The Ugly Girl Turns Over

Chapter 5

At dinner, five people sat around the table. Mr. Li drank a bowl of chicken soup, and now he was full of praise for Dong Yuewen. He couldn't do without three words of praise for Dong Yuewen.

"Yue'erniang, you are lucky. A few years ago, Yue'er was ill, and you were the only one. Now that Yue'er is cured, she is still such a smart and capable girl. You will have a lot of time to enjoy yourself in the future."

After talking, Mr. Li turned his head to look at Dong Yuewen, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Okay, okay, old man, if you brag again, her tail will go up to the sky in the future."

Although Dong said so, his eyes have turned into crescent moons.

After eating and drinking, Li Jin helped Mr. Li go back. Although Dong Erniu really liked Mrs. Dong, he still wanted to avoid suspicion. A big man lived in a widow's house, so he was not afraid of anything.

I'm afraid that when he is not around, people in the village will say that Dong's reputation is bad, and they will take her to soak in a pig cage.

So, after instructing the two of them to close the doors and windows and be careful of the candles, he also lit a lantern and went down the mountain.

At night, Dong Yuewen lay beside Dong Shi, feeling warm in her heart.

"Mother, what does our family do for a living now?"

In the past few days when she came here, she observed the fishing gear at home, and it seemed that no one had touched it for a long time. This Mrs. Dong definitely did not make a living by fishing, but she did not see Mrs. Dong doing anything else in the past two days.

So she became more and more curious. How does a widow with a silly girl make a living?It's impossible for Dongjia Village to distribute food to their mother and daughter every month.

"By the way, if you don't tell me, mother, you forgot. Tomorrow, you will cook for Uncle Er Niu and brother Jin at home, and mother has to go out."

After Dong's words, she also became anxious. She used to collect and wash clothes in Huayang Building on the island reef, and a piece of clothing cost half a copper coin. All these years, she relied on this skill to pull her former silly daughter Dong Yue.

But there were so many things these two days, she even forgot to collect the clothes.

Although the girls in that building liked her starched clothes and felt that the scent of herbs was better than the soap locusts, if she didn't go for a long time, these people would pack their clothes for others to starch.

Without this job, her mother and daughter might not be able to survive in the future.

"Mom, what are you going out for?"

Dong Yuewen held Dong's arm with her hands under the quilt, looking like a little girl who couldn't grow up.

"Mother is going to Huayanglou to collect clothes and come back to wash them. When we moved in the morning, Mother saw that the rice vat had bottomed out. If we don't do anything else, our mother and I will have no rice to cook."

It is also Dong's luck. She has been washing Huayanglou's clothes all these years, and the wages are not bad, and the life is not hard. This is why Dong Yue has become chubby. If she is not a country girl, how could she Blessed to have such a body.

Dong Yuewen searched her memory, and the word Huayanglou was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember it, maybe it was the memory of the silly Dong Yue that had affected her.

"What does Huayanglou do? Do you pay so much for laundry?"

Dong Yue knew that half a copper coin was [-] cents. In this kind of rural area, all the clothes on the first floor were packed out for washing. A piece of clothing cost [-] cents, which was quite valuable at this time.

After all, the money Dong earns from washing clothes once is enough for her mother and daughter to eat rice for half a month.

Just as she was thinking, Dong's voice sounded in the darkness.

"Don't ask, girls from good families won't go there anyway."

Dong Yuewen became even more curious. If this business is so profitable, such a good thing could be done by her orphans and widows. There must be something hidden in it.

Is it difficult?
Dong Yuewen took another deep breath of the pleasant herbal fragrance on the quilt.

"Mother? Is Huayanglou a brothel?"

After hearing her daughter's words, Dong felt humiliated, and now she felt that if Dong Yue was still as stupid as before, then she would do nothing to hinder Dong Yue.

After all, Dong Yue was doomed not to be able to marry before, but now that her daughter is sober, she doesn't care, she is afraid that her daughter will be belittled by others because of this matter in the future.

If she can't get married, she will blame herself for the rest of her life.Even if she is married, let her daughter-in-law's family know that she is washing clothes for a brothel, and I am afraid that her daughter will not be able to hold her head up in her husband's house.

But what can she do now?If she doesn't do this, how can she support these two mouths.

Dong Yuewen didn't know what was going on in Mrs. Dong's mind, she only had one thought, that Mrs. Dong must not be allowed to go to Huayanglou.

She doesn't care if she is famous or not, she just thinks that the clothes in such a place might be stained with dirty things, who knows what kind of dirty things the owner of the clothes has.

If Mrs. Dong accidentally got sick because of starching these clothes, then the mother she had so hard to get would disappear like this.

"Mother, don't go tomorrow, we will quit this business."

After listening to Dong Yuewen's words, Dong's heart was sore that she even cried.

"Yue'er, do you think your mother has shamed you?"

When Dong Yuewen heard it, she had a huge misunderstanding, so she quickly hugged Dong Shidao coquettishly.

"Mother, how can there be a daughter in the world who dislikes her own mother? I just think that washing clothes for others is not a long-term livelihood. Mother has worked hard all these years. Now that my daughter is awake, you can spend more time with me."

Mrs. Dong was sad at first, but she didn't expect her daughter's acting like a baby to suddenly flood her with maternal love, so she forgot to be sad, so she turned her head and said.

"But mother won't go, what shall we eat in the future?"

"Mother, didn't my daughter tell you before? The Goddess of the Sea God told me a few stories. Mother saw me beat that evil slave with a harpoon a few days ago. That's the skill taught by the Goddess of the Sea God, and she not only This has been passed down, and even the ability to make money has been passed down to my daughter several times."

Country people are the most superstitious, especially a simple rural woman like Dong, who has heard most people talk about her in her life is the Goddess of the Sea. Now Dong Yuewen's rhetoric is more effective than anything else, and she immediately caught Dong's heart.

"Bless the Bodhisattva, it is the Bodhisattva who has pity on my Yueer, thank you Bodhisattva."

After speaking, Dong got up from the bed, knelt on the ground and bowed a few times.

Dong Yuewen felt at ease now, as long as Dong Shi was stabilized first, she would figure out a way to make money afterwards, but before she thought of it, she would inevitably go hunting in the woods these days.

By the way, it happened that by taking advantage of the opportunity of teaching Li Jin to punch and kick, she could kill the prey, and someone would carry it back for her. Thinking of this, Dong Yuewen couldn't help but be grateful for the goodness of this place. If it wasn't for this fishing village, she would have died if she wanted to hunt. It's over.

In a fishing village these days, when everyone fishes, who would think of hunting?
(End of this chapter)