peasant girl wedding

Chapter 76 Hiring People
Tong Zhide's appearance made the old lady very angry, one son was like this, and so were the two sons!She stomped and jumped into the room, took out the money jar, clattered it down on the table, and counted it quickly.

"You also said that you didn't steal my silver, what's the matter with the one hundred pennies that are missing here?" The old lady stared at Luo Shi with a look of cannibalism, "On those days when I was not feeling well, you were in my house In and out, who else but you? You black heart, I thought you were a filial daughter-in-law, but I didn't expect to have such dirty thoughts, you, you..." The old lady began to fuck The feather duster greeted Luo Shi.

Luo Shi gritted his teeth, and excused himself aggrievedly, "Mother, I didn't."

Tong Zhide at the side protected Luo Shi, and let the old lady beat him silently.

The old lady was not merciful, she just beat Tong Zhide to pieces, and his clothes were rotted into pieces.

"You bought this mushroom, who else could it be if you didn't steal my silver?" The old lady who was soon tired sat on a chair panting, pointed at Luo Shi and said angrily.

Tong Zhide frowned and said, "Mother, a catty of mushrooms costs a tael of silver, which is more than a catty. I'm afraid you won't be able to buy a hundred coins."

"You, you are mad at me..."

Unexpectedly, the seldom-spoken Tong Zhide would say such a thing, and the old lady rolled her eyes angrily.

The old man Tong, who had been silent all this time, said with a dark face: "It's all right, all right, don't make trouble, isn't it just a hundred coins, what's the trouble?" He glanced at the old lady displeased.Right now, the main labor force of the Tong family is in the second room, and my daughter-in-law is holding on to the second daughter-in-law like this. What will happen to the large crops of the Tong family?
The old lady ignored Mr. Tong and glared at Luo Shi, "You still don't admit that you stole it?"

Luo Shi was very wronged in his heart, and he didn't care if the old lady would be more angry if his association with Tong Zhixin, he just wanted to clear himself up.

"The mushrooms were given by my fourth sibling. I didn't take any money from my mother."

Mr. Tong and Mrs. Tong were shocked.

"Where did they get the mushrooms?"

"The fourth child has entered the forest." Tong Zhide said.

Old Master Tong sneered, "He really doesn't know how to live or die."

The old lady didn't speak, and her thoughts turned quickly.

Luo Shi stared fixedly at the old lady.

The old lady coughed lightly, and her complexion was not much better than before, "Then who took my one hundred Wen?"

Roche remained silent.

The old lady babbled and scolded for half the night, and finally she couldn't bear it any longer, so she let the group of people rest.

Luo Shi went back to his yard, took the ointment and rubbed it on Tong Zhide.

"Daughter-in-law..." Tong Zhide only said two words and didn't know what to say anymore.

Luo Shi waited for him to wash his face and feet, made the bed and went to sleep, without saying a word to Tong Zhide.As for the old lady, she said in her heart that she didn't have any resentment, that was completely false.

At this time, Luo Shi was extremely envious of Fang Cuiwei, if Tong Zhide could also separate the family...

"The child's father, can we separate?" Luo Shi asked Tong Zhide tentatively with his back turned to Tong Zhide.

Tong Zhide didn't reply, and Luo's anticipation also cooled down.

"Daughter-in-law, mother has a bad temper. I also know that you have been wronged today, but mother has suffered a lot for us in the past, and so has father. I can't leave them behind."

Tong Zhide sighed.

He hugged Luo Shi's waist from behind, and said sullenly: "Daughter-in-law, I will treat you well, father and mother, please forgive me."

Tong Zhide has already said that, what else can Luo Shi say?
She gritted her teeth and swallowed all the grievances she suffered today.

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Tong Zhixin and the others chatted together after dinner, Tong Duo'er and Fang Cuiwei took their needlework and listened to their conversation while doing needlework.

"Father, how much money is it in total?" Tong Zhu'er asked excitedly.

"150 three taels and sixty essays." Before Tong Zhixin could answer, Tong Zhaofu replied.

Fang Cuiwei and Tong Duoer raised their heads.

"Yes," Tong Zhixin, who added up the 100 taels of silver notes and broken silver taels, looked at Tong Zhaofu excitedly and praised, "Ah Fu's calculation is really fast!"

Tong Zhaofu smiled and said, "Sir, I taught arithmetic a few days ago."

"Ah Fu is really good. He can do mental arithmetic after learning arithmetic." Tong Zhi'er patted Tong Zhaofu's head and praised him.

Tong Zhaofu blushed slightly, "My heart is the shopkeeper Qin called me."

Tong Zhi'er looked puzzled, as did Tong Zhixin and others.

Tong Zhaofu even told about meeting Qin An in the private school today.

"During the lunch break, I was walking in the school, and I happened to meet shopkeeper Qin, who was kind and kind. After chatting for a few words, he knew that I was learning arithmetic, so he told me the key to mental arithmetic, so that I could do it so fast. "

Tong Zhixin nodded, "Treasurer Qin is a powerful person, he must have taught you well, Ah Fu, you should thank him properly when you find a chance."

Tong Zhaofu nodded.

