Their chicken lays ten eggs a day, and their goose lays two eggs a day, sometimes three.

In thirty days, if each hen lays ten eggs a day, and they have twenty-five hens, that's two hundred and fifty eggs a day, and seven thousand five hundred eggs a month.

There are 6,500 eggs in the wholesale market, sold at one cent each. For every 100 eggs sold, five eggs are given away free, so 500 eggs are free.

So the total is 6,500 coins.

There were 1,000 eggs left. Of these, 300 were eaten by the family, and 700 were sold by Niu Cuihua and Niu Er every morning and evening. They sold the eggs for 2 coins each, giving one free for every five eggs sold. Of these, 580 eggs were sold for money, and 120 were given away.

A total of 1,160 coins.

We usually eat two to three goose eggs a day, but we sell them in pairs because one is given to our baby, Xiaofubao.

We have eight female geese at home, each laying sixteen eggs a day, totaling 720 eggs in 45 days. The wholesale price is five cents per egg, which we can't afford to give away.

There are 3,600 coins.

The money from selling chicken and goose eggs was 11,260 cash, or 22,260 cash.

The twelve hens in the house hatched chicks, and in winter, the two sows in the house gave birth to seventeen or eighteen piglets.

Shen Yu looked at Niu Cuihua's calculations with some astonishment: "How much?" They actually earn more than twenty taels of silver a month?

She had never calculated it before. In the past year, they had actually earned over two hundred taels of silver? Madam Shen pinched herself hard. She wasn't dreaming.

The Zhuo family was the family that Niu's third aunt married into, and they lived in Haijia Village.

When Madam Tan returned to her parents' home at the end of September, she happened to run into Niu Yinhua. Madam Tan patted Niu Li on the shoulder and said, "Husband, isn't that Niu's third sister?"

Da Niu Li glanced at it and said, "It seems so!"

"Yinhua! Yinhua!" Madam Tan hurried after her. "Oh, Yinhua, you're walking so fast! Where are you going?"

“I’m going to buy pork,” Niu Yinhua said. Da Tan noticed some bruises on her face and knew she was lying.

The Zhuo family was considered a prominent family in Haijia Village. Niu Yinhua's father-in-law was a scholar thirty years ago, and the family also owned forty or fifty acres of good land and raised a pig.

Although he never passed the imperial examination, in this area where almost no one could read or write, a scholar was still a highly respected intellectual.

Since Niu Yinhua miscarried her three- or four-month-old baby, she has never returned to her parents' home.

Madam Tan laughed and said, "Yinhua, I haven't seen you in so long! Your little sister, Niu Huahua, broke up with that Huang family man, did you know?"

Niu Yinhua was shocked: "She broke up with him? Where will she live? How will she survive?"

Da Tan's cunning eyes darted around slightly as she intentionally or unintentionally brought up the matter of Niu Da helping Niu Xiaomei get divorced, building a new courtyard, and raising the three of them.

Niu Da, Niu Er, Niu Jinhua, Niu Yinhua, and Niu Huahua were all born of the same mother and shared the same father, yet their personalities were worlds apart. This is a classic example of how good bamboo produces bad shoots.

Upon hearing this, Niu Yinhua's face contorted. After falling off the embankment and losing her three-month-old baby, she became unable to conceive.

Hearing that Niu Xiaomei had lost her child after more than three months, she felt a little relieved. However, since her older brother was supporting the mother and her three children, he didn't even tell her about building the house.

On what grounds?

Moreover, even her aunt who married so far away was invited, but her third sister wasn't invited to the banquet. The more Niu Yinhua thought about it, the angrier she became.

When she got back, she embellished the story and told her family.

Zhuo Ping, the father-in-law of the Zhuo family, slammed his hand on the table and said, "If they don't recognize you as their sister, so be it! Why are you still going after them?"

Grandma Zhuo died early. The family originally had two sons and three daughters, but the eldest daughter also died later, leaving only two sons and two daughters.

The third daughter, Zhuoya, was selected to enter the palace as a maid years ago. When she was released, she was already twenty-five years old. Most of the matchmakers who came to her door introduced her to men who had lost their wives and had children. Zhuoya did not want to be a stepmother, so she was unable to get married until she was thirty.

Both sons got married.

The third daughter was the in-law that Niu Yinhua had previously arranged for Shen Yu's family to meet.

Niu Yinhua married the second son of the Zhuo family.

Niu Yinhua was startled by her father-in-law's angry shout and said tremblingly, "He only looks down on us because we are poorer than his family, that's why he didn't invite our family!"

The Zhuo family is not poor. If the Zhuo family, which cultivates fifty acres of land, raises a pig, and has a teaching job in town, is considered poor, then what about families without land and property?

However, Zhuo Ping's family was very poor when he was young. Before he was eight years old, they were so poor that they didn't even own an acre of land. He was bullied by the people of Haijia Village a lot when he was young, and he hated it most when others thought he was poor.

"Call them here. I want to see what gives them the right to look down on people!" Old Master Zhuo said angrily.

Chen Yu paid Xiang Jinlan for helping take care of the child, and then took three strings of cash, saying, "Huahua, this is yours! For three months."

Niu Xiaomei said, "Sister-in-law, you and my brother provide food and drink for my mother and me, how could I possibly ask for your wages?"

“A few months ago, we were busy building a house and buying a shop. We were worried that we wouldn’t have enough money. Now the shop is finished, and you’ve helped us take care of the baby for three months. This is what you deserve!” Chen Yu called Niu Ke’er and Niu Qiao’er over again.

Niu Ke'er and Niu Qiao'er ran over happily and sweetly called out, "Auntie!"

Chen Yu took a string of cash and stuffed it into Niu Qiao'er and Niu Ke'er's hands: "This is for your aunt to buy you candy!"

Niu Xiaomei quickly said, "Sister-in-law, how can a child spend so much money?" Five hundred coins is one and a half months' salary for Xiang Jinlan's eldest son, Zheng Si, and half a month's salary for a schoolteacher of the Xiucai level.

For poor families, eating a candied hawthorn is considered celebrating the New Year; how could they afford to give their children so much pocket money?

Zhuo Bufan, the eldest grandson of the Zhuo family, knocked on the door of the Niu family. Xiang Shi opened the door, and Xiang Jinlan found the young man unfamiliar.

"Who are you?"

"Auntie, I'm from the Zhuo family in Haijia Village. My grandfather asked me to come and ask my in-laws to come over."

Shenyu heard it from inside.

Haijiacun, Zhuojia?

“Sister-in-law, isn’t that Third Sister’s husband’s family?” Niu Xiaomei asked.

Shen Yu strode out, "Tell your grandfather that we're not going. If the Zhuo family has anything to say to us, they should come to my house in person!"

Zhuo Bufan turned and ran away.

Niu Xiaomei walked over and asked, "Sister-in-law, what did the Zhuo family want to see you about?"

Shen Yu shook her head and said, "I don't know, it can't be anything good!"

Xiang Jinlan said, "In my opinion, it's the right thing to not go. Who acts like a messenger, not coming themselves but asking others to go instead!"

Niu Xiaomei listened and thought it made a lot of sense.

Niu Ke'er squatted by the wall, teasing the toddler Fu Bao, who had just learned to walk, "Little Fu Bao, come to your cousin!"

Little Fu Bao was wearing a thick, pale yellow tiger-patterned coat. Its little tail swayed with its unsteady steps. Little Fu Bao went from walking while holding onto the wall to gradually letting go.

Hehehe

Little Fu Bao raised her hands high, laughing crisply, as if she could run away at any moment. Her little legs thumped, and she jumped into Niu Ke'er's arms.