The Lucky Farmgirl

But even though he admired him, the old doctor still extended his hand and said, "Your wife’s consultation fee is also five coins."

This was the most basic fee for a consultation, which wasn’t much compared to what the attending doctors in the big pharmacies in the county town charged.

Things were better than he had expected, so Zhou Silang happily counted out forty coins to give to him, then went outside to check the darkening sky.

He glanced at the slanting sun rays that had yet to completely fade in the sky, leaned on his waist and crouched down to coax Manbao, "Manbao, would you like to sleep with me and your fourth sister-in-law tonight? I tell you, Aunt Fang’s house has a lot of tasty things..."

"Just say you don’t want to go home and that you want to stay over," Manbao wasn’t a fool; how could she not understand his intentions?

Even though Manbao thought her own bed was more comfortable, thinking that she would need to use Silang as an example in the future, she reluctantly nodded, "Staying over is fine, but Silang, why do we need to stay over?"

There was clearly enough time to return home, and even if it got a bit dark upon reaching home, she wasn’t afraid.

Zhou Erlang looked around and then hummed to Manbao, "Your fourth brother can’t just take a tumble for nothing, so I need to have a good talk with my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

Ms. Fang gave him a glare, "You better not use my parents as a tool. But it’s true that the Jia Family was too much. They’re our village kin, and they often go to the mountains behind my house to cut firewood and dig wild vegetables, don’t they? Has my family ever said anything? So why can’t we go look for some wild mushrooms?"

"Exactly, exactly, I wasn’t chopping down the good trees on their mountains. I was just looking for some game; it’s not like they planted them."

Anyway, their family was so stingy, he was definitely going to give them a piece of his mind, hmph, he was not without ties to Dali Village—his in-laws were here.