"Okay, okay, if you really need it, I will help you."
"Then it's settled. I'll go back now and ask Dad and Grandpa to exchange them for copper coins, which I'll give to the village chief later."
After seeing Xiao Tangtang leave, Zheng Chuyun immediately mobilized everyone in the family: "What are you guys still doing? Go dig bamboo shoots!"
Afterwards, all the family members of the village chief, except the village chief himself, carried baskets and went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots.
Ning Xiaotang returned home and saw Old Man Ning and her father at home.
"Master, Daddy, if you take me to the street to exchange for copper coins, you two may have to carry baskets on your backs."
Old Man Ning's expression immediately brightened: "Tangtang, what big thing are you going to do? I saw your brothers go and notify many people to go to the village chief's house."
"I want to dig bamboo shoots."
"How can these bitter bamboo shoots be useful?" Ning Lao San said as he wiped his face with a wet cotton towel.
"Don't worry about this, I'll let grandma and the others take care of it."
Old Man Ning immediately said, "What are you waiting for? Go out to the street and exchange for copper coins! I'll get the silver!"
Old Man Ning was about to go into the house to get it when he suddenly said, "Master, I brought some banknotes, and your small change is not enough!"
"Okay!" Old man Ning thought about the bamboo shoots of everyone in the village, and his calves tightened.
"Tangtang, how many bamboo shoots should we collect? Why are we inviting the whole village?"
Ning Xiaotang and Old Man Ning returned to the village chief's house carrying two baskets of copper coins.
I saw the village chief weighing things, and people from every family gathered around him.
"The village chief has recorded the weight of each household and will distribute the copper coins after he has calculated them!"
Ning Xiaotang's appearance immediately made the village chief Zheng Chuyun smile: "That's great."
The village chief was just thinking that the bamboo shoots dug by all the villagers were a huge expense, and the least amount dug by any family was 30 kilograms!
How should he explain this if Ning Xiaotangren doesn't come?
But now that Old Man Ning and Old Third Ning brought the baskets full of copper coins, the whole village was so excited that their blood boiled.
"There really are copper coins!" Mrs. Liu ran to see and immediately regretted it so much that her intestines turned green.
"Look, Mrs. Qian, you forced me to wash your quilt. This made me lose the opportunity to make money in vain!"
Mrs. Qian was also upset: "Who knew that there would be people stupid enough to harvest these bamboo shoots? Let's go up the mountain and dig them now!"
At this time, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Qian hurried home to get their hoes and baskets and went up the mountain.
The village chief was distributing copper coins to each household.
When the village chief Fu's family came, he just smiled from ear to ear.
At this time, Ning Xiaotang said in a baby voice, "Since the village chief didn't go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, I will settle the bill on a daily basis and pay him fifty copper coins a day as compensation!"
At this time, many people envied the village chief. Ning Xiaotang took out a string of fifty copper coins and gave it to the village chief.
The village chief excitedly asked, "Can we keep digging these bamboo shoots?"
"No, you can only dig them for a month at most! After a month, the bamboo shoots are too old and cannot be eaten!"
Then the villagers hurriedly said, "I'll go back and have a meal and then go back up the mountain."
"I live in the mountains and dig bamboo shoots!"
Afterwards, the people in the village chief's yard who received the copper coins quickly carried the bamboo shoots to the Ning family, dumped them on the ground, and then ran out to notify the people at home to go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots.
Then the people of the Ning family
Everyone was confused when they saw the yard full of bamboo shoots that looked like a small mountain.
“So sister, this is our good treasure for making money?”
"Yes, so everyone should not sleep yet. Hurry up and peel the bamboo shoots. Then, you can take your aunt and second aunt to cook the bamboo shoots."
Afterwards, the Ning family was busy working. Hai Moying ran to Ning Xiaotang and said, "Tangtang, can I also get fifty copper coins a day?"
Ning Xiaotang took a look and asked: "Second Aunt, are you planning to settle the copper coins every day?"
"Of course, otherwise who would do this job!"
Ning Xiaotang took a deep breath and said, "Grandma, settle the daily wages for Second Aunt, fifty copper coins."
Luo Xiangqin glared at him dissatisfiedly: "Take it!"
But the other people in the Ning family were concentrating on their work, and no one asked Ning Xiaotang for more money.
Ning Xiaotang glanced at everyone and said, "If you all want to be like Second Auntie, you can come to me and get some copper coins."
"I will help my sister with the work even if I don't want any money!" Ning Zilin said immediately with his neck stiffened.
Chen Ya's heart tightened, but he also said, "I'll listen to Zilin."
Ning Zilin's words made everyone say, "I don't want any copper coins either!"
Hai Moying sneered: "Are they all fools?"
"Humph! You're the only one who's clever! I'm telling everyone here, after the bamboo shoots are sold, everyone in the Ning family, except Second Aunt, will get a share of my profits!"
Hai Moying was immediately dumbfounded: "What? There are dividends? Then I don't want this copper!"
"I'm sorry! Second Aunt, I will settle your coppers on a daily basis! I won't share any dividends with you anymore!"
Luo Xiangqin immediately stepped forward and said, "You asked for it! You deserve it!"
Chen Ya was secretly surprised at this moment, and then she looked at her son steadily: "Zilin, mother will listen to you."
"Mom, my sister has always treated us as her family. She won't let us suffer any loss."
Ning Zike and Ning Zihe immediately asked, "Grandma, can we brothers use our dividends ourselves?"
"sure!"
Hai Moying's face lit up with joy, "Maybe my two other children will get dividends, and there's also Ning Lao Er's."
But the next second: "Grandma, our dividends are in your hands, not for mom!"
Brothers Ning Zike and Ning Zihe rolled their eyes.
"Ning Zike, Ning Zihe, I am your mother! You two little bastards!" Hai Moying was about to hit someone.
Ning Lao Er fiercely stepped forward to block him: "What are you going to do? If you make another noise, my mother will take control of my dividend too."
"No, Brother Zhu, I won't make noise anymore!" Hai Moying immediately put down his hand that was hitting him.
She doesn't want Ning Lezhu's dividend? She is the one who can't live with it.
Although everyone was unhappy about Hai Moying's incident, they all thought that Ning Xiaotang's idea would not be wrong, so they spent a lot of time blanching the bamboo shoots and drying them around the yard.
A month later, in the afternoon, the village chief took the few remaining copper coins and said, "Tangtang, over the past month, our villagers have dug up all the surrounding mountains clean. We've finally paid everyone's debts. I'll return the remaining 300 copper coins to you."
"Grandpa Village Chief, you have worked hard this month. These three hundred copper coins are a reward for your hard work. Let the Village Chief stay!" Ning Xiaotang naturally understood that we should try to please a small official like the Village Chief appropriately.
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