Upon hearing the knocking, Ms. Jin quickly got dressed and got out of bed, walking very quietly so as not to disturb the two of them while they slept.

"Husband," Jin Shi pushed open the door and saw Huang Xiaosan standing against the sunlight, "Why are you back? Don't you have to go to work?"

"Can't I come back?" Huang Xiaosan gave his wife a strange look. "It's not busy upstairs. My father-in-law asked me to come back and keep my mother company."

His father-in-law specifically instructed him to spend quality time with his mother and make sure she was satisfied.

If we could find out the recipe, that would be even better.

Huang Xiaosan scoffed at this.

Selling just ten of their recipes was enough to make him so heartbroken he wanted to bang his head against the wall.

Want more? Dream on!

However, he wouldn't be foolish enough to refuse the offer to spend more time with his mother and wife instead of working.

“Then come in,” Jin said, stepping aside to make room for them. “Mother and Second Sister-in-law haven’t gotten up yet. Go sit in the hall and don’t disturb them. I’ll make breakfast.”

"Okay, go ahead."

Although Huang Xiaosan readily agreed, he had some doubts in his heart.

Why does he feel like his wife finds him annoying and in the way?

That's impossible, I didn't do it.

I always feel like I'm being disliked ever since my mother came. Is that just my imagination?

Completely bewildered, Huang Xiaosan couldn't understand it at all, so she simply kept it all to herself.

After Jin left, Jiang Nuan and the other woman didn't sleep for long before getting up.

Madam Xie shook her neck and complained softly, "Mother, my neck is so sore, did I hurt myself?"

“No,” Jiang Nuan glanced at her, walked over and massaged her neck, “Sleeping in one position for too long causes some bleeding, but it doesn’t hurt. It will be fine in a while.”

"Oh," Xie Jiao said, relieved, and immediately smiled softly, "Mom, to the left, it hurts there."

Once Xie's neck felt much better, the two of them went into the hall.

Upon seeing Jiang Nuan, Huang Xiaosan immediately exclaimed excitedly, "Mom, I'm not going to work today. Where do you want to go? I'll go with you."

“Um,” Jiang Nuan’s face was a little awkward, “You stay home and pack your things today, cancel the long-term contract in a few days, and then go home.”

Huang Xiaosan's attention was immediately diverted by this sentence.

“Mother,” Huang Xiaosan asked in a low voice, “Do we really have to spend five hundred taels of silver on the land deed? That’s fifty acres of land.”

With fifty acres of land at home, we won't have to worry about making a living anymore. Why waste it on him?

Anyway, it's just a 20-year contract, not a contract of servitude, so he can get through it.

“Spend it, this money must be spent,” Jiang Nuan glanced at Huang Xiaosan knowingly. “Don’t think this money is not worth it. Five hundred taels of silver will cancel your indenture, and you won’t have to waste twenty years being tied up in Wuweilou, unable to move anywhere.”

Jiang Nuan patted Huang Xiaosan on the shoulder and said earnestly, "You will only know the value of freedom after you lose it. I'm sure your father-in-law understands this deeply."

“Mother,” Huang Xiaosan complained with a frown, “I can’t earn five hundred taels of silver in twenty years, let alone forty. The thought of spending so much silver on the contract makes my heart ache. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of money.”

“That’s a huge loss,” Jiang Nuan also felt a pang of heartache and couldn’t help but tap Huang Xiaosan on the head. “It’s all your fault. You don’t use your brain when you do things. You didn’t even discuss such an important matter with the family. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have given away so much money for nothing.”

“No way,” Jiang Nuan couldn’t help but grab Huang Xiaosan’s ear, “You have to work harder in the future to earn back this money.”

Otherwise, they won't learn their lesson, Jiang Nuanxin added.