"Thinking back, it'll be quite busy. We still have to hold a banquet and open the ancestral hall."
"It's okay, there are people to do it, we don't have much work."
"That's true, the children haven't been back before, and we don't know if they'll be able to get used to it."
"Definitely. I heard that several families at the end of the village have had a lot more members in the past few years. I wonder how Da Bao is doing, but Qi Xi must be ecstatic."
"That's true, Xibao loves lively atmospheres."
"Big sister, do you think the villagers will still recognize me when I go home? I've become so much prettier these past few years, like a little fairy."
Zhao Xiaoyu was overjoyed. Their family's greatest tradition was that none of them knew the meaning of humility; they were shameless and confident.
"Hmm, let me see," she said, pacing around the pear blossoms twice with her chin resting on her hand. "You are absolutely stunning. They probably won't recognize you, will they?"
When Pear Blossom returns to the village, she'll immediately steal the spotlight from the village beauty and become the most dazzling piglet in Old Sow Village.
Pear Blossom was pleased with her elder sister's praise, "Yes, yes, I'm not as good as any other girl in the village."
Mrs. Song was both amused and exasperated. Her little girl was still like a child who hadn't grown up. She didn't know how Youfu could put up with her all the time.
"Keep a low profile and don't talk nonsense when you get home, okay? You're not a little girl anymore, and you don't want to get a bad reputation."
Here we go again. Mom is just like the bald master in "Journey to the West" that my eldest sister mentioned before—she loves to nag, is fussy, and is old-fashioned.
She—Zhao Lihua—is a beauty in Old Sow Village.
The mother and her two daughters were incredibly energetic, fighting from morning till night. They even had to rent two cars to go home because they couldn't fit everything.
Zhao Dashu was dumbfounded.
Why did you buy so much?
"Where are there many more?" On her way back, Song remembered many things she hadn't bought yet and planned to buy them again the next day.
"My daughter and I are going to buy more tomorrow and the day after."
Old Man Qian and Qian Youfu stood in the courtyard inspecting the things they had bought. "No wonder everyone says that women's money is easy to earn. Auntie, with women like you around, how can we worry about the business of our shop in the prefectural city not doing well?"
Song: ...Are you sure you're praising us?
Zhao Dashu didn't care. As long as it wasn't a waste, he let them buy whatever they wanted. If spending money made them happy, then they could spend it. His family was rich!
Even the wealthy and generous Zhao Laosan couldn't help but ask, "Wife, how much did we spend today?"
"None of your business."
"Even though you manage the household finances, at least let me know where the money went, right? No, I just want to know how much silver you spent in the day?"
Ms. Song said she did not remember.
She paid for each item individually, without actually calculating the total amount.
"Daughter?"
If the wife wasn't included, then the daughter certainly couldn't be.
He just wanted to know how much it would cost to make several women happy.
"It's probably around a thousand taels. We mainly bought a lot of jewelry, and the fur coats were also a bit expensive."
No wonder her mother wanted to continue buying tomorrow; she realized she hadn't bought enough and was still short quite a bit.
Zhao Dashu was satisfied; he could afford it, and he was happy about it.
"From now on, if you're unhappy, just go to the prefectural city and buy whatever you like."
Zhao Qixi snuggled up to Zhao Dashu's leg, blinked her big, dark eyes, and looked up at Zhao Dashu expectantly, "Grandpa, I'm in a bad mood right now, can you go shopping with me?"
"My mother and her family went too far. All the women in the family went out to buy things, leaving me alone at home, and they even said I was in the way."
She glared at her mother, who was angry and very difficult to appease.
Buying so many things must be so much fun, but she's not here, she's not here!
Waaaaah...
Xi Bao is very sad.
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