Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 191 - . The Hardship of Bench Legs_1
Chapter 191: 191. The Hardship of Bench Legs_1
Chapter 191: 191. The Hardship of Bench Legs_1
Aunt Lianhua now, she just wants to earn a bit more money.
But with the mother-in-law tying her down, there’s not much else she can do.
This spring, Lao Song’s family frequently called for help, and she couldn’t go, which made her anxious.
Now, Wu Lan comes to her, saying she doesn’t need to do anything but wash pots, do the dishes and clean the stove three times a day after meals—
Could that even be considered work?!
She’s quick with her hands and feet; she can get it all done in half an hour. It won’t delay her from taking care of the elderly at home, and she can bring the meals back, saving who knows how much over the year!
Besides, who in the village doesn’t know that Wu Lan’s family is now eating very well!
Aunt Lianhua agreed without hesitation, she couldn’t wait.
However, her salary isn’t high.
Firstly, the job isn’t demanding, and secondly, she’s also responsible for her own and her daughter-in-law’s meals; therefore, after some back-and-forth, her salary was set at one thousand yuan.
It might not seem like much, but for Aunt Lianhua, it’s a steady income, always there.
In Aunt Lianhua’s eyes, Wu Lan’s family has spent over a hundred thousand on Bags Mountain; could they possibly abandon it halfway? Of course not.
So they have to keep at it.
Hence, she was more than willing, a thousand and ten thousand times over. Now, as she stirred the white rice porridge with her spoon, she felt a strength in her back!
But from today on, there will be twelve people eating regularly at home.
Zhang Wang from the back hill should also be eating at home, but since his wife passed away, he insists on observing mourning at home for forty-nine days, during which he won’t visit other people’s houses.
So, it was decided that he would start eating at their home after some time.
Seventh Uncle pondered: if they keep up at this scale, how many helpers might they accumulate by the second half of the year?
Maybe he’ll also need someone to prepare the side dishes, and he’ll just be responsible for cooking.
With that thought, it seemed the days ahead would be even more beautiful and relaxed, and so he was even more passionate!
“Ah!”
He exhaled deeply and sat down on the bench: “Now that it’s suddenly not busy, it feels kind of embarrassing.”
Song Sancheng also chuckled, “Right, when you’re idle, you don’t know what to do… maybe I’ll go fishing, too.”
His gaze lovingly circled the fishing rod in the corner twice, but when he turned his head, he saw Wu Lan staring at him.
“If you’re free, why not come with me to pick tea leaves on the mountain?”
Pick tea leaves?
Song Sancheng immediately feigned contemplation, “No, the weeds in the field are growing too fast; I’m going to pull weeds.”
Song Tan laughed helplessly, “Mom, you really don’t have to; don’t we have someone hired for that? Just take a rest at home?”
Wu Lan was also in distress, “When I think about all that gold on the mountain, not digging it myself and having to hire someone else, it just hurts, feels like sitting on pins and needles.”
Grandma nodded nonstop, “Exactly. How tiring could picking tea leaves be? Grandma is still very strong, so don’t leave us out of the work; when you get older, if you stop working, your body starts to fall apart.”
How tiring could picking tea leaves be?
Standing all day, sometimes half-bent under the sun and wind… it’s very tiring, grandma, please be realistic!
But Wang Lifan didn’t seem inclined towards realism.
She was immensely enjoying earning money.
Song Tan: …
Actually, there really isn’t that much to do at home; we’ve already become idle!
We really have!
Except for Qiaoqiao.
Who would have thought that with Big King, Big White, Daxiong, and seven treasures to appease, the idea of impartial attention is truly not an easy one!
As usual, breakfast this morning consisted of buns, pan-fried pancakes, pickled vegetables, and porridge. Zhang Yanping ate at a leisurely pace until he was round-bellied, then he took a large stainless-steel basin, tossed twenty buns into it, and together with Song Tan, they carried the porridge and made their way unhurriedly to the pond.
On the way, he couldn’t help but worry, “Do you think we can really make money off this?”
These buns are so big that, logically, two should be filling enough. He regretted not deciding to deliver only one per person.
But Song Tan just smiled slightly.
When they arrived at the pond’s edge, they found that several of the fishermen, who should have been fully engaged in fishing, were all gathered to one side, looking rather odd.
Zhang Yanping grew anxious, “What’s going on, what’s happening?”
Elbowing his way through the crowd, he saw the oldest brother, who had arrived first, sitting on a stool with a bizarre expression, staring at him, but stubbornly refusing to stand up.
What did that mean?
Zhang Yanping returned a puzzled look.
The following moment, the eldest brother said with a mournful face,
“Brother, you’d better pull up this fish cage first. I’ve been sitting here for several hours, unable to move, and my back just can’t take it anymore.”
Glancing down, Zhang Yanping saw the rope of the fish cage, hanging on the leg of a bench, stretched tight, with intermittent thrashing sounds coming from beneath the water…
He remembered the fish cage’s full and heavy catch over the past few days and suddenly understood.
——Indeed, hadn’t he understood?
Normally, people leave fish cages for maybe three to five days, and all they get are a few pitiful fish and shrimps, scuffed and scant.
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It was for this reason that the other guy carelessly hung his cage on the leg of his own bench. He thought to himself about how great a storyteller that young man was; just a few hours between three and seven o’clock,Right?
With such a large fish cage, it’d be embarrassing if it didn’t even catch a loach by the end.
If that happened, they’d have to bust that lie on the forums after they went back.
But to his surprise, no sooner had he cast his line than he felt something violently tug on the leg of his stool!
If it wasn’t for the fact that the eldest brother was advanced in years with a fat belly that gave him a stable base, he would’ve been actually hauled up onto the ground.
Looking down, he thought: Nothing wrong here!
Could it just have been the water weeds he stumbled on earlier?
However, no sooner had he cast his hook again than the fish cage violently tugged once more——
“Ouch!”
He exclaimed in alarm.
“What’s wrong?” Someone nearby asked.
The eldest brother even said with a laugh, “It seems we haven’t been tricked today; things in this pond are really active. Look at my fish cage, it’s been swarmed as soon as I lowered it.”
If there weren’t a lot of fish and shrimp, it wouldn’t possibly be this active.
Thinking his earlier spot wasn’t chosen well, he leaned forward subconsciously, planning to move his fishing rod to a new location.
But as soon as he moved, a sudden strong force from underneath his seat propelled him forward, and the whole person tipped over!
Good lord, the rope of the fish cage was rapidly running into the water right before his eyes. He instinctively grabbed the rope and yanked——
Half of the fish cage came ashore, and a black fish was stuck at the entrance, slapping him with its big tail.
The fishermen were ecstatic:
“So many fish, so many kinds, and such a powerful black fish. This is a fine pond!”
So now the question arose, where should this fish cage—that was nearly stuffed full within just half an hour under their watch—be tied to?
Looking around, all the nearby rocks and trees were already used for securing other fish cages—only this one spot they had chosen with a good flow had nothing around it.
Therefore, the fisherman assuredly said,
“Hang it back on my stool leg. Look, the cage is already half full. There won’t be any more fish after this, so just leave it here, I can hold it steady.”
