C6 Deng Dalang's Mind
"If she really can find a rich family, then it wouldn't be a loss to that child. At least she can live the rest of her life smoothly." He knew his son's character very well. If that little girl from Lin Family wanted to make up for his mother's family, perhaps his foolish son would happily dig out everything from the bottom of his heart.
"However, I need to discuss this with your mother. Besides, Jingu and Yuvzhao are still young, so there's no rush. I want to take Jingu and be a lackey for a few more years. If my hands are loose, I can do whatever I want with him."
Since her father had let go of the matter, Dunkin Ling did not mention anything else about Lin Siya anymore. She only picked up a few pleasing words, such as "Zhou Family 3 generations of single-handed inheritance", and adding on that all of the daughters of Zhou Family had gotten married well, with the help of her two eldest daughters, and said that after a while, she wanted to add a few acres of dry land. She also said that her cousin's mother planned to let Zhou Cousin Yuvzhao learn to raise silkworms from others.
Deng Dalang became more and more moved. "If I can really teach Yuvzhao how to cook, that would be great. In the future, when I go to my wife's house, she will think highly of me."
Dunkin Ling answered, "Hey, Dad, don't worry. I'll go remind my aunt later."
Because Zhou Family resided in the Shunshui Village, which was not far from the town. Suen Cuihua would often go to the town to buy things like needlework, and Dunkin Ling would be in contact with Suen Cuihua.
But then again, that year your eldest sister was a change of marriage, so there was nothing that could be done about it. When you got married, father and mother had prepared two acres of dry land for you to be married to, and even the girls of Zhou Family knew that they would often supplement your mother's family.
As Deng Dalang said this, he took a deep breath and said again, "It's not that I want you to really supplement me, but you crawled out from your mother's stomach. It was father who painstakingly made money to raise you up, you should still have some filial piety."
"Dad, it's not like you don't know that my mother-in-law is a scumbag, how would I be able to touch half of her Copper Coin?" Dunkin Ling continued, "That stall was opened by my father-in-law. My husband and I are only there to help."
Deng Dalang glanced at her and frowned slightly. Why is my Second Daughter so stupid?
He didn't have the heart to say anything to Dunkin Ling. He only lowered his head and focused on smoking the smoke, planning something out of the blue.
Lin Anxin knew nothing about this. At this moment, she was lying in bed, worrying about how she could survive in this ancient era.
The first thing he had to do was to tear off the label of the child bride. He didn't know what the parents of the original owner would do to her.
In the original owner's memory, she only celebrated the New Year every year. Deng Jingu would accompany her back to her parents' home for lunch on the second day of the new year. That doesn't exist.
Dinner was sent to her room by Deng Jingu, and the sound of Ji Chunhua's cursing came from outside.
"Siya, it's time to eat."
Deng Jingu brought her a bowl of pumpkin congee. The grains inside were barely visible, and there was also a big bowl of leek on the table.
Lin Anxin pondered on how she should get rid of her Deng Family, then heard Deng Jingu say, "I can't steal that steamed bun for you, but I'll leave the meat stuffing for you. You have to get more rich when you're sick."
"Eat it yourself!" She reached for the bowl and looked down at the pumpkin porridge.
Lin Anxin was actually quite picky with her words, but she didn't like to eat vegetables like watermelon, especially pumpkins, cantaloupe and so on.
She frowned slightly.
"But no appetite? I remember Mom made some pickled cucumbers, so I'll go get some for you. " Deng Jingu ran out as soon as he finished his sentence.
Lin Anxin picked up a pickled cucumber and ate the pumpkin dinner she hated the most. As she ate, she complained that the God of Travels must be the stepmother.
Otherwise, why would someone else's reincarnation be matched with a survival weapon that allowed them to fly? As for her, once she wore it, she would be labeled as a child's daughter-in-law.
Lin Anxin, who had barely managed to fill her stomach, passed out after a short while due to an illness, and gradually fell into a deep slumber.
She didn't know that the couple in the main house were talking about her.
When Ji Chunhua came in from the shower and saw Deng Dalang sitting on the edge of the bed again, smoking, she said, "I say, Dalang, you're smoking again. Don't you know that you cough all the more in the middle of the night?"
Deng Dalang took a smoke without caring, "Sooner or later, we will have to meet the ancestors. So what if we smoke one more time? Woman, stop nagging. It's really annoying."
After he finished speaking, he puffed out a smoke ring proudly, and then said to Ji Chunhua: "In this Upper Pool Village, my smoke ring will be the best, and it will be the hardest to disperse."
"What's the use of it? Can you conjure a Copper Coin? " Ji Chunhua fanned her nose in annoyance and then went to the window to open it.
Don't open the window. There are more mosquitoes in the autumn at night, so biting people is especially itchy. The weather isn't as hot as before. Deng Dalang knocked on the sole of his shoe again and said, "I can stop smoking, right? You are just getting rich."
"I don't have to hold on to the silver. My family will starve." Ji Chunhua gently fanned her face with a large fan as she glanced at the tightly shut window.
