Chapter 638 The Passing of Time 3
So when he found out that his own mother was secretly tormenting his wife, he hated that person and started to oppose her. Otherwise, his family wouldn't have been so tolerant when they divided their property. That family was terrified of him!
Now that their family's life has finally become a little more comfortable, the old woman is already scheming to marry off her daughter—
To be honest, he didn't kill anyone because he was afraid that if he did, he would have to pay with his life, and his wife and daughter would suffer without anyone to rely on.
After tidying up, Zhou Xiuhua pulled her husband back into the room, "Honey, come and see what this is?"
"What's wrong? Why are you being so secretive? Did you find gold?"
Before he could finish speaking, his wife took out a bright yellow piece of...
"Wow, you actually found gold?"
"Is this really gold?"
Ningxia Sheng picked up the golden-yellow fruit and took a bite. "Look, there are teeth marks!"
After saying that, he went straight to the kitchen and threw Huang Chengcheng into the stove.
Zhou Xiuhua exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
"True gold fears no fire, haven't you heard of that?"
After a while, Ning Xiasheng pulled out the golden yellow gold. The couple were overjoyed, exclaiming, "Look, it hasn't changed color at all! This is definitely gold!"
Zhou Xiuhua exclaimed excitedly, "We're rich! We've struck it rich! This piece of gold must be worth at least one or two ounces!"
Ningxia weighed it in his hand. "More or less. Tell me quickly, where did you find it?"
Zhou Xiuhua glanced at her eldest daughter, who was setting the table, and said, "Your daughter, she was pulled out of a chicken's belly."
"What?" Ning Xiasheng's eyes widened in surprise.
No matter how absurd the whole thing was, the golden gold was real, and the couple ate an extra bowl of rice at lunch.
Zhou Xiuhua originally planned to eat the chicken she bought today over two days, but because of the unexpected gold, no one cared and Ning Yan stewed it all at once, and they all ate it with great relish.
After the meal, Ningxia Sheng hurriedly left with the gold in his pocket.
I didn't get back until almost mid-afternoon.
As soon as he got back, he called his daughter and wife to the west room.
"Here, these are the silver dollars we just exchanged. Please keep them for your daughter as part of her dowry."
Zhou Xiuhua stared wide-eyed at the entire satchel of silver in front of her. "How much is this?"
“I secretly swapped them with someone I knew. Gold is three silver dollars a gram now. That egg weighed a full eighty-two grams.”
Ning Yan felt a little guilty, as most of the gold in her space consisted of gold bars, gold ingots, or jewelry.
The few round gold eggs that exist were from a promotion at a market in my previous life, where you could get a gold egg for every amount of jade you bought. This gold egg was the smallest of them all.
Honestly, it's really hard to find an excuse to take something that doesn't belong to you. Just once, she realized how hard her father had worked in her previous life.
Zhou Xiuhua had already nimbly untied her small satchel, her eyes sparkling as she touched the silver dollars. "My goodness, I've lived most of my life and never seen so many silver dollars."
"Dad, don't save money for me. There's no rush to get married."
“You’re already nineteen, aren’t you worried?” Zhou Xiuhua also had a headache when she talked about this.
The couple just wanted to find a loving and supportive man for their daughter to marry, but their daughter was too beautiful. These days, being beautiful is not a good thing for a woman, but a disaster.
Ordinary families simply can't protect their children, so even the mentally challenged men in the village get married, but her daughter doesn't even have a single suitor coming to propose.
"What's the use of being anxious? If you marry the wrong person, your whole life will be ruined."
Zhou Xiuhua fell silent, because her daughter was right.
Take her for example. If she hadn't married Ning Xiasheng, she would probably have suffered a lifetime of mistreatment, and her children would have suffered as a result.
Well, this really can't be rushed.
"Alright, let's take our time looking. I'll find you a suitable one no matter what."
In the end, Zhou Xiuhua kept the silver dollars.
Ning Yan was a patient, and patients are given the best food. The family had money, and Zhou Xiuhua and her husband doted on their child, so they naturally went out of their way to prepare delicious food for her. After a few days, Ning Yan could no longer pretend to be sick.
Pulling off the gauze from her head, Ning Yan pulled her mother and said, "Mother, look, my head injury is all healed now. How about I go help out at the stall tomorrow?"
Zhou Xiuhua took a closer look, and sure enough, the wound had indeed healed, leaving only a very faint scar. Moreover, it was covered by hair and could not be seen at all. Her daughter was still as beautiful as ever.
Moreover, their daughter had helped out at the stall before, and while the couple doted on her, they didn't prevent her from doing anything.
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say. But if you feel unwell, you have to go home and rest. You can't overwork yourself."
These past few days, Ning Yan has heard Zhou Xiuhua complain a lot that steamed buns and mantou are not selling well, and she doesn't dare to prepare too much each day. It's good if they can sell them all before lunchtime.
So the next morning, Ning Yan went to town with her parents to set up a stall.
The dough and filling for the steamed buns were prepared at home. These days, for ordinary families, being able to eat two meals a day of cornbread and pickled vegetables was considered a good life. Pure white flour steamed buns and mantou were unheard of.
Their steamed buns and mantou are made with a mixture of two types of flour. The steamed buns have two kinds of fillings: a purely vegetarian filling and a pork and scallion filling.
The two types of buns differed in price by half.
They also sell steamed buns and cook a big pot of porridge, served with homemade pickled vegetables. Those who are better off, or those who are single and have no family to worry about, are willing to come and have a bite.
They had just set up their stall in their usual spot when regular customers started coming over.
"Boss, four vegetarian steamed buns and two steamed breads."
While making steamed buns, Ningxia Sheng greeted them, "Sit down, sit down. The buns haven't been steamed yet, please wait a moment."
The couple were used to making steamed buns, and in no time they had finished making a steamer basket and put it in the pot to steam.
Ning Yan helped watch the porridge pot. The fire in the honeycomb briquette stove was strong, and soon the porridge in the pot was bubbling and boiling.
"Boss, have you heard? The Japanese came and conducted another big search yesterday. The couple who run the silk shop were unlucky enough to get arrested."
"What? He was arrested for what? A member of the Communist Party?"
The old diner lowered his voice and craned his neck towards Ning Xiasheng, muttering softly, "Tell me, what can the Red Army do if they come to our little shabby town?"
"Not a Communist? Then why were you arrested?"
"Tch, what else could it be? They got set up. Someone reported that his family was hiding Communist Party members, and the couple got arrested. They won't get out without a few hundred silver dollars this time."
Zhou Xiuhua became terrified whenever she heard someone mention the Japanese, fearing that one day she would be targeted by the Japanese while setting up her stall. She also dared not say much to strangers, fearing that they might be from this party or that party.
Ningxia Sheng is a bit bolder, but he is not without worries. But what can he do if he worries? Life goes on.
About ten minutes later, the aroma of steamed buns wafted out, and Ningxia Sheng personally served them to the guests and collected their money.
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