allonlinenovel Chapter 38: Sharing the Money! Gaining Muscle and Strengthening Bones
Chapter 38: Sharing the Money! Gaining Muscle and Strengthening Bones
"Mom!"
"Mom!"
As soon as Wang Laizi left, the voice of Lin Ze, the third son of the Lin family, rang out from the crowd.
When Mrs. Lin heard the voice of her third son, her lips were trembling. Shen Qian's insulting words echoed in her ears again, and she was furious.
Old Mrs. Lin fell to the ground and fainted.
Looking at Old Lady Lin falling asleep immediately, Shen Qian felt very happy!
In the previous life, if this old woman had not come to ask for her second daughter Wang Miaomiao's hand several times while fleeing from famine, she would not have been repeatedly rejected, hated by Wang Miaomiao, and sold to that filthy place.
"Mrs. Wang Shen, you are so vicious!" Lin Ze looked at the old lady Lin lying on the ground, his heart trembling. Without asking the reason, he directly directed the conflict to Shen Qian who was selling lotus roots.
Shen Qian looked at Lin Ze who couldn't tell right from wrong and thought to herself: Fortunately the court didn't let such a fool pass the imperial examination, otherwise who knows how many people would suffer.
"My mother just came to buy some lotus roots today..." Lin Ze said, looking at the lotus roots piled next to his mother. A lot of mud and soup were flowing out of those lotus roots, which made people feel sick.
Anger surged again:
"You actually want to mix dirt into the lotus root!"
"Why do you humiliate my mother like this?"
At this point, Lin Ze's voice almost roared:
"Just because I rejected your daughter who was over twenty-two years old?"
"Then I will explain my words in front of the villagers."
"I, Lin Ze, will never marry Wang Miaomiao from your Wang family in this lifetime!"
The sound was so loud that it seemed to echo in the ancestral hall.
in the crowd.
Wang Miaomiao, who had sneaked in at some point, heard all these words.
The whole person was suddenly struck by lightning!
She originally thought that she could take some time to relax and then look for an opportunity to contact Sanlang of the Lin family again.
But unexpectedly, today, my mother would bully Old Lady Lin again, causing Sanlang of the Lin family to angrily distance himself from her completely in front of all the elders!
In this life... they have no chance to be together forever!
The villagers were in an uproar when they heard Lin Ze's oath. This was a huge news to them. After all, almost everyone in the village knew that Wang Miaomiao had remained unmarried at the age of 22 for Lin Ze's sake.
"This Lin Ze has such a cruel heart!"
"Is he trying to ruin Wang Miaomiao? It's already a disgrace for a woman to remain unmarried at such an advanced age. After taking this oath today, it's probably going to be hard for her to find a good family."
"Everyone saw what happened to Old Lady Lin just now. Can you blame Wang Shenshi for this? And even implicate her daughter? The old saying is true: since ancient times, young men have been the most heartless."
"..."
Shen Qian didn't notice that her second daughter was hiding in the crowd.
I just feel that Lin Ze, who swore in front of me not to marry my daughter, is very...two-armed!
Regardless of right or wrong, he first blamed himself, and then forced Wang Miaomiao, who had nothing to do with this matter, into this. How stupid a person must be to do such a thing!
"Get out, get out, take your lotus roots and get out!" Shen Qian drove Lin Ze away angrily.
Lin Ze stubbornly refused to pick up the lotus root that fell on the ground.
He picked up Old Mrs. Lin and walked outside.
But after taking just two steps, his frail body almost caused him to fall to the ground along with Old Lady Lin!
Fortunately, his sister-in-law squeezed out of the crowd and helped him up, thus avoiding tragedy.
After watching Lin Ze leave the crowd, his sister-in-law, who had been hiding inside and watched the whole process, walked back to the ancestral hall and cast an apologetic look at her grandfather Jia Shan.
He picked up the lotus root covered with mud on the ground and ran away.
Wang Dakuo looked at Jia Shan, shook his head and sighed:
"Your daughter is ruined by marrying into the Lin family."
After hearing this, Jia Shan sighed repeatedly:
"Hey!"
"I had long ago advised his eldest son not to be unrealistic. The army is not a place for ordinary people, and you won't be able to gain military merit. But who could have imagined that in just a few years, his family would hear news of three of them, father and son, being killed in battle one after another."
"This is life!"
As Shen Qian sold all the lotus roots, the crowd outside the ancestral hall dispersed.
The 32 families who stayed behind were each given 50 kilograms of lotus root.
And then comes the highlight of today: money and meat!
Today we hunted a wild boar and a tiger, and got 260 kilograms of meat and 600 taels of silver respectively!
In the evening, the lotus roots sold were a bit surprising in weight, and the total money was 114 taels and 840 coins!
Most of the money earned from selling lotus roots was copper coins.
Shen Qian used her calculation ability to quickly figure out the approximate value, and then asked:
"This time we got a total of seven hundred and fourteen taels and eight hundred and forty coins."
"If we divide it evenly, we won't get an integer. I suggest rounding it up. Each household will receive 22 taels and 300 coins!"
"At the same time, the remaining 1240 coins will be handed over to the village chief for management. They can be used for ancestral hall sacrifices and other matters in the future."
After saying that, Shen Qian swept her eyes over everyone.
It's asking for their opinions.
If everyone disagrees with this division, then we can continue to divide it.
Just as everyone was thinking and excited.
Village chief Wang Dakuo and Jia Shan were both shocked beyond words!
In just a short moment, Wang Shenshi calculated the amount directly without any external help, and even figured out how many coins were left!
This kind of terrifying arithmetic ability is unheard of!
"I have no objection." After being shocked, Jia Shan took the lead again.
After all, the money divided equally would only be a few dozen copper coins per person, and in those days when you can't even buy two kilograms of rice, it might as well leave it as a contribution to the village.
The rest of the people were also very content.
The harvest in one day was twenty-two taels and three hundred coins!
This is something they would never have dared to imagine in the past few decades.
In addition to today’s tiger hunting, the cubs at home will probably admire them even more when they return!
After the money was divided, Shen Qian took the silver ingots and silver coins she had taken on her own initiative, without taking a single copper coin, in preparation for escaping the famine.
After all, copper coins were too big to be easily hidden when fleeing famine, and it also made transportation more inconvenient.
The next step was to divide the meat. Shen Qian took the initiative to give up the pork fat and large pieces of fat and chose the meat around the ribs, and received a total of 18 kilograms.
Don’t think it’s a lot, the bones here account for at least ten pounds!
Moreover, the meat is not fat, so naturally it is not something that people fight over.
This allowed Shen Qian to get the "bargain".
"Wang You, Wang Liang, move the things onto the ox cart and go home!" Shen Qian ordered the dazed twins.
Upon hearing their mother's order, Wang You and Wang Liang immediately straightened their backs.
Quickly move things from the ground to the ox cart.
Sitting on the ox cart driven by Wang Wu, Wang You and Wang Liang couldn't help but ask Shen Qian:
"Mom!"
"Why didn't you choose the fat just now? Why didn't you choose these spareribs that everyone ordered?"
Facing Wang You and Wang Liang's questions, Shen Qian glared at them:
"Don't you feel sick of eating that fat?"
"Or do you think the ribs weren't tasty enough last time?"
Faced with their mother's question, Wang You and Wang Liang looked embarrassed.
What's going on?
Even if I say I’m not tired of it, my mother won’t go back to change it, saying that the ribs are not fragrant... Then I probably won’t be able to eat the ribs this time.
Wang You finally said with a bitter smile:
"Mom, these ribs are good."
"Eating meat and then eating bones will increase flesh and strengthen bones..."