It turned out that the golden ears grown by the daughter-in-law of Patriarch Chen were sold for more than three strings of cash from fifty flowers.
Three guanduo is more than three thousand wen, which can buy six or seven dan of rice, enough to feed a family of five for half a year.
You can easily earn the money in just over a month without having to interfere with your farm work. Who wouldn’t want such a good thing
So Han Miaoniang, the second daughter-in-law of the Chen clan leader, said to the fourth sister-in-law: "Your fifty flowers can be divided into plants. I don't want more. Just give me a hundred plants."
The fourth sister-in-law, Mrs. Shao, of course was unwilling and ran to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Tang, to cry and complain.
Tang got angry when she heard this and ran over to scold her second daughter-in-law: "How dark is your heart? You can't stand seeing us getting along well, right?"
Tang was not Han Miaoniang's biological mother-in-law. She was the second wife of the clan leader Chen Fu. She gave birth to only one son, Silang Chen Zhu, and a daughter who was already married.
Chen Dalang and Chen Erlang are both sons of Chen Fu's ex-wife, so the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law never take their stepmother-in-law seriously and sometimes even quarrel with her, making the daughter-in-law neither act like a daughter-in-law nor the mother-in-law like a mother-in-law.
The second daughter-in-law sneered: "Look at what you said, how can you say you can't stand seeing you doing well? Dad didn't say that we can't have the seeds of the fourth brother's wife's golden ears."
When Tang heard this, she was furious and immediately ran to question her husband.
"Tell me, are those golden ears for the fourth son's wife? Why do the first and second son's wives also want to plant them?"
She was Chen Fu's second wife and had only one son, Chen Silang. Her precious son was sent to join the army by Chen Fu. How could she not be heartbroken
The old man finally felt guilty and found a job for his fourth daughter-in-law to grow golden ears. However, the eldest and second daughters-in-law became greedy and kept looking for trouble.
Patriarch Chen took a sip from the tea bowl and said lightly, "It's not a big deal. Those golden ears have mycelium, right? It's okay to share some of them."
"What?"
Tang sat down on the chair, slapped her legs and started crying, "You old killer! I was blind to marry you, my God, I won't live anymore, your Chen family wants to force my mother to death. My poor Zhuer, not only did he go to the army for his nephew, but his wife and children were bullied at home."
Patriarch Chen's forehead was throbbing with veins, and he slammed the table and shouted, "Is this the end? Who bullied Zhuzi's wife and children?"
Tang jumped up, pointed at Chen Fu and cursed: "You old thing, you still say you didn't bully them. Zhu'er's wife just got three strings of cash, and someone is jealous of her. Why, the eldest and second sons are your biological sons, but Zhu'er is my son who was raised by someone else?"
"What the hell are you talking about!" Chen Fu's beard was shaking with anger.
At this time, the second daughter-in-law, Han Miaoniang, said sarcastically outside the window: "Whoever bullies others will die immediately. Oh, only the fourth daughter-in-law can grow golden ears, so it seems that we can't grow them?"
When Tang heard this, she got angry, picked up a vase, rushed out of the house and threw it at Han Miaoniang.
As a result, he used too much force and threw the bottle over the low wall and into Chen Sanyou's house next door, almost hitting Chen Yin's head.
Without mentioning the chaos in Patriarch Chen's family, the two brothers Li Dayong and Li Eryong were in high spirits.
Together they planted two hundred golden fungus and fifty snow fungus, earning a total of fifteen taels of silver.
Fifteen taels! They have been saving for more than ten years and still haven’t saved that much.
"Brother, let's plant 400 flowers this time." Li Eryong was reluctant to move his hand as he touched the ten-liang silver ingot.
This was the first time in his life that he had touched a silver ingot. He never expected that one day he would own one, no, two silver ingots.
The blind old man asked, "Son, let me feel the silver."
Li Eryong stuffed two silver ingots into his father's hands and said, "Touch them."
Old man Li touched the two silver ingots, one big and one small, and started to cry.
Li Dayong and Li Eryong were startled and asked hurriedly, "Dad, why are you crying?"
