Chapter 23: Curiosity

"Actually, I can bring it up."

Those rich classmates would not look down on him just because he delivered a delivery. If they wanted to look down on him, they would have done so long ago. He also didn't care about what those people thought. He just did his own thing and lived his own life.

"You also pick five, but keep one for yourself and give the rest to the Master and the Master's Wife!" Qin Huiyin said, smiling at Tang Yi beside her, "Pack five for your brother."

Tang Yi smiled and responded, and put five bamboo buckets of jelly in a basket. The basket was woven by Tang Dafu while he was sitting on the bed. It was originally used to carry vegetables for them, but Qin Huiyin took a fancy to it and it came in handy this time.

Master Tang San came and saw Tang Yichen. He said happily, "Brother Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing recently?"

"Third Grandpa..." Tang Yichen saluted.

"Oh, you scholars have a lot of rules." Mr. Tang San said with a smile, "I have been running errands for your family these past two days and have made some money. I will buy some meat when I go back later."

"Third Uncle, if you can help us sell the things, you can get one cent for every five copies." Qin Huiyin said.

"Then I'll bring a few more copies. Maybe someone will want to buy them on the road!" Mr. Tang San asked Qin Huiyin to pack twenty copies for him in a backpack. He carried the backpack and followed Tang Yichen to the private school.

Li Taohua was so tired that she found a place to sit down and said to Tang Luwu, "I can't do it anymore. You keep an eye on me for a while."

Qin Huiyin saw that the long queue had been relaxed, and she was in the mood to recall Tang Yichen's appearance. This was the first time she had really met the male lead, and she didn't look at him carefully, but she only remembered that he looked good and had a gentle temperament.

The male protagonist is a powerful official in the future, elegant as jade, handsome, often likes white clothes, and is as sacred and inviolable as an immortal in a painting. But that is his future self, and now he is just a good-looking scholar.

Now that we have met the hero, we can't help but compare him with the villain. The hero was born in poverty and had all kinds of misfortunes in the early days, but in the end he was still the peerless exiled immortal who was not stained by the dust for a moment. The villain was also born in poverty and his growth path was extremely difficult. Compared with the hero who had all the noble people on his road, the villain's road was full of traps and quagmires, and in the end he also became the traitor who exuded the bloody smell.

"How many copies have we sold?" Li Taohua asked Qin Huiyin.

Before Qin Huiyin could speak, Tang Luwu said, "Except for the 15 extra copies that Third Grandpa took away and the 5 copies that my brother took away, 60 copies were sold, so there are probably about 70 copies left now."

"This is what my brother gave me." Tang Yi smiled and handed a string of copper coins to Li Taohua. "He said he earned this from copying books."

Li Taohua took it, her face looked better, and said, "You are quite sensible."

She roughly counted it and found that there were fifty cents in this string, which was enough to pay off the debt for the jelly she had given away in the past two days.

Qin Huiyin smiled and continued to receive the guests.

Master Tang San came back, put down his backpack, and said, "Does what you just said still count? I took fifteen portions out and sold them all."

"Third Grandpa, you are so awesome!" Qin Huiyin took the copper coins handed over by Third Grandpa Tang, took out four coins and handed them to him. "The rest should be easy to sell, so I won't bother you today. Find a place to rest."

Mr. Tang San made a lot of money these two days. He was very happy and took the money to buy some wine.

Qin Huiyin asked curiously: "Third Grandpa has a good temper and a smart mind. How could a man like him not have a wife?"

There are so many men who beat their wives in the village, but they can all find wives. How could Mr. Tang San, who can make money and has a good temper, not have a wife?

"I heard that when he was young, he had a childhood sweetheart. When they were about to get married, his childhood sweetheart was bullied by a bully and committed suicide. He beat the injustice drum and reported the bully's crimes to the government. However, the county magistrate at that time was in cahoots with the bully. Not only did he not punish the bully, he also turned the tables on him. He escaped from the prison and continued to appeal the case. It took him two years to succeed. Both the bully and the county magistrate were executed. But later, when others recommended marriages to him, he rejected them all. His parents kept crying and making a fuss about him all day long. He ran away from home late one night and came back ten years later to take care of his parents in their old age, but he never married in his life."

Li Taohua calmly recounted the story of Tang Sanye. She was always smart and would show envy when talking about other people's love. But soon, that shyness disappeared without a trace.

"Such men are like gold in the mud. It's not easy to get them. Girl, don't dream that men only love you. You can go to the brothel door occasionally. That's the normal state of men. Oh, don't say that the men in the village don't go, because they have no money and no chance to go. But how many men with a little money are honest?"

"Mom, don't say these scary things, we are still young!" Qin Huiyin said, "How can a man be as lovely as money? I just want to make more money and buy whatever I want. If I have a lot of money, what kind of obedient man can I not find?"

Tang Yixiao covered Tang Luwu's ears and said angrily: "Sister, don't listen to her, she is talking nonsense."

Tang Luwu blinked her eyes: "But, Sister Yin is right, money can bring us a good life. With money, we can indeed live a better life."

As for men...

There were so many examples in the village, it was not like she didn't see them. Sometimes men not only didn't bring good luck, but also brought misfortune. It was just that no woman had ever said it out loud before. Parents taught girls to be faithful, to obey their fathers at home and their husbands after marriage, and no one had ever told girls in the family that men were not necessary.

Tang Yi laughed and wailed in his heart: It's over. My sister has been influenced by this mother and daughter. If my eldest brother knew about this, he would definitely beat me up.

After selling the last portion of jelly, there was still some braised meat left. A few women nearby were watching and when they saw them packing up their stall, they came over and asked if they could sell them the braised meat at a lower price.

"I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, today's braised meat is already very cheap, and there will be no discount starting tomorrow. To be honest, my family hasn't eaten meat for a long time, so it's good to take this meat home and eat it yourself." Qin Huiyin said with a smile, "If you ladies don't want to buy it, we'll pack up and go home."

"What about this braised egg? We're buying braised meat, so you can give us the braised egg to eat, right?"

Qin Huiyin looked embarrassed: "Originally, three braised eggs cost one cent. If I give them to you, it would be more painful than giving you meat. How about this, if you buy five cents of braised meat, I will give you one braised egg."

"You are such a stingy girl!" The aunts were not happy.

Qin Huiyin didn't say anything else, with a smile on her face. Even if those aunts were unreasonable, they couldn't embarrass a little girl with a smiling face.

"We are going home. We will sell the last bit of braised meat and eggs to anyone who pays for them for 20 cents," said Li Taohua.

"Mom, this is not cost-effective. We will lose money." Qin Huiyin stopped her anxiously.

"The sun is out. I don't want to stay here to bask in the sun. I'm your mother. Can't I make the decision on such a small matter? But they shouldn't be able to come up with twenty cents. Why are you in such a hurry?" Li Taohua was furious and her face was full of impatience.

The aunts were not happy. How come the four of them couldn't come up with twenty cents?

"Boss, pack them all for me, we want them all." One of the aunts threw twenty cents in front of them.