pjbooks Chapter 24 Vent Your Anger First
Chapter 24 Vent Your Anger First
She is Zhao Taohua's grandmother!
Grandma Feng, who was watching the commotion from the sidelines, said, "Sun Zhaodi, you should apologize to Taohua. There are eleven people in your Zhao family's old house. If they don't recognize the herbs, they will suffer a great loss!"
Grandma Sun was still reluctant to admit her mistake, but Madam Wang found Grandma Feng's words to be very reasonable.
She advised, "Mother, please bear with it for the sake of your grandchildren."
Grandma Sun thought of her eldest grandson, Xiao Feng, who was sixteen years old, tall and handsome, and had his eye on the village beauty from the next village, but the girl's bride price was ten taels of silver.
Forget it, for the sake of her eldest grandson, she'll swallow her pride and settle the score with that little bastard Zhao Taohua later!
Suppressing her anger, she stepped forward and said to Zhao Taohua, "Taohua, Grandma apologizes to you. Could you talk to Uncle Xiangping and ask him to teach the people in our Zhao family's old house to recognize medicinal herbs?"
"Row."
Zhao Taohua readily agreed.
In an instant, Grandma Sun and Zhao Sanshi breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Taohua changed the subject the next moment and said, "But you have to apologize to my parents."
"???"
Grandma Sun suddenly became anxious. "With them? They're not worthy!"
Zhao Taohua knew that if she didn't teach the people in the Zhao family's old house to recognize medicinal herbs, they would secretly learn on their own and eventually learn which herbs were medicinal herbs.
But let's give Zhao Ershu and his wife some revenge first!
Grandma Sun turned to look at Zhao Taohua, afraid that Zhao Taohua really wouldn't agree to teach the people in the Zhao family's old house to identify medicinal herbs.
Finally, with a dark expression, she said to Zhao Ershu and Qian Shi, "Ershu, Hongyan, I apologize to you!"
Grandma Sun lowered her voice. She had lived most of her life, and today she had to apologize to her granddaughter, son, and daughter-in-law one after another. She was really furious.
Although Zhao Ershu and Qian Shi knew that Old Lady Sun was unwilling, they were still deeply shocked when they heard her words.
They had suffered a lot of grievances at Old Lady Sun's hands over the years, especially Zhao Ershu, who had never been liked by Old Lady Sun since childhood. Her apology finally released some of the grievances that Zhao Ershu had been holding in for more than 30 years.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Taohua nodded to Zhao Xiangping and the village chief.
Immediately, they said in unison, "Sun, if you cause trouble for the second branch of the family again, you will no longer be allowed to participate in the village's medicinal herb gathering."
Faced with warnings from the village chief and Zhao Xiangping, Grandma Sun repeatedly agreed.
As she left, she glanced at Zhao Taohua, her heart filled with resentment. That little rascal, having discovered this path to wealth, hadn't even bothered her own family; instead, she'd run off to tell the village chief, getting Zhao Xiangping to teach the entire village!
She lost all face because she had to learn to identify medicinal herbs so that the people in the Zhao family's old house could learn.
After seeing that Grandma Sun and the other two had left, the village chief and Zhao Xiangping also left, as they had many things to attend to!
The other villagers who had come to watch the commotion also left, leaving only the Zhao family of three.
"Peach Blossom, you've suffered. It's your father's fault for not protecting you."
The moment Zhao Ershu looked at Zhao Taohua, his eyes welled up with tears.
"Dad, it's not your fault. It was Grandma, Uncle, and Aunt who did the bad thing. Dad was very strict just now!"
The family of three walked back to the yard and closed the gate.
Qian told Zhao Ershu about the recent events that had happened in the family. Tao Hua had saved Zhao Sanshi, who even Grandpa Xiangping had said he was going to prepare for his funeral. It turned out that Zhao Sanshi was possessed by an evil spirit.
Later, Peach Blossom saved Old Lady Sun once more, as Old Lady Sun had some menstrual blood on her.
