She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Chapter 182 Settlement of Accounts

After a snowy day, even at night it will be a little brighter than usual.

When Gu Qingqing was washing vegetables in the kitchen and wondering whether the people who went to the town to sell charcoal today would come back, the village gong was struck again.

Li Xin, who was helping to burn firewood, suddenly raised his head to look at Gu Qingqing, "Auntie, can I go and take a look?"

"Go ahead, but don't run too fast."

After getting permission, Li Xin put down the fire stick, stood up and ran out.

Not long after he ran out, he ran back excitedly. Before he entered the kitchen, Li Xin's excited voice came in.

"Aunt, my uncle and his friends are back from selling charcoal. The village chief is gathering people. My uncle asked me to come back quickly to tell you that the villagers will gather at our house later." After he finished speaking, Li Xinren stopped at the door of the kitchen, panting.

Gu Qingqing paused while cutting vegetables and turned to look at the door. "Come to our house?"

"Yes, the village chief said his house was too small, and he couldn't let everyone stand in the yard to talk when it was snowing outside. So my uncle said he would come to our house, and asked us to light a charcoal brazier in the study so that everyone could warm up."

After Gu Qingqing understood what was going on, she put down the kitchen knife in her hand and said to him, "Daxin, go to the ear room and get some charcoal and put it in the stove to burn. I'll go get the charcoal basin."

"Okay!" Li Xin responded excitedly. He ran a few steps and suddenly stopped and asked, "Auntie, how many charcoals do you want?"

"About five or six." Gu Qingqing had already walked along the corridor to the hanging flower gate and answered without thinking.

"Well, I see!"

When Gu Qingqing was carrying the burning charcoal and walking towards the south study, Li Xin, who had just run over, had already lit the oil lamp in the room.

At the same time, she could hear the voices of a crowd outside the wall.

When she put down the charcoal brazier in the study in the front yard and walked out of the house again, Wen Wuyan and the others had already entered the yard.

"Qingqing, we're back." Wen Wuyan shouted happily.

Gu Qingqing first said "hmm", then hurried over and said, "Everyone has worked hard on the journey, the charcoal basin has been lit in the house, come in and warm up.

But because of the reaction of the snow, the road conditions were still vaguely visible even in dark.

The person walking in front looked at the path that had been swept in the courtyard, and then sighed.

"It's snowing this afternoon, and you're still sweeping the yard. It's such a hassle to keep sweeping."

"I left half of my house cleaned up somewhere. We can't clean it up faster than the rain from God."

"Hey, if this snow continues for another two days, won't it be as high as your knees? It will be difficult to go to town to sell charcoal then!"

"Hehe, I'll go back and tell my mom to burn some incense and pray to God not to snow."

Gu Qingqing was listening at the side and felt a little amused.

People are like this. When human power is limited, they will place their hopes on gods and faith.

She is now a gang with them and she hopes everyone's wishes will come true.

Gu Qingqing didn't know whether everyone went back to burn incense. When she got up at night, she went to see if the charcoal fire in the east wing was extinguished and whether the kang was still warm.

Looking at the sky, the snow has stopped.

She went back to the room but didn't rush to get on the kang. Sanhua was sleeping next to her. She must be cold as she had just come back from outside.

It won’t be beautiful if it is passed to Sanhua.

Wen Wuyan turned over and leaned towards Sanhua, "Qingqing, come here, sleep next to me first, I'm not afraid of the cold."

"You're not afraid of the cold, but aren't you afraid that Sanhua will wake up and touch a bearded face!" Gu Qingqing deliberately made fun of him.

Wen Wuyan was amused by her words. He chuckled and said, "It's hard for Sanhua to turn over. How can her little arms touch my face? You'd better not get cold."

Although the room was warm, it was not as attractive as the kang. Gu Qingqing smiled evilly, "Wen Wuyan, this is what you asked for."

After she said that, she placed the oil lamp on the table against the wall at the head of the kang and crawled into Wen Wuyan's bed like a loach.

Feeling the comfort in the bed, he sighed, "Your bed is so warm, just like the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun, it's hot."

"Have you seen it?" Wen Wuyan was surprised.

"what?"

"Laojun's alchemy furnace?"

Gu Qingqing was lying comfortably. After listening to his words, she turned her head to look at the face so close to her. She rolled her eyes at him and said with regret, "There is no such opportunity!"

After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, she turned over and lay on her side facing him, her cold little hand sneaking towards Wen Wuyan's armpit. Even though Wen Wuyan had prepared himself mentally, he still shivered from the cold, tucked her in with one hand, and then pressed her hand between her arm and ribs.

Gu Qingqing had been intending to tease him from the beginning, and now that she saw that she had succeeded, she wanted to pull her hand out from under his armpit, but Wen Wuyan exerted a little force to stop her.

"Aren't you afraid of the cold?" Gu Qingqing asked, her head resting on his pillow.

"That's nothing. Qingqing, what do you think of what everyone proposed today?" Wen Wuyan, who was slightly sleepy, simply started talking to her.

Gu Qingqing's hands were not honest. She tried to find pimples on his skin through his clothes. "Although everyone hasn't received any copper coins today, seeing them is a taste of sweetness. Naturally, we are eager to make more."

"So you also agree to open a new kiln?" he asked.

She said, "Based on the environment in Shanxi, we can only open one slightly larger one at most. If we want to open more, we have to change the land, which I don't think is worth it. I'll make as much as we can this year. After all, we started late, and it will be the same if we burn it early next year. What are you doing? Why are you squeezing my hand so tightly? Relax!"

Gu Qingqing's rebellious hands were held down firmly by Wen Wuyan's arms, preventing her from moving. Woo woo woo, she hadn't touched enough.

Wen smiled silently, but he released the strength from his arm.

The little hand was free and turned into a fish again, swimming back and forth between his ribs.

"It snowed today, so the charcoal in town can still be snapped up even if the price goes up a penny. In a few days, when the snow stops and melts and the sun comes out, households will use less charcoal, so our business will probably be affected to some extent," said Gu Qingqing.

"We didn't expect the business to be so good. When we arrived, there was almost no one on the main street. We were all dumbfounded. But Zhao Dong was experienced. He took us to the alleys and shouted a few times. Then the households living in the town came out. When they saw we were selling charcoal, they immediately surrounded us. We also learned from them that the price of medium-quality charcoal has risen to nine cents per catty, and the price of top-quality charcoal has increased from twelve or thirteen cents to fourteen or fifteen cents per catty. The second-rate charcoal also costs six cents." Wen Wuyan sighed, and at the same time was glad that they were in for a good time.

Wen Wuyan then continued, "When Li Yu said that he had sold 280 kilograms of charcoal today, no one reacted. But when they counted the copper coins and found out that there were 2,240, they were so excited that their eyes turned red."