Wang Ergou didn’t believe her at all, “Passing by? All of our village’s farmland are outside the village. What were you doing outside the village in the middle of the night? Moreover, pass by Brother Dahai’s watermelon fields?”

This Wang Ergou was quite good! During these past two days, he had experienced the benefit of selling watermelons. His net income for two days was a total of one hundred taels, which was something that he would have never expected in the past! Looking at his wife’s slightly protruding tummy, Wang Ergou’s eyes became gentle, and he was filled with the radiance of a loving father.

This was the money that he had earned through honest labor, and the family property that he had accumulated for his unborn son. In the future, his son wouldn’t be the same as he was as a child. In his youth, he was dressed in rags, didn’t have enough food to eat, and always thought about stealing something…

After doing a few more days of honest labor, he would be able to hire someone to build a five-room brick house and buy some more farmland. If his family couldn’t manage all the fields, he could rent them out to others! In this way, he could leave some family properties for his son. If his son was willing, he would also send his son to study at an academy so that he could take the government examinations. If his son...