Chapter 72 - The Second Born got Beat Up

Lu Gui’s eyes shone. Of course that was okay! Twelve taels of silver a year for personal use? That was so great!

“Sister, we will listen to you.”

Lu Jiao turned to Lady Tian, “Mom, are you okay with what I suggested?”

Lady Tian’s heart was soft from this conversation and she smiled warmly, “Of course. I’ll listen to everything you say.”

The reason why Lu Jiao decided to do things this way was to prevent the Lu family from fighting over money.

“Mom, I’ve done the math. A pound of soybeans is worth four tokens and makes around three pounds of tofu. A pound of tofu is worth three tokens, which means you make nine tokens from one pound of soybeans. There’s also tofu crumbs. If there’s a buyer, sell it for a token. If nobody buys it, feed it to the pigs.”

As Lu Jiao did the math for them, Lady Tian and Lu Gui’s eyes brightened. Oh boy, just how much money would they earn if they keep up the business?

Lu Jiao truly thought of a great business for them.

Lady Tian softly said to Lu Jiao, “How about I give you 10% of the money we make?

Lu Gui nodded, “I agree.”

Lu Jiao declined, “Mom, there’s no need. I don’t need it.”

Lady Tian wanted to say more but Lu Jiao held onto her hands, “Mom, I know herbs and I know medicine. I also have other skills I can put to use. You don’t have to worry about me. I just want you to be happy.

As for tofu making… If your three sons treat you well, you can give it to them. If any one of them treats you poorly, don’t give him any.”

Lady Tian’s eyes were red as she patted Lu Jiao’s head. Just what did she do in her previous life to give birth to a daughter this caring?

Inside the kitchen, Lu Gui hit his chest and promised, “Sister, I promise you that I will treat mom well. I won’t ever make mom sad.”

Lu Jiao humphed, “You better do what you promise.”

She then ignored Lu Gui and said to Lady Tian, “Mom, I will teach you tofu making tomorrow morning.”

“Okay, okay.”

“Let’s make dinner then. It’s late.”

Lady Tian started to make dinner happily while Lu Jiao instructed Lu Gui to move the old bed to the small room in the east building. Lu Gui will sleep on that bed tonight.

Lu Gui excitedly busied himself.

Lu Jiao and Lady Tian went to prepare dinner. Tonight, they would have fish and pot stickers. Lu Jiao also made some cold cucumbers and stir-fried some eggs with chives. All these vegetables were gifted by the Village Leader’s family.

Lu Jiao originally wanted to make pork hog with beans. But the lack of pots once again made her give up.

Now it became a pressing matter to get more pots.

Just then, Lu Jiao heard children crying from the outside. She listened carefully and recognized the cries to be from one of the quadruplets.

Her face dropped and she hurriedly stepped out of the kitchen.

The crying came from outside the gate. Lu Jiao walked outside and saw one of the four little ones had collapsed onto the ground. Two out of the other three were comforting the collapsed one, while the other one pointed at the child who ran away and screamed, “Caidou, you dare to hit the Second Born. I am going to make you pay!”

Lu Jiao walked forward and saw that the Second Born had been slapped in the face. On his swollen cheek, there was a faint palm print.

Lu Jiao’s face got cold and she remembered what the First Born just screamed.

Caidou was the son of the eldest Xie brother. He dared to come here to hit her children?

“First Born, why did Caidou come out of nowhere to hit the Second Born?”

The First Born turned to Lu Jiao with fury on his face.

“He came up to our gates and waved at us. We thought he wanted something so we came out. He asked us to move back home with daddy, and we said no. He then got angry and slapped the Second Born in the face.”

The quadruplets didn’t expect Caidou to suddenly hit them and were defenseless. The Second Born ended up getting slapped square in the face.

The Second Born looked up to Lu Jiao and croaked sadly, “Mommy, my face hurts.”

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Lu Jiao quickly took out some gel out of her sleeve and applied it. The Second Born felt coolness on his cheek – the pain got better.

He finally stopped crying and added to Lu Jiao, “Mommy, I can’t win against him in a fight.”

Lu Jiao stared at the four little ones. They were thin, small, and very weak. If they go outside to play, they would always be the ones that got beaten up.

Worried, she glanced at the children.

“Tomorrow I will teach you how to defend yourselves. If someone takes advantage of you again, you hit back. We shall never bully others but we refuse to be bullied.”

As a military doctor, Lu Jiao knew how to hit others where it hurts. Though the four little ones were very little, if they hit the enemy in the right spot, they could still cause some damage.

The four little ones’ eyes brightened, “Mommy, are you for real? Then we will start learning tomorrow.”

Lu Jiao nodded. Looking at the palm print on the Second Born’s face, she was enraged. Was she really just going to drop this and have her son get hit for nothing?

She grabbed the Second Born’s hand and said gloomily, “Let’s go. We are going to your first uncle’s to ask him how he’s been teaching his children.”

She was going to teach that kid a lesson.

The quadruplets nodded aggressively, “Yes, he needs to pay.”

The four little ones were eager to fight against their enemy.

Behind them, Lady Tian and Lu Gui walked out. They heard that the Second Born was hit and they weren’t happy about it.

Lady Tian gritted her teeth, “If the upper beam is bent, the lower one also gets slanted. Just what kind family are they?”

She then grabbed the First Born’s hand, “Let’s go. Grandma will come with you.”

Lu Gui also chimed in, “Uncle will come as well.”

Lu Jiao was worried about Xie Yunjin and said to Lu Gui, “Go take care of your brother-in-law. I will go pay the Xie family a visit with mom.”

Lu Gui was also worried, “You need to be careful.”

Lady Tian hissed, “Why, are they going to hit us?”

Lu Gui didn’t speak and went back. Lu Jiao and Lady Tian brought the four little ones to the Xie family.

Whenever someone on the street saw them and asked, Lu Jiao told them exactly what happened without concealing any information.

“I’m going to ask big brother and big sister-in-law just how they’ve been educating their children. Their children show up at my house and order my children to go against their father and move back home. My children disagreed so Caidou hit my Second Born. Look, his cheek is swollen.”

The Second Born’s face truly was swollen with a visible palm print.

Those who heard didn’t take Xie Daqiang or Chen Liu’s side. They knew that they were once again taking advantage of their third brother. What was wrong with them? They used to use their third brother’s achievements for their own gains and now they were here to bully him?

Now that Xie Yunjin’s legs are healing, shouldn’t they do their best to make peace? Why would they send their children to hit Xie Yunjin’s children?

As Lu Jiao walked, more and more people followed her and headed to the Xie family.

Right now, the entire Xie family was lecturing Caidou for messing up a simple task.

Chen Liu pushed her son away with her fingertips, “You only eat and eat yet your brain never grows. Could you not have buttered up those four children? If your third uncle moves back, then you get more food to eat.”