The arrogant little husband is desperately flirting with the hunter

The family had dinner before it got dark. Chu Xiao took the bones to the backyard to feed the hunting dogs. He walked back to the main courtyard and wanted to call Yan Zhenshen to go take a bath in the river, but was stopped by Zhao Guizhi.

Zhao Guizhi put a cloth bag on the table and pushed it in front of Chu Xiao: "This is the money from selling wild vegetables and fruits today."

Chu Xiao thought that Zhao Guizhi was teasing him again and asked him to exercise the power of managing the family. He reached out to take it, opened the cloth bag and took a look. Then there was the sound of copper coins colliding.

Chu Xiao and Zhao Guizhi counted them one by one, and the total was two hundred and forty-five cents.

Chu Xiao took out forty-five copper coins, put the rest back into the cloth bag and handed it to Zhao Guizhi.

Zhao Guizhi was a little surprised: "These are the wild vegetables and fruits you picked. The money you earn belongs to you. You don't have to give it to me."

"I don't need that much." Chu Xiao really had no use for the money.

"Mom, please keep it." Yan Zhenshen went to the woodshed to feed two roe deer, and now came over. He opened his waist bag and took out twelve taels of silver and a small pile of copper coins.

He gave five taels of it to Zhang Guizhi for household use, and gave the rest to Chu Xiao.

"What are you doing for me?" Chu Xiao asked puzzledly.

"You will be the head of the family from now on." Yan Zhenshen said this seriously without any intention of teasing.

Chu Xiao's mouth twitched, and he took out a two-liang coin, and pushed the others back, saying righteously: "I am the head of the family and I have the final say. From now on, mother will take 40% for household expenses, brother Shen will take 40% for hard work, and I will take 20% for pocket money."

Zhao Guizhi was so amused by the head of the household who took office on his first day that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "The bulk of our family's expenses are spent on medicines every year. Now your father's health has improved a lot, and we have land at home. These five taels are enough."

Chu Xiao shook his head: "My second brother wants to get married, my third sister wants to prepare a dowry, and Xiaobei wants to study martial arts. Money is needed everywhere."

As Chu Xiao was speaking, he suddenly remembered that the bulk of today's earnings seemed to be from him.

Where's his IOU?

As soon as Chu Xiao came back, he confronted Yan Zhengxing. Later, he became so excited that he completely forgot about selling the Ganoderma lucidum. He also said that he would give the IOU to Zhao Guizhi for safekeeping. So where is the IOU?

He suddenly stood up and ran to the kitchen quickly, scaring Zhao Guizhi: "Why is this kid so startled all of a sudden?"

Yan Zhenshen didn’t know what happened to Chu Xiao, so he quickly followed him. When he entered the kitchen, he saw his husband sticking his butt up, searching for something in the backpack.

"Husband, what are you looking for?"

Chu Xiao propped himself up and asked, "Brother Shen, is this the backpack I carried today?"

Yan Zhenshen shook his head: "The one you carried today is in the woodshed."

"I was wondering why I couldn't find it." Chu Xiao pulled Yan Zhenshen and said as they walked, "Today, Doctor Hu didn't have enough money to buy my Ganoderma lucidum, so he wrote me an IOU, and I just put it in my quilt pocket."

Yan Zhenshen frowned: "What Ganoderma lucidum?"

Chu Xiao then remembered that he had forgotten to tell Yan Zhenshen,

But the reason he forgot was because this person scolded him when he came back, so he didn't say anything.

Thinking of this, he snorted: "I found it on a dead tree that day when I went west and you yelled at me."

Entering the woodshed, next to the door was the backpack that Chu Xiao had carried in the afternoon. Because he had put fruits in it in the morning, he put straw in it. When he brought fruits to Aunt Wang at noon, he put the herbal medicine book and IOU given by Doctor Hu under the straw.

He took out the straw and saw the book. He turned a page, took out the IOU and waved it in front of Yan Zhenshen: "Look, this is it. I never thought that the old man would be so broke running such a big clinic."

Yan Zhenshen smiled helplessly: "Doctor Hu naturally has silver, but he has exchanged it into silver notes and deposited it in the bank. If you want to withdraw silver from the bank in our county, you need to take the silver notes to the bank to confirm their authenticity. Then the accountant will find the records of the same year, and then the shopkeeper will confirm it before exchanging it for silver."

