Chapter 62: Earning Enviable Money

The wedding banquet of this era was far inferior to that of modern society. The resources in modern society were abundant, and there would be more than ten or twenty dishes for a wedding banquet. You could even see Australian lobster and caviar in a sumptuous banquet.

There were only eight dishes for the wedding banquet here, including a plate of fried peanut and sour radish.

But the guests all enjoyed the food with relish, they made a clean sweep of every dish. There were two boys at Lu Lin's table who polished off two bowls of rice in 5 minutes.

Lu Lin suddenly recalled his childhood, he was born of humble parentage and he looked forward to calling on relatives' houses where he could have some nice food At that time, even a plate of pistachio nuts was rare.

However, later on, the living conditions were better and everyone felt that it was a little troublesome to visit relatives. People were not that thrilled at visiting friends and relatives.

Alibaba and other online platforms had made shopping so easy as he grew older, but Lu Lin found the food and snacks were less tasty, probably it was because there were fewer and fewer people to share with.

The food on the table had limited appeal to Lu Lin, so he didn't eat much.

The others were different. Everyone else at the table were enjoy this feast.

After attending the wedding banquet, Lu Lin went to Old Hunter Zhou's with some rice and food.

The old hunter always felt guilty for taking things from Lu Lin and Chen Xiao Mi for nothing, and he would repeatedly refuse. Chen Xiao Mi would just leave the food in the yard and left. But Lu Lin managed to convince him to accept it this time.

After visiting Old Hunter Zhou, Lu Lin picked up some vegetables from their veggie patch and returned to town.

Lu Lin drove the carriage and thought about how Chen Xiao Mi had always been in a daze recently, he was worried.

As soon as Lu Lin returned home in town, Chen Xiao Cai greeted happily and said, "Lin Gege, my brother is pregnant."

Lu Lin was surprised when he heard that.

Lu Lin suddenly thought that Xiao Mi seemed to be sleepy all the time and he always had weird cravings. He didn't expect that Xiao Mi was pregnant though. An indescribable excitement seized Lu Lin.

Chen Xiao Mi lay lazily in bed and glanced at Lu Lin, "You're back, how did it go?"

"It went great, Old Hunter Zhou took the food. How are you feeling? " Lu Lin calmed down and asked.

"The doctor said that I'm in good health, so there shouldn't be any problems. Of course I'm in good health, everyone knows that. Xiao Cai is overcautious though. He insists on my lying down. This punk is getting more and more out of control now. He actually orders me around, "Chen Xiao Mi protested gently.

Lu Lin looked at the Chen Xiao Mi with affection and smiled, "He's just worried about you. Xiao Cai told me you were two months pregnant."

Lu Lin scratched his head and low-key blamed himself for how oblivious he had been. Chen Xiao Mi had been two months pregnant, but he didn't notice a thing.

Chen Xiao Mi patted his belly and said, "Even I don't feel a thing, let alone you."

Lu Lin looked at Chen Xiao Mi and said, "It's better to be careful."

"How was the wedding ceremony?" Chen Xiao Mi asked.

Lu Lin nodded and said, "It's all right."

Chen Xiao Mi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Has anyone said anything shady about you??"

Chen Xiao Mi knew that Lu Lin used to have a good reputation, but that reputation had hit rock bottom since they got married.

"Everyone is very polite. I told them that we make 2 tales of silver each month respectively. Those people are very envious," Lu Lin said.

Chen Xiao Mi tilted his head. Only managers could earn as much as 2 taels per month. No wonder the villagers were envious.

However, in fact, Lu Lin was the boss of the commercial house. He earned dozens of taels every month by selling bags alone. In addition to the income of selling wine, Lu Lin was being so modest by saying they made 2 tales of silver respectively.

Chen Xiao Mi glanced at Lu Lin and said, "How much money have we saved recently?"

" Almost 100 taels."

Chen Xiao Mi was surprised, "I thought we've made more than that. "

Lu Lin shrugged and said, "The business is high cost! There are so many female workers, and I've just ordered another batch of expensive fabric... "

Chen Xiao Mi looked at Lu Lin for a while and said, "Our meals are too luxurious. There are several dishes every meal, meat dishes and dessert dishes, too extravagant." Chen Xiao Mi never dreamed of living like this before.

Lu Lin tilted his head and said, "Life is short. Delicious food makes everyone happy! " In this time and space, all food was pure and organic, all dishes were delicious as long as the cooking method was proper.

Chen Xiao Mi laughed and said, "You are a picky eater, and you are making excuses. I want to eat ice-cream now."

Lu Lin shook his head, "Didn't I just give you one yesterday? It's not good to eat so much cold stuff."

Chen Xiao Mi glanced at Lu Lin, that was his way of protesting.

Lu Lin smiled and changed the subject, "I heard from the guests at the wedding that Li Fang Yue and Lin Xiu'er are both pregnant." What Lu Lin didn't tell Chen Xiao Mi was there were also people who said that Chen Xiao Mi might not be able to get pregant.

Chen Xiao Mi's eyes widened and said, "Both pregnant? Things are about to get interesting!"

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In Lu family.

People would celebrate when someone in the family get pregnant, but it wasn't the case in the Lu Family now.

