After finally seeing the couple off, Lin Chaodong returned and quietly asked Liu Shi:
How is our mother?
Liu looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked in return:
"What could possibly be wrong with our mother?"
Lin Chaodong's heart sank, and he murmured:
"It's alright, it's alright."
He went back to his room and lay down.
He heard everything that was being said inside the room, both what he should and shouldn't have heard, without having lowered his voice.
Thinking about how his aunt and uncle shamelessly demanded such a large dowry, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
His mother clearly said that the third son didn't want to, but he still had the nerve to ask for so many things. He's shameless!
"Have you washed up? Have you washed your feet?"
Suddenly, Liu spoke up, her question devoid of any emotion, like a machine without feeling. Lin Chaodong was so startled that he stood up abruptly, no longer having time to think about anything else.
"I'll go right away!"
In a flash, the person darted away.
Liu rolled her eyes, gently placing her sleepy little girl, whose eyelids were drooping, at the far end of the kang (heated brick bed). Then, she quietly undressed her, untied her hair, and covered her with a quilt.
Looking at her daughter sleeping soundly, Liu felt a warm glow in her heart.
But thinking that she had only had this one daughter after being married for three or four years, even though she didn't consider her daughter a financial burden, her brows still furrowed involuntarily.
She still needs a son.
Lin Chaodong, who was washing up outside, felt a chill run down his spine, and had a feeling that something bad was about to happen...
Up ahead, in the east room, Yue Jiuyue was leisurely soaking her feet.
Although the original owner's eldest sister and brother-in-law's visit was quite embarrassing, she was not the original owner and never took those two people to heart. Naturally, she wouldn't take tonight's events seriously; once it was over, it was over.
What she's thinking now is that there's still half a lake left in Nanhu, which should be enough for planting this spring. Does that mean she won't have to flee the famine this year? If she wants to buy land, does that mean she can't get a discount?
Alas! What a miscalculation!
Thinking that it would cost two or three hundred taels of silver to acquire a mountain, and then there was the cost of building a house, the five hundred taels of silver bestowed by the emperor would disappear in a flash, she began to feel uncertain again.
Money is her source of confidence!
Besides, she was really reluctant to spend the silver bestowed upon her by the emperor.
So, let's keep working hard to make money!
That night, in Yue Jiuyue's dream, she lived in a super luxurious house comparable to a palace, eating delicacies from land and sea, wearing fine silks and satins, and having dozens of servants around her. She was waited on hand and foot, treated like a little good-for-nothing, and couldn't be happier!
"Hoo hoo yo! Hoo hoo yo!"
The rooster's crow woke Yue Jiuyue from her dream.
Looking at the millet stalks above her head, Yue Jiuyue was momentarily unsure whether this was reality or a dream.
—Sigh! If only last night's dream had been real.
Even during the meal, Yue Jiuyue was still sighing.
Once she earns more money, she'll buy the small hill. Although it won't be as wonderful as last night's dream, she'll still live a life of luxury, being waited on hand and foot.
As for whether I will feel guilty?
Why would it exist?
Why do we need to have it?
Even in modern times, there are housekeeping and cleaning services. Now it's just a different way. She spends real money to buy servants to do her work. So what?
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