Originally, I thought that once we agreed, this matter would be settled.
But unexpectedly, Aunt Lan Hua disagreed.
She started speaking, "In-law, I’m not going to hide it from you. As for the hard fruits, the amount our family picks is equivalent to several families combined. Don’t be fooled into thinking they work for a few days; they don’t pick much. Unlike our family, who work genuinely from dawn till dusk, and one person here does the work of two of them. If we calculate wages by the day like them, it wouldn’t be worth it for our family."
Aunt Lan Hua is quite shrewd, and she calculates everything down to the last detail.
The Yang Family was already upset about Aunt Lan Hua taking people up the mountain to pick hazelnuts, and now they have to listen to her bragging about how much more their family picked. It’s truly infuriating.
Old Yang wasn’t happy about it, but he had to keep negotiating. He spoke, "Aunt Lan Hua, in your opinion, what’s the most reasonable way to calculate this?"
"In-law, you’re reasonable. From my perspective, it should be calculated based on the amount picked. Our family picked the sa amount as those other families, so the silver we get should be the total of their wages."
Aunt Lan Hua had already calculated at ho that the wages for those families amounted to about seven or eight taels of silver.
The hard nuts couldn’t be sold, and now there was no ti to sell them. Even at two coins, no one would buy them, and if the price was dropped to one coin, who knows if they’d sell. But if they could be sold, it might fetch seven or eight taels of silver, so might as well let the Yang Family pay that, saving space at ho. She still needed to make room for corn.
Hearing this, the expressions on the Yang Family mbers’ faces beca more and more colorful. Aunt Lan Hua really had thick skin.
At this mont, the second daughter-in-law couldn’t hold it in any longer. She had been holding back since Aunt Lan Hua entered the room but couldn’t anymore. This was blatantly extorting money. She spoke, "Aunt Lan Hua, if you ask , why are you sending those hard nuts to our house? What silver do you expect to exchange for? Your family can barely eat. Look at how Yang Xiaocui has starved herself sick. Those hard nuts are food, aren’t they? They can at least last you a while, save you from going hungry again."
The second daughter-in-law’s words had a clear tone of sarcasm. Aunt Lan Hua understood it perfectly, and she cursed the second daughter-in-law in her heart. How could the younger generation interrupt when the elders were speaking? The Yang Family really had no manners.
Although displeased, she still put on a smile. No matter what, she had to push those hard nuts to the Yang Family and get so silver. She continued, "Yang Gang’s wife, although the hard nuts are food, they can’t replace als, right? You’re right; our family doesn’t have enough to eat. I’m thinking of exchanging these for so silver to buy so rice and flour so the family can eat a full al, and to nourish our Xiaocui, too. I’d like her to gain a bit more weight before she marries into your family."
These words were ant to elicit sympathy, especially ntioning Xiaocui. After all, Xiaocui would be their daughter-in-law in the future, and they certainly didn’t want her to look too frail.
The words indeed touched Old Yang and Yang Ming’s wife’s hearts since she’d beco their fourth son’s wife in the future, and being too frail wasn’t good for childbearing.
Thinking it over, her request wasn’t too unreasonable, especially compared to the hundred-tael bride price. It was much better.
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