Chapter 2 Counting on Xiaoya’s money

Author: The prosperous Tang Dynasty without night

Chapter 2 Counting on Xiaoya’s money

In the evening, as the sun sets, layers of fiery clouds roll up on the sky, turning red from bright to dark, and the backbone of the family finally returns.

Pei Dacheng put down the hoe, took the sweat towel handed over by Xiaoya, wiped the sweat on his forehead, looked down at his daughter, and showed an honest smile.

He is in his thirties now, and he has the honest and rough appearance of a farmer. When he was young, he was also a famous and handsome young man in Peijia Village. But after all, his family was poor and there was little land. He had a higher vision and wanted to marry a virtuous and good-looking man.

It was not until he was almost thirty that he found a wife.

He stretched out his thick palm and rubbed Pei Xiaoya's head, then strode in.

"Mother, where is Jinbao? Does my precious son miss his father today?"

Pei Xiaoya quickly caught the sweat towel thrown by her father and watched him striding into the house. She couldn't help but pursed her lips and the brightness in her eyes dimmed.

She walked over and scooped out water with a ladle, rubbed the sweat towel clean before hanging it up, and walked into the house.

The crops in the fields have not been doing well recently, and Pei Dacheng is very tired, while Zhang Hua has just given birth to a son. This is their first son, so he must be raised carefully.

Zhang Hua got a boy and had to be busy taking care of her. Pei Dacheng was considerate and didn't let her go to the field often. Instead, she stayed at home doing housework. She also had Xiaoya to help her, so her life recently was quite smooth.

She cooked a pot of mixed porridge that was half aged rice and half sorghum rice, stir-fried lotus root, mixed with cucumber,

She saw her man hugging her son who was wrapped in a quilt on the bed, and accidentally rubbed his stubble to wake him up. This made Jinbao cry, so she quickly took her son.

Jinbao is four or five months old. The newly born red monkey has become white and fat under the care of him.

"Oh, Jin Bao, be good. You are hungry. Mom cooked egg custard for you. I will feed you now."

Farmers, even if it was a boy during the confinement period, the mother-in-law would just kill a chicken and give her half of it to make soup. Naturally, she would not have much milk, so she had already started giving Jinbao complementary foods.

There were two dishes and a basin of porridge on the wooden table, and a small bowl filled with yellow egg custard, with a few drops of sesame oil, exuding a sweet smell.

Pei Dacheng was also greedy, but his good son was more important and he would not grab food. When he saw Xiaoya walking in, he strode down and sat on the bench.

"Xiaoya, go and get the bowls and chopsticks, let's eat."

"Just come, Dad."

Xiaoya quickly took out three sets of bowls and chopsticks, placed them on the table, filled the bowl with porridge with a big spoon, and brought it to her parents.

She is obedient and well-behaved. Although she is only four years old, she is stronger than ordinary boys and is diligent and capable. Naturally, Pei Dacheng and Zhang Hua will not be as stingy as ordinary villagers treat their girls.

Pei Xiaoya can drink a full bowl of the cooked porridge.

Pei Xiaoya often goes to the mountains with girls of the same age to cut pig grass and dig wild vegetables. She knows what kind of life the girls next to her are living at home. There are only a few girls who can have a full meal on the table like herself, and they are all very popular in the family.

She smelled the aroma of the egg custard that Zhang Hua was feeding Jin Bao, and couldn't help but swallow. She thought of Zhang Hua's promise when she went out to fetch water, but she didn't ask her mother, and just turned her attention back to herself.

In the bowl, he took a big sip of porridge.

Zhang Hua’s craftsmanship is good, with less oil and less salt, and the taste of lotus root and cucumber is acceptable.

After a while, the bowl of porridge had reached the bottom. Pei Dacheng put the bowl on the table and took his son from Zhang Hua's hand.

