The Great Princess received some money, bought some hair accessories and grooming items, along with a pair of shoes.
She was holding a small bronze mirror, admiring her beautiful face, when she heard Li Yuzhu arguing with the Xue Family. Feeling quite smug after getting her allowance, she chimed in against the Xue Family.
"Yes, sister-in-law, what did you do? If you don’t work, you can’t receive any money."
The Second Princess quietly grabbed another bun to eat, nodding along in agreement, "I didn’t see sister-in-law doing work."
The Second Young Master and Li Xing’an weren’t watching this side, they were busy organizing the items on the small cart.
Xue Family was stunned, did she not do any work?
At this moment, her son Li Jing ran over, hugging her leg and acting cute.
Seeing the child, Xue Family immediately shouted, "How can you say I didn’t do any work? I’m taking care of the child!"
"Most of the time I take care of the child, how many days have you been doing it?" Princess Consort Luling sneered, "From early today until now, have you even touched either of the two children?"
Xue Family’s face turned awkward, "I wasn’t feeling well, it’s not that I didn’t want to."
"What about yesterday? You weren’t feeling unwell then, were you?" Princess Consort Luling looked at her coldly.
Xue Family, "..." She gritted her teeth, "But the day before yesterday, I did take care of the child."
"The day before yesterday, you took care of Jingjing, and Jingjing almost got lost! You still have the nerve to mention that?" Princess Consort Luling was extremely angry.
Xue Family was left speechless under the scolding.
She pressed her lips together and stood there, looking defiant.
Li Yuzhu took a small notebook and some pen and ink from the small cart, handing them together to Princess Consort Luling.
This was something she bought at the market.
"Mother Consort, to be fair, from now on our family should allocate property based on the labor done."
The term ’based on labor’ was quite novel.
Princess Consort Luling quickly asked, "Yuzhu, how do we allocate based on labor?" Where did this child learn these words?
Li Yuzhu said, "Everyone should record the work they do every day, and at the end of the month, the income will be allocated based on how much work was done. The more you work, the more you earn; the less you work, the less you earn; no work, no earnings."
The Great Princess, having reaped the rewards of labor, raised her eyebrows and said, "That’s a good idea, Mother Consort, let’s do it that way."
The Second Princess didn’t think much; whatever the Great Princess said, she would follow.
Besides, today she also got some money.
"Big sister is right, third sister’s method is good."
"Indeed, third sister’s method is good," Li Xing’an said loudly.
"I agree too," said the Second Young Master.
Seeing that all the children agreed, Princess Consort Luling nodded, "Alright, let’s do it this way." This could prevent arguments about unfair money distribution.
Back when they were at the Prince Mansion, they often argued over unjust rewards.
But back then there was more money, and they could freely supplement with other items.
Now, in exile, the family was so poor that even a penny was hard to come by, let alone compensation.
With contributions recorded, no one could complain.
But Xue Family disagreed.
This method seemed quite unfair to her.
She immediately said, "I’m taking care of the child, how can I work? If I don’t work and don’t get recorded, wouldn’t I be at a loss?"
Li Yuzhu said, "Sister-in-law, children are the future hope of our family. Taking care of the child is also a contribution and counts as labor, Mother Consort will keep track."
Xue Family let out a sigh of relief, "That’s more like it."
"But..." Li Yuzhu, knowing Xue Family’s cunning nature, reminded her, "If the child gets lost or something happens, there will be no entry, for instance, if you lose Jingjing again, not only will there be no entry, three days worth of records will be deducted."
Xue Family instantly bristled at this.