Chapter 23 - Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Chaos and Panic _1 (1/2)

Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Chaos and Panic _1

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The fish were sold out, and Uncle Jiang Sanlang and his nephew packed their things and went home.

When they reached the old house, Jiang Sanlang fed his donkey with a bundle of straw, took a three-pound green fish out of the jar and gave it to his nephew, and asked him to pay for the donkey cart.

He also handed the purchased herbs to his sister-in-law. “The doctor at the town center can’t leave, and doesn’t want to make a house call, so I collected two doses of Typhoid Medicine. Give one to my second brother and the other one for you to stew for my eldest brother.”

Zhou Family nodded, took the bag of medicine and quickly went to the kitchen to find the pot to stew the medicine.

Jiang Sanlang entered his eldest brother’s room and saw him lying on the bed with a wet cloth on his forehead, whining.

Seeing his third brother coming in, he struggled to sit up and asked, “How much did you sell?”

“I haven’t checked yet.” Jiang Sanlang put the bag of coins on the table: “I’ll call my second brother to come; we can count it together.”

The so-called clear accounts make for good brothers. Jiang Sanlang could not possibly count these coins on his own. Even if his eldest and second brother were both sick, they would still have to be present to watch.

Before long, Jiang Erlang arrived, coughing all the way.

Jiang Dabang was already off the bed, and the three brothers huddled together to count the money.

“In total, we have seven thousand, one hundred and thirty-four coins! Oh, haha, we’re rich, cough cough…” Jiang Erlang couldn’t stop laughing and coughing.

Jiang Sanlang also laughed, claiming triumphantly: “If we hadn’t lost those three big fish, we could have earned more.”

Jiang Dabang was very happy, rubbing his hands, he said, “Why don’t we do like before, give our parents three hundred coins, and also give YingBao three hundred coins. The rest of it, we three brothers can split evenly, how about that?”

Jiang Erlang had no objections; he didn’t go to sell the fish this time; he knew his contribution was less, so he thought this was a fair distribution.

Jiang Sanlang naturally hoped to give more to his daughter, after all, the bait was hers, and without it, they wouldn’t have been able to catch anything, let alone big fish, in such cold weather.

But he held back from speaking first, and refrained from letting them know more.

Well, three hundred is three hundred then. Yingbao is still young, so she can’t hold on to too much money.

After all, he would save up for her dowry as her father. Giving her this money is just to let her have a little more freedom, saving up a bit of her private money.

After all, most children in the village, after they are more than ten years old, don’t even have a single coin at hand, just like his second nephew.

So, each of the three brothers got two thousand, one hundred and seventy-eight coins, which is almost half a year’s income for them.

Getting the money, Jiang Dabang immediately felt significantly better.

Erlang also didn’t let this weigh on him, and with the heavy coins in his embrace, he went back home in light steps.

When he got home, he gave all the Copper Coins in his arms to his wife Leng Family, smiling and saying, “Today Sanlang sold seven thousand coins in town, cough cough, each of us got more than two thousand coins, you keep them safe. We can buy a couple of pieces of cloth in town later, cough cough…

You and the kids can have new clothes for the New Year.

Leng Family received the copper coins and counted them, then frowned, “Erlang, that’s not right. If Sanlang sold seven thousand coins, why did we only get two thousand, one hundred and seventy-eight coins?”

Jiang Erlang gave a cough, and then said, “Three hundred coins were given to pay respects to our parents, and another three hundred split for Yingbao. The rest naturally is divided up this way.”

Leng Family looked displeased: “It’s right to pay respects to our parents, but why Yingbao? What did she do to deserve this? She received as much as our parents. ”

Jiang Erlang frowned, thinking to tell her about the big fish being lured by Yingbao, and that the fish hook was also given by Yingbao. But remembering his younger brother’s insinuations, he suddenly couldn’t explain it to his wife, so he said, “This is how the eldest brother divided it, cough cough, also Sanlang is making money with us brothers, so what’s wrong with giving Yingbao a little?”

Leng Family was even more upset when she heard this. “What do you mean ‘Sanlang is making money with you’? You are brothers; isn’t this supposed to be how it works? Plus, if you guys didn’t help out, could Sanlang catch so many fish by himself? This is clearly eldest brother in collusion with Sanlang, taking advantage of our family!”

The portion given to the in-laws will eventually be left to the eldest son after they die, won’t it?