Chapter 4: Discussion
"Mom, let's talk for a while." Qin Huiyin hugged Li Taohua's arm and acted coquettishly.
"Just talk, I'm listening." Li Taohua folded her clothes.
When he saw the two sets of clothes that had been altered, he poked Qin Huiyin's forehead and muttered, "You are so stupid and generous."
"Mom, do you want to live in the Tang family for a long time?"
"Is this something I can do even if I don't want to?"
"Uncle Tang owes a foreign debt of fifty taels of silver. This sum of money will drag down the entire family. Do you still want to continue to follow him?"
"My dear, I understand what you mean. Normally, someone like me who doesn't do anything for the sake of profit should leave as soon as possible, but we have signed the marriage certificate, and I can't escape even if I want to!"
She could also ask for a divorce, but after the divorce, who would be willing to marry her? Her reputation as a jinx had already spread.
Even if someone is willing to marry her, I'm afraid he will be a jerk. Li Taohua wants to rely on men, but she is not unselective.
Qin Huiyin had known this would be the result, so she put the matter out in the open for discussion.
In fact, Li Taohua was not a very smart woman. She had been a skinny horse in Yangzhou and a wet nurse in a wealthy family. If she had been smart, she would not have fallen into the current situation with her beauty. She had only one goal, which was to live with her daughter. If she could let her daughter live a good life within her ability, it would be even better.
If you want to say how bad she is, she has her own bottom line. If you want to say how good she is, for her own benefit, she was not good to the children of her second and third husbands.
But there is one thing Qin Huiyin is clear about, that is, Li Taohua listens to her.
"Mom, since we are going to live in the Tang family for a long time, we can't quarrel all the time like we do now. Uncle Tang's leg is broken, but he can still go to the fields. When he recovers, he can do some farm work, and then we can still live a good life. Also, the eldest brother of the Tang family is very good at studying, and maybe he can pass the imperial examination in the future. Let's be nice to them, even if they don't remember our kindness, they won't remember our faults, right? I just think that since we are already a family, we should live in harmony, what do you think?"
Qin Huiyin used her eloquence to persuade Li Taohua, trying to make this beautiful fool understand that it would be more beneficial to be on good terms with the Tang family. If she continued to make things difficult for the children of the Tang family like she was doing now, when they grew up and she was old, she might even be retaliated by them. Apart from anything else, there were several sisters in the Tang family, but she had no brothers or sisters, so she would be the one to be bullied in the future.
All the heartfelt words Qin Huiyin said before were in vain, Li Taohua didn't listen to a word. In her opinion, she was Tang Yichen's mother, and if Tang Yichen passed the imperial examination, he had to be filial to her. Otherwise, if he reported to the government, no matter how big his official hat was, he would be taken away. Later, Qin Huiyin said that she had no brothers or sisters and was easy to be bullied, but Li Taohua listened to her.
"Mom, I like Sister Luwu very much. Please don't make things difficult for her, let's get along well! If Sister Luwu and I get along well, will Brother Yichen and Brother Yixiao also treat me well? Then won't I have three backers from my mother's family? Mom, let's get along well in the future, like a family, okay? I will help you make money and pay back the fifty taels of silver."
Li Taohua didn't believe that Qin Huiyin had the ability to pay back the money. However, she said that she liked Lu Wu and wanted to get along well with the Tang sisters, so this was not impossible. The most important thing was that her daughter liked it.
"Okay, I get it." Li Taohua said, "The meal is ready, let's eat!"
Lunch was wild vegetable and corn porridge. The wild vegetables were bitter and unpalatable, and the sweetness of the corn could not overcome its bitterness, making Li Taohua frown the whole time.
Qin Huiyin is a foodie and can't stand this kind of torture. No, she has to find a way to change the status quo.
After finishing the meal, Qin Huiyin secretly asked Li Taohua if there was any extra money at home. If there was, she should use it to buy some food.
Li Taohua blushed and stammered that all the money she had previously spent was gone. Facing Qin Huiyin's disapproving look, she complained weakly, "Tang Dafu said that two taels of silver a month would not be short of food or clothes for me, but who knew that I would break my leg after only receiving one month's salary?"
"After Uncle Song died, didn't you sell his family's land and have some money?"
"That day I took my money to the city to buy rouge, but I met a thief on the street and lost my money." Li Taohua cried aggrievedly. "Those rotten-hearted people bullied a widow like me and were not afraid to use the money to buy a coffin."
Qin Huiyin pressed her eyebrows.
Can't carry it.
It’s really hard to lead such a bad teammate.
It is better to rely on yourself than to ask others for help. It seems that she has to find a solution on her own.
Li Taohua loves beauty. Not only does she often have new clothes to wear, she is also very generous to the original owner, so she should have some good things.
"Mom, we can't just sit there and do nothing, so let's make some money!"
"How can I make money? I only know how to sing. Do you want me to go back to my old job? But I'm a married woman now. It's not good to do that anymore, right?"
"Let's make some food and sell it! Aunt Wang seems to have some peas. How about I trade my clothes for 20 kilograms of peas?"
Peas in the market were only two cents per pound. Her clothes were all half-new. The original price was one hundred cents per set, but now it was equivalent to twenty pounds of peas, which was not a big bargain.
Wang had a daughter who was about the same size as Qin Huiyin. Her clothes were covered in patches. She had a scene a few days ago and asked Wang to use the money she earned from selling eggs to buy her some wearable clothes.
Li Taohua didn't understand: "You want to make pea cake? No, no matter how delicious pea cake is, no one will eat it as a meal."
This is a small town, and not many people have spare money. In other words, even if she is willing to go back to her old job of singing, there will probably be more people watching than those willing to give her money.
Cakes are something that only the rich can afford. Those rich people can eat any cakes, and they can't eat pea cakes every day, so this is not a good idea.
"It's not pea cake, it's another kind of food." Qin Huiyin said, "You used to be a wet nurse in that family, and I played in the kitchen all day, and learned from the cook there."
Li Taohua never doubted Qin Huiyin's words. In the past few years, she had tried every possible way to support them. When she was working, Qin Huiyin had a good time with the people in the backyard.
Qin Huiyin saw that Li Taohua was moved, so she pulled her arm and continued to shake it, saying coquettishly: "Mom, let me try! I also want to share your worries. My mom is so beautiful, but she has started to get wrinkles recently."
"Wrinkles?" Li Taohua touched her cheek. "Is it true?"
"Of course it's fake." Qin Huiyin burst into laughter, "But I really want to help you share your worries. Our family can't go on like this. Men are unreliable, so instead of relying on men, it's better to rely on yourself. I also want to have a stable family, so let's live a good life in the Tang family!"
Li Taohua has already experienced the saying "Men are unreliable". Since her daughter wants to try, then let her try! Her daughter has also seen the world, maybe she really has some ideas.
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