Dressed as a young lady, she became rich by relying on Pinxixi

I think about how good she is to her daughter-in-law and how much she has saved for her.

Now, it’s just that the daughter-in-law has changed...

Why couldn't Xu Siyu be more generous and say that the money was hers to honor her...

Zhang Wangshi was very unhappy about having to pay money to the Xu family.

She only had a pair of silver bracelets left, which she was going to give to Miss Cao today.

Xu Siyu used to be a bit of a fool, often using things she'd won from home to curry favor with Zhang Wangshi, treating her more like her own mother than Xu Wangshi. Now, she's simply returning to the right path.

"Aunt Zhang, I remember you had five or six chickens. If you give them all to my family, then you'll have the full number."

"What? How dare you ask that? Why don't you want the pigs in my pen?"

"That's fine, but I'm afraid you'll suffer a loss!" Xu Siyu didn't expect her to have such a suggestion. If she could make money, she would agree faster.

No, that’s not the answer Zhang Wang wanted.

The sky gradually brightened. She promised Zhang Dahe that she would finish her work and go home before dawn, and then set off for the county.

She couldn't argue with the mother and daughter, and she had no other choice but to rummage around and reached into the seam of her outer garment to get two pieces of silver, adding up the six taels. She left feeling aggrieved and frustrated.

"Brother, call second brother back for dinner!" Xu Siyu shouted towards the east room, and happily took Xu Wangshi's arm and went back to the room.

Xu Nianyue had been waiting at the door of the main house for a long time, holding a ceramic basin and waiting for Xu Wangshi to bring noodles and rice.

The daily amount of black flour is half a ceramic basin. Xu Nianyue will mix it with some wild vegetables and steam it into steamed buns in the morning.

This is the most important food for a family.

The porridge is for my aunts, and it’s good enough for them to drink hot rice soup.

This time, after Xu Wangshi scooped out half a bowl of rice, Xu Siyu grabbed another handful to fill the bowl, then handed the egg basket directly to Xu Nianyue: "They're all cooked."

Xu Nianyue looked at her grandmother who did not interrupt her aunt's words, put the bowl of rice on the surface of the ceramic basin, carefully took the basket, and then ran quickly to the kitchen.

"You're going to die. Walk slower... Your egg is broken. Girl Yue, don't even think about eating today..." Xu Wangshi's voice followed Xu Nianyue's back.

Then, he turned around and looked at Xu Siyu: "My girl, there are more than a dozen eggs in that basket. If you boil them now, they will go bad if you can't finish them."

"Mom, there are more than a dozen people in the family. If I give one to each of us, I'm afraid it won't be enough."

"They have thick skin and flesh, why would they need to eat eggs?"

Just as Mrs. Xu Wang was about to scold her descendants, Xu Siyu stopped her mother and said, "Mom, even though the Zhang family paid compensation, everyone in the village is laughing at me. I didn't say yesterday that we should celebrate like it was a holiday these days. I want to let Xinshan Village know that without the Zhang family, our Xu family will live better and better. These are just a few eggs. Next, I will make new clothes for everyone and build a new house... Just wait and see, we'll eat meat every day from now on!"

Xu Wangshi touched her daughter's forehead and said, "She doesn't have a fever, so why is she talking nonsense?"

Six taels of silver is a lot, but it is just enough to help the family make some money and add to her dowry. Why do you think of building a house?

Can you not want to?

Apart from the urine bucket in the house, the Xu family only has a dry toilet.

The shit accumulated over the years is more than one meter high, and the shit stick is almost hitting my butt.

Every time she went, Xu Siyu had to endure the churning in her stomach, hold her breath, and get it over with quickly.

She even wanted to praise herself for being so adaptable!

The sooner this sin can be relieved, the better.

Xu Siyu was eager to improve her living and transportation conditions.

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At the breakfast table, Xu Siyu suggested going for a walk in town and bringing back the meat that she had promised to reward her second brother.

When his second brother heard that she was not trying to coax him, he happily ate the steamed buns for dinner first.

The others didn't expect too much. They just ate as much as they were told. This morning, everyone got an egg, which was already very good.

Xu Wangshi picked up the smallest piece of silver, about one qian, from the Zhang family's "compensation" and gave it to Xu Siyu, saying loudly, "Take these forty wen to your brother-in-law and buy him two pounds of meat."

One qian is equal to one hundred wen, but Xu Wangshi said that she only gave forty wen. Xu Siyu blinked and looked at her mother. Did she mean to leave her some private money?

No one in the courtyard wanted to accept the money. They were all thinking that the grain harvest had been poor in recent years and the price of meat had increased significantly. Pork used to cost 20 wen per pound, but now it was at least 23 or 24 wen.

Forty cents is not enough to get the full pound of meat from Butcher Yang. I'm afraid he will have to buy three pounds of meat in return, which will not satisfy Mrs. Xu Wang.

Apart from Xu Wangshi, the fearless Xu Siyu is the most suitable person to do this annoying thing.

Look, didn’t Mrs. Xu Wang find the small backpack and give it to Xu Siyu?

Although the backpack is small, it clearly implies that it can hold more things.

They can't do it!

Xu Siyu quietly put away the money and set off with Brother Xu San and his family of four who were preparing to go to work in town.

Yunyang Town is very close to Xinshan Village, and it only takes a quarter of an hour to walk there at a quick pace.

There is only one main street in the town, with two two-story buildings, a restaurant and an inn.

These two families are the prominent families in Yunyang Town, and Third Brother Xu and his family all work as helpers in the restaurant. In the eyes of the villagers, this is a very respectable job, but all the Xu family members know that they are doing dirty work, and the money they earn has to be handed over to Mrs. Xu Wang.

When the third brother and his friends arrived in the town, they went straight to work, leaving Xu Siyu to observe the town alone.

Apart from the two tallest buildings, there are pastry shops, cloth shops, grain and oil shops and various small stalls scattered along the main street.

Butcher Yang runs the only meat stall in the town. According to Yunyang Town's consumption, he sells one pig a day, and a small half of it has to be given to the restaurant first.

The quantity sold at my stall is not much, and the villagers all rush to buy it early to try out the new products, so I usually set up the stall at Chenshi and close it at Sishi.

I've been busy these past few days.

As the year draws to a close, villages begin to slaughter pigs to make bacon.

In previous years, if Butcher Yang took on a pig-slaughtering job, his stall would be looked after by his two sons.

But starting this year, he took his sons away to practice, and left the stall to Xu Si Nong to take care of.

"Si Yu, why are you in town?" Xu Si Nong saw the girl from afar and greeted her quickly.

Xu Si Nong also treated this sister who was more than 20 years younger than her as her own daughter.

She was a little surprised today. Her younger sister has been unwilling to walk since she was a child. It’s almost the New Year and the weather is still cold, so why did she come?

Xu Si Nong also felt a little guilty.

She heard the news that Xu Siyu fell into the water, but she didn't get permission from her mother-in-law to go back.

If her mother came, she would definitely scold her.

"Sister, mother asked me to buy forty coins worth of meat."

"Yes," Xu Si Nong agreed, and cut off two pieces with a big knife. Without weighing it, she quickly tied it with a straw rope and put it in her small backpack. "Here." Xu Siyu saw that there were four or five pounds of meat, so she took out some change and put it in Xu Si Nong's hand.

Xu Sinong looked around and returned the silver. "Let's go, my mother-in-law is not here..."

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