Chapter 39: Short-Sighted

Dinner is cornstarch, braised pork, mixed with cucumbers, roasted eggplant, and thick cornstarch.

I thought Mrs. Chen would come, but she didn't. Chen Ming asked Chen Alu to deliver half of the braised pork to Chen Ye's family. By the way, he invited Chen Ye and his son to come for dinner tomorrow night and discuss building a house the day after tomorrow.

Chen Alu glanced at the food on the kang table, and the lame boy ran very fast.

Wang shouted at the door, "Don't worry, we are waiting for you."

When Alu came back, the family sat on the kang to eat.

Seeing the two young ladies eating braised pork, they wanted to swallow it with their tongues. Chen Ming also looked like he was enjoying it. Is this braised pork really that delicious?

Chen Afu ate a piece and felt that it was fragrant, but not quite like the braised pork in his previous life, but closer to the taste of braised pork.

Chen Dabao clicked his lips and said with great satisfaction, "It's great to have money. I can have enough to eat and eat braised pork."

Chen Alu asked Chen Mingdao, "Dad, are we living the life of small landlords now?"

Chen Ming smiled and said, "It's not even close. If we exchange all the money for fields, we should be considered a high-class household with a better life."

Chen Afu smiled and said, "Then let's work hard and become small landlords first, and then big landlords."

Thinking about the bag of broken gold and pearls and jade, even if I only sell a few items, I can become a small landowner. But now the silver building in Fucheng has been panicked by Jin Yanzi, and it has also spread to nearby counties and towns, and they no longer dare to sell those things at this time.

That little thing is such a troublemaker.

But Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "I don't dare to think about being a landlord. My mother is already very satisfied these days."

Chen Dabao has always had confidence in Chen Afu and said, "Grandma believes in my mother. My mother said that if you can be a landlord, you can be a landlord."

He said it and everyone laughed.

The next morning, when Chen Afu got up, Wang was already busy in the kitchen.

Chen Afu saw that Mr. Wang had only boiled one egg, so he went to the small basket and took out four eggs and boiled them into the pot. He said, "Our family is suffering from a small illness, and my mother and I are working hard, so we need to eat better. Mother, don't be afraid that the money will be spent. Just earn after you spend it."

Not only did he wash the pickles and mix them with some sugar, he also asked Chen Dabao to pick two small cucumbers from the field, pat them and mix them to eat.

Although Mrs. Wang feels that she should be more frugal and keep the water flowing smoothly. But her daughter has said so, and she won’t object.

After dinner, Mrs. Wang was going to the county embroidery workshop to get some embroidery work. Chen Afu advised her to take less work and stop doing it at night as it would hurt her eyes. Chen Ming also asked her to buy three pounds of Xiao Yuanchun, Chen Ye's favorite drink, one pound to drink at night, and two pounds to give to him.

If it weren't for the fear that Mr. Hu would be too greedy, Chen Ming would still want to honor his mother and elder brother some more, so he would have to endure it for now.

In addition, Chen Afu asked Wang to buy a set of pen and ink washers and some rice paper, saying that Alu and Dabao should learn to write, and she wanted to learn too.

Although Wang is frugal, she is still willing to buy pens, ink, and inkstones. She also hopes that her two children will study more and be successful in the future.

In the afternoon, Wang and Chen Afu started busy in the kitchen. Today, Wang's made leek and pork dumplings, while Chen Ah-fu made them.

This was the first time for his family to make dumplings. Not to mention Dabao was excited, even Alu was very excited.

A few people were talking and laughing when Old Mrs. Chen came.

She said as soon as she entered the room, "That girl Hu has very short-sighted eyes. Yesterday I heard about your family making a lot of money selling sewing baskets. I wanted to bring my family to your house for dinner the next afternoon, but your elder brother scolded me. "Dun, I didn't even come." He lowered his voice and said, "People in the village said that your sewing basket made four guan, and some said it made six guan. Are there really that many?" "

Chen Ming smiled and said, "Yeah, almost. After the house is finished, I will take Alu to Fucheng for treatment."

