The evil mother-in-law does not whitewash, she only abuses her children

Chapter 270 Who Should Do the Work

Cao cooked and Chunni lit the fire, and the mother and daughter quickly prepared dinner.

Tian Fugui and Luo Pozi, one played cards for the whole afternoon, while the other hid in the haystack at the entrance of the village to mend shoe soles. They thought they would go to the restaurant and then go home together.

Cao and Chunni brought the food to the table.

Tian Fugui's face looked very unhappy. Cao and Chunni tried their best not to make any sound, for fear of upsetting Tian Fugui.

Mrs. Luo stirred the rice and said, "What kind of family are we? Why is the rice so thick today?"

Cao smiled and said, "I thought that mother was tired after a day's work, so I put more rice in."

Mrs. Luo scolded, "You spendthrift woman, how can our rice withstand such a disaster? You don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, but you can't even eat them, but you have learned to spend lavishly."

Cao was used to being scolded by Mrs. Luo and did not refute.

While mumbling, Mrs. Luo divided the thick porridge in her bowl into two halves, pouring half for her grandson and half for her son, and then she diluted the porridge herself with hot water.

Chunwang and Tian Fugui sat down as usual and ate thick rice porridge with big white steamed buns.

Mrs. Luo walked to the pot door with satisfaction, and personally took the spoon to scoop two bowls of porridge so thin that a person's reflection could be poured out of it for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

Chunni wanted to ask why, but she didn't dare to ask. She sat at the door of the pot with the bowl in her hand and drank it expressionlessly.

"Mother, Chunni is injured. Please give her a bowl of thick soup so that she can get herself well and work." Cao pleaded with a smile.

Mrs. Luo raised her eyebrows and said, "She is a rich lady. It's good enough that she has something to eat now. Her life is much better than when I was a child. When I was a child, I ate wild vegetables and tree bark, but I couldn't even drink porridge like this."

Chunni was afraid that Cao would be embarrassed, so she said softly, "Mother, I'll just drink this bowl."

Cao was afraid that saying too much would arouse the anger of her mother-in-law and husband, so she did not dare to continue pleading. She turned her back and transferred the little rice in her bowl to Chunni's bowl.

However, Cao's actions still could not be hidden from her mother-in-law.

"Just spoil Chunni as much as you can." Mrs. Luo said disdainfully, "A money-loser wants to drink thick water, don't you think about whether you have the luck to do it?"

Cao didn't say anything.

Chunni paused while drinking porridge, and suddenly felt dissatisfied. Why didn't she have the fate to drink thick porridge?

Tian Fugui and Chunwang ate steamed buns and drank thick porridge as if it had nothing to do with them.

After dinner, Cao still took Chunni to clean up the dishes and clean the kitchen.

After finishing all this, Cao started to boil water for her mother-in-law to wash her feet.

Mrs. Luo was worried about the money spent on oil lamps, so she went to bed early every day and would not light a lamp if possible.

Therefore, Cao would prepare water for her mother-in-law to wash her feet early every day.

"Chun Ni, bring the water to your grandma."

Cao prepared the water for washing feet and told Chunni to bring it to the upper room.

She wanted Chunni to be as sensible as possible in front of her mother-in-law and win her favor.

Chunni stood there without moving.

"Chun Ni, the worse your grandma and dad treat you, the more filial you will be. They might treat you better because of your filial piety." Cao said.

Chunni felt that what Cao said was wrong. She said softly, "I have always been very obedient. Grandma and Daddy are not nice to me either."

Mrs. Luo shouted for foot-washing water in the house. Cao didn't bother to lecture Chunni and hurried to the upper room with the water.

Mrs. Luo was sitting on a chair, Chunwang was huddled beside her eating cakes, and Tian Fugui was leaning against the chair with a gloomy face, smoking his pipe.

Cao squatted down and helped Mrs. Luo wash her feet.

"......Heilongtan sent someone to send a message this evening saying that they want to see a few more families. They are willing to pay thirty taels of silver. Now several families are vying to send their daughters to be child brides. If you hadn't stopped me yesterday, I would have sent Chunni to Heilongtan this morning, and the thirty taels would have been ours."

No wonder Tian Fugui had a gloomy face since he returned home, it turned out that there was a disturbance in the matter of Chunni being a child bride.

