps he knew that it was ugly to ask for it in this way, so he told Zhao Ganwei about it that day and pretended that he had not said it.

Zhao Ganwei came back and talked to her, but Zhong Ruyi only heard half of it when she started to curse the county magistrate for being shameless. She only stopped after barely listening to the last two sentences.

She said with some disdain, "What a freeloader! My workshop makes a net profit of five or six hundred taels of silver a month, and he wants to get rid of me with three taels of silver? That's just wishful thinking!"