Powerful Minister Buddha-like Sweet Wife

Chapter 6 — Making Money

Wei Fuyao is the first grand-daughter of the Wei family and is five years old this year. 

Because she was the first girl in the family, she was very favored. Not only Wei Laosan and his wife dote on her, but Wei Daniu, Wei Erhu, Wei Hanzhou also dote on her. 

But unfortunately, Wei Fuyao seems to be born not to let people worry-free about the girl in the family and at the age of two her nature is somewhat showing. 

Wei Erhu was the first person to start reprimanding Wei Fuyao severely. 

However, his strength alone was very limited, since the others did not stand with him, but instead protected Wei Fuyao in every way, especially Wei Laosan and his wife. Every time Wei Erhu wanted to teach Wei Fuyao a lesson, he would be stopped by the two of them.

Now Wei Fuyao is five years old. Because Wei Erniu and Zhou-shi are not short, Wei Fuyao is much taller than her peers and because the family doesn’t need her to go work, she runs out every day to play with the village children. 

In this era, there is a strong sense of patriarchy, there are not many girls in the village who have the same temperament as her. So she gradually went to play with boys.

As she played with them, her temperament became more wild. 

When everyone realized the problem, it was no longer easy to change. 

Zhou-shi also felt a headache for her daughter. 

Although she is only five years old now, her temperament is getting worse and worse every day and she does not look like a girl at all. Now that Zhou-shi is pregnant and can’t take care of her, her mother-in-law has to take care of her father-in-law, her sister-in-law has to go to the mountains to look after the fruit trees and her husband and elder brother have to go to the field, so no one can take care of her.

This also caused her to play more and more crazy recently. 

Before eating, although she didn’t hear what her daughter said to Liu Tangxi, she saw that her daughter wanted to scare Liu Tangxi with a little bug, but Liu Tangxi convinced her daughter in a few words. Not only that, but just now, her daughter took the initiative to find Liu Tangxi again, and this time she heard the conversation between the two. Although she did not know the cause and effect, she knew that her daughter had listened to Liu Tangxi and would no longer catch the bugs.

Even though she still doesn’t like Liu Tangxi very much because she had an extremely bad impression when the first time she met her, and also her mother-in-law treated Liu Tangxi extremely well and differently, but she still admires Liu Tangxi for being able to subdue her daughter. 

Since Liu Tangxi also has nothing to do now, if she can help her…

This kind of thought just popped out and was immediately extinguished by Zhou-shi.

She is still not sure how Liu Tangxi’s temperament is, what if her daughter gets even worse with her (Liu Tangxi)? Besides, she couldn’t even open her mouth. 

Zhou-shi temporarily suppressed the thoughts in her heart. 

In the second half of the afternoon, Zhou-shi and Zhang-shi sat together again to do embroidery work. 

This embroidery work was picked up by Zhang-shi in the town. The fabric and thread were all provided by the shop. After they finish it, the shop will pay them wages. A handkerchief can earn about two cents and a purse five cents. 

For the handkerchief, they only need to embroider a pattern on one corner. And for the purse, they need to sew the lining on both sides, so it is more expensive. 

Liu Tangxi did embroidery work with them yesterday. She thought that Zhang-shi and Zhou-shi were just doing it for fun. But today, seeing the two of them doing the same embroidery handkerchief as yesterday, she suddenly became aware of it. 

After some inquiries, she found out that it was the work from the shop. 

Liu Tangxi, was also idle and had nothing to do and immediately said that she could do it with them. 

Zhang-shi saw Liu Tangxi’s embroidery work yesterday and she also planned to offer it. Hearing that Liu Tangxi proposed it herself, she immediately agreed. 

However, Zhang-shi also told Liu Tangxi about something. 

“Originally, we took over the embroidery work and we could keep half of the money we earned for ourselves, but now father is sick and needs to take medicine, and the third brother still needs to study so the money must be given to mother.” 

Liu Tangxi was stunned for a moment. 

She really didn’t expect that. 

But the reason why she was stunned was not that they gave all the money to Li, but that Li had asked her daughters-in-law to keep private money before.

