Chapter 9

early morning.

Ye Xiaoxian went to the mountain with Xiao Baozhu and Xiao Baofeng to cut firewood with tools such as firewood knife, shoulder pole and straw rope.

To go to the mountain, you need to pass by the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village. At this time, several villagers of the big banyan tree are chatting while drinking porridge with a sea bowl. When they see ye Xiaoxian coming, the villagers whispered.

"Have you heard? Li Hongmei really married her eldest daughter-in-law to her second son. Tut Tut, it's shameless!"

"Immoral. It's said that old Xiao is going to separate from them. Last night, he asked the village head to write a written certificate."

"How did it stand?"

"That row of earth house is still for them to live in, plus a piece of earth slope on the mountain and half an mu of land in the field. In addition, they pay 500 yuan a month as filial piety fee, but it's not known whether they can pay it or not."

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All the villagers in Daliang village had loud voices. Even if they lowered their voices, they were still heard by Ye Xiaoxian.

Ye Xiaoxian didn't bother to argue with them as if she hadn't heard.

Xiao Baofeng is a boy and doesn't care about this. Only Xiao Baozhu has a thin face. After listening to the villagers' words, her face turned red and white, but she didn't say anything. Now everyone is a family. If you want to blame her, you can blame her unreliable mother.

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On the mountain, ye Xiaoxian cut firewood with Baofeng and Baozhu.

She comes from modern times. Although she works hard as a cook, she can't compare with cutting firewood. She not only faces the Loess and backs to the sky, but also has to work hard to tie it into bundles.

Besides, she had little strength. After cutting a bundle, she was sweating and her clothes were all wet.

When one of the small trees was chopping away, she suddenly threw the firewood knife aside angrily and sat on the firewood pile angrily.

Baozhu and Baoshan on one side didn't know why Ye Xiaoxian was angry. Baozhu hurried over and asked, "Ye... Sister-in-law, what's the matter with you?"

Baofeng also stopped, wiped his sweat, and then looked at ye Zixian.

Ye Zixian asked Baozhu, "Baozhu, what's the meaning of cutting firewood?"

"Burn." Baozhu said, "now that we're separated, we can't burn so much firewood. Cut more and sell the rest."

"How much can it sell?" Ye Xiaoxian asked again.

"Well... One kilogram of firewood is half a copper coin. Let's chop it well. If we sell twenty kilograms, we can earn ten copper coins," Baozhu said excitedly.

In the past, she and Baofeng cut all the firewood burned by the Xiao family and never sold it. Now she can make money, and she is also excited about ten copper coins.

Ye Xiaoxian looked at the shoes on Baozhu's feet and said contemptuously, "ten copper coins are not enough to buy a pair of cloth shoes?"

According to her salary as a cook in modern times, she has 600 yuan a day. 600 yuan can buy 100 pairs of cloth shoes.

No, it's too slow to make money.

When Baozhu saw Ye Xiaoxian say so, she was a little unhappy: "if you don't cut, don't you have a copper plate?"

Ye Xiaoxian said, "you cut it first. I'll walk around."

"You... You don't cut it?"

Baozhu was still shouting behind, but ye Xiaoxian had drilled into another mountain road.

Baozhu was so angry that she said in the back, "sure enough, she became a lazy daughter-in-law as soon as she got married. She used to be able to do all kinds of work. Now she doesn't even want to cut firewood. Who said to separate her family last night?"

Bao Feng said, "she is our official sister-in-law now. We can't say anything about her. We'd better continue to chop, or we won't be able to cook."

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