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Chapter 22

Mrs. Chen looked at her with a gloomy face.

Wan immediately stood up like a quail and shouted weakly, "Mother."

Mrs. Chen looked at Mr. Wan and asked sternly: "Did you hear everything just now? Just say what you want to say quickly."

Mrs. Wan was not a person who could hold back things. When Mrs. Chen asked, she immediately said: "Mom, you are so partial now.

I just heard that you gave money and cloth to your fourth younger brother and sister. They are all your daughters-in-law, so why should the fourth younger brother and sister have it but we don’t?"

Mrs. Chen allowed Mrs. Wan to finish, and then glanced at Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Peng in the yard who seemed to be doing housework, but were actually listening with their ears pricked up. Then she looked at the three cows and Gu Yuan at home.

He also called Gu Yan and the old man Gu Dayong, "All of you, come to the main room."

After saying that, Mrs. Chen turned around and went to her and Old Man Gu's room.

Gu Daniu whispered in Wanshi's ear: "Daughter-in-law, look, if you don't admit it when I say you are stupid, you must have made my mother angry again!"

Wan heard the gloating in Gu Daniu's tone and almost wanted to beat this bitch to death.

After a while, Mrs. Chen came out of the house holding a locked small box and a bundle of cloth.

After placing the small box on the table in the main room, she stamped the bundle of cloth on the table.

Then, she took the key and opened the lock on the small box.

As soon as the lid of the box was opened, the white silver ingots inside blinded everyone's eyes.

Not to mention his sons and daughters-in-law, even old man Gu was shocked. After taking a puff of dry cigarette to calm down his shock, he asked: "Old lady, where did our family get so much money?

If we find someone else's, we have to find a way to return it to them. They may be very anxious after losing such a large sum of money!"

Mrs. Chen said with a calm face: "This is the money Wanya earned from selling a ginseng she dug up in the mountain with Brother Yuan yesterday!

A total of one hundred and fifty taels of ginseng were sold!"

"Oh my god! One hundred and fifty taels!" Wan was so frightened that she exclaimed, then slid off the bench and fell to the ground.

Gu Daniu was also so shocked that he opened his mouth wide, "Mom, our family is about to explode!"

Although the rest of the Gu family were not so exaggerated, they all opened their mouths slightly. They all knew that ginseng was valuable, but they did not know ginseng, let alone that it could be so valuable!

Mrs. Chen glanced at her family members who were shocked and speechless, and then told her about buying wine and food.

Gu Dayong smoked the cigarette and said nothing, but Wan Shi stood up and patted her butt excitedly, looking at Chen Shi with gleaming eyes, "Mom, our family has bought so much food!

Then can we eat with open stomach again?"

After saying that, she looked at Gu Yuan and Su Wan again, "Brother Yuan, you said you are the same. Those yellow soups are neither suitable for eating nor drinking. Why did you buy so much? Isn't this a waste of money?

It would be great to buy more white flour rice, so that our family can have more meals of steamed buns and white rice."

"Wanya, you are serious. Brother Yuan is a scholar and doesn't know how valuable firewood and rice are. Why don't you try to persuade him?" Wan Shi scolded Gu Yuan and Su Wan with a heartbroken look on her face, as if the wine was used to cut her flesh.

The money bought the same thing.

Mrs. Chen glanced at Mr. Wan, who immediately shrank her neck like a quail?

Mrs. Chen continued: "We have some food stored in our family now, but as long as we can find wild vegetables to fill our stomachs, no one is allowed to think about saving food!

When we went to town today, we heard that the rain last night only soaked the area near our village, and we didn't see any rain flowers in other places.

The eyes of the refugees outside the city gate were green with hunger.

Our corn seeds have been sown now, but if it doesn't rain again today, there's no telling whether there will be a harvest.

Keep that food to save your life!"

Gu Dayong took the last puff of his dry cigarette, glanced at his son and daughter-in-law, and said: "What your mother said makes sense. The price of food is already so high now. If the drought continues like this, even if you have money, you won't be able to buy that little food."

You have to keep it to save your life, no one can make any plans!"

Mrs. Chen's eyes fell sharply on Mrs. Wan, Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Peng, "You have been here for so many years. Have I ever received any money from you when your men went to work outside?

Now the money is earned by Wanya and Laosi. I give the money to them, what else do you want to say?"

What Chen said is already very obvious. If they still have objections, everyone must pay the money!


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