Chapter 24: Lessons from Lei Lei
After doing it for a few more days, Li Miao was so tired that she couldn't stand it, and Aunt Xie's daughter also went back, so she didn't have to stock up on a large number of goods, so she took the mother and daughter on vacation, and rested for a few days before continuing to do it.
Although some people in the town imitated this and made something similar, Li Miaomiao will be able to come up with new tricks in a few days, and it can be sold together with Aunt Wang's work, one large and one small. Aunt Xie's business has not been affected at all, and even the business with her own cloth has improved a lot, every time Li Miaomiao goes, she is very enthusiastic.
After breakfast, the house was simply cleaned up, the two children went out to play, Li Miaomiao had nothing to do, so she dug out the jar containing the money and counted the money.
The courtyard door was plugged in from the inside, and she didn't have to be afraid of outsiders coming in and seeing her, so she sat at the door of the house and counted slowly. If you want to say that the walls of this courtyard are really good, the people from the old mansion came several times during the period, but they were all turned away by her, and they should not be heard if they shouted.
Counting the money in the jar was eighty-five taels, she felt incredible, thinking that she had been here for more than a month, from not having enough to eat, to now having a small family property, everything was very unreal.
With the money in hand, he began to plan carefully. First of all, you have to send Lei Lei to go to school, if you are bound, it is five taels of silver a year, because in the town, it is inconvenient to go back and forth, and you have to live in the school, then you have to pay three taels of room and board, plus pen, ink, paper and inkstone, it is estimated that it will be about fifteen taels a year.
No wonder the children of poor families rarely study, five taels of silver saved are enough for a family to chew for a year, how can they be willing to spend fifteen taels to send their children to study.
If you want to build a house, you have to buy land, she wants to build the house in the current location, and if she wants to live in a larger house, she needs at least one acre of land, and if she wants to get a big vegetable garden, then she has two acres of land, and if she wants three taels of thin land per acre, she will get six taels of silver. And Uncle Dahai said that if she wants to build a house, it will take fifty taels.
As for the fertile land, she didn't plan to buy it, he didn't know how to farm, and there was no labor force at home. When you have money in the future, you can buy more and be a small landlord to collect rent.
This calculation is just right, you can send Lei Lei to the school first, and then buy land to build a house, and the dolls in your hands can be sold for some money to subsidize the family. Aunt Wang also persuaded her that it was not good to build a house now, it was too eye-catching, but she didn't want to be wronged because of other people's attitudes. And there was a heavy rain the day before yesterday, and she no longer wanted to endure the feeling of heavy rain outside the house, light rain inside the house, and the ground in the house, all muddy when it rained, and she couldn't get her feet down at all.
With what to do, she counted the silver in her hand again, and it was a good feeling to sit and count the silver.
After lunch was ready, the two children didn't come back, and Li Miaomiao was ready to go out to find it. As soon as she was discharged from the hospital, Yanyan came back in a hurry, and seeing that she was not following Lei Lei behind her, she asked, "What about your brother, why didn't you come back with you."
"I don't know, my brother won't play with us these days, and I won't tell my sister", Yanyan said aggrievedly.
Li Miaomiao wondered in her heart, where did this child go alone if he didn't play with familiar friends.
"Sister, I'm back, is the meal ready, I'm hungry", Lei Lei didn't arrive, and the sound arrived first.
After the two children washed their hands, they sat down at the dinner table, and Li Miaomiao asked, "Where has Lei Lei been these days, why haven't you played with my sister?"
After hearing this, Lei Lei glared fiercely at Yanyan who was sitting on the side, this sister is really talkative.
Seeing him glaring at Yanyan, Li Miaomiao suppressed the anger in her heart, and tried her best to talk to him calmly, "What are you doing staring at your sister, answering my question is"
"I went to the old house to play with Brother Song, his family has a lot of things bought in the town, and a lot of books"
Hearing that Lei Lei went to the old mansion, Li Miaomiao couldn't control her anger anymore, "Have you forgotten how they treated us before?"
"The second aunt said that they had done wrong before, I went to her and brought me good food, the eldest aunt and grandma were all good to me, sister, we are a family, we should not have a relationship with them", Lei Lei felt that her sister must still remember the past, as long as she knew that the people in the old house had become better, she would definitely forgive them.
