Transmigrated Farmgirl's Scheme to Get Rich - Chapter 232
Losing a Job
When Mr. Cao returned home, he told his wife that he wanted to hire another person to cook for their family. Mrs. Cao was initially unwilling, but after hearing what he had to say, she felt increasingly more afraid the more she thought about it.
“She did come over here that day, and she said it was to pickle vegetables or something. I didn’t really listen carefully, and didn’t watch her. Who knew she actually went to your consultation room?”
Mrs. Li usually liked to joke around, and was an open-minded person, so Mrs. Cao liked talking to her. Who knew she could be so venomous?
“Alright, then I’ll immediately start looking for someone else, but in this entire village, who would be a suitable pick?”
At this time, Xiaoyue arrived at the Cao family to pick up medicine for governing official Wu, as his waist was acting up again.
When Mr. Cao went to fetch the medicine, Mrs. Cao spoke with Xiaoyue in the living room, “Xiaoyue, Mrs. Li has been taking care of her daughter during her confinement period recently, and then prepared for her son’s wedding, and won’t be able to come here to help in the foreseeable future. I’m not adept at cooking, and have been talking about finding someone else to cook for us with my husband. Who do you think is the most suitable in our village?”
Xiaoyue was an honest person, but wasn’t foolish. It was just cooking, so she knew instinctively that this was a good job.
“Since you’ve asked me, then I’ll recommend a person.”
“Who?”
“My mother-in-law.”
Before the harvest, Xiaoyue and Dagang had married, and it’s been half a year by this point. Her mother-in-law was naturally the Mo family’s neighbour, Mrs. Liu.
Mrs. Cao didn’t interact with Mrs. Liu often and didn’t know what kind of a person she was, but she trusted Xiaoyue. Since Xiaoyue said she was suitable, she’d definitely be suitable.
“Alright, then call your mother-in-law over!”
Xiaoyue took the medicine and went back home blissfully, while Dagang was currently drying the freshly-harvested peanuts in the courtyard. Seeing the joy on Xiaoyue’s face, Dagang asked, “Why have you become so happy just by going out to get medicine? You’re smiling like a flower.”
Xiaoyue’s smile grew even more, “I have good news?”
“What good news, did you pick up money on the road?”
“More or less, but my mother-in-law will like this news.”
“Is there really something so good? Tell me what happened.”
“Mrs. Li has recently had a lot going on in her family, and can’t cook for the Cao family, so they want to find someone else.”
After hearing this, Dagang’s face was also full of joy, “You recommended my mother?”
Xiaoyue smiled and nodded, “Yes, and Mrs. Cao wants her to go over! Quick, go and tell her.”
“Alright.”
Dagang dropped what he was doing and started running, afraid that this job would be stolen by someone else. After Mrs. Liu heard what Dagang had to say, she was naturally also overjoyed, and immediately went to Mr. Cao’s house.
Mrs. Liu also liked to crack jokes, and wasn’t a stiff person. Even though she wasn’t close to Mrs. Cao, they had interacted before, and she was good at speaking courteously.
Her personality was a bit similar to Mrs. Li’s, and Mrs. Cao liked her, and allowed her to give the role a shot.
Mrs. Liu took a look at the kitchen, and used the food there to make a few dishes. After the food was served, Mr. and Mrs. Cao exchanged a look, and they thought it looked decent. And when they tasted it, it was even better than Mrs. Li’s cooking, although that might be because they found it interesting to change it up a bit since they’d eaten Mrs. Li’s food for so long.
The couple both nodded, and Mrs. Cao immediately told Mrs. Liu, “From now on, you’re officially hired. Come over every day, and help out with cleaning the house on top of cooking. We’ll pay you a thousand dollars a month.”
A thousand dollars was about the same amount of money as what Dagang made at the workshop. Mrs. Liu instantly accepted and thanked the two, then went to tidy up the kitchen, while Mr. Cao told Zhao’er to come over and eat.
