Chapter 91: So Tired
Well, it’s just a matter of seeing through things without pointing them out. Let Lady Lin’s family dig if they want to dig—the rich water shouldn’t flow into a stranger’s field, after all!
It wasn’t just Wang Yongzhu who noticed at the dinner table; it’s likely Wang Laozhu and Old Granny Zhang had their suspicions as well.
It’s just that everyone has their selfish side; it’s better to have the family bring home the mountain yam than to let outsiders take advantage of it.
Old Granny Zhang kept silent, busy working out in her head if they could sell the dug-up yams at the market. She wondered if they might fetch enough to buy some fabric for her daughter and some nice needles and threads, among other things.
It would be useful for when her daughter learned embroidery in the future.
Wang Laozhu didn’t say anything, but he was stewing inside. Just yesterday, he had cautioned against it, and today, Jinhoo was egged on by his wife to go dig it up. Wasn’t this just slapping him, the father, right in the face?
Lady Jiang knew quite well what kind of person her sister-in-law, Lady Lin, was—a plucker of every passing goose. She guessed there must have been some mountain produce left unpicked yesterday, prompting her brother-in-law to head up the mountain; otherwise, Eldest Brother wouldn’t have missed lunch.
Jindou and Jinhu were also getting older, and the two young fellas had a vague sense of what was happening. But with a glance at their grandparents’ expressions, they dared not speak.
After wolfing down their meal in a few bites, the brothers exchanged a look, put down their chopsticks, and stealthily slid along the wall to the courtyard, then dashed outside at full speed.