From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!-Chapter 818 - 814: You Have to Listen to Me (Part 1)
Mrs. Lin shouted angrily, calling Huang Bita out of the room, who hadn’t had time to wipe her face.
Huang Bita looked timidly at the unfamiliar courtyard before her, thinking of her three brothers at home for some reason.
"Mom, what... should I do?"
"Hmph, you still ask what to do, can’t you see that pile of clothes?" Mrs. Lin snorted coldly, pointing at the wooden basin under the big tree in the courtyard and shouting at Huang Bita.
The wooden basin was filled with a full load of clothes, both men’s and women’s, even women’s undergarments and bellybands.
Huang Bita had washed clothes at home for more than ten years, even washing her three brothers’ underwear herself.
She opened her mouth, just about to ask Mrs. Lin something, when Mrs. Lin rushed back into her room and came out with another pile of clothes, throwing it on the ground next to the wooden basin.
"These need to be washed as well. Also, from now on, if anyone’s clothes in the house get dirty, you must wash them! Don’t say that as a mother-in-law I didn’t warn you! In this house, you must be observant and know the people you should serve. Otherwise, we at Old Mu Family would rather not have you as a daughter-in-law and let you and your three brothers live a lifetime of poverty."
Huang Bita was so chastised that her head almost fell to her chest.
She did not dare to refute Mrs. Lin. Even though her parents had died early, the elders around her always said that women must marry in this life, and once married, must listen to their mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law is like heaven, the things the mother-in-law tells the daughter-in-law to do, the daughter-in-law must do.
"Got it!" Huang Bita replied, but her voice was as soft as a mosquito’s buzz.
"If you get it, then go do it. Don’t stand there like a fool; one might think my son married a simpleton."
At this moment, Mrs. Lin finally somewhat understood why the old woman always had these daughters-in-law doing this and that, it came down to a sense of accomplishment.
She inherently didn’t like Huang Bita, now that Huang Bita became her daughter-in-law, she could torment her however she liked, and nobody could interfere.
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Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng arrived in the county, and Mu Dalang got off the ox cart. He came to town this time to negotiate the price with his master to buy a few sheep to bring back, and to get some food for Huang Bita.
As a newlywed couple, Mu Dalang always wanted to give Huang Bita the best things.
Mu Shuangshuang watched Mu Dalang walk away, then let Lu Yuanfeng drive the ox cart to their own small courtyard.
Regarding the opening of the restaurant and the purchase of the property, Mu Shuangshuang was very low-key and hadn’t mentioned it to anyone outside the family, while Mu Dashan and Yu Si Niang were even more cautious.
They always adhered to the principle of not showing wealth, and since they dressed the same as before, no one could guess that the third branch now had an enterprise in town.
This time, with only ten days until the New Year, the atmosphere in the town was already particularly festive.
Sellers of spring couplets and New Year goods were everywhere you could see.
It seems that every year at this time, business was best, the ox cart had trouble getting through several times.
Finally arriving at their own property, everyone was sweating profusely.
"Shuangshuang, is this really our house?" Yu Si Niang was full of surprise.
The courtyard in front of them, though called a small house, still had quite a few rooms when viewed from outside, and compared to their house in the countryside, it wasn’t small.
The third branch’s house in the countryside was really quite rudimentary, without a main room or a utility room.
All the clutter could only be stored in the pigsty or the kitchen.
Luckily, when they built the kitchen, they knew to build it big enough, otherwise, many things would have to be left outside.
"Oh my, we finally have our own courtyard! We can finally... not be bullied anymore." This was something Yu Si Niang had held inside for a long time.
She didn’t dare enter the courtyard, only dared to walk back and forth outside looking.
Mu Shuangshuang looked at Yu Si Niang behaving this way, feeling sweet-hearted, at last, she and Fengzi had stood up for the family, taking the first step toward prosperity.
Now the third branch had fields, land, the academy was being built, the restaurant was preparing, and in the future, the third branch’s life would only get better.
"Dad and Mom, let’s not stand outside any longer, if someone sees us, it would be laughed at." Mu Shuangshuang said.
After she spoke, Mu Dashan nodded: "Yes, no matter how good the house is, we need to look closely to appreciate it."
The three little children were also excited, unable to wait, rubbing their hands together, just waiting for the adults to give the order.
Now that Mu Shuangshuang said it was okay to go in, the three kids immediately ran inside.
Everything in the courtyard was unfamiliar, but the three kids didn’t feel intimidated, they ran around the front yard in a circle, with the sounds of the children’s laughter, the courtyard suddenly seemed more lively.
In this courtyard, there were two ginkgo trees, and quite a few ginkgo leaves were scattered on the ground, Yu Si Niang quickly picked up a broom and started cleaning, as if she were in her own yard.
The remaining few people went into the backyard, in the house, Mu Shuangshuang almost hadn’t cleaned, and some of the stuff that was old and should have been thrown out hadn’t been.
After working on it the whole morning, Mu Shuangshuang and the four of them finally cleaned up the inside and outside of the courtyard.
Looking at this huge task, even Mu Shuangshuang herself felt it was a bit unbelievable.
"Fengzi, several windows here need replacing, along with the back door, also the stove in the kitchen, the utility room leaks..."
Mu Shuangshuang listed all the problems with the property at once.
No wonder the owner of Fulin Restaurant sold this property so cheaply to Mu Shuangshuang, it turned out the property was too old.
The utility room needed refurbishment, so many doors and windows needed replacing, the roof also needed new tiles, calculating it all required three to five taels of silver to get it right.
"It’s fine, I’ll find someone to do it, in town I know two people who returned from military service, they still do some masonry work around here, finding them shouldn’t take much time."
After all, it’s fixing a house, not building one, once the materials are bought, in a day or two, it can be done.
Mu Shuangshuang felt reassured after listening to Lu Yuanfeng.
"By the way, Shuangshuang, when will our restaurant open?" Mu Dashan asked.
Currently, Mu Dashan needed to focus on the academy project in the village, if the timelines in the town clash, it could be problematic.
"Dad, this will be handled with Fengzi, you just need to manage the academy well, today’s lunch was done by Aunt Xiao Yun, tomorrow I plan to give her a day off and help out myself."
At the construction site, several people built a shed nearby, the shed had a stove inside, with tables and everything, after work, everyone ate there.
The cooks were Zhao Yun and Yu Si Niang.
Usually, one tends the fire while the other cooks, today with Yu Si Niang out on the street, Zhao Yun had to handle everything herself.
Preparing meals for seven or eight men was not a simple task.
