Transmigrating into a peasant family to fight against the best, leading my parents to earn gold and

Chapter 303 Shen Xiaochuan's chapter 1 suddenly woke him up!

Lin Xiaotang was quite surprised. She didn't expect her father to be so quick-witted, even knowing to write an IOU. It turned out that his business over the past year hadn't been in vain.

Shui Sheng hurriedly said, "Brother Qingchuan, don't worry, we brought back silver. We sold all that turmeric yesterday. Guess how much we got per tael?"

What? They're all sold out?

Lin Qingchuan was pleasantly surprised. His face, which had just looked like he had lost his parents, suddenly lit up and he became energetic.

He asked with a smile, "What price did you sell it for?"

Shui Sheng gestured "two" with his hand, then gestured "eight".

"Two and a half coins for an ounce of turmeric?"

Lin Qingchuan exclaimed in surprise, then suddenly realized that his voice was too loud and that it would be bad if others heard him. He immediately covered his mouth, his heart pounding with excitement.

One tael of turmeric sells for two and eighty cents, and the purchase price is two cents per tael. By reselling it, you can make almost one cent per tael. Well, this is a good deal!

He grinned from ear to ear, carefully glancing at the gate. Seeing no one coming, he lowered his voice and said, "That means we can earn eight coins per pound of turmeric, eight taels per thousand pounds, and eighty taels per ten thousand pounds. My goodness, what if we could earn... eight hundred taels if we had one hundred thousand pounds?"

Lin Xiaotang guessed what her father was thinking, and she immediately brought him back to reality.

“Dad, our entire Guihua Village didn’t plant much this season. The village head’s family planted the most, but it was only a little over two thousand catties. They kept the seeds and sold two thousand catties to us. The rest of the villagers planted some more or less, but all of them together only planted a few thousand catties. I estimate that, not counting the village head’s family’s turmeric, it shouldn’t be more than ten thousand catties.”

Shui Sheng said with some disappointment, "So, after all this time, the three of us have only earned a maximum of eighty taels of silver, and that's no more?"

Lin Xiaotang nodded, "It should be around eighty taels, the error won't be too big, but think about it, we braise pig's trotters every day and deliver them to restaurants, and a restaurant only earns a few dozen taels of silver a month. This time we're busy buying them, and each person can get twenty or thirty taels of silver, which is already quite a lot."

Next year, even more families will be planting turmeric, and the planting area will be larger. We can earn much more than just a few dozen taels. There's no such thing as instant wealth in business; you have to be patient and take it slow.”

If we can get the villagers from the surrounding villages to grow medicinal herbs together, and the quantity increases, will we still have to worry about making money?

Supplying braised pig trotters to restaurants is hard work, requiring working from dawn till dusk. Every single pig trotter needs to be cleaned carefully, and each batch needs to be braised for the required time.

Unlike modern times, where there's so much technology and hard work, this is all about real materials!

Shuisheng realized what was happening and said somewhat embarrassedly, "I was too greedy for money. Xiaotang is right. We've already made quite a bit this season. Compared to braised pig's trotters, we bought all the turmeric in just a few days and sold it off. We can earn dozens of taels of silver in just a few days. It's really a fast way to make money. Once more farmers start growing it, we'll be able to earn even more in the future."

Compared to the days when I used to do odd jobs in town and earn only a few coins a day, this was incredibly lucrative.

It's just that Qingchuan and Xiaotang are kind-hearted people. They made money and lived a good life, so they were willing to ask him to work with them. If it were someone else, they would have money to hire others to work, so why would they ask you to work with them?

He was grateful to Lin Qingchuan and his daughter, and said earnestly, "Brother Qingchuan, Xiaotang, thanks to you for being willing to work with me, I have seen that there is a way to make money. If it weren't for you, I would still be farming in the village, eating wild vegetables and drinking thin porridge every day, worrying about how to buy medicine for my mother."

Lin Qingchuan patted Shuisheng on the shoulder to comfort him, "Hey, we're all brothers, no need for formalities. Let's not stand here any longer. It's getting late, let's return the money to those villagers who just wrote IOUs, collect the IOUs, and take these to the village head's house so we don't have to keep someone watching them tonight. When we leave, we'll take as much as we can with the cart, sell it tomorrow, and come back."

Before he could finish speaking and before Shuisheng and Xiaotang could answer, Mr. Shen entered the gate with a dark face, followed by several sons carrying turmeric sacks.

Mr. Shen glanced at Shuisheng, then glared at his eldest son, and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, he's forgotten his roots after making a few stinking bucks. He calls Shuisheng his brother and takes him along on business, but abandons his own brothers. What a cold-blooded, heartless idiot!"

