flstandardbreds Chapter 153 1 Aunt who loves her nephew 3
Chapter 153 1 Aunt who loves her nephew 3
Luo Chen took out the cloth she had bought and began to embroider, an advanced embroidery skill she had acquired in a certain life.
One day she embroidered a handkerchief with vivid chrysanthemums on it, and Luo Chen put it away.
She started embroidering purses again. In ten days, she embroidered thirty handkerchiefs and twenty purses. When she went to pick up her son, Luo Chen took them to the embroidery workshop to buy them. The shopkeeper in the town had never seen such good embroidery before, and he bought them for one hundred coins each. That was because the fabric was really bad. If the fabric was good, the shopkeeper would charge more.
The total amount of money he earned from the sale was five taels of silver. Luo Chen spent three qian of silver to buy a lot of good fabrics and took them back to embroider a large piece.
Lao Bai looked at the more than four taels of silver in his wife's hand. She could earn so much in ten days. The waiters in the big restaurant only earned two cents of silver a month. It would take two years to save four taels of silver, but his wife did it in ten days. Lao Bai saw hope that his son could continue his studies.
After buying a lot of things, the family went back home. Lao Bai was happy and had a few drinks before going to bed. Luo Chen sat with her five children to chat and enhance the parent-child relationship. She had been too indifferent to these children in the past and she had to make up for that affection quickly.
Erhuzi was more lively and said, "Mom, the teacher gave us names."
"Really? What's your name?"
"My name is Bai Yunye, and my brother's name is Bai Yunxuan. Mom, does it sound good?"
Luo Chen smiled and touched his son's head and said, "It sounds nice, really nice. Since you two brothers have names, your younger brother and sister must also have names."
Daya and Erya looked at their mother expectantly.
Luo Chen thought for a while and said, "Since you brothers have the character 'cloud' in their names, let's name our family after it. The eldest daughter will be named Bai Yunwan, and the second daughter will be named Bai Yunyu."
"Good, it sounds nice, I like it." Bai Yunyu clapped her hands, "What's the third brother's name?"
"Bai Yunshuo."
Bai Yunyu asked again: "What about daddy? What is daddy's name Bai Yun?"
"Call me Old White."
"Baiyun Laobai? How strange." Bai Yunyu looked very confused.
Several older brothers and sisters were amused.
Luo Chen knew very well that he must not let his sons become pedantic and aloof, so he taught his sons by words and deeds that they should not think they were superior to others and should not do farm work just because they were educated. The two sons listened to him and worked seriously, and even taught their younger sister to read in their spare time.
Two days later, Lao Bai took his son to the town. Luo Chen stayed at home with his eldest daughter embroidering, giving her instructions from time to time. His sister-in-law Qin came with her son, who was called Xiao Shitou.
"Little sister, are you home?"
"Yes, sister-in-law, come in." Luo Chen put away the embroidery in his hand and just instructed his daughter. Bai Yunwan was smart. She glanced at her mother and said nothing. She just greeted her aunt and then stopped talking.
"What are you doing, little sister? Where are the children?" Qin asked with a smile.
"I'm teaching Yun Wan how to embroider. What's up, sister-in-law?"
Qin looked at her in confusion, pointed at the little girl and asked, "Yun Wan? Daya?"
Luo Chen nodded: "Yes, I sent my two sons to the school in the town. The teacher gave them names, starting with the character 'cloud', Xuan, Ye, Wan, Yu, Shuo. How do you think, sister-in-law? Do they sound good?"
Qin's face turned a little ugly. She came here today to ask for money. She thought that after spreading the word, her sister would send the money herself. However, she had been waiting for almost half a month, and when Li Xiucai was about to start teaching, there was still no movement from her sister. She became anxious and hurried over to check, but she did not expect that her two sons were sent to the town.
Isn't this a waste of money? These kids of the Bai family are so stupid, how can they learn anything? They are not as smart as my own son. The fortune teller once said that he is destined to be an official.
"Oh, really? It's so sudden. The tuition must be very expensive, right?"
"Each person needs three taels of silver for tuition and one tael of silver for accommodation and food every year. If you add in the cost of the four treasures of the study, for two children, that would be at least sixteen taels of silver a year."
"Sixteen taels of silver! That's so much money." Qin was stunned. She only earned four taels of silver a year from Mr. Li, but it was twice as much in the town. The Bai family must be really rich. If that's the case, could they send her son directly to the town?
"Yes, we have spent almost all the money we have saved in the past ten years, and it's still not enough. I am almost worried to death. Oh, by the way, sister-in-law, isn't Xiao Shitou going to school too? Has he entered?"
When Qin heard Luo Chen say that all the money in the family had been taken out, and asked her son about it, she suspected that she wanted to borrow money, so she quickly said, "He's in. He's already paid the four taels of tuition. We've also taken out all our savings over the years. Even with this, we don't know how many years he can study."
Luo Chen nodded in disappointment: "So fast, I was thinking..."
Upon hearing this, Qin hurriedly took her son back.
When he got home, he remembered that he had only one son, who was more capable than Lao Bai and often went up the mountain to hunt for money. But he had only saved five taels of silver. How could the Bai family come up with eight taels of silver at once? And looking at Hu Luochen's expression, she didn't seem to be worried at all, so this woman must have some money.
She was thinking about letting her man give it a try.
After Hu Xie found out, he pondered for a long time and said nothing. Qin asked him to go to Luo Chen's house, but he didn't go. He just sent his son to Li Xiucai's house, giving him two taels of silver a year and providing him with writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone. Four taels of silver a year would be enough.
Seeing that her husband didn't go, Qin went there several times in a hurry, but was always distracted by Luo Chen. She had no way to get the money from Luo Chen, so she stopped coming.
Hu Siqi also had his own name. He came to his aunt's house several times, but never came again if he didn't eat any delicious food. Qin also realized that Luo Chen's family was probably really out of money, otherwise, with Luo Chen's personality, why wouldn't he make delicious food for his son.
In his heart, he cursed Luo Chen for wasting money by sending two useless people to such a good school but ignoring this beautiful jade in his family.
Another ten days passed, and Luo Chen took the two ornaments and thirty handkerchiefs he had embroidered to the embroidery workshop.
The two ornaments were sold for ten taels of silver.
Because the fabric was good, I sold each handkerchief for three hundred coins, and earned nine taels of silver.
Luo Chen picked out some more high-quality fabrics and took them home. She planned to embroider a screen and sell it to wealthy families because they would give her a lot.
Lao Bai saw that his wife was much better off than he was. He could not earn more than five taels of silver a year from farming, so he was ready to listen to his wife's arrangements.
Luo Chen was thinking of buying a small courtyard in the town so that his son could come home every day in the future. After asking around, he found out that the courtyard that Luo Chen liked was priced at eighty taels. It was a two-story courtyard with a reception room and two rooms on the left and right in the front yard, and the main house with east and west wing rooms and a small kitchen in the back yard, a total of six rooms. They already had thirty taels of silver in their hands, so they could buy it in two months.
Every time, Luo Chen went to sell the embroidery by herself. No one in the family knew how much she sold. Anyway, Luo Chen would take out some silver from her package. Anyway, all the money in the family was under her control, so no one else knew.