vrcanaries Chapter 479 Received the Money
Chapter 479 Received the Money
But Zhou Gu is a boy and will not leave home. Unlike her, as she gets older, she will be arranged to get married as soon as she finishes her mourning period. By then, she will be someone else's daughter-in-law. Seeing everyone in her family making greater progress, she feels a little panicked and anxious.
Zhou Guo said, "Sister, don't be afraid. Even if you want to get married in the future, I will check the man's ancestors clearly before you get married. Even if life after marriage is not good and the man beats you, you still have your parents' family and us. At worst, we can get divorced and come back. We two sisters can live together for the rest of our lives."
Zhou Xing burst into laughter and said, "You have said this several times. You said you will spend your whole life together. Have you forgotten that you will get married too? Even if you are still young now, you will get married in the future."
Zhou Guo waved her hands and leaned back in the chair without saying anything for a while. To a time traveler like her, getting married in this era would be like falling from a paradise to hell. Her life was so comfortable now, why would she make things difficult for herself?
Li poked her head out of the kitchen and saw the two sisters sitting together talking. She smiled and said, "Hurry up, get ready for dinner."
It was a very lively dinner time this morning. People in the yard were either standing or squatting, holding their newly bought bowls and chopsticks, eating with the sound of smacking sounds.
When Zhou Guo saw the bowl, he was stunned, "Mom, when did you buy a new bowl?"
Li said, "The day you left, I went to the market and bought thirty or forty new bowls. So many people come to our house from time to time. When there are so many people, there is not even a bowl to pour tea. It's not nice if you pour tea for one person but not for another. People will think we have something against them."
Zhou Gu said, "I also bought a lot of plates. They are all white with patterns on the outside. They are much better looking than the black and tacky ones you bought."
Zhou Guo said: "The plates I bought are not ugly. If you think they are ugly, there must be something wrong with your eyesight. You haven't reached that level yet. It's not your fault."
Zhou Gu chuckled and said, "I just can't see it. I just think it's ugly."
Everyone in the yard finished their breakfast chatting and laughing. Zhou Guo took out the account book and started to reconcile the accounts with the old man, along with Zhou Gu, Zhou Xing and Zhou Su.
Li took Wu Jiang and his group to string the money, one string made of one hundred coins.
After lunch, I continued to work until around 3 p.m. in the afternoon, when I finally sorted out the accounts.
During this time, Wang Fugui and Zhou Cheng's family also came.
When Zhou Guo saw them coming, he asked Zhou Gu to call the other families as well so that the money could be distributed earlier to avoid attracting attention to other people in the village.
Soon, everyone arrived and came excitedly.
Zhou Guo said, "Before I hand out the money, let me tell you something. You may already know this. This time, my master and I led two teams, one to Yunzhou and the other to Chengding. The prices in the two places are different. Your goods were randomly distributed to different places. The boxes were originally labeled with names, so they cannot be faked. If you still don't believe it, Uncle Fugui follows my master, and Uncle Cheng and Uncle Shan follow me. They can testify that your goods are sold at a certain price, and naturally you can get a certain amount of money. It is possible that his family picks more mushrooms but gets less money than the other family who picks less. This is normal."
Several families looked at each other and whispered to each other.
Zhou Guo didn't care what they thought, he lowered his head to look at the account book, "Aunt Qian!"
Qian came forward immediately.
Zhou Guo took out an abacus and calculated it for her one by one. "You have 70 kilograms of goods, 30 kilograms of high-quality goods, 20 kilograms of medium-quality goods, and 10 kilograms of low-quality goods. I will take your batch of goods away. The total money I will get is 10,900 coins."
When this number came out, everyone else was shocked. There was so much money in just seventy kilograms. Wouldn't that mean they would have to get ten or twenty strings of coins?
Qian's eyes were red and she stepped forward with trembling hands. This was the first money she had earned in her life with her own ability, and it was such a huge sum. This money could at least allow their mother to live for three to four to five years!
Even without a father, she could still support the two children with her own abilities.
The moment she took the money, Qian suddenly felt that the world was vast. From the beginning of her escape to now, she had truly survived, and her peaceful life had truly begun.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Aunt, you are amazing. You can make so much money by yourself!"
Qian nodded with red eyes, took out half of it and handed it to her.
Everyone was stunned, and Zhou Guo asked, "What are you doing?"
Qian said, "I can't let you work in vain. Although I haven't been there, I know the road is not safe. You can sell the mushrooms at such a high price, it must have taken a lot of effort. You deserve this money."
Zhou Guo refused and said, "Aunt, no need. We are all related. You can take this money back and buy some delicious food for Changsheng and his sister, and buy some cloth to make two new clothes."
If she took the money, wouldn't it become her own business? She would have to help sell it whether she wanted to or not. This was much less than what the villagers took, and it would also cause people to gossip about her. In the future, she wouldn't be able to get rid of it even if she wanted to, and it would be easy for her to be gossiped about. So forget it and insist on not taking it.
Qian had no choice but to take the money and leave.
Zhou Guo then looked at Wang Fugui and said with a smile: "Uncle Fugui, come up."
"Hey, I'm here." Wang Fugui came to help, but now his wife, mother, children and the whole family were here, so he specially brought his daughter forward to let her share in the joy of the money.
The money from the old man's side was much less. Zhou Sanyuan's family picked up more goods than Zhou Cheng's family, but got less money than his family. Although they were a little dissatisfied, they could do nothing about it. It was their own fault. But when it came to collecting the money, Zhou Sanyuan's wife still came close to Zhou Guo.
He smiled and said, "Guoguo, can you bring your aunt's goods to make a deal next time? Two hundred coins per catty is a full forty coins less than one hundred and sixty coins per catty!"
Zhou Guo said, "Aunt, let's talk about this later. You can go down first after you get the money. Other families will have to get it later."
"That's right, have you finished receiving them? We haven't yet."
Several families happily received the money and wanted to stay to help, but Zhou Guo refused, saying, "No need. We are brothers and sisters, and we have received so much money. Let's go back with our families and count the money!"
Everyone laughed and went out happily, but they didn't want to count the money. If they were left to earn back such a big bag by themselves, how many years would it take them to do so?
This is much more real than the money they earned while fleeing, but they earned it bit by bit themselves.
Not long after, villagers came one after another.
Today we went into the mountains and came out after half a day. It’s the day to get paid, so who would be willing to stay in the mountains for so long?
Thinking that the amount of money to be collected was a big deal, some people even went home to take a shower and change into clean clothes.