CHAPTER 204: CHAPTER 204 ORIGINAL SIN 13

Yun Shuangshuang guessed right, Fang Qiao Ying was indeed planning to scold Little Stone. Their family wasn’t lacking money but wasn’t very wealthy either. They regularly had rice and flour, but almost pure meat buns were not something they could often afford.

Today, Fang Qiao Ying was in a good mood and steamed a big pot of meat buns. As a result, a few were given away by the children in the family as soon as her back was turned! Yun Shuangshuang didn’t know that before she got home, Feng Jinyan had already eaten two big buns.

Fang Qiao Ying wasn’t unsympathetic towards Feng Jinyan, but she was someone else’s wife and out of her control. Besides, Feng Jinyan was quite crazy. If she were sober, she might sneakily send a message to her family.

But Feng Jinyan was so mad she didn’t even know her name, and thus Fang was powerless to help. Besides, they were from the same village and neighbors, always seeing each other. If things got awkward, it wouldn’t be manageable. So, she just pretended not to see.

However, she didn’t oppose her son taking some food to that woman, but if it were white steamed buns or ordinary buns, it wouldn’t matter. But these nice buns being taken away made her upset. But now that Yun Shuangshuang brought some bones as a return gift, Fang Qiao Ying’s heartache suddenly disappeared.

In truth, while she felt bad about those few buns, their family wasn’t missing food. It was Yun Shuangshuang’s understanding of reciprocity that she liked a lot.

Seeing her son looking guilty and afraid of a beating, Fang Qiao Ying felt sympathetic. And since Yun Shuangshuang pacified her anger, she waved Little Stone away, letting him go play.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, two months had passed. In these two months, Yun Shuangshuang had earned nearly two thousand yuan, saving over five hundred privately. She gave fifteen hundred to Wang Guixiang to keep, and fifteen hundred yuan was not a small sum for the Yun Family.

An adult would need four or five months of work to earn this money. Yun Shuangshuang, a child, earned this in two months, making everyone in the Yun Family very happy!

Perhaps seeing Yun Shuangshuang’s easy money, the Yun Family once thought about going mushroom picking with her. They didn’t believe they could replace Yun Shuangshuang in finding those expensive mushrooms, as such a skill isn’t easily learned.

Mainly, the Yun Family thought Yun Shuangshuang was young, and if they sent an adult to accompany her, they could carry back more and earn a bit more. But Yun Shuangshuang wouldn’t let them have their way! She planned to dig up truffles for sale in the future!

Digging truffles would be the main source of income and the most important means to earn money to stand on her own after taking her mom away. Yun Shuangshuang could never let the Yun Family tag along as tails, figuring out how much she brought back each day!

So, Yun Shuangshuang took Yun He along with her into the mountains, running around all morning, purposefully looking for places where mushrooms grew sparsely until it was time to return. The number of mushrooms collected each day was exact, not a gram more!

When they got home, Yun He was exhausted. Climbing all over the mountains picking mushrooms was more tiring than working in the fields, and there weren’t many mushrooms gathered. The next day, Yun He insisted he wouldn’t follow Yun Shuangshuang up the mountain again to pick mushrooms.

After this incident, the Yun Family also felt that if they could only pick so many mushrooms a day, adding another person would hinder labor and was unnecessary. It was better to let Yun Shuangshuang do it alone.

Realizing they couldn’t handle the hard work, the Yun Family treated Yun Shuangshuang increasingly well, mainly fearing that she would find it too tiring and refuse to work or slack off and pick fewer mushrooms.

Yun Shuangshuang’s status in the Yun Family rose with her earning ability. Now everyone in the Yun Family cherished her. Of course, this wasn’t to say they treated her like an ancestor, but it meant nobody showed her a bad face or scolded her anymore.

Another significant change was that no one harassed her mom, Feng Jinyan, anymore, because everyone knew Yun Shuangshuang cared about her. Not bullying Feng Jinyan mainly referred to Yun He since Feng Jinyan was nominally his wife, and he was the one who used to hit her the most.

Now that Yun Shuangshuang kept Feng Jinyan at home, she could finally relax a bit, but she still carefully checked her mother every day upon return for any signs of abuse before feeling at ease.

Yun Shuangshuang gave Feng Jinyan decent food, and as long as she didn’t deprive Yun Family’s cherished child Yun Chen, no one had anything to say. She also bought several sets of clothes for Feng Jinyan and a complete set of bedding, and no one reckoned with her. Nowadays, Feng Jinyan enjoyed the best in the Yun Family.

Though the Yun Family wasn’t thrilled about this aspect, no one dared to speak up to trouble Yun Shuangshuang. It’s the same old story, blinded by money, nothing else mattered as long as they benefited financially.

As long as there was money, the Yun Family felt content. Yun He even hoped Yun Shuangshuang would earn enough for him to buy a three-wheeled motorcycle, which had become his obsession.

Now that Yun Shuangshuang was earning money and she was Yun He’s daughter, Yun He felt he could already be supported by his daughter and didn’t need to haul goods for money. Still, he wanted to buy a three-wheeled motorcycle.

However, Yun Shuangshuang felt quite anxious. Although she earned over a thousand yuan for the Yun Family, she was far from the goal of affording a three-wheeled motorcycle.

At this time, three-wheeled motorcycles were extremely expensive. To buy a new one would cost at least seven to eight thousand yuan, and even second-hand ones started at four to five thousand. Otherwise, Yun He wouldn’t have desired them for so long yet couldn’t afford one.

In her previous life, the three-wheeled motorcycle Yun He bought was due to a special circumstance. The family was in urgent need of money for their old mother’s medical treatment, selling their three-wheeled motorcycle for a paltry two thousand yuan. Back then, Yun He could afford it with his own money added to Yun Shuangshuang’s seven hundred yuan.

But such a lucky event wasn’t easy to come by. That family’s selling the motorcycle cheaply happened years later, and now they probably hadn’t even purchased a three-wheeled motorcycle yet. If she had to wait several more years, Yun Shuangshuang could earn herself a car! How could she wait that long!

Moreover, Yun Shuangshuang actually wanted a new three-wheeled motorcycle. The second-hand one from before barely made money, needing repairs every few days, eating up any earnings.

This lifetime, though Yun Shuangshuang didn’t want to continue hauling goods, she had to take her mom, Feng Jinyan, everywhere. Pulling her with a three-wheeled motorcycle was the best solution, no risk of losing her and no tiresome walking.

Fortunately, it was already November, the start of truffle digging season. Yun Shuangshuang calculated that while the truffles were not as plump as they’d be from December onward, they were still good. Yet, digging truffles was difficult, and even though she could cheat using her extraordinary sense of smell, it was no easy task.

As for the sales issue of truffles, Yun Shuangshuang had originally been worried. The best idea she had was to take them to the county and sell them cheaply to a big restaurant. But that carried the biggest problem: she was too young and could easily be swindled.