The few village women exchanged looks
with each other. Shi da niang was the
first to speak, “Xiao Xiao, we are okay with your conditions. As long as you
will let the girls return at age 14, we don’t have any other asks!”
“Yes, Xiao Xiao, me neither. Bring
February Flower back with you to help out with your house work!”
“I agree. Xiao Xiao, if little Spring
Flower won’t listen to what you say, feel free to teach her a lesson. I don’t
mind!”
Under their promises, Cheng Xiao Xiao
sighed secretly. Little Yuteng was right, this was not a bad way to test out
the individuals.
She believed their thinking might change
in a few years. Cheng Xiao Xiao felt for certain that most of them might even
want to say. If these mothers thought they could arrange their lives for them,
they might need to rethink that.
“As long as everybody is happy. Mr.
Cheng, anything else you want to discuss?” asked the old patriarch courteously.
“Matter of fact, old patriarch, I do. I
would like to purchase all the uncultivated land in the village. I hope that
you can provide us with an estimation when you have some time so I can buy them
from you.”
Cheng Biyuan brought up another issue.
Now that the Cheng’s were expending their resident, they need more and more
space. So he had decided to purchase all the uncultivated land belonging to the
village.
“Do you mean that, Mr. Cheng?” asked the
old patriarch incredulously.
It wasn’t just the old patriarch that
found that hard to believe, even all the villagers there thought they have misheard. Willow has a lot of uncultivated
land. If the Cheng’s were really going to buy them all, they are looking
another lucrative income!
Thinking about all the money that they
could make, everybody was so eager that they want to agree to Cheng Biyuan’s
asks right away.
Cheng Biyuan nodded seriously at the old
patriarch and smiled, “Old patriarch, I won’t joke about something like this.
As long as you give me a fair price of the village’s land, I will buy them all
from you.”
“Okay, Mr. Cheng. I will take your words
for it. Don’t worry. Starting tomorrow, I will walk around and take a look at
our surrounding area and quote you a fair price!”
“I thank you in advance for your
trouble!”
“Ha Ha Ha. We are family now. No need to
be so polite. We should be thanking you for your generosity!”
“Oh, you don’t need to!”
After settling all the open items, the
Cheng’s father and daughter bid the old patriarch farewell. The old patriarch
walked them out and saw them off.
After they were gone, the old patriarch
stroked his beard and smiled, “God is finally giving Willow His blessings!”
“Uncle, I am worry that the entire
Willow will be owned by Mr. Cheng in the future!”
The old patriarch turned around after
hearing that, looked at his oldest nephew and shook his head, “Oh, Erping,
you are on the other side of 30 already.
How could you still be so silly? What’s the big deal about Willow Village?
What’s wrong with us trying to tie our fortune to Mr. Cheng and hope for the
best? Do you want to keep on hunting everyday? You have been doing that for the
last twenty plus years, how many days did you have enough to eat? Don’t be so
fixated on the old ways if Mr. Cheng has the ability to give us a better
future. Think about it, yeah?”
“I know what you mean, but what about
all the accomplishments handed down from our ancestors?”
“Bullshit!” The old patriarch was so
angry he cussed at him. Pointing straight at his forehead he scolded, “Are you
stupid? There will always be ancestors everywhere! What ancestors if there are
no more people? When you have earned everything, you can go anywhere you want,
and your ancestor’s accomplishment will travel with you. You get that?”
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Translator’s rambling:
It might be customary back then for peasants to sell themselves into a big family, but Cheng Xiao Xiao was a “modern” person. How did she feel comfortable with that so easily? =.= And why wouldn’t the girls choose to stay as maids instead of getting married and having families of their own. Ugh! Okay, maybe because of poverty and going hungry. LOL
Also absolutely no idea what the author was trying to say in the last paragraphed. I translated it as best I could. Hope it make sense to you! ;)
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I hate that one shitty auntie.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!
That old patriarch is brilliant...if only more people thought like that...
ReplyDeleteThank you
ReplyDeleteThe last paragraph was just saying only those alive and well off get to credit their ancestors accomplishments. Anything your ancestors did means nothing if you are currently starving and poor. The patriarch is just being a common sense realist.
ReplyDeleteGosh I just can't believe how shameless the villagers to force the Cheng's in employing everybody especially the maids yikes !!!
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