Zhang poured Xiao Yunying a bowl of water. Feeling the atmosphere was a bit heavy, she said, "Yunying, did you come back to see your second sister-in-law? Your second brother accompanied her back to her parents' home and hasn't returned yet."
Mu Lianrong said, "Your father, your eldest brother, and your uncle went to the next village to find people to build houses. They'll let you know when they get back."
"No rush." Xiao Yunying took things out of the basket: "I went to the city this morning and bought some unusual things to give to my mother."
The more Mu Lianrong looked at her daughter's injuries, the more alarmed she became: "Did you go to the city to see a doctor? Did they prescribe any medicine for you?"
Xiao Yunying knew her mother would ask this question: "I went, and I got the medicine. I bought some ointment and can apply it myself."
"Your voice sounds a bit muffled. Did you get any medicine to dispel wind and cold?"
Xiao Yunying said without batting an eye, "The doctor said that medicine is three parts poison, and he didn't prescribe it since the typhoid fever wasn't severe."
She didn't want to drink that bitter medicine just because of a minor cold. She had taken enough medicine in her past life, and her current body could handle it; she would get better on her own in a few days.
"It's good that you've seen a doctor."
Mu Lianrong was relieved and picked up a bar of soap to look at it: "Is this scented soap? Why did you buy so much?"
She couldn't bear to tell her daughter that she was wasting money, so she could only feel sorry for her in secret.
Xiao Yunying explained how she got the soap recipe from the overseas merchant, and then explained how to use the soap and regular soap: "One is for washing people, and the other is for washing clothes. Don't get them mixed up. Mother, use them with confidence. I'll make more when you run out."
Zhang said with some envy, "Yun Ying is really capable."
She knew that scented soap wasn't cheap, not to mention the recipe; she knew how much money she could make by selling it.
Xiao Yunying took out two ten-tael silver ingots from her bosom: "Mother, sister-in-law, and nephews can keep the meat and pastries for yourselves, and the wine is for Father and brother. Mother, take these twenty taels of silver."
She was cooking for Chen Yuancheng and forgot the time. She was in a hurry to catch the oxcart and didn't have time to buy anything properly. She had originally planned to buy two pieces of jewelry for her mother and two sisters-in-law.
Zhang stared in astonishment, but only listened without saying a word.
Mu Lianrong asked, "Have all the snow fungus been sold?"
Xiao Yunying was too embarrassed to say to her mother that the young master Tang was foolish and rich: "He meets a rich and powerful young master and wants them all."
Mu Lianrong: "Before we sell it, it's just food. We can only feel at ease if we convert it into silver. Keep the silver safe after you sell it. Building a house will cost a lot of silver."
"Mom, I still have some left. It's enough to build a house. I was ignorant before, but I'm so grateful that you always took care of me and didn't mind my troubles. Please keep it as a way of showing your filial piety."
Twenty taels was really not much for her; she wanted to give one or two hundred taels, but Mu Lianrong would definitely not accept it.
After Xiao Yunying's repeated persuasion, Mu Lianrong finally agreed to accept it: "Then I will keep it for you. If you need money in the future, just ask me for it."
Xiao Yunying replied, "Okay."
Are you kidding? Would she be short of money? No way.
The three of them were chatting in the main room when several nephews ran in from outside and greeted Xiao Yunying as their aunt.
Xiao Yunying took a bag of osmanthus cakes and opened it: "Here, have some cakes."
Mu Lianrong said, "Where did you go to play? You're all covered in dirt. Go wash your hands."
The children rushed to wash their hands, then came back to eat osmanthus cakes, chattering about the exciting scene they had just witnessed.
"Grandma Lin said she was going to divorce He Hua."
"He Hua cried and made a scene, refusing to leave, and kept shouting that she had given birth to a child from the Lin family."
"There were a lot of people gathered around, so we climbed up the tree to see."
Zhang's eldest son, Xiao Chunlei, asked, "Auntie, was it He Hua who did this to your head?"
Before the original owner got married, she treated her children fairly well, thinking that they were her brother's children, and would occasionally give them snacks and candied fruit. Therefore, although the children were a little afraid of this aunt with a bad temper, they did not dislike her.
Xiao Yunying didn't want to talk about it anymore, so she nodded and didn't say anything.
Xiao Chunlei clenched his fist and said, "If I could squeeze in, I would have punched that He Hua twice. She's so wicked that she actually tried to kill my aunt."
Several children expressed their opinions:
"I want to hit her too."
"She's only lost two teeth. I'm going to knock out two more so she'll never dare to open her mouth to speak again."
"Abort them all, so she can't eat meat anymore."
Xiao Yunying and Zhang Shi exchanged a smile, and Mu Lianrong said, "Alright, you all know what you're capable of. Don't go looking for her, understand? What if she goes crazy and bites you?"
"She bites people. Aren't only stray dogs the ones that bite?"
"Grandma said she'd go crazy. What's so strange about a madwoman biting people?"
Mu Lianrong then gave each person a piece of osmanthus cake: "Go outside to eat, don't bother your aunt here."
"Thank you, Grandma."
"This was brought by your aunt, and it even has meat. We'll stew some meat for you tonight."
Hearing that there would be meat to eat, the children laughed even more happily: "Thank you, Auntie."
The children took the osmanthus cakes and went out. Xiao Yunying thought her mother would definitely talk about He Hua, so she stood up and said, "Mother, I'm going back now."
She felt a little guilty. In the past, Xiao Yunying would at most complain to Aunt Lin or argue with He Hua, but she would never go to He Hua with an axe and directly attack her.
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