Parents are busy farming

Chapter 76 1 As always

After lunch, Lao Li came with his eldest son.

Zi Zifen had already told her family about this during dinner yesterday. If she wanted to open a mutton soup restaurant, she would need to use good mutton. There were not many people raising sheep in their local area, so she wanted to raise them herself first.

After Li Daniu entered the house, he knelt down and kowtowed to the Ye family.

Ye Zifen dislikes Confucian culture very much, and is very displeased with this behavior of kneeling down at every turn.

It was also because she was deeply influenced by her aunt's idea that "we are all human beings, why should we be divided into three, six, or nine grades?"

This is also the reason why she repeatedly clashed with her elders.

"Get up! You don't have to kneel down in our house. We just hire you. You are no different from us! Tomorrow, Uncle Li will take Daniel and I to go shopping in the county to see if there is anyone selling goats. I plan to Buy a goat," Ye Zifen said.

Then he said to Ye Yongwang: "I will keep the goats at home for the time being. Later I will go to the village to buy a piece of land to build a sheep pen and a house."

Ye Yongwang nodded and said, "Just make your own arrangements. I don't have any objections."

"It's time to hire a cook at home. You can't always cook by yourself!" Wang Tinghe suggested.

Ye Zifen thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I will go find Ren Yazi tomorrow. The cook must have clean hands and feet. It is best for such a person to have someone as a guarantee."

*

Zhang Chunyue did come back today, but she came back by herself.

Liu Jiancai took over a job of making dowry boxes before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The job was urgent, and now he is working day and night at home!

"Why didn't my son-in-law follow?" Old Man Zhang asked.

"I took over a job, I'm busy!" After Zhang Chunyue finished speaking, she rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen to help her stepmother.

"You go out! Let's steam sausages and stew cabbage for lunch." This time Zhang Wang didn't ask her to help.

Firstly, because her man promised to teach Zhang Gaoyi carpentry skills, and secondly, it was for Old Man Zhang to see.

The son she left behind was about to get married soon. She still remembered Old Man Zhang's threats, and now she had to hurry up and behave with her tail between her legs.

Zhang Chunyue saw that her stepmother really didn't seem to be speaking politely, so she went back to the house to talk to her father and younger brothers.

"Your brother-in-law asked me to tell you that you can pass at any time." Zhang Chunyue said to Zhang Gaoyi.

"Yeah! I'll go tomorrow afternoon." Zhang Gaoyi kicked his shoes.

One big toe is already exposed.

Zhang Chunyue saw this and planned to make a new pair of shoes for her brother when she went back.

These days, she has made clothes for the two brothers at home. When she saw the tattered clothes on her brother's body, she planned to make one for him when she went back.

Zhang Gaoyi gave her more than two feet of cloth, and asked her to take it to someone else's house and replace it with the burlap usually used by farmers.

Of course, dyed cotton is more expensive, so she didn't suffer any loss.

"Sister, my eldest brother at my mother's side is getting married, will you go?" Zhang Xiayue asked innocently.

Just the raised corners of her mouth betrayed her heart.

Zhang Gaoyi frowned. He knew that his sister was competitive, but he didn't know that she had such sinister intentions.

Zhang Chunyue said awkwardly: "Your brother-in-law just took a job. The family is busy, so I won't go."

When the second daughter asked that question, Old Man Zhang was unhappy. Just because she was the most lovable of the three daughters, her displeasure was not particularly obvious.

"If your eldest sister doesn't want to go, don't go! When you get married, you have to put your own family first, and it's good not to get involved in some things." Old man Zhang said pointedly.

Although Old Man Zhang was partial, he still had a good eye for judging people. He had inquired about his eldest daughter's son-in-law from a friend, otherwise he would not have agreed even if the age difference was not that big.

The son left behind by his daughter-in-law cannot achieve great things. He always comes to ask for help when something happens. He cannot distinguish the situation at hand, let alone who he should get close to.

Zhang Gaoyi just listened on the sidelines. Seeing the disgust in his father's eyes, he understood a lot.

Zhang Xiayue's eyes flashed, she ran into the back room and took her four-year-old sister out.

"You two are out, where is Gao Wu?" Old Man Zhang asked.

Zhang Gaowu, two and a half years old, is the youngest child of the Zhang family.

"Gao Wu was playing on the kang by himself, and he ignored me!" Zhang Qiuyue pouted, looking unhappy.

The second sister was originally watching her little brother with her, but she ran out to play without saying a word. She didn't dare to leave her little brother alone in the house.

"You damn girl, what if Gao Wu falls off the kang?" Old man Zhang said as he went into the back room and took Gao Wu out.

Zhang Chunyue seldom saw Gao Wu because Zhang Wang paid close attention to the child and did not want them to have any feelings.

She believed that her eldest son was being instigated by her if he didn't get close to her, so she never let Zhang Chunye have contact with her younger son.

But she didn't know that the reason why Zhang Gaoyi didn't get close to her was because she had focused on her child in front of her in these years and didn't care about him at all.

People always like to find reasons in others, but are unwilling to admit that they also have problems.

Zhang Chunyue walked home after lunch. Zhang Gaoyi was worried and sent her back to Liujia Village before going back.

*

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, everything was on track, and several people were exercising step by step.

Ye Zifen also wrote a page of large characters today and handed it to Zhang Gaoyi.

While exercising, Ye Zifen taught him how to read. On the way back, Zhang Gaoyi recognized all the words.

I just want to learn how to write and I still have to work hard.

After Ye Zifen came back, she went to the place where livestock was sold in the county town with Lao Li and Li Daniu.

Although Lao Li is a long-term laborer, he was responsible for these animals in his previous employer's house, so he has a lot of experience.

I walked around inside and bought six lambs and a ewe, which were sold by an old man.

The old man was a sheepherder. His legs and feet were inconvenient due to his age, so he took the sheep and sold them.

Ye Zifen asked Lao Li to run to the market more these days and buy more. After all, she wants to open a mutton soup restaurant, so she needs it.

Before Ye Zifen went to Ren Yazi's place, she first went to her sister's house to find Zhang Huaiyu.

I told him that I wanted to buy a shop at the dock and start a mutton soup business.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Huaiyu immediately went to the Yamen and dug out the shops in the best area for Ye Zifen to choose from.

On the surface, the prices of these shops are the same, one hundred taels per shop, with room for four tables in the front and a small kitchen in the back.

But how many people want to buy these good areas at ten times the price? The yamen won't sell them, but just rent them out for more than fifty taels a year.

Zi Zifen chose a store, paid the money, and wrote the deed to the house.

Zhang Huaiyu wrote Ye Zifen's name without even asking.

Ye Zifen handed over two taels of silver to the clerk in charge of writing documents, left the Yamen and went to the tooth shop, bought a woman who knew how to cook and went home.

Coincidentally, Mrs. Feng, who knew how to cook, had a previous husband who was a chef in a restaurant. However, a fire directly killed her husband. She had no children, so she became discouraged and sold herself.

But he couldn't stand the behavior of the kitchen manager of a wealthy family who was shoddy, so he was found and bought by others.

Ye Zifen fell in love with her at first sight. Among all the people, she was the cleanest, with the nails on her hands neatly repaired.

The hair is not greasy either, and the food cooked by such a person is at least clean and reassuring.

Today I spent a total of one hundred and fifteen taels, three taels of silver to buy a sample, ten taels to Mrs. Feng, one hundred taels to buy a small shop on the dock, and two taels of silver to the clerk.

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