Chapter 278 - 251 What Can a Woman Do_3
Even with a big belly, my daughter-in-law has to manage the farmland and still needs to plant and harvest rice. It feels normal; marrying into a farmer’s family means one must work. In a farmer’s family, the rich work harder and give birth to healthier children.
This saying was always on Mrs. Lai’s lips, and with people relying on her and her son, she let go.
My daughter-in-law has been in our family for ten years. In those ten years, besides carpentry, we only helped briefly with harvesting rice and planting seedlings. We never interfered with other duties; often our meals were served to us, and neither of us can cook or do laundry.
In the past, everyone who faced this was from a farmer’s family, and everyone had the same mindset—we’d depend on others if we could!
Now, rendered speechless by questions from the Old Masters of wealthy families, we felt ashamed and blushed crimson, not knowing how to explain; it seemed the more we said, the more mistakes we made.
But these Old Masters from wealthy families, for the sake of their estates, did not let us off the hook.
"Hongji, we mean no offense, we just want to ask for some advice on managing an estate, nothing more. You wouldn’t keep it a secret from us, would you?"
"Right, since we’re all sitting here together enjoying a feast at the Tang Family’s, it means we have fate on our side and we’ll become friends. Though managing an estate is a farmer’s concern, we’ve invested money hoping for a return, and we’re thinking about the tour group organized by the Old Master this year, all to increase crop yields."