When Mrs. Liu went back home after finishing work, she saw Mrs. Li go out to fetch firewood and make food. She was confused, as she had just heard Ms. Liang complain a few days ago that Mrs. Li had done nothing while coming over to accompany XIuying during her confinement period. She hadn’t washed a single diaper, nor had she even entered the kitchen, so why was she getting firewood to cook?’
“Why are you cooking, where’s Ms. Liang?”
Mrs. LI replied, “Her old illness acted up again, and went to her daughter’s place in town. My daughter is still in her confinement period! If I don’t cook, you cook instead!”
Mrs. Liu replied gleefully, “We haven’t made dinner either! I’ve just come back from cooking at Mr. Cao’s!”
“What are you talking about, which Cao family is this?”
Mrs. Liu chuckled, “Is there another Cao family in our village?”
“Didn’t we agree that I’d go back after accompanying my daughter? How could they renege on their word?!”
Mrs. Li couldn’t care less about fetching firewood to cook anymore, and ran to the Cao family. As soon as she went inside, she questioned Mrs. Cao, “Madame, how could you renege on our agreement? I already said that I’ll come back after accompanying Xiuying during her confinement period. How could you give my job to someone else?”
Mr. Cao placed the teacup in his hand down, and coughed, “Mrs. Li, a few days ago, when I wasn’t here, did you go to my consultation room and touch my medicine?”
She initially thought that her plan was foolproof, with no way of anyone else knowing what she had done. Mrs. Li froze, but faked confidence, “I entered your consultation room, and I just went in to clean, I didn’t touch your medicine!”
Mr. Cao then raised a vial of medicine, “Then what is this? Do you know that your actions are tantamount to poisoning, and if you were taken to an official, being beaten would constitute a light punishment. You’re lucky that Mo Yan isn’t pressing this matter due to her nephew and her sister-in-law.”
Mrs. Li felt guilty, and was so frightened she immediately kneeled on the ground, “Sir, I only gave Ms. Liang some cleansing pills, it’s not anything poisonous!”
Mr. Cao exhibited a rare bout of rage and slammed his palm on the table, “If a patient took the wrong medicine, what’s the difference between that and taking poison?!”
Mo Yan had previously said that he didn’t need to interfere in this matter, but seeing how Mrs. Li was acting like nothing was wrong, his temper flared up.
Mrs. Li knew that there was no way she could get this job back. It was lucky that she had taken a large sum of money away from the Mo family, so her son’s marriage could still take place.
After leaving the Cao family and going back to the Mo family, she placed all of her anger about losing her job on Mo Yan’s head, and started planning to squeeze even more money out of the Mo family.
She had said that she was going to cook, but there hadn’t been any movement from the kitchen at all. Mo Feng was just about to go out to take a look when Mrs. Li returned with a bundle of firewood.
“Mother-in-law, why did you leave for so long?”
Mrs. Li was still seething in rage, and couldn’t care enough to show him a smiling face, so replied furiously, “Why did I leave for so long? To accompany Xiuying during her confinement period, I lost my job at the Cao family, and it was stolen by the shrew next door! It was a thousand dollars a month. What do you want me to do in the future? My son still needs money to get engaged!”
After saying that, she pitifully wiped tears from her face. Believing that she had lost her job to help him, Mo Feng felt incredibly apologetic.
“Mother-in-law, don’t worry, if brother-in-law is lacking money for his engagement, he can borrow some from us first, and return it to us later.”
When Mrs. Li heard this, she felt joy in her heart, “The dowry is twelve silver taels, and we need ten silver taels for the banquet, making it a total of twenty-two silver taels.”
“Alright, the money’s with Xiuying. Let her give it to you so you can arrange brother-in-law’s wedding.”
“Don’t you need to ask your mother about this?”
“There’s no need, my mother has always been a generous person so she definitely won’t calculate over this. Besides, we’re relatives, and you only lost your job because you were helping us.”
This foolish child, his mother had only ever been generous towards him. Towards everyone else, when had she ever been generous?
P.S. Expect another chapter relatively soon.