Since Deng Dalang didn't want to open the window, she didn't say anything and forced the window open.
"Here, put it away!" Deng Dalang handed her a small money bag.
Ji Chunhua took it and weighed it in her hand. With a frown, she asked, "Why is it so little?"
"It's getting harder and harder to earn silver these days. I heard from Jinling that there will be a tax increase next year."
Ji Chunhua took out the Copper Coin s from her money bag and counted them. When she realized that there was only forty letters in it, she frowned even harder.
"Yes, in the past, I was able to earn dozens of silver taels every day. This year, everyone is running out of silver taels. If it were me alone, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to find this much money."
Today, Deng Jingu helped them run for more than half a day before finally finding six or seven cents in profit.
"What should we do? Head, how about we feed a pig more?" Ji Chunhua's heart was even more depressed.
"Forget it, even a pig needs to eat a lot. If we eat less, how much money do we have to invest for these two pigs?" Deng Dalang shook his head. Every year, after getting rid of the cost, the pigs would save dozens of pounds of meat for the new year. At the beginning of the year, relatives would have to give them several pounds of cured meat.
How about next year, you feed the ducks more, and when the early rice is harvested, you can let Fourth Sister take Jinsuo to put the ducks out, saving a lot of rations. The ducks have more hard-working eggs than the chickens, and they can sell salted duck eggs or leathery eggs.
Yanghee County s had always been a popular saying, "Eggs cannot be made into salted eggs or leathery eggs, otherwise, the offspring would be sacrificed!"
Ji Chunhua was an ancient, pure person and deeply believed in this rule.
Deng Dalang's hand that was holding the smoke stick slightly paused.
At home, you have to feed the pigs and feed the ducks. You have to tend half an acre of land, and you also have to wash clothes and cook. If Fourth Sister takes Jinsuo to feed the ducks, I'm afraid you'll be exhausted.
Deng Dalang felt that whether it was feeding chickens or raising ducks, they all earned less.
A trace of shyness appeared on Ji Chunhua's face as she glanced at Deng Dalang. She smiled happily, "I've been married to you for dozens of years, but this is the first time I've heard you love me so much."
However, Siya is getting older and older. In a few years time, she will have a better marriage with Jingu, and at that time, she will have to tell Jinsuo about her daughter-in-law. If Siya has a baby, then the expenses of her family will be even greater.
Ji Chunhua was made of iron, so no one could do all these things.
Deng Dalang followed her meaning and said, "That's right, Jingu can't stay at home either, let the four maidservants do the pigweed work in the future, let Jingu run more errands, when the two of us are full, we still have to set up wine, and in the past few years, we have also given away a lot of human debts, but we should also take them back, otherwise, we will have to make a loss."
Deng Dalang was right. Ji Chunhua became more and more worried, "Which year? Don't give up a few taels of silver as a favor."
"Hmm, so we must think of a better way. Otherwise, we really won't be able to live on anymore. Not to mention getting a good wife for Jinsuo, I'm afraid that it will become even more difficult to bear."
Ji Chunhua, the person who was in charge of handling money, was the most aware of how tight the money was this year.
When the door opens every morning, there will be several mouths waiting for you to eat. This is our house, after all, this is our own garden, after I bought the rice, I'll cook it with some vegetables and let it fill up. It's just that the price of rice is higher than one month this year!
Ji Chunhua's family expenses were always the top two.
Deng Dalang looked up at her, took off his shoes and climbed onto the bed with his legs crossed.
"Well, unless I don't want to be a lackey anymore, where would I find the money to buy land? "Besides, there are still a few mouths at home waiting to be eaten."
When Ji Chunhua heard this, she also sighed. "If Jin Chai had married into the town like a concubine back then, at least it would have helped her parents a little. Ai!"
A light flashed in Deng Dalang's eyes as he said: "Of course, changing a marriage, changing a marriage, changing a big one for someone who can't work. Although I can do some household chores, I'm still no match for Jin Chai!"
"What do you mean by 'Jingu Pi'? He fell into the water. It was fortunate that my father saved him. Otherwise, my son, the grass on the grave would have grown to the height of a man." Ji Chunhua was grateful that Lin Shunhee had saved Deng Jingu.
Deng Dalang also sighed, "If she had married better that day, like your cousin's daughters, she would have had enough to eat and drink without worry."
"Yeah, back then, our golden hairpin was even prettier than that damned Jinling!" Ji Chunhua was a little unresigned in her heart, but the favor of saving her life was beyond her. She felt that this was Jin Chai's life.
"Of course. Only our family is good, and we have raised Fourth Sister as our own daughter." Deng Dalang's words were as light as a feather, but Ji Chunhua was caught off guard.
Ji Chunhua said happily, "Fourth Sister is an honest child. Although I often scold her, ever since she came to my house, I have never touched her fingers one bit. I just thought, 'Since I was young, I can't let my temper go awry, so I have to take care of Jingu first.' In the future, she will know how to take care of my Jingu."