On the eighth of March, Xiao's eldest son Fu Sheng's wedding day arrived. Zi Qing took Zi Shou to welcome the bride because the Xiao family didn't have many relatives and weren't local, so Peng Shi asked everyone to go and make an appearance.

  Ziying and Xiaoxiu spent the day together, and at night several unmarried young men wanted to sneak into the bridal chamber. Xiaoxiu also thought about sneaking in, wanting to take Ziying as her companion. Xiao Fusheng's new house was originally Shen's residence, newly painted. Although Ziying also had the intention of joining in the fun, Shen had taken her back early, saying "What kind of girl listens to this? Shameless." Ziying felt deeply regretful.

  The next day, in the rare sunny weather, Shen Shi and Zi Qing sat on the edge of the drying mat. The rape at home had been harvested early, but they hadn't caught up with the good weather yet. Now, Shen Shi had brought out the rape to dry it in the sun, and was pounding and kneading it while Zi Qing helped to shoo away the chickens. Zi Shou and Zi Xi took off their shoes and wore thick socks to trample on the rape stalks on the drying mat, playing. Zi Xi's walking wasn't very steady yet, and he would tumble over, but he knew how to get up after falling, which made Zi Qing and Zi Shou burst out laughing. The little guy saw this and played even more happily.

  Shen was telling Zi Qing that there were more people selling small peas in the city this year, and the price had dropped by one cent. Just as they were talking, the weather suddenly turned cloudy, and a strong wind started to blow. He rushed out to take a look at the sky, fearing rain, and quickly carried Zi Xi into the house. The three of them were busy putting away the rape in the doorway when a fierce gust of wind blew over, sending sand and stones flying everywhere, and darkness descended all around. Soon after, thunder boomed and lightning flashed, and heavy rain poured down. The three of them hastily took shelter inside the house.

  In the afternoon, Zǐ Lù returned home from school and said that there were broken tree branches everywhere on the road, and also some collapsed thatched cottages. He Shi said that she hadn't seen such a strong wind in many years, and the wheat would definitely be affected. As soon as Zi Qíng heard this, he rushed out to take a look at the vegetable field in the yard, which was still okay, after all, there were houses on all sides, so it wasn't blown away. The seedlings in the watermelon field were lying east and west, and Zi Qíng called everyone to come and help prop them up.

  At this time, Zi Qing heard someone shouting at the door. It was Zeng Ruiyu who had arrived. He said that he had gone to check on the wheat field on this side and found that it was a low-lying area, so the damage wasn't too great. However, they needed to prop it up, fearing that if it got waterlogged, it would sprout. He also said: "On my way here, I heard that someone in our village was blown away by the wind and fell into the irrigation canal on the other side of the reservoir. They were rescued, but everyone says they've never seen such strong winds before. It's as if everything is being swept up. Luckily, I ran quickly."

  Everyone was shocked after hearing, never heard of it before, and someone was actually blown away. They were chatting and laughing when Autumn Jade came to deliver a message. It turned out that the one who was blown away was Zhou Shi. Zi Qing thought Zhou Shi's weight was still on the heavier side among women, if it were someone else, who knows where they would have been blown to.

  Shen listened and quickly shook off the mud in her hands, wanting to see Zhou go. She hastily picked up twenty or thirty eggs, instructed He a few words, and Zi Qing followed along.

  It wasn't until then that they realized Zhou Shi's ankle was severely swollen, and she had been carried back on a board, unable to walk. Old Master Zhou found the same doctor who had treated Zi Qing before, and when Zi Qing and the others arrived, the doctor was applying some kind of medicine while performing acupuncture. Zhou Shi was crying out in pain, and the doctor kept telling her not to move around, but she couldn't help it, tears and snot streaming down her face as she complained about how her husband was never home, leaving all the household chores to her, and then suddenly switching to complaining about Old Master Zhou's unfair land distribution, saying that if he had given them the good land like he gave to his second son's family, they wouldn't be suffering like this.

