Xiaomeng started with fifty, and felt it was too high. After some discussion, it was decided to be forty pieces of paper a day.
This price, neither high nor low, was not a small temptation to the peasants.
"Mom, this is something that Xiaomeng has settled down." Mrs. Liu knew about this matter, but she couldn't think of a better way. She could only follow Xiaomeng and Tian You.
"With this money, why should we invite others? There are so many brothers and sisters in our family. It would be better to let our brothers and wives come with us than to give those silver taels to outsiders." Forty pieces of paper a day required ten days of work to produce four hundred pieces of paper. That piece of barren land was so big that it could not be tidied up after ten to fifteen days.
"Since brother, sister and brother are so willing, it would naturally be the best." This matter had not been done without them. If they were willing to come, they would still pay the same amount of money.
He had also thought of asking some of his brothers who were in trouble to come and help him for a day or two. They would be happy to help him for ten days or so, so he decided to call more people to help him make the wasteland better as soon as possible.
As for what she was going to do after she was done, Xiaomeng said that she wanted her father to see what kind of medicinal herbs he would grow.
This was to be used to grow medicinal herbs.
Their family wasn't unfamiliar with medicinal plants, so it sounded good.
"It's fine if you give your wages to outsiders, but it's also fine to give it to your own family. With the wages here, who wouldn't be happy?" Mrs. Lee glanced at Mrs. Liu and said, "Third brother's wife, didn't I say that there's some silver in the family now? You can't let Xiaomeng do whatever she wants with it."
Mrs. Liu lowered her head slightly. "Mother, I don't care about the silver right now."
"What?" Mrs. Lee raised her eyebrows angrily, "You're useless. You can't even hold the silver in your hands. It's been so many years, yet you haven't added another girl to your hair. A woman like you, I don't know where to part with you." Other than speaking gently and doing things gently, this Mrs. Liu really couldn't see anything good about her at all.
You don't live your life.
You don't own a house.
Now it was even more so, forcing her own daughter to ride on her own head.
The most important point was that she did not have the slightest bit of emotion in her eyes. She did not know how to show respect to her parents-in-law.
Let's settle the score first.
Buying an ox-cart would cost quite a bit of silver, and then there was that piece of barren land. I heard it cost fifty taels.
She suddenly had so much silver in her family. As her mother, as well as her father, she didn't even get a single silver tael. What the hell was this?
"Mother, we are family, who cares about the money." In Xiaomeng's words, he couldn't let the silver lie there quietly. He had to make it live and use it to earn even more silver taels.
"How about this, tomorrow I will have my brothers come over to work for you. First, give me the wages for the work, then I will go back and give it to them."
Mrs. Lee paused here for a moment, then continued, "Your father's leg has suffered from an old illness again, and he's been in so much pain that he can't even straighten it up in the past two days. If you send him back, ask him to get some silver for him to go to the county's pharmacy and get some good medicine to eat, if it wasn't for Xiaomeng's birth, your father's current leg wouldn't be like this, your father's leg, other than asking for silver from your family, you have no reason to ask anyone else." Mrs. Liu's heart was the softest, so Mrs. Lee decided to say something soft first. She said she didn't have any silver on her, so who would believe it?
Mrs. Liu wrung her hands.
Even their own brothers wouldn't be able to calculate such a thing.
Furthermore, his father-in-law had accidentally fallen from the mountain. Xiaomeng had only been born the year he broke his leg, so what did it have to do with Xiaomeng?
In this case, Mrs. Lee and her wife had talked for fifteen years and she had endured for fifteen years.
Mom, when Xiaomeng comes back, I'll tell her about what you said. As for the money, if Xiaomeng gives it to me, I'll definitely give it to you and Dad. If Xiaomeng doesn't take it out, then I can't do anything about it. If it was in the past, Mrs. Liu's words would definitely not come out.
But now it was different.
The three of them had walked through the gates of hell, as if they were new students. They were no longer afraid of Mrs. Lee and Tian Zongmin.
To put things bluntly, she had felt guilty in the past, feeling ashamed that her next son had not appeared. Every time Mrs. Lee came over, she would say those words, making her feel even more ashamed.
After experiencing life and death, many things were no longer that important.
Currently, the most important thing was that Xiaomeng was living a safe life with her son. As for the matter of having a son, even with his age, he didn't know if he would be able to give birth to one.
"You useless daughter-in-law!" Mrs. Lee was so angry that her face turned red. Third brother's family really had the money and the body, but weren't they stubborn? What Mrs. Liu said before was what she said, now she had learned how to be roundabout with her.
Mrs. Liu lowered her head. "A prodigal mother and daughter, why is my life so bitter? Marrying a useless wife like you back, my poor child, when will mother wait for your son to be born?"
Mrs. Liu's expression changed. In the end, she couldn't do anything about her mother-in-law's accusation.
Xiaomeng had heard Mrs. Lee's howls from far away, and her expression changed slightly. She quickened her pace towards home.
The Little Black followed behind her, one moment following her, and the next moment it was ahead of her.
She didn't want to go over to the wasteland to take a look, so she didn't expect to see Mrs. Lee here so soon.
"You're useless. That sickness last time, why didn't it make you die? If you died, you could marry another one even if you had a hair on your head. Not to mention a son, it wouldn't be a problem even if there were eight of you." Mrs. Lee had not received a single silver coin from her third son, Tian YouFa for a long time. She had not given him a silver tael, but there was another item in her house. It could even be compared to a rich family, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became.
Mrs. Liu's face turned pale, and then tears began to fall one by one.
Grandma's words were truly unpleasant to the ears.
Xiaomeng threw away the hoe with a bang.
When Mrs. Lee saw Mrs. Liu's delicate and pitiful appearance, she was startled by the loud sound. She turned around and saw Tian Xiaomeng looking at her with an unfriendly expression. Her heart started pounding. "When did this damned girl come back?"
"Xiaomeng." Mrs. Liu hurriedly wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes. She didn't want Xiaomeng to see it.
Xiaomeng looked coldly at Mrs. Lee, "Calling you 'milk' is out of respect for you. If you are still an elder, you should have the appearance of an elder. Just now, let me hear your words again. Don't blame our family for breaking off all ties with you." The moment she came back, she heard Mrs. Lee tell her mother to go die. Her mother was still so young, and the old one hadn't died yet. Why would she die so quickly?
Xiaomeng's body emitted a cold air as she said this. Some people relied on their status as elders and their blood ties to do things that went against her identity time and time again. For such people, she would respect them even if she was happy.