Huang was still thinking about good things, but Ma Ergou interrupted her with a bad look.

"Do you think others are your farmhands?!"

"Is his family unable to make ends meet?"

At this point, Ma Ergou couldn't help but tell his family, "No matter how big our family is, we still have our own house in this prosperous county! And the life of those country folk is hard."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that every household seems to have fields and land, but they can't fill their stomachs all year round and can't wear good clothes. There are more than a dozen old bachelors in every village."

"When my brother came here, did you take a close look? The clothes they wore were full of holes. They either wore straw sandals or walked barefoot."

"They may not come here just because of me. I guess my brother just thinks that his wife is good at making sauerkraut. He wants to sell sauerkraut here to make some money to supplement the family income. Because next month, the government will collect various taxes, and then they will have to pay a lot of money..."

After hearing her husband say this, Huang thought about it and nodded.

Her husband was right...

What's so excessive about the lives of country people?

None of them can compare to those in the city!

Thinking that Gu Yanzhang and the others were actually a group of incompetent poor guys, and she couldn't get much from them, Huang suddenly gave up the idea.

After drinking several mouthfuls of the moldy mixed-grain porridge, she leaned over and whispered in Ma Ergou's ear, "Boss, if your brother asks you to borrow money, you must not lend it to him!"

"That kind of person can't make much money in a year. If you lend him money, then all your work during this period will be in vain..."

In the Ma family, Ma Ergou has always been the head of the family. Ma Ergou had an older brother before, but that older brother died when he was ten years old. Therefore, Ma Ergou has become the eldest son in the family.

In this family, Ma Ergou paid for the money for his two younger brothers to marry. Later, after his two younger brothers had children, they followed him everywhere to find work. All the money earned by the three brothers, including their son, was on Ma Ergou alone. Ma Ergou's two younger brothers had no opinion on this.

Because they knew in their hearts that as long as they followed their brother honestly, his brother would never treat them unfairly.

Ma Ergou was used to being the boss. When he heard what Huang said, he snorted coldly as if he heard a joke.

"Do I need you to remind me of this?"

"But you shouldn't be so snobbish. You must never show a bad face in front of my brother. That man may make a fortune in the future!"

When they heard that the brother adopted by this man would make a fortune, Huang and other people in the family couldn't help but come over.

"Get rich?"

"How much wealth can a country boy like that have? Even if he can get rich, how much money can he get?"

Ma Ergou cursed when he heard this. "You big fool, what do you know?!"

"This kid surnamed Gu is very lucky!"

"The wife he married is the younger sister of Chen Da Peddler from Chenjia Village! And the godfather of Chen Da Peddler is Huang, the head of our government."

"Because of this relationship, when he works at the dock in June, July and August every year, the managers at the dock are very polite to him! The wages they give him are not only the most fair, but also the most practical."

Hearing this, Huang no longer looked down on Gu Yanzhang and his family. Instead, she said with some envy, "Boss, if you also have this relationship, then our family may have worked hard for more than ten years and bought an acre of land in Tongzhen..."

Huang was actually from Tongzhen.

Her biological parents, including her brothers, have always lived in the slums of Tongzhen. They also make a living by doing odd jobs for others.

Being a boatman, a bag-carrying dock boy, delivering food to boatmen, and running errands for some shop owners in Tongzhen who didn't have much money...

Although the family didn't starve to death, they had lived a very hard life over the years.

Huang's family always said that she was lucky to be able to marry into this county town from Tongzhen. Moreover, her brothers from her family had always said in front of her that they hoped to have an acre or two of land on the mountains around Tongzhen.

Because her brothers often said this, Huang had an obsession in her heart. That is, she must buy an acre or two of land in her lifetime. And it would be best if she bought it on her family's side.

In this way, the woman's family can rent the land from her husband's family at a more reasonable price... and her husband will definitely have nothing to say when the time comes.

Thinking of her own worries, Huang couldn't help but bring it up, "Boss, it's strange, since your brother's relationship is still strong and he can make a fortune in the future, then tell me, why is he so poor now? He has no clothes to cover his body and doesn't even have a pair of shoes on his feet. ... Is he pretending to be poor on purpose to guard against us?"

Ma Ergou shook his head after hearing this, "How is it possible? He doesn't have that idea!"

"In the past two years, his father and mother have been in poor health. They get sick every other day... Last year, your brothers told me that he often pawned things in those pawnshops in Tongzhen. All the money from the sales was used to buy medicine..."

Hearing this, Huang felt much better.

But soon, she couldn't help but think about her own family's situation.

Her parents-in-law are old, and the old lady is often sick.

Whether they buy medicine for their treatment or not, they have to spend a lot of money.

If they don't buy medicine, they can only bear it and endure it. If they can endure it, it's fine. If not, they will have to spend more money.

Because the money for the funeral is definitely a lot.

Buy a coffin, buy funeral clothes, and invite relatives and friends to come, invite them to have a few meals, and let them help carry the coffin. By then, they would have to invite one or two Taoist priests to perform rituals and choose a Feng Shui site...

Thinking that their family's expenses would be like running water in the future, Huang frowned and was completely worried.

"Boss, this morning, the old lady Wang from next door came to me. She said she could introduce me to a good job. She wanted our family to wash the smelly clothes of the boatmen of the shopkeeper Zhong. If we wash 100 pieces of clothes, we will be paid five cents. Do you think we can do it?"

Ma Ergou thought about it seriously and said happily, "It's possible!"