Back in the hospital room, seeing all four pairs of eyes eagerly on her, Chiang Xiao couldn’t help but feel amused.
She closed the door, walked over, and sat down on Ge Liutao’s bed, patting her own pocket, "Come on, let’s share the money!"
The dozens of banknotes were rolled up, making her large pocket bulge out.
On the way back, Ge Dejun had been controlling the urge to glance at her pocket too much, as it would have attracted more attention, wouldn’t it?
Luckily, it was already evening, and no one could see clearly.
Chiang Xiao took out all the money and placed it on the bed.
"Look at this! Grandpa and Grandma, today we made three hundred and forty-eight yuan!"
Nearly three hundred and fifty yuan!
For them, this was truly a large sum of money; with this money, they all felt a weight lifted off their hearts.
Though Chiang Songhai and Ge Liutao had been mentally prepared, knowing there was a big wild boar today and that they could make a good sum if it all sold, they never expected it would be this much!
"So much money!" Ge Liutao exclaimed, then felt she had spoken too loudly, too flamboyantly. If there were ears on the other side of the wall, wouldn’t the money be unsafe?
She quickly clamped her mouth shut and looked around as if she could actually see through the neighboring walls.
Chiang Xiao nodded, saying, "I’ve already discussed the division with Great-Uncle and Uncle back on the mountain. The two of them each get forty percent, and I get twenty percent, so my share is sixty-nine yuan and six dimes. The remainder is to be split evenly between Great-Uncle and Uncle. We don’t have any change right now, so how about letting me take a little advantage by rounding it up to seventy yuan for myself, is that okay?"
As soon as her words dropped, Ge Dejun and Xu Linjiang simultaneously said with finality, "No!"
Chiang Xiao was startled.
Giving her an extra six dimes wasn’t okay? Or what?
Ge Dejun looked at Chiang Xiao and said, "Little Little, what we agreed upon before was the price for the wild vegetables; that you could decide as you pleased, and Lin Jiang and I felt we were already taking advantage. Wild boars and hares are not included in this division. Without you, where would such a bounty come from? So, I think from now on, with hunted game, we should switch it around, you take eighty percent, and Lin Jiang and I get the remaining twenty percent. What we put in was just some physical labor, how much could that be worth?"
"Yes, my opinion is similar to Dad’s. All these are your achievements, Little Little. You caught the rabbits, and if it weren’t for you today, all of this would have been snatched away by others, and we wouldn’t have gotten a penny. Negotiating with Director Ma was also you, so if you really distribute the money , I’d be embarrassed to take it."
No matter what Chiang Xiao said, they simply wouldn’t agree.
Chiang Xiao felt a mix of helplessness and warmth in her heart, and she couldn’t help but say, "If only my great-uncle’s family were like you two."
Upon hearing this, Chiang Songhai felt his old face burning, unable to say a word for a long time.
He knew that if it had been his elder brother’s family, it would have been good if they left a few yuan for them.
"How about this, Great-Uncle, from now on, let’s do it this way: if we don’t catch any game on a particular day and it’s just wild vegetables and the like, then we divide it as I said before. But if we do get game, then we add it all together and split it fifty-fifty, okay? Like today, we made three hundred and forty-eight yuan in total. I’ll take half straight up, and then you and Uncle split the other half."
Her half amounted to over one hundred and seventy yuan, and the remaining half split between the two men would still give each of them over eighty yuan.
Ge Dejun still felt like he was taking advantage of Chiang Xiao, but she didn’t discuss it with them further. She took half of the money for herself and stuffed the rest into his hands.
"You’d better go upstairs first and see how my aunt and cousin are doing!"