Chapter 43 Harsh words and harsh words Not long after Yan Funing left the blacksmith shop, Tong Cheng came back.
Tong Ya happily raised the paper bag and showed it to him: "Dad, my benefactor sister gave me something to eat."
"Has the benefactor sister come?"
Tong Cheng quickly walked out of the shop and looked along the road towards the town.
"Well, my benefactor sister said she was going home." Tong Ya swallowed, "Dad, I haven't eaten the candy my sister gave me yet. Can I have one now?"
Tong Cheng turned around and said happily: "Eat it."
Tong Ya took one and bit a small piece into her mouth: "It's so sweet." - On the other side, Yan Funing returned to the village.
After the three villagers waiting for the bus got off the bus and walked away, she took out fifteen cents and gave it to Li, the driver.
"Five cents is the fare for the ride back, and ten cents is the cost to go to the house."
Li, the driver, only took five copper coins and returned ten to her.
"The house is only a few steps away, so it doesn't cost any money."
"Yes, the Tong family and my daughter will ride with me for ten cents. I think it's too little." Yan Funing insisted on giving it to him. "Besides, Brother Li just went with me and emboldened me. I thank you." It’s not too late yet.”
Driver Li touched the back of his head and said sheepishly: "Then I accept it?"
Yan Funing smiled: "Take it!" She said, taking out a pack of candy from her backpack, "Here, this is a thank you gift."
"Ah?" the driver Li said in surprise, "Girl, you are too polite!"
Yan Funing put the basket on her back and trotted away. As she ran, she turned around and shouted, "Don't give it back to me. My basket is too heavy and I can't run."
Li, the driver, waved to her: "Run slowly, or I won't pay you back."
Mother Li came out and saw her son coming back, so she asked casually: "How did you earn today?"
"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, most of the villagers have been to the county. Today there are fewer people going to the town." Li, the driver, opened the paper package and saw the candy. He smiled and said, "The little lady of the Fu family is a real person."
"The young lady of the Fu family? The daughter-in-law of Fu Wan's natal family?"
"Well, mother, do you know her?"
"The Hu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have said that they will scold Fu Wan's family members whenever they see them, especially her daughter-in-law."
"Mom, please don't go fooling around with the Hu family. That little lady is so nice. Here, she gave me the candy."
He handed one candy to his mother.
"Really?"
Mother Li couldn't believe it and put the candy in her mouth.
"Of course it's true. I earned twenty cents just for driving her today, as well as this pack of candy."
He dropped a candy into his mouth.
Mother Li tasted the sweetness and smiled, causing the wrinkles at the end of her eyes to deepen.
"It's so sweet. The little lady from the Fu family must be sweet too."
With such sweet candy, she would not listen to the Hu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and curse randomly. - Yan Funing returned home.
Because I had just jogged a short distance, I was still panting now, and my pink face was dyed a thin red, as bright as a peach or plum.
When she entered the courtyard, she shouted: "Mom."
After hearing this, Wan Niang was supported by Fu Beimo and left the east wing.
"Fu Ning is back?"
"Well, Mom, let's go to the main room to talk." Yan Funing took Wan Niang's arm and whispered, "I made a lot of money today."
Wan Niang was delighted when she heard this and called Fu Nanyao to go to the main room with her.
Fu Ciyi was sitting at the window copying books. Hearing her return, he raised his eyelids and lowered his eyes again to write.
The four of them entered the main room. Yan Funing put down her backpack, took out a silver ingot from her purse and put it in Wan Niang's hand.
"This is the money my husband got from the two Ganoderma lucidum flowers picked, which is ten taels of silver."
"If you are capable and capable, my daughter-in-law is capable!"
Touching the heavy silver ingot, Wan Niang had tears in her could their family be in this situation without such a good daughter-in-law? Excited, Wan Niang shouted to the west wing: "Ci Yi, come here quickly."
When Fu Ciyi entered the hall, Wan Niang showed him the silver ingot: "Your wife earned it."
Yan Funing said embarrassedly: "Mom, this is what my husband earned."
Wan Niang smiled and said: "You sell the Ganoderma lucidum, and that's what you make."
With that said, let her put the money away.
Fu Ciyi said a faint "Hmm", lifted up his robe and sat down.
At this time, Fu Nanyao saw that there were no clothes in the basket on his back, so he asked, "Didn't I ask you to buy clothes?"
Yan Funing explained: "There are no ready-made clothes shops in the town, but there are two cloth shops. I would like to discuss with everyone, how about making clothes by ourselves?"
Fu Nanyao hummed slightly: "Don't you know how to sew? You can't sew, but I can. But why didn't you buy the cloth for me?"
Wan Niang pulled Fu Nanyao: "How did you talk to your sister-in-law?"
"Mom, why are you always protecting her?"
Fu Nanyao leaned on Wan Niang's shoulder like a baby.
Wan Niang shook her head and sighed: "How can I protect you? It's obviously your words that are thorny."
Yan Funing was not annoyed at all. She took out two packets of candy from her backpack and gave one packet to Fu Beimo first.
"Thank you sister-in-law!"
Fu Beimo was so excited that he placed the whole bag of malt candies under Fu Nanyao's eyes.
Fu Nanyao sat up straight, his face full of anger.
Yan Funing smiled and gave her the remaining bag of candy: "Can you teach me how to make clothes?"
"Then it depends on whether you are smart or not."
Fu Nanyao grabbed the candy and hugged it in front of her, fearing that Yan Funing would regret it.
"Silver ingots are not easy to spend in the town, so I didn't buy any fabric today." Yan Funing said with lingering fear, "I was afraid that someone would come to snatch the silver ingots, so I kept them in my purse. Because when I went to sell Ganoderma lucidum, I encountered something Minor situation.”
After speaking, there was a hint of crying in his voice.
Wan Niang heard it and grabbed her hand with both hands: "Funing, what's wrong? Tell mom quickly!"
"When I went to a medical clinic to sell Ganoderma lucidum, they would only give me [-] cents a piece. I thought the price was too low, so I wanted to leave, but they stopped me."
She didn't know how she managed to stay calm at that time.
Looking back now, I feel very scared.
"There are many clerks in the medical clinic, and there are also people who look like thugs. They also said that they are the only medical clinic in the whole town, and there is no other place that will accept my Ganoderma lucidum."
When Wan Niang heard this, she patted her heart in panic: "What happened next? How did you earn these ten taels of silver?"
"I made a lie and said that my husband was waiting for me outside, so they didn't stop me. Fortunately, I met a father and his daughter..." Yan Funing roughly told what happened, "Accompanied by the driver Li and the Tong family's father and daughter, I went The house sold Ganoderma lucidum. To thank them, I bought two more packs of candy and gave them to them as a thank-you gift."
"Ah, my daughter!"
Wan Niang was so distressed that she hugged Yan Funing into her arms with trembling hands.
"mother!"
She had been controlling her tears well, but now she couldn't hold back when someone felt sorry for her.
Lying in Wan Niang's arms, she shed two tears.
Yan Funing ordered herself to shed only two tears at this moment, no more.
Because her body is so delicate, once she starts crying, there will be no end.
Seeing this, Fu Ciyi frowned.
There was a cold look on his eyebrows, and his expression was hard to distinguish.
Wan Niang caressed Yan Funing's back lovingly, and suddenly said sternly to Fu Ciyi, "How did you become a husband?"
(End of this chapter)