Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family - Chapter 304:
Chapter 304: Monthly Salary
Translator: 549690339
Di Yelei seemed very happy, with a naive smile on his face that never disappeared, as if waiting for praise.
Liu Sisi couldn’t bear to disappoint him, so she quickly put down the work in her hands, took the money bag, opened it, and then casually dumped it on the table: “What’s the matter? Isn’t your monthly salary one tael of silver per month? Could it be…”
Rolling around were not four big silver ingots!
When she saw the silver pouring out of the bag clearly, she couldn’t speak.
Each of the four silver ingots was fifty taels of silver, which made a total of 200 taels. There was also some small change on the side.
This…how many months of salary would that be equivalent to?
“Ye Lei, what’s going on?”
The first thing Liu Sisi did after regaining her composure was to ask Di Yelei.
Di Yelei had a smug look on his face: “Out of these taels of silver, 100 taels were rewarded by Heir Luo, and another 50 taels were rewarded by Prefecture Princess Luo. These taels of silver were distributed from the heads of the bandits on Heilong Mountain, and then averaged out. Each runner got one share, and I just took the one belonging to me. This small piece of silver is my actual monthly salary.”
He pointed to the smallest silver ingot inside.
“You all got one share?” Liu Sisi frowned.
“Yes, the situation was complicated at that time. Those brothers didn’t dare to monopolize it. In the end, they found this middle-of-the-road method, and everyone got a share.”
Di Yelei counted the silver, but what he didn’t say was that he got the largest share.
“Here, in total, is 221 taels of silver. Give it here! You hold on to it properly!”
“Today is indeed a good day. The bookstore also gave out our salary today.”
Liu Sisi smiled, got up, took out her own money bag, and placed it with Di Yelei’s: “What I got today, last month’s income, is 325 taels of silver.”
Together, that’s 546 taels of silver!
Di Yelei grabbed the two money bags in his hands, excited: “Including our original savings, don’t we have more than 555 taels to use?”
“Pfft! Look at how excited you are…We will have more and more silver in the future, don’t act like you’ve never seen silver before. Give it to me! I’ll keep this silver.”
As Liu Sisi was speaking, she hurriedly took both money bags.
Ever since five taels of silver were stolen last time, Liu Sisi carefully placed the silver in many different places to avoid encountering thieves again.
After carefully hiding them in several places, Liu Sisi finally turned back.
She took out the batch of jewelry that Madam Gan Senior had bestowed upon her today and recounted the process in detail.
In the end, Liu Sisi said with an exclamation: “I find it particularly strange that as a member of an official family, Madam Gan Senior should have no early gains. It makes no sense for Madam Gan Senior to find me, such a married woman! So I’m curious, what’s her real motive for doing this?”
Di Yelei held this batch of jewelry in his hand and checked it one by one, his eyebrows furrowed from beginning to end.
“You’re right. If she really wanted to take you as her adopted daughter, even if just for the sake of appearance, she should have given you some farmland. And she didn’t mention you paying respects to Lord Gan and Madam Gan, which can be seen as a joke. It can be taken as serious, but it can also be nothing more than a casual remark.”
Liu Sisi rolled her eyes, “Don’t I already know all that? I’m asking about the reason, why would Madam Gan Senior do this?”
Both sets of eyes were wide open, but neither could understand why.
Di Yelei thought for a moment, making a guess, “Do you think…it might have something to do with Heir Luo and Thirteenth Luo?”
Related to Heir Luo and Thirteenth Luo? Liu Sisi still couldn’t understand.
“Forget it, you better keep it safe! At present, we don’t have any other way, we can only block soldiers and cover water with soil. If you really encounter something about the Gan Family, you need to be more careful.”
Di Yelei’s gaze had not been withdrawn from the emerald bracelet.
“Alright! We’ll do as you say.”
Liu Sisi put away the items again and continued experimenting with the movable printing system, “By the way, I want my Second Sister to divorce that man surnamed Dong. You’ve memorized so many criminal laws, can she take all three of her children in her situation?”
Di Yelei shook his head even without considering, “I’ve already asked about your Second Sister’s situation at the government office today. Because Dong Chang has a disability, the government does not allow divorce unless he initiates it. Moreover, all three children born to your Second Sister are boys. There is absolutely no reason for the boys to leave with their mother after divorce. So… ”
“How can this be? So… you really have no other way?”
This is not good news!
Liu Sisi is really heartbroken by this news.
Di Yelei thought for a moment, “It’s not that there is no way, I’ve said before that unless we can make the other party take the initiative to divorce. But there is a saying ‘better to demolish ten temples than to regret a marriage’. Doing this, would we…?”
“Hmph! What’s the use of keeping a man who sells his own wife?”
Liu Sisi’s eyes turned cold, and she completely despised and hated that man surnamed Dong, “It’s already a bargain for him just to ask for a divorce! If possible, I’d rather send him straight to prison. Let him stay in there for the rest of his life!”
“If Big Mouth Li was still alive, maybe you could use Big Mouth Li to expose Dong Chang, punish him, and send him to jail for at least ten years without seeing the sun. However, doing so would also… ruin your Second Sister’s life!” Di Yelei looked at Liu Sisi’s face.
Liu Sisi’s face turned pale with anger, and her expression was terrible.
“Could it be that there is no other way, and we have to let Dong Chang go unpunished while we are helpless?”
“It’s not that we are helpless, but we can’t help much with this kind of thing. The official in the government office said that as long as your Second Sister is willing to swallow her pride, she can ask a litigation lawyer for help, and the outcome would be fifty-fifty, but it would cost a lot of money.” Di Yelei was somewhat helpless too.
Liu Sisi thought for a moment, “I don’t think that’s good enough. Instead, let’s go to Dong’s family and try this…”
She whispered her ideas into Di Yelei’s ear.
“Hmm, hmm! Uh… Okay! We can give it a try!”
As Liu Sisi spoke, outside the wall, Liu Zhi’er leaned quietly against the wall, staring blankly at the vast night sky, unable to find his way forward.
Outside, the cold wind howled, and the scattered light snow continued intermittently, clearly much lighter than the snow that had fallen in recent days.
Next to the fire, Ah-Huang whined softly, not sleeping very peacefully. The fire swayed and made a faint crackling sound.
Outside the house, the jujube red horse was still chewing on the night grass…
