Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales-Chapter 18: Miserable Woman
"Six hundred sixty-eight yuan, Yuan Chun killed two wild boars, otherwise we couldn’t have sold them for so much." Feng Dasheng was also quite excited.
Since leaving the black market, his mind had been in a daze, unable to believe it was true.
Their family had truly come into wealth. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
"Six... over six hundred?" Feng Sansheng had never heard of such a sum in his life, "Brother, does this mean our family can build a brick house now?"
"Build what brick house." Grandma Feng glared fiercely at her youngest son, "Our family is poor and can’t even afford the money to get Guo’an a wife. Suddenly wanting to build a brick house, how will you explain where the money came from to the village?"
"Mom, are you saying we can’t spend this money?" Feng Sansheng was disappointed at not being able to live in a spacious brick house.
Grandma Feng sighed, looking at the pile of money, and said, "We can spend this money, but not on building a house or buying new clothes. We’ll hold onto it, spending a little bit at a time."
"Mom’s right, third brother, everyone in the village knows our family’s conditions. If we suddenly have a lot of money, those jealous people will gossip about us, and if we want to live safely in the village, we can’t touch this money for now," Feng Dasheng said.
Ding Xiaotao reached out and pinched her husband’s arm, cursing softly, "You fool, when mom says we can’t spend the money, we can’t spend it. Mom’s older, she sees further than us, we should just listen to her."
Finally, they decided that the money would remain untouched, under Grandma Feng’s care.
However, after storing the money, Grandma Feng told her sons and daughters-in-law, "This money was earned with Yuan Chun’s life. We can’t keep it all in the Feng family. When Yuan Chun marries in the future, we’ll give half as her dowry, not only this sum, but half of any money Yuan Chun earns in the future will go towards her dowry."
No one in the family objected.
Only Feng Sansheng murmured, "Giving so much money to Yuan Chun as a dowry, what if her in-laws find out and force her to hand it over, then wouldn’t that money be given away to her in-laws for nothing?"
Grandma Feng snorted coldly, "The Feng family isn’t made of clay; if anyone dares bully a daughter of the Feng family, we’ll confront them."
A woman who can easily kill wild boars couldn’t be easily bullied by her in-laws.
Grandma Feng wasn’t worried.
On the last day, Yuan Chun, accompanied by two cousins, went into the deep mountains again.
This time not only did they hunt a herd of wild boars, totaling seven big and small, Yuan Chun also dug out two ginseng plants, one large and one small.
The wild boars, along with over twenty wild chickens and rabbits, sold for over twelve hundred yuan, while the ginseng was hidden by Grandma Feng.
Afterward, the busy season of autumn harvest began.
Feng Dasheng spoke with the village chief, who arranged for Ding Chunli to have easier work during the harvest season, though easier work earned fewer work points.
Originally earning eight work points a day, after changing work, Ding Chunli could only earn five a day, losing three work points, silencing many pregnant women who had envied Ding Chunli.
After all, work points meant food, and they’d rather be exhausted than earn fewer work points.
Thus, Ding Chunli’s shift in work didn’t face opposition from villagers; instead, some mocked Qiu Guihua for being powerless, a feisty woman who couldn’t even control her daughter-in-law.
Just being pregnant meant losing three work points.
After a month of harvest, that’s quite a bit of food being lost.
Before, Qiu Guihua might have been distressed, but now... who cares about a few work points, her grandson is more important.