Tong Zhixin handed over the counted banknotes and silver to Tong Zhier for management. Tong Zhier took them and put them into a money jar with a lock, and tapped a simple pencil made of charcoal on the paper a few times.

Tong Zhixin looked curiously, "Zhi'er is keeping accounts?"

"Income, expenditure." Tong Zhaofu read, looking up at Tong Zhi'er in doubt, "Second Sister, what does this mean?"

Tong Zhi'er wrote today's amount in the column of income, and explained to Tong Zhaofu: "This means how much money our family has earned, this is the opposite."

"That means how much money was spent?" Tong Zhaofu blinked.

Tong Zhier nodded.

Tong Zhaofu pointed to the strange symbol that he didn't understand.

"This is today's day, Ah Fu. You know that the second sister can't read many words. This is for my convenience." The column Tong Zhaofu pointed to was the date.

Tong Zhixin's eyes dimmed, and Fang Cuiwei also looked regretful.

Tong Zhi'er changed the subject and said, "Father, judging from today's situation, if shopkeeper Qin wants us to get hundreds of catties of mushrooms within half a day, we will not have enough manpower. Now that we have money in hand, when we are busy How about just hiring someone to help?"

Tong Zhixin nodded, "That's a good idea, how about the money?"

"It is calculated by the catty of small mushrooms and the large mushrooms that are not damaged. If a small mushroom is damaged, ten pennies will be deducted, and a catty of large mushrooms will be counted as twenty pennies."

Tong Zhixin thought about it, and felt that Tong Zhier's plan was feasible.

The next day, Tong Zhixin walked around the village beating the gong.Hearing the sound, everyone came out of the house and looked at what Tong Zhixin's family was going to do.

"Fathers and folks, we have signed a contract with a restaurant in the county, and we will send mushrooms there every few days. In order to ensure the freshness of the mushrooms, we will ask for your help when the restaurant comes. Of course, I will I won’t ask you to work in vain, a person who picks a catty of mushrooms will be charged at twenty cents, but if someone steps on or hurts a small mushroom, ten cents will be deducted.”

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, does Tong Lao Si mean to ask them to work and pay them?

Someone asked: "Where is this mushroom picked?"

"In the woods behind my house."

After the words fell, everyone who was talking about it fell silent.

"In the woods? My God, this is a life-threatening situation. Let alone 20 taels, I won't go even if I get [-] taels."

"That's right, money is more important than life!"

"I asked why a carriage came to our village yesterday. It turned out that Tong Lao Si went to the forest to buy mushrooms and sell them. Their family really wanted money and died..."

"Walk around..."

The crowd dispersed quickly.

Tong Zhixin sighed helplessly, and returned home with a depressed expression.

"What's going on?" Fang Cuiwei put down the work in her hands, ran over and asked anxiously.

Tong Zhixin shook his head, "When I heard that I was going to the woods, everyone didn't want to."

"What should we do?" Fang Cuiwei was also worried, "Why don't we go to the county to hire someone."

"Mother, this won't work!" Tong Zhi'er walked into the house and said, "The people in the county, please, we have to pay more, and they are far away, and our family will have to provide a meal for them. Besides, hiring people in the county may not be willing if they hear the rumors about the forest in the village."

"This………"

"What did Zhi'er pay attention to?" Tong Zhixin asked after listening to her methodical analysis.

"Father, mother, not every family in our village is rich. Those who have no land have no food and no clothes. These people may be willing."

.........

In a dilapidated thatched house somewhere in the village, an old man in her last years was lying on a dilapidated couch. Her face was very thin, her eye sockets were sunken, and her hair was very withered and yellow.

Beside the small couch, several skinny boys and girls sat on the ground weakly.

"Papa papa..."

There was the sound of footsteps outside the door, a gleam of light flashed in the eyes of the boys and girls, they staggered up, and ran out unsteadily.

"Brother, is there anything delicious?"

The skinny, dark-skinned young man shook his head apologetically, and several children jumped over, hammering and hitting the young man with their fists.With a body that hasn't eaten for several days, his fists are as weak as cotton.

"Why can't my brother find something to eat? Didn't you say you could find it?"

"Brother, I'm hungry..."

"Woooooooo..."

The anger and accusations in the eyes of the children made the boy's heart ache.

"I have food here..."

A crisp female voice came from the door, and the crying child turned his head, and saw a girl standing by the door holding a basket in her hand, and there were a few big white and fat steamed buns in the basket, wolf-like eyes immediately appeared in her eyes. green light.

"Here you... yours... and yours... don't eat too fast."

The boy turned around, his red eyes fixed on Tong Zhi'er.

"Thank you."

Tong Zhi'er shook his head and said, "Do you want to earn some money?"

The young man nodded and asked eagerly, "Are you willing to have me?" In order to treat his seriously ill mother, all the things in the house were spent.He also went outside to look for a job, but when people heard that he couldn't work for a long time, and there were mothers and younger siblings to support at home, and they had to go home every day, they didn't want him.

"When you go into the forest to pick mushrooms, a catty is calculated as [-] Wen."

After the words fell, the boy nodded heavily.

Tong Zhi'er reminded him: "The forest I'm talking about is the forest with ferocious beasts."

The boy's face turned pale, "I know, but I'm going."

(End of this chapter)