Rebirth of the Evil Stepmother and the Four Villainous Children

Time flies by.

The people in the small yard have only been working for a month, and Zhou Rongrong has delivered goods six times. As spring plowing is approaching, Zhou Rongrong decided to pay the workers today.

Zhou Rongrong first calculated the basic salary, which was based on thirty days in a month. The agreed basic salary was ten cents a day, which was three hundred cents in thirty days. Then she calculated her own profit, which was a full two hundred taels of profit in a month. Zhou Rongrong also generously gave one tael of silver as a bonus to someone who had not received the basic salary.

If you calculate it, each person received more than 100 to 300 wen, even Granny Wang received the same amount.

The money was hot in everyone's hands, and they didn't do anything. They worked eight hours a day, and had an hour's rest, and two days off every seven days. Whose job was easier than theirs?

They are women, but they earn more money than the men in the family. It's like pie in the sky.

They had never been paid so much before and felt very embarrassed, holding the money in their hands.

"Rongrong, are you really going to give us so much?"

The main reason is that the work is too simple and not tiring at all, and we can all chat and laugh together.

Zhou Rongrong smiled and said, "Of course, you have made a lot of money for me. I have mentioned before that it is a base salary plus commission. I have calculated this commission to be appropriate. You can take it, but I suggest that you save some private money for yourself."

After all, Zhou Rongrong feels that men are often unreliable. Isn't there a saying that men become bad when they have money? Holding money in your hands is also the most secure thing for yourself.

There is nothing wrong with Aunt Zhang and Granny Wang since they are the heads of their own families.

The families of several daughters-in-law are still headed by their mothers-in-law. Although their mothers-in-law are better than other evil mothers-in-law, they will still bully their daughters-in-law from time to time. And seeing that Zhou Rongrong's four children all go to school, she is moved and thinks of sending her children to school in the future.

Wang Feng then said, "Sister Rongrong, can I change my silver into copper coins and deposit half of it with you?"

Zhou Rongrong said, "Okay, I found out that one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1200 copper coins. I'll exchange it for you based on that?"

Wang Feng agreed to the change, but she still felt it was a lot, so she deposited a thousand copper coins with Zhou Rongrong, who then recorded it in the account book and asked Wang Feng to sign it.

After studying for a few days, Wang Feng had no problem writing his name, so he signed his name and sealed it, which was very formal. He calculated that he had 500 copper coins on him, which was not bad.

Except for Granny Wang and Aunt Zhang, several girls and wives exchanged copper coins for money from Zhou Rongrong and saved them. When they talked to everyone, they all said that they had earned 500 copper coins.

Everyone agreed to the agreement not to talk nonsense, of course. After all, even if the job paid only 500 copper coins, it would make people jealous.

After receiving the money, everyone worked even harder. They stopped chatting and moved their hands more swiftly.

Zhou Rongrong decided to inspect their family's fields because spring ploughing was approaching. According to the original owner's memory, the three acres of fields, one acre of paddy field and two acres of dry land, were not far away.

When she went to inspect, many people were already busy in the fields, some weeding, some turning the soil. Zhou Rongrong felt that she was too late, but the problem was that she had only planted a few acres of land on her island before, and those were things that were secretly sown with small seeds and could grow easily, such as green onions and leeks, which were crops that could grow even if she didn't take care of them.

Three acres of land is already a very large piece of land for Zhou Rongrong, and she is actually a little afraid of paddy fields. What Zhou Rongrong fears most is mollusks.

When she saw a man pulling a leech off his leg, Zhou Rongrong's hair stood on end.

She was almost scared to death. The three acres of land of her family was really overgrown with weeds. If you didn't know, you would think it was a wasteland. Zhou Rongrong twitched her lips.

There was nothing to see, so they went back. When Zhou Rongrong went to pick up the kids from school, she and Dabao went to learn from them.

When the original owner was around, Dabao would take the children to grow some crops.

Zhou Rongrong said embarrassedly as she drove the ox cart.

"Dabao, spring ploughing is about to begin. What should we plant?"

Dabao paused while reading, not wanting to believe that this was said by a country peasant woman. In the countryside, even children aged seven or eight know what to plant, when to plow the soil, and when to plant.

But Dabao also realized that his mother must have never farmed before, so he carefully explained it to Zhou Rongrong.

"Mom, we have three mu of land. We can grow rice in the paddy field and some leafy vegetables in the dry field. There are people selling these seedlings. We can set aside five or six mu of land to grow vegetables. We can grow corn and sweet potatoes in the rest of the land. What do you think?"

Zhou Rongrong didn't understand and could only nod. Dabao knew more than her. Should she listen to Dabao? But she wanted to eat potatoes. Spicy and sour potato shreds were her favorite. She could finish a plate of spicy and sour potato shreds before she asked.

"Can we grow potatoes and peppers?"

Dabao didn't understand because he had never heard of potatoes and peppers, so he closed the book and asked.

"Mom, what are potatoes and peppers?"

Zhou Rongrong thought that their village did not grow peppers and potatoes, so she explained to the children what peppers and potatoes were, but the children still looked confused after listening.

But Zhou Rongrong also understood that perhaps there were no potatoes and peppers in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Sanbao thought about it and remembered the note in the book.

"Cornus? Mom, the spicy kind you're talking about is cornus, right?"

Zhou Rongrong knows the custom of "planting dogwood everywhere" on the Double Ninth Festival. The dogwood is a kind of food that tastes spicy. It is also called "hot pepper" in the Compendium of Materia Medica.

In ancient times, dogwood was mostly used as a seasoning. Although Zhou Rongrong lived in a fictional era, the historical process is actually very similar, otherwise the children would learn different things.

Zhou Rongrong said, "It's not dogwood. Dogwood can be used as a medicine. The pepper I'm talking about is a pure food. It produces little finger-sized fruits on the plant. They are green when they grow out and red when they are ripe. They can also be dried and stored for a long time. They are delicious when cooked. There are also potatoes, hot and sour potato shreds, potato ribs, potato chicken, and potato stewed beef. Wow, they are so fragrant."

Zhou Rongrong swallowed her saliva as she spoke. She turned around and saw that Sibao and Erbao both had tears on their faces. She made the decision immediately.

"We have decided to plant only rice and vegetables on the land. We can then sell them and earn some income."

Except for Dabao, the other children cheered and didn't think anything was wrong. It was like a normal thing. But Dabao was different. He had never seen these two things before. Where did the seeds come from? But his mother was not a person who boasted, so she didn't say anything and also looked forward to it.

Then Zhou Runrun carried a hoe and went to the field. Some of the grass in the field had died after the winter, while some still had signs of growing. It was unknown how long it would take if they had to weed it bit by bit.

Zhou Rongrong really wanted to burn herself to death, as the ashes could be used as waste. But then she thought to herself that setting fire to a mountain would result in life imprisonment, so she didn't dare to do it.