Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 68: Rushing to Work
Zhang Pandi waved her hands when she heard this and said, "That's too much. We don't need that much. I said twenty cents before, so that's twenty cents."

The mother and daughter each received twenty wen a day, which was eight hundred wen for twenty days, a huge sum of money for them.

"When I said fifty, it meant fifty. Now that you're married, you don't listen to your eldest sister anymore, do you?" Zhang Zhaodi said fiercely, "We three sisters have never been liked since we were young because we were girls and couldn't carry on the Zhang family's legacy. We worked the most and ate the least, but that's why we've had the best relationship since we were young. I fed my second sister her first spoonful of rice soup, and I held the hand of my third sister until she learned to walk. Which of you didn't I raise? I had a hard time in the past few years and couldn't help you. Now, thanks to my daughters, my life is better, and I won't sit idly by and watch you suffer. Unless time passes, you all stop wanting to listen to your eldest sister."

"Sister, we will listen to you." Zhang Yingdi said.

"Chunni and I will listen to you." Zhang Pandi choked.

"That's all." Zhang Zhaodi continued to make arrangements. "The reason I told them I'd give you twenty cents was so you could be more careful and save some for yourselves."

The mother and daughter each left thirty coins, which for the two of them would be sixty coins. After twenty days, they could leave a total of one thousand two hundred coins for themselves, which is one tael of silver and two hundred coins.

For the mother and daughter who had worked like slaves in the Jia family for many years without even touching any money, this was a huge sum of money and also the confidence they had to stand up straight.

The newly rented house wasn't habitable yet, so they had to squeeze in for now. Aunt Li next door asked Zhang Zhaodi if she wanted to stay with her for a while, and Zhang Zhaodi quickly thanked her. Then she went over and squeezed in with Aunt Li, letting Zhang Pandi and her daughter stay in her room. Su Yaoguang and Jiang Jing stayed in their own room, while Zhang Yingdi and her husband had to make do in the woodshed for now.

The next morning, Jiang Jing drove an ox cart with Zhang Zhaodi to pick up the porcelain vases that had been ordered. When they returned, Su Yaoguang and the others had already started working.

By the morning, the wall was complete, and Su Yaoguang had paid the workers. The villagers looked at Zhang Zhaodi and her daughter as if they were the God of Wealth, treating them with attentive care.

That afternoon, Carpenter Li's apprentices brought a newly made bed and placed it in the rented room. Seeing Su Yaoguang and her daughter making such a fuss, the villagers wanted to know what they were up to. Su Yaoguang didn't hide it, saying she had received a job and that they were too busy to handle it, so they asked a relative to come and help.

"Yaoguang, I'm just sitting around doing nothing. You see, my hands and feet are quite flexible. How about you ask me to come and help?"

"Auntie is so kind-hearted." Su Yaoguang said with emotion, "I wanted to ask for help from the village before, but I thought everyone has their own things to do. If I asked everyone to come and help for free, wouldn't that delay the work in the fields? I was too embarrassed to ask, so I could only ask my own aunt and cousin. After all, we are family, and they won't take my money."

"A free help?" The aunt froze. "Even if they're relatives, they wouldn't help you for free, right?"

"Aunt, I run a small business, how can I afford to pay wages? They are my relatives, and they are just doing a small favor. It's good enough that they provide food and accommodation. How can you accept money from me?" Su Yaoguang looked at her aunt expectantly, "Aunt, if you say so, then wait a moment..."

"I suddenly remembered that there is still work to be done in the fields. I'll leave first. You guys go ahead and do your work." The aunt's feet seemed to be on Hot Wheels, and she ran as fast as if a dog was chasing her.

Zhang Zhaodi said with a smile, "I was worried that you wouldn't be able to handle these persistent people. Now it seems that I underestimated you."

"If she wants to make money, then just let her give up. We're not stupid. Who wants to work for nothing?" Su Yaoguang said, "There's no need to offend her by saying harsh words."

Su Yaoguang wasn't hiring, but Aunt Li was. Aunt Li was in charge of buying flowers, and 80% of the villagers went out. The remaining 20% ​​either couldn't climb the mountain or had a grudge against Su Yaoguang and her daughter, and were unwilling to lose face eating the food they fed them.

"Oh my! Where did this big carriage come from?" The village woman looked at the oncoming carriage and said in surprise, "Is that Yi Huanniang?" Zhong Lanhua was sitting outside the carriage, and a young man was driving the carriage beside her. Hearing the village woman's shocked voice, Zhong Lanhua's face was full of smugness.

"Before, people said that Zhang Zhaodi and her daughter bought an ox cart. Look at the Jiang family. They are really capable. They bought a horse carriage. This horse carriage can be exchanged for ten ox carts."

"Zhong Lanhua and Jiang Yihuan both embroider, and every time they go to market, they send their work to the city to sell. The embroidery workshops in the city really appreciate their craftsmanship and sell it for a very high price."

Zhong Lanhua saw Su Yaoguang and Zhang Zhaodi in front of her, so she asked the waiter next to her to slow down and showed off in front of Zhang Zhaodi.

"This carriage is nice." Su Yaoguang said with a smile, "For this carriage, I'm afraid I'll need a servant to drive it. Otherwise, who will drive it?"

Zhong Lanhua was stunned.

The question became who would drive the carriage.

She couldn't possibly buy a servant just for a carriage. Not to mention the money for the servant, she would have to support a whole family, so it wasn't cost-effective.

Besides, this carriage was not given for free. It was paid for by the son of the horse market manager, so he must pay it back.

Zhong Lanhua had initially thought the other party would pay for them, using this as a way to curry Jiang Yihuan's favor. However, the man turned out to be cunning and only offered to advance the money without actually offering to give it to them. In the end, he even asked Jiang Yihuan to write him an IOU and put his fingerprint on it before he relented.

"Mom, let's go home." said Jiang Yihan who was sitting in the carriage.

The guy sent Jiang Yihan and Zhong Lanhua home, collected their hard-earned money and left.

"My dear, why didn't we think about who would drive the carriage after we bought it?" Zhong Lanhua said, "It would be such a waste to buy a carriage but not use it."

"It's okay. We rarely go out anyway. When we do go out, we can just ask an uncle in the village to help drive us and give him a couple of cents for his hard work."

Now that they had bought a carriage, why not hire someone to drive it? It was impossible for an unmarried girl like her to sit in front of the carriage and drive it, right? As for Zhong Lanhua, it was even more impossible for her to drive a carriage. She had always loved to enjoy herself but was unwilling to make any effort. It would be more practical to hire a servant to drive the carriage than to let her drive the carriage.

"Huan'er, this horse needs to be fed. Go get some grass to feed it." Zhong Lanhua ordered, "If you don't want to go, find a man to go."

At this point, Zhong Lanhua said, "That's not right. There are so many young men in the village who are courting you. Let them drive our carriage from now on."

(End of this chapter)