Chapter Twenty-Six: Second Aunt Who Can't See Someone Good
Cheng Hua'er looked at everyone's surprised looks and smiled softly: "Girls have to learn to be housekeepers. Anyway, you are free these days, so it's best to learn together."
Cheng Qingwen was stunned for a moment, then he agreed after seeing the woman's rare interest.
After dinner, Cheng Huaer took out an abacus from somewhere and taught the three of them step by step.
Lian Zhi had learned it and was very proficient in moving the abacus. Although Song Qiaoqiao had not learned it, she was very serious and at least understood the function of the abacus.
Only Cheng Qinghan looked at the abacus in front of her with a headache. After dialing the wrong number for the second time, she began to miss the calculator.
"Huanhan, what are you thinking about?" The woman looked at the person in front of her with hatred, and sighed in her heart.
"Auntie, I'm really not used to this."
"If your grandpa were still here, you wouldn't have to learn these things, and I wouldn't have to worry about your marriage. Countless men would come to marry you."
Cheng Hua'er couldn't hide her disappointment on her face, and her thoughts during the day were even more confirmed in her heart.
That night, Cheng Qingwen lay in bed and did not fall asleep immediately. She did not think that the housekeeper could only use an abacus to calculate accounts. Although there was no computer here, she had the minimum multiplication formulas and addition and subtraction in her mind.
She turned over and pinched the painful swelling between her eyebrows.
"Huanwen, can't you sleep?"
"Well, you haven't slept yet?"
Song Qiaoqiao responded softly and said, "Actually, I didn't understand much of what Aunt Cheng said today. Let's ask again tomorrow."
Cheng Qingwen smiled, knowing that she was comforting herself: "Okay."
"We will study for another day tomorrow and we will definitely learn it. Aunt Cheng is really amazing and knows everything. My aunt asked me to learn from her."
"Yes, what kind of family do you think my grandpa's family is so that his son-in-law can marry into his wife?"
Cheng Qingwen was very curious about how wealthy her grandfather's family was. First, she bought a whole box of gold and silver treasures as a dowry for Cheng Hua'er, and then she was able to get her son-in-law to marry him.
"It must be a family richer than the wealthy businessmen in the town."
Song Qiaoqiao spoke softer and softer, and in the end, only her steady breathing was left.
Cheng Qingwen laughed softly and helped her cover herself with quilt.
"Congratulations, you achieved an achievement and saved a life. You will receive a detoxification pill as a reward and unlock herbal seeds."
The sound of the system sounded unexpectedly. Cheng Qingwen was stunned for a moment and immediately said in her mind.
"Wait, what does this mean?"
"This is not a necessary task. You can decide to do it or not. There will be no subsequent consequences."
Cheng Qingwen curled her lips and was about to speak when she was interrupted.
"The next task is to own an industry of your own. You will be rewarded with two thousand points and unlock seed cabbage and sugar cane."
When Cheng Qingwen heard this task, she calculated it in her mind. It would take at least three months for the tomatoes to bear fruit. After harvesting the grain in the field, it could only be sold for more than ten taels. If she really wanted to open a store, it would be far away.
not enough.
She thought about it for a long time, and finally couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.
At dawn the next day, Cheng Qingwen walked to the kitchen and found that Lian Zhi and her brother had already cooked breakfast.
She was stunned and asked softly: "What time did you get up to cook breakfast?"
"It started at three o'clock in the morning." Lian Zhi said softly.
Cheng Qingwen touched her head: "You are too young, you don't have to crawl so early to make breakfast."
Lian Zhi clapped his fingers and said softly: "But my mother-in-law said that if we don't eat the food we bring, my brother and I can't eat and drink here for free."
"Well, let's do this. I just want to plant the seeds in the backyard today. Come and help me."
"Okay." Lian Zhi's eyes lit up and he responded quickly.
After breakfast, Cheng Qingwen took out tomato and herbal seeds, half of each variety.
Although Lian Zhi and Lian Song had never done these things before, they were very smart and remembered them all after being taught them once.
Weeding and watering were done without any instructions.
The two siblings were very considerate. After Cheng Qingwen finished her work, one carried a small stool and carried water, and the other squeezed her shoulders and patted her back after she sat down.
"I heard people say that your family has two slaves. I didn't believe it. Now I come here to see it and it's true." The woman standing on the mountain field folded her hands and said harshly.
Cheng Qingwen looked at the person in front of him and thought carefully for a while, but still couldn't remember who this person was.
Song Qiaoqiao heard the sound and hurried to the backyard, looked at the person, and called softly: "Second Aunt."
"She is your second aunt?"
Song Qiaoqiao nodded, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Since my father's death, my second uncle's family has had a falling out with us over property."
The woman was already on good terms with Widow Chen, but she secretly caused many obstacles for Cheng Qinghan's family.
In the past few days, I heard in the village that Mrs. Cheng and her daughter, Widow Liu, and her daughter had become rich and had two slaves. She was jealous, so she hurried over and had nothing good to say.
"Qiao Qiao, don't our Song family have food for you? Why do you want to stay in someone else's house? Did your shameless mother bring you here?" The woman looked at the people in the yard with disdain.
: "You are a member of my Song family after all. Let's go home with my second aunt for dinner."
"Second Aunt, do you want to bring me to your house to drink water again?" Song Qiaoqiao showed a rare anger: "Your family only has three acres of fertile land, but you have four cousins and three cousins. Why bother?"
What about fake generosity?"
The woman's face turned red with anger, and she even raised her voice twice as loudly as she said: "You, you heartless person, how could my family ever be like this when your father was alive? Just because that bitch of your mother refused to put those two
Give me acres of land.”
"It's you who saw my father dead and clamored to divide the family. There are five acres of land in total. What else will you do if I gave you three acres?"
Song Qiaoqiao became angry when she heard this and told the truth loudly.
"You bastard, you dare to talk to your elders like this. If you follow me to the county to see the officials, I will sue you." The woman angrily jumped down from the hill outside and pointed straight at the girl's nose to curse.
Cheng Qingwen rolled her eyes after hearing this. She first let Lian Zhi and her brother into the house, and then closed the door tightly.
"You are not her parents, nor did you give birth to her or raise her. Why are you suing her?"
The woman choked, looked at the two girls in front of her, and sneered: "Okay, your family has become rich, and you have the confidence to speak, right? Don't think about it, without Song Da, you mother and daughter would have died long ago.
It’s here.”
"Ouch, what do you mean, I have to thank Song Da for taking away my mother-in-law's dowry and beating me to death?" Cheng Qingwen sat on a small bench, holding a long pole used to drive chickens and ducks aside, and paused.
He touched the ground at once, widening the distance between the women and them.
"How much is your mother-in-law's dowry worth? If she really had that much money, she would have gone to live in the town long ago. Why should she still suffer from the cowardice in this village?"
"The dowry is indeed not worth much, it can only buy a house in the capital." Cheng Qingwen raised her eyebrows slightly, with a very disgusting expression: "Oh, I forgot, your family doesn't even have enough to eat, and you must not even have enough food to eat next door.
I’ve never been to the county, so I can’t imagine what the houses in the capital are like.”