On the way back, Liu Cui Lan thanked Song Wan Yue gratefully.
Although she could only sell a bowl of sheep soup for a few wens, there was no capital cost. As long as the family worked hard, as Song Wangyue said, it would be no problem to sell a few hundred wens a day, and they could earn hundreds of taels of silver a year.
Song Wan Yue sat opposite her, her body swaying with the cart, “Second Aunt, you are still polite to me, you have treated me like your own daughter all these years, I should help you.”
“Yes ……”
Song Shu waved his bullwhip and chimed in, “Don’t be polite to Yue’er, you’ve been watching her since she was a child, you don’t know what her temper is? She can’t stand people saying thank you to her the most.”
“It’s better that second uncle understands me, second aunt thanks me goose bumps all over my body.”
“You two are really ……”
Liu Cui Lan smiled and did not say anything further, but in her heart she was planning to take her private money when she went to the stall tomorrow and buy Song Wan Yue a few nice hairpins.
When Song Ming heard the commotion, he turned around in a panic and saw that it was Song Shu, who scurried back to his yard.
“Is he holding back some bad ideas again?”
Liu Cui Lan also saw it and said worriedly.
“He dares!”
Song Shu Gu Yi raised his voice, “If he dares to hold back any bad ideas, see if Big Brother and I don’t break his legs!”
When the bullock cart had passed, Song Ming came out of the house and spat fiercely twice in the direction of the cart!
I really thought I was afraid of Song Lin and Song Shu, but that was because I didn’t want to fight with them, and I didn’t know who would lose if we really fought!
……
As it was getting dark, the people working on the foundations called it a day and went home.
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law, however, headed out of the village.
A woman called out to her, “It’s so late, what are you doing?”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law pursed her lips, she was not very good at dealing with the people in the village, “I’m going to see how the crops are growing in the fields.”
The people looked at her hurried back and shook their heads.
When Song Ming’s daughter-in-law arrived at the field, it was already completely dark. She looked around through the hazy moonlight before squatting down at the boundary of the ground, picking up a sharp branch that was placed next to her and starting to dig.
Today was the tenth day of cutting firewood, the day Song Ming had been waiting for to settle her account. She took out all the money wrapped in greaseproof paper, counted out eighty wens and buried the rest.
Song Ming had long been looking forward to it, and he was standing on the main road today to see when the Song family would finish work.
When he saw her enter, Song Ming hurriedly greeted him, “Where’s the money?”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law’s hand tightened as she held the money and took a step back, “I, I have something to tell you.”
Song Ming didn’t care whether she had something to say or not, he came forward and grabbed her hand, snatched the money away and began to count it impatiently, “One, two ……
The first thing you need to do is to get out of the house and see that Song Ming’s daughter-in-law is still standing there like a stick, and she is furious, “Why don’t you go and cook, do you want to starve us to death?”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law was biting her lips tightly, that day after Song Wan Yue gave her the money she did not give it to Song Ming on the same day, she was giving herself a pep talk. She wanted to take the opportunity to give Song Ming the money today, but before she could say anything, Song Ming had snatched it away from her.
She lowered her head in remorse and went to the kitchen.
“I’ll count it for you.”
Song Gua reached out, but was blocked by Song Ming with his arm. Song Gua grunted, and when he had finished counting, asked with squinted eyes, “How much?”
“Eighty wens.”
Song Gua’s bristled and naturally held out her hand, “It’s only that much.”
But Song Ming didn’t give him the money, he tucked it all into his own sleeve, “This is what this stinking b*tch earned, it’s not money from selling grain, I can’t give it to you.”
Song Gua froze, her eyes as wide as bull’s eyes, “What did you say?”
She had always held the family’s money, no matter how it came about.
Song Ming tucked her hand away, a little impatient.
When he was counting the money just now, he had already thought about how to spend it, so how could he take it out?
“I said it’s not money for selling grain, I can’t give it to you.”
“You brat, you married your daughter-in-law and forgot your mother, didn’t you? You don’t give it to me, you don’t give it to me ……”
Song Gua looked around, turned her little feet upside down and walked to where she had put the firewood, picked up a thumb-thick branch and walked towards the kitchen, “I’ll beat this b*tch to death if you don’t give it to me!”
“Just beat it, I don’t care ……”
Song Ming was unimpressed and turned around with his words.
Halfway through the turn remembered what Song Lin came over and said, his heart stirred, two big steps to Song Gua’s front a hand snatched the branch out of her hand and threw it far away, “Here you go, here you go.”
Song Gua’s wife was satisfied with this, eighty wens was also money, she hadn’t seen money for a long time.
She hadn’t seen any money in a long time, but Song Ming only counted out fifty wens and gave it to her, shoving the rest back into his sleeve, “I’ll drink the rest.”
Song Gua clutched the fifty wens in her hand and did not ask him for more. Even if she had taken it all, Song Ming would have taken it back from her to buy more wine.
“You have to spend it wisely, there are still some days before she gets her money back.”
“Got it, got it.”
Song Ming responded impatiently and went back inside to lie down.
With one leg bent and the other resting on it, he rocked beautifully, calculating how he would spend the thirty wen.
There was a kiosk in the neighbouring village that sold wine, but the wine had been mixed with water, so much so that the taste of the wine was almost gone, and it didn’t taste good at all.
It was better to go to the county, buy a dozen or so yuan and have a meal at my sister’s house.
The following day
It was just after dawn, and Song Ming didn’t even eat breakfast, so he went to the prefecture with thirty pieces of money in his pocket, taking two hours to get to the prefecture.
He thought he would go to the market to buy something, but it was almost noon and there were not many people selling anything in the market. He stretched his neck to look and saw many people gathered around a stall in front of him and thought it was selling something.
Song Ming’s steps faltered, and then he turned and ran back, all the way out of the bazaar before he dared to stop and hold onto the wall to catch his breath.
Song Sanxiao, a b*****d, is a dog skin plaster, and can tear a piece of skin off his body, so Song Ming was really scared and didn’t want him to see him.
It took him a while to slow down and spit on the ground, “What a bad luck.”
After that, he put his hands behind his back and walked towards the front, saw a grooved cake vendor, bought two boxes for fifteen yuan and carried them to Song Lian’s house, shouting as soon as he entered the courtyard, “Sister, look what brother bought for you.”
