bayedsolid Chapter 14 Maternal Grandparents' Home
Chapter 14 Maternal Grandparents' Home
Early in the morning, Wen Yuxia locked the door and, penniless, took Wen Yunhong on foot to town.
Seeing the town gate from afar, Wen Yuxia led her younger brother into the nearby grove of trees, where she pulled out two wild goats from her spatial storage.
"Hong'er, hurry up and follow me. I'll sell the sheep and buy you meat buns," Wen Yuxia said softly.
Leading the two goats, they arrived at the back door of Bifeng Restaurant, the only restaurant in town.
Renhetang was right next to the back door of the restaurant. When the original owner of this body and her father came to town to sell medicinal herbs, they saw people selling pheasants and rabbits there.
"Auntie, do you take in wild goats here?" The gate wasn't closed, and an older woman was washing vegetables in the yard. Wen Yuxia gently knocked on the gate and asked.
"Young lady, we have regular hunters delivering goods here. Why don't you go and look elsewhere?"
The prey was delivered by regular hunters, and Wen Yuxia was confused by what the vegetable-washing auntie said.
"Sister, let's go to the market," Wen Yunhong tugged at Wen Yuxia's sleeve and said softly.
Oh right, restaurants won't take them, so she can go to the market to butcher them on the spot. Selling them individually takes time, but the price is higher than selling them whole.
The siblings turned and headed towards the market. They hadn't gone far when they heard someone calling behind them, "Wild goat for sale! Wild goat for sale! Wait!"
Wen Yuxia turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a large belly running towards them, panting, "Sheep, sheep, I want them!"
The middle-aged man, surnamed He, was the restaurant owner. The young master of the restaurant had just brought some friends to eat, and they said they wanted roast lamb. The owner quickly sent someone to the market to buy some lamb.
The mutton vendor didn't set up his stall today, and the shopkeeper got anxious. He had no choice but to go to the backyard to check, hoping that the two hunters who delivered the game would bring over a wild goat.
The woman washing vegetables told me that a girl had just asked at the door if they bought wild goats, so I quickly chased after her.
Shopkeeper He excitedly stepped forward to lead the sheep, saying, "Young lady, mutton is 35 coins per catty, a whole sheep is 20 coins per catty, and a whole wild goat is 25 coins per catty... I'll give you a discount and give you 30 coins per catty."
Manager He made it clear that the restaurant urgently needed mutton today, and he would give an extra 5 coins per pound for goat meat.
Wen Yuxia didn't haggle and readily sold the two goats to Manager He. The two goats weighed a total of 255 jin, and Wen Yuxia received 7 taels of silver plus 650 copper coins.
Before leaving, Manager He asked the kitchen staff to bring Wen Yuxia some steamed buns, and also told her that her family could bring any game they hunted to the restaurant to sell.
The siblings, munching on white flour buns, walked into a grain shop. Their maternal grandparents were struggling financially, and Wen Yuxia intended to buy them some grain.
Brown rice cost 5 coins, dark flour cost 5 coins. Wen Yuxia took out 1 copper coins and bought ten catties of brown rice and ten catties of dark flour.
They bought six pieces of maltose for three coins at a roadside stall, a box of pastries for twenty coins at a pastry shop, and then two meat buns, one for each of them, as they ate and walked.
As they approached Xiaowang Village, Wen Yuxia found a secluded spot and led the wild goats out of her spatial storage. When the siblings entered Xiaowang Village, the village children followed them the entire way because of the two wild goats trailing behind them.
Of course, the location of their maternal grandparents' home was also told to them by those children.
"Grandpa, Grandma, Cousin Daya and Cousin Xiaoqi have come to see you!" Tiedan shouted loudly from outside the courtyard.
Tie Dan's grandfather and Wen Yuxia's maternal grandfather were brothers. Tie Dan had long heard his grandfather mention that he had two cousins in Dawan Village. As soon as Wen Yuxia asked for directions, he immediately recognized them as relatives.
Before anyone in the courtyard could answer, Tie Dan pushed open the fence gate and led Wen Yuxia and her brother inside.
There are quite a few houses in the courtyard. Besides the main house with three rooms and two rooms each in the east and west wings, the other rooms are obviously added later.
"Tie Dan, who's here?"
"Grandma, my cousins from Dawan Village are here!" Tiedan announced loudly.
*Thump*, it sounded like a stool being kicked over. Then the door to the main room opened, and a wrinkled face appeared before Wen Yuxia.
"Da Ya, Xiao Qi, what brings you here? Come in and sit down! Tie Dan, go to the fields and call your great-grandfather back," said Grandma Wang Wu excitedly.
"Grandma," Wen Yunhong rushed into Wang Wu's arms like a cannonball. The old woman in front of him felt very close to him.
With a faint smile, Wen Yuxia tied the sheep to the crooked jujube tree in the yard, then followed Wang Wushi into the room with her basket on her back.
"Grandma, these are just a small token of our appreciation from my siblings and me. Please don't find them too much," Wen Yuxia said softly as she placed the maltose, pastries, and two small bags of grain on the table.
Wang Wushi said repeatedly, "It's good that you're here, it's good that you're here. Take your things back with you when you go back."
She knew that the Wen family had split up, and that Wen Yuxia and her brother had lived with their grandparents. She also knew how much Wen Linshi disliked the Wang family.
Wang Wu silently went through all the presentable items in her home, preparing to let Wen Yuxia and her brother take some back with them.
Grandpa Wang Ping returned quickly; he must have run all the way back from the fields. As soon as he entered the yard, he asked in surprise, "Old woman, whose wild goat is tied up in my yard?"
"Wild goats, in our yard?" Wang Wu asked in confusion. She had only seen Wen Yuxia and her brother and hadn't noticed the goats in the yard.
Wen Yuxia poked her head out of the window and said in a clear voice, "Grandpa, I caught this wild goat from the mountain. We don't have room to keep it at home, so I'm thinking of keeping it here for a while until the ewe gives birth, then I'll take it to town to sell it."
Actually, Wen Yuxia only wanted the pregnant ewe; she gave the other goat to her maternal grandfather as payment for helping her raise the ewe.
Wang Ping said with a smile, "The livestock shed in the backyard has been empty. I'll lead the sheep in now."
When we built the house, we only built a pigsty and a cowshed. We fed the pigs every year, but we never had the money to buy a cow. Now things are better; my granddaughter caught a wild goat from the mountains.
No, wild goats only live deep in the mountains. How old is my granddaughter? She's already hunting in the mountains! Wang Ping broke out in a cold sweat, and the two goats he was holding no longer tasted good.
He tied her up in the cowshed, threw her a few handfuls of pig feed, grabbed a basin of water, and hurriedly returned to the front yard. As soon as he entered, he shouted, "Da Ya, who let you go into the deep mountains to hunt? Was it your grandpa or your grandma?"
Do you really think the Wang family has no one to rely on? They tormented their daughter and son-in-law to death, and now they're trying to harm their granddaughter. Wang Ping plans to take his eight sons to Dawan Village to stand up for his granddaughter.