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After dinner, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin kept the children.

"Do you remember what we said at the last family meeting? As long as everyone works together, we will pay you. Now, your Aunt Duan and I will pay you."

After she finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Last time they thought they were just saying it casually to encourage them, but they didn't expect that they would fulfill their promise so soon and pay them their wages.

"What are you doing? Are you all stupid? Clap your hands!" Duan Minmin smiled and pushed Mei'er beside her, clapped her hands vigorously, and blew a silent whistle at Zheng Yuan.

The children came to their senses and started clapping sparsely.

"Mom, why do you need money to work for your family? You save it, we don't want it." After the applause, Dashu came to his senses and stood up to express his unwillingness.

"It's not just for you, everyone will get a share. What are you doing here representing everyone? Sit down!" Zheng Yuan pushed him down on the stool.

"We sisters don't want it either." Tao'er continued quickly.

"I don't want it either, Mom."

The children all said at the same time that they didn't need it, and their voices became louder and louder, as if they were afraid that if someone else spoke softly, it would mean that they wanted it.

"Shh! Be quiet!" Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin hurriedly stopped the group of children. They were almost dizzy from their noise.

The children immediately quieted down.

"Okay, we agreed that everyone will get paid for their hard work. Everyone gets paid! Including today, our family has done four ice jelly sales. I've already calculated it with you last time. The previous sales brought in a total of 1,070 coins. Add today's 858 coins, minus the money for the ox cart, and we've made a total of 1,919 coins from the ice jelly business during this period."

Zheng Yuan did not mention the reward money given by Mr. Zhang's wife. The family still had many places to spend money, so they would keep such a large sum of money for the time being, which would be convenient for building a house and purchasing things in the future.

She had hidden the money in the place where Mrs. Zheng had kept her money before.

"This business is exhausting, so I'll charge you 20 wen a day. So a child would be 80 wen. But Sizhu didn't have the right mindset at the beginning, and was always lazy. And you're really young, and you don't do much work, so I'll charge you 10 wen a day. Do you have any objection?"

Although he didn't get as much as his brothers and sisters, Sizhu felt a little disappointed. But when he thought about which child in the village could get so many copper coins, he became happy again.

"Mom, if I help with housework more and never go out to play again, can I get the same salary as my brothers and sisters?" Sizhu looked at Zheng Yuan expectantly.

"Of course you can. Mother and Aunt Duan will see it. As long as you try your best to help the family in the future, we will give you bonuses based on your performance."

After getting Zheng Yuan's guarantee, Sizhu was very happy and wanted to run three laps in the field immediately.

"Okay, since everyone has no objection, let's start distributing the money now. Amin, let's start."

Duan Minmin counted out eighty coins from her purse and handed them to Dashu.

Mrs. Zheng had always been in charge of the family's money. When had Dashu ever held so much money in his hands? His hands were shaking for a moment, and he stammered, "Thank you, Aunt Duan, but I don't dare to carry so much money on me. Otherwise, you can keep it for me first."

Duan Minmin burst out laughing: "What's the point of me taking care of it? Can't you see that your wife is so old? If you don't dare to pretend, then give it all to Hui Niang."

Dashu blushed at her laughter, and hurriedly took the copper coins and stuffed them into Xu Huiniang's hands. Xu Huiniang was also embarrassed by his behavior.

Duan Minmin then counted out the money and gave it to the other children one by one.

When it was given to Xu Hui Niang, she stood up all of a sudden and said, "Mom, Aunt Duan, I don't want it. Dashu and I can just take one. We have enough food and clothing at home, what do we need so much money for?"

"That won't work. We agreed that everyone has one. How can we exclude you? We will be criticized and accused of being evil mothers-in-law!"

She was about to say something, but Duan Minmin pressed her shoulders and made her sit down, and stuffed the money into her arms: "Take it, take it. You are still young, save it to buy some clothes and jewelry, you will definitely fascinate Dashu to death."

Xu Hui Niang's face turned red again because of what she said.

This lady is really something, she dares to say anything.

"Come on, Erhe Bashi!"

"Tao'er is eighty!"

"Mei'er is eighty!"

"Xing'er is eighty!"

"Sanni eighty!"

"Four pillars forty!"

Zheng Yuan was watching with amusement from the side. This 80-year-old man was dreaming of the Spring Festival Gala that year.

When the children got the coins, they looked at them with excitement, and they wanted to bury their heads and take a deep breath of the smell of the coins.

Why would Mr. Liu say that the copper coin was smelly? It clearly smelled good.

"Sizhu, do you want to give this money to your mother for safekeeping?" Zheng Yuan couldn't help but ask Sizhu. She didn't worry about the other children. This six-year-old child probably didn't know what forty coins meant. If he had forty coins in his hand, he would definitely want to show off. She was really worried that he would spend it all in one day.

Of course, she wasn't helping to keep the things like some parents would do, where they would just keep the things and then lose them. She really wanted to keep them for him and give them all to him when he grew up.

"Then mother, please keep the twenty cents for me." Sizhu thought for a while and took out half of the copper coin and handed it to Zheng Yuan.

The kid wasn't very good at counting, and Zheng Yuan took it and counted it, and it was 26 coins, but she didn't say anything and just kept it in her mind. It would be better to save a little more for Sizhu, so that he wouldn't regret it after spending it.

It’s just a dozen cents, it’s no big deal if it’s lost.

Seeing Sizhu's worrying counting ability, and the three older ones' arithmetic ability of even miscounting coins when they were counting piles of coins according to their semicolons, Zheng Yuan thought that he would have to give some enlightenment to the children in the future.

Even if they don't want to take the imperial examination, at least they have to know a few basic characters and have simple arithmetic skills. Otherwise, they don't know how they will be fooled in the future. Of course, if a child is really talented in studying, they will definitely support him with all their strength. After all, the four classes of people are scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. If this family produces an official, then they don't have to be so timid as they are now when they really want to do something.

"Okay, collect your money and find a place to hide it later. Don't go around the village telling everyone that we paid you. We should be careful about thieves stealing your money. You have earned all your money through hard work. Don't let that man with three hands take it away."

After hearing what she said, the children quickly put all the copper coins in their own pockets and dared not hold them in their hands. This was the first time they had received so much money in their hands in so many years, which was equivalent to the first time they received a salary in modern times. It was of great significance. If the thief touched them, they would be so angry that they would die.

"Oh, by the way, Hui Niang, when you have time, take your sisters and embroider a purse for each of us. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just remember to make it sturdy. Also, tomorrow we'll go to the village and find someone who can do carpentry work to make a basket for us to put the money in. You can also sew a bag for me to wrap it in, and a belt for me to wear around my neck. This business is all about copper coins, and it's not a good idea for me to always carry it in my clothes."

"Okay, Aunt Duan, I'll sew this money basket tomorrow, and it won't delay my going to the market the day after tomorrow."

After distributing wages and arranging tomorrow's work, everyone dispersed.

Tonight, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin are still supervising the children as they squat under the toothbrush to brush their teeth in rows. They must develop this habit, otherwise they will be inconsistent and waste the toothbrushes and toothpaste that they have worked so hard to make.