Zhang Hua was taking care of his son while eating. Now that he had time, he poured the remaining soup that Lian Bai had brought into his bowl and finished it with the porridge. Then he put the bowl down and smiled at Xiaoya.

"Xiaoya, go help mother wash the dishes."

Pei Xiaoya was much stronger than the other children, and her appetite was a bit bigger, but she was well-behaved, smart, and helpful, so Pei Dacheng and Zhang Hua didn't say anything because of her appetite, and they didn't treat her harshly.

She quickly stacked the remaining bowls together, packed the dishes in the porridge basin with quick hands and feet, and then walked out of the main room to wash the dishes in the kitchen.

Pei Dacheng saw Pei Xiaoya go out and saw the joy that could not be concealed in Zhang Hua's eyebrows.

"What? Mrs. Wang has come to see you?"

Zhang Hua laughed.

"Mother-in-law Wang came to see her today. She looks good and is in good health. Mrs. Wang said she looks capable, but she still wants to ask Mr. Li what he wants."

The joy in Zhang Hua's eyes was very real, and he stretched out his right hand to compare numbers.

"It's possible to have this number."

Pei Dacheng was not very interested in this matter at first. After all, it was a low status for a big man. But when he saw the numbers Zhang Hua compared, he was also extremely surprised.

"Can there be so many?"

He turned his eyes and looked at his son who had just fallen asleep on the bed because he had eaten enough, and his eyes flashed with determination.

Twenty taels of silver!

God, he couldn't earn this much even after working exhaustingly in the fields for eight or nine years.

"But Mr. Li's son?"

There was some complexity in his eyes, and Zhang Hua suddenly fell silent, but she still spoke.

"No matter how much Mr. Li's son is a fool, Mr. Li's huge wealth cannot be lost to our little girl."

"Maybe he has lived a good life!"

"If we keep digging in the soil for food, we may say that we have ruined her life of prosperity."

Pei Dacheng pursed his lips tightly and squinted his eyes. He knew this was outrageous, but when he saw Jin Bao on the bed, he could already see that he had inherited the good looks of his parents, with fair and tender skin.

He made up his mind.

"Then I will take Xiaoya to the city tomorrow to show Mr. Li a look."

"Eh."

In fact, Zhang Hua didn't really want to do this. After all, Xiaoya was sensible and capable. She could already do chores such as fetching water and doing housework by herself.

The most other girls of the same age can do is cut pig grass and wash dishes.

But their son is here, which is a blessing specially given to them by God.

If you want to give Jinbao a better meal, let him study for a few more years without being blind, marry a beautiful daughter-in-law, and give birth to a fat grandson, how much money should you put in?

I can only count on Xiaoya's money.

She nodded, thinking about how she would spend the twenty taels of silver once she got it.

This house is also very dilapidated, and the doors and windows are not very tight, and wind often comes in. It is fine now in summer and autumn, but it will need to be repaired in winter, so that my son cannot be wronged.

Regarding the issue of fetching water, some readers said that considering her weight and the length of her arms, the heroine cannot fetch water successfully.

But if I really want to be serious about this, then I won’t consider one-sided things and take everything I can think of into consideration.

Consider the flow rate across the river? The turbidity of the water will affect the density. Use Reynolds number to analyze turbulent flow or laminar flow. Different fluid types have different velocities in the center and edges due to their viscosity.

Have you ever considered eddy diffusion and boundary layer separation? Have you ever done a mechanical energy conservation analysis of fluid mechanics? Have you ever considered how much mechanical energy is consumed to draw water at different locations? Have you ever considered whether the heroine draws water in the center of the river or at the edge of the river?

To fetch water? Is the water flowing fast or slowly? Is the river horizontal, or does it have a slope to increase the gravitational potential energy?

When considering a problem, you cannot only consider one or two factors. All influencing factors need to be taken into consideration. If you must be serious about this point, there are too many factors that need to be taken into consideration. I will not list them all in the text.

Analyze these bit by bit.
Chapter completed!