The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

Chapter 459: 459 Face is better now 4

“Didn’t you see it’s a crutch?” She gave him a blank look.

“Your crutch is so weird, it’s not like how others make it…” Xiao Yuchuan stared at it, “For Second Brother, just give him a straight firewood stick. What’s the horizontal part at the top for?”

“Second Brother’s left leg is injured. The horizontal part of the crutch helps support the weight under the arm, so he can use his left leg less when walking, which is beneficial for the injury.” She explained.

“Second Brother’s flesh is thicker than iron, he doesn’t need such a fancy crutch. Even without it, he will still manage to limp on.” Yuchuan was envious, “Why didn’t you make one for me too?”

“If you hadn’t disobeyed my advice and went to Hanging Neck Mountain, you would be able to walk on the ground now. ” Su Qingyue shot him a glance, “You should just focus on staying in bed and recuperating.”

“I went there because I feared the ghost would eat you up.” He grumbled discontentedly.

Xiao Yishan had already taken the crutch, holding it under his left arm, and tried walking a few steps inside the room, “Yue’er, it’s quite useful.”

“As long as it’s useful.” She smiled indifferently. The thick crutch would be a burden to others, but for Second Brother, with his burly figure and strong limbs, it was just right, “From now on, while walking, lean on the crutch and use your left leg as little as possible.”

“Alright.” Xiao Yishan nodded.

Xiao Qinghe was really happy for his second brother being able to walk again.

Whether it was Second Brother or Third Brother, they would recover soon, but himself…

A wisp of despondency flashed in his clear pupils, as he could only lie on the bed forever.

Su Qingyue saw the loneliness in Fourth Brother’s eyes, and decided it was time to go to town and get the wheelchair she’d pre-ordered for him. She was supposed to go two days ago, but she’d just been too busy and hadn’t gone yet.

She stood up and sat down on the chair in front of the table, looked around the room at the three men, and began to speak, “Let’s talk about our family’s expenses these days. Drying the ferns costs 15 cents per person per day in wages. At first, we only hired ten people, but when that wasn’t enough, we hired five more, costing 15 cents per person per day. After that, we received another 2,000 jin of bayberries, costing 500 cents for the purchase. We bought 40,000 jin of fresh ferns, costing 20,000 cents. We also had to buy 40 more jars to hold the bayberry wine. Each jar costs 6 cents, two times carriages for 30 cents, an extra 10 cents for Wang Crippled’s tasked purchase of jars…plus the first day’s cost of purchasing ferns was about seven taels and eight cents. We initially bought 20 jin of sugar, but that wasn’t enough to make the bayberry wine, so we bought another 20 jin of sugar…ln total, we spent 22,000 cents or not quite 28 taels. Counting in scattered copper coins, there’s still about two taels left in the family.”

Xiao Yuchuan did the math, “Wife, doesn’t that mean our house has a total of

50,000 jin of ferns and 3,000 jin of wild bayberries?”

“Including the 600 jin I picked earlier, we have 3,600 jin of bayberries. The 50,000 jin of ferns have been processed into 10,000 jin of dried ferns. The sun’s been scorching these days, and the ferns dried really fast. About 5 jin of fresh ferns can be dried into 1 jin. The 3,600 jin of bayberries were added to the sugar mixture and put into jars, and they’ll be fermented soon. Every 100 jin of bayberries can produce about 70 jin of juice. We estimate our house will have about 2,500 jin of bayberry wine.”

“Wife, how could that tree you picked produce 600 jin of berries, so much more than normal? Even with a really fruitful tree, we’d only get 200-300 jin.”

She showed her eerie expression again, “Maybe that particular tree had someone die under it, nourishing it with dead energy, making it extra fertile..”