MTL - After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields-Chapter 287 a man's dignity
Chapter 287 A man’s dignity
After sending away the villagers and closing the courtyard gate, only his own family was left, and Qin Yao had time to take care of the money he earned from selling grain.
Liu Ji's health had improved a lot. He came to the main room holding the stick that Erlang had picked up for him. When he saw the large basket of money on the ground, his eyes lit up. He reached out and picked up a few copper plates and threw them back. Listening The pleasant metallic sound made by the collision of copper plates made me curious:
“Madam, how much did we sell it for?”
Qin Yao flipped the abacus and said, "Six thousand kilograms were sold yesterday, one thousand kilograms of which belonged to the old house. The selling price was thirty cents per kilogram, a total of one hundred and eighty taels, minus the old house's The side is thirty taels, and the account is one hundred and fifty taels."
More than 5,000 kilograms were sold today. Excluding the part sold on behalf of the villagers, the remaining 4,700 kilograms belong to their family.
Today’s selling price is twenty-five cents per catty, and the amount recorded in the account is one hundred and seventeen taels. Adding up the two trips, it is two hundred and sixty-seven taels of silver!
Liu Ji stared at the abacus in Qin Yao's hand and smiled from ear to ear when he saw the final number.
The initial cost was only thirty-odd taels of silver, and the blood profit was more than two hundred and thirty taels.
“Madam, you are truly a god. You could have calculated all this in advance. We deserve to be rich!” Liu Ji praised with a thumbs up.
Qin Yao turned to look at him and asked expressionlessly: "Have you warmed up your books today? Have you finished the simulation questions? Where have you progressed in studying the Four Books and Five Classics?"
Liu Ji took a deep breath, turned his head, silently left the main room with a stick and returned to his room.
I heard the door slam shut, followed by the rustle of ink sticks grinding inside.
Qin Yao grunted, turned around with a smile and asked Erlang and others to get ropes and string the copper plates together.
The twins are crazy happy, they love this job very much!
Four small benches were lined up in front of the basket. As soon as Si Niang sat down, she couldn't wait to pick up the rope and asked: "Mom, how many should I string?"
Qin Yao arranged: "Dalang and Erlang will skewer a hundred skewers. After skewering, Sanlang and Si Niang will string ten skewers into one hanging."
Two small numbers cannot exceed fifty, otherwise it will be confusing, so it is most suitable to arrange them to string together large amounts of money.
Qin Yao waved her hand, and the four brothers and sisters immediately took action and began the repetitive and "tedious" task of stringing money together.
But at the beginning, there were a hundred people to string together. Sanlang and Si Niang couldn't get in the way, so they were so anxious that they urged: "Big brother and second brother, please hurry up."
Erlang said angrily: "How fast is this? If you count wrongly, you have to start over from the beginning. Oh, don't talk to me. How far have I counted?"
Qin Yao reminded: "Fifty-eight."
Erlang glanced at her gratefully and continued counting hurriedly.
Dalang was much more patient. He gave the twins a small basket of copper plates and asked them to count them in piles of ten and place them on the table. This way they could make a hundred coins faster and the twins would also have a sense of participation.
Qin Yao praised: "Dalang, your method is very good."
The little boy's ears turned red in embarrassment.
The money is tied together, and Awang’s dinner is ready.
Today’s meal is relatively light, but meat and vegetables are essential.
Pork stalls in the town are no longer open, and there is no fresh meat available. Fortunately, we smoked a lot of bacon during the twelfth lunar month last year, and now there is still a little left. I eat it every now and then, which is barely enough to make a toothpaste.
Since confessing his true identity to Qin Yao, Awang now sits at the dining table with a small stool and eats with Qin Yao's family.
However, he sits a little further away and eats very quickly. Whenever he sees the first person put down their bowls and chopsticks, he will put them down immediately, and then get up to clean them up.
The four Dalang brothers and sisters who took turns doing housework were not used to it at first, but this way, they had a lot more time to do their own things, such as reading, practicing calligraphy, or going to play with other children. Jinhua is now particularly envious of Si Niang. Not only can she go out to play, but she also doesn’t have to help with housework. One day when she got home, she said to her father Liu Zhong:
“Dad, like my third uncle, you can go to the town and bring someone back to work for our family.”
As expected, the **** is blooming.
Erlang was sharing this matter with his parents as a matter of fun, when Shunzi suddenly shouted happily from outside the hospital: "Third brother, are you feeling better from your injury?"
Liu Ji, who was sitting in the room and was forced to read, immediately came out of the room and asked curiously: "Shunzi? What are you doing here?"
Shunzi first smiled and said hello to Qin Yao in the hall, then pointed to Liu Ji's house. Seeing Qin Yao nodding, she walked to Liu Ji with a smile, helped him into the house, and said very attentively:
"Third brother, you look much better now. You can even walk around. Don't tell me, the ointment given by Dr. Jin is really good. Third brother, look at the bruises on your face. He is my charming and handsome third brother."
Liu Ji felt very happy after hearing what Shunzi said, but because the two of them were so "compatible", as soon as he sat down, he leaned on the bed and crossed his arms with a smile and asked:
“Tell me, what else do you want to ask me for?”
As he asked, he glanced outside the door. When he didn't see Qin Yao coming, he guessed that Shunzi must have been instructed by her.
Shunzi said what he had to say directly, and asked with a smile: "Third brother, when will you return to the academy?"
Liu Ji himself didn’t know, but he had to wait until the refugees’ affairs were settled before the city gate would be opened.
"I guess it will take more than half a month." He hadn't returned to the academy for a long time, and he still wanted to go back. At least there was no Qin Yao's eyes staring at him all the time, and he could breathe a little.
It's not like at home, where you provoke him at every turn. Getting scolded is a trivial matter, but getting beaten is really fatal.
Shunzi looked at Liu Ji's dissolute heart that still couldn't be contained, and sighed twice: "Third brother, with a woman like Manager Qin, you can be content."
Now there are several villages nearby, but who knows the situation of Liu Ji's family in the past, which one does not envy him to eat this soft rice?
Liu Ji snorted, "You are her lackey now. Don't think I don't know that you no longer have me as your third brother in your heart. If you have any questions, hurry up. I am too lazy to talk to you, a traitor!"
Shunzi sat upright and said, "Third Brother, the factory is going to hold a literacy class, but there is still a lack of a teacher. I thought, Third Brother, you happen to be at home and you are a prestigious academy student. What a coincidence."
Before he finished speaking, Liu Ji waved his hand and refused the three words: "If you don't want to go, don't want to, don't call me!"
Shunzi: “.”
“You should listen to me first”
Liu Ji: "You traitor!"
Shunzi sighed and took out a cloth bag from his arms. It jingled in his hand. Before he could put it down, Liu Ji quickly stretched out his hands and snatched the bag away.
When I opened it, I saw a bunch of copper plates, a total of one hundred copper coins.
Liu Ji excitedly held Shunzi's hand, "Shunzi, do you know what this hundred cents represents to a penniless man?"
Shunzi was a little frightened by his reaction, "Dai, what does it mean?"
Liu Ji stood up on the bed and kissed the money bag twice: "This is a man's dignity!"
(End of this chapter)
