After listening to Xiushui talk about the various treasures and several large warehouses, the old lady was not surprised at all.
"Grandma, how come you don't even get a surprise?"
"What's so surprising? Can these treasures of yours make it easier for us to cross the sand, or allow me to get there sooner?"
"That...can't."
"So, what's the point of you finding all these glittering things? You can only admire them privately.
Even if I take it out, you can't exist. You don't eat or drink it. Is it worth my happiness?"
"Grandma, why are you so clear-headed?"
Xiushui was so frustrated. She wanted to give Nai a little surprise, but who would have thought that she would be so arrogant.
"Okay, don't be so disappointed. Come up with some ideas with Grandma. How can we keep those troubled children of yours, Grandma Li, busy? Sigh, these girls are at the age of budding, but they're trying to commit suicide because of those bastards."
It’s still about those girls who were defiled. Xiushui can only sigh that people can’t be idle.
Look, they have only had two or three days of free time, and they are already thinking about the issue of face that comes with not having enough food and drink.
Still seeking death, think about those Chinese women who were insulted in modern times...
"Grandma, you're right. They really have too much free time. We need to give them something to do.
How about this, we want to open a clinic, and we'll need a lot of medicine. All the animal bones we've eaten along the way, as well as some medicinal herbs, all need to be roasted and moxibustioned.
With their help and concentration, these troublesome tasks can definitely be completed, right?"
The old lady smiled with satisfaction.
"Okay, I'll go talk to them later. If we want to hire them, we have to agree on the wages. How do you calculate the wages?"
Now the thing her granddaughter lacks the least is money. They use the various treasures and gold and silver they have collected to pay workers. They do not lose anything and can also make a good living.
At that moment, the old lady turned around and went to look for her old sister.
Old Mrs. Li couldn't close her eyes recently. How could her most beloved granddaughter, who was also the most beautiful girl in their family, be touched by someone?
Ever since she was rescued, her granddaughter has been wanting to commit suicide, which made her beat and scold her.
But the granddaughter looked at her sadly with tears in her eyes.
"Grandma, I know you care about me and love me.
I also want to live a good life, then what?
Others will still despise and look down on me because I have been tarnished by those people.
They may still have some sympathy for me now, but what about in the future? They might say that it was because I was not disciplined in my daily life that I was dragged into this situation, and then the person who seduced me did this and that to me.
With such a reputation, what kind of man could I find? Or someone with an equally bad reputation.
Either he is lazy and likes to eat, or he is an old widower.
I can see the future at a glance, I... really might as well go now, grandma... please help me..."
If it weren't for her strong will, she would have nodded at that moment.
In fact, she knew everything her granddaughter said, and she had seen many girls with bad reputations. Her life was really predictable.
I still remember there was a girl who was about the same age as them. She was very pretty and was good at embroidery.
Because of this, she was surrounded and teased by three men when she went to the market one day.
If your reputation is bad, normal people will disdain and be unwilling to marry you. If a poor man or a ruffian marries you, they will have to work like a slave and endure all the dirty words.
It was clearly not the girl's fault, it was someone else who teased her. The man she married afterwards slept with all kinds of women outside, and beat and scolded her when he got home, saying that she was indecent.
He even said that the baby she gave birth to was not his, and in the end, the friend was abused and jumped into the river with her child.
But even if she died, that family would say she was caught red-handed and went to atone for her sins with her adulterer's child...
"There is always a way. I'll find your Grandma Wen. She will definitely have a solution."
Muttering these words, the granddaughter's face was filled with tears.
What can we do? This is the way the world is. No matter how good a girl is, once she is hugged and touched by a lecher, her reputation will be ruined.
The fate of a woman is either to marry these ruffians, or to hastily marry a bad one at random.
She doesn't want to live such a depressed life, so she wants to be free as soon as possible.
Just when neither the grandparents nor the grandchildren could convince each other, Wen Bibo came over.
Seeing her coming, Mrs. Li pulled her with red eyes.
"I know you have a lot of bad ideas. Please help me think of a solution. My Hua'er is still so young. Why can't she think straight?"
Wen Bibo: What do you mean I have a lot of bad ideas? I really can’t give you a good face.
Although she was uneasy, she was a generous person and finally told him the purpose of her visit.
"Hua, I know what you're thinking. You just want to live under the accusations and gossips of others.
But have you ever thought about this: as women, if we have money and our status is improved, we can get married whenever we want.
If you don't want to get married, then just don't get married. With money in hand, you can make the decision. Why worry about what others say or think?
Mrs. Li's face bent with laughter. "Yes, Hua, that's exactly what your grandmother Wen said.
Isn't the purpose of living a lifetime to live a better life? Those people would seek a sense of existence from the victimized girls, but it's just that they are not living a good life and want others to live worse than them.
If you really match those people's expectations, then you're giving them too little. If we want to live, we have to live like a human being, make more money, and then we can find the kind of person we want in the future.
If you don't want to find one, I can make my own money, buy some land, and have servants. I can be comfortable having them serve me for the rest of my life."
Li Xiaohua turned her attention to the old lady.
"Grandma Wen, can I really make money? How can money be so easy to earn? My family farms for a year, and apart from food and daily necessities, if the weather is good, our whole family can save two taels of silver. That's a gift from God."
Old Mrs. Li's smile froze, but she looked at Wen Bibo with mysterious confidence.
"Child, your grandma Wen can tell you this, she must know how to make money. Hey old woman, hurry up and tell me, my little flower is still waiting for your tricks to make money."
The child has hope now and is no longer trying to commit suicide. This is better than anything else.
"Well, I came to tell you that our family is planning to open a clinic. Now that we have reached the end of the land, I think we must open this clinic as well.
By then, our family will need a lot of medicines.
So Xiushui said that he would have to hire you to do those troublesome and trivial work of grinding medicine.
As for wages, they are paid according to the difficulty of working with the various medicinal materials. For example, the delicate work is paid a certain amount per kilogram, and the ordinary work is paid a certain amount per kilogram.
Everyone should first choose one medicine to learn, and once they have mastered it, we will teach them other medicines later."
There are so many varieties of Chinese medicine. If you want to open your own clinic, and it is in such ancient times, you have to make many medicines yourself.
So hiring some people to make medicine is also essential.
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