Lin Yulan thought so too. In fact, in the past few years, it was Lin Guoqing who sent his children to help, and then their family sent two baskets of fish as a token of gratitude.
If I ask her to speak up on her own initiative, she will feel a little embarrassed. The main reason is that she has been scolded by my mother for being stupid and numb in recent years, so she is a little hesitant to mention things to her.
"Is Mom taking a nap at home now? What time does she go out in the afternoon?" Lin Yulan walked back with the couple, carrying a basket, and asked about the current situation of her lively old mother.
Chen Chunhua, carrying a basket of mushrooms, returned with a smile, "She went to the mountains to dig bamboo shoots after dinner. She said the price of bamboo shoots in the county is quite high, so we should go buy some together this afternoon."
Lin Yulan opened her mouth in surprise. Her mother was really amazing. An old lady in her sixties went to dig bamboo shoots in the middle of the day?
"Mom is really strong. She never complains of being tired even when climbing mountains and crossing rivers." Unlike her, she is obviously the daughter and twenty years younger than Liang Shengdi, but she is not as strong as the old lady.
"If you were just like her, had half as many children, ate enough every day, got more sleep and rest, and didn't stress yourself out, you could be just as amazing."
Lin Guoqing's words made her sister choke. No matter what, the current situation was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed. If he said anything more now, it would be just sarcastic talk.
"Yeah, if I could be like Mom, I could make some money. I'm only in my early forties, I can't do heavy work, and I don't know what else I can do. Even if I go to the fields to fish, I can only stand there for half an hour."
These days, since she's not having children anymore, Lin Yulan has time to think about other things. Actually, she's always been reflecting on this, but for some reason, the more she reflects, the more she gets scolded.
Sometimes she also hates her own weakness and incompetence, but when something happens, she is still like a piece of mud. Her mother-in-law despises her for being useless, her own mother calls her stupid, and her daughter calls her cotton. Only she and her husband can stick together, and they are despised and scolded together.
Ma Dexiang also told them to stop struggling. Half of their lives had passed, and a fixed impression had already formed in the eyes of others, which could not be changed no matter how hard they tried. All they could do was to compensate their daughters in some ways as much as possible, and forget about the rest.
She actually agreed with what Ma Dexiang said, but sometimes when she saw her 61-year-old mother living a hectic life every day, she would feel a little unwilling.
Her mother has been in trouble for almost as long as she is old, and she was able to survive, so why can't she?
Just as Liang Shengdi's reputation as a lazy old lady spread throughout the area back then, her reputation as a hard-working old lady is now as loud as hers.
Lin Yulan didn't want to be on the same level as my mother, she just wanted to have something to do instead of being treated as a waste at home every day.
Lin Guoqing's home was almost here. She looked at the fish in the basket and raised her eyes to ask her brother and sister-in-law,
"Guoqing, Chunhua, you know a lot about the outside world. Do you know if salted fish can be sold at a good price? Will it be sold at a higher price than fresh fish?" If so, she would go home and pickle this basket of fish now!
Chen Chunhua looked at the fish in her basket and told her a little embarrassedly,
"Fresh fish here definitely fetch a high price, unless it's seafood from Yong City. A single salted hairtail fish can fetch a dollar. As for river fish..."
In fact, she could earn a few more dollars by making fish balls, but as far as she knew, Lin Yulan didn't know how to make fish balls, and her basket was full of crucian carp, so she couldn't make fish balls.
Well, Lin Yulan's dream of becoming a salted fish tycoon was shattered. She nodded to the two of them.
"Never mind, I'm going back now. There aren't many fish in this basket, so I won't give them to you today. Bring more tomorrow if you have more."
"It's okay, we have plenty of fish. You have a big family, so just eat yourselves."
The three of them parted ways. Lin Guoqing hurried to change his clothes and go to work, while Chen Chunhua packed up the things that her mother-in-law was going to take out to sell later and waited for Liang Shengdi to come back.
Liang Shengdi returned half an hour later, her tricycle half-loaded with bamboo shoots. Chen Chunhua was stunned. Was the old lady an octopus? It had only been less than three hours, and she had managed to dig up so many?
It takes more than half an hour to go back and forth, right?
Even so, Liang Shengdi was still not very happy, and she kept muttering to herself with a stern face.
"We've only dug a little bit, how come time has flown by so quickly? I saw the sun was here, and then it went there in a flash... Chunhua, help me lift this basin of fish up, I'll pull it to the river and put it on the boat."
"Hey, okay."
Chen Chunhua hurriedly carried the large basin with Liang Shengdi and placed it on the tricycle. The basin was big enough to be placed directly on the carriage without crushing the bamboo shoots.
Here, Chen Chunhua was still carrying a basket of mushrooms. She followed Liang Shengdi to the river and carefully put them on the boat.
The straw mat she and Lin Shuying had sat on earlier was rolled up and placed aside, and the ground was piled high with bamboo shoots, forming a small hill. There was also a mushroom basket nearby.
The fish were divided into two basins and placed under the black tent opposite the bamboo shoots. Some river water was scooped into the basins to raise the water level, and the fish became active again.
"Have you got the scale?" Chen Chunhua asked. Liang Shengdi quickly moved from the bow to the stern, and then dug out the historic beam scale from the corner.
"Yes, yes, now you can go back."
Liang Shengdi undid the lock, held up the bamboo pole, and prepared to row out.
"Do you have any change? You might need change later."
Liang Shengdi touched her pocket again and nodded, "I've got it."
"There's no steamed buns at home. I forgot about it just now, and I didn't have time to steam sweet potatoes. If someone sells food later, you can buy some to fill your stomach. Didn't you say you were hungry when you came back last time..."
"That's because I didn't see anyone selling food. If someone did, I'd definitely buy it! I don't want to eat sweet potatoes!"
Liang Shengdi suddenly felt that her daughter-in-law was so nagging, and waved her hand in disdain.
"I'm leaving, stop bothering me!"
Chen Chunhua: ... Blame her for being too talkative and treating the old lady like a child.
"Okay, then take it easy. Be careful on the road!"
Chen Chunhua watched Liang Shengdi rowing away before turning back. As she walked, a light bulb suddenly lit up in her head.
Well, there is someone who works for money, can suppress gossip, and is willing to be used by others!
Lin Yulan couldn't handle heavy work, but she could definitely take care of the chickens and ducks, clean the poultry house, etc. Raising mushrooms wasn't considered hard work, as long as she didn't have to move things.
She felt uncomfortable being idle, and they felt uncomfortable being short of staff. As long as Lin Yulan was willing, the wages would definitely not be less than the market price.
If she did not do well, Chen Chunhua would not need to risk damaging the relationship between her sister-in-law and her sister-in-law to criticize her.
Just raise the beam and give birth to a daughter.
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