Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 1222 - 1224: Where Did This Firewood Come From?
Yang Ming was quite quick, the moment he said go, he went, "Wife, I’m going to the mountain now to get this. Do you want to come with me?"
"..." Xiaoxiao was a bit speechless. Just how urgent is this?
"I’m not going. I’ll be cooking dinner later, and I have to look after the kids."
Yang Ming thought about it and gave up. He couldn’t wait any longer and wanted to try his newly made bow and arrow, so he said, "Wife, then you stay home. I’ll go by myself and be back soon."
"Okay, be careful." Xiaoxiao advised as she watched Yang Ming take his things and head out.
Xiaoxiao felt helpless, letting him go, anyway, he couldn’t stay at home for long, so just let him be.
After Yang Ming left, Xiaoxiao also went out to find her mother-in-law.
When Yang Ming’s mother saw Xiaoxiao coming, she handed the child to Xiaoxiao, "Watch him for a while, I’ll go collect some firewood, and we will cook dinner later."
"Mom, let me do it."
"No need, no need, you just take care of my eldest grandson." Yang Ming’s mother said and went to fetch the firewood.
Hearing that simple "my eldest grandson" warmed Xiaoxiao immensely. After all, the child wasn’t theirs by blood and was still a bit different from the other three little ones, but the mother-in-law didn’t reject him and even helped her take care of the child.
She had a smile on her lips all the time, feeling really fortunate to have found such a family.
Seeing her mother-in-law carrying in the firewood, Xiaoxiao also went into the kitchen with her.
Since they were just preparing the evening meal, there was no fire yet, no thick smoke that might irritate the child.
Upon entering, Xiaoxiao noticed that the firewood her mother-in-law carried in looked very familiar. She took a closer look, her eyes widened in an instant, and she quickly asked, "Mom, where did this firewood come from?" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
"Your fourth brother went up the mountain to chop it. Didn’t our family run out of firewood long ago? Recently they went up the mountain to chop some more." Yang Ming’s mother replied.
Xiaoxiao stared at those trees that couldn’t be more familiar; it was as if her thoughts were drifting away. She still remembered that their family used to contract a mountain like this when she was a child, and these branches were nothing other than hazelnut tree branches. Hazelnuts are quite a good commodity, selling for high prices.
When she first came here, she had asked Yang Ming, who said he had never heard of such things. She thought to herself then, if only they had them, she could make a fortune from it.
Although she thought that, she didn’t go up the mountain to look because she was naturally afraid of wild beasts and had already found other means to earn silver, so there was no need. But she didn’t expect that there really were hazelnut trees here.
"Mom, are there many of these trees around here?"
"I really don’t know. You can ask the fourth brother about it tonight."
"But there should be quite a few. The fourth brother chopped quite a lot, and they’ve even been drying it over there." Yang Ming’s mother said while pointing towards the Chaihe Steering.
"Mom, could you watch the child for me?" Xiaoxiao said and dashed out of the house.
This sudden action startled Yang Ming’s mother, making her wonder what happened to the third daughter-in-law.
Xiaoxiao quickly ran to the Chaihe Steering by the door, seeing those chopped hazelnut tree branches, her heart ached immensely. They were simply wasting resources. These were good hazelnut trees, probably cut down some days ago when the hazelnuts hadn’t matured yet.
Given the timing, now should be the harvesting season. If there are large patches of hazelnut trees on the mountain, she could really make a fortune.
After checking, Xiaoxiao went back, her heart a flurry of emotions, waiting for the fourth brother and the others to return so she could ask them.
