As people finished work in the evening, the setting sun shone obliquely, casting a considerable amount of light.
Most families in the village take this opportunity to cook dinner, and finish eating, washing up, and going to bed before it gets completely dark. After all, it's inconvenient to do anything after dark, and lamp oil is expensive, so they don't light it easily.
It was dinnertime, what was Fan's mother doing here?
She had already come yesterday, and Fan Jin had so clearly refused her. Shui Qing hadn't given in either, and no one liked her. So why was she here again today?
"Oh, Aunt Fan, what brings you here?" Zhao Lan greeted her with a smile, raising her voice to call out loudly.
Upon hearing this, the people at the back of the line immediately shut their mouths and stopped making a sound.
The people in the yam village may not know what it is, whether it's valuable, or how much it's worth, but everyone in the he shou wu village, from the elderly to five- or six-year-old children, knows it's a good thing!
Valuable medicinal herbs that can be sold for silver!
After all, the villagers had previously discovered a particularly old plant, which sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver.
That's twenty or thirty taels of silver. If Madam Fan found out that her youngest son's he shou wu was being stored in a basket, she would cause a huge uproar.
Even if a plant that hasn't been growing for long can't sell for twenty or thirty taels of silver, a plant that's been growing for a short time can still fetch several hundred coins. Other families in the village have dug up He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum) several times before, so the villagers know a little about its price.
They knew, and naturally, Fan's mother knew as well.
No wonder Aunt Ding told them to be selective about what they said when they got home today, as soon as the He Shou Wu arrived. They could tell the adults in their families who were discreet and had the authority to make decisions, but they had to keep it from the children.
Now they finally understand what it means!
I don't know who was too talkative before, but Fan's mother found out about the wages at the herbal medicine shop, which led to yesterday's commotion. She almost lost such a good job.
We must keep it a secret!
Mother Fan didn't even glance at Zhao Lan, and walked straight ahead, giving a cold snort as a response.
These people all work for her son's family and are paid wages. According to the regulations for the magistrate's mansion in the prefecture, they are no different from servants.
It's their duty to fawn over her and greet her with a smile; they're quite sensible.
Zhao Lan wasn't annoyed. With a smile on her face, she stepped forward and asked, "Aunt Fan, are you hungry? Why don't you come to my house for dinner?"
Aunt Wu laughed and said, "Come to my house, we can chat."
This also allowed Shuiqing's family to have a quiet dinner.
"No need, I'll just go to my son's room for a stroll and have a chat!" Mother Fan said without stopping.
These people had never been so generous before. They were only trying to curry favor with her because they had earned money working at her son's house today. In the past, she would have been very happy, but things were different now. She had important things to do!
“Hey, there’s nothing to do there. Aunt Fan, you don’t know, that yard is full of mud and water, it’s so dirty, there’s nowhere to put your feet. If you go there, you’ll just get your clean new cloth shoes dirty and wet.” Xu Laosan’s wife, Huang Tao, glanced at Fan’s mother’s cloth shoes and started shouting.
Before they finished work, they washed the yard very clean, even scrubbing the gaps between the bluestone slabs several times with bamboo brushes. It has to be said that the yard with paved tiles is easy to clean, and it is pleasing to the eye to see it clean.
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