Chapter 35: Remuneration 3/4

But she thought that the sweetheart from the previous life had disappeared without a trace, so she didn’t care about it in this life. He even lied to her, saying that this sweetheart might not exist at all.

How could it not exist? The reason Yao’s family agreed to the bride swap and accepted Jin Xiaoye was because they were caught in this situation!

When Jin Moli got married, she had some money on hand, but she had spent quite a bit over the past few years, and now she only had three taels left.

The key is… she has been staying in the Miaoqian Village all the time, and there’s really nowhere to spend money. Most of the money she used up was actually given to Yao Zhenfu.

Yao Zhenfu used her money to spend on another woman?

Jin Moli didn’t know what to do anymore. She tried to recall what happened in her previous life and suddenly remembered that when Yao Zhenfu and Jin Xiaoye had just gotten married, they used to quarrel a lot.

Neither Mr. Yao’s family nor Jin Xiaoye liked to air their family matters outside, so she originally thought that Jin Xiaoye’s quarrels were because Yao Zhenfu didn’t like her. Now thinking about it… Jin Xiaoye’s quarrels should have been about Yao Zhenfu having a sweetheart.

With Jin Xiaoye’s temper, that woman Xuniang, must have been driven away by her! She saved Yao’s family a lot of money, so it’s no wonder Mr. Yao liked her!

Jin Moli regretted it deeply. After getting married, why didn’t she learn from Jin Xiaoye?

She even had an advantage over Jin Xiaoye. Yao Zhenfu liked her very much, but not Jin Xiaoye.

Mr. Yao’s family couldn’t bear being cheated out of so much money and wanted to go to Xuniang to get the money back, but how could Yao Zhenfu agree to it?

If his parents started making trouble, what would Xuniang’s husband do?

Xuniang had a lot of letters written by him, as well as some things he left behind. Those were all evidence!

Yao’s family was in turmoil all night.

It wasn’t until this time that Jin Moli learned that Yao’s family’s savings had been depleted, and if they wanted to come up with a hundred taels, Yao’s family had to sell their land.

In business, you definitely need capital. Now that Yao’s family has no money, can Yao Zhenfu still do business to make money?

Jin Moli was completely at a loss.

The next day, Li Qingzhi got up as usual, and cooked breakfast with Jin Xiaoye.

Jin Xiaoye said yesterday that she would make steamed egg custard for Li Laogen, so she didn’t forget her promise. She broke two eggs into a bowl, thoroughly beat them, added water, salt, and put them on the steamer to steam, and made the steamed egg custard.

She also steamed two more eggs separately, intending to give one to her and one to Jin Xiaoshu.

While eating, Grandma Jin came. She was going to the county with them.

Seeing her, Jin Xiaoye served her a bowl of rice.

Grandma Jin ate heartily and said, “Xiaoye, you never pay Xiaoshu… I’ll take this meal as his wages.”

“Okay.” Jin Xiaoye agreed. She had earned quite a bit recently, so she didn’t mind Grandma Jin eating this meal. Taking Grandma Jin to the county was also an additional task, which didn’t require much effort.

Seeing Grandma Jin only eating steamed vegetables, Jin Xiaoye also took up the bowl of steamed egg custard Li Laogen was eating and gave Grandma Jin two spoonfuls.

There were two eggs in it, and Li Laogen didn’t need to eat so much.

But Li Laogen cared most about eating a mouthful. Feeling heartbroken, he muttered, “Who is this, eating at other people’s houses all the time.”

Grandma Jin didn’t mince words either, “The land in the house is not bought by you!”

Both of them fell silent.

Li Qingzhi took a piece of cotton cloth and washed Li Damao and Li Ermao’s faces, and then asked them to wash their hands.

When he first came, Li Damao and Li Ermao were tempted by even a mouthful of white rice, but now they saw that Li Laogen and the others were eating steamed egg custard, and they didn’t even look at it. They just kept thinking about the white rice porridge from the Zhu family, “Dad, what are we having for breakfast today?”

The salted duck eggs and pickled vegetables eaten by the stewards of the Zhu family were not tempting to the two children, but Chef Zhou, according to Zhu Xinmiao’s request, would share a bit of what the Zhu family ate with them every day, and those were especially delicious!

For example, yesterday’s scrambled eggs… When Li Damao and Li Ermao ate scrambled eggs for the first time, they were dumbfounded and couldn’t believe that eggs could taste so good.

“You’ll know when you get there,” Li Qingzhi said.

Today, without selling hair flowers, Jin Xiaoye and the children set off early. When they arrived in the county, Li Qingzhi took the two children straight to the Zhu family’s house.

As soon as they entered the house, they ran into Zhu Xunmiao.

“Mr. Li!” Zhu Xunmiao saw Li Qingzhi and called out in surprise. He even jumped up in place for a moment but quickly restrained himself and stood firmly, saying, “Good morning, Mr. Li.”

“Good morning, Young Master Zhu,” Li Qingzhi replied with a smile.

“Mr. Li, please don’t call me master. Just call me Xunmiao,” Zhu Xunmiao said earnestly.

Li Qingzhi spent the last days of his previous life at the age of eighteen, spent twenty years in the apocalypse, and died at the age of thirty-eight.

Although Zhu Xunmiao seemed a bit mature for his age, he was actually only fifteen years old. He could be Li Qingzhi’s son!

Every time during this period when he saw this young man, who looked like an adult, giving him advice or bringing him things, Li Qingzhi found it quite interesting.

“Xunmiao.” Li Qingzhi readily agreed.

“Mr. Li, can I call you Brother Li?” Zhu Xunmiao asked.

“Of course,” Li Qingzhi replied.

Zhu Xunmiao came to Li Qingzhi’s side and said, “Brother Li, I didn’t expect you to have such an amazing memory. You’re really impressive…”

As Zhu Xunmiao spoke, he followed Li Qingzhi to the kitchen and then said, “Brother Li, are you planning to go to school? If you are, I’ll go tell Li Xiucai.”

Li Qingzhi smiled and said, “I do want to go, but I plan to familiarize myself with the classics first before going.”

“Sounds good,” Zhu Xunmiao inquired about Li Qingzhi’s plans.

Li Qingzhi didn’t hide anything and explained his intentions.

After finishing writing Zhu’s books, he planned to return to the Miaoqian Village, study on his own while writing Ding Xi’s books, and memorize everything he needed to. Once all preparations were complete, he could go to school and study with Li Xiucai.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xunmiao spoke up, “Brother Li, I plan to participate in the county exam next year. With your amazing memory, perhaps you could join me!”

“That’s indeed a possibility,” Li Qingzhi agreed. If he wasn’t short of money, it would be a good idea to give it a try.

Zhu Xunmiao chatted with Li Qingzhi for a long time, and seeing that it was almost time for school, he hurriedly left.

By this time, Li Damao and Li Ermao had already finished eating their meat buns!

Today, the Zhu family’s breakfast consisted of meat buns and soy milk. Chef Zhou, gave Li Qingzhi three buns, one for each of them.