Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 299 - 258 You Are All Squandering the Family’s Wealth_3

Chapter 299: Chapter 258 You Are All Squandering the Family’s Wealth_3

Suddenly hearing this news, the words spoken by Mrs. Lai made Zhong Xianggui unhappy.

"Big brother, didn’t you also have five daughters before you had a son?"

Zhong Xianggui angrily retorted, already unhappy, and now his mother-in-law’s words made him even more upset, not to mention that his family also favored boys over girls.

In fact, their family had been following the tradition of having only one heir for many generations, just like the Ye family, continuously having children after the first-born was not a son.

His wife’s first child was a daughter, and he feared that his wife might continue to have daughters, as the family was hoping for a son. Seeing his wife had a daughter, the whole family was unhappy.

If it were not for being able to rely on the Ye family, having a daughter would not be celebrated with jubilation.

These red eggs and ginger vinegar pork feet were all prepared for the birth of a son.

At this moment, Ye Family’s sisters heard a familiar voice in the courtyard; they secretly opened the door of their room and overheard what their grandmother and their second uncle were saying.

Shiqi thought to herself, when her mother gave birth to her, the second aunt had not spoken such cold words. Now that she had a daughter, what were her feelings and emotions at her in-laws?

Being a woman is difficult in any era, isn’t it?

Especially in ancient times, in this extremely patriarchal ancient society, why should women make it hard for other women?

Now that the second aunt was in this situation herself, she should understand the difficulties of being a woman, right?

The five sisters did not mock; the slightly older Ye Luoqi, already in her early teens but already understanding much, knew the hardship when her mother kept having sisters. The other sisters also vaguely understood.

Every family preferred boys; girls like them were considered superfluous, no matter how smart and clever, always deemed less valuable, fortunately, their parents were still quite good to them.

When her son-in-law spoke to her in such a way, what could Mrs. Lai say? Could she say to not worry, that her son, having had several children, would also have a son?

As a mother-in-law, she could only comfort him by saying, "You are still young, having a daughter first doesn’t mean you can’t have a son next, make it a good word."

Zhong Xianggui, upon hearing his mother-in-law’s words, could only hope that it would be so.

Mrs. Lai, not caring whether she was in a good mood or not, now focused on the issue at hand, she saw the food and reached out for the red eggs and ginger vinegar pork feet.

Normally, even taking little things seemed tiresome to her, everything needing a helping hand, but now, for the sake of food, she didn’t feel the weight of even ten or eight ’jin’.

"Mom, could you please notify my big sister? I’ll head back first."

Zhong Xianggui, seeing that all the things were here, and his mother-in-law picking up these things to bring inside, did not wish to snatch them from her hands, and even less wanted to meet his eldest sister and explain again.

"Sure, tomorrow I will ask Mrs. Li to go check on Shuzhi?"

Mrs. Lai did not say a word about sharing any red eggs and ginger vinegar pork feet with her eldest daughter, nor did she mention visiting her second daughter, now that she had claimed the food for herself.

Her immediate thought was, did giving birth to a daughter still warrant a visit from her, traveling from afar?

Mrs. Lai’s gender-biased thinking was not only reflected in her son but also in the way she viewed her daughters.

However, since a daughter was still her own flesh and blood, she did consider sending Mrs. Li to check on her.

Zhong Xianggui nodded; he did not have high hopes for Mrs. Lai, as Mrs. Li, his wife’s eldest sister, was somewhat more reliable in handling matters.

Zhong Xianggui hurriedly left with ox cart.

Mrs. Lai, bringing the items into her room, and before closing the door, gestured for a worker who was peeking to come over.

"Come here..."

The worker summoned by her did not expect that this person, even stingier than the landlord lady, would call her over to eat; it must be for some other task.

Her five granddaughters were all at home, there was food to eat, but she didn’t call them to eat; everyone working here or from Bushen Village knew that Mrs. Lai was not a kind grandmother, although she was slightly better with her only grandson.

Thinking this, the worker still walked towards Mrs. Lai.

"You go tell the grandmother married into our village, that her sister gave birth, and ask her to visit the younger sister tomorrow." freewёbnoνel.com

The worker nodded and left, soon returning.

The two households were not far apart in the same village.

Mrs. Lai, seeing the worker return, was eating in her room, her cheeks bulging; she opened the window and asked the worker:

"Hey, did you convey my message?"

"I did. The big mother-in-law isn’t back yet; I spoke with her mother-in-law."

Mrs. Lai nodded and then closed the window, knowing the younger brother-in-law of her eldest daughter also had a wife, and while the men worked outside, her eldest daughter had to work in the rice paddies with her siblings, entrusting the children to the care of the Mother-in-law.

Speaking of which, Ye Shuying pleaded with Hongji to let her son stay at the Ye family’s side to be taught by the teacher.

Hongji, being the uncle, had no choice but to agree; managing one sheep or many didn’t differ much.

Unfortunately for Ye Shuying, though ambitious, the youngest daughter of her eldest brother was younger than her son, yet could read and write; her son was surely smarter than those girls and would learn quickly.

However, things didn’t go as beautifully as they thought; the boy, who usually played so well at home and was pampered, didn’t enjoy sitting down for long, studying under supervision, and made a fuss, crying and creating havoc.

Eventually, with no other option, Ye Shuying had to consider waiting until her son was older before sending him to study again.