Chapter 479: He’s So Poor
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The path from the prefecture city to Hu Family Village was not short. If they only traveled during the day, it would take more than ten days.
Even if they rushed back and traveled day and night, it would take at least seven to eight days.
Therefore, they did not dare to buy too much, lest the horses died of exhaustion on the way.
Hence, the brothers ran to the jewelry shop and bought some things for their women according to the number of women at home.
When they were buying things, the three brothers also became different.
w.a.n.g Chuanman was naturally the richest. Other than the 150 taels of silver that Shopkeeper Zhou gave him a year, there was also the money he had earned along the way.
Now, no one knew how rich w.a.n.g Chuanman was.
In any case, he had bought a total of 50 taels of silver worth of gifts, and they were all very good-looking.
If he brought them back, it would definitely make the family happy.
The second richest was naturally w.a.n.g Chuangui. After Madam Ma came here, she was not idle.
Madam Ma’s embroidery and sewing skills were not bad. When she arrived at the prefecture city and saw the difference between her and the others, she spent some effort and specially learned a few techniques from the embroiderers.
She had strong comprehension ability and was agile with her fingers. Coupled with the fact that w.a.n.g Chuangui had helped her sketch designs, Madam Ma also managed to make a career for herself.
That was to embroider clothes. The other embroiderers would take a month or two to complete a task, but she only needed 10 days to make them very well.
w.a.n.g Chuangui copied books for others. At first, his words looked like chicken feathers. After being rejected a few times, he calmed down and practiced calligraphy. Later on, the more he wrote, the better his handwriting.
Now, w.a.n.g Chuangui specialized in copying books for the descendants of rich families. He often copied some rare and unique books and studied them at the same time.
If the couple worked together, they could actually earn more than ten taels of silver every month.
When buying things, they were naturally not too tight on money.
When it came to w.a.n.g Chuanfu, he realized that he only had half of his monthly allowance left. He’d given the rest to Madam Feng.
Holding the only two taels of silver he had, w.a.n.g Chuanfu walked into a shop that sold goods for five taels of silver at the lowest price. He felt his heart turn cold.
He was the eldest brother, so why was he doing the worst?
“Look at you.” Old Madam w.a.n.g saw w.a.n.g Chuanfu staring at a silver hairpin in a daze. The silver hairpin had orchids embedded with white jade on it. The workmanship was not bad, and the price was very beautiful as well.
It was ten taels.
Old Madam w.a.n.g stuffed a banknote into w.a.n.g Chuanfu’s arms and said to him, “If you want to buy something for your wife, buy it. How can a man stand around looking like a fool!”
w.a.n.g Chuanfu held the banknotes and was about to cry. “Mother…”
He was so poor.
His younger brothers were all so rich, but he was facing the yellow soil with his back to the sky everyday. It seemed like he really could not save much money.
It was fine if it was just himself, but if he implicated his wife and children to suffer with him, who knew what they would think?
They would think that he was very useless, right?
“Didn’t you harvest all the crops at home? Why didn’t you save any money?” Old Madam w.a.n.g frowned. “Where did all the money go?”
w.a.n.g Chuanfu: “We saved all the money at home. Mother, when we go back, we’ll pa.s.s it to you.”
“You didn’t keep your share?”
“Huh? My what?”
Old Madam w.a.n.g expected better from him. “Didn’t I say back then that apart from the expenses of farming, you can also keep 30% of the profits from the crops of the fields at home? Have you forgotten?”
w.a.n.g Chuanfu: “Did you say that?”
The surprise came too quickly. w.a.n.g Chuanfu even suspected that his memories were in a mess.
Old Madam w.a.n.g: “I never said that?”
Not only w.a.n.g Chuanfu, but even w.a.n.g Chuangui and w.a.n.g Chuanman, who had come after hearing the news, shook their heads.
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