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Chapter 24 Brother!There is no need to compare us with pigs!

Chen Shouhe wiped his wet clothes on his body with his big wet hands, put them on Chen Shouxing's shoulders, and said with a smile, "Fiveth, today's life is comfortable, I'll borrow some money from you, wait for me..."

Chen Shouxing patted his hand away, lowered his head and washed his fingers with water from a wooden ladle, and said calmly, "I don't have any money. I live on rice and rely on my wife to support me. How can I have money? Third brother should know about it."

Chen Shouhe shook hands and looked at his leaving figure. He knew he would lose nine out of ten bets, but what if?If you don't bet that he will have no future in this life, he will work from dawn to dusk like his parents and live a useless life. In the event of a natural disaster, he may not even be able to save his life!
Chen Shouxing had just walked a few steps out of the kitchen when he heard his mother in the yard instructing people to secretly sell pigs to take advantage.

He knows that his mother likes to take advantage. How many people in this village don't like to take advantage?It's just that his mother is more greedy, and it's not for the better life of the family, they are all poor.

Seeing him coming, Zhao Miaomiao ran over in small steps, tugged at his sleeve, frowning in distress.

Chen Shouxing sighed, touched her head and gave her a reassuring look. He raised his eyes and said, "Mom, I can't! It's not easy to transport such a big pig. It's difficult to secretly pack it with people. If you accidentally let it go, If people see it, it will bring bad reputation to our family!"

Li Fatya blinked and muttered, "Our family's reputation is not that good to begin with!"

Zhao Miaomiao: "..."

The Chen family: "..."

What are you talking about to be honest!

Chen Shouxing twitched the corner of his mouth, raised his forehead and said, "This is different! It is said outside that our family is at best fond of taking advantage of small things, being fierce and domineering and not easy to mess with. This is not a bad reputation in the countryside!"

Zhao Miaomiao looked shocked: My husband, does our family have such a reputation outside?
Chen Shouxing continued to persuade, "Chickens are not very valuable. My sister-in-law usually asks for a chicken as compensation for small troubles. Outsiders can at most say that we hold grudges, but this pig costs more than one tael of silver, and the bride price for a daughter-in-law is nothing. About three taels of silver, let outsiders know that our family sells pigs secretly - that is greed, it is bullying orphans and widows, and our family's reputation will be ruined!"

Everyone in the Chen family was silent, frowning in confusion.

Mrs. Chen said reluctantly, "Fifth, let's be careful and maybe we won't be discovered..."

Chen Shouxing interrupted forcefully, "Mother! What if Jean finds out? It's okay for the son to talk, but what about the girl at home? Especially Huihui has to marry her!"

He immediately became nervous, "Mother, let's not take advantage of this, forget it!"

Wang Hongmei also nodded, "Auntie, there are so many girls in the family who are planning to get married in a few years. I can't afford to gamble!"

Fatty Li doesn't have a daughter, but she couldn't say anything about betting on her niece for a pig, so she nodded and said, "Never mind, mother, we don't want this pig."

Mrs. Dong has no objection. Anyway, the money for selling pigs can't reach her, so she can do whatever she likes.

The little men of the Chen family shook their heads and said, "Grandma, sister is much more valuable than pigs, so we don't want her pigs!"

The girls of the Chen family: "..."

Brother!There is no need to compare us with pigs!

Zhao Miaomiao tugged on her mother-in-law's sleeve, "Mother~"

Old lady Chen gritted her teeth with a stern face, "You all said no, can I still be a villain? Listen to my fifth son!"

Zhao Miaomiao smiled and looked at her husband-in-law with shining eyes.

Chen Shouxing curled up his lips and said, "Mom, we are not greedy for the Liu family's pigs. We are not giving the pigs to her family. Our pigs are much fatter than hers. Let's find a butcher to feed the pig that cannot survive in front of the villagers." When the pig is killed, we will weigh and calculate the price of the Liu family’s pig, minus the money we should earn from raising a pig, and return the money to the Liu family!”

Zhao Miaomiao glanced at the pigs in the pig pen. The injured pig was a bit bigger than the one that was about to come. If he gave it directly to the Liu family, our family would suffer a loss!It is appropriate for my husband to handle it this way.

Mrs. Chen found it troublesome at first, but her eyes lit up when she heard it, "That's it! The third child is going to find Butcher Liu!"

Half an hour later, Chen Shouhe brought Butcher Liu over.

Jinbao and Yinbao walked around the village and shouted loudly, "Kill the pig, kill the pig!"

After a while, a crowd of people gathered around Chen's yard.

Chen Shouxing said, "Folks, the pig that widower Liu chopped up can no longer be fed, and now I can sell it for a profit at most. My nieces have worked so hard on the pig weed for more than half a year. It must be for nothing." Is this the reason for Liu's compensation?"

Everyone nodded in confusion and asked, "Didn't your family want the Liu family to pay a pig?"

Chen Shouxing smiled and said, "My mother has a good heart. She went back and thought about it. She remembered that Huo Huo's pig can still be sold. It's not easy for Sister-in-law Liu to be orphaned and widowed. As long as the Liu family compensates my family for the profit it deserves from raising a pig."

Mrs. Chen is kind-hearted?The onlookers all stared wide-eyed, is he joking?
Mrs. Liu Su stared at the pig that was hers with jealousy. After hearing this, she turned around and asked, "What do you mean by just paying the profit that a pig deserves?"

Chen Shouxing didn't reply to her and continued, "Today, in front of everyone, I will weigh the pigs I bought from the Liu family, let Butcher Liu calculate the price, and treat my Chen family as buying the pigs from the Liu family."

The onlookers looked at each other and asked, "Chen Laowu, what do you mean by this? Why do you think the Chen family is buying the Liu family?"

Pointing to the pig being weighed, Chen Shouxing replied, "My family can earn half a tael for raising a pig. If the price of this pig is one tael, my family will give half a tael to Mrs. Liu."

When Liu Su heard that raising a pig could earn half a tael of silver, she wanted to say that she could not earn that much, but she was afraid that the Chen family would regret not paying the silver, so she swallowed her words.

If the Chen family knew what she was thinking, they would definitely roll their eyes and curse, "My pigs are much better than yours, no point!"

The surrounding villagers didn't think there was anything wrong with half a tael of silver. They counted on their fingers, and when they figured it out, they looked at Mrs. Chen in disbelief.

"Ms. Chen really didn't take advantage this time!"

Old lady Chen rolled her eyes and said, "When did my mother take advantage of someone? My daughter-in-law stared at him hard and delayed her work to catch her. Shouldn't she compensate the person who stole things? Besides, she will pay more, it hurts." Kill him and see if he dares to come next time!"

Zhao Miaomiao: "???"

Li Fatya and Wang Hongmei nodded in agreement.

The surrounding villagers were shocked in their three views. They thought it was wrong in their hearts, but they felt reasonable in their minds.

Seeing their stunned expressions, Mrs. Chen couldn't help scolding them. They were all stupid. Sure enough, not everyone was as smart as me!

Butcher Liu and a few villagers weighed the wooden pole and counted the pig money. Granny Chen hesitated and handed over the money with a pained expression on her face.

Ms. Liu Su quickly grabbed the silver and ran to the courtyard gate, fearing that if it was too late, Mrs. Chen would regret taking the money back.

When the villagers onlookers saw that Mrs. Chen was really giving money to people, they were stunned and murmured.

"Did we really misunderstand Mrs. Chen before?"

(End of this chapter)