Chapter 60 Two Big Ingots [VIP]
Regardless of whether Chen Yao was pregnant or not, Wang Gongcha did not dare to tease her openly in front of the two ferocious men.
Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai are no longer afraid of these officers.
After going out, they realized that these corrupt officials neither treated others as human beings nor treated others as human beings. If they really dared to make things difficult for them, they would just beat them up.
The mule cart carried everyone into the city and arrived at the door of Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative. After the driver received the remaining half of the silver, he was so happy that he said a lot of auspicious words for the New Year in advance.
He also promised Chen Yao that next time they went to Baihe Town, they could get a discount of three copper coins if they hired his car.
"Dad, uncle, sister, the three of you please sit down and have a rest, drink some water, are you tired?" Huang Dongsheng moved a stool and placed it behind the counter.
Seeing that Chen Yao's backpack was empty, he opened it and was almost dazzled by the gold thread in the bundle.
Huang Dongsheng immediately came up to Chen Yao and asked eagerly, "Sister, this is gold thread, right? It's gold thread, right?"
Chen Yao was too tired to open her mouth and just nodded.
Huang Dongsheng clapped his thighs with joy, then cried out, but was afraid that others would hear him, so he quickly covered his mouth. Oh my god, he could still see gold in his lifetime.
The gold thread is made of gold, right? If Yang Wenying had made this embroidery well, it would probably have blinded his eyes.
He must see how beautiful the finished product embroidered with gold thread looks.
"Brother, are you going home tonight?" Chen Yao put down the teacup and rubbed her swollen calves.
Huang Dongsheng immediately and attentively helped her to pinch it, but as soon as he started, Huang Songbai slapped him in the face and asked him, "What are you doing? You have no respect for your elders."
"Dad, this is my biological sister. I feel sorry for her, right, uncle?" Huang Dongsheng lifted Chen Yao's calves with all his strength and placed them on his knees to squeeze them.
Chen Yao was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground by him. She fell hard and the pain made her eyes full of tears.
"You really are my brother!" Chen Yao covered his tailbone and struggled to get up.
Huang Dongsheng was being beaten with a shoe by his father at this moment.
The shop was immediately in chaos. Huang Xing and Miao arrived at the right time and witnessed this farce.
After learning why her son was beaten, Miao Shi was a little amused and helpless. She patted the dust off Chen Yao's coat and trousers and said, "Ayao, we'll go home later. Let's take an ox cart and let your brother pay for the fare."
"My aunt treats me so well."
Huang Dongsheng stood by and pouted, "Sister, I paid for it. I am the one who treats you well."
While the sun was still high in the sky, Huang Dongsheng closed his shop and went to the city wall with his family.
Huang's closed so early today that the clerk from the shop next door asked curiously, "Shopkeeper Huang, aren't you staying in the city tonight?"
Huang Dongsheng waved his hands while carrying a backpack: "My family misses me, so I have to go home and stay for one night. Please help me keep an eye on the door. I'll treat you to milk tea later."
The clerk was so delighted with this that he kept saying "good" and not only helped him to look after the shop, but also helped Huang Dongsheng explain when someone came to ask about it that the shop would be open early the next morning.
Miao held her son's arm and couldn't help but pat him, but she still felt very happy.
The way home was even bumpier than the official road. Chen Yao couldn't stand sitting on the ox cart, so she forced herself to sit there halfway and insisted on getting off and walking by herself.
Seeing that his daughter's face had turned pale, Shen Qingshan jumped out of the car and asked Miao and his brother's family to go back and prepare the meal. He carried his daughter back.
Chen Yao was carried on her father's back. At first, he asked her father if she was tired and whether she wanted to get off and walk for a few steps. After being rejected, she lay on her father's broad back and snored soundly.
Groups of people came into the room. Knowing that Chen Yao was very tired, they just stood in the corridor and took a look inside, not wanting to wake her up.
Yang Wenying was sitting at the table, embroidering a picture of a hundred years of longevity with gold thread.
In the kitchen, the women were busy preparing a sumptuous dinner, and the aroma of food filled the entire courtyard.
Luo Dunzi and Zhang Chunya, brother and sister, came together to see Teacher Shen, and each received a small piece of crispy meat.
After the three carrot heads finished eating, they all lay down beside Shen Yao's bed and listened to her snoring.
"Sister Yao looks like a pig." Zhang Chunwang placed two new wooden swords beside Shen Yao's bed and hummed a few times imitating Shen Yao.
Luo Dunzi and Chunya put the big characters they had practiced for the past two days aside.
This way, Sister A Yao will be able to see it when she wakes up.
"Sister Wenying, we are leaving!" Luo Dunzi waved silently at Yang Wenying.
Unfortunately, Yang Wenying was so focused on embroidery that she didn't notice when the children left.
I didn't notice when Chen Yao woke up.
When Chen Yao woke up, she saw the wooden sword and two large characters beside the bed and smiled.
"Why don't you light a lamp? It would be bad if it hurts your eyes." Chen Yao put the things on the table and lit the oil lamp in the room.
Yang Wenying looked up and exclaimed, "Are you awake?"
, I’ve been awake for quite a while.”
He picked up the teapot and poured two bowls of tea, handed one to Yang Wenying, and drank the other himself.
"Don't be too anxious, just go, the wages are two taels." Chen Yao explained to her.
After hearing this, Yang Wenying also had a plan in mind, "Don't always expect me to do it for you. I don't understand your numerical formulas."
