Chapter 57: Cricket Focus, Shen Mingzhu's Disgrace
Yu Miaomiao really wanted to kick her off the bed.
I couldn't bear to do it.
She turned over and took out the money from under the pillow, counted out half of it and handed it to Su Tang: "I'll share it with you."
"It's the same if you keep it." Su Tang didn't answer.
No matter how good their relationship was, they each had their own families now. She didn't dare to accept large sums of money.
She was afraid that Mu Jingyun would beat Yu Miaomiao after knowing it.
Money! How can I give it away?
"From now on, just say that this money was earned by both of us." Yu Miaomiao stuffed the money into Su Tang's pocket without hesitation.
Su Tang felt guilty: "Reason?"
"You gave me inspiration, but you can't draw." Yu Miaomiao had already thought of an excuse.
You can't put all your eggs in one basket, and the same goes for money.
What if Mu Jingyun goes crazy during the divorce and doesn't let her take the money away? If they divide it this way, at least half of it will be with Su Tang.
Although Mu Jingzhou has a strong personality, he is more reasonable than the crazy Mu Jingyun. Even if the divorce is ugly, he will not hold back Su Tang's money, right?
"Okay! Then I'll be getting richer and richer." Su Tang took the money and put her face forward, "Smell me, do I smell good today?"
Yu Miaomiao laughed at her for being flirtatious, but she did smell the fragrance: "Rose, did you wash your face with soap?"
"Yeah. Mu Jingzhou was so drunk by me that he just didn't want to go to work." Su Tang happily pulled Yu Miaomiao to go and see the soap, "Come on, you go and have a look too!"
Su Tang's house is big and is divided into two rooms by wooden boards.
I usually take a bath in the inner room, and I can put things there. There is also a small window for ventilation, which is very beneficial for saponification.
Several wooden boxes of soap have been saponified and matured. When the wooden lids are opened, a hard paste like solidified jade can be seen. The scent of goat milk and rose directly covers up the smell of soap.
Smells good and looks good.
"How's the foaming level?" Yu Miaomiao asked.
The piece of tang that Su Tang cut off in the morning was placed next to the basin. She rolled up her sleeves, dipped it in water and rubbed it, and a layer of fine foam came out immediately.
"Look, the foaming is perfect!"
"Indeed! I'll try it too."
Yu Miaomiao hadn't washed her face properly for a long time, and after washing, she felt immediately refreshed.
"Not bad, not bad! Wash it clean, and try the goat's milk one."
The two of them also cut off a piece of goat milk soap, which is more moisturizing than rose soap and more suitable for washing the face.
"Such a good soap needs a higher price!" Yu Miaomiao felt a sense of accomplishment and her whole face was radiant.
"Gao Chunyan from next door and I ordered two bars of soap. I told her: 25 cents for the rose one and 30 cents for the goat milk one. She helped us yesterday and gave us 5 cents less for each of them." Su Tang said.
"Okay!" Yu Miaomiao was very satisfied.
Goat milk soap is more expensive in the first place—goat milk costs money.
I picked the roses myself, so my labor didn't count. I was just sitting around doing nothing anyway.
“But it’s not enough to just sell it directly, we also have to put effort into the packaging,” said Yu Miaomiao.
"It's best to use a soap box to store soap, but we can't afford that thing. Let's buy tissue paper, but tissue paper is expensive and has no special features." Su Tang was also worried about this.
Yu Miaomiao laughed: "You forgot that we learned papermaking."
“Yes!”
Su Tang slapped her forehead and remembered one of the handicraft classes in college - making paper with flowers.
It seemed romantic and fun at the time, but it comes in handy now!
The two sisters got to work right away and immediately took their tools to look for tree bark and roots.
The incident that Mu Fengfen caused when she returned home yesterday had been publicized by Old Lady Gao so that it was known to the whole village.
In fact, Mrs. Gao didn’t know exactly what happened, but she had a characteristic - she liked to do the opposite of Mrs. Mu!