His words were full of sarcasm and carried a hint of accusation.

The second, third, and youngest brothers each carried a sack of turmeric into the gate. Upon seeing an open space, they carelessly threw the sacks on the ground, not caring at all whether the turmeric inside would be bruised or damaged, or whether it would lose its medicinal value.

Seeing their rudeness and lack of knowledge about how to handle the medicinal herbs, Shui Sheng said anxiously, "Oh dear, these turmerics will spoil easily if you break the skin. You can't just leave them on the ground like this."

The second brother glanced coldly at Shui Sheng, his eyes filled with hatred, as if Shui Sheng were his enemy.

He believed that Shuisheng was always pretending to be a good person, occasionally lending a hand in front of his elder brother and acting as a good person, making them, his half-brothers, seem like bad people. When his elder brother became successful in business, he even dragged Shuisheng along to make money, completely disregarding the lives of his brothers.

How hateful!

The third brother pursed his lips, wanting to say something but holding back from speaking.

The youngest brother scoffed, "What do you care if we abandon him or not? If it weren't for my eldest brother, could you make money? Ha... You're nothing, so don't try to tell me what to do. No matter what our relationship with our eldest brother is like, we brothers are still connected by blood. You're just an outsider, and you can't even recognize your place after we call each other brothers?"

Pooh!

What the hell!

Shui Sheng was stunned, as if struck by lightning, when Shen Xiaochuan actually said those words.

Yes, back then I only helped Brother Qingchuan with farm work for a few days, which can't be considered much help. But Brother Qingchuan made money and even took me to do business, paying me five taels of silver a month. Now he's even taking me back to the village to buy turmeric and distributing the silver according to the number of people. Even if it's just because of the little bit of mutual help we had in the past, it's already far more than thousands or tens of thousands of times.

He was really shameless. When Brother Qingchuan invited him to do business buying and selling turmeric, he immediately agreed without even knowing how to refuse.

Today, Shen Xiaochuan's words suddenly woke him up!

He couldn't keep taking advantage of Qingchuan's family. Actually, the job of supplying the restaurant was good enough, five taels of silver a month, which was hard to find even with a lantern!

Lin Xiaotang saw that her uncle's words were harsh, and then she saw that Uncle Shuisheng's face was complicated, sad, and showed a hint of regret. She thought to herself, "Oh no, Uncle Shuisheng is definitely going to overthink this."

She looked at her uncle with some anger and said, "He went to school for several years, but he can't even speak properly. It's such a waste of money."

It's not so much a pity about the money, but rather a waste!

Of all the members of the Shen family, young and old, who have all gone to school, none of them are of good character or academically accomplished. Even though Old Master Shen is a scholar, he has a bad reputation and doesn't get along well with his neighbors. His abilities are also just so-so; he has never done any hard or tiring work, and he doesn't even want to touch any housework.

He tormented his eldest son and daughter-in-law, forcing them to separate from their family and even change their surnames. He also blamed his eldest son for not caring about his brothers but instead calling others brothers.

Hearing his father's sarcastic tone, Lin Qingchuan didn't respond directly, only saying, "Father, you've come?"

Lin Xiaotang was too lazy to argue with his grandfather about these things. If he were to refute his father, his grandfather would inevitably start complaining again.

Shen Xiaochuan was annoyed by his niece's mockery. He retorted angrily, "What's wrong? Others can come, but we can't? It's true that we've separated our family, but we haven't made enemies, have we?"

"We've sold all the turmeric in the village to you. Are you suggesting we leave ours to rot in the fields? If that's what you're thinking, isn't that incredibly malicious?"

Shen Xiaochuan's words were rather unreasonable, and Lin Qingchuan naturally wouldn't let him spout nonsense.

He immediately retorted, "Xiao Chuan, you've misunderstood. I didn't mean I didn't want to accept your turmeric. I was just greeting you when you came."

Shen Xiaochuan had always looked down on his older brother's timid and submissive nature. He said disdainfully, "They only gave us so few seeds back then. We couldn't plant more even if we wanted to. That's all. Now that we've harvested them all, hurry up and weigh them for us."

Lin Qingchuan was already used to his younger brother's bossy nature, so he didn't say anything. But Lin Xiaotang couldn't stand it anymore.

Before the family divided their property, the whole family bullied her parents. As a child of only a few years old, she could only help her parents with some housework, but she couldn't change the situation where her parents were tormented by the whole family. Later, she tried her best to persuade her parents to divide the property, which turned the situation around.

Now that the family has been divided, she naturally can't stand that they're still treating her father so badly.

