"This is for Xiaoxiao's education; the money for the marriage proposal will be given separately."
Seeing that Su the carpenter hadn't made a move for a long time, Lin Mo added in a casual tone.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the carpenter Su, who had been silent, immediately grabbed his arms with both hands, then turned him around so that he was facing away from him.
He pushed it out and slammed the door shut with a loud bang.
The unexpected rejection left Lin Mo completely bewildered.
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"Don't you know the rules!" came Su the carpenter's stern and unforgiving voice from inside the door.
"A grown man barging into a girl's house and yelling!"
"Send a matchmaker to propose marriage!"
Lin Mo stared blankly at the bills in his hand, and his mind gradually began to come to its senses.
Should we send a matchmaker to propose marriage?
Isn't this just the meaning of the character "八" (eight) being stroked downwards?
You asked us to bring a matchmaker to propose marriage, so you certainly won't chase the matchmaker away!
If they don't chase them away, that means they agree, hehehehehe?
Hehehe!
Lin Mo was so happy that she clucked like a hen and hopped around as she turned to go home.
Although he still held the two hundred in his hand, Su the carpenter did not take it.
But he had a pretty good idea of what Su the carpenter was thinking—
First, propose marriage to prove your worth.
If you want to support Su Xiaoxiao's education later, that's your own family's business; your maternal family doesn't need to express their opinion.
Hehehe!
He went home and handed the two hundred yuan back to Xiaohua for safekeeping.
Once he has saved enough money for the marriage proposal, Xiao Hua can give it directly to Xiao Xiao!
Driven by the desire to earn money, Lin Mo picked out a handy bamboo carrying pole from the bamboo poles in the corner of his yard to replace the carrying pole.
He picked it up and left home.
Go find Miao Qingsong and Awang, and go into the mountains to collect pine cones together.
The two of them helped with the hauling, and they were paid ten yuan per trip. That was a reasonable payment, considering the complicated processing required once they got home.
You can earn 70 yuan per jin! Ten jin would be 700 yuan!
I'll try to get forty jin (20 kg) for the village chief tomorrow!
That's 2800!
Once this huge sum of money is in hand, it will not only be enough for the three gold pieces and five jewelry items, but also enough for Xiaoxiao's high school tuition for the next three years!
...
Miao Qingsong's family was overjoyed because he had brought home ten more rabbits.
I figured that once the rabbits were born, the baby rabbits could be raised for about twenty days and then sold for five yuan each.
Ten is fifty! One hundred is five hundred yuan!
Five hundred! That's enough to build Qingsong's new house for his wedding! And it even has a separate kang (heated brick bed)!
"Wow, so many rabbits! Sell me two."
Just as she was having a good time, Wang Yanli, who was always looking for trouble in the village to "make a living," wandered around and ended up at Miao Qingsong's house again.
Seeing that they had brought so many rabbits, she was really drooling.
"Two, IOU please."
"Just these two fat ones."
Before Old Miao and Aunt Miao could even respond, the shameless Wang Yanli had already made her choice.
"An IOU?" Old Miao was also surprised. In previous years, it was only them who gave IOUs to others. Today, someone was giving him an IOU? That was impossible, given how poor his family was.
"We can't write an IOU, we're starving and desperately need the money."
Wang Yanli glared, put her hands on her hips with an assertive air, and said:
"You've been picking at them so hard, and you're still not happy with just two?"
"The year-end is coming up soon, do you think ten yuan will just disappear?"
After saying this, the usually timid Lao Miao and Aunt Miao suddenly felt even more guilty and dared not say anything more.
Wang Yanli had already bent down and entered the shed to grab the two fat rabbits she had her eye on; those two rabbits were the only two golden shaded rabbits in the shed.
"Oh, no, no, these two are the ones we've raised and nurtured, we can't have them," Old Miao said, forcing a refusal.
Unexpectedly, Wang Yanli, who was used to being domineering, grabbed the rabbit's ears and forcefully swung her arm to shove away Lao Miao's outstretched hand.
He even grabbed the two rabbits by the ears while glancing around, then grabbed a pen and hastily wrote down a ten-yuan IOU.
Aunt Miao was a little angry. Why did they have to bully us like this?
"We're not selling the rabbit, and we didn't take this IOU, you..."
Before she could finish her refusal, Wang Yanli's hand, which was holding the rabbit's buttocks, suddenly felt a warm, wet sensation.
Old Miao and Aunt Miao also noticed that yellow water was suddenly leaking from under the rabbit's buttocks.
This left the two of them stunned.
"Oh my! She's about to give birth! Hahaha!"
Wang Yanli acted as if she were at home, casually grabbing a bamboo basket from the yard and a handful of straw from the shed to put inside.
Then put the rabbit into the basket.
But then the rabbit started pooping like it was taking a dump, pooping out one clump after another, and it did it so smoothly.
While the two elders were still dumbfounded, the golden tabby dog produced seven wet, pink little bunnies.
"Wow, they're laying their eggs so fast!" Old Miao exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes, I was just saying that too, it's an eye-opener." Aunt Miao was also stunned.
While the two were distracted, Wang Yanli slammed the IOU on the wooden table, picked up her bamboo basket, and excitedly headed home.
"Hey hey!"
Old Miao finally realized what was happening and stopped her from leaving.
"We never said we wanted to sell! Put it down!"
Wang Yanli, for some unknown reason, got angry, glared at him with her donkey-like eyes, and roared back:
"Trying to renege, huh! The IOU's already signed! These two rabbits are ours!"
"What, you want to back out now that you've seen the nest?"
"We've already bought them! The next batch is ours!"
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