It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 277

Jiang Mancang… The moment this name came out, the gatekeeper was speechless. He looked at Jiang Fu and said, "Your niece from the same village is really a joker."

Jiang Fu also took the opportunity to show a headache. "Her parents are not around, so she is more relaxed. Sometimes she gets crazy and forgets the occasion and makes a joke. I'm sorry."

The gatekeeper couldn't really argue with Jiang Yan over a fake name, so he simply started to drive people away:

"Let's go, let's not stand here any longer. If you need to do something, go around to the front yamen from outside. Hurry up, because by the end of the day, the adults will be resting."

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Jiang Fu emerged from the front yamen, his expression somewhat grave. He walked over to where Jiang Wang and the other two were waiting and repeated the conditions for reinstating Huang.

Finally, he confirmed with Jiang Yan again: "Do you really want to change your name?"

"I do think about it, but the requirements are so difficult, so I'll just give up." Jiang Yan's insistence faded the moment he heard that he needed to find five people who were not from the same village and had no relatives to prove their identities.

She had spent most of her time in Dongshan Village over the years and hadn't had the energy to build relationships with people from nearby villages. Of the people she had met outside of Dongshan Village, most were casual acquaintances, aside from the five Fu girls she had to avoid.

Not to mention where these people are scattered, even if they find her, they cannot trust her, and there is no guarantee that they can testify consistently that she is not Jiang Yan without revealing any clues.

Huang Ji's matter definitely couldn't be accomplished today. Jiang Wang remained silent until he finally spoke: "I'll go back and look around the next village. It should be easy to gather five people."

Jiang Fu led Jiang Wang and the other two out of the county government and walked towards the market. Before leaving, he asked curiously, "Why did you use a man's name just now? Jiang Mancang, Mancang, it has a good meaning."

Jiang Yan smiled with unconcealed anticipation: "I don't care about the name of the man or the woman. I just want a good harvest and a full granary every year."

After setting the goal of farming, Jiang Yan also liked the word "harvest", so Grandma Xu in the village used this name.

But Grandma Xu didn't survive the drought, and if she mentioned it, it would definitely trigger everyone's sadness again.

In particular, Grandma Xu’s granddaughter Jiang Zhi finally met her fiancé Jiang Youqi when she went to the village, got married, and is now struggling to give birth to the only little life in Dongshan Village in nearly six years.

Jiang Yan felt that she had a good relationship with Sister Jiang Zhi and would never be a heartless person. She also did not have the courage to challenge the stick that Master Jiang Xing had just made and placed in the ancestral hall.

It was approaching noon, and the market, which usually closed long ago, seemed even more deserted and depressed.

Jiang Hu and Jiang Yan had good eyesight. Standing at the entrance of the market, they looked in from the left and right. They saw a group of people dressed as servants surrounding the manager in the center, selecting things as if they were picking out livestock.

Jiang Yan felt unwell all over. Although she had seen a similar scene on the street outside the Hao Mansion that morning, the feeling it gave her was still quite different.

Compared to the people in front of him who were numb and desperate to the point of having lost the will to live, those outside the Hao Mansion still had a bit of energy in their hearts.

Jiang Hu seemed to have discovered something and pointed somewhere to show Jiang Wang.

Jiang Yan also looked in that direction, but there were no familiar faces. However, she had a vague guess in her mind that she must have seen someone she knew.

The three people standing suddenly soon attracted the attention of the manager. He brought his men over and looked critically from Jiang Hu to Jiang Yan, and then from Jiang Yan to Jiang Wang.

"Are you three here looking for a way to survive? Tsk, that old one is just too old. Keeping him alive is a waste of food. You two are in decent shape. How about this, I'll be kind and give you half a bag of wheat. Come with me."