The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

“Exactly.” Wang Crippled scowled, “The Xiao Family’s wife gave a fair price and I earned my money through hard work. There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ll tell you, the wife from the Xiao Family came back from the town today and bought a wheelchair. Have you heard of a wheelchair? Our whole village has never had one before!”

“The cheap one for three taels of silver…” Aunt Qi sneered. As a woman, she had no idea how much a wheelchair cost, but she happened to have a relative who was paralyzed and had asked about the price of a wheelchair. When she heard the cheapest one was three taels, it was too expensive, so her relative’s family gave up on the idea.

“Three taels of silver, and yet no other families have bought one.” Wang Crippled said, “You have a paralyzed relative, right? Did they buy one?”

“My relatives aren’t my family…” Aunt Qi quickly dissociated herself.

Wang Crippled said, “Xiao Qinghe is quite blessed, his wife bought him the good one, the mid-range one for five taels of silver.”

“She really splurged…” Aunt Qi sounded sour. A poor family actually bought such an expensive item.

Zhou Fuquan thought about it, “In our town, there seems to be no wheelchairs for sale, right? While I was doing part-time work in the town, I heard that we have to go to Liuan Town 300 miles away to buy one. How did the wife from the Xiao Family manage to buy one today?”

“Yeah, where did she get it?” Ding Er wondered, “Did she grow wings and fly 300 miles in one day, and then fly back another 300 miles?”

Wang Crippled said, “The wife from the Xiao Family is really smart. I asked her, and she said she had asked a cloth shop owner in the town who needed to go to Liuan Town to buy goods to get the wheelchair for her. She gave him 200 cents as a commission, and he had already ordered it a long time ago. Today, she just went to get the wheelchair.”

Aunt Qi finally understood, “So it was bought earlier when they still had money. Now the Xiao Family has no money left. Otherwise, why would they stop buying ferns? Anyway, the Xiao Family will always be a destitute family. Wang Crippled, you and I aren’t closely related. At most, we are from the same family with the same last name. The Xiao Family is an outsider. In the future, they won’t have money to hire your cart, and you won’t have any benefits from them. Don’t speak for that destitute family again…”

“You old lady has no decency…” Wang Crippled felt she was unreasonable.

“Who are you talking about!” Aunt Qi watched him walk away, cursing and scolding, “You dead cripple, you deserve to be crippled!”

Wang Crippled let her curse away. Everyone in the village knew that Aunt Qi’s mouth was the sharpest.

…

Su Qingyue boiled a big pot of bone soup. She scooped out all the bones from the pot, as the bones were very tender by now. She cleaned the knife that second brother used for scraping off animal hides and used it to scrape the meat off the bones. With so many bones, she managed to collect three big bowls of meat.

She threw all the bones to the little bastard to chew on.

The little bastard was delightedly gnawing at the bones in a pile.

In the backyard of the Xiao’s house, Xiao Yishan mixed the water he carried with the water in the water jar.

As Xiao Yuchuan sat and washed the pig’s large intestine, he glanced at his frosty-faced brother, “Second brother, who upset you?”

“No one.”

“Your face clearly says you want to beat someone.”

“If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll beat you.”

“Second brother, that really shows your ambition. I care about you, and you want to beat me.” Xiao Yuchuan was unhappy “Whoever upset you, just beat them to death. Surely no one in the village can defeat you.”