Yue Jiuyue was like a well-bred young lady, never leaving her home. She would either stay in her room sleeping on the kang (heated brick bed) or sneaking food inside. Only when the weather was nice and the sun was warm would she go to the courtyard to sit for a while, listening to the young maids gossip or the old women come to chatter with her.
Actually, she could live like this until she passed away, she wouldn't mind if it was mundane and boring. Wasn't the reason she worked so hard before so that she could live such a good life today? She couldn't be happier!
As for being bored?
Would the village lack gossip?
Even without people from the county town coming, the village's women's group has never lost their jobs; there's nothing they don't know about the surrounding villages!
Of course, it's possible to make wild guesses without knowing the whole story, but Yue Jiuyue wasn't trying to pry into other people's affairs. She just wanted to pass the time by listening to what others said. She didn't care whether it was true or false. As long as she was happy and the time was passing, that was enough.
Of course, it would be best if she had a mobile phone! Even without internet, she could play offline games, which would be better than having to actively find entertainment here. She's actually quite lazy.
Or, if the store sells books, that would be great too, even if it's just various novels, old-fashioned novels, domineering CEO novels, imaginative novels, anything goes. She could spend day after day without leaving home, and she'd be willing to never leave the house for the rest of her life!
She's definitely a homebody.
No need for socializing, no need for work, no shortage of food and drink, painless motherhood, filial son, car, house and savings, she can sleep until noon every day. If she weren't afraid that lying in bed all day would make her useless, she would really be willing to lie in bed forever.
However, lying down voluntarily and lying down voluntarily are two different things.
Yue Jiuyue wasn't really just a lazy bum hiding in the yard or house. Even if there was gossip to listen to, she sometimes found it boring, so she had to find ways to pass the time. Sometimes she would collect snow or ice and store it up, and sometimes she would collect special ice blocks or ice flowers and sell them in the mall. Although she only earned small amounts of money, Yue Jiuyue both passed the time and made money, killing two birds with one stone.
"Mother, I have something I want to ask you."
That day, Lin Chaobei, the fourth son who rarely didn't cuddle with his wife, suddenly came to Yue Jiuyue's yard. He watched as Yue Jiuyue playfully poured ice cubes from a cup, which were red and green. Seeing that he had been waiting for almost half an hour and Yue Jiuyue was still busy, he finally couldn't help but speak up.
"What's up?"
Yue Jiuyue asked in a calm voice.
"Well, we run a sewing shop at home, and my wife wants to help out at it. Is that okay?"
Lin Chaobei was a little uneasy. After all, he was already married, and he felt it wasn't right to help his wife think about his mother's things.
But his wife was right. They were family, and it was only right that they looked after their own shop. She didn't want to take it for herself; she just wanted to do something. All she needed was for her mother to pay her wages.
"Okay, sure. We have plenty of shops at home, so you can do whatever you want without asking me. Just remember to hand over the money you make."
She'd be even happier if another person helped her make money, so why would she disagree?
"Oh? Oh, okay, I'll go back and tell my wife the good news!"
Lin Chaobei ran off happily.
His wife is even more career-oriented than him. They've only been married a short time, and she's already thinking about making money. If they have children in the future, they can't possibly hire a wet nurse like those city people, can they?
Lost in thought, Lin Chaobei returned to his home in Dongling. As soon as he pushed open the door, he shouted loudly:
"Honey! My mom agreed! She said we can do whatever we want with all the shops!"
"Really?! I knew it! Mother would definitely agree!"
Lin Wangshi, also known as Wang Xiaoxue, smiled smugly.
After all, she was wholeheartedly devoted to this family. Having gotten to know her mother-in-law somewhat, how could she not know whether her mother-in-law would agree to this? It was just that as a daughter-in-law, she was naturally a little afraid of her mother-in-law, especially since her mother-in-law was a ninth-rank Jade Lady personally appointed by the emperor!
Needless to say, the main reason she married Lin Chaobei, that simpleton, was because of his mother-in-law's status. After all, she was just the daughter of a butcher, and how could she possibly be unwilling to marry a woman like that and become her daughter-in-law?
Sometimes, she was also grateful that her family was a butcher family, with surplus grain, and that they were not too far from Linjiagou Village. This prevented her from being like other girls her age, who were either traded for a few kilograms of grain or sold for a few dozen copper coins during years of famine. As a result, she became one of the few marriageable girls in Huandong Town, which gave her the opportunity to marry into Yue Jiuyue's family.
It's often said that marriage is a woman's second chance at life, and Wang Xiaoxue thinks that's absolutely true! She's been fortunate to have been reborn this time. She has a mother-in-law of high status and a husband who dotes on her. Moreover, not only is the family's living condition excellent, but the family atmosphere is also better than her own family's. Her mother-in-law not only doesn't mistreat her daughter-in-law, but she also doesn't care about anything and is even somewhat averse to trouble. This kind of life is something she never dared to dream of before she got married!
Therefore, she felt a little uneasy, thinking that she, the daughter of a small butcher, was really not good enough for the son of a wealthy family, so she didn't dare to approach Yue Jiuyue.
However, when she learned from her husband that her mother-in-law preferred to delegate tasks to others and simply wait to collect the money, she really wanted to be a good daughter-in-law like her third brother-in-law, someone who could give money to her mother-in-law.
Only in this way can I be worthy of having such a good mother-in-law.
"Of course it's true! I told you my mother wouldn't care about these things, but you insisted I go and ask. It made me feel really guilty, like I was eyeing the shop my mother owned."
Lin Chaobei never hides anything from his wife; he says whatever comes to mind and isn't worried at all that she might look down on him.
"Sigh! After all, it's our mother's shop. How can we just take it over without saying a word? That would make people think we're trying to seize our mother's shop while she's not looking."
Most importantly, how could she not tell her mother-in-law about what she wanted to do? How would her mother-in-law know how capable she was? How would she know that she had contributed to her mother-in-law's secret stash of money?
She doesn't want to make a big fuss about doing good deeds; those who should know must know. She's not going to be a daughter-in-law who silently does good things. The mother-in-law has to know how good her daughter-in-law is!
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