Sometimes she would be corrected by Luo Dunzi. Being a teacher is really not easy. You have to make progress together with your students. Alas!
Two little girls were talking in the house. Miao heard the sound outside the door and came over to call them to go to the main house to prepare for dinner.
Two wooden tables were put together, and the food on the table was more sumptuous than usual.
Shen Qingshan left half a pig's meat from the wild boar he hunted at home, which helped everyone make up for the losses they had suffered in the past.
Chen Yao drank the pig's trotter soup and sighed.
Her other bowl was piled high with meat and vegetables, all of which were picked by her family.
"Ayao has lost weight again after this trip out. Next time, let your father and uncle go to deliver the goods." Huang Mei picked up another piece of lean meat and put it into Chen Yao's bowl.
Chen Yao kept using her chopsticks and took a bite of pickled cabbage. The more she ate, the more appetizing it became. A charcoal basin was placed under the table for everyone to keep warm. Everyone ate until their mouths were full of oil and they were sweating profusely.
Everyone was talking and laughing about what had happened in the village recently.
After dinner, the kids washed the dishes with hot water in the pot.
Huang Xing prepared hawthorn water early and closed the door after the children entered the house.
On the table lay two large silver ingots and a tael of silver, sparkling in the light of the oil lamp.
"Mom, this ingot is really big. It must be very heavy for you to carry it all the way back." Huang Mei covered her mouth and sighed.
Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai smiled at each other.
"It's not that heavy, but I carried it with me all the way. I was so nervous at night that I couldn't even close my eyes."
"You guys have worked so hard." Huang Mei said that it was hard work, but her eyes were fixed on the two big ingots.
Tian Baozhu couldn't even look at her mother, but she also coveted these two big ingots.
"Aunt, pick it up and feel it to see if it sinks." Chen Yao put two big ingots in Huang Mei's hands.
Huang Mei held one in each hand, and whispered, "It's heavy, really heavy, girls, you guys should feel it too."
Everyone took turns holding the two big ingots in their hands and feeling them.
Happiness and joy spread at this moment. It’s so good to have money.
After feeling it, Chen Yao held another family meeting!
Yang Wenying skillfully opened the account book and wrote down every expense that Shen Yao mentioned.
First of all, the biggest contributors to this batch of raw silk must of course be the elderly people in Wanhe Township, as well as myself, Baozhu and Wenying, followed by my uncle and father.
Therefore, in addition to the wages of 600 coins each, each of them also received a bonus of 20 coins.
It was agreed at the beginning that everyone would receive 200 wen per month for both silkworm rearing and silk reeling.
Tian Baozhu's eyes curved into crescents. "This is a really good job. I can earn money sitting at home without having to go out in the wind and sun."
Huang Mei agreed with her daughter's words: "But not everyone can do this job. A Yao, what are your plans for supplying goods to Shopkeeper Lu next year?"
The quantity to be supplied is too large, and it is definitely not possible to rely on family members alone.
Everyone looked at Chen Yao.
Chen Yao: "We will definitely recruit people. Next year, we will start by recruiting people from our village. We will teach them how to raise silkworms and reel silk, and we will pay them for their work."
Yang Wenying looked at the big ingot, then at Chen Yao, and reminded her: "Why don't you buy the mulberry forest in Wanhe Township first, so that if something goes wrong, others won't miss it."
"Right, right, right. Wenying is really thoughtful. We should buy it. I just wonder how much it will cost?"
Chen Yao also had this plan, and told everyone the news that he had previously inquired from Liu Gongchai: wasteland costs 500 coins per mu, and is tax-free for the first three years.
Shen Qingshan was the first to speak up and encourage his daughter: "Buy it, you must buy it. Tomorrow Dad will accompany you to measure the forest."
If he doesn't have enough money, he can go hunting in the mountains.
Chen Yao added, "We still need to build a silkworm room. We will definitely need to raise silkworms in large numbers in the future. We need to prepare wooden frames and winnowing baskets in advance."
Tanaka Masa immediately raised his hand: "Leave this to my uncle. He's quite capable of doing simple carpentry work."
After finishing talking about these things, Chen Yao brought up the matter of bringing Yang Jizong home and expressed her own concerns.
Shen Qingshan sat at the table and said nothing.
Huang Xing grabbed her husband's lower back and cursed him in her heart. Wenying was so scared by his attitude that her face turned pale.
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"If you ask me, he should have been brought back long ago. If Zi'an is willing to help Coach Xing manage those hard laborers, then let him do it. It's a good deed, and we won't stop him."
Yes, that’s right. In Huang Xing’s eyes, Yang Jizong is very capable, and both the brother and sister are phoenixes that have fallen into trouble.
Huang Xing was the only one in the room who dared to say this openly.
"Dad, take it. I'm worried that I won't be able to pay the ransom so easily in the future."
As soon as Shen Yao finished speaking, Yang Wenying stood up and assured Shen Qingshan and his wife: "Uncle, aunt, this money is a loan from me. I will definitely pay it back after I finish embroidering the Hundred Longevity Painting and get paid."
The two taels of silver wages plus what she had saved these days were enough to bring her brother back.
"No need to borrow it. I have it in stock. I'll send it to you tomorrow morning." Huang Dongsheng lost his usual playful smile and stood up very solemnly.
"Dad..." When Chen Yao started to act coquettishly, Shen Qingshan had no reason to refuse. After all, his daughter liked Yang Jizong, so he just accepted it.
So, tomorrow when the father and daughter go to measure the mulberry forest, they will pick the person up.
Yang Wenying also went.
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