Chapter 114: Getting Rich
Song Tieniu's wife Xiang Chuntao came in carrying a load on her shoulders: "Aunt Taohua, Sister Huiyin, I have picked the mushrooms you ordered."
Qin Huiyin came over and said, "Sister-in-law, you have worked so hard."
"Look at what you said." Xiang Chuntao said with a smile, "I can't say nice things, but I remember all the kindness you have shown our family!"
"Sister-in-law, is there anything else?" Qin Huiyin wiped the sweat off Xiang Chuntao.
Xiang Chuntao was originally wiping her sweat with her sleeves, but when she saw Qin Huiyin wiping her sweat with such a clean handkerchief, she refused embarrassedly: "Such a beautiful handkerchief, please don't dirty it, I'll just wipe it casually and wash it when I get home. Sister Juying is behind, I'll go pick her up, sister Huiyin, you take care of it first."
"Slow down, don't rush." Qin Huiyin reminded.
Xiang Chuntao ran faster than a rabbit. People told her not to be anxious, but she looked so anxious, as if she was more anxious than anyone else.
The girl Xiang Chuntao mentioned was Wang Juying, the wife of Zhang Jieba. The couple were well-known honest people in the village, and there were many aunts in the village who liked to take advantage of the weak.
Song Tieniu and Zhang Jieba have a good relationship. After they got married, they often worked together, so much so that their wives are also good sisters. Xiang Chuntao is aggressive and straightforward, while Wang Juying is submissive. Therefore, just as Song Tieniu protects Zhang Jieba wherever he goes, Xiang Chuntao also protects Wang Juying.
Not long after, Xiang Chuntao came in again carrying a load on her shoulder. Behind her followed a short, thin, dark-skinned woman with patched clothes.
She is called a little woman. Look at her clear eyes, petite figure, and a face that looks about thirteen or fourteen years old, like a junior high school student who has not fully grown up.
In this era, girls who were not married at the age of fifteen had to pay taxes. Most families could not afford the tax, nor did they want to pay it, so they arranged marriages at the age of twelve or thirteen, and married them off at the age of fifteen. Those who were more impatient would marry their girls off before the age of fifteen. Therefore, it is possible that Wang Juying did not have a baby face, but was not very old.
"My two sisters-in-law are amazing. They picked up so much in just one morning." Qin Huiyin praised, "Sister Luwu, quickly bring out some water."
Tang Luwu was counting the ingredients that Tang Dafu brought back. Just as she was about to move, Tang Yi, who was cleaning nearby, smiled and asked her to continue recording while he went out for a run.
Tang Yi smiled and brought out the tea, saying sweetly, "Two sisters-in-law, drink some tea to moisten your throat."
Xiang Chuntao gestured at Tang Yixiao's height and said, "My goodness, isn't Xiao'er's head growing too fast?"
Tang Yixiao puffed out his chest proudly, looking exactly like his father when he was praised. Seeing him like this, Qin Huiyin couldn't help but wonder, will this kid also be a love-brained person in the future?
"Girl Huiyin, these are just the ones we picked. We will send another batch later. You weigh ours first, and we will pick out the good ones for you. We won't accept the bad ones."
“Are there so many mushrooms on our mountain?”
"Of course not. The mushrooms in our mountain are just like that. We go to other mountains to pick them. Although they are a bit far away, they are big and there are more of them."
Qin Huiyin understood. All these mushrooms were picked from the same mountain, and they had to pick them all back. No wonder they were covered in mud and had many scratches on their exposed skin.
"Okay, let's weigh it first." Qin Huiyin took out a large scale.
After weighing, the final net weight was calculated to be eighty jin, or eighty cents.
Xiang Chuntao took the money and put another portion into Wang Juying's hand. Wang Juying waved her hand and said with a red face, "Sister-in-law, I didn't pick much. Most of the fruits here were picked by you."
"Don't be so polite to me." Xiang Chuntao said, "I am trying to please you on purpose. I am going to your house for dinner tonight. Put it away quickly. If others hear it, they will want to take advantage of you again."
Wang Juying's eyes turned red and she sniffed.
"Put it away for me. It's because you have this expression all day that others will bully you. Let's go. We still have to collect other people's mushrooms. Let's not delay Sister Huiyin's business."
Wang Juying wiped her tears and said embarrassedly, "Excuse me. Let's go. The other sisters-in-law must be waiting anxiously. I saw they picked a lot just now."
Xiang Chuntao and Wang Juying left talking and laughing. A ray of light shone on them. The two simple yet optimistic ancient women seemed to walk down from a scroll and enter Qin Huiyin's life.
"What are you daydreaming about?" Li Taohua patted her shoulder.
"Mom, let's hire two workers to help, otherwise when will all these things be resolved?" Qin Huiyin pointed at the jar and the mushrooms.
"I'll listen to you." Li Taohua said.
"Mom, you don't seem surprised at all that I would do these things."
"Because you are born different from others." Li Taohua touched her cheek, "My daughter, in my eyes, you will always be the most dazzling one."
Qin Huiyin felt embarrassed.
"So my girl..." Li Taohua moved closer to Qin Huiyin, "You have to change your habit of not liking to wear small clothes. Mother doesn't want you to have a beautiful face but droopy hair in the future..."
Qin Huiyin: “…”
Li Taohua was holding Qin Huiyin's clothes in her hand.
The so-called small clothing is a bellyband.
Qin Huiyin looked around nervously, and quickly snatched Xiaoyi and stuffed her into her clothes: "Mom, why did you take out this kind of thing?"
"If I hadn't gone in to clean up your room, I wouldn't have known that you didn't like wearing underwear so much. The material of this underwear is very soft, it should be comfortable. If you are not satisfied with it, I will modify it for you."
"I'm just not used to it. Okay, I'll remember to wear it tomorrow." Qin Huiyin quickly put the things back in the room.
When she was almost done with her work, she even had to prepare her underwear. She was not used to the ancient bellybands, which always felt weird. And her skin care products, she would only tinker with them after everything was done, and she was only halfway done now. She felt that she had a lot of things she wanted to do, and it seemed very busy, but she liked such a colorful life.
Xiang Chuntao and Wang Juying came in again carrying their loads.
The two of them went back and forth several times and finally picked out all the mushrooms.
When Qin Huiyin saw this scene, she knew that there would be no problem getting two hundred bottles of mushroom and minced meat sauce.
She saw Wang Juying holding a wooden board with some crooked words written on it with charcoal sticks, and asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, can you write?"
"I only know a few words. I can keep records for my sisters-in-law and calculate how much they weigh. I can't do anything else." Wang Juying said with a red face.
"You are much better than us. We can't even read a single word and are completely blind. You are so lucky that you can even tell the difference between a tea shop and a wine shop when you enter the town." Xiang Chuntao said.
"You are coaxing me again. Even if you can't read, you can tell the difference by smelling the smell." Wang Juying gently pushed Xiang Chuntao and joked with her.
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