Chapter 179 Old Mrs. Xu actually had a daughter!
Xu Zhiyi: "Six hundred coins for a bed, we also need to order other furniture, such as wardrobes and so on."
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper shook his head in embarrassment: "The price I just offered is really the lowest price. In this case, I can only lower it by another fifty or seven hundred coins at most. This is really the bottom line!"
"In addition to the money for the wood of this bed, I also paid for the wages of several carpenters in the shop. I don't have any profit left!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi looked at everyone, and everyone said they could accept it.
In the end, it was decided. Xu Zhiyi ordered four beds and two wardrobes, one for Su and one for his own room. Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou could put their beds together, or they could arrange a large wooden box in their room to store clothes.
A wardrobe cost 120 wen, and a dressing table was ordered for 300 wen, for her own use. It belonged to Su's family. She had been told the day before that she didn't need the dressing table and could just move a small table into the room.
I ordered a set of chairs and a dining table, with eight seats, for seven hundred wen.
The wood used for all the furniture is the most common, so the prices are very reasonable, so they won’t be conspicuous when brought back to the village.
After paying a deposit of one or two taels, they would help deliver the house to the village when it was completed.
After the furniture was ordered, the sugar and other ingredients for making the bowl-shaped cake were all used up, so I went to prepare some more, spending a total of three taels of silver.
On the way back, Xu Zhiyi watched everyone crowding over to the mule cart belonging to the official. Now his small table could be tied to the edge of the cart, so the carriage was empty.
Then, seeing Doctor Li and Wang Daniu, who were the last to fall behind, they shouted, "Grandpa Li, Uncle Wang, come over here and sit in my mule cart! Uncle Lin and a few other brothers from the Lin family will have one so that everyone can sit more comfortably."
Upon hearing this, the two of them greeted the village head and walked towards Xu Zhiyi.
After getting on the mule cart, Wang Daniu grabbed Shen Wuyou's mule rope and said, "Wuyou, go in and sit down. Uncle Wang will drive the mule."
Shen Wuyou: "Uncle Wang, I'll be there, you go in and sit down quickly"
Xu Zhiyi: "Uncle Wang, I feel embarrassed when you act like this! It's as if I specifically asked you to drive the car!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Daniu had no choice but to enter the carriage: "Zhiyi, what are you talking about? Uncle Wang, I will listen to you."
Xu Zhiyi looked at Doctor Li and suddenly remembered that he had heard gossip about Doctor Li in the original owner's memory.
He came from another place with his wife and settled in Liuhe Village when he was 23 years old. However, Doctor Li's wife was in poor health. According to the villagers, she was a sickly woman.
Doctor Li was unable to cure his wife's illness, and she died of illness in the second year after settling in Liuhe Village. Since then, Doctor Li has lived alone in Liuhe Village for many years.
When he heard that a matchmaker came to his house to introduce a wife to him, he scared the person away. So since then, no one dared to come to help Doctor Li find a wife.
"Grandpa Li, I want to ask you something"
Doctor Li: "Hmm? What do you want to ask?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Nothing, I just dreamed about my father last night. Alas, this reminds me of some bad things. I have never understood why the Xu family doesn't like me and my mother."
"But after dreaming about my dad last night, it brought back memories of my childhood. It seemed that both Old Mrs. Xu and Old Man Xu didn't like my dad very much. I was just curious why. Did my dad do something when he was a kid that angered the two elders?"
Doctor Li shook his head when he heard this and said, "Girl Zhiyi, I'm afraid that the whole Liuhe Village doesn't understand this question, but your father was indeed born to Old Lady Xu. She was returning from work when she passed by the foot of the mountain and gave birth to him. It was later discovered by the villagers who went back to the village to call for help."
After hearing Doctor Li's affirmative words, Xu Zhiyi really couldn't understand it. They were both biological sons, so why did he only suck the blood of the original owner's father? He was too partial!
After thinking for a while, he asked tentatively: "Grandpa Li, did my father have any younger sisters?"
Before Doctor Li could answer, Wang Daniu at the side spoke up: "The old woman of the Xu family did kill a daughter. When I was a child, I heard a lot of gossip from the older generation about her behind her back, saying that her first child was a daughter."
"Her mother-in-law didn't let her rest for a few days because she gave birth to a daughter. She was asked to go to the river to wash clothes that day. As a result, the old woman was so angry that she suffocated her newborn daughter to death!"
"Then just carry him to the back hill and put him down, and let the wolf take him away!"
When Xu Zhiyi heard this, he thought of the face that looked like an old witch at Fayun Temple. Could this be the first daughter who was suffocated to death? Was she picked up by someone and then found to be alive?
Doctor Li: "I don't know about the rest, but I know that old lady Xu was also tortured by her own mother-in-law. Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are not good people."
"I remember that in the whole Liuhe Village, these two mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law were the most quarrelsome."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi was confused about the old witch's mentality. It was not easy for her when she was someone's daughter-in-law, so shouldn't she be more understanding? Instead, she took over the position of the vicious mother-in-law.
A quarter of an hour later, he returned to the door of his house. Seeing that he came back early today and the empty basket, Su guessed that business was good today.
Su: "Zhiyi, mother will prepare the meal soon, you take a rest, mother will call you later"
Xu Zhiyi thought of the apatite and moved some out of the space.
Shen Wuyou saw Xu Zhiyi carrying several stones to the yard, and was a little curious: "Wife, what are you moving these stones for?"
Xu Zhiyi: "I'll use it this afternoon. Go get a hammer and smash it, then grind it into powder. If successful, it will be very useful."
Shen Changan, who was standing by, was also curious when he heard this. What else can be done with stones ground into powder?
Shen Wuyou found a hammer and Xu Zhiyi took it, then he smashed a big stone into small pieces.
"Grind the small pieces of stone I knocked out into powder with a millstone."
Upon hearing this, the two men hurriedly brought the wooden barrel to collect the powder, then one started to push the mill while the other brought in the gravel.
After Su finished cooking, she came out and saw that the couple had just returned from setting up their stall. Instead of taking a break, they were fiddling with something else.
"What are you three doing? Isn't the jelly flour already ground?"
"Mom packed all the dried fruits in cloth bags, about 60 kilograms."
When I got closer, I was shocked to see three people grinding stones.
"Zhi... Zhiyi, can this stone be ground into powder to make something delicious? Guanyin soil is edible, can this stone also be eaten?"
Xu Zhiyi couldn't help but smile when she heard this: "Mom, what are you thinking about? I have other uses for this, and it's not for making food anyway!"
Su: "I was really scared. Okay, I'll make it this afternoon. Your grandfather and his family have gone to the fields to water the vegetables and haven't come back yet. Let's eat first. I'll serve some more!"
"Mom, how are the vegetable seeds sown in the fields?"
Su: "Little sprouts have sprouted. Oh, they are growing very well. Almost all the seeds that were sown can sprout."
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyi thought that the seeds soaked in spiritual spring water would have a high growth rate no matter how they were planted.
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