Chapter 90: Helping others is a matter of affection, but not helping others is a duty
"Sanlang's wife! In fact, you also know that it is not good to eat alone like this, right? Look! You picked that fruit from the mountain. It is not your own thing from the mountain. It belongs to everyone in our village! You
What’s the point of making money by picking fruits yourself?”
Anger flashed through Jiang Ci's eyes,
"Oh? From what the village chief's sister-in-law said, I was wrong?"
"That's for sure! Why should you make money while not letting the villagers make money!" Yang Cuihua roared directly,
Jiang Ci showed a sneer,
"Why don't I tell you how to make money? First: We are from the same village. This is true! But so what if we live in the same village? What is the relationship between me and everyone here? At that time, my father-in-law was from
When I fell down the mountain and wanted to borrow money, where were all the fellow villagers? Did you lend my family half a penny? When my family was driven out penniless, where were all the fellow villagers? But
Have you said anything to help my family? When our family was divided and we didn’t get half of the land, where were the fellow villagers? Could you have helped my family with half a sweet potato?"
Everyone was speechless for a while,
It’s not easy to make money these days. Who would lend money to others for free?
What's more, the Dashan family had just been kicked out of their home. Dashan, the pillar of the family, had a broken leg and could no longer hunt! Even the scholar in the family was blind and missed the imperial examination.
Who dares to lend money to them? There is no turning back! Who is that stupid?
"Sanlang's wife, you can't say that. You yourself know the situation of your family at that time. You can't pay back the money we lent you! It's not easy for the aunts to save some money at home! Besides: helping others is a matter of love, not
It's your duty to help people, you can't feel resentful towards your aunts just because of this!"
The village chief’s wife called what she said beautiful,
The women around also echoed:
"Yes! Sanlang's wife, it's not that my sister-in-law doesn't want to help, it's that her life at home is really tight!"
"Sanlang's wife, my aunt's family also eats brown rice mixed with wild vegetables all day long. Of course my sister-in-law wants to help you, but she really can't come up with any extra things at that time!"
"It is a duty to help others, but it is a duty not to help others."
Jiang Ci also replied angrily: "Oh! Helping others is a matter of affection, and not helping others is a duty. So you all know it too!"
Then he said with a sarcastic face: "So, what does your family's tight life have to do with me? Your family's tight life is not caused by me! What are you talking to me about?"
The faces of a group of peasant women turned blue and white!
Jiang Ci didn't want to let them go so easily: "Second: I picked fruits on the mountain as a solitary food, so I dare to ask: haven't any of you aunts ever picked fruits on the mountain? I'm afraid it's not just fruits! Wild vegetables, mushrooms and other wild products
, the aunts often carry it home, right?"
A group of peasant women looked at each other,
They live at the foot of the mountain and rely on wild vegetables, mushrooms, and wild fruits for their daily necessities.
Jiang Ci saw that no one refuted, so what should she do? Wouldn't there be no way to elicit her next words?
He couldn't help but tilt his head and remind: "Aunts, do you want to say: you take these things for your own consumption, and it's my fault if I take these things to make money?"
A group of peasant women immediately seemed to have found their own foothold, and all of them emphasized loudly:
"Yes, yes! We use those mountain goods to satisfy our hunger, but you use them to make money!"
"That's right! Everything in the mountains belongs to the people in our village. You can eat it if you eat it. But if you want to make money, it must be made by the people in our village together!"
"That's right! We can't let your family make money!"
But these words were met with a sharp rebuke from Jiang Ci: "Nonsense! Who said the strawberries I picked were picked in the mountains? I bought them in the county!"
"You're talking nonsense! Last time I saw you coming down from the mountain, you were carrying a basket of red fruits!" Yang Cuihua saw this little hoof and made the villagers speechless in just a few words.
I couldn't help but feel anxious,
She just deliberately doesn't want Shen Laosi's family to have an easy time! Otherwise, what's the point of making such a miserable life if their family is just running around and making no money?
"The red fruit I picked last time? That's a raspberry! Auntie... Oh! No! Auntie doesn't even recognize this thing, right? Raspberries can be found all over the mountain. If auntie doesn't recognize it, I can teach her.
Auntie, recognize it!"
"You're talking nonsense! The last time I saw you, you were picking strawberries from the mountains!" Yang Cuihua refused.
Jiang Ci had just returned from the mountains. When the family was having dinner, Qian Guixiang told her that something happened at the Shen family's old house. She said that Yang Cuihua sold fake goods to a housekeeper in the town and was beaten so hard that she couldn't get out of bed.
This fake, Jiang Ci is probably the idiot who sold some kind of red fruit as strawberry to the butler, right?
An image of the last time this woman followed her suddenly appeared in Jiang Ci's mind.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ci raised a sarcastic smile: "Have you seen it? There are no strawberries in this mountain. Where did you see it?"
Yang Cuihua suddenly felt a basin of cold water pouring down her head.
"There are...there are no strawberries in the mountains?"
"Isn't that right? By the way! I actually bought some strawberry seedlings in the county, one tael of silver per plant. Do any of you aunts want it? If so, the aunts will give me the money. I will give the strawberry seedlings to my aunts in a few days.
Are you sending them to us?" Jiang Ci asked back to everyone!
"One tael of silver for a fruit seedling? Sanlang's wife, you won't be deceived, right? How can a fruit seedling be so expensive?"
"This is the price. If you don't believe me, just go to the county and ask! My family has indeed made some money recently. In addition to buying the fields, I bought the rest of the strawberry seedlings. If all the aunts change their minds, then
Go to my house to buy it then!" Jiang Ci said casually,
It caused a group of peasant women to gasp,
"One tael of silver per fruit seedling! Oh my goodness! Are the people in the county selling ginseng or Ganoderma lucidum?"
"I don't dare to think about it! I'd better go back and plant my one-third of an acre of land!"
"That's right! You won't be hungry after eating the fruit, so it's better to grow food!"
Seeing that the peasant women were retreating one by one,
Yang Cuihua saw it in her eyes and felt anxious in her heart. She looked at the backpack on Jiang Ci's back. She never thought that this little hoof was so simple.
He pounced directly towards Jiang Ci's basket: "I don't believe what you are saying, little hooves. You must have strawberries picked from the mountains in your basket!"
Jiang Ci didn't like her either. When someone rushed towards her, she turned slightly to the side, and Yang Cuihua jumped onto the cactus.
Jiang Ci directly covered her face in horror,
The peasant women around them all subconsciously took a step back when they saw Yang Cuihua's miserable state!
And Yang Cuihua, who was lying on the cactus, let out a scream!
It frightened away a group of nearby birds.
I saw that because Yang Cuihua used too much force, the thorns of the cactus were deeply pierced into Yang Cuihua's body.
Yang Cuihua was directly transformed into a hedgehog!