So she walked in front of her father, blocking him with her small body. She looked at Shen Xiaochuan with eyes as sharp as blades, her face as cold as ice, and her voice slightly chilly.

“He’s your older brother, how dare you talk to him like that? If you want to sell, then sell. If you don’t want to sell, then go to Feng’s Pharmacy. You were the ones who instructed Fourth Uncle to ask us for turmeric seeds, not us forcing you to plant them. We have no obligation to buy yours now.”

"If you're genuinely interested in selling turmeric today, we'll weigh it properly and charge you the same price everyone else pays. But if you're just here to cause trouble and make things difficult, then please leave; we're busy."

Shen Xiaochuan had just been rebuked by his niece, and he didn't expect her to say such things to him in public again. He was an elder, after all, and she didn't give him any face at all. He was furious and pointed his finger at Lin Xiaotang.

"Hey, you little brat, how dare you talk to your uncle like that? I'm your elder. If you keep being disrespectful, I might teach you a lesson."

How can someone who is so lazy, irresponsible, and likes to bully others be worthy of being her elder?

"Uncle, we've already separated our families. To put it bluntly, we've severed all ties. We have nothing to do with each other now. If you dare to lay a hand on me, things won't end well today, will they?"

Seeing that his granddaughter didn't respect his youngest son at all, and kept talking about separating the family and severing ties, Mr. Shen glared at Lin Xiaotang with a murderous look in his eyes.

"It's settled. No matter what, he's still your uncle. We've already separated the family when you two were fighting over the division of property. I didn't stop you from changing your surname either. But our elders are still alive, and you want to sever ties with them? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if word gets out?"

Everyone, please keep quiet. We're all here, yet you can't even be still. You don't even greet your elders properly, you didn't even offer me a chair, and there wasn't any tea. I don't know how your parents raised you.

He openly blamed his granddaughter, but in reality, he was blaming his eldest son and daughter-in-law.

Lin Xiaotang couldn't help but sneer.

Ha, everyone said to shut up, but they still criticize her. So they just wanted her to shut up so that they could take turns criticizing her?

That's so tasteless!

Lin Xiaotang pouted and said irritably, "We were busy buying turmeric when we got back, and the house is covered in dust. We didn't have time to clean it up. Even if we brought you a stool, it would be covered in dust and you couldn't sit on it. We didn't even boil water, so we didn't have any to drink."

"My dad comes home after a long day of work, and the house is cold and empty. You never even call him home for a meal. As the saying goes, 'If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too.' If the elders don't set a good example, then don't blame the younger generation for being impolite."

She spoke softly on purpose, yet everyone could hear her. Her grandfather and uncle were deliberately saying those sarcastic things to make her and her father feel bad, so everyone else would feel bad too.

As expected, Mr. Shen was furious after hearing this, and he pointed at Lin Xiaotang and roared.

"You little brat, you've become so lawless! How dare you say that like father, like son? You're asking for a beating!"

He took off his shoes and rushed over to hit Lin Xiaotang. Lin Xiaotang immediately took a step back, but her father grabbed her and pulled her behind him to protect her.

Lin Qingchuan stood in front of his daughter and was hit by her father's worn-out shoe with a loud "smack," showing how much force her father had used.

Lin Qingchuan, who had always been afraid of his father, was furious for the first time. He trembled with anger, his eyes sharp as knives as he swept across his father's face.

"Father, Tang'er is just a child. Is it necessary for you to be so cruel? This shoe hurts me even when I'm just touched. If you hit her with it, aren't you afraid of breaking her bones?"

Mr. Shen, still furious, said righteously, "That's exactly what I did. Listen to what nonsense she just said. You can't bear to teach her a lesson, so shouldn't I, as an elder, teach her a lesson for you?"

She's so young and already so disrespectful to her elders; what will she be like when she grows up? She's really made a lot of money through shady means; she's become completely arrogant.

When his father and stepmother talked about Lin Qingchuan, he didn't dare to say a word in rebuttal. He endured their good and bad words. They could talk about him, but they couldn't talk about his daughter!

He couldn't hold back any longer and said angrily, "Tang'er is my daughter. Whether what she says or does is right or wrong, it should be up to me, her father, to discipline her. You don't need to worry about the Lin family. You should worry about your sons. The fourth and youngest sons are of marriageable age. Aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation and affecting their marriages?"

"you……"

Mr. Shen never expected that his eldest son would dare to contradict him, and he never expected that his son would suddenly become so clever as to use his reputation to shut him up.

He's really good at talking now that he's in business. He wouldn't have dared to talk back before.