In the book, I was fed by my sister

Du Chunmiao was the first to disagree: "That won't do! Don't spend the family's money everywhere! Yushui is already seventeen this year, and it's time for her to get married in the next one or two years. Do you know how much it costs to get a wife now? There are also Yulin and Yucai below, they are still waiting, where do you get the spare money?"

She paused and continued, "You may have fallen into the money trap set by Su Xiaoxiao and can't get out! Have you ever thought about how much it costs to study? Tuition, writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone. Even if you sell your precious cows, our family still can't afford to support a scholar!"

"Do you think you can become bookish by studying for a few months? Su Xiaoxiao is a businessman, she is the boss, not a village idiot! If you don't have real talent, how can people look down on you? You spend some money to let your granddaughter study for a few years, she can only get a job when she is thirteen or fourteen, at most she can earn you two or three years of money, and then you have to say that she is getting married, and in the end, she will get the advantage to other families!"

Du Chunmiao talked a lot, and the younger ones watched her perform quietly.

Yu'e almost buried her head in the bowl.

Grandpa often talked about his youth. He wanted to sell his donkey and buy a cow, but his family opposed it. However, Grandpa gritted his teeth and did it. Later, his family had enough money to build a blue-tiled house.

Grandpa is a man who dares to think and act. If he finds a way to make money, he wants to study it. For example, when a big black horse went to Song Li's house, everyone was amazed at its grandeur, so Grandpa asked her to go and see what Song Li's family was doing to sell.

In addition, Song Li's family opened a tofu shop, and she mentioned that she wanted to go to the city to help sell bean curd cakes, so her grandfather taught her how to negotiate wages.

As my grandfather said, there are so many people in the family, just sit and eat and wait for death. You have to think through everything you see and hear, maybe every aspect of it is a business.

Unfortunately, dad, uncles and aunts couldn’t guess what grandpa was thinking, or... they didn’t want to care about what grandpa was thinking, they were all just waiting for grandpa’s cows to eat.

She was only a little bit envious of Dongmei going to school, after all, she didn't have to work in the fields.

But that day, my grandfather said at the dinner table that Sister Xiaoxiao wanted to hire educated women to work and would pay them a lot of money every month.

At that moment, she really envied Dongmei for going to school.

After going to school, she could get work from Sister Xiaoxiao and earn a living on her own. Being able to earn a living on her own was her dream.

The aunts all said that she was cunning and calculating.

She admitted this, and she didn't know how old she was, but she knew that in this family, she had to please her grandfather and grandmother. Her grandfather liked people who were smart and liked to make money like him, and her grandmother liked people who were quick at work.

She had seen clearly her future path early on. It was just a matter of time for her to get married. Her best luck would be that her parents-in-law passed away.

Otherwise, she would be like her mother, unable to make decisions at home, being scolded by her mother-in-law every day, and quarreling with her sisters-in-law over trivial matters every day.

However, my grandfather only mentioned it briefly, expressing his regret that no one in the family had ever received an education.

Although Grandpa only said it casually, Yu'e took it to heart and started to make plans.

There is no one in the family who has received an education now, but there must be one in the future, and it must be her.

The next year, she was nine years old. The older cousins ​​would have married in two or three years. As for the younger ones, my grandfather was good at accounting and would definitely not spend too much money to send a young one to school.

Nine years old is just right, she can study for three or four years. There are two other sisters of her age.

If she had the opportunity to study, she would definitely compete with them.

During this period, she always recited the Thousand Character Classic that she learned from Dongmei in front of her grandfather.

Dongmei had taught them to write their names before, and she recently asked Dongmei to teach her the names of other family members.

The names of her generation all have "玉" in the middle. Her father's generation all have "顺" in the middle. This naming is unique in the village, and people will know they are Li Kun's descendants as soon as they ask.

Some people think that Grandpa is taking advantage, but she understands that Grandpa wants to learn from those big families. He wants to learn how to name his family and build a clan temple, so that after his death, his descendants will all look up to this founder of the family. Farming is not something Grandpa wants to do, and raising cattle is not an option either.

Grandpa has this idea, and now she sees the way to study. She must use Grandpa's idea to pull him over to talk to her.

She learned the name of everyone in the family and wrote them neatly on the wall with charcoal.

Of course, the breasts will be beaten when they meet.

But this is not enough.

She also wrote on the wall the generation names that her grandfather had calculated for her, telling everyone what kind of encouragement, expectations and blessings these words carried from him.

Grandpa saw her little thoughts, and she also said her thoughts frankly: "Going to work and getting a monthly salary is nothing. If I can learn the skills of Sister Xiaoxiao, then it's not bad."

Li Kun was silent for a long time, looking at his granddaughter's sparkling eyes.

His granddaughter thought much further than he did.

Li Kun tapped his pipe, looked at the people in the room, and said seriously: "I've decided to be the boss! Don't yell at me. If I had listened to you, I would have been a coward for half my life, and you wouldn't have this roof over your head! Old woman, go get the money from home!"

Du Chunmiao looked unhappy. She was the one who was most vocal in opposing the purchase of the cow. The old man usually didn't bring this up, but now he brought it up again. Seeing his attitude, she knew she couldn't be persuaded at all, so she hurried to the house to get the money.

After a while, the wooden box containing the money was brought out. The wooden box seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and was placed on the table.

Twenty pairs of eyes around the table were staring at the wooden box.

Four years ago, they built this house, almost emptying their family's savings. For four years, all their earnings have been handed over to the public, and their food and clothing are arranged by their family. How much money have they saved? It's really confusing.

During the busy farming season, not only would people from Lihua Village come to borrow cows from them, but people from the neighboring village would also come to borrow cows. At the end of the day, they could earn a hundred or eighty coins just from renting three cows.

During the slack season, their three cows go out in the wind and rain every day to pull people and goods, which is also a good source of income.

In addition, Du Chunmiao was very picky about food. After he finished eating the bacon, he would basically buy meat once every half a month.

I earn more and spend less, so I should have quite a bit of money...

"Your eyes are glowing green. Don't look at them. It's only over forty taels of silver."

When the box was opened, there was a lot of silver and copper coins inside, as well as some silver wrapped in oil paper, which must have been weighed.

The three couples looked at each other, and there was more joy in their eyes than one would have thought.

Li Kun saw everyone's expressions, and when he saw that everyone's expressions had eased a little, he continued, "I showed you the money just to let you know that Yu Shui and the others don't have to worry about getting married. I'll send Yu E to school, so you can rest assured about this!"

"Jade calyx?"

"Why is it from the third room?"

"We all have the same grandfather, you are so biased!"