Chapter 117 Triple Daughter-in-law
Boss Mu has no relatives who have been robbed, and the only reason he stays here is for moral reasons.
Because he ran a shop in Suijin Town, but it was robbed and the two shop assistants who were guarding the shop were taken away. He stayed there like a demon, saying that he felt sorry for the parents and wanted to wait for them to come back.
Song Liyun sighed.
In fact, everyone knows that it is difficult for those who have plundered the grassland to return.
In the vast grassland, with the tribes moving around, it was difficult to even find people, let alone escape.
This is still something that my family cares about.
There are more people like Han Ming, who came here alone with unknown identities. I am afraid they didn’t even leave a name, and their families far away know nothing about them.
While the two were talking, someone knocked on the gate again.
Aunt Ma came out and quickly went into the house, saying, "Daughter-in-law Sanchong, this is your third trip. Did I say you don't want your hands anymore?"
As the voice was spoken, Aunt Ma led someone in. Song Liyun looked up and saw a thin woman holding a large cloth bag.
The thin light pink jacket she was wearing had been washed to a pale color, and she was wearing patched shoes on her feet. The scarf on her head was loose, revealing her hair, which was dry and yellow but still neatly tied in a bun.
The woman was slightly startled when she saw Song Liyun. She bent her knees slightly as usual and tried to force a smile: "Hello, Miss Song!"
Song Liyun also smiled: "Aunt Sanchong!"
Hearing Song Liyun's address, the woman's face darkened. She lowered her head and handed the cloth bag she was holding to Aunt Ma: "Sister Ma, these are five pieces of clothing. I have already mended the places that need mending."
Aunt Ma did not open the cloth bag to look at it like other women did, but just put it aside.
After rummaging through the cabinet for a while, he pulled out a small, closed shell that was only slightly larger than a thumb and stuffed it into the woman's hand: "These are the clam shells I used to roast, using the finest roe deer oil, and there are still a few left.
Take it home and soak your hands in hot water first, then apply oil. If you let it freeze any longer, it will go bad."
The woman put her red, swollen and festering hands back into her sleeves and still refused.
Aunt Ma said angrily, "You're still thinking about waiting for Little Stone to come back every day. How many winters can you survive like this? Take it! There's really only a little left."
As she spoke, Aunt Ma opened the clam shell, and sure enough, only a thin layer of oil remained inside.
The woman then accepted it, took a few more clothes and left.
Aunt Ma stopped talking about sex for a moment and just focused on cutting cloth. Song Liyun put the box of frostbite oil that had slipped out of her hand back into the space.
The "Aunt Sanchong" just now almost refused to accept the ointment applied to the clam shell. She definitely doesn't want this box that I bought from Qili County.
"Aunt Ma, who was that aunt just now..." Song Liyun was about to go back, but she stood up and asked again.
When Han Ming rescued the woman from the snow not long ago, he only said that she was Jin Sanzhong's wife. He was hesitant about other things and said he didn't know.
Aunt Ma should know more.
Aunt Ma smoothed the thread on her arm and sighed, "She's such a miserable person. Jin Sanchong saved her, but he didn't take good care of her.
This woman has been the one who does all the housework these years.
Now in the middle of winter, I can’t bear to use hot water to wash clothes, and my hands are completely frozen.”
No firewood?
Song Liyun thought of the woman lying in the snow with the small bundle of thin branches beside her, and her eyes gradually narrowed: If she had killed Jin Sanchong, would the woman be better off?
Just seeing that woman was unwilling to accept help from others, she must be a strong-willed person and has her own ideas about life.
Xue Zhuang, who went out to sell vegetables, came back in the evening. As soon as he returned to the town, he went straight to Baolinju and knocked on the gate loudly.
Han Ming opened the door a crack, peeked in and saw it was him, and asked, "Mr. Xue, what's the matter?" He asked but did not open the door.
He had already received instructions from the Song brothers and sisters that no outsiders were allowed into Baolinju, and that Zhou Xiaoqi and his companions would mostly stay in the front yard.
The backyard is a key protected area. Apart from a few people in his family, even Han Ming himself rarely goes there.
Now when Xue Zhuang comes to Baolinju, he can't even enter the outermost door.
Seeing that he refused to give way, Xue Zhuang glared at him and scolded him, "Who taught you this rule? You don't even know to invite guests in!"
Han Ming smiled innocently, "Both the big bosses are away, and only the young boss is playing in the mud in the yard. Xue Junhu insisted on coming in. Did he want the young boss to have tea with you?"
"What nonsense you are talking about."
Xue Zhuang heard him talking about the big boss and the small boss, and also the small boss playing around in the mud.
Unable to suppress his impatience, he angrily asked, "Are you saying that Song Zhenping and Song Liyun are not here?"
Han Ming nodded: "Yes, none of them are here."
"Where are they?" Xue Zhuang had no intention of entering the yard. He just wanted to find the Song brothers and sisters.
"I don't know!" Han Ming added, "I'm a servant, I can't ask where my boss is going!"
"Hmph! Then tell them to prepare more vegetables tomorrow morning, at least a hundred pounds, and send them to the garrison early. Why are you sleeping in at such a young age?" Xue Zhuang stepped back down the stairs.
Han Ming nodded, said okay, and immediately closed the door. He moved so quickly that it seemed as if someone would come in if he was a little slower.
Xue Zhuang looked at the crooked wooden door slamming shut in front of him and was so angry that he almost kicked it. However, he endured it again and again and finally turned around and went back to town.
He can't act wildly here.
Although he was turned away at Baolinju, this did not affect his good mood. Xue Zhuang was extremely excited on the way back to the town.
Today he delivered two baskets of vegetables to Qili County. He did not go to Tianxianglou first, but placed them on the street first.
The other people who went with him dispersed and went to several other more famous restaurants in Qili County to explore the market.
You don't know until you ask, and you'll be shocked to find out that the price of food has gone up again in the past few days.
The price of flour rose to fifteen cents per pound, and people were queuing up on every street to buy food.
Many people came to see the fresh vegetables he displayed, and they all praised the quality of the vegetables. No one dared to ask about the price.
Those who went to the restaurant to ask for the price also got the answer. The first restaurant offered thirty cents, and the second restaurant offered fifty cents.
In the end, Tianxianglou got it for eighty cents.
When others asked, they found out that we were from Suijin Town and requested exclusive sales.
Xue Zhuang was very satisfied with the price. The profits between him and the garrison were split 70:30, with him getting 30%.
This time, he sold fifty kilograms of vegetables for four taels of silver. After sharing the profits with the garrison, he still had one tael and two cents left.
After deducting the money for entering the city and travel expenses, he gave another one or two hundred coins to the people who ran errands for him, and in the end, he still had eight hundred coins in his pocket.
Running a restaurant and tavern in Suijin Town, I could only make a little over a hundred coins a day with all the hustle and bustle, but now I can make eight hundred coins a day.
If the Song family could produce more vegetables and sell a hundred kilograms of vegetables a day, he would get two taels of silver... Just thinking about it made Xue Zhuang feel like his heart was about to jump out.
When he got home, his young wife Xu Yan'er was already waiting anxiously.
(End of this chapter)
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