The banquet definitely had to be held, but the most important thing right now was still the County Magistrate's invitation.
Since there was no one from the Jiang family around, and Uncle Liu and the steward hadn't come over either, the Xie Fuya family next door had also happened to go back these last few days.
So the night before going to the county office, Jiang Hu went to look for Qixi.
Ever since Qixi and his mother, Aunt Yang, were freed from slave status, they had built a small one-courtyard house not far from the Jiang family, and even bought ten mu of land.
Maybe because they'd stayed with the Jiang family so long, the mother and son were full of hope for their days; they wouldn't squeeze themselves too hard in the name of being overly frugal.
For example, during the busy farming season, when there was too much work in the fields and they couldn't manage on their own, they'd hire people to work for a day or two.