The people in the old mansion haven't been demons for a few days, so they are waiting here.
"What else did they say?"
Seeing that his sister was not angry, Lei Lei continued, "The second uncle said, when the second uncle comes back, he will let him take me to the best school in the town, find the best gentleman to teach me, and let me study like Brother Song."
"The second uncle wants to provide you with education, it's really good to treat you", Li Miaomiao will not demolish him, let him continue.
"The second aunt said, Brother Song and I will definitely be able to be admitted to Xiucai and become big officials in the future." After hesitating for a moment, he continued, "The reputation of being an official is very important, we can't leave behind the bad reputation of unfilial piety, sister, let's make peace with the old house." Grandma said that we would teach her to make dolls and sell them for money, and she would let us move back to the old house."
Let's just say that things are not so simple, it turned out to be for the business in her hands, and the abacus should not be too good.
Lei Lei didn't notice that her sister's face had turned black, and continued to talk to herself, "And that widow, her reputation is not good, and her life is not good, my sister should not associate with her in the future, it will affect my luck as an official."
Seeing that my sister was silent, Lei Lei was a little proud, and felt that she had said something that her sister hadn't expected, "Aunt Wang is too, and she is not a good person in our family, but she is taking advantage of our family's recipe to make money, it must be because our sister and brother are young to coax us, she is not a good person, and my sister will have less contact with her in the future."
"You are talking nonsense, Aunt Wang is a good person, I don't allow you to talk about her like this", Yanyan heard her brother say this about Aunt Wang, and she was about to cry in anger.
"I'm your brother, why do you talk to me like this, uneducated"
Li Miao stood up suddenly, and couldn't hold back the anger in her heart anymore, "You kneel down for me"
Lei Lei looked at his sister in disbelief, he didn't know where he said something wrong, but he still knelt on the ground obediently.
"Aunt Wang is not a good person, I will have less contact with her in the future, um", the last word Li Miao Miao pulled extraordinarily long, and Lei Lei couldn't help but lower his head a little.
"The person who is not good in your eyes is the person who gave you a bite of food when you were about to starve to death, the person who made clothes for you with your own hands when you had no clothes to wear, the person who pulled your sister back from the brink of death, the person who protected your sisters and brothers from bullying, and the person who gave you warm help when you were most helpless, you said she was not a good person, Li Leilei, do you have a heart?"
"Widow Zhang, how do you call it, what is she sorry for you. Saying that her life is not good, it will affect you, and that father is also dead, is my life not good, do you want to kick me out of the house. See for yourself, the clothes on your body now, the shoes under your feet, which ones are not made by the widow Zhang in your mouth", Li Miaomiao was really angry, she didn't know why the sensible and obedient children in the past would become like this, just the words of the people in the old mansion.
"But my sister has given them money, and they should take the money to do things", Lei Lei said unconvinced by his sister.
"It's a good one to do things with money, and your conscience has been eaten by dogs. Yanyan's three-year-old child knows how to be grateful and protect those who have helped her, but what about you, if you don't like your heart, you actually scolded your own sister for being uneducated. Then I don't know how many times I have disobeyed the people of the old house, how are you going to scold me?"
"How dare I blame my sister, but ......"
Before he finished speaking, Li Miaomiao interrupted him, she didn't dare to guarantee that if Lei Lei said something bastard, she wouldn't slap him in the face.
"You kneel here for me to think clearly, and when you know it's wrong, you'll get up for me again", and then left the house with Yanyan.
At this time, it was noon, and when the weather was hot, she didn't know where to go, so she had to lead her sister aimlessly, walked to the small river near her home, and saw the beads of sweat on Yanyan's face before she took her to sit under a big willow tree.
A breeze blew in the distance, and it blew away some of her anger.
"Sister, don't be angry, I'll teach my sister a lesson when I go home", the little girl was close to her, as if this could bring her a little comfort.
"Sister is not angry, Yanyan can rest assured, let's go home after a meeting."
The little girl finally put her mind at ease and gradually fell asleep under Li Miaomiao's caressing.