Chapter 55: Dividing the Money

Seeing Wang Cuimiao’s expression, Li Xinyue felt happy.

But also a pang of sadness.

In the original owner’s memories, her uncle and aunt had truly helped her a lot.

It could be said that if the original owner hadn’t had her uncle’s family’s help, she and her child would have died long ago.

“Everyone, hurry up and count. We really made a fortune today!”

Didn’t they make a fortune?

Wang Cuimiao’s heart was pounding, feeling like it would jump out of her chest!

Three hundred pounds of fish sent to the purchasing station only fetched forty or fifty yuan.

It’s not that forty or fifty yuan is little, in this era, even one yuan is a lot.

And now, with this method, it’s directly multiplied several times!

“Four hundred and thirty-nine yuan!”

Finally, Sanhu announced the final count.

My god, over four hundred yuan, in just two days!

The whole family didn’t know what to say!

The uncle’s family had always been in debt to the production team, always facing cold stares from others.

Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, the whole family worked in the fields rain or shine, and they still owed money to the production team at the end of the year!

But now, in just two days, they had earned hundreds of yuan!

Is this really money, not leaves?

Maybe this is a dream?

Wang Cuimiao’s heart was about to jump out of her chest. She was worried that it was a dream!

“Old man, pinch me?”

Hearing this, Uncle Chen’s old face blossomed into a smile: “Cuimiao, it’s not a dream, it’s real!”

“But this is all thanks to Xinyue.”

“Yes, yes, it’s all thanks to Xinyue!”

Wang Cuimiao looked at Li Xinyue, her eyes sparkling with admiration: “Xinyue, I’m so happy I’m confused!”

Everyone was excited, only Li Xinyue wasn’t. She was a rich and beautiful woman after all!

“Aunt, we will earn more than this in the future, no need to be so excited!”

“The capital was about forty yuan, let’s say thirty-nine.”

“Excluding this capital, there’s four hundred yuan left. We’ll split it evenly, two hundred each.”

“No, no, no! Mingchuan’s wife, this fish is valuable because of your skills, we can’t take so much!”

“Just calculate it based on work. Ten work points in the production team last year were fifty-seven cents. You can just count it as one yuan.”

“I can’t take any more!”

Wang Cuimiao immediately refused. She wasn’t a fool.

Without this niece-in-law today, she wouldn’t even see a single fish, let alone the money!

Li Xinyue’s intention was to help her uncle’s family.

Hearing her say this, she was truly touched.

Her uncle’s family was so poor, but they weren’t greedy. Such people were worth befriending and helping!

“Aunt, please take it.”

“This business isn’t something we can do every day, so take it when you have it, don’t be so polite.”

“Besides, our lives are much better than yours?”

“This little money, I can earn it with just a flick of my wrist!”

Wang Cuimiao: “…”

Don’t be so discouraging, okay?

I’ve never seen so much money in my life!

Chen Mingchuan: “…”

She’s right, it feels like making money is so easy in his wife’s hands!

Seeing that his wife was sincere, Chen Mingchuan spoke up.

“Aunt, take it, everyone worked hard!”

“This is Xinyue’s heart, if you don’t take it, she’ll feel bad.”

“My salary isn’t low, and when I get to the army, I’ll hand over all my salary. Our lives will be much better than yours.”

Is that so?

My nephew’s life is good, but it’s earned with half his life.

Wang Cuimiao still wouldn’t accept it.

Li Xinyue directly stuffed the money into her palm: “Yes, Aunt, take it, take it.”

“If it weren’t for you and Uncle’s help all these years, my son and I wouldn’t know if we would be alive.”

“Take it, it makes me happy.”

Looking at the couple, Wang Cuimiao felt a lump in her chest.

She had helped, but her family was also so poor, how much could she help?

Her eyes instantly became moist.

Wang Cuimiao held the money in her palm, and pressed her other hand on Li Xinyue’s: “Xinyue, now that Chuanzi is back, you’ll be fine.”

Of course it would be good in the future.

Even if he didn’t come back, it would still be good!

Li Xinyue chuckled: “Aunt, our lives will get better and better in the future!”

“Sanhu, I know there’s a kind of vine, if you squeeze its juice, fish will get dizzy and faint when they touch it, but it’s harmless to humans.”

“This vine is called fish vine wood, there are many places that have it.”

“Tomorrow morning, let’s go to the mountainside to find some, and then we’ll go try it out.”

As soon as these words fell, Sanhu almost jumped up: “Great, great! Third Sister-in-law, you must be a fairy from heaven!”

Wang Cuimiao laughed: “That’s right, if she wasn’t a fairy, how would she know so much?”

“Okay, you’re all tired today, go to rest early, get up early tomorrow morning to go up the mountain to find it!”

It was indeed getting late, Yiyi was already yawning from playing.

Sun Xiulian was a diligent woman, she had washed the three little ones clean early.

On the way home, Li Xinyue generously gave Chen Mingchuan one hundred yuan: “You look pretty poor, take it and spend it!”

Chen Mingchuan carried his son on his back, his face full of confusion: “…”

How come this woman is like a mafia boss, and he’s like her sidekick?

“Take it, I have money.”

Li Xinyue rolled her eyes in disdain: “What do you have? I checked, your wallet doesn’t even have one hundred yuan!”

His wallet indeed didn’t even have one hundred yuan.

Chen Mingchuan blushed.

Over the years, he had been sending back home almost half of his money every month, and he only kept a little bit of living expenses for himself.

These past two days, Li Xinyue got sick, and Chen Mingchuan’s little savings went out like running water…

But how could a grown man take money from a woman?

No, he had to borrow some money from his friend.

“I’ll get paid when I go back, I won’t send money back anymore.”

“I have almost sixty yuan a month, it’s enough for us.”

His salary was indeed very high.

Now, ordinary workers earn twenty-nine or thirty-something yuan a month.

He was in the high-income group.

Back at the Chen family, Chen Mingguo and his wife, dragging their tired bodies, just came back from the brigade headquarters, and seeing their family of three, wanted to kill them.

Ye Juan’s eyes were heavy: “Mingguo, they can’t be seen all day long, what are they doing?”

Chen Mingguo had no idea: “I don’t know, now Dad and Mom don’t care about them, where did they go, can they tell us?”

Ye Juan was furious.

Her younger sister brought back a Zhang Caiyun, but she was useless.

Now, there’s no news from Zhang Caiyun’s side either, it seems she’s not reliable!

No!

You can’t rely on others!

This damned Li Xinyue, she will absolutely not let her go to the army!

“I’ll go back to my mother’s house tomorrow morning.”

Chen Mingguo glared: “Why?”

Ye Juan looked at the backs of the family of three, pulled Chen Mingguo into the house: “Mom said, even if she sold her, she wouldn’t let her go with the army!”