Because she has seen it, she is very aware of some characteristics of this dynasty. Now that there is no separation in the family, the money everyone earns will be put together and there won’t be any extra savings for individuals. This is understandable, because food and lodging are also still following the parents. If any of the sons or daughters-in-law needs money for something, they will talk about it together openly. 

Wei Lao San’s family is not the same as the ordinary country family in this dynasty. They love her granddaughter as well as her daughter-in-law. 

With such enlightened parents, how could Wei Hanzhou become like that? 

Could it be that Wei Hanzhou is like Zhong because of the death of the third child? 

After all, the third child of Wei is still alive, and Wei Hanzhou seems to be a good person. Liu Tangxi feels that he does not need to think so far. 

As for making money, Liu Tangxi had never thought about it before. 

Because she knew that Wei Hanzhou would pass the imperial examination smoothly all the way. 

But she never thought that there are so many people’s efforts behind the light words written by the author. 

How much work Wei Daniel and Wei Erhu have to do, and how much embroidery work Zhang-shi and Zhou-shi have to do. 

Seeing Zhang-shi and Zhou-shi doing their embroidery work seriously, Liu Tangxi sighed silently in her heart, thinking that she is now Wei Hanzhou’s wife, Liu Tangxi said, “Well, it’s hard work, sisters-in-law.” 

Anyway, no matter what, Li spent twenty taels of silver when she rescued the original owner. And the 20 taels of silver was life-saving money for Wei Lao San’s family, and it was also money for Wei Hanzhou’s study. Now that the third family is stretched thin, if she can help make some money and pay off the 20 taels of silver as soon as possible, that would be excellent, and it would make her feel more at ease.

Hearing that, Zhang-shi smiled and said, “What’s the matter, we are all a family. When the third uncle wins the election, our family can enjoy happiness. The hardships come first and the good days will come later. Right?” 

Even Zhou-shi, who stabbed Liu Tangxi from time to time, continued speaking: “Isn’t it true, the third brother became a scholar and our taxes and corvées will be exempted. And with that, we can do embroidery work for the rest of our lives. I can’t wait for it.” 

Liu Tangxi sighed deeply in his heart that in this family, except for Wei Hanzhou, everyone else is a good person with kindness and duty. 

However, the current Wei Hanzhou doesn’t look like a bad guy either. 

Since she came here and replaced the original owner, then she has to live a good life.

She is alone now, with no money and no skills, and it is unrealistic to return to the Hou-fu. Besides, she didn’t know how to go to the capitol when she was far in the countryside. Now that the world is so chaotic, what if she is robbed and killed? 

Moreover, the Hou-fu in the capitol may not be really safe. 

If it is really safe, how could the original owner be sold here? 

Although the book didn’t say who was behind the maid and the servant. But, when she read the book, she vaguely guessed that it should be the female lead. 

Now, her biological father values ​​the heroine very much, and he dislikes her a lot, so he will definitely won’t help her. 

After all, in the book, as soon as the original owner fled back to the capital, the heroine saw through the fact that she was married and spread it out. 

This kind of scandal spread, but the original owner’s father didn’t help clarify it, but sent her to the nunnery instead. 

The original owner took the opportunity to escape and designed the third prince, and she became the third prince’s concubine. 

Liu Tangxi was not from this dynasty. Although she does not agree with many of the original owner’s actions and her luck is extremely bad under the protagonist’s halo, and since she doesn’t understand anything, she is also not as good as the original owner. 

If she goes back, won’t she be bitten to the point of becoming scum?

Rather than being locked in a nunnery, it is better to follow the villain honestly. After all, the villain Wei Hanzhou lived till the very end. 

Now that she has decided to follow him, eat and drink from the family, and the original owner has wasted twenty taels of their life-saving money, she will always have something in return. 

She is not a lazy person at all, and immediately started to do embroidery work seriously. 

In less than half an hour, Liu Tangxi embroidered a handkerchief. The two little butterflies on the handkerchief are lifelike and the stitches are fine, which is much better than Zhang-shi and Zhou-shi.

Looking at the pattern above, Liu Tangxi was very grateful to the original owner, all of which were left to her by the original owner. 

