Chapter 264 Selling Lotus Roots
At the beginning of the morning, the sound of roosters crowing could be heard in Lushan Village, but it was still dark outside.
Song Yuntang turned over and stayed in a daze until noon before getting up.
She yawned. Although she still felt a little uncomfortable, she was much more relaxed than last night.
She went out carrying the clothes that had been soaked in the basin last night. When Jiang saw her pale face, she was startled and hurried forward to snatch the basin from her hands.
"If you feel uncomfortable, just take a rest. There's nothing to do at home. There's no need to be stubborn."
Song Yuntang stretched out her hand, wanting to take the clothes and wash them herself, but this time Jiang did not agree with her.
"Be obedient, or mother will be angry."
Pursing her lips, Song Yuntang could only say "I understand", but she did not go back to her room. Instead, she washed up a little, pulled down the basket hanging under the eaves, and took out the tools for making pills from it.
Jiang rubbed her clothes and said, "Child, didn't I tell you to take a rest? Why are you busy again?"
Song Yuntang forced a faint smile.
"Mom, I'm much better now."
Jiang didn't force her not to do anything, but just said softly, "You know more about pharmacology than mother. After all, those pills were made by you. You should be careful these few days. Don't hurt yourself. It's not worth it."
Song Yuntang nodded, "Don't worry, mother. The pills I'm going to make today don't have any blood-activating ingredients. I'll be careful and won't hurt your body."
Since things had come to this, Jiang didn't say anything more.
"Just keep it in mind."
After washing and hanging the clothes, Jiang brought the hot steamed buns to the table and served each person a bowl of rice soup.
The only thing in the bowl in front of Song Yuntang was not rice soup, but two poached eggs with five dates in the egg soup.
Xu Wencheng got up, washed his face hastily, and came to the table. He saw Song Yuntang's pale face and worried expression.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"
Song Yuntang coughed lightly and said a little embarrassedly, "Nothing, I just feel a little unwell."
He picked up the chopsticks on the table.
"Then you should rest well at home today."
Song Yuntang hummed, "I didn't plan to go out today."
She picked an egg and put it into Jiang's bowl.
"Mom, eat one too."
While I was still eating breakfast, Erniu and Changgen had already arrived outside the yard.
"Wencheng, have you eaten?"
“Soon.”
After Xu Wencheng finished speaking, he stuffed the steamed bun in his hand into his mouth desperately.
Seeing this, Jiang took two steamed buns and gave them to Erniu and Changgen. "Wencheng is still eating. You should also have a steamed bun and wait for him for a while."
Erniu and Changgen had only eaten porridge and pickles in the morning, and their stomachs were not completely full yet. But when they saw the big white steamed buns, their eyes lit up.
"Thank you, auntie." He turned and looked into the house, "Wencheng, don't be in a hurry, eat slowly."
After Xu Wencheng swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth in a few bites, he drank the rice soup in the bowl.
"Dad, Mom, sister-in-law, I'm done eating, you guys take your time."
After saying that, he ran outside the house, hitched the mule cart, padded it with a piece of rag, and together with Erniu Changgen, moved the lotus roots piled in the corner of the courtyard wall onto the mule cart.
He said goodbye to everyone in the house and drove out on the mule cart.
Jiang looked at Song Yuntang and said, "Wencheng is a very impetuous child. If you lend them the mule cart, I'm really worried that he will lose it. It will cost dozens of taels of silver to buy one."
Song Yuntang smiled and said, "Wencheng is not a child anymore. Mother should trust him. If things don't work out, there are still Erniu and Changgen."
Jiang waved her hand.
"How do you think the three of them got together? Those two kids are the same type as our Wencheng."
Xu Yongwang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Wencheng is a bit careless, but he is not someone who doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. Over the years, we have only seen minor problems. When we haven't seen him, he hasn't made any mistakes."
Jiang sighed, stood up and started to collect the dishes.
"My son has grown up, and as a mother, I can't always keep him under control. I can't help but worry about him. For example, Qingye, I don't see him often after he went to the county town, and I always miss him."
Song Yuntang stood up and helped Jiang clean up the dishes.
"The yard I bought in the county town has four or five rooms. If mother misses him, we can drive a mule cart to stay there for a few days."
The first time Jiang heard Song Yuntang talk about the yard in the county town, she was quite surprised.
"Such a large yard must cost a lot of money, right?"
I originally thought they would rent a yard in the county town, but I didn’t expect that they bought a yard.
Song Yuntang smiled and said, "We were lucky too. We happened to rescue a child that day. She was the daughter of the owner of the yard..."
She briefly recounted what happened on the day she bought the yard.
After hearing this, Jiang pounded the table in indignation.
"How could such a thing exist in the world? It's already a great blessing for a daughter-in-law to continue to support those parasites after her husband's death, and they actually want to kill her for money! Even a storybook wouldn't dare to write this!"
Song Yuntang tilted his head.
"Mom is also reading a storybook?"
Jiang waved her hands a little embarrassedly and said, "Well, it happened when I was young. At that time, I saved a few dozen coins and bought two books to satisfy my craving. This thing is not cheap. After getting married, I dare not spend money on it."
After she finished speaking, she took the bowl and went to the kitchen.
Song Yuntang sat back under the eaves and made pills.
After rubbing three hundred pills, she stretched and felt a warm current flowing under her body. She quickly took things from the house and went to the toilet.
…
Xu Wencheng and the other two arrived home at 3:00 p.m.
Before returning, the three of them had a simple meal in the town. Since the borrowed mule cart belonged to Song Yuntang, they also used the money they earned to buy her two bags of roasted chestnuts.
The three of them spread out the money they earned from selling lotus roots today on the dining table and counted it.
When they went there, they didn't bring a scale, so they sold the lotus roots according to their size, selling large ones for two cents a piece and small ones for three cents in two pieces. In this way, they sold more than five hundred cents.
In the end, when the money was evenly distributed, each person got 178 cents.
After the three men put the silver and money into their own purses, they excitedly went to fetch water to wash the mule cart.
Although we used old cloth to pad the carriage when we went there, due to so many lotus roots, the carriage was still covered with river mud and smelled fishy.
My sister-in-law didn't say anything, but they couldn't pretend they didn't see it.
If my sister-in-law is unhappy, she might not lend them the mule cart in the future.
Song Yuntang took a short rest at noon and now he feels much better and his face is not as pale as in the morning.
Seeing the three people washing the mule cart while discussing their plan to go to the lotus pond to continue digging lotus roots, a thoughtful look flashed in her eyes.
"If you want to make money, you don't have to dig lotus roots yourself. The weather is getting colder now. Digging lotus roots is not only dangerous, but it's also easy to catch a cold. It's better to think of a more relaxed way."
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