Mrs. Luo cursed, "You're just a money-loser," and she felt so angry that her teeth were itching. That was thirty taels of silver.

Cao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Chunni can stay at home for a few more years.

Chunwang said in a muffled voice: "If I can't exchange the money for the goods, I won't have meat to eat."

Cao quickly took the opportunity to say, "Yes, your mother and your sister will make money so that you can eat meat every day."

Mrs. Luo took advantage of the moonlight outside to glance at Cao and thought her daughter-in-law was dreaming.

Where can she, a woman, make money?

I thought it was Widow Tong.

Tian Fugui sat up straight and asked, "How can you and Chunni make money?"

Cao said, "I'm really not lying to you and mother. I begged Aunt Tong, and she promised to let Chunni and I work for her and she would pay us."

Mrs. Luo's eyes rolled.

Some time ago, Chunwang suffered a loss at the hands of Yaozu and the county magistrate's son. Mrs. Luo asked around in the village and heard that Tong Huaqiong's shop was booming. Gu Xiaocao and Liu Qiaoyun from the village were helping in the shop and making a lot of money.

Cao and Chunni went to work in the shop, which not only saved the family a lot of expenses, but also allowed them to bring money home.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard his son say, "You and Chunni can't go. It's not appropriate to show up in the town. Since Tong Da Jiao is willing to let our family do the work, only I can do this job."

Tian Fugui and Luo Pozi thought the same thing, believing that Cao and Chunni would go to work in Tong Huaqiong's pastry shop.

Qin Qingyou and Liu Yue'e's brother Liu Shan, two grown men from the village, both helped out in the shop, one delivering cakes and the other responsible for purchasing. They could both run around outside and make money.

Qin Qingyou, who has always been honest, has become a shopkeeper in his speech and actions after more than half a year of experience.

Tian Fugui was very envious and also wanted to work in Tong Huaqiong's shop.

After asking Qin Qingyou for help many times, Qin Qingyou always shirked his responsibility, saying that the shop was not hiring now and even if it was, he had no say, so he asked him to go find Tong Huaqiong.

He didn't want to look for Tong Huaqiong.

Firstly, the Tian family and the Gu family had no relationship. Secondly, Tong Huaqiong was a female boss, so he couldn't ask a woman for work.

Now that my wife and daughter have asked for a job, wouldn't that be a good opportunity to give it to him?

I guess Tong Da Jiao won’t say anything.

Cao said, "Dad, you've got it wrong. He's not going to the shop, he's going to feed the pigs and work in the fields."

Tian Fugui's face fell, and he said, "You are begging for life, why don't you ask for an easier job, but instead ask for work in the pigpen and the fields."

Cao said, "I just want to avoid delaying our family's work, right?"

Mrs. Luo then said, "Working in the fields and feeding pigs is fine, it's better than burning charcoal in Xu Jin's coal mine. I heard that Widow Tong is very generous, and the hired workers working in her house are provided with meals, and there are big white steamed buns from time to time, and meat during the busy farming season."

Chunwang heard Dabai Mantou and Xianxiang yelling, "From now on, mother and Chunni should bring the mantou and meat they earn from their work home for me to eat."

When Tian Fugui heard about the big white steamed buns and meat, he became interested.

He can kill pigs.

Tong Huaqiong raised so many pigs to sell pork, so he needed a butcher, and he could just go to the pig farm.

Killing pigs is a lucrative job.

"We have so much work to do at home. If you go to work at Widow Tong's house, it will delay the work at home. Since you asked for work at the pig farm, I will do it. I can kill pigs. As for Chunni, she can go to work in Widow Tong's fields. If she can't earn thirty taels of silver, don't blame me for being rude."

Cao said hurriedly, "We agreed with Aunt Tong that Chunni and I would go to work, but you are the one who will decide what will happen. You know Aunt Tong's temper. If she gets angry and doesn't want Chunni and me, then we will lose our way to make money."

Cao is not stupid. Through communicating with Tong Huaqiong, she has realized that Tong Huaqiong hates Tian Fugui.

Mrs. Luo said, "Fugui is more capable of working. Whoever can work, Widow Tong will ask Fugui to go to the pig farm if she knows the accounts clearly."

"Wealth and honor are really not enough." Tong Huaqiong's voice exploded under the window of the Tian family.