A Happy Event in a Farming Family: Marrying a Hunter

The two sons of the Yun family are both capable and earn more money. Others who work in the town don't earn as much.

The women who had gathered at the door to watch the commotion counted on their fingers for a long time, and it was indeed that much silver.

One of the women joked, "Old lady, you only have one son and you've saved eleven taels in fourteen years with some left over. If you have two sons, that's more than twenty-two taels!"

Liu Hehua's face darkened instantly. Even if her family had money, it didn't mean they could display it so openly, especially at this critical juncture.

Grandma Yun's temper flared up, and she yelled, "Yun Luo, do you really think we've been living on air for the past fourteen years?"

Wang rolled her eyes. Yunluo wasn't this smart before. She had a terrible temper and got beaten by her mother a lot. "Xiaoluo, you can't calculate money like that. Otherwise, every family would have enough to eat and drink. Your family used to have quite a lot of expenses."

"The families in the village live quite well on one or two taels of silver a year. With the money from the Li family's compensation for my father's funeral, we should still have some left. It doesn't cost many taels of silver to treat a leg, does it?"

"My dog, Gou Dan, broke his arm while playing. We found a doctor to set the bone and put on medicine. It took a month and only cost a few dozen coins. Three or four taels of silver to treat a leg? That leg must be inlaid with gold, right?"

The speaker was Qiu Jia's wife, a notoriously shrewish woman in the village. As soon as she opened her mouth, the others began to murmur among themselves.

"That's right, they're not wealthy families who treat their children like precious treasures; they rarely spend even a tael of silver on them."

Liu Hehua's face grew increasingly dark, resembling the bottom of a wok used for stir-frying vegetables in a kitchen.

How did Yunlu, that slut, suddenly become so smart after getting a beating?

He calculated everything meticulously, leaving her no chance to refute.

Seeing that the atmosphere had been set, Yunluo continued, "Grandma, is the cloth you're wearing made from new fabric?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a group of people at the door immediately turned their attention to her. In the moonlight, the old lady Liu's jacket was clearly visible, without a single patch, so it was definitely new.

They have money to buy cloth and clothes, but no money to treat their grandson to a doctor.

"Aunt, the embroidery on your shoes is really beautiful," Yun Luo said, staring at the ground with a half-smile.

Needles and thread also cost money. If you don't have money at home, how can you afford embroidery thread? Don't underestimate just a few threads; embroidering a flower is quite expensive, costing a penny.

“Grandma, the clothes I’m wearing have been worn for several years. The patches on them are almost too small to fit anymore. Look, the cuffs are all worn out.”

Liu Hehua's heart trembled. That vile slut!

Well, what does she take her for? She's just making fun of her in various ways. Compared to her, doesn't this just confirm her reputation for mistreating the mother and her two children?

When she came out, she saw the newly made jacket on the bedside table, so she casually put it on. Little did she know that it would cause such a mess.

She glared at Wang Shi with narrowed eyes, saying, "Why are you wearing embroidered shoes so late at night!"

Wang dared not utter a sound and silently lowered her head.

In one family, everyone dressed differently, even the two sisters looked like beggars and young ladies from the town. One of the wives was wearing embroidered shoes, while the other could barely afford to patch them up.

As for Zhou Rong and Yun Luo, the two were as thin as sticks, unlike the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yun family and the old lady of the Yun family, who had oily faces and good complexions!

They were clearly mistreated!

“We’re all from the same family, you can’t be so biased, can you?” (34)