Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

Xiaoting brought the millet porridge and eggs that she had left for Xiaolan in the morning and asked her to eat them quickly.

"Sister, who is our grandma scolding again?"

During the days that Xiao Lan traveled through time, there was never a moment of peace in the Sheng family.

"There's one chicken missing from our house."

These chickens are Cui's lifeblood. Now one is missing and she doesn't know who stole it. How could she let this go?

Cui usually stayed at home all day, watching her daughter-in-law and granddaughters busy with housework, and of course she kept an eye on the chickens and pigs at home. There were three pigs in the family, and you could tell without counting them. She counted the chickens in the morning and evening. There was no one missing when she counted last night, but one was missing when she counted again this morning. How could she not know what had happened?

She walked around the chicken coop with her hands behind her back, but she didn't see any holes in the coop, so she ruled out the possibility that the chickens had escaped. Besides, the neighbors near her house were all old people, and their character was impeccable. No one would come to her house in the dark of night to steal chickens. She had lived here for decades, and this had never happened before.

So there is no outside thief, only a family thief. This must have been done by a family member, who was it?

Cui's eyes roamed back and forth among her sons' rooms.

The old man's house is next to hers. If they eat chicken secretly at night, they will definitely smell the smell, so his house was ruled out.

The rest are the families of the second, third and fourth sons.

The third and fourth sons' families are both honest, so the only one left is the second son's family.

Cui stood at the door of the upper room and yelled towards the east, "Second brother's wife, did you steal it, you cunning, lazy, greedy woman, did you steal it, you damned bastard?"

Shen came out of the east room, slamming the door curtain. "There are so many people at home, how can you say I stole it? Which eye of yours saw it? You want to count the chicken feathers every day, why don't you sleep with your arms around the chicken, so that the chicken won't get lost. You watch us like a thief every day, and you are restless every day."

Xiao Lan was very happy to hear this, and quickly leaned over the window to look out. Wow, there were little heads on the windows of other households.

"If you don't feel guilty, let me search your house to see if you stole my chicken." She didn't believe a word of what Shen said.

The third and fourth sons were both kind, but her second son was always sneaky and cunning, and his wife was also lazy and greedy. They were not related, and they did not do anything productive all day long. They were either playing with cats and dogs or going out to visit friends. The two sons were so old, and the clothes they wore all day were torn, dirty and old, but she never sewed or washed them. The little girl's clothes were so dirty that they were shiny and slippery, but she never cleaned them up.

When Shen heard that Cui was going to search her house, she was immediately unhappy. Although the daughter-in-law had to serve the mother-in-law in this era, it was not reasonable for the mother-in-law to search the daughter-in-law's house at will. "Do you still have any shame? Why are you searching my house?"

Well, now Shen had stirred up a hornet's nest. "Second brother, are you dead? Just let your wife scold me like this? Second brother, get out of here."

"Mom, my family didn't steal chickens." The second son was scolded and explained to Cui with a playful smile.

Cui didn't care about that. She bumped into him and hit him in the face and body with her hands. "How do you discipline your wife? You let her talk back to me? I have to go to your house today!"

A mother-in-law who beats her daughter-in-law may get a reputation as being mean, but her son is her own flesh and blood, so she is not worried at all.

When Sheng Chunhua heard her mother being insulted, she immediately ran out of the house and started fighting with Shen.

Shen didn't dare to fight back. Chunhua was the apple of the eye of the old couple of the Sheng family. If she was really hurt, she would be skinned alive. As for Cui, the second son didn't dare to do it. If he dared to fight with his own mother, his brothers would not forgive him.

The couple was forced into their home by Cui and Chunhua.

"Mom, there are chicken feathers in the stove, and there are chicken bones in this basin."

After being caught red-handed, Sheng Kai and Shen hung their heads, looking like dead pigs that were not afraid of boiling water.

"You black-hearted, greedy woman, you just kept denying it to me, but now I've caught you in the act. You're cheating, you're a disaster, you've corrupted my son, grandson and granddaughter. Why did our Sheng family marry someone like you?" Cui looked at the chicken bones in the basin, her heart aching.

Even though Shen was thick-skinned, she couldn't stand it any longer. She got angry and picked up the broom and hit her two sons, "I told you to steal chickens and dogs, and I told you to eat greedily..."

Xiaoyuan and Xiaoliang were beaten so hard that they screamed and ran away in panic.

Cui was completely annoyed. He was beating her on purpose. They were all grandchildren of the Sheng family, and she felt bad when they were beaten.

So Cui sat on the ground and pointed at Shen and cursed, "It's obviously you who are greedy and have to beat the child to vent your anger. What sin did my family commit in the previous life to marry someone like you!"

The noise was so loud that Grandpa Sheng and other members of the Sheng family came out to persuade them. Grandpa slapped the second son twice to vent his anger on Cui. Cui refused to give in and continued to throw a tantrum, so Grandpa had to show his authority as the head of the family and persuade her to go back.

This week, Shen was on duty. During the week when she was on duty, she had to cook, wash dishes, feed pigs and chickens, and clean. Shen was thick-skinned and seemed to have forgotten how awkward the fight was between her and Cui in the morning.

"Mom, what are we going to do for lunch?"

The old woman glared at her, took out the key and went to open the kitchen door.

Cui controlled the various branches by controlling all the food and drink expenses in the family. She was always the one being fawned upon in the Sheng family, and no one could challenge her authority.

For lunch, we had the same five usual dishes: bean porridge, steamed bread, leeks, potatoes, and shredded beans.

After lunch, Xiaolan felt bored at home, so she begged Xiaoting to take her for a walk in the mountains, and Xiaowen naturally followed.

Xiao Lan went to the mountains for a purpose. She wanted to see what she could exchange for money. The old couple of Sheng's family was in charge. Every penny her parents earned would not pass through their hands. Now her family was very poor. In order to treat her injury, her mother took out the last dowry. There were still a few copper coins left in the house from her medical treatment.

Xiaolan doesn't want to live a life where she is constrained everywhere. If she wants to live a comfortable life, she must first separate the family and then make money.

From Cui's attitude towards them, it is obvious that her family is not well-received. If it weren't for her mother's dowry, the grass on her grave would be overgrown by now. Therefore, it is very necessary for the family to have some emergency money.

She felt that the other families all had private money hidden in their hands. Her fourth uncle's family might not have it, but she was very sure about her eldest and second uncles' families.

There are many plants and trees in Nanshan. The three siblings walked up the mountain chatting and laughing.

The children in the village had traveled all over the mountain, and all the useful supplies had been dug up long ago. They were lucky and found three pheasant eggs and a few bird eggs.

"Sister, let's bake the eggs and give them to second sister." Xiaowen suggested with a smile.