Scholar's Sweetheart

"Yes, it's all yours." Soong Xintong pushed the money in Aunt Xie's hands, "Auntie, quickly count them."

"Hey, can I still not trust you?" Aunt Xie was grinning from ear to ear as she gently caressed the copper coin as if she hadn't seen it in hundreds of years.

"You're smiling so shabbily, quickly take all the money." Grandma Qiu didn't like the look on her wife's face.

"Sigh." Aunt Xie'er answered with a smile.

Grandma Qiu looked at Soong Xintong. "Sofia, don't you have a loss?"

"No way, I dug a few dozen pounds myself." Soong Xintong paused for a moment before saying, "There's still one more thing that needs my mother-in-law and aunt to discuss."

"What is it? Tell me." Aunt Xie moved a stool over and sat beside Soong Xintong. "As long as we can do it, we'll definitely help you."

"Aunt, have you finished your farm work?" Soong Xintong asked.

"How can we finish the work in the fields? "If we get rid of the grass today, we'll have to dig up the soil again tomorrow." As soon as Aunt Xie finished her sentence, she was glared at by Grandma Qiu. "Girl, go ahead."

Soong Xintong nodded her head, "It's like this, it's me who has a new contract with the restaurant manager. They are lifting the stock right now, and they want 1,500 catties or more every two days, so I would like to ask Grandma Qiu and Aunt Xie to put aside the work they have on hand and help me prepare the goods for the next few days."

"1500 jins?" Aunt Xie couldn't help but exclaim, "That many?"

"What are you doing making such a fuss?" Although Grandma Qiu stopped Aunt Xie, her voice revealed no happiness. Even her voice trembled a little, "Th-th-this …" That's so much ah? "

"1500 jins, I can earn 6 taels of silver in 2 days. If I were to work here for a month, wouldn't that be …" Aunt Xie was already shocked speechless by this number. "Mother …"

"Oh my god, so many? God bless us. " Grandma Qiu clasped her hands together as she muttered to herself.

Soong Xintong couldn't help but interrupt their exclamations. "Aunt Xie'er, don't be so happy yet. I feel like this job can only be done a few times, no more than five times. Those bosses will definitely figure out what that broken ear looks like."

Aunt Xie finally calmed down and scolded loudly, "They can still do this?"

"Aunt, it's only a matter of time before they find out, but it's just that they're early." Soong Xintong said.

Aunt Xie grumbled in dissatisfaction, "But isn't that cutting off the road to wealth?"

Soong Xintong nodded. "So we have to sell some to them when they want more from me, so I want to ask Grandma Qiu and Aunt to save some for me in the next few days. I'll calculate it according to the price of four coins, okay?"

"Of course you can. In any case, it's just weeding in the fields, so there's no need to rush for these two days." Aunt Xie immediately agreed, "When you, Uncle Xie, comes back tonight, I will ask them to go dig in the mountains tomorrow as well."

"Fine, the more I dig, the more I earn." Soong Xintong, of course, agreed.

"Where can we go?" I need to first take a rest on Xintong's roof. I think it will rain in a few days. " Grandma Qiu said.

"Hey, look at my memory. I almost forgot." Aunt Xie patted her head and said, "Then let's have the three of them clean up tomorrow. We'll dig with them in the afternoon."

Grandma Qiu was worried, "Xintong, are there really so many of them in the mountains?"

"Yes, the piece I dug up with my aunt yesterday could have weighed several hundred pounds. There is another piece online, and that piece is even more. When the time comes, I'll search around the water source. There should be more." If she didn't know that there were so many broken ears, Soong Xintong wouldn't have agreed.

"That's good, then the goods won't be used up." Grandma Qiu said.

Aunt Xie said, "Oh right, when is the restaurant owner coming to pick up the goods?"

"Tomorrow at around fifteen minutes." Soong Xintong said.

"That time is very tight, why don't we dig today?" Aunt Xie said that the wind was the rain. She stood up and was about to leave.

"No rush, no rush." Soong Xintong quickly stopped him. "If we dig too early, we might get killed. Why don't we dig again tomorrow?"

"Right, you want something new, right?" Aunt Xie asked.

Soong Xintong nodded. "It's good to have a fresh look."

"So it's like that. I even said that I would go now. It's also good to dig a bit more." Aunt Xie was already rubbing her hands together, waiting for Soong Xintong's order.

"You should carry the wheat straw from the house to Xintong's house first. There won't be much trouble tomorrow. When the time comes, Da Niu and the rest will immediately pave the way for us." Grandma Qiu instructed.

"Alright, alright, alright. I'll go now." Aunt Xie stood up and walked out.

"Aunt is not in a hurry." Soong Xintong wanted to stop her, but she was stopped by Grandma Qiu. "Your aunt is just like that. With her fiery personality, it's nothing much for her to carry straw for a few times even if you think about our family."

Soong Xintong said, "But such a hot day …"

"There's no sun behind." Grandma Qiu pulled Soong Xintong onto the bench, "Xintong, let me ask you, do you think that shopkeeper who came to your house to pull this dish was trying to peek at where you dug it from?"

"Then let's steal, we'll dig a bit more tomorrow, then we'll be able to earn a few taels of silver." Soong Xintong smiled as she comforted Grandma Qiu, "Grandma Qiu, I never thought that I would be able to earn this much silver. I was just lucky to be able to earn this much."

"This child is just like your father; he's too real." Grandma Qiu looked at Soong Xintong pitifully. "You're becoming more and more capable, but your father, mother, is not lucky enough to see this day."

Soong Xintong lowered her head. She didn't know how to respond, so she could only respond with silence.

After a while, Soong Xintong told Grandma Qiu about what happened at the village entrance today, "Grandma Qiu, I still have some lingering fears."

Grandma Qiu scolded angrily, "This Butcher Ma is too shameless. Grandma Zhang didn't say anything, so is he up to something?"

"I don't know. It's been six or seven days and she hasn't come looking for me." Soong Xintong said.

"This Grandma Zhang is practically sinful!" Grandma Qiu coldly snorted, "But the Elementary Scholar was right. Is your invitation still there?"

"I checked it the moment I got home. It's still there." Soong Xintong was also a little afraid, "Luckily she disliked our bad luck and didn't want to come into our house. Otherwise, this Gengjin invitation would have been stolen."

"You're not unlucky, you're all lucky kids." Grandma Qiu said lovingly.

"Only Grandma Qiu thinks we're good." The majority of the more than eighty families in the village had been preached by Grandma Zhang, thinking that their family was all bad and that they were the ones who were the culprits. Even if Grandma Zhang's family had a bad cold and fell down, it would still be their fault.

But over the years, apart from a handful of sensible people who would speak up for their family, no one else had.

Grandma Qiu sighed. She also knew that Grandma Zhang had caused too much trouble all those years ago. "Don't worry about it. Grandma Qiu will go and find her for you."

"Forget about Grandma Qiu, I'm too lazy to waste my time arguing with her." If she really dares to sell me without any proof, then I will directly sue them to the yamen. My father has been declared an unloyal and unfilial nemesis by her, then I will make it a reality. " Soong Xintong said with a cold expression.

"But it's not good for your reputation." Grandma Qiu frowned in disapproval.

Soong Xintong said word by word, "I won't allow anyone to bully me." If she couldn't win, the officials would come and beat her.

Hearing Soong Xintong's firm tone, Grandma Qiu was stunned. The little girl in front of her could no longer match up to the weak girl in her memory. What had happened to make her change so drastically in just ten days?

Even though he suspected her, he was still happy for her. Once he steeled his heart, no one would dare to bully him.