"The Yuan Family really has changed, huh!"
Ever since Old Yuan discovered that pheasant cave in the mountains, the Yuan Family stumbled upon a small fortune, and the villagers noticed that the Yuan Family really was different.
When everyone went up the mountain together, members of the Yuan Family either caught some wild game or found some aged medicinal herbs.
In less than a month, it’s feared that the Yuan Family’s earnings reached twenty or thirty taels of silver.
Twenty or thirty taels of silver, though shared among Old Yuan’s three brothers, meant nearly ten taels for each household.
Moreover, this twenty or thirty taels is just the villagers’ guess; the exact amount is truly unknown.
Originally, the households in Linhe Village were all about the same, none noticeably better off than the others.
Everyone came from poverty, and no one talked about it.
But suddenly, it started to feel like the Yuan Family was pulling out of poverty and getting rich; how could this not make people envious?
"Lucky my foot, if they were really lucky, why didn’t they strike it rich before?"
"Then why do you think it is?"
"Isn’t it because they had a baby girl?"
"A little girl, a money loser, can really make them rich?"
"I’m telling you, the Yuan Family is unique in the whole county; in the four generations before Yuan Zhaodi’s wife, there wasn’t a single baby girl born."
"Don’t you think that’s strange?"
As the villager familiar with the Yuan Family explained this, those around him were a bit stunned.
After a good while, the crowd came to their senses.
"Uncle, according to you, if the Yuan Family got rich because of their girl, what happens when she gets married?"
"Yeah, yeah, girls are supposed to get married!"
"If all the Yuan Family’s luck comes from the girl, won’t the Yuan Family go back to how it was once the girl is married?"
Admit it, even if the villagers are simple, they aren’t brainless.
The old man who brought up the Yuan Family’s history only managed to briefly stun those around him. When people regained their senses, someone countered him, and they indeed hit the nail on the head.
"Well, maybe they’ll bring in a son-in-law instead!"
The old man didn’t know how to rebut, so in his haste, he came up with a rather nonsensical answer. Google seaʀᴄh novel⟡fire.net
At this, the crowd burst into boos.
Bring in a son-in-law?
That’s something families without a son would do.
To be blunt, in the whole county, there’s no boy who can compare with the Yuan Family. For such a family, bringing in a son-in-law? You must have been kicked in the head by a donkey!
"What, you don’t believe it?"
"Then just wait and see. We’ll see if that Yuan Family girl brings in a son-in-law!"
"Uncle, give it a rest, by the time we can see that day, we’ll probably have to burn paper to tell you about it!"
"You little brat, you’re cursing me!"
"Watch me straighten you out!"
Thus, the scene became chaotic.
And amid this chaos, the crowd that was sitting idly dispersed.
However, this farcical conversation did not end there.
Although many villagers didn’t believe that the Yuan Family’s good fortune came from their girl, some things—better to believe it exists than not.
Then, under this mindset, the news of the Yuan Family having a fortunate girl spread gradually to the surrounding areas.