Fate of the Stupid Son Chapter 10

When Song Lin woke up, the family’s hearts fell back into their stomachs after hanging for half a day.

All the people answered and followed, leaving Xu and Song Lin alone in the house.

Song Lin grabbed Xu’s hand tightly and softened his voice, “You’re scared, aren’t you?”

Xu took out a handkerchief and wiped the corner of his mouth clean, and gave a soft muffled cry.

Seeing her like this, Song Lin became more and more distressed, “It’s all my fault for making you worry, don’t worry, I will be careful in the future.”

Xu couldn’t say anything to stop him from going hunting, after all, this was the main source of money for the family, she looked down into Song Lin’s eyes, “You should rest for some more days, tomorrow I will go to the county and take a big job back.”

Xu’s embroidery work was so good that the embroidery workshops in the county were clamouring for her embroidery, and she had just been married for two years, but Song’s grandmother and Song Lin were afraid she would hurt her eyes, so they didn’t allow her to take on any, only some handkerchiefs and the like.

“I can’t, my leg will be off for ten days and half a month at most, I’ll make two more trips to the mountains and earn my silver back.”

Xu didn’t tell him that she had spent a lot of silver on medicine and ginseng, and covered him with a thin blanket, trying to persuade him, “I don’t take on very big jobs, I take on the kind that can be embroidered in two or three days.”

Song Lin still disagreed, his own daughter-in-law knew herself, once she had an embroidery job, Xu would embroider day and night.

“If you do embroidery work, I won’t feel at ease lying on the bed, so you’d better stop embroidering and just talk with me.”

Seeing his insistence on not agreeing, Xu didn’t insist, “Close your eyes and sleep for a while longer, I’ll go and help mother and sister-in-law cook.”

After talking for a while Song Lin was indeed feeling tired, “I’ll take another nap, you can call me when the meal is ready.”

Xu answered and saw him close his eyes and drift off to sleep again before he pulled his hand out and got up to help in the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Grandma Song and her second daughter-in-law, Liu Cui Lan, were busy working. When she saw Xu enter, Grandma Song immediately hurried her, “You’ve been guarding Lin’er all afternoon and you’re tired.

“I’m fine.”

“Your face is white even now, and you still say you’re fine? Listen to Mother, Lin’er still needs your care.”

“Yes, sister-in-law go and rest, the meal will be ready by Mother and me in a moment.”

“It’s hard work for Mother and sister-in-law.”

Xu went to Song Wangyue’s room and sat on a wooden stool, and at a glance she saw the box sitting on the table – the very same one the Gu family had sent.

The lid was still open at the moment, and the box was empty inside.

Something flashed through Xu’s mind and she couldn’t sit still, getting up and coming to the door, “Yue’er, come here.”

Song Wan Yue and Song Shen were feeding the chickens, and when they heard Xu’s voice, they put down the chicken food and came back inside.

Without waiting for her to ask, she said, “Inside is a jade bracelet, which I pawned today for three hundred taels, and spent one hundred and thirty taels on medicine and ginseng, the rest I put under my pillow.”

When she heard that she had pawned it for three hundred taels, Xu drew a breath, and when Song Wan Yue took out the rest of the silver cheque from under her pillow, she still hadn’t recovered.

Even if she had never pawned anything before, she knew that pawnshops would pay a few taels for something that cost a hundred taels. A jade bracelet could be pawned for three hundred taels, that meant that it could be worth several thousand taels or even tens of thousands of taels.

The Gu family had given her a gift of gratitude for saving her life, but there was no way to repay them like this.

“I originally wanted to go to the academy to look for my elder brother, but when I asked at Ji Shi Tang, it cost hundreds of taels of silver, so I thought I would pawn the bracelet. Mother, don’t worry, I pawned it for a living, it can be redeemed. Moreover, Third Uncle told me to pawn it for a maximum of fifty taels, but I pawned it for three hundred taels.”

Looking at her glowing eyes and the look of someone waiting to be praised, Xu opened her mouth, her words of reproach stuck in her throat. Yue’er was not wrong, she had done it for the sake of the family, and without the medicine and ginseng, Song Lin might not have survived.

She took a deep breath, and although she tried her best to hold it back, Xu’s voice still faintly trembled, “Yue’er, let me know if you do anything else in the future, okay?”

“Okay.”

Song Wan Yue’s voice was clear and crisp, her little face still beaming with the joy of Song Lin waking up, completely unaware that she had done anything heavenly.

Xu blamed herself a little, blaming herself for those gifts that had been sent to her that she should have taken a look at first, if she had, she wouldn’t have ……

She closed her eyes, in that situation, even if she had read it, she might have made the same choice as Yue’er.

Raising a hand to touch her head, “Tell your third uncle, don’t tell the family.”

It’s just a hundred taels of silver, the big deal is that when the eldest family member is well enough to go hunting in the mountains, she’ll sneak into the county to pick up the big piece and come back, as long as she embroiders it, the eldest family member can’t do anything about it even if he doesn’t want to come back.

“Hmm.”

Song Wan Yue nodded her head, “Mother put the silver away.”

“It’s better to put it in your house first, find a safe place to put it, don’t let the family find out.”

……

When the meal was ready, Xu carried it back to the house, gently woke up Song Lin, took something to cushion it, helped him up a bit, moved the small table in front of him, and put the meal on it one by one.

When he saw that there was even rabbit meat, Song Lin looked at her suspiciously.

Xu showed a smile and handed him the chopsticks, “The rabbit was killed by itself, and happened to be picked up by Yue’er and Shen’er.”

Song Lin, ……

“Yue’er wasn’t scared, was she?”

“She ah, since she was very sick, she is very bold, not only picked up the rabbit, but also ……”

The words came out, only to feel that it was inappropriate to say this to Song Lin at this time, lest he get excited and move, and the wound split open again.”

Did not hear the second half of the sentence, Song Lin also wondered, “How else, you say ah.”

“Nothing, let’s eat.”

If it was something else, Song Lin would not have asked, but this was about his baby daughter, Song Lin could not not not ask, especially when Xu was stammering so much, Song Lin was a bit anxious, “What is it, if you don’t tell me, I can’t even eat my meal.”

Xu regretted that she hadn’t kept her mouth shut, so she said, “I saved someone.”

“What?”

Song Lin snapped his voice up.

“Take it easy, it wasn’t saved on the mountain, it was saved by the river, by the two Shen’er.”

Song Lin thought that the two had saved someone who had fallen into the water and was relieved, Shen’er was good at water, saving a person was not a problem, then he thought of something and immediately instructed, “You tell Yue’er that if no one is following, even if someone is in the water about to drown, she is not allowed to save them.”

My daughter doesn’t know how to swim, so if she gets dragged down while saving someone, she’ll be killed!