Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 169 - 168 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law
Chapter 169: Chapter 168 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Conversation
Chapter 169: Chapter 168 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Conversation
Mrs. Lai felt such heartache, clutching her chest as if she had a piece of flesh cut from her.
Hongji saw this and sighed to himself. He had thought the same thing, but those were officials and people from wealthy families, and it wasn’t his place to comment!
Now that his wife mentioned it in front of him, all he could say to her was,
“You are just a woman with long hair but short of experience. What status do those people have? The smallest official is the village chief. Today, you were fortunate to meet officials above the level of village chief from the county. You probably won’t have any regrets in your life about this. It’s good publicity for our estate. Besides, our estate has so much fruit and vegetables. If we didn’t get the silver, then so be it!”
“Dad, that’s easy for you to say, but seeing that crisp silver slip away is truly painful.”
Mrs. Lai sighed again and rambled on for a while, talking about her own worries, ignoring her daughter who was lost in thought.
Ye Shuzhen seemed not to hear her parents’ words, always having that obsessed expression as if her lover was right in front of her.
The Ye family’s estate had suddenly drawn so many significant figures, including the ladies from wealthy families.
This certainly caught more people’s attention, stirring feelings of envy and jealousy that could only be secretly harbored.
The other landlords in the village, did they not want to host these important figures?
But they did not have the standing to host them! Although they also had estates, what they grew on their estates was not worth as much as bamboo would be if it were grown in the mountains.
The estate grew vegetables, but the prices they fetched were poor. They regretted making such a decision, realizing it shouldn’t follow trends blindly.
If they had grown rice instead at this time, even if it wasn’t as good as others’, they would still have had a harvest.
The vegetables they grew looked unappealing and couldn’t be sold, but only pickled.
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The melons they grew, not looking good, also didn’t sell well.
It would have been better to grow potatoes. Potatoes and sweet potatoes could still serve as food.
The other rich men in the village, in their effort to grow vegetables, had reserved some land and hired long-term workers, which resulted in a financial loss.
Seeing no profit yet losing money, they thought of not paying the long-term workers’ wages, delaying whenever they could.
The long-term workers, whose wages were delayed, couldn’t get their pay, so they didn’t want to work for those rich men. Since the Ye family hired casual laborers, they all left to work in wood mills or outside jobs, and came to the Ye family’s estate as long-term or casual workers.
The other rich men couldn’t hire anyone to farm their lands- how frustrating for them! They had no choice but to rent out their paddies to villagers early. The next season all other estates in the village planted rice.
Since her husband became a contractor, Ye Shuying and her family’s wealth had risen, and she walked with more confidence in the village.
Her widow mother, who used to do odd jobs and not help with her grandchildren, now stopped working to help with the children.
This allowed her to help in the fields, a relief to her two sons.
Her family didn’t own much farmland. Now that her mother-in-law was no longer helping with her grandsons, thinking of her family’s help was out of the question.
Ye Shuying and her family now hired long-term workers to farm, and more so, casual workers. Seeing the maturing grains, the harvest season was soon approaching.
Today Ye Shuying went to work on a different field and didn’t see the many guests her family had received.
When she got back home, her widow mother was a bit nicer to her, helping with the children and cooking.
She had lunch with her mother-in-law and son, and the widow mother glanced at Ye Shuying and gossiped with her about the incident.
Ye Shuying heard her mother-in-law’s words, perhaps with a laugh, she now would not cling to the idea of going to her parents’ house all day long to ask for things.
Even if she went, it was to pick some fruits and vegetables from the estate, to add variety to her own dinner table today.
Since the vegetables grown by her parents tasted better than theirs, she now focused solely on growing rice, too lazy to even bother with vegetables.
The cleared land was used to grow potatoes, peanuts, corn, and cassava, adding a bit of variety to their food storage at home.
“Oh, yes, your brother-in-law is also of age now. Now that his room is built, it’s time to find a matchmaker to help him find a wife,” the only thing on the widow’s mind now was that her youngest son was still unmarried.
Ye Shuying paused while feeding her son, then pretended to be indifferent and said, “Organize a matchmaker for the brother-in-law, mother-in-law, you decide.”
Ye Shuying was quite worried inside. The widow was somewhat biased towards her youngest son, and her husband also tended to indulge his brother. She wondered what the character of the family into which he would marry would be like? Would they get along?
“It’s a bit of a pity that if I had spoken for your youngest sister earlier, you two sisters could have been close,” the widow’s words made Ye Shuying want to roll her eyes.
“Impossible, this time is not like the past, my parents’ vision wouldn’t be so narrow, they simply don’t approve of these young people in the village.”
Her words displeased her mother-in-law, who retorted:
“Is your brother-in-law so bad? Should you speak of him in such a manner? Don’t think I don’t know your ulterior motives; your sister is now like a landlord who doesn’t work, marrying her would be like marrying a Buddha.”
“Mother-in-law, if our family had money to hire long-term workers, we also wouldn’t have to work. My sister was lucky; I married too early and didn’t have such fortune, but that doesn’t mean my sister doesn’t have it.”
“Are you saying it is bad to marry my son? The one your sister is engaged to now is just a worker for someone else, what is there to be proud of?”
“Mother-in-law, if working can buy a big house in the county, if working can earn a lot of money, working is not bad either. Aren’t your two sons also working for someone else now?”
“That’s different, they work for the Tang family, where is there freedom in that? Unlike my two sons, who work as independent contractors, free as little bosses.”
“Heh…”
Seeing how agitated her mother-in-law was, Ye Shuying gave a dry laugh, irking the old lady even more. Tonight, she would suffer again.
Now, her husband wouldn’t hit her over small matters, but he would neglect her, sometimes giving her the silent treatment.
In this family, he always acted cautiously; fortunately, with the support of her parents, her husband didn’t dare to go too far.
“Hmmph, the girl I found for your brother-in-law is better than your sister, more industrious.”
“Yes, I support you, mother-in-law, you must be discerning and let the brother-in-law marry someone industrious so I don’t have to work as hard.”
“Wishful thinking, the blessings are not for you to enjoy…”
Ye Shuying laughed again at her mother-in-law’s words; when would she ever become the mother-in-law herself and, even then, it wasn’t guaranteed she’d be free from chores.
Unless she was as fortunate as her mother, who by her old age had servants at her beck and call.
In the Ye family, the whole family had lunch at home. Hongji rarely ate out. Today, so many guests had come, and the people cooking at home thought they had to prepare food for many guests.
Without the boss’s instructions, they wouldn’t cook extra food, ending up making the boss foolishly lose the opportunity to host so many high-ranking officials for a meal.
Thus, they missed the chance to meet more wealthy people and high-ranking officials.
