Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

The captain sighed and said, "How about this, both of you take a step back."

"Eight dollars is too much. In my opinion, the old hen should be compensated with six dollars, and Xu Xiangbei and Li Ergou should each pay half. In addition, the Xu family should apologize to the Shen family in public."

"Can you both give me some face and just resolve this matter like this?"

According to the normal price, a chicken is only three or four yuan, but after all, it is an old hen that can lay eggs every day. Now an egg costs five cents, so five yuan is not excessive at all.

The old lady didn't speak.

From eight yuan to six yuan, it's a full two yuan less. Now one steamed bun costs two cents, and two yuan means one hundred steamed buns.

One hundred steamed buns can save lives in a year of famine.

On the side, Li Ergou, who had stolen the chicken with Xu Xiangbei, was instantly furious when he heard that he also had to pay compensation, and four dollars at that.

"I won't compensate you. Do whatever you want. I went with Xiangbei to his sister's in-laws' house and caught a chicken to eat. Xu Xiangbei is the brother-in-law of the Shen family. What's wrong with eating a chicken?"

"You're going to have to pay for this, what kind of brother-in-law are you? I've raised my daughter for so many years, and now she's your daughter-in-law for nothing?"

Xu Manyue pursed her lips and looked at him coldly.

"First, I have nothing to do with the Xu family. Xu Xiangbei is not my brother."

"Secondly, if you steal someone's things, you must compensate them. If you don't, we will take you to the police station right now and put you in jail."

"Third, don't think that going to jail will be the end of it. If you do go to jail, you will still have to pay compensation. This money will be deducted from your family's work points until you pay it back."

After saying that, Xu Manyue looked at the team leader and said, "Uncle Yang, if he is unwilling to pay compensation, then I would like to ask you to help transfer his family's work points to ours."

The captain nodded. "Of course, Li Ergou, do you choose to pay back the money, or go to jail and pay back the work points?"

Li Ergou's body stiffened instantly, and he glared at Xu Manyue with gritted teeth.

"Pay back the money, of course."

"But three yuan is too much. A chicken only costs three or four yuan now. The Xu family and I have to pay back a total of six yuan. Why don't they just rob us?"

Old Man Xu also spoke up, "Captain, we don't have that much money. Three dollars is too much. At most, each family can pay two dollars."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old lady sat down on the ground, tears streaming down her face.

"Oh, you are bullying me! Not only did you steal my chicken, you also bully us orphans and widows."

"I have a miserable life. My husband died early, my son is not around, and this is how people bully my wife..."

Mrs. Shen squatted down and pulled the old lady, her eyes red, "Mom, don't worry, the captain will definitely make the decision for us, he will definitely not watch those people being so arrogant."

"Our chickens are old hens that can lay two eggs a day. Who would be willing to sell their old hens that can lay eggs?"

"Let alone eight dollars, we wouldn't sell it even for ten dollars."

Xu Manyue looked at the team leader, her voice choked with sobs, "Uncle Yang, an old hen that lays two eggs a day is worth more than this."

"Besides, they stole our chickens in the middle of the night, so it's not too much to ask for more compensation."

"What's more, today the Xu family has been scolding us for framing them and calling us shameless."

"Based on these, do you think eight dollars is expensive?"

The people around who were watching the fun started talking.

"If it were me, I wouldn't be willing to sell the old hens that lay eggs. Xu Xiangbei and Li Ergou are too cruel. They steal other people's hens that can lay two eggs a day."

"I don't know how to sell them. They lay two eggs a day, which makes me ten cents a day. Ten days makes me one dollar, and in a month, I make three dollars. If I raise them longer, I can make more than eight dollars."

"Yes, after careful calculation, the Shen family's request of eight dollars is not excessive at all."

The Xu family was very angry when they heard that so many people were on the Shen family's side, but they couldn't show it, so they could only suppress it.

Li Ergou squatted on the ground with his hands covering his ears, feeling extremely regretful.

If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have dragged Xu Xiangbei to steal chickens.

Xu Manyue noticed the captain's hesitation and struck while the iron was hot, "Uncle Chen, a chicken isn't worth eight yuan, but our chickens are not ordinary chickens, so eight yuan is definitely not too much."

"My mother has put so much effort into raising that chicken to this stage. It cannot be measured in money."

The old lady sat on the ground and cried even harder, and no one could pull her up.

"My chicken, my precious baby, how could you be secretly eaten by those shameless people? I don't even know where I threw your bones. I feel so sorry for you..."

The captain looked at everyone present and thought for a moment, "Then we'll give you eight yuan in compensation. To avoid trouble, you should all go home and get the money now. If your family doesn't have money, we'll deduct your work points."

In the end, the matter ended with the two companies paying eight dollars in compensation and making a public apology.

Li Ergou's family was so poor that his mother was almost starving to death. Naturally, they could not afford to pay the four dollars, so they could only ask others to scrape together two dollars. As for the remaining two dollars, they had to use work points to make up for it.

The Xu family had spent a lot of money preparing Xu Mingyue's dowry some time ago, and there was only less than 20 yuan left in the family. Now they had to pay another 4 yuan in compensation, and there was not much left.

After returning home.

Old Man Xu beat Xu Xiangbei severely, refused to give him any food, and locked him in the room. The whole family was very resentful of him.

Xu Mingyue went to see him secretly, "Xiangbei, are you okay?"

Xu Xiangbei was sitting on the bed, writing a self-criticism to be read tomorrow. When he heard the noise, he didn't raise his head or say a word.

"Xiangbei, your grandparents are too angry today. Don't bother with them. Because of this, our family paid four dollars as compensation to the Shen family." Xu Mingyue comforted him.

Xu Xiangbei still didn't say anything.

outside the house.

Tian Lanfang felt uncomfortable seeing her son silent, and she covered her mouth and couldn't help crying.

……

At night, Shen's house.

After returning home and finishing the wild vegetable porridge they had gotten in the cafeteria today, the old lady instructed Mrs. Shen to clean up the dishes and then let everyone go back to rest and save energy.

Every household does this now. After eating, they don’t go to work, but lie on the bed at home to rest. The purpose is to let the food in the stomach digest more slowly so that they don’t get hungry so quickly.

Xu Manyue was lying on the bed.

Start looking at the transformation values for your system.

Today, I received several hundred transformation points from the old lady, and I am only 689 transformation points away from upgrading the system.

As long as you save up a little, you can start the formal renovation plan and get a large sum of money after the renovation is completed.

According to her idea, the first step after the upgrade is to transform the Shen family into positive people who are beneficial to the development of the Shen family.

For every person successfully transformed, there is a reward of 500 yuan. There are ten people in the Shen family. If all of them are successfully transformed, she will get 5,000 yuan.

This is much more cost-effective than working as a worker in the city.

After checking the renovation value, Xu Manyue entered her own independent small kitchen again.

The extra pork from the system as a reward today is also included, as well as the big meat buns steamed last night, which have not been finished yet.

But now, she didn't want to eat meat buns, she wanted to eat rice, a bowl of fried meat with celery, and a bowl of tomato and egg soup.

Just do it.

There were no tomatoes and eggs, so Xu Manyue spent ten transformation points to buy some eggs and tomatoes.

Beat eggs, cut tomatoes, heat oil in a pan...soon a bowl of tomato and egg soup is ready.

Next is stir-fried meat with celery.