Ke Xin was not to be outdone: "Thirty taels of silver is enough for me to buy a dozen servants with death indentures."
Li Dong'er raised an eyebrow: "If you want to buy Su Yan's death contract, it will cost at least thirty-five taels. I won't sell it to you for even a single word less."
"Believe it or not, I'll sue you!"
"Sue?" Li Dong'er seemed to have heard a huge joke: "Go ahead, I'd love to!"
The eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Not to mention that she, as the eldest sister-in-law, has the final say on Su Yan's marriage, even if she is sold, what can the government do!
Thirty-five taels... Even if she were sold ten times, it wouldn't be enough. Su Yan pulled Ke Xin's hand and dragged her out: "Ke Xin, this is my fate. I accept it. Go home."
Su Yan was very strong and pushed the person out with tears in her eyes: "Take good care of yourself in the future. It would be best if you marry someone who doesn't have a sister-in-law, so that you won't be bullied as much."
Ke Xin held her hand, squeezed in front of the gate, and shook her head at Su Yan: "Life is earned, don't accept it."
She waved Su Yan away and walked straight to her: "Thirty-five taels is thirty-five taels, let's sign the receipt now."
Ke Xin grabbed Li Dong'er's hand and dragged her out without saying a word, causing her to scream and attracting Su Qi who was in the room to come out.
As soon as he left the house, he saw his wife being dragged away, and he pointed at her angrily: "Jiang Kexin, this is not your home, you are not allowed to mess around in my house."
Jiang Kexin held Li Dong'er's hand tightly and met Su Qi's angry eyes. "Thirty-five taels, I want to buy Su Yan's death contract. If you sell it, you must come with me now. If you don't sell it, I will leave now. I accept that you will marry her to the landlord with a betrothal gift of five taels."
After he finished speaking, he clearly saw a trace of surprise on Su Qi's face. Ke Xin glared at Su Qi and said, "At worst, when Su Yan becomes a widow, I will use thirty-five taels to build her a house and let her establish a female household."
After saying that, he shook Li Dong'er's hand away directly, disgusted that he touched her, so he rubbed his hand on Su Yan: "You don't dislike your sister-in-law because she is dirty, but I do."
Su Yan's tears stopped flowing:...
"She's not my sister-in-law." After saying that, she rubbed the part where Ke Xin had rubbed her clothes against the door panel again, and turned her head to say to her, "I despise her even more."
The two's outrageous actions did not attract Li Dong'er's attention, and she was now fully focused on brainwashing Su Qi.
"Brother Qi, thirty-five taels is enough for us to build a brick house. Even if we don't build a brick house, it's enough for us to live on for three years without eating or drinking. Just think about it, if we have this money, when our child is born, we won't have to worry about food and clothing. We can even send our child to a private school. If he or she gets the top scorer in the imperial examination... then you will be the father of the top scorer."
Su Qi was actually happy in the end: "It would be great if I could pass the imperial examination."
Fantasizing about a beautiful future, he completely forgot about Su Yan and Ke Xin. Ge Shuzhen from next door was holding a stick and lying on the fence, looking over here. Seeing that the couple did not do anything to their daughter, she did not run over.
Jiang Yongtian, standing anxiously behind her, urged her: "How's the old woman? Did she hit our daughter?"
"No, Su Qi and his wife are whispering about something, their smiles are so sinister."
Jiang Yongtian: "That's good, as long as he didn't bully our daughter, otherwise I would have run over and skinned him alive."
At that time, after Su Qi and Li Dong'er had discussed it, they wanted to ask Ke Xin to raise the price, but Ke Xin retorted: "Forty taels? Then you can sell it to someone else. I don't want it."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Li Dong'er saw her being so relentless and knew that he might be asking for too much, so she immediately stepped forward to stop her: "Thirty-five is thirty-five, I'm going to the government office with you now."
Ke Xin was afraid that the situation might change: "You go with Su Qi."
"Okay, no problem." Li Dong'er agreed immediately.
Jiang Kexin pulled Su Yan back home, briefly explained everything to her parents, and then ran back to her room, took out the banknotes from the space and put them in her arms.
At that time, Su Yan's parents were comforting her crying: "If we lose money, we can earn it again. If you become someone's concubine, it will be a lifelong thing."
If the situation is better, it would be fine if the landlord dies and the mistress releases the man. But if she doesn't release him and sells him off... Thinking about the future, how can I describe it with just one word, bitter?
Ke Xin handed the banknote to Jiang Yongtian: "Dad, pick up Grandpa and bring some pork head meat to Uncle Wang. You take Su Yan to the county government office and take care of the death contract."
There are two types of indentures: living indentures and dead indentures. With a living indenture, one can redeem oneself and become a good citizen as long as one saves enough money. However, with a dead indenture, one cannot redeem oneself even with money.
Since she wanted Su Yan to leave the Su family, she must buy a death contract. When Su Yan finds a good family to marry in the future, she will take the death contract to the government office to destroy it. In this way, Su Yan will be a girl from a good family again.
Jiang Yongfa held the banknote in his pocket and nodded to his daughter, "Don't worry, Dad will definitely take care of this for you."
Ke Xin nodded, turned around and said to Su Yan, "After today, you will be a member of my Jiang family. I don't think anyone dares to bully you anymore."
Su Yan was crying sadly. When she heard her words, she burst into laughter, and her nose was snotting. "Thank you."
"Go quickly, I'll wait for you to come back."
Ke Xin watched them leave and then went to the backyard. She didn't even have time to eat breakfast before she started pickling sauerkraut. She and her eldest brother, second brother and Fu brother worked for a while, and then Hui brother came with Zhong brother, You brother and Cai brother.
Now that everyone is here, the progress of pickling sauerkraut is much faster. Seven or eight hundred kilograms were pickled in just one morning. It's only because they are familiar with it that it's so slow. If they were familiar with it, it would be done in less than two hours.
In the kitchen, the aunt was cooking and Ke Xin was teaching them step by step. If they didn't understand something, they would ask, and Ke Xin would teach them patiently. The aunt and the second aunt were not stupid people and they could learn it quickly. It's just that the order of adding seasonings was sometimes wrong. If they added more oil and controlled the heat well, the food would be delicious.
After the dishes were ready, they took Cao Zhaodi and Ye Xia to the town to sell food. For lunch, they had hand-rolled noodles made by Ge Shuzhen, but the sauce was made by Ke Xin. Three large bowls of white noodles were not enough.
After dinner, a group of people went to the backyard.
When Su Yan saw the cabbages being put into the large vat, the first thing she said was, "These pickles will last us a whole year."
"A year?" Ke Xin was delighted. "These dishes will be sold out before the New Year, so why would they need to be eaten for a year?"
After the sauerkraut is sold out, refill half of it and add some radish or potato to the remaining half. The shredded pork with sauerkraut is also delicious, and the shredded pork with sauerkraut potato slices is also delicious.
Everyone was curious about the pickled cabbage, but no one asked. After all, she could sell a dish of home-cooked tofu in a restaurant, so what else could be so bizarre?
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