A car accident, our family of three crossed

Chapter 209 A Visitor

Upon hearing this, Chen Laoer's wife was so excited that she nodded and thanked him repeatedly: "Really? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am."

"You don't have to thank me. If you can learn more words, it will be much easier to do things in the future." Song Ning couldn't help but paint a big picture for her. "The shop next to our house will be opened in the future. If Brother Chen can learn more words, he can be a manager in the shop and get paid monthly."

"Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. I will definitely look after him and let him study hard so that he can do things for the master and ma'am in the future." Chen Laoer's wife felt that meeting this kind-hearted master was the greatest reward for their family after all the hardships they had.

"Okay, since Brother Chen can recognize some words, I'll write a list. You two can go together later to buy the ingredients and prepare lunch as soon as possible."

There were some leftover pens, ink, paper and inkstone in the study of this house. They were not of very good quality, but they were usable.

Chen Laoer's wife went to the study to get it, and Song Ning ground the ink himself and wrote down a list.

"Madam's handwriting is so beautiful!" Chen Laoer's wife looked at the beautiful handwriting on the paper, not hiding her envy and admiration at all.

Song Ning blew the ink on the paper and said with a smile: "You don't know how to write, so how do you know it's beautiful?"

"I don't know how to write, but I know the difference between beautiful and ugly words. Madam's handwriting is as beautiful as flowers, while Xiaobao's father's handwriting looks like chicken chopped."

Song Ning was successfully amused by her description. This time when they met, the woman in front of him seemed to have relaxed a lot!

She blew the ink off the paper, handed it to Chen Laoer's wife, and asked, "Do you have any fine rice at home? Since we are entertaining guests, we can't be careless. The staple food today must be steamed white rice."

"Yes, yes, there are still a lot!" Chen Laoer's wife nodded quickly. In the past half month, they had not touched the precious food once. They just wanted to save it for when the master came.

Song Ning couldn't help but frowned, "You guys didn't leave all that fine rice and noodles uneaten, did you?"

Chen Laoer's wife smiled and said, "We are all used to eating coarse grains and noodles. We are really not used to those precious grains."

I can't get used to it.

Song Ning complained silently in her heart. It was not that she thought whole grains and noodles were bad. In later generations, eating whole grains was considered to be good for health. But who could stand eating them every day?

"We buy those grains to eat. We don't come here often. If you don't eat them, they will get rotten after a while. Wouldn't that waste the good rice?" Then she said jokingly, "You guys, just eat with your stomachs open. You three can't even make the master poor."

Chen Laoer's wife smiled awkwardly when she heard this. She thought that the lady was so kind. Following such a good master, they must work hard to repay the master's kindness.

"Go and call Brother Chen over. I'll get some silver for you to buy the things. But make sure you buy the good and fresh ones. Don't save money for me." She was worried that they would be stingy and buy cheap things to save money.

"Don't worry, ma'am. We saved it." When the host is entertaining guests, they certainly know the importance of it. Doing something petty will only bring shame to the master, which is not acceptable.

Then she added, "But you don't have to take the silver, Madam. We still have silver in the account at our house!"

Song Ning raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect that they actually did the accounting themselves. She was very curious, so she asked her to take out the account book and have a look.

"The accounts were all kept by Xiaobao's father. Madam, please wait, I will get them for you to see."

As Chen Laoer's wife said this, she went to the front yard and got the accounting book and silver from their house. When she returned to the inner courtyard, she called her husband over as well. After all, she couldn't understand the accounts, but if the lady asked, her husband could explain.

Song Ning flipped through the account book with great interest. The so-called account book was actually just a few pieces of paper pasted together to record daily expenses.

Unsurprisingly, the words on it were just as Chen Laoer's wife said, like they had been scratched by a chicken, and Song Ning had to work hard to read them clearly. But to her surprise, she left them one or two taels of silver half a month ago, and after half a month, the silver had not decreased, but even increased by dozens of copper coins.

"What's going on? How come there are dozens of extra copper coins?"

"Madam, that was me, I earned it." Chen Laoer was a little nervous, not knowing whether his master would be unhappy if she knew.

"Did you earn it? How did you earn it?" Song Ning became interested.

Chen Laoer hesitated for a moment before saying, "We are all used to working and cannot sit idle. There is not much to do in our house. After I finish my work, I go out to find work. I am strong and can work as a porter. If I stay in the city, I can earn ten copper coins per trip. If I need to go out of the city, I can earn fifteen to twenty copper coins."

Chen Laoer's wife went on to say, "All in all, I've worked for ten days. After deducting the daily expenses, the rest of the money I earned is all here." If someone didn't have to look after the house, she would have wanted to go out and take on some laundry work to earn more money.

Song Ning understood that they went out to earn extra money, but they did not keep the money for themselves and instead put it in the account. She was a little confused.

"Since you earned it yourself, why don't you keep it for yourself?"

The couple looked at each other, and Chen Laoer's wife said, "Madam, we signed a contract to sell ourselves. We belong to the master, so of course the money we earn also belongs to the master."

Song Ning was slightly stunned when she heard this. She had heard of such rules before and smiled helplessly.

"There is not much work to do in our house for now. If you can't stay idle, I don't mind you going out to work and earn money, but the premise is that you can't delay the work in the house." She put the account book on the table, "I will ask you to make a new book later, and the daily expenses in the future will be recorded in the new book."

"Forget about it this time. From now on, your daily expenses will be paid from the account of the mansion. If you go out to work again, you can save the money you earn and don't have to put it into the public account."

"Madam..." Mr. and Mrs. Chen couldn't help but choke up and suddenly knelt down, "We thank you, Madam."

Why did these two people kneel down again after a disagreement? Song Ning wanted to say something, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up. Maybe they will feel better this way!

At this time, a familiar voice came from outside the door, "Oh! Sister Song, I just came to your house and I saw you scolding the servants here. Am I here at the wrong time?"

Song Ning asked Chen Laoer and his wife to get up, and then he stood up and went out to greet them, "Sister Ru, you are here."

Without being told, Chen Laoer's wife quickly made a cup of tea for Zhou Ru, "Miss, please have some tea."