43 jin of pine nuts, at 70 yuan per jin, that's 3010 yuan!
100 jin of aspic costs 80 yuan!
That's 3090 yuan!
Lin Mo didn't mind the village chief's head and hands looking so dirty and unsightly inside the snakeskin bag, so he stuck his head in too.
A total of 301 ten-yuan bills!
Our family fortune has finally grown!
Back in the east room, Xiaohua was pouting, looking very unhappy.
We agreed that we would be in charge of saving the money, but what happened?
We did manage to save the money, but my brother comes to ask for it three times a day!
After three trips, all the money I had painstakingly saved was down to just a few dozen yuan!
"Little Flower?" Lin Mo walked up to her with a grin and handed her the sack directly.
Just as Xiaohua was about to reach inside to take the contents out, Lin Mo stopped her.
Instead, they stuffed Xiaohua's head inside.
Immediately afterwards.
"Wow!!!"
Little Flower's excited, childlike screams almost pierced through the walls of her own house.
"Shh, you can't..."
"I know," Xiaohua's excitement vanished in a second, her expression returning to its usual pouty look, as if she was about to start sighing about being poor.
"Do you think we're like you, flaunting our wealth and acting all high and mighty?"
Despite accepting the huge sum of money, Xiaohua, despite her young age, couldn't help but complain about her older brother and get up to hide the money.
Actually, I was still excited, otherwise I would have kicked Lin Mo out first and then hidden the money.
Lin Mo could see exactly where she had hidden the money.
"Ahem, put it under the cupboard, won't that get damp? And it's packed so thickly in the burlap sack, it's even warped the table," Lin Mo "kindly" reminded him.
"Why not knock two bricks out of the kang bed, stuff them into a sack, and then put the bricks back in?"
"Hey, that's a great idea," Xiaohua blurted out in agreement.
The two brothers, like thieves, rummaged around in the east room, making sure that the place where they hid the money looked perfectly normal.
Little Flower giggled and laughed.
After confirming with their own eyes that the village chief had indeed accepted the aspic, Miao Qingsong's parents and Miao Wang's parents happily went home.
Let's make some meat jelly too!
After Wang Junjun's parents arrived with him, they immediately squatted behind the small mountain of pine cones and began dismantling the pine nuts according to Wang Junjun's instructions.
"Four yuan for a pound?" Aunt Wang was a little incredulous, but Lin Mo was still inside, so she couldn't ask for the time being.
"So, you're saying Lin Mo's money is really that easy to earn?" Uncle Wang chimed in.
"Hey, didn't you come and work all day yesterday? Why didn't I see you take any money home?"
Wang Junjun pursed his lips and replied expressionlessly:
"What's the rush? Once we've finished dismantling the ones in front of us, Brother Lin will settle the accounts with us. Yesterday's accounts will also be settled together then."
"oh."
The two elders asked no more questions and focused on their work.
However, Lin Mo, who was in the east room, overheard their conversation through the window.
What the heck? Didn't I give you a hundred yuan yesterday? I was just thinking that if you took the money home, you could call your parents to come and help.
What?
Are you trying to pretend you didn't receive it and then extort a hundred yuan from me?
It seems that in the future, when settling payments, we'll need to have someone sign a receipt confirming that payment has been received.
"Ah Jun? Come in here for a moment."
Lin Mo called out to A Jun through the window. A Jun turned his head and looked up, only then noticing that the window was quite close.
Did he hear what I just said?
After nervously entering the room, Lin Mo asked directly:
"What did you mean by that? Didn't I already pay you a hundred yesterday?"
"Shh..." Sure enough, he was heard, and Ah Jun quickly gestured for him to be quiet with a pleading expression:
"Don't let my parents hear this, um, it's settled."
"So what do you mean? What if your parents think I'm not married and make a scene, and you just stay silent like that day, watching my aunt swindle two chickens from me? What am I supposed to do then?"
It's no wonder Lin Mo spoke bluntly; nobody likes to suffer a loss.
If suffering a loss is a blessing, then whoever enjoys it will be blessed beyond measure, but we don't enjoy it.
After asking so many questions, Ah Jun looked inexplicably troubled but remained silent, leaving Lin Mo speechless.
"Unless you explain things to your parents right now, I'd rather find someone else..."
"No way! We can do this job!"
Ah Jun was anxious, pressured by the loss of his way of making money and by the threats Xu Zhenting had made to him the previous night.
Caught in a dilemma, he could only tell Lin Mo what had happened the night before.
"What???"
Upon hearing the details, Lin Mo was furious!
"Shh, don't make a sound..." Ah Jun pleaded.
"Don't let my parents know. They're too sensitive. They've suffered such a huge loss, and they're too afraid to seek justice. They're constantly thinking about this, and maybe one day they'll do something rash..."
"Our grandfather died of depression because the piglets he raised in the government compound in his early years were stolen, and the family had to pay compensation."
Lin Mo swallowed his anger for the time being:
"Alright, you go ahead and do your thing. I'm going to find that bastard Xu Zhenting and ask him myself what he's up to. If he's trying to get ahead of himself, I'll give him a kick and help him fly."
Ah Jun didn't dare to stop the enraged Lin Mo, so he could only think to himself that he should try not to go out alone in the village in the future, so as not to fall into the hands of Xu Zhenting and his gang again and get beaten up.
As Lin Mo stepped out of the courtyard, the first thing he noticed was Jiang Ying standing outside the gate, having returned once again.
Just as she was about to walk towards her mother with a smile, Jiang Ying suddenly noticed that she was standing at the door of the main room, and a look of panic flashed across her face.
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