Chapter 12 "Exchange It for Money"
"The couple of Xiyuan are just kids, while you're such an adult, just stop arguing with them! Shame on you!"
Su Jiuyue and Wu Xiyuan were standing outside the house and heard what they were arguing about. Before Su Jiuyue could say anything, Wu Xiyuan dragged her inside.
"No shame! No shame! My wife and I are not losers! We've collected a lot of wild vegetables!"
Tian Xiuniang did not expect that the conversation between her and her mother-in-law would be overheard by them, so there was a moment of embarrassment on her face. But hearing Wu Xiyuan said that they picked a lot of wild vegetables, she did not believe that actually.
"How's it possible? Xiyuan, how come you've learned to lie? You were not like this before. The wild vegetables behind the mountain have almost been dug up, and there are not so many wild vegetables for you to dig. I went to the remote mountains with my sister-in-law today to find some wild vegetables."
Wu Xiyuan was feeling treated unjustly and feeling bitter about it, so he immediately retorted, "I didn't lie! My wife and I indeed picked a lot of wild vegetables!"
While saying that, he dragged out Su Jiuyue behind him, "see it yourselves!"
Everyone's eyes coincidentally fell on the small basket held in Su Jiuyue's hand, and they were all surprised to see that it was indeed filled with wild vegetables.
Tian Xiuniang intended to come over and have a look at it, but Su Jiuyue dodged it.
Seeing this, Liu Cuihua also hurriedly came over to protect Su Jiuyue, "Tian niuniang, it's your turn to cook today, just hurry up! Later your father and your man will come back. If they have no food to eat, I'll definitely give you a lesson!"
Tian Xiuniang is a bit afraid of her, skimming her mouth and going to cook in the end.
Su Jiuyue then raised her head and said to Liu Cuihua, "Mother, I've got something to tellyou."
Liu Cuihua also assigned some work to her eldest son's wife, and then dragged Su Jiuyue to her room.
Su Jiuyue did not put down the small basket in her hand from the beginning to the end. Although Liu Cuihua felt a bit strange about it, she didn't ask her.
After entering the room, Liu Cuihua closed the door with her hand before she softly asked Su Jiuyue, "Jiuya, what do you have to tell me?"
Su Jiuyue pursed her lips and put the basket on the ground. Then she removed the layer of wild vegetables covering the top, and took out the thing that she had spent half a day digging out.
"Mother, do you think this is a ganoderma?"
Until then, Liu Cuihua understood why she didn't let Tian Xiuniang touch her basket. In the meantime, she really did not expect these two kids running out to have a harvest like this.
She took the ganoderma from Su Jiuyue and carefully identified it by the light coming in through the window.
After checking it out, an expression of joy appeared on her face, "It's true! Where did you get it?"
"Xiyuan took me to pick wild vegetables today, and we happened to see it."
Liu Cuihua put the ganoderma back into her basket and asked her, "Jiuya, are you going to sell this?"
Although Su Jiuyue is her daughter-in-law, this ganoderma is after all what she found and picked
Su Jiuyue handed her the whole basket, "Mother, take this stuff and exchange it for money."
"It's a bad year, exchange it for money to buy some food." She frowned, with a sad look on her face that did not match her age.
It's said that the children of the poor become mature earlier. Liu Cuihua sighed, reaching out to rub her soft hair, and finally agreed to take it for money for fear that she would be cheated.
"Tomorrow I'm going to the market, do you want to go together?"