Chapter 40: First Selling Recipe

Xu Nian hurried home in a donkey cart. Before he had time to drink some ginger tea, Wang started asking him questions.

"Have you seen Changsheng? How is Changsheng's health? The same thing happened to this child. Why is he staying in the temple instead of going home?"

Xu Nian picked up the teacup and took two sips of ginger tea to warm himself up before answering Wang's questions.

"Grandma, my second uncle and I never saw Changsheng. He didn't see us because he was not feeling well."

"Oh, nothing will happen then."

Xiao Wang pulled her second sister-in-law's sleeve and said, "Isn't this asking for trouble?"

Sure enough, Wang shouted loudly.

"Second brother, can you speak? Go cook and stop standing in front of me."

Zheng went to the kitchen feeling aggrieved, and Xiao Wang followed to help.

At this time, Father Xu also said with some concern: "Let your second uncle and third uncle go to check on him tomorrow. There are no relatives around, and if something happens, there will be no one to tell."

Xu Nian really wanted to say that he was the Prince, and there were many people who wanted to care about him, but she did not refute it, after all, it was the intention of the two elders.

On the second day, just after breakfast, Xu Fugui and his brother were driven out of the house by Wang. Xu Weian leaned against the gate with a piece of cake in his mouth, and smiled as he saw his two brothers off. He remembered how they had taken pleasure in his misfortune two days ago.

Unfortunately, he didn't feel happy for long, as Xu Nian's voice came over.

"Uncle, what are you doing? Stop being lazy and finish building the car body. Now I feel like I'm freezing every time I go out."

Xu Weian stuffed the rest of the biscuit into his mouth in one gulp and said incoherently, "Here it comes."

Xu Nian spent the whole morning in the carriage supervising Xu Weian. Xu Weian was very uneasy about this, as he was not used to having someone watching him work. It seemed that God heard his thoughts and someone came to rescue him.

When Tian arrived, she saw her daughter holding a piece of wood and gesturing at her uncle.

"Nian'er, what are you doing?"

Xu Nian turned around and saw that it was Tian, ​​and ran over happily.

"Mom, why are you back?"

"Why, I'm not happy to come back?"

Xu Nian said with a smile: "How could that be? I miss my mother so much when I don't see her for a day."

"Sister-in-law is back."

Xu Weian was so happy to see his sister-in-law. He could finally get rid of his eldest niece.

"His uncle is busy. Why is he still working in such a cold weather? Go back to the house and warm up."

At this time, all the Xu family members who heard the noise came out to greet them.

"Dad, Mom, are you all right? Second and third sister-in-law."

"All right, all right."

After everyone sat down, Xu Nian served Tian a bowl of ginger tea and then asked, "Is there anything that has happened to you, mother?"

Tian told the magistrate's wife in detail about asking her to go to Lingshan Temple to burn incense and about wanting to buy a lip balm recipe.

The women of the Xu family were all shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that the lip balm given to them by the eldest girl was so expensive. Everyone looked at Xu Nian, after all, this was the recipe she came up with.

Xu Nian pondered for a moment, then looked at everyone and said, "My idea is to sell this recipe. After all, our family is not a merchant, so this recipe will not have much value in our hands. But we can use the money from selling the recipe to buy a farm to grow food."

Although Wang felt it was a pity to sell the recipe, as a woman she was used to having her grandfathers make the decisions at home, so she looked to Old Man Xu to ask him for a decision.

Old Man Xu didn't understand business, but he knew that food was essential, so he nodded and said, "Let's listen to the eldest girl on this matter."

Tian didn't expect that the problem that had troubled her for two days was solved by just one word from her daughter, and that the people in the family seemed to listen too much to Nian'er.

"Mom, what good things did you bring back?"

Tian came back to her senses, looked at the bundle in her daughter's hand and said with a smile: "I had planned to come back yesterday, but something happened at the county office and I was delayed. Fortunately, I didn't come back yesterday, otherwise I would not be able to get the bracelet back."

Tian took out wooden boxes from her bag.

"Mom, these are the bracelets I bought for you. These two are for my younger sister-in-law, and this small one is for Ling'er."

Wang took it and looked at it. It was a Fu Lu Shou bracelet with three jade stones of different colors inlaid on the front.

"What did you buy this for, my dear wife? It must have cost you a lot of money."

Tian smiled and said, "Mother, it didn't cost much money. The jade on it was what Nian'er sent to the county government."

After hearing this, Wang happily put the bracelet on her hand.

Zheng and Xiao Wang also wore the bracelets on their wrists with great care.

"Sister-in-law just loves me, hehe."

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"I should be the one to thank you. When I was away from my parents, my two younger siblings took care of everything at home."

At this time, Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Wang had no opinions at all. They were not afraid of hard work, but they were afraid that no one would see their hard work.

At this time Xu Ling also came over shyly.

"Thank you, auntie."

Tian held Xu Ling in her arms and rubbed her.

"Next time, Aunt, please buy Ling'er a pretty little skirt."

"......"

That night, Wang was happily admiring the bracelet on her wrist in her room.

"I have finally gotten what I wanted after all the hardships I've endured. I've worked hard all my life, but I never thought I'd get to enjoy the blessing of my eldest granddaughter when I'm old."

Old Man Xu was puzzled and said, "It's obviously the eldest daughter-in-law who showed her filial piety, but you blame everything on the eldest girl."

Wang blew out the candles, and after getting into bed, she said, "The eldest daughter-in-law and I have been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for more than ten years, so I know her personality. Although she is literate, she is not as good as the third daughter-in-law in terms of social skills.

But the eldest daughter-in-law is a lucky woman. With our eldest daughter around, she doesn’t have to worry about anything.”

Father Xu said with relief: "The eldest girl is very perceptive. With her looking after us, we don't have to worry about the brothers getting into trouble at home."

It's not without reason that Old Man Xu is so worried. There are so many people who can share hardships but not wealth. He could talk about so many examples that he couldn't finish all night.

Wang sighed, "We are both dead, so it is useless to think too much. While we are still alive, let the eldest girl take charge of the family affairs. Only when we are gone can we calm the four brothers down."

Old Man Xu laughed and said, "I was wondering why you, a stubborn old woman, listened to the eldest girl so much. It turns out you had this in mind."

Wang said proudly: "That's right, the eldest girl is a very lucky person."

Unfortunately, it was too dark at night, and Old Man Xu could not see the proud expression on Wang's face.

On the second day, Xu Nian put the written prescription into his purse. Since he was riding in the county government's horse-drawn carriage, Xu Nian did not wrap himself up like a ball.

This time, not only Tian and Xu Nian went to Rong's house, but also Wang.

Xu Nian felt that selling the recipe was a big event in the family and involved a large sum of money, so it would be better for Wang to go with him.

The prosperous dynasty emphasized that as long as the parents were alive, the family would not be divided, and similarly, there would be no private property. The reason why Xu Nian could use the money so freely was thanks to the open-mindedness of Old Man Xu and Mrs. Wang.