"Woo woo woo, it's worth dying in this life."
Old man Li rubbed the silver with his old face and cried, "It's a pity that your mother died early. If she knew that her son would be so successful one day, she would have endured for a few more years."
Li Dayong and Li Eryong looked at each other, sighed, and said to Old Man Li: "Dad, after we finish planting the golden ears, we will go to Beishan to pay tribute to our mother and tell her the good news."
"Okay, take me there when the time comes." Old Man Li wiped his eyes and said, "I haven't visited your mother for many years."
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Just after the Ghost Festival in July, the sow in Jiang Dalang's family gave birth to piglets.
Eight piglets were born at once, which made Jiang Dalang very happy.
"Erlang, Sanlang, when the time comes, each of you can take one to raise, and sell the rest."
Jiang Erlang and Jiang Sanlang both shook their heads, "No, I don't have time to raise one."
Their family is too busy and their children have to go to school, so they don't have the time to raise pigs.
Jiang Dalang scratched his head and sighed, "Then send two to Nanpo and let Er Xiao raise them. We can kill them and eat their meat next New Year. The rest can be sold when they are one month old."
Nowadays, everyone is busy making big money and has no time to raise pigs. Only Jiang Quan has nothing to do and is bored all day long trapping birds and hunting rabbits.
Even Yingbao, who was a little over three years old, knew that she could grow golden ears to earn some money. But that boy was just a fool, who was only focused on picking water chestnuts to sell. He even said that he just liked selling things and didn't like growing golden ears.
Now, except for Yuanbao, Huzi and the twins who are still ignorant, even Dani and Erni have started to grow golden ear and snow ear, saying that they want to make money and spend it on themselves like Yingbao.
Time passed day by day, and soon the piglet was one month old.
The sow had plenty of milk, and she raised eight piglets, who were plump and beautiful.
The happiest person among them was Wen Hengyin.
He came secretly to feed the sow Ahua every day, and felt very satisfied when he saw the little piglets sucking milk from Ahua's belly.
As a result, one day when he came to feed the piglets again, he found that two piglets were missing.
What's going on
Wen Hengyin hurriedly counted twice more.
There are indeed two missing.
"How do you take care of the kids?" Wen Hengyin couldn't help but scold Ah Hua: "You didn't even know two of them were missing?"
Ah Hua snorted at him a few times and lay there ignoring him.
Wen Hengyin returned home in a depressed mood and didn't sleep a wink all night.
When they checked again a day later, there was only one cub left in Ah Hua's belly.
Wen Hengyin became anxious and wanted to go in to hug the baby, but Ah Hua jumped up and attacked him.
"Are you crazy?"
Wen Hengyin could only shrink back from the wall, jumping up and down in anger, but he didn't dare to go in again.
The more he thought about it, the sadder he became. He turned around and ran home to cry to his mother, "Mom, please go and save your grandchildren. They are almost all being stolen. Wuu ...
Xiao Zhenniang's hand holding the pen trembled, thinking she had misheard: "What did you say?"
"All your grandchildren have been stolen, you should go and buy them back..." Wen Hengyin sobbed, feeling extremely sad.
I worked so hard to raise all the cubs, but I didn't expect that in the end there would be only one left.
He was sure that if he didn't take care of it, he wouldn't be able to see even one by tomorrow.
"My grandson?" Xiao Zhenniang's face darkened. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"No... I'm not talking nonsense, it's true." Wen Hengyin sobbed, "It's in the Jiang family..." pigpen.
Xiao Zhenniang stood up and said, "Okay, take me to have a look."
So, the mother and daughter came to Jiang's house, next to the pigpen.
When Xiao Zhenniang saw her "grandson", her expression remained calm.
She glanced at her son calmly and asked, "Are you sure this is your child?"
Wen Hengyin nodded seriously and told the story of that day. Finally, he said in defense: "I...I didn't want to..."
Xiao Zhenniang's mouth twitched, and she tried hard not to laugh out loud. She just said, "Then wait, I'll go to the Jiang family and buy it."