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Among the onlookers, Li Gui was the son-in-law she had always wanted. To please Li Gui, she helped by saying, “How old is Su Qingyue? She just turned fifteen. Granny Sun, how can you compare yourself with a young wife like her?”
Xiao Yishan and Xiao Yuchuan in the room both wore moved expressions on their faces. Yishan was not good with words, but Yuchuan fearlessly shouted loudly, “Wife, you’re so good for helping your husband!”
“Yuchuan is also really… not afraid of being laughed at.” A few people laughed.
Su Qingyue’s mouth twitched, and she said to the excited man in the room who looked like he was about to cry, “With so many outsiders here, don’t talk nonsense. ”
“I’m your husband, what does it matter…” he muttered.
At her glare, he didn’t dare to say anything more.
Just now, Granny Sun had been scared by Su Qingyue’s sharp gaze, and her tone was no longer so harsh, “I understand now… you want to drive me away and shirk the debt. No way! If you don’t have money, use the house to pay the debt!” Even afraid of her, for the Xiao Family’s house, she braced herself.
“You think you’re clever.” Su Qingyue snorted coldly, “Five taels of silver, that’s what I’ll pay you.”
When Granny Sun heard her say this, she became confused, “Where did you get the money to pay? Didn’t your family just borrow a little over one tael of silver?”
Su Qingyue walked into the room and helped Xiao Yuchuan who was lying on the bed to sit up, “Third brother, we calculated it before. We’re only 128 copper
coins short of five taels, right?”
Xiao Yuchuan nodded. The money was all in the quilt, “Wife…” His expression was a bit uneasy, thinking she hadn’t earned money and whispered, “It’s okay if we can’t pay it back. It’s just hard on you. Later, when we have no home, we’ll have to live in the mountain cave…”
Su Qingyue lifted the blanket, revealing some broken silver and copper coins in a wooden tray under the bedding, with a few silver taels carefully placed inside the quilt…
It showed the importance of this little bit of silver.
Being harassed by debt for such a small amount, and the debt was her fault in the first place.
She couldn’t help feeling guilty. Xiao Yishan saw the regret in her eyes, also thinking that she hadn’t earned enough money, “Yue’er, it’s okay. Even if we don’t have a home, as long as the family is together, that’s enough.” Family…
Yuchuan treated her as his wife, and second brother treated her as a family member.
Her heart warmed as she realized that at this critical moment, the second and third brothers, as well as the fourth brother in the secondary bedroom, had no real intention of selling her to pay off debts or protect the house. As someone who had been bought for this family, she was actually very fortunate, “As long as I’m here, it’s alright. I won’t let you all be homeless.”
When the Xiao Family’s brothers looked at their wife, they knew that she had found a way to make up for the missing silver taels.
Qingyue spoke calmly, “I sold all the medicinal mud toothpaste and earned a total of 170 cents.” In fact, she only sold 136 cents’ worth, the rest was from an overcharge. But she didn’t mention this dishonourable deed, ‘With the money from selling the medicinal mud, adding 128 cents is enough to repay Granny
Sun. The remaining 42 cents, I’ve already paid back the ten cents I owed Aunt Zhang before, and then I bought ten cents worth of ginger, and then three jin of flour, with not a single cent left over.”
Xiao Yuchuan sighed softly, looking at Qingyue with eyes full of affection, “Dear, it’s good to have it paid back.”
With a deep gaze, Yishan looked at Qingyue as well, “You’ve worked hard.”
Su Qingyue tossed the only 128 copper coins she had on her into the wooden tray, walked to the door of the room and handed them to Granny Sun, “I owe you four taels and seven hundred and ninety copper coins, plus the agreed ten cents of interest. That’s exactly five taels of silver, count it..”