Upon hearing Qian's words, Zhao Ershu's eyes widened in disbelief. He simply couldn't believe that ghosts existed in the world, much less that Tao Hua possessed the ability to exorcise them.
When he walked into the main room and saw the menstrual spirit sitting on a stool, embroidering a purse, he was so shocked that he stood there dumbfounded.
This is real?
He turned to Zhao Taohua and said, "This, this, this..."
“Father, just treat her like a servant in our household. She’s very good at needlework. She can sell a handkerchief for ten large coins. Yesterday, I just sold seven hundred and twenty large coins.”
"what?"
Zhao Ershu was completely stunned, feeling both surprised and envious.
He worked for over ten days and only earned three hundred dollars. This menstrual essence earns this much in just over a day?
Suddenly, Zhao Ershu wasn't so afraid of the Menstrual Spirit's eerie and terrifying appearance anymore. After all, she couldn't harm anyone now, and she could still help the family earn money.
"Father, with what you gave me today, I've saved up seven taels and five cents. I want to build a new house."
Originally, I wanted to build a three-room house, but now I want to build a four-room house. You're a carpenter and bricklayer, and my mother, my daughter, and I can all work as laborers. How much more money do you need?
Zhao Taohua asked.
Zhao Ershu thought for a moment: "Seven taels of silver for four rooms is enough, but our family only has a plot of land for three rooms."
In the village, a ten-square-meter plot of land costs two taels of silver, and a room requires twenty square meters, so it would cost three and a half taels more.
Zhao Taohua understood.
It's just a matter of three and a half ounces more!
"Peach Blossom, the village chief just said that you've subdued the mischievous spirit at the foot of the mountain, so you can go there to dig for medicinal herbs now. Is that true?" Zhao Ershu asked.
"Of course, and besides, I know about medicinal herbs. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, you don't need to go to town to work anymore. Our family can dig for medicinal herbs together, and we can earn more than working in town."
When Zhao Taohua told Zhao Ershu that she had sold half a basket of dug-up items for 160 coins, Zhao Ershu was completely stunned.
Sure enough, his daughter Tao Hua is clever; she has so many ways to make money!
Zhao Taohua used the herbs she had just dug out of her basket to teach Zhao Ershu and Qian Shi how to identify them.
As for the other villagers, after hearing the village chief's notice, everyone mobilized their entire families, bringing stools to Zhao Xiangping's house to learn how to identify medicinal herbs.
Because there were too many people, Zhao Xiangping's courtyard couldn't accommodate everyone. So, it was decided that one person from each family would stay to learn how to identify medicinal herbs, while the rest would go home.
Even so, more than a hundred people still stood in Zhao Xiangping's courtyard.
Zhao Xiangping divided the group into groups of five, and gave each group a medicinal herb to identify.
Zhao Xiangping stood in the center of the courtyard and addressed the crowd, saying, "Today we'll learn two kinds of herbs. From now on, we'll learn two kinds every day. If we learn them slowly, you'll be able to remember them."
Upon hearing this, everyone listened intently to Zhao Xiangping's explanation of the medicinal herbs.
After finishing their studies, some couldn't wait to go home and take their whole family to the foot of the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs. They would dig until evening before returning home to start preparing dinner.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion, when families gather together for a reunion dinner.
The Zhao family is the same.
Because the troublemakers at the foot of the mountain had been subdued by Zhao Taohua, and the wolf pack would no longer appear, Zhao Ershu went to the foot of the mountain to chop some firewood and brought it back.
I must say, wood burns much better than soft straw, and the meat stewed from it is especially fragrant!
Today is a festival, and almost every household in the village is stewing meat. When everyone is burning firewood, they all think of Zhao Taohua.
"Peach Blossom is such a kind-hearted child. She's tamed the troublemaker, so now we can go to the foot of the mountain to chop firewood and burn it without worry."
Peach Blossom is already fourteen this year, the age when she should be getting married. I wonder which lucky young man will be so fortunate?
When Jiang heard Zhao Guangzhu praising Zhao Taohua, she said irritably, "If she hadn't told everyone and had dug it herself, she would definitely have been criticized by everyone for being selfish!"