  The old man's frown deepened as he listened outside. Mrs. Tian also sighed, while Zi Ping could only wipe away tears on the side.

  "Father, have you sent a message to big brother?"

  "I told Old Tian on the street to take a trip, anyway, Old Tian was also going to send someone to the city." The old man said, Old Tian is a donkey cart driver, waiting on the street every day to pull people.

  After a while, the old man went to send Zhou Langzhong. Shen Shi sat on the edge of Zhou's bed and asked what was going on. It turned out that when the weather changed, Zhou Shi was picking peas in the sandy ground, there were not many left, just thinking of finishing it in one breath, so as not to run another trip. When she saw something was wrong and wanted to run, she couldn't move anymore. Later, she didn't know what happened, and she fainted for a moment. When she came to her senses, she was already in an abandoned dry ditch. This ditch was deeper than a person, Zhou Shi shouted at the bottom for half a day before someone heard her, she was so scared, cold and hungry, and didn't know which ghost god she had offended, saying that she wanted Zi Ping to burn incense and worship.

  Shen's wife boiled some hot water, gave Zhou's wife a quick wipe, and then went to the kitchen to cook two poached eggs and brought them over. "Eat a bowl of egg drop soup to warm up. Don't move around for now, didn't you just hear that Lang Zhong said that it takes 100 days to recover from a sprain? Tell your mother not to rush back either, let's just take it easy at home."

  After finishing speaking, Shen asked about the arrangement of the land. "That's nothing, let my brother-in-law do it. I know you're busy with your own family matters, so I won't bother you." Zhou said.

  Just then, Tian came in and said it was getting dark. Shen hastily stood up to bid farewell and took Zi Qing home.

  On the way home, Ziqing discussed with her mother, wanting to wait for this year's watermelon harvest to sell and use the money to buy the small barren mountain behind. "Mother, I want to plant fruit trees, believe me, it will definitely work, I have already cultivated seedlings. And on such a large mountain, we can also raise chickens, raising chickens is also very profitable. Mother, look, I've never planted watermelons before, but didn't they turn out well?"

  "That large piece of mountain land, can't even get a few dozen mu back. Mother still wants to save money to buy good paddy fields. Paddy fields are indeed valuable, you see which landlord doesn't hoard paddy fields once they have silver."

  "That's a barren mountain, it won't cost much silver. I'll only buy this land once, and you can use the rest of the silver to buy paddy fields in the future. I guarantee we won't lose out; if we do, mother won't need to give me a dowry, and I'll just take this barren mountain."

  "You shameless thing, how can a girl like you utter such words, who have you been learning from every day?"

  Jian Zi Qing didn't make a sound, and then said: "Where does our family have the silver to buy a mountain? Your elder brother is going to government school, Xu Shifu's account has been settled, how much is left in our family?"

  Xu Shifu and his family returned two days ago, leaving only over ten taels of silver at home, which is indeed not enough for anything.

  "Mother, I didn't say to buy it now. Look at our family's courtyard, it was a wasteland, and we only spent 15 taels of silver on it. Our family can recover more than 200 taels in one year, isn't that suitable?" Zi Qing explained to her mother.

  Shen thought for a moment and finally agreed to wait until Zeng Rui-xiang and the others returned before discussing it further.

  Returned home to eat and wash up, then went to bed, nothing happened that night. Who knew, at dawn, the wind outside was howling, louder and more violent than the previous day's, Zi Shou woke up with a start, crying out for his mother, Zi Lu hugged him and coaxed: "Little Three, don't cry, brother will take you to find mother."

  Shen's family sat on Zi Lu's bed with their young son, comforting Zi Shou. He Shi and Zi Qing had also woken up and joined them on the bed. Zi Qing suspected that a typhoon had passed through the nearby sea area and its tail had reached their location. This had happened before when she was younger, but she didn't know how many days it would last. He Shi said that this year's weather was abnormal and feared it might be bad, telling Shen's family to prepare more rice and grains.