So, she naturally defended Yu Miaomiao, and her slogan was as follows: "Xiao Yu suffered from the lack of education of rural people, and was not as cunning as the city people! If she hadn't fought for it, those pictures would have become Shen Mingzhu's."
"And the money, I think it's not right! Xiaoyu sells it to the county town for five yuan a piece, the price must be higher in the provincial capital! I don't know if it was Fengfen who was greedy or Shen Mingzhu who was greedy."
"Oh, it's really bullying. Xiao Yu was so anxious that she even wanted to divorce Lao Er!"
"Poor Xiao Yu has no support from her family, so Old Lady Mu bullies her as much as she can, old thing!"
“…”
Yu Miaomiao's talent has been witnessed by the entire village.
Now, with the words of Old Lady Gao, the villagers' sympathy for Yu Miaomiao was successfully aroused.
Especially Tailor Wang.
Although Shen Mingzhu is a student of senior sister Qin Xian, this girl relies on the fact that she is from the provincial capital and is afraid of hard work and picky about food.
Among so many educated youth who went to the countryside, she was the only one with the most things to do.
Tailor Wang couldn't stand it.
Now, she is fully on Yu Miaomiao's side: "Xiao Yu's talent is good enough to get into a garment factory in the provincial capital. Shen Mingzhu might also want to work in a garment factory! Being a designer is so respectable."
"I admire Xiao Yu, too. Although he is talented, he is not proud. He collected 45 yuan yesterday and didn't ask for a penny more."
"You've given Shen Mingzhu enough face. Just let her apologize. If it were me, I would have sued her!"
“…”
While the villagers were working, they were also listening to crickets for Shen Mingzhu who was far away in the provincial capital.
Peaches and apricots are ripe this season, so Gao Ming organized the women in the village to gather in the woods to pick peaches, which made it more convenient for crickets.
Old Lady Mu found this irritating and cursed, "This is all my family's business, why are you making such a fuss? If you say anything bad about Mingzhu again, I'll tear your mouths apart!"
"Oh, are you still protecting Shen Mingzhu? I say, Old Lady Mu, who is your daughter-in-law?" asked Tailor Wang.
Aunt Sun said, "I know you originally wanted Mingzhu to be your child, but the second son has already made up his mind and married Xiaoyu, so it's time for you to make up your mind too."
"Or, let Mingzhu marry your fourth son. Then you won't have to worry about him."
"The fourth child is only seventeen years old this year, four years younger than Shen Mingzhu. I'm afraid he doesn't want to eat young grass."
"Hahaha……"
The laughter in the woods spread far and wide. Old Lady Mu's face turned gloomy: "Who said I was protecting the pearl? I will protect whoever is right!"
"But this time, Xiao Yu is clearly right."
Old Lady Mu choked and said, "Even if you are right, you should be sensible and forgive others when you can! Do you think you have to force Mingzhu to death?"
"Aren't you afraid of forcing Xiao Yu to death? You are just biased! When you are old, let's see who will take care of you and see you to the end of your life!"
"She, it's good enough that she doesn't drive me to death! You didn't see that she would not cook for no reason and would ask for a divorce for no reason... What kind of wife would act like this?"
Old Mrs. Mu had a lot of grievances but no one believed her, and she felt very frustrated.
I have a deeper understanding that it is not possible to rely on Yu Miaomiao and Su Tang to take care of me in my old age, as those two women are lazy and have bad tempers.
The elder and younger aunts hurt each other, and they also instigated the second and third children to ignore their parents and sisters.
In the future, the best support for her and the old man will be the eldest and the fourth son.
The eldest brother is honest and his wife is obedient. After two years of marriage, he never dared to disobey her.
The fourth child has good grades and will go to college in the future. She has a bright future. I can take her to the city to enjoy life in the future.
Fortunately, she had many sons.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Mu felt much better.
Suddenly he saw Su Tang and Yu Miaomiao picking wild flowers on the slope of the woods, and he became furious.
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