"Lai, are you going to the market? Your daughter-in-law has gone to the county town, and you are still so free?" A 40- to 50-year-old mother-in-law gossiped about Lai.

"Ms. Lai, your daughter-in-law is really virtuous. She has shouldered so much work on her own and now helps your family to work outside to make money. Your family has a good daughter-in-law." Another mother-in-law gossiped with envy.

"She..., it's a pity that she couldn't give birth to a boy. Our family is looking forward to it! Alas..."

Lai felt proud of the gossiping village women and their envious eyes. Wasn't this pride?

I can let my son marry a hard-working daughter-in-law, but the shortcoming just mentioned is that I haven't been able to give birth to a fat baby and grandson.

I saw that she had dressed up specially today, including the silver ring that she usually didn't want to wear, the silver bracelet that she stole from her daughter-in-law's dowry, and a silver hairpin and silver earrings in her hair. She was dressed up carefully. He also

Don't worry about being robbed in town.

"Lai, if you ask your daughter-in-law to be a wet nurse, when will she be able to give birth to another big fat boy for you?"

I went to a market in a village and spoke to my young daughter-in-law without being shy.

"Hey, you are a young daughter-in-law. Your belly is a little bulging. Could it be that you are pregnant?"

The other women heard what the young daughter-in-law said and made fun of her.

If the ox-cart is not big enough, you will usually take the ox-cart. Those who are willing to spend the money just want to go to town more comfortably without walking.

Men who are stronger on their feet find it inconvenient to squeeze into a bullock cart with women. Today, all the people sitting on the bullock cart are women, and only the driver is a man, and it is not convenient for him to talk to them.

The young daughter-in-law nodded shyly and said, "I was going to the town to buy some things to make clothes and shoes for the child. It has been three months since I could tell others."

The other women nodded, thinking that the young daughter-in-law was right.

Lai's triangular eyes looked at the young daughter-in-law's belly, thinking thoughtfully in her heart. Her daughter-in-law had already given birth to five children. She couldn't just give birth to girls all the time. Many people had seen it. Some people always gave birth to girls, seven or more.

None of the eight female babies could give birth to a son.

Mrs. Lai was afraid that Mr. Li had the same constitution, and thought that with their family, they could give their son a concubine.

If Mrs. Li cannot give birth to a son, she can ask her concubine to give birth to a big fat boy for their family, so that their family can spend more money.

Then I thought that there were only a few rooms in the house. My son slept in one room, the two elderly people slept in one room, and the daughters slept in another room. There was also a utility room, kitchen, and a furniture-making area in the thatched house.

If you want your son to take a concubine, you must build another room in your home.

Mrs. Lai touched the money bag in her arms. If she built another room in her home, she would be very good at money. When her second daughter gets married in a month or two, she would have to give her a dowry.

Although wood can be chopped up the mountain, it still requires labor, which saves the labor cost of table furniture. They have to buy a lot of things as their parents.

Lai suddenly came up with the idea of ​​taking a concubine for her son today. She was undecided and decided to discuss it with her husband after returning from the market and find a girl as a matchmaker to be her son's concubine.

The bullock cart arrived at the town, and everyone on the cart got out.

Mrs. Lai was busy buying rice, soy sauce, meat, and the things her daughter told her to buy.

When she went shopping, she deliberately went to her future son-in-law to buy some things because she wanted the discount they gave her.

Zhong Xianggui was selling goods in the shop with his mother, while his father went to purchase goods.

There are always customers coming in to buy things in the store. Their store has everything like a grocery store. They are introducing items to customers and explaining their prices.

When he saw another person entering the store, he raised his professional smile and smiled at the visitor, but he saw the future mother-in-law entering the door.

His smile paused, and he lowered his head slightly, pretending to sell something, without greeting his future mother-in-law.

His mother was a little more tactful. Seeing Lai's calm expression and the smile on her face unchanged, she said to Lai:

"My dear, why are you free to come here today? You see, we have been busy and have no time to visit your home."

The proprietress of the grocery store has been working as a grocery store in this town for many years. Every day, her in-laws and people from that village come to buy things, and there are always gossips.

The reason why I asked the matchmaker to tell my son about the in-laws of this family was that although they were stingy, they were pretty good to their daughter, and they might be able to give her more dowries in the future.

Her son also took a fancy to the daughter of this family, and they decided to get married. However, he did not expect to find out later that this family was not good to their daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

They just turned a blind eye and didn't offer full-moon wine when the other party gave birth to a granddaughter. They just pretended to be deaf and dumb and pretended they didn't know, thus saving a lot of money on gifts.

Mr. Lai came here today, either to buy something or to ask for something.

The proprietress of the grocery store felt shameful about Lai's bad behavior towards her daughter-in-law, but she didn't say it to her face. She couldn't imagine how she would get along with her daughter-in-law in the future.

"In-laws, I'm here to buy something today. We are all in-laws. I'm here to help with your business. I hope you can give me more discounts, let alone gifts. I know you need capital to sell goods."

Mr. Lai said it so pleasantly because she felt that her daughter would not dare to act recklessly before she was married to their family. In fact, she wanted them to say generously, "You don't have to spend money to buy things."

It's a pity that her stupid son-in-law didn't respond. He seemed to be a very shrewd man, but why did he feel a bit stupid when he saw her?

"In-laws, okay! We are all a family. If you come to buy goods from me, I will give you a wholesale price."

The proprietress of the grocery store said it nicely. Only she knew the purchase price of the goods she sold. She said it was a wholesale price for Lai. In other words, the price paid to a large number of people buying things was not the purchase price.

Lai did not understand the meaning of this sentence, nodded happily, and asked how much rice to buy? Buy mung beans, buy sugar, buy oil, and soy sauce.

If Mr. Lai goes to buy pork, he must go to the other side of the market to buy it.

The proprietress of the grocery store listened to Lai's words and arranged for her son to be weighed. She was calculating the cost of so many things with an abacus.

"In-laws, the total is two hundred coins."

"So much..." Ms. Lai was not very good at numbers, so she thought the price was very high and hugged her purse tightly.

"My dear, I'm giving it to you cheaply this time. If you don't believe it, ask other stores and you won't be able to get it at this price." The landlady had already thought that Lai wouldn't be able to give money so easily, and it would definitely take a bit of a verbal spat.

"This..." Lai hesitated.

"In-laws, it stands to reason that your daughter-in-law earns so much money by going to work in the county. The two of you who are carpenters make so much money, shouldn't they stop cultivating the land? Come and spend some money to buy rice. This is necessary. Of course you have to eat the money you have earned.

Better."

The landlady is talking nonsense again. She really wants to know what her future daughter-in-law is doing at home.

I heard someone say before that if she is such a lazy person who is always at home, she must be trained well in the future.

Lai taught her daughter-in-law to be so diligent, how could she not be as good as Lai?
Chapter completed!