Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11274

Yang Huamei felt her head go blank and her ears buzzing at Tan's bold words.

She didn't know how to explain the complicated relationship to Tan...

Yang Ruoqing was originally prepared to be a quiet bystander and not say anything. However, after Tan finished speaking, she saw Yang Huamei staring in amazement and not expressing her opinion. Tan thought that it was not strong enough for her to make this suggestion alone, so she went to Yang Ruoqing for evidence.

"Fatty, do you think I'm right?"

When Tan asked the first time, Yang Ruoqing still clenched her teeth and didn't want to say anything, not wanting to argue.

"Fatty, why don't you say something? Why are you just sitting there without saying anything?" Tan asked for the second time with a stronger tone.

Yang Ruoqing lowered her head to drink tea and still did not respond.

"Fatty! Why don't you say something?" Tan stood up suddenly, looking at Yang Ruoqing with gritted teeth, her sallow old face flushed red.

Yang Ruoqing was frightened by her red-faced demonic appearance and almost thought that the old lady was going to transform.

Yang Huamei also calmed down at this time. She held Tan's arm and pulled her back to sit on the stool.

"Mom, let Qing'er have some tea. Just tell me what you want to say."

"Then tell me, do you agree with the method I just mentioned?" Tan turned her head and stared at Yang Huamei and asked.

Yang Huamei smiled bitterly, feeling extremely embarrassed.

"Mom, I know you're doing this for my own good, but I don't think it's necessary to move..."

"Why is it unnecessary? I analyzed so much with you before, was it all in vain?" Tan raised her hand to pat Yang Huamei's arm, but then she thought of something and temporarily changed the direction of her hand and slapped her own thigh hard.

Yang Huamei still smiled bitterly, "Mom, this place is really good, the people around here are pretty nice, there's really no need to move to another place, I've already paid the rent for half a year."

"Besides, there are a lot of new things in this house. If we really want to move to a new place, we have to move a lot of things. Look at me with a big belly, it's not convenient. Old Xu should go back to the teahouse tomorrow..."

Tan said with a frown, "We will help you move, so you don't have to work hard. As for the rent, why don't you ask the landlord to refund it? With our Yang family here, the landlord won't dare to refuse to refund it even if he has a hundred guts!"

Yang Huamei could only shake her head. At this moment, the power of words was so pale in front of Tan!

Yang Ruoqing couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she put down her tea bowl and said to Tan: "Grandma, everything you said is right. Even a fool would know that it would be more comfortable to live in a place with a private courtyard than to live in a large compound with a dozen families!"

Hearing that Yang Ruoqing was finally willing to speak up for her, Tan breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked at Yang Ruoqing with encouragement, "Go on!"

Yang Ruoqing then continued, "But, grandma, it's easy for you to talk, but to actually do it, it costs a lot of money!"

"Do you know how much it costs per month for my uncle and aunt to rent this place?"

"How many?"

"One thousand five hundred coins a month, that's nine taels of silver in half a year!"

"Ah? So expensive!" Tan was a little surprised.

That’s eighteen taels a year.

The old lady came to the town this time to take care of her daughter during the confinement period, and all the belongings in her purse were only twenty taels of silver.

Yang Ruoqing continued, "A house like this would cost ten taels of silver every month. Think about it, grandma. Is it because my aunt and uncle are too stupid to enjoy life, or is it because they are short of money?" "So the key point is not other things, but the money."

"If you can advance my aunt and her family half a year's rent, fifty or sixty taels of silver, then you can confidently persuade them to move. Otherwise, you are just a dog-headed military strategist, talking without any pain in your back."

Every word Yang Ruoqing said hit the nail on the head.

Yang Huamei said everything she wanted to say but was too embarrassed to say.

As for Mrs. Tan, she was previously domineering, strong-willed and full of superiority, as if she had come to the town specifically to serve as Yang Huamei's in-laws.

As a result, she lost because she didn't understand the house rental market in Qingshui Town and she didn't have enough money in her pocket to spend on it.

Although, the twenty taels of silver in her purse was already a very large sum of money for most people.

But it doesn't work in front of the two-story house in the town.

Tan was silent.

Can only sigh.

"With Xu Yuanming's savings in his early years, he must be able to afford the lease, right?" Tan was unwilling to accept the fact and asked Yang Huamei again.

Yang Huamei smiled and said, "More than just leasing. He could afford to buy it in the early years."

Xu Yuanming's family now lives in a two-story house with a courtyard in the southeast of the town. In front of it is a row of shops, and in the back are the wing rooms where his family lives. The front and back are connected together. It is not smaller than the house he rents now, and it was built by his family.

From buying the foundation to building the house, to the furniture in every room, the whole set cost over a hundred taels of money.

"In order to give me and my child a legitimate status, Old Xu left home with nothing. He lost all his shops and houses in the town, and all his savings over the years were gone."

All of it was left to his ex-wife's children to share, leaving him alone.

The money he has now is the income from his job in the teahouse.

"Hey, Xu Yuanming, couldn't he have kept some for himself at the beginning?" Tan's tone was full of complaints.

"Grandma, what did you say when my uncle left home to marry my aunt?"

Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing had to speak a fair word for Xu Yuanming, "You said at the time that you saw your uncle's sincerity in marrying your aunt, from leaving the house with nothing and overcoming all difficulties."

"You also said that you valued him as a person, that as long as the mountains are green, there will be no shortage of firewood, and that as long as my uncle treats my aunt well, we will get through the hard times even if we have to eat and wear worse!"

"How come in less than half a year, you've already started to find fault with him over money and other material possessions? This is a bit snobbish!"

Tan originally had her head down, sitting there a little disappointed as she listened to Yang Ruoqing's analysis.

But the more I listened, the more I felt something was wrong. Why did Pang Ya seem to be criticizing me between the lines?

  Especially the last sentence, snob!

Tan suddenly raised her head and said unconvincedly: "You are talking nonsense. If I were really a snob, I would not have married your aunt to Xu Yuanming in the first place!"

"Grandma, there are only three of us here behind closed doors, so please stop saying those self-deceiving words, okay?" Yang Ruoqing smiled and shook her head.

"If you don't marry off your aunt, what will happen to her and the baby in her belly? Have you forgotten how you waited so long for Xu Yuanming to give you an explanation that you were almost crying!"

Tan was silenced again by Yang Ruoqing!