Liu Tangxi embroidered four handkerchiefs in one afternoon, and Zhang-shi embroidered one. Zhou-shi had hardly sat for long periods of time, so she did not even finish embroidering one. 

Watching Liu Tangxi’s embroidery work, Zhang-shi and Zhou-shi showed a look of amazement in their eyes. 

Zhang-shi said happily: “Third sister-in-law, you are really amazing. You can earn two cents for one handkerchief, and since doing four of it is eight cents. Besides, looking at this stitch, it is better than the master in the shop.” 

Liu Tang Xi calculated in her heart that a penny here is roughly equivalent to a dollar. So, she only made eight dollars after working for most of the afternoon? 

Liu Tangxi couldn’t smile at all. 

Zhou-shi looked at Liu Tangxi’s ability, and her heart became warm again. 

After a few words, the sister-in-law looked at the sky and put down her embroidery work. 

 Zhang-shi and Liu Tangxi are going to cook. 

After the meal, the family got together to talk for a while and Liu Tangxi went back to the room. 

After going to the kitchen to boil some hot water, Liu Tangxi wiped her body. 

Here, firewood can be exchanged for money in the town or county and it is not a free thing. Some people in the village do this. They carry firewood to the town every day to sell them, and they can earn a few pennies each time. 

Seeing her daughter-in-law like this, Mrs. Li frowned.

However, when she saw her husband looking more and more healthy, Li sighed and said nothing. 

Love cleanliness is love cleanliness, even if it wastes firewood, just waste it. As long as her husband’s illness can be cured, she will let her go (do nothing about it/ no comments). 

Wei Daniu and Zhang-shi are both honest and responsible, and the two of them did not react in the slightest to this matter. 

After seeing it, Zhou-shi muttered, “She really love cleanliness.” 

However, when she asked others, she just mumbled to herself, and said nothing else. 

After scrubbing her body, she washed her clothes outside in the dark, and Liu Tangxi went back to her room. 

As soon as she returned to the room, she saw Wei Erhu walking towards Wei Hanzhou’s study. 

However, this has nothing to do with her, so Liu Tangxi didn’t take it seriously. 

After returning to the room, Liu Tangxi began to wipe her hair. 

The country is very quiet, and you can hear the slightest noise clearly. After Liu Tangxi wiped her hair, she heard Wei Erhu leave Wei Hanzhou’s study. After she wiped it several times and her hair was almost dry, Wei Hanzhou’s study door rang again. 

After a while, Wei Hanzhou pushed open the door. 

Liu Tangxi was wiping her hair sideways, and after hearing the movement, she raised her eyes and looked over. 

Seeing that it was Wei Hanzhou, Liu Tangxi lowered her head again and wiped her hair, the expression on her face did not change in the slightest. 

Liu Tangxi didn’t know how tempting she was at the moment. 

Under the yellowish candlelight, the young girl was sitting on the bed with her legs crossed. Her cheeks were as tender as peach blossoms in March, with a slight blush. The neck is white, and the collarbones on both sides are deeply sunken. Turning her head to the side,hier jet-black hair hung down like a waterfall. Because of her movement, the collar opened slightly, revealing a large area of ​​fair skin. 

Not only that, because the hair was not dry, the moisture gradually made the inner clothes wet, and some parts even became transparent, and the red apron inside could be seen.

Even Wei Hanzhou with a rock-like heart. Seeing such a scene in the middle of the night, his heart inevitably moved, his adam apple rolled slightly, and his brows furrowed tightly.

Liu Tangxi noticed that Wei Hanzhou had been staring at her, stopped what she was doing, and looked up. 

Seeing Wei Hanzhou with a very wrong expression, Liu Tangxi looked over unhappy: “Is something wrong?” 

Wei Hanzhou calmed down and looked into Liu Tangxi’s eyes. 

Seeing that Wei Hanzhou was weird today, He didn’t go to get his own bedding immediately when he came back, and the look in his eyes was also very strange, and she suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart. 

“Do you want to go to bed?” Liu Tangxi asked cautiously, wrapping her neckline tightly.