There was no need for Yingbao to go and watch the fun. In the evening, Aunt Wang came to Jiang Sanlang's house again and shared the new things she saw with Chunniang.
"The Chen Laoshuan family has split up."
Aunt Wang took the red date buns from Chunniang and said with a smile, "Oh, you don't know, Chen Feng moved all the money boxes to the yard and smashed them. There were only a dozen taels of silver in them. Even my family is not as good as them."
Ever since Aunt Wang started growing golden ears with Jiang Sanlang's family, their lives have been getting better day by day. The last time she sold the golden ears, she made more than twenty taels of silver. After paying the autumn tax and repaying debts, she still had more than ten taels left.
Chunniang asked with a smile: "How much did each family get?"
Aunt Wang took a bite of the steamed bun and said vaguely, "How much more can it be? Each of the three sons will get 6 taels. But Chen Laoshuan gave a lot of his land to his sons. Tsk tsk, more than 300 acres of land, each of them got 100 acres, so my parents-in-law only have 60 acres left."
Chunniang was not surprised.
When Chen Laoshuan and his wife were young, they were also hardworking people and had a lot of wealth. Even though they had to pay for their children and grandchildren's education all year round, they also saved up a lot of land.
It is said that when Chen Laoshuan was young, he worked as a stable boy for a wealthy family and saved the young master of that family. In the end, the master rewarded him with a lot of money and gave him a beautiful wife, and asked him to return home with his wife to farm. The wife was Chen Fengshi.
"Hey, the best is yet to come."
Aunt Wang didn't even bother to eat her steamed buns, and teased, "You don't know, Han sold the 100 acres of land on the spot and got 220 taels of silver."
"Ah?" Chun Niang was surprised. "Sold it on the spot? Sold it to whom?"
Aunt Wang chuckled and said, "Who else? Chen Sanyou's family bought ten acres of paddy fields, Chen Changsheng from the west village also bought ten acres, and a few other families bought twenty acres of top-quality land. The remaining dry land was bought by several people from other villages. Only the ten acres on the south slope were left and no one wanted them."
Of course, Chen Changping’s share of land cannot be sold.
"Tsk tsk, Chunniang, you don't know that Chen Laoshuan was so angry that he fainted, but he couldn't stop Han from selling the land."
Aunt Wang shook her head and said with regret, "I wanted to buy it, but the remaining fields are all inferior fields on the south slope. There's no point in buying them."
Chunniang laughed and asked, "Her husband doesn't care about Han's behavior?"
"What the hell, looking at his expression today, it seems that he wants to sell all the land to save himself from worry. Alas, Chen Changping has been studying so hard since he was a child that he has become stupid. He has never worked in the fields for a day. How can he know the importance of farmland?" Aunt Wang took a bite of her steamed bun and said with disdain, "Just wait and see, he will suffer in the future."
Chunniang poured a bowl of tea for Aunt Wang Er. "That's not necessarily true. It is said that Chen Changping himself has his own abilities. When he was in the academy, he often copied books to make money."
"You believe his nonsense!"
Aunt Wang took a sip of tea and took another bite of steamed bun. "Is he going to study or copy books? My eldest son said that you only get a few coins for copying a book in a bookstore. If you copy a wrong word, you get nothing. You also have to pay for the paper and ink. Humph! If Chen Changping can make two taels of silver a year by copying, I will walk backwards in the village."
"Maybe he really has a way to make money." Chun Niang said with a smile: "Snakes have their own ways and rats have their own ways. It's hard to say that Chen Changping doesn't have the ability to support his family."
Aunt Wang nodded. "Well, I heard that Chen Changping wanted to sell his land and live with his brother-in-law. Han's sister and brother-in-law are in the county town, so how can we not help him?"
Chunniang hoped that Han would go to the county town as soon as possible and never come back. "Yes, maybe she went to the county town to enjoy herself."
"Too."
Aunt Wang chatted with Chunniang for a while before getting up and going home.
Yingbao sat nearby and listened to their conversation, thinking deeply.
The Han couple are really weird. In this life, they sold the land they depended on for survival and moved to the county town to live.
In her previous life, she had never seen Han earn a penny, let alone Chen Changping. Before he passed the imperial examination, he relied on his parents and elder brother for support to continue his studies.
Now that his elder brother Chen Changrong has separated from him, how much ability can Chen Laoshuan and Chen Fengshi have to help him
Well, it’s none of her business anyway, and she wishes the Han family would stay as far away from her as possible.
The next day, the eldest grandson of the Jiang family got engaged and wanted to invite many guests. Chunniang went to her sister-in-law's house early in the morning to help.
Yingbao took her two younger brothers to wash and eat, and then took them to school.
It was the first time that Xiaojie and Xiaowu sat in the classroom. They were so shy that they didn’t dare to say a word. When they saw Mrs. Wen, they were like mice seeing a cat.
Although Mrs. Wen was very kind, the two children sat upright for half an hour without moving.
Finally, Wen Hengyin couldn't bear it anymore and took them to the backyard to see the piglets. Only then did they become happy.
The little pig Helix has grown to weigh fifty or sixty kilograms. He is not afraid of people and runs over to beg for food, whining.
Wen Hengyin threw a dried date to it, and it happily rolled it into its mouth and chewed it until its saliva was flowing.
"When it grows bigger, I can ride it." Wen Hengyin showed off to the two little kids, "It runs faster than your deer."
Xiao Wu was unhappy when he heard this, "My deer runs faster than your pigs."
Xiaojie also nodded: "Yeah, your piggy is so ugly."
Wen Hengyin's face darkened, but he was the older brother and had to behave like an older brother. He couldn't argue with two little brats who knew nothing.
"Spiral is not ugly. Look how cute it is." Wen Hengyin touched Spiral's big head and suddenly thought of the little tuft of hair on Yingbao's head.
Well, why not tie two small buns on Spiral, which will look cute. This way, the two little kids won’t say Spiral is ugly.
Wen Hengyin did it right away. He ran to his sister's room and found two ribbons exactly the same as the ones on Yingbao's head.
I guess this is used by my sister to tie her hair, but she doesn't tie her hair that way very often now, so the ribbon is just placed in her makeup box and is not used.
Wen Hengyin ran back and seriously tied two small tufts of hair on the piglet's head.
You know what, just looking at it, it really looks like the one on Yingbao's head.
"Xiao Jie and Xiao Wu, come and see if the spiral is beautiful." Wen Hengyin pulled the two little kids over and pointed at Zhu Zhu proudly.
Xiaojie and Xiaowu were shocked and looked at Wen Hengyin with disbelief. "Little brother, you are in trouble."
"What?" Wen Hengyin blinked, a little confused: "Why do I have to be unlucky?"
Xiaojie said with a sad face: "You turned my sister into a pig."
Xiao Wu clenched his fists and said angrily: "Change my sister back!"
Wen Hengyin was stunned, and carefully observed the piglet in front of him, feeling a little panicked.
But then I thought, this is my own spiral, how could it be that little brat Yingbao
Well, I was almost led astray by these two idiots.
"Look carefully, idiot! This is my spiral, not your sister's." Wen Hengyin pointed at the spiral on Zhuzhu's forehead and said seriously: "Your sister doesn't have a spiral on her forehead."
Xiao Wu pouted and suddenly burst into tears: "Bad brother! Your sister doesn't have a spiral!"