In the end, the old lady only ate half a bowl of noodles. She really couldn't eat anymore. The traditional osmanthus cakes and sesame cakes here are actually rice cakes. The main ingredients are rice and glutinous rice. Liang Shengdi ate 6 pieces in the afternoon, which can be enough for two meals for someone with a smaller appetite.
Chen Chunhua looked at the old lady speechlessly, "Mom, you are such a fool. You just ate so much, why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have given you less. You look so full now, you will be sad tonight."
"That's right, don't eat if you can't finish it." Lin Guoqing saw that the old lady didn't want to waste food and wanted to stuff the food into her mouth with chopsticks, so he quickly snatched it away, careful not to get hurt if she ate too much.
"Third brother! Do you want to eat more?"
Lin Shuchao rushed out of the room and shouted, "Eat!"
The last half bowl of noodles was finished by the two brothers, half each.
Liang Shengdi wiped her mouth and sat beside them, watching them eat noodles. She handed the remaining two bags of rice cakes to Lin Shumei and said, "Two pieces each. Divide them when the time comes."
Then she stood up and took out her pocket, "Here, this is the money for the mushrooms, five dollars and sixty cents." She had just put it in another pocket specifically to make it convenient for her to give it now.
Every time Liang Shengdi earned money from rowing a boat to set up a stall, except for the money from the mushrooms, she would take it back to the farm for accounting and share it with Wu Ni and Liu Ni. The rest was kept by her. Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing never asked her for it.
"Oh, okay, Mom, you've worked hard today~" Chen Chunhua took the money with a smile and was about to say, "Go take a shower and have a rest early," but suddenly she heard her ask,
"Have we found any silver carp in our fields?"
Chen Chunhua thought for a moment and said, "No, the seedlings we put in this year were all grass carp and crucian carp. What's wrong with that?"
"Oh, someone asked me today if I had any fish balls, and I said I would bring them next time." Chen Chunhua's fish balls always sell well whenever she makes them. Even though the price is one dollar for 5 pieces now, people still often ask about them. Liang Shengdi wanted to bring some to sell next time.
"Then I'll go look for it in the river when I have time in a couple of days." She said and turned to wash up. "I'm really tired today. I'm going to wash up and go to bed first."
"Oh, okay!"
Lin Guoqing watched his mother leave, then quietly moved to his wife's side and whispered,
"Why didn't you tell Mom?"
Chen Chunhua exclaimed, "Didn't you say we should wait until the autumn harvest is over?"
Lin Guoqing scratched his head. "I mean, wait until the autumn harvest is over before calling my eldest sister. You can also tell Mom now. Maybe she'll see my eldest sister in the next couple of days and she might be able to give us some advice."
Thinking of the old lady's attitude towards Lin Yulan over the past few years, Chen Chunhua said with a look of pity, "...Let's just finish the autumn harvest. If Mom sees my elder sister, she won't give me any advice, she'll just scold me."
Just now, Chen Chunhua waited for Lin Guoqing to come back from get off work and chatted with him for a long time, talking about the possibility of getting Lin Yulan to work on the farm.
Chen Chunhua means being a helper and not getting any profit.
It wasn't really any hard work. I just helped watch the farm during the day, feeding and watering the mushrooms, sprinkling them with water, and picking and storing them when they were almost done. The most tiring part was cutting straw to make new mushroom bags, which wasn't considered hard work.
The better-paid workers outside only get two yuan a day, so they only give them 50 yuan a month, which is almost the same as Ma Dexiang's salary as the village party secretary. Lin Yulan will definitely be happy to do this.
Of course, her salary was definitely not paid by their family alone.
This farm can now sell poultry eggs and mushrooms for an average of about 60 yuan a day. After deducting costs, the net profit is guaranteed to be 50 yuan a day.
According to the traditional 40:60 split, Chen Chunhua and the others can get 900 yuan, and Wu Ni and Liu Ni can get 600 yuan. Then both sides will just have to contribute 25 yuan each.
Lin Guoqing thought more.
"My eldest sister only raised two chickens at home when she was a girl. You want her to take care of hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese, and mushrooms at once? She has no experience. I'm afraid she won't be able to do it well in a short time. We are not sure what to do."
"As for the money, Wu Ni and the others all know how much we earn. Giving Big Sister this salary is okay now, but what about after more years? It has to increase, right? How should it be increased? If it increases too much, we will suffer, and if it increases too little, she will be unhappy."
"If she comes to work here, we'll actually have to inform the Ma family first. After all, those kids are relying on this place to study. If my eldest sister comes here too, I'm afraid the Ma family will think we're trying to steal someone else."
Chen Chunhua agreed with some of the first parts, but she was unhappy with the last sentence.
"What do you mean we're stealing people? Don't they have the ability to take care of those kids themselves? Their parents can't even take care of them, and they still have to let the kids fend for themselves. We've been helping them, so how can it be considered stealing people? We pay them wages, give them money, and you say we're stealing people? Where's their brain?"
Lin Guoqing smiled bitterly, "The two old men in the Ma family were already worried about not having a son, and we're trying to win the hearts of the girls over to our family one by one..."
The day before yesterday, I heard some wicked people gossiping in front of my eldest sister's mother-in-law, saying that the girls in their family think their uncles and aunts are more important than their parents, not to mention the two old ones! Even the two married aunts always bring gifts back to visit grandma, but they just don't remember grandpa and grandma.
Therefore, the relationship between relatives is the most difficult distance to control. It is not good to be too far, and it is not good to be too close either.
They could actually completely ignore such words, but the seven girls there are not married yet and have to live at home. He is afraid that if it is too much, they will have a hard time.
Chen Chunhua rolled her eyes in anger, "Who is this ungrateful gossip? If I find out, I'll definitely bring Mom along and rip her mouth apart!"
Her previous passionate thoughts were instantly doused with a bucket of cold water, and she no longer thought about anything.
But Lin Guoqing heard her mother's name, thought about it and came over again.
"Well, you can let Mom talk about this."
He and Shen Chunhua agreed on one thing. As Lin Guoqing's elder sister, Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua were embarrassed to order her around, but Liang Shengdi was willing to do so.
When this matter was brought to Liang Shengdi, the old lady also realized that it was a win-win situation, and after careful calculation, Lin Yulan benefited the most.
As for the robbery—
"Let's have Mom go over to Old Lady Ma more often. If she can gossip, we can gossip back, right? No matter how long her tongue is, it can't stop Old Lady Liang's sharp sword~"
To put it bluntly, Liang Shengdi was the one who had the fight, and also to wake Lin Yulan up.
Chen Chunhua was really at a loss for words. This guy really took advantage of her mother to the fullest.
"One day I'm going to tell Mom about you! Let her see the true face of the eldest son in the family!"
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