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When Aunt Wang heard these people praising Li Zhouzhou, it was like a needle stabbing her. Buying a stove last winter was a trivial matter, but she couldn’t swallow it. She lost both her face and dignity. If Li Zhouzhou had not disagreed, her firewood would not have been sold at a discount. When she came home, her son and husband complained that she was stingy. It was just a matter of ten cents, and the child was frozen.
It’s easy to say, ten cents is not money? Why does she have to spend thirty cents to buy a stove when others can spend twenty cents?
She had spoken for Li Zhouzhou before, but did Li Zhouzhou help her?
He was really heartless. She used to teach Li Zhouzhou how to make shoes and sew clothes, and even helped Li Zhouzhou wring out the sheets in the middle of winter. But what happened? He didn’t even say a word to help.
But now everyone is relying on the Li family’s method of fertilizing the fields. Aunt Wang is not without insight. She will contradict Li Zhouzhou and say something bad. No one believes her or listens to her, and they will say the same thing. So they just endure it.
Later, when everyone left, Aunt Wang thought that Tian from the Zhang family didn’t love Li Zhouzhou, so she started a conversation and said, “I don’t know if the paddy field method is true or not. If you don’t want the money, why don’t you tell me at the same time? Why do you have to drag it out…”
Tian raised her eyebrows and actually responded, “Just wait and see. The Li family says they don’t want money, but if they ask for money, I will…” Before she finished her words, she twisted her butt and walked into the house.
Pooh!
He wanted to use her as a gun to get her to talk, and thought she was stupid.
Aunt Wang looked at Tian’s angry expression, and the anger she had been holding back for the whole afternoon was slightly relieved. Tian also saw clearly that Li Zhouzhou was pretending, and she was not the only one who thought so.
She would ask her husband how to fertilize the paddy fields.
”The village chief said it’s too late today, so we should take a day off and talk about the matter at the dam the day after tomorrow.”
”It’s too late today, why not talk about it tomorrow? Why wait another day?” Aunt Wang muttered to the man.
”I don’t know. If you ask me, who should I ask? The village chief said it’s the day after tomorrow, so it’s the day after tomorrow. No matter how urgent it is, it will only take a day. I went to sleep after eating. I walked all day…” After saying that, he lay on the kang and began to snore.
Aunt Wang sat alone and thought, something is not right, there is a problem.
Could it be that Li Da spread the news, gained fame, and now regretted it and wanted the money? Or did he not want to tell anymore and wanted to keep it for himself?
Aunt Wang pushed the snoring man aside and asked, “Did Mr. Li tell the village chief about the method of fertilizing the paddy fields?”
The man snorted twice but didn’t respond.
Aunt Wang had no choice but to bring up the topic of paddy field fertilizer during a casual chat the next day.
”You know that too? I was just about to say that the whole village will go to Dam tomorrow, and the village chief will say it together.”
Naturally, everyone praised again: “I don’t know how Gu Shulang came up with this idea, he is indeed a smart man.”
”In the past, people in the village knew how to use manure as fertilizer, but they never thought that they could add wood ash.”
Aunt Wang listened to everyone’s praises, and while working, she casually said, “Why not say it today? One more day of delay means one day less fertilizer, and I don’t know if it will be in time.”
Someone said, “I know that. Gu Shulang said that fertilizer for paddy fields needs to be purchased with money. This is a money-making thing…”
”More money?” Aunt Wang stopped working and interrupted. She knew that he was waiting for money. She asked, “How much?”
”It sounds like it’s quite a lot, more than 200 wen.”
That’s not a small amount of money.
Aunt Wang immediately became interested. She didn’t say anything, but looked at Tian from Zhang’s family and said, “It’s more than 200 coins, Xiao Tian. Do you want to pay for it?”
”Whether my family pays or not is none of your business. If you think it’s too much, don’t buy it.” Tian cursed back with a downcast face.
You really think she is stupid.
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