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Li Yibao weighed a wild pheasant and said, âTwo and a half jin.â
My second brother sells wild chickens at twelve cents per jin,â Su Qingyue asked, âHow much do you sell them for?â
âOf course, I sell at the same price as Dashan.â He held the pheasant upside down and handed it to her, âThe wild chicken is dead, but it was just killed. Itâs still fresh.â
âNo problem.â Su Qingyue took out thirty copper coins.
Li Yibao counted them and then asked, âIs Dashan alright after being bitten by a poisonous snake?â
âThe snake venom has subsided, but he fell down the mountain and broke his leg. Heâll need to rest for a couple of months.â
âYour Dashan is very capable. If not for his misfortune, he would be a great hunter, and there would be no need for you to buy prey to eat.â
âHehe, in a while, my second brother will be well, and Iâll have prey to eat again.â
Li Yibao continued, âXiaoâs wife, I heard that you earned fifty taels by selling the fern dish recipe. Is that true?â
âTrue,â she replied, âBut Iâve almost spent all the silver taels.â âReally?â He obviously didnât believe she had spent it all.
Su Qingyue smiled and walked away with the pheasant.
Li Wangâs wife came out of the house, watching Su Qingyue walk away, and complained to Li Yibao, âWhen the Old Lady of the Zhu Family wanted to sell Su Qingyue, the selling price was only sixteen taels, half the market price. I told you to buy her back then, even if your son doesnât marry her, it would be good to sell her again. Look how smart Su Qingyue is, and now she can make money, we canât buy her back even if we want to. A few days ago, we were talking about finding a wife for our son, we donât know how much betrothal gifts the girlâs family will demand. Xiao Family really got a great deal buying Su
Qingyueâ¦â
âHow many times have you complained about this?â Li Yibao became impatient, âIf we didnât buy her back then, we didnât buy her. Our family didnât have such good luck, can you stop bothering me? I said it at that time, you can buy her or not. You said Su Qingyue wasnât good enough for our son, you decided not to buy herâ¦â
âI regret it now, sheâs earned fifty taels, so muchâ¦â
âThere is no such thing as regret medicine. Donât bring it up again, if itâs brought up, all the money Su Qingyue earned would have flown away, itâs so annoyingâ¦â
Su Qingyue didnât know that Li Yibaoâs family was still thinking about buying her back then. She happily carried the wild pheasant and the two large bunches of vegetables bought from Zhang Shunâs wife back to the Xiao Family.
âWife, did you go and buy some prey?â Xiao Yuchuan looked at the pheasant in her hand. âWe have a delicious meal for lunch, but I feel bad for your moneyâ¦â
Before Xiao Yishan got injured, he was very good at hunting and thought that buying a pheasant was wasteful, but he let it pass since his wife liked it.
At noon, a bowl of stewed chicken, a plate of vegetables, and a bowl of fried fish were placed on the table by the bed in the Xiaoâs master bedroom. The bowls of refined rice were filled with fragrant white rice.
A bowl of fragrant rice was served in front of everyone.
Even the little bastard had a bowl of meat soup. Su Qingyue removed the bones from a few pieces of chicken and gave it to him. He was too small to eat bones, they might get stuck.
Xiao Yuchuan picked up the bowl of white rice and sniffed it, âWife, this refined rice smells so good, I almost donât want to eat this beautiful white rice. Wife, do you know? Our family hasnât eaten refined rice for more than four years.â
âMm-hmm.â She nodded, âFourth brother told me.â
Xiao Yishan looked at the table full of food. For the poor Xiao family, this was indeed a very lavish meal.
He thought that he and Chuan would collapse and their family would run out of food, but he didnât expect his wife to be so capable..