I left six eggs for my family to eat.

There were six batches of eggs every day, one batch of thirty eggs and another batch of fourteen eggs. Each egg cost two coins, which was sixty coins. The two batches would cost one hundred and twenty coins. One egg was given away for every five eggs, and twelve eggs were given away in total.

Of the four trays of eggs, twenty-four were given away. Of the remaining twenty, three were given away, and seventeen were sold.

They sold 274 coins in one day.

Niu Cuihua packed up her stall and counted the money on her person. Her mother had woven twelve bolts of cloth, each bolt being four zhang (approximately 10 meters) long, which is forty chi (approximately 33 feet) long.

Each foot of coarse cloth cost only one coin, and a bolt of cloth cost only forty coins. Niu Cuihua gave away one foot for every ten feet, so it was equivalent to selling only eleven bolts of cloth, for a total of four hundred and forty coins.

When spring arrives, even coarse cloth costs two coins per foot.

If they make this much money every day, then in ten days it would be more than four taels, and in thirty days more than twelve taels. Their one hand-operated spinning machine is now equivalent to six machines for other people.

Most people can only earn thirty-three taels of silver a year.

"Dad, let's use the money to buy another loom. I've been learning to weave with Mom, but I'm always feeding the chickens and growing vegetables, so I'm pretty bored. If we could buy some better silkworms and weave some better cloth, that would be even better."

“Daughter, I think it’s a good idea. Let’s buy a coarse cotton loom first. After we pay the taxes and expand our house next year, we’ll buy a jacquard loom and hire two people to come.” Niu Dadao said.

Building a new house on one's own land, using the most ordinary wood, would only cost a hundred or so strings of cash.

Not long after Xiao Fubao turned one month old, Niu Jinhua and Niu Yinhua, the two sisters-in-law of the Niu family, came to visit. Speaking of his two younger sisters, they were truly pampered and adored as they grew up. He wondered if it was a case of different people being raised in different ways.

After her two younger sisters got married, they became like fish eyes that had been buried. Both of her sisters married well, and Niu Dayuan didn't expect to rely on them. However, after her two sisters got married, they didn't have much contact with their maternal family, saying that they were afraid of being associated with poverty.

When the old man died, the family still had eight acres of land. Although the family was poor, the old man insisted on giving his two daughters four acres of land as dowry.

Before her death, Old Lady Niu had an old spinning machine. For two years, Old Lady Niu was bedridden, and her two younger sisters never showed their faces to her, afraid of having to take care of her. Chen Yu was responsible for everything, both raising the newborn Niu Cuihua and taking care of her mother-in-law.

Old Lady Niu died.

Then the two younger sisters arrived, and the eldest sister of the Niu family insisted on taking the spinning machine away. Even so, the two younger sisters still hated the Niu brothers. The second sister, Niu Yinhua, said that since the eldest sister took the spinning machine, the other spinning machine should also be given to her.

The only remaining spinning machine in the house was one of the items that Chen Yu had brought with her as part of her dowry. Niu was furious and immediately kicked the two sisters out with a big stick. From then on, the two families never had any contact again.

However, whenever Niu Dajia had a baby, his two younger sisters would always come and ridicule him.

"Is this Cuihua, the eldest daughter? She's grown so much in the blink of an eye, and she's getting prettier and prettier. When your second aunt first met you, you were still nestled in your mother's arms, nursing." Niu Yinhua had a playful smile on her face, but if you looked closely, the smile didn't reach her eyes.

Niu Cuihua ignored her.

Niu Meihua, being young and confused, asked, "Who are you two?"

Niu Jinhua was displeased. She raised her chin and said arrogantly, "We are your aunts."

Niu Meihua tilted her head and said, "But I only have one aunt. Dad said she married far away and it takes three or four hours to get there each time during the New Year. Do my two aunts live far away too? How come Meihua has never seen them?"

Niu Yinhua said:

"My two aunts live in the neighboring Zhao Village, only two kilometers away."

“We came here this time because we heard about what happened at home. Niu Da is a heartless man. He caught so many fish that even the village’s mute cow got to eat them, but he didn’t even bother to send us any,” Niu Jinhua said.

Chen Yu remained silent. She had never met her father-in-law or her Taiwanese parents-in-law, but she had met her mother-in-law, who was a very kind person. Her mother-in-law had also said that her father-in-law was a kind and honest person.

I wonder whose personality these two sisters-in-law took after.

When Shen Yu married into the family, her husband's older sister-in-law kept asking for the loom that was part of Shen Yu's dowry, but Niu Da and her mother-in-law chased her out with a broom.

Before she got married, my second sister-in-law was a gem, the apple of her mother-in-law's eye. But after she got married, she became a dead fish eye.

Niu Jinhua noticed a brand-new coarse cloth loom in the side room, then looked at the chickens hanging outside, and walked into the vegetable garden where the lush, green vegetables looked beautiful.

There was a chicken coop in the vegetable garden. Niu Jinhua craned her neck to look inside and saw that there were fifteen or sixteen chickens inside.

Everyone in the family is doing so well, yet they don't even think about their younger sister. They're so heartless and ungrateful.

As Niu Jinhua looked around, Niu Yinhua was talking to Shen Shi inside the house: "Sister, I'm here for nothing else, just to arrange a marriage between your eldest daughter and my husband's nephew."

Shen Yu found it somewhat unbelievable: "My eldest daughter is only eight years old."

“I know, isn’t it better for girls to get married early? Look at Niu Fu’s daughter, Niu Zhaodi, she got married at thirteen and now I hear she has a baby,” Niu Yinhua said.

"No, Niu Fu is Niu Fu, and my home is my home." Shen wanted to grab a shovel and drive them out.

“My in-laws are right. Girls aren’t worth much, and raising them is just a waste of food, isn’t it? It’s better to send them away early so we can sell them for some money.”

“Now, our family is not short of money,” Chen Yu said angrily.

Chen Yu's mother-in-law loves her daughters and granddaughters very much. Her daughters and granddaughters are all treasured by her daughters and granddaughters like the apples of her eye.

Before she got married, my second sister-in-law couldn't stand the idea that daughters were inferior to sons, but now she's like a completely different person.

While the second aunt, Niu Yinhua, was talking to Shen, the eldest sister-in-law, Niu Jinhua, was wandering around the yard. She saw the seventeen chickens in the coop and her eyes turned red. She opened the coop and saw a chicken lying there motionless. She tried to catch the chicken, but it suddenly started flapping its wings.

Niu Jinhua slipped and fell on the chicken droppings, her mouth full of them. She instinctively tried to spit them out, but her tongue moved and some of the droppings got in too.

Niu Jinhua's face turned as green as the vegetables in the garden, and she vomited. She tore a piece of cloth from her brand-new coarse cloth clothes and wiped her mouth.

"You damned old hag, let's see if I can catch you today!" Niu Jinhua looked at the chicken from before and saw that it was staring at her without moving. She felt a little smug. It turned out to be a stupid chicken.

Niu Jinhua hugged the big hen tightly, afraid it would run away. She wanted to catch a few more, but the chickens ran away as soon as they saw her. She felt regretful, but when she saw the chicken she was holding, she felt relieved: "Finally, I've caught you!"

The chicken was as well-behaved and docile as a little pet.