Chapter 1286: Qiao Xuan was upset
The wages were twenty-five to thirty-five cents a day, which was a huge income for the villagers.
If there are two people working in a family, even if there is not work every day, the income in a month is still considerable.
With income, the way of food, clothing, housing and transportation have all changed to some extent. Those who are smart have saved enough capital, borrowed a little, and went to the city to start a small business. Some also bought land and reclaimed wasteland. Therefore, the life of every household is much better than before!
Naturally, I feel grateful to the eldest wife of the Shao family.
There are also some people who secretly grumble and laugh at the villagers for being stupid and unworldly, and being satisfied with such a small salary a month. Who knows how much the eldest wife of the Shao family earns? I'm afraid they have mountains of gold and silver piled up at home that they can't spend in several lifetimes, but they haven't been generous enough to raise everyone's salary.
When Fang heard someone trying to imitate these words, she just sneered and didn't bother to pay any attention.
If you are willing to work, then do it well. If you are not willing, how can you worry about not being able to hire people in these ten or eight villages? Other villages have already envied you to death!
Fang and others did not tell Qiao Xuan about these messy trivial matters. Qiao Xuan rarely came back, so it was good for her to be happy.
Fang missed her son so much that she couldn't help asking Qiao Xuan a lot of questions.
Knowing that Shao Yunduan rarely came back, and hearing Qiao Xuan talk about the bustle of the capital, Fang couldn't help but think about going to the capital, but of course not now.
She thought about it and decided to talk about it next year or the year after next.
Yang Xiaoni is just two months pregnant now. As her mother-in-law, she naturally will not leave home at this time. She has to stay at home to take charge.
With her around, there are many more unexpected things.
When Qiao Xuan came back and learned that Yang Xiaoni was pregnant, she congratulated her with a smile and gave her a big red envelope. Yang Xiaoni was beaming with joy and took the opportunity to ask Qiao Xuan for a painting written by Shao Yunduan himself, saying that she wanted to hang it in her room and look at it every day for good luck so that her son could share in the talent of her fifth uncle.
Qiao Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she found a fan with poems written by Shao Yunduan and gave it to her, which made Yang Xiaoni very happy.
When Mrs. Xu saw this, she regretted that she hadn't thought of this when she was pregnant. This third brother's wife was really good at handling things.
So he smiled and asked Qiao Xuan for permission to hang it in the rooms of his two sons, especially Junyan, who was now studying in school and needed to be influenced by his fifth uncle's talent.
Qiao Xuan gave it to him as well.
Shao Yunduan was not willing to give other calligraphy to others easily, so he searched for a long time and finally found a fan and a calligraphy piece with two excerpts from the Analects of Confucius and gave it to her.
Xu thanked again and again, and took the gift away carefully as if it were a treasure.
Qiao Xuan was even more amused and confused. She thought to herself that after returning to Beijing, she should ask her husband to write a few more fans. Maybe they would be useful someday.
What Qiao Xuan didn't expect was that Shao Liulang would actually come to her and ask her for Shao Yunduan's provincial examination review materials and the essays he wrote before the examination.
Under normal circumstances, Qiao Xuan wouldn't mind helping out at all.
It’s just that Shao Liulang’s tone and expression made people feel particularly uncomfortable, as if he was enduring humiliation and swallowing his anger by asking this question.
Qiao Xuan felt very unhappy when seeing this.
Uncle Shao's eyes were full of expectation: "Qiao, please hurry up and find a partner for Liu Lang. Maybe you can help him. If Liu Lang passes the exam, it will be an honor for our Shao family! In the future, the two brothers will have a strong arm to help each other!"
Qiao Xuan was even more disgusted and couldn't even fake a smile.
(End of this chapter)
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