"So troublesome?" Chu Xiao was shocked: "What if the banknote is lost?"

"If it's lost, there's nothing we can do about it. Money houses only recognize banknotes, not people, unless it's a death contract." Yan Zhenshen took the paper from Chu Xiao's hand and swallowed his saliva when he saw the number written on the IOU. "You sold it for sixty taels?"

Seeing Yan Zhenshen's shocked expression, Chu Xiao smiled proudly: "I sold it for one hundred taels."

Yan Zhenshen didn't want to talk much. He felt that he had really become a gigolo in front of his husband.

When the two returned to the main hall, Yan Zhenshen was still a little dazed. Zhao Guizhi asked Chu Xiao in a nagging manner, "What are you rushing for?"

Chu Xiao took the IOU from Yan Zhenshen and said with a smile, "I'll go find this, mom, keep it."

Zhao Guizhi took it and took a look at it, she was shocked. She was illiterate, but when Yan Zhengdao was injured, he not only sold his house and land, but also owed a lot of money, so he naturally wrote a lot of IOUs. So although she didn't recognize other words, she was familiar with these two words.

"Xiao brother, this is an IOU. Who do you owe the money to and how much do you owe?" Zhao Guizhi never thought that someone else owed Chu Xiao the money. After all, his family was so poor, how could he have money to lend to others.

"Mom, this is something someone owes me." Chu Xiao pointed to the signature and said, "Look, there's the Tongrentang seal here."

"Doctor Hu?" Zhao Guizhi asked uncertainly.

Chu Xiao nodded. "I saw a very strange kind of mushroom on the mountain and picked it. Today I went to the clinic and showed it to Doctor Hu. He said it was Ganoderma lucidum and charged ten taels per pound. But he didn't have enough money, so he wrote me an IOU."

Chu Xiao pointed to the place where the money was written on the IOU and said, "He originally owed me fifty taels, but he was afraid that I would regret not selling it to him, so he said he would pay me sixty taels in half a month. Mother, keep it well. If I'm not here when Doctor Hu comes to pay the money, you can give him the IOU."

Zhao Guizhi's hands were shaking as she held the IOU. She had never seen so much silver in her life. Although Yan Zhengdao went into business after the family split up and could earn twenty or thirty taels a year, after building a house and buying land, it was good enough to have ten or eight taels left for spending.

Zhao Guizhi trembled as she put the IOU into her purse. Still a little worried, she stood up and said, "No, I have to hide it well, otherwise I won't be at ease."

Chu Xiao pulled the person back and said with a smile: "Mom, I'll give you another exciting one."

"What else do you want to do?" Zhao Guizhi felt that it was fortunate that she had a strong heart, otherwise, when she suddenly knew that her family had earned sixty taels of silver, she would have just turned away. But Xiao Ge'er wanted to do something more exciting, and she was afraid that she could not bear it.

Chu Xiao pushed the person onto the chair, waved his hand on the table in front of her, and ten cute silver ingots appeared in front of her.

Zhao Guizhi stared at the ingots in front of her for a long time. After a long time, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened her eyes again, these lovely silver ingots were still in front of her.

Chu Xiao did as he had said before and took four of them in front of Yan Zhenshen, took two for himself, and left the remaining four in front of Zhao Guizhi.

"This is what you earned, just keep it." Yan Zhenshen pushed it back.

Chu Xiao thought about it and realized that there was really no difference between keeping it with Brother Shen or with himself, so he accepted it.

Zhao Guizhi naturally refused to take it, but Chu Xiao insisted that she accept it: "Mother, this is not just for household expenses. I said before that when my second brother gets married, my third sister's dowry and my younger brother's salary will all come from you. As for Brother Shen, he will be responsible for building a big house."

Yan Zhenshen smiled and nodded. It was indeed time to build a big house, and then build his and her husband's room at the very edge.

If they had enough money, they would set up two courtyards. They could live together during the day, and at night he and his husband would go back to their own separate courtyard. This way they wouldn't have to worry about disturbing anyone.