Started as a mute girl? I prospered in the lean years

Jiang Huaixu doesn't need to inquire about this kind of thing. People like the Fang family can hear a lot of gossip if they pay careful attention.

The Fang family only had one concubine, named Xia. Speaking of it, Aunt Xia was also a hard-working person. In the years after the founding of the Jin Dynasty, there were many people who were displaced, and Aunt Xia was one of them.

Wan, who had just married into the Fang family, was soft-hearted and generous. She would always give porridge to the people every year. Aunt Xia was a good-looking woman. Even though her brother was around to help her, she could not defeat four people with just two fists, and she was still inevitably bullied by some local gangsters.

It happened that Wan met them on the street one day and rescued the two of them. Aunt Xia was grateful for Wan's kindness and sold herself to the Fang family to become Wan's maid. Wan felt that she was affectionate and righteous, so she only signed a living contract with her.

When things developed to this point, it was still a harmonious relationship between master and servant. Unfortunately, the head of the Fang family, Fang Zhan, fell in love with Aunt Xia. It happened that Wan was unable to have children at this time and had no reason to stop her husband from taking concubines, so she raised Xia as her aunt.

After becoming a concubine, Aunt Xia soon became pregnant, and now she has two boys and one girl. If it weren't for the fact that Wan's maiden family was from a scholarly family, and the Wan family and the Yang family were fairly close, the relationship between the couple would have been very good. Even if it's considered harmonious, it's not certain that Aunt Xia can threaten Wan's status.

No wonder the doctors who treated Wan in the past were all vague and pretended to be confused.

Jiang Huaixu had already inquired clearly, and what he said would not have been so straightforward.

For two days in a row, she didn't wait until the Wan family sent someone to look for her. The good news was that she didn't hear any strange news coming out of the Fang family. She had no choice but to go find Mrs. Yang again. Mrs. Yang told Jiang Huaixu not to worry. Jiang Huaixu felt relieved when he found out that Mrs. Yang's relaxation was indeed not fake.

Before leaving, Mrs. Yang asked Jiang Huaixu a favor. Yang Zheng would go hunting in Jiuxi Mountain with his classmates early next month. She was worried and wanted Jiang Huaixu to accompany him.

Jiang Huaixu did not refuse, and Mrs. Yang helped her a lot. Since the two families are on good terms, you can give me a hand and I can help you. Only by going back and forth can we deepen our friendship.

Towards the end of the month, she went to the county town for medical treatment during the day, and when she got home, she had to look at the account books. The villagers were very enthusiastic about getting paid, and she had to clarify the accounts to live up to the trust of the villagers.

On the last day of the month, Jiang Huaixu asked shopkeeper Pei for half a day's leave and returned home at noon.

I spent an afternoon with my elder brother to calculate the money required for each type of work, and also calculated the money received by each household. In the evening, after the second mistress and others came back, everyone gathered in the tofu shop and watched eagerly one by one. With the money placed in the money box by Jiang Dalang and Jiang Huaixu.

Jiang Dalang pointed to the silver coins in the money box and said to everyone: "These are the silver coins we earned in a month, a total of 185 taels and 458 silver coins. These are pure profits. Among them, spices are earned..."

After saying a series of numbers one after another, everyone was so dizzy that they didn't know if they were dreaming.

"...The situation is like this. Let me, Yaomei, come and distribute money to each family."

Jiang Huaixu deliberately stood on a small bench. She cleared her throat and said loudly: "Let's agree first. Since wages are calculated based on head count, the family with more people will definitely get more money, and the family with less people will get more money. Less, we can’t quarrel because of this, change your mind, you have less family and less money to spend, right? Anyway, we can’t quarrel.”

After saying the premise, Jiang Huaixu began to pick representatives from each family to come up and collect the money: "Brother Da Zhuang, 4 taels and 368 coins; Brother Erniu..."

People came up one after another, and when they came down after receiving their money, they were either holding their chests, looking excited, or in a trance, as if they were dreaming.

"Oh my God! Can we earn so much money in one month?"

"In the past, going to town to do hard work for a day, regardless of food, only cost three to five hundred yuan a month..."

"Ouch! This is really too much. I originally thought that just one or two silver dollars per month would be considered too much!"