The old lady smiled with a smile on her face and said, "That basket is handsome, but I didn't expect it to sell for so much money." Then she asked Chen Mingdao, "Do you have enough money? I heard that Qianjin Medical Clinic charges a lot, so I don't want to say more." I got five thousand dollars. Mom also saved a lot of money and used it to treat Alu. As long as Alu’s legs are healed, the old woman can close her eyes. "

Chen Ming said hurriedly, "Those money are for mother's coffin book. Mother keeps it. We have enough money..."

The old lady looked at Chen Ming carefully, then pulled him to the door and said, "Why do you think your face looks much better?"

Chen Ming smiled and said, "Well, I feel that my body and bones are getting better these days. I am not short of breath and cough less."

Just as he was talking, Chen Ye and his son, Hu, Chen Dahu, and Chen Daya all came.

As soon as Madam Hu entered the house, she complained to Madam Wang, "We are still relatives. My younger siblings know how to make that sewing basket. Why don't you teach me so that my family can earn more money?"

Chen Afu hurriedly explained, "My mother has been doing embroidery work, so she never had time to make sewing baskets. Those sewing baskets were made by my father and I. We didn't expect them to sell so well at the time, so no one said anything." If you want to learn, I will tell you today.”

Hu said angrily, "Do you still need to tell me now? Everyone in the village knows how to do it. What did you do earlier?"

Under normal circumstances, Mrs. Chen still has to save face for Mrs. Hu. Said, "Eldest daughter-in-law, I didn't let the second daughter-in-law tell you. It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I don't believe in your mother's family. Whenever you do something good, you can't help but go back and say that the people in your mother's family are too rich to work. , If you know this idea, why don't you find someone to do it? If everyone knows it, how can the second family make money? My Alu's legs can't be delayed any longer. "

Chen Ye also frowned and said to Mrs. Hu, "I'm telling you, you bitch, you don't have a long memory for talking about me every day. It's rare for my second brother's family to make some money, so why are you meddling in it."

Chen Afu was a little funny. Fortunately, the Hu family had these two mountains pressing down on them and could not cause big waves.

Hu began to talk about how Chen Ye, like a father, supported Chen Ming to study, and how she, like a mother, took care of her brother-in-law, "... It's a pity that we work so hard, but we don't even wear a piece of silk clothes."

Chen Ye was happy to hear this at first, but the last sentence made him blush again, frowning, "I say, you stinky woman, we are all mud legs, doing rough work every day, how can we wear silk clothes?"

Chen Ming quickly handed the gourd of Xiao Yuanchun to Chen Ye and said, "Although we made some money this time, we still have to take A Lu to the city to see a leg. I know that my eldest brother has helped us a lot over the years, so I sold two kilograms of Xiao Yuanchun. When we make more money in the future, we will buy silk clothes for mother and eldest brother... eldest sister-in-law."

He really didn't want to mention Hu, but in order not to embarrass Chen Ye, he still mentioned her.

Chen Ye blushed and refused, and Mrs. Chen said, "The eldest brother will take it. This is the second brother's intention, and you have indeed helped him a lot."

Chen Ye accepted it.

During the meal, they discussed the renovation of the house the next day.

At night, after Dabao fell asleep, Chen Afu drew the outline of the Bird's Nest and Sydney Opera House. She was not used to using a brush, so she drew it with charcoal sticks. The Bird's Nest was simpler, and the drawing was almost accurate. She could only draw Sydney Opera House from memory, because Jin Yanzi had never seen the original. She drew until the middle of the night and put the picture into the space, but Jin Yanzi had not returned.

That little thing didn't even come home yesterday. I don't know where it went.

The next day, the second room of the Chen family started to get busy. Because the courtyard wall needed to be built with mud bricks, one more person was hired, a total of six people.

Wang Shi had to do embroidery, so Chen Afu took the initiative to take on the task of making lunch.

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Thanks to skyblue08 for the sachet, and thanks to Piaoxue fw and Hera x-on:Qianlin for the purse. Many people say that the update is too slow, mainly because Qingquan is now focusing on deleting and revising "Farmer Girl's Splendor". After this is over, Qingquan can focus all his energy on the new article. Sorry, please be patient and wait, it will be ready next month.