Rebirth of the Evil Stepmother and the Four Villainous Children

Shopkeeper Bai bought his donkey cart himself. One of the donkeys was a bit old, but it could definitely pull people. If Madam Zhou wanted it, that would be fine too. He needed to go buy some new donkeys anyway.

"Sure. I have a donkey that's a bit old. It can be used to raise a few babies. I wonder if Miss Zhou wants to buy it?"

Zhou Rongrong pursed her lips, looking down on the old donkey: "Manager Bai, why do you think I should buy this old donkey? I definitely need a young and strong donkey."

When choosing a man, you should choose a young and strong one. Why would a donkey choose an old one?

Shopkeeper Bai said, "Really? I don't want it. This is fifty copper coins. I'll give it to you along with the car. If you're young and strong, it'll be five taels of silver."

Zhou Rongrong calculated that she still had two hundred taels of silver on her. After sending the children to school, she could sell the first batch of medicine, but she also had to build a house. She was worried that the house would collapse if she lived in it, and she couldn't spend money casually. The difference between fifty copper coins and five taels of silver was huge.

Should I choose a cheaper one? Or one that can be used for a few more years? But Zhou Rongrong still wanted to buy a horse-drawn carriage. What if the weather gets cold in the future? A donkey cart doesn't have a shed to protect it from the wind and rain, so it's not as good as a horse-drawn carriage. But I heard that a horse-drawn carriage costs dozens of taels at a time, so she can only choose a donkey-drawn cart first.

After figuring it out, he said, "Then Shopkeeper Bai will give you fifty copper coins. It's a deal."

"Of course."

Then they started to calculate the price of the medicinal materials. Even if one pound of each kind was a little cheaper, it still added up to a lot. These medicinal materials cost Zhou Rongrong a total of fifty taels of silver.

Zhou Rongrong felt pained when she gave him the gift. Shopkeeper Bai took it with a smile and said, "Doctor Zhao and Boss Li asked me to bring you a message. They want to know when the pills will be available."

Zhou Rongrong said, "Two days later."

"Okay, let's go unload the goods."

The villagers couldn't hear what anyone was saying so they all went to ask the village chief. In fact, the village chief didn't know what Madam Zhou was doing specifically because her wife wouldn't tell him. So when he asked her, she would ask if there was one hundred taels of silver in the family.

He didn't dare to ask, and now seeing Zhou Rongrong's big move, he was even more afraid to ask, so he just told her: "You can't go to the Jiang family to cause trouble, if Madam Zhou finds out, you'll see what happens."

The villagers asked the village chief if they could go to Zhou Rongrong's house to work.

The village chief had no idea, so he could only perfunctorily say, "What are you thinking? It's almost spring ploughing time. Are you willing to leave your own fields behind and go work for someone else?"

Everyone thought that the most important thing for country people was land, which was their lifeblood. If they were to give up their own land and go to work in someone else's home, few families would agree.

They all dispersed, so when Zhou Rongrong was directing people to unload the goods, only a few families came to watch. However, they couldn't see anything because people were covered with cloth.

When they asked Zhou Rongrong, she didn't say anything and just laughed it off. Seeing that they couldn't find out anything, these families left.

After Manager Bai left, he left behind a donkey. Aunt Zhang knew a lot about livestock and was afraid that Zhou Rongrong had been cheated, so she went to check the donkey and found that its teeth were not very good.

I asked Zhou Rongrong how much it cost. Zhou Rongrong said without hiding anything, "I thought my children would go to school and couldn't walk, so I spent fifty copper coins and bought it with Shopkeeper Bai. What's the matter? Auntie, isn't it worth fifty copper coins?"

Aunt Zhang cried out, "It's worth it, it's so worth it. Hahahaha, I'm afraid that Shopkeeper Bai didn't take the money for your donkey and only took the money for the cart frame, right?"

Zhou Rongrong didn't understand how much the donkey was worth, whether to buy the donkey or not, and she didn't care. She just felt that she had bought a good deal.

Except for Dabao, the other children were all standing around looking at the donkey, finding it very curious.

Sibao touched the stove and said, "Mom, are we really, really going to go to school in a donkey cart from now on?"

Zhou Rongrong touched their little heads and said, "Of course, but mother is too busy. From now on, it will be up to you to raise the donkey. Donkeys eat straw, such as corn straw and millet straw, and feed them with beans, but we don't have them. Do you know where to get some?"

Sanzhuzi's wife said, "Hey, it's no big deal. I have some at home. Go get it."

There are a lot of crop stalks in the village, which we take home and burn as firewood. There are also beans. There are many families in the mountain village who grow beans.

The beans are heavy and the yield is decent. In winter, we make bean rice and we can’t finish it. Almost every household has it and it’s not expensive.

Zhou Rongrong said, "Then you guys go clean up the shed and let the donkey live in it, and then go to Aunt Wang's house to buy some with your pocket money."

Zhou Rongrong would usually give the children some pocket money, two cents a day for the older child and one cent a day for the two younger children.

There was no place to use them in the village, so they had stored them all. The children were not stingy and agreed to help, going to the shed in the backyard to pack them up.

After the children left, Zhuzi's wife couldn't help but blame Zhou Rongrong.

"Rongrong, what are you buying? Every household has those things, why are you spending that money?"

Zhuzi's wife has benefited a lot from her recent interactions with Zhou Rongrong. After get off work, she and several other daughters-in-law would ask Zhou Rongrong to give them lessons.

They all know a few words now. During the lunch break, Dabao teaches them, just like a little teacher. Even Mrs. Wang and Aunt Zhang sit and listen to Dabao's class. After returning home, she will teach the words she learned that day to her husband and children.

It's such a favor, but it's really not right to charge people for these things. Her husband will definitely tell her about it when she goes back home.

Zhou Rongrong took Zhuzi's wife's arm and said coquettishly, "Sister, you don't have to be polite to me. I'm training the children. Don't make trouble. Go to work."

Zhuzi's wife tapped her nose and stopped busying herself. After all, she was educating her children and she couldn't say anything nonsense. In her heart, Zhou Rongrong was the most capable one. Not only did she run her own business, she could also read and taught them accounting and writing, and she was also very generous.

Zhou Rongrong actually wanted to teach the comparison of Arabic numerals. It is really simple to write them out, but if the news gets out, she, who has no power now, will be targeted by others, which will be a big deal, not to mention that these children have complicated backgrounds.

Before she became strong, she still felt that it was not advisable to take risks, but she still taught the multiplication table and required her students to memorize it backwards.

So they were memorizing the multiplication table while doing their chores. If they got it wrong, they would ask the study representative Zhou Min. Zhou Min usually didn't talk much and was very introverted, but she was really smart. She could remember things that others couldn't remember just by reading and practicing them a few times.

Zhou Rongrong has been keeping an eye on her, and wondering if she could be trained and kept by her side?