Tang was a little annoyed recently. After Lin Xiu'er was pregnant, she shifted many responsibilities and Li Fang Yue had followed suit.

If Tang argued with Lin Xiu'er, Lin Xiu'er would malinger, and Tang was left with no alternative but do all the work.

After Lin Xiu'er was pregnant, Lu An had kept all his pay to themselves saying that they needed to keep the money for the unborn baby.

Grandma Lu always favored her youngest son Lu An, so she did not get to the bottom of the matter.

However, they couldn't make ends meet because everyone had been spending yet no one had brought any income.

Grandma Lu said in a depressed tone, "Everyone in the family is a freeloader. Cheng Yu needs to pay tuition fee soon. All the scholars and students are judgmental snobs. Cheng Yu will be looked down upon if we don't have money. What should we do?"

Pen, ink, paper, and ink were expensive as well. And the crops in this field were not ripe yet, they couldn't sell the produces for money.

Grandpa Lu looked at Grandma Lu and said, "We will have to sell another mu of land soon."

Grandma Lu asked reluctantly, "Sell another mu?" The reason why the Lu family were respected in the village was because they had a lot of farmland. They had already sold two mu for Cheng Yu's wedding, and now Grandpa Lu was suggesting selling one more mu!

Grandma Lu sighed and said, "There is a realistic reason to sell one more mu, no one is working any farm work now! If we rent it to someone else, we won't get much money left after the tax."

Grandma Lu also sighed. She recalled how everyone in the family made excuses to avoid doing farm work in spring sowing season. Grandma Lu had no choice but to hire casual workers. However, it was almost impossible to hire anyone in busy farming season, she had to offer the workers 50 cents per day while the market price was 25 cents per day.

Grandma Lu couldn't get out of bed after days' work in the field, she hadn't done any farm work in years after all. Grandma Lu was so depressed, she was exhausted physically and mentally from doing the farm work and paying so much money to the casual workers.

"I heard that Lu Lin has found a job in town. He has two taels of silver a month," Grandma Lu said.

Lu Lin went to Zhang Da Zhu's son's wedding, he made up a number when the villagers asked him how much money he was making, and the random number had spread quickly in the village. Naturally, it also reached Grandma Lu's ears.

Grandma Lu had always thought Lu Lin was an ill-starred child. She was green with envy as soon as she heard that fake news.

Grandma Lu had always been proud of her Fourth son Lu An's job in town. When she found out that Lu Lin and Chen Xiao Mi had found jobs with the same amount of pay as Lu An, she was furious.

Grandpa Lu had mixed feelings about that. Grandpa Lu was also biased. Although it wasn't as serious as Grandma Lu, he didn't take 111 seriously either.

"What are you planning?" Grandpa Lu asked.

Grandma Lu said sullenly, "Chen Xiao Mi is a strange one. Maybe he can't get pregnant. The money that Lu Lin earned will probably benefit Chen Xiao Mi and his two little brothers in the future." If Lu Lin really earned two taels per month, he would have more than twenty taels a year.

Grandma Lu suddenly felt that selling Lu Lin to Chen Xiao Mi for 10 taels was a huge loss.

Grandpa Lu also regretted for not asking for more money. He also missed his dead Second son and daughter-in-law who used to do all the housework and farm work. Recently, the family had been making a ruckus about whose turn it was to cook, wash clothes, cut firewood, fetch water and every other chore.

Grandma Lu suddenly realized how great life used to be when 111 and his parents were home.

"Lu Lin probably won't be able to make Chen Xiao Mi obey him. Chen Xiao Mi must be the one who manages all the work and money," Grandpa Lu sighed.

"I'm also worried about our farmland, it needs to be fertilized regularly, but can you even recall when anyone fertilized our farmland? It's just a matter of time before all of our farmland becomes inferior land!" added Grandpa Lu.

Grandma Lu frowned and said, "Lu Lin, that punk, he is becoming more about more ungrateful like Chen Xiao Mi."

Grandpa Lu nodded, he was surprised by Lu Lin's the doings.

In Grandpa Lur's opinion, even if Lu Lin got married, he wouldn't cut off contact with them. However, the fact was that Lu Lin had rejected them when they visited him asking for help.

Little did they expect that this Lu Lin was a different soul.

The Lu family would be able to convince the host Lu Lin, but they didn't stand a chance when it came to Lu Lin who was from the modern society. The Host Lu Lin was a foolish filial person after all even though he hated the way his grandparents treated him and his family.

Lu Cheng Yu was trying to study in his room but he couldn't read a word.

Zhang Da Zhu invited Lu Lin but didn't invite him, which made Lu Cheng Yu feel depressed. It was said that Lu Lin and Chen Xiao Mi had found work in town, which made Lu Cheng Yu even more upset.

In the past, when the villagers mentioned Lu Lin, most people said that Lu Lin was honest, but he was not capable. When Lu Lin was mentioned now, however, many people showered praises on him. They started to sat Lu Lin was actually a capable and good-looking young man, he had just abused overtaxed himself before he married Chen Xiao Mi.

Lu Cheng Yu felt that the villagers seemed to be criticizing his grandparents for mistreating Lu Lin, he wasn't happy about that. He swore he would study hard and become an official in the future to outshine Lu Lin who was just a casual worker in town.