"Six hundred and sixty-eight yuan. Yuan Chun killed two wild boars; otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten this much money." Feng Dasheng was also very excited.
Since leaving the black market, his mind had been in a daze; he couldn't believe it was real.
His family had really struck it rich.
"Six...more than six hundred?" Feng Sansheng had never heard of so much money before. "Big brother, can we finally build a brick house?"
"Build a brick house? What brick house?" Grandma Feng glared at her youngest son. "We're so poor we don't even have enough money to get Guoan a wife. How are you going to explain to the villagers where the money came from if we suddenly want to build a brick house?"
"Mom, so you mean we can't spend this money?" Feng Sansheng was very disappointed that he couldn't live in a spacious and bright brick house.
Grandma Feng sighed, looking at the pile of money, and said, "This money can be spent, but not to build a house or buy new clothes. Let's save it for now and spend it little by little."
"Mother is right, Third Brother," Feng Dasheng said. "Everyone in the village knows our family's situation. If we suddenly have a sum of money, those envious people will gossip about us. If we want to stay in the village, we can't touch this money for now."
Ding Xiaotao reached out and pinched her husband's arm, scolding him softly, "You fool! Mother says we can't spend this money, so we can't spend it. Mother is so old; she thinks further ahead than we do. We'll listen to her."
In the end, they decided that the money would not be used for the time being and would be kept by Grandma Feng.
However, after putting the money away, Grandma Feng said to her sons and daughters-in-law, "This money was earned by Yuan Chun with her life. We can't leave it all in the Feng family. When Yuan Chun gets married, we'll give her half as her dowry. Not just this money, but all the money Yuan Chun earns in the future, we'll give her half as her dowry."
No one in the family objected.
Only Feng Sansheng muttered under his breath, "Giving Yuan Chun so much money as her dowry, what if her in-laws find out and force her to hand it over? Wouldn't that just be letting her in-laws benefit from the money for nothing?"
Grandma Feng sneered, "We Feng family members aren't made of dough. If anyone dares to bully our daughter, we'll fight them off."
Could a woman who could easily kill a wild boar be easily bullied by her in-laws?
Grandma Feng wasn't worried.
On the last day, Yuan Chun, along with her two cousins, went deep into the mountains again.
This time, they not only hunted a herd of wild boars, seven in total, but also dug up two ginseng roots, one large and one small.
The wild boars and more than twenty pheasants and rabbits sold for over 1,200 yuan, while Grandma Feng hid the ginseng.
After that, the busy autumn harvest season began.
Feng Dasheng pleaded with the village chief, and during the harvest, the village chief arranged lighter work for Ding Chunli, but the lighter work earned fewer work points.
Originally, she could earn eight work points a day, but after the job change, Ding Chunli could only earn five work points a day, a sudden loss of three work points. Many pregnant women who were originally jealous of Ding Chunli suddenly had nothing to say.
After all, work points meant food, and they would rather work harder than earn fewer work points than receive less food.
Thus, Ding Chunli's job change did not arouse the villagers' opposition; some even laughed at Qiu Guihua for being useless, a rather shrewish person who couldn't even control her daughter-in-law.
It's just pregnancy, only three fewer work points.
After a month of harvest, that's a huge loss in grain.
Before, Qiu Guihua would have felt the pinch, but now… who cares about a few work points? Her grandson is the priority.