Chapter 37: Tian Gui Hua

  "Money doesn't last long, and I haven't even bought anything yet."

  Dabao was delighted and said, "The roasted chestnuts can buy so many things, it's not bad at all, and there are still twelve cents left. In the future, we'll save ten cents every day, and in a year, we won't be short of money. Tuniang, let's pick more chestnuts to sell and save some money..."

  Shen Sisi couldn't help but pour cold water on him, "Are there chestnuts in Lizi Mountain all the time?!"

  Dà bǎo yī dāi, xiǎng dào lì zǐ mǎ shàng yào xià shì, zhěng gè rén dōu jiāng le, xiào yě guà bù zhù le, cháng dào le zuò qián de zhī wèi, xiàn zài ràng tā zài zuò bù dào qián, zhè zhī wèi shì xiāng dāng nán shòu de, "nà země bàn?!"

  He muttered to himself, as if he had lost his soul.

  Actually, Shen Sisi didn't intentionally try to hurt him, it's just that he always thought things were too simple, which made her unable to bear it. In the end, she couldn't help but say: "There are other ways to make money, don't worry..."

  Dabao's heart was filled with joy once again, and he looked at her in surprise. He knew that Tuniang must have a way to make money, and she could read and write, making her the most capable person in the household.

  "Dabao, now you understand why I wanted to give you chestnuts and Osmanthus cake, right?!" Shen Sisi asked him in a low voice.

  Dabao nodded and shook his head, "Sanbao told me, I kind of understand, but not quite. I... am not as smart as Sanbao, my brain is stupid, can't think it through."

  "Being honest also has its advantages, Dabao. Now that you understand, take your time to think about it and you'll eventually understand everything. It's just the way of being a person and interacting with others - you still need to think carefully about it. You're still young, and in the future, you'll come to understand..."

  Dabao nodded obediently, looking very silly.

  Shen Sisi couldn't help but quietly touch his head, thinking gloomily to herself, has she become addicted to raising him?!!! Why does she always feel like she's educating a child?! If this continues, how can she get married, how can she get married?! Marrying someone she raised with her own hands, this... is too overwhelming, unbearable to say.

  She didn't dare to think about it anymore, and ordered Dabao to make a few more pancakes. In the future, when they made money, she decided that their family would have three meals a day, absolutely three meals a day. Eating well was temporarily impossible, but first and foremost, they had to guarantee that they could eat their fill! She also ordered Dabao to stew the bone soup for lunch, and decided to save the meat for dinner. After all, here, dinner and breakfast were the main events, and lunch wasn't taken seriously. A few pancakes and some soup was already a good deal...

  All the chestnuts they picked up that day were sold out, so they decided to go pick some more in the afternoon.

  The old cow unloaded the donkey cart, carried the oil and salt into the kitchen, then removed the cart from the donkey and placed it in the yard, drove the donkey into the donkey shed. Only then did he carry the osmanthus cake into the house. His wife, Tian Guihua, came out of the inner room, looked at him carrying the pastry and frowned: "Why did you buy this? It must have cost a lot of money..."

  Niu Laogen smiled and said: "I don't have money to buy this, it was given by Tuni..."

  "What's going on?! I don't understand what you're saying?!" Tian Guihua exclaimed in confusion.

  Xiao Hua came out of the chicken coop, shook off the dust on her body, and saw Niu Laogen smiling: "Dad is back..."

  "Here, have some of this osmanthus cake..." Niu Laogen handed it over to her.

  Xiao Hua was slightly surprised, but still took it over, didn't make a sound, and looked at Tian Guihua.

  Niu Laogen doted on this little daughter, but Tian Guihua didn't particularly like this daughter. Her mind was all on her son, thinking that daughters were a financial burden.