"Hey, how much did your family receive?"

"This number..."

Soon more than 30 households had all distributed the money, and in the end only two families, Jiang Huaixu and Jiang Zhengmao, were left.

The least, Xia Shuanghua, the only one in the family, received more than one tael of silver, and the most received six or seven taels.

"Everyone, please don't get too excited. I have something else I want to discuss."

Jiang Zhengmao frowned. Wasn't this what was agreed in advance?

"Our dear and lovely Village Chief Jiang is very worried about the big guys on weekdays. It is only because of him taking care of us in the village that we can safely go to the county town to sell tofu. I am thinking about the money I will earn from the tofu in the future. Give 10% to the village chief and his family, what do you think?"

Jiang Huaixu brought up this matter just because the atmosphere was good. After all, the purpose of splitting off was to compete with the villagers for profits. The uncle didn't say anything at the beginning and she didn't think it through carefully, but the uncle did put a lot of effort into their tofu shop and wasteland. Worth 10%.

On the one hand, the villagers are simple and not so frivolous. On the other hand, the recent incident with the Wang family has sounded the alarm to the villagers.

Sure enough, after the words fell, someone echoed: "Girl Xu, after all, the tofu and five-spice powder are your recipes. It's good that you are willing to lead us to make money. It's you who have to make the decision." yes!"

"Yes, yes! The village chief is very busy on weekdays. We all see it and no one will say anything."

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Seeing that many people had expressed their opinions, Jiang Huaixu made the final decision: "Since everyone agrees, it's decided! I hope everyone will still be happy and make money next month, but you still have to pay attention to your health. If you feel uncomfortable, feel free to come. Find me!"

Jiang Zhengmao's eyes couldn't help but turn red when he looked at Jiang Huaixu. He was sincerely willing to do things for the villagers, and he was happy to see the villagers' lives getting better, but who wouldn't like his efforts to be seen by others?

After everyone happily distributed the money, they went home. Behind the crowd, a group of people named Fan who couldn't contain their excitement were finally able to squeeze in front of Jiang Huaixu.

"Miss Jiang, is it our turn now?" Fan Da stepped forward and asked.

Jiang Huaixu also had the account books of Fan's group. Although the business in Qingyuan Town was not as good as that in Beichuan County, there were few people named Fan, so the amount of money they received was considerable.

"Everyone come forward, just like before..."

Jiang Huaixu started a new round of busy work. After everyone finished sharing, only the money shared by Jiang Huaixu's family was left in the money box.

Jiang Sanlang looked blankly at Jiang Huaixu, who was empty in front of him, and then looked at the money box with dozens of taels of silver left, "Why are there so many left?"

"You don't think it's too much money. The rest is shared by our family. The two sides add up to a total of more than sixty taels of silver. Okay, let's go home too." Jiang Dalang said with a smile.

Only then did Jiang Sanlang react and opened his mouth in surprise, "They are all ours?"

Qian Xiuzhu saw Jiang Sanlang's silly look and couldn't help but poke him on the head, "Look at how useless you are."

Even so, she couldn't hide the smile on her lips.

"Yes, yes." Jiang Huaixu picked up the money box and headed home, "Third brother, hurry up, let's go home and count the money."

The more than sixty taels of silver included not only Jiang Huaixu's personal share, but also everyone else's respective incomes. Jiang Huaixu and others sat at the table and counted the coins. After sorting out the accounts one by one, they took out the silver coins that had been handed over to the public house. Qian Xiuzhu was finally distributed to individuals.

Several children who were allocated money, especially Jiang Wei, looked at Qian Xiuzhu and Jiang Boliang eagerly, fearing that what they got would become dowry again.

Jiang Boliang also felt sorry for his child. He handed the money he got to Qian Xiuzhu, "My dear child, hand over my money. Let them keep what they have earned! They are so old, they all know what is good and what is bad. , I will definitely not spend it randomly.”

Jiang Sanlang and Jiang Wei nodded again and again, "Mom, we won't spend it randomly. We ask Yaomei to keep it for us. We'll tell Yaomei what we want to buy..."

"Okay, okay." Qian Xiuzhu got a headache from their quarrel, "I won't take any money from you in the future. You know what you are doing."

"Ouch!!"

The children cheered.