Chapter 1567: Random Checks

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The two of them then returned to their courtyard.

Xue Yan went to the kitchen to boil some hot water. He planned to boil the water for Jiang Yue to bathe in it. He also planned to make porridge.

The people of Shitou Village had filled the kitchen with water during the day, so it could be used at any time. If there was no water in the kitchen, he could use the water in the space instead of going to the well.

Jiang Yue went to her room and took out a set of clothes that she would change into today.

Xue Yan quickly boiled the hot water and carried it to the bathtub in the room to pour it in. He then mixed it with cold water and tested the water temperature. When he felt the temperature was suitable for bathing, he guided Jiang Yue into the bath and closed the door. He then went to the kitchen to wash the rice and cook the porridge.

Both of them were not hungry. Even if he were to cook porridge, for the two of them, only one portion was needed.

After Jiang Yue finished bathing, Xue Yan also finished cooking the porridge. He first went to help pour the bathwater away before scooping a small bowl of porridge for Jiang Yue to eat.

Jiang Yue was not hungry. She only ate a few mouthfuls and then stopped eating. Xue Yan helped to eat the rest. When Xue Yan finished washing the dishes and took a shower, it was almost time to go to bed.

There was nothing else to do, so they just wanted to rest.

There was nothing wrong with resting here.

It was just that there were many mosquitoes in Da Chen this month. Before the sky turned dark, Xue Yan had already erected four bamboo poles on the four sides of the bed and hung the mosquito net they brought. Jiang Yue went to bed first, and Xue Yan went up later, but he was not in a hurry to join her. Instead, he checked if there were mosquitoes in the mosquito net, in case any of them buzzed in their ears the whole night.

Seeing that there were no mosquitoes, Xue Yan blew out the lights and lay down.

They both cuddled and gave each other pecks on the forehead before sleeping. Then, the two of them closed their eyes and went to sleep.

The next day, Xue Yan woke up before daybreak and washed the clothes that he and Jiang Yue had changed out of and hung them in the air.

At this moment, the sky began to brighten.

The two hired aunties had already started to boil quite a few buckets of paste in their respective homes. The 45 hired people were ready to go. They saw that there were more than 2,000 missing person notices and other things in the house, but they did not see who sent them. Even so, the 45 people did not ask anything.

Soon, hired carriages entered Stone Village.

With just a little inquiry, they knew how to get to the Xue family. Then, the hired carriages all came to the door of the courtyard where Jiang Yue and Xue Yan temporarily stayed.

Then, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan gave them the missing-person notices. Each of them took some and a small bucket. The bucket was filled with paste. Each of them carried a small brush that was used to paste couplets into their homes. Then, they took a carriage in order. The hired carriage would send them to various places in Dianhe County to start posting and distributing missing-person notices everywhere.

The horse carriage would then come back to pick up more paste because one bucket per person the whole day was not enough.

Logically speaking, each section should have a leader to ensure missing person notices would not overlap. However, they hired people from Stone Village. They believed that the people from Stone Village would not know how to do this, so they did not find anyone to supervise them.

If he were to hire people to post missing person notices in other places in the future, he would have to find someone to supervise them. Moreover, not only would they have to supervise them, but they would hire someone else to randomly spot-check places to ensure that everything was going as planned.

It would be a waste of time to check every place. It was fine to randomly check a place. Going to a random place would ensure that the workers are doing a good job. Those hired people were naturally afraid that they wouldn’t get paid, so they didn’t dare to do a bad job.