Chapter 21

“I’m going to sell this ginseng. We didn’t dig it well, the later we sell it, the more we lose. We should sell it early. As for the money…” Bai Xiuxiu didn’t finish her sentence.

Zhao Cuihua picked up the conversation: “Sister-in-law, just give me 30% of the money. It was your idea today, I know my place.”

Zhao Cuihua was heartbroken, but for the sake of future benefits, she had to grit her teeth and endure it now.

Bai Xiuxiu was surprised. The third son’s wife was really smart.

How come such a smart person didn’t curry favor with Zhou Jiaojiao in her past life?

Among the Wang brothers, Zhao Cuihua and her husband were the worst off.

Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t know why she disliked Zhao Cuihua so much. After they became rich, they left the third son’s family in the county town, while everyone else moved to big cities.

Later, the Wang family became richer and richer, but Zhao Cuihua and her husband’s life was not good at all.

This was also why she was willing to get close to Zhao Cuihua.

“Just do as you said. I’ll have my husband sell the stuff. If you’re not sure, you can call your husband to come along,” Bai Xiuxiu said.

“No! Sister-in-law, don’t tell our family’s third son about this!” Zhao Cuihua quickly stopped her.

She was joking. If she told the third son, with his temper, who knows how he would spend the money.

She was saving it for her son’s future.

“Okay.” Bai Xiuxiu wasn’t curious about why she made this request. As long as it didn’t interfere with her own business.

After getting the ginseng, Bai Xiuxiu didn’t plan on staying in the mountains.

They were already deep in the mountains following Zhou Jiaojiao, and it wasn’t a good thing!

Zhou Jiaojiao was a lucky charm.

She and Zhao Cuihua weren’t. What if they encountered poisonous snakes or wild animals? They would be done for!

“Let’s go back and wait near the foot of the mountain.”

Bai Xiuxiu said.

Zhao Cuihua understood.

On their way back, they picked a lot of mushrooms and dug up a bunch of wild vegetables.

They packed up the herbs and hid them on their bodies.

The mushrooms from the mountains could be sold at the supply and marketing cooperative, but every year, their mother-in-law, Zhao Guifen, controlled them, so they could only secretly hide some of them in their clothes.

Although fabric was precious, except for the fifth son’s wife who had just married in, everyone had several large hidden pockets on their bodies!

Bai Xiuxiu was no exception.

Fortunately, the herbs they found were easy to pack.

The two of them wandered around the mountainside.

After waiting for two hours, it was almost dark when they saw Zhou Jiaojiao and the other two coming back.

When they saw them, Bai Xiuxiu was even more surprised.

They had seen Chen Fang limping, but now she had a large wound on her face, almost reaching her eye. Her face was injured, and her clothes were torn.

She looked very miserable.

She also had a fall injury on her arm.

Liu Xiao’e was even worse. She had been dragged along by the two of them the whole way, and now she looked pale and about to faint!

Compared to them, Zhou Jiaojiao looked the most mysterious.

Because the two of them were half-dead, Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t even have a speck of dust on her body.

As they approached the mountainside, there were more people around.

They couldn’t help but look at the three of them in this strange combination.

Chen Fang and Liu Xiao’e were both injured and listless, but when they saw Bai Xiuxiu and Zhao Cuihua, they perked up. “Sister-in-law, how was your harvest?”

It was Liu Xiao’e who asked.

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Jiaojiao looked over.

She was curious too!

Bai Xiuxiu readily showed them the basket in her hand. “Don’t even mention it, it was so unlucky. We didn’t find anything, just picked some mushrooms. But it’s not bad, we can still exchange them for a few cents when we get back.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Xiao’e was immediately unhappy. Just these things? These things would be entered into the family’s account.

Did they have to split it with Bai Xiuxiu and the others?

How could that be?

She had suffered so much!

“How come you only picked up these few things? Are you slacking off?” Chen Fang was also dissatisfied after seeing it. She was straightforward and asked directly.

Bai Xiuxiu looked wronged. “What are you saying? Fourth sister-in-law, you’re accusing us wrongly! Your third sister-in-law and I, our shoes are about to wear out! There are more people than things on the mountain, it’s not bad that we could pick up these. If you don’t believe me, look at the others.

Aren’t they the same as us?

What? You think you’re different?”

Bai Xiuxiu spoke with such confidence.

Zhao Cuihua was so impressed that she wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Bai Xiuxiu.

Sister-in-law, she… is such a good actress!

Seeing Bai Xiuxiu’s unfazed demeanor, Chen Fang fell silent. Even if the eldest sister-in-law liked to slack off, the third sister-in-law wouldn’t.

Could it be that they were just unlucky?

They…

Chen Fang looked at herself and then at her equally unlucky second sister-in-law. She fell into deep thought. Was it really bad luck?

Zhou Jiaojiao was very pleased when she heard that they hadn’t found anything. “Sister-in-law is right, it’s really hard to find things in the mountains. We were able to find a bunch of things, it’s really luck. I’ve always been lucky, why don’t you two follow me next time?”

“You’re saying that as if you found some treasure. Besides, even if you found good things, it’s your three people’s credit.”

Zhao Cuihua said with disdain.

Then she started to stir things up.

At this moment, she understood! Following the eldest sister-in-law, she could eat nine meals a day!

As soon as Zhao Cuihua finished speaking, Chen Fang and the almost fainted Liu Xiao’e both looked bad.

Was the fifth sister-in-law trying to take credit?

Zhou Jiaojiao looked embarrassed. “I… I didn’t mean it that way…”

“Okay, let’s talk about it at home. I don’t know what good things you found, but I do know that if we don’t go home, the second sister-in-law is going to die! How did you two end up like this? Go home quickly.

Third sister-in-law, fifth sister-in-law, you two each help one of them.”

Bai Xiuxiu took over the conversation, not letting Zhou Jiaojiao explain.

She also assigned them tasks.

Helping people was tiring and useless, she didn’t want to do it at all!

Zhou Jiaojiao’s face was ugly. Bai Xiuxiu said it nicely, but she didn’t do anything herself?

The five of them returned to the village in a grand procession.

Because Chen Fang and Liu Xiao’e looked so spectacular, as soon as they arrived in the village, they were surrounded by people.

Everyone asked them a few questions.

Hearing that they had fallen in the mountains, everyone said they were so unlucky.

After being unlucky all the way, they finally arrived home.

Zhao Guifen was resting at home drinking water! There was a rocking chair in their yard, but no one usually sat on it because everyone was too busy. At this moment, she was the only one at home looking after the three children!

She made the two money-losing girls, one wash clothes and the other take care of the third son’s son.

She couldn’t have been happier.

But the moment the door opened, Zhao Guifen immediately sat up straight.