Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 13

Chapter 13: This business will drag the whole village down with it.

Su Yang was completely exhausted, practically falling asleep the moment his head hit the pillow.

Su Ming, however, lay awake with his eyes open, staring at the pitch-black ceiling, completely devoid of sleepiness.

Lying beside him was his second brother.

An older brother who, in order to scrape together one tael of silver for him, dared to risk his life against a wild boar.

"I must secure that spot," Su Ming declared in his heart, his voice quiet but firm as molten iron.

"Nonsense, your two brothers almost sacrificed their lives! If you don't get it, I'll be the first to refine you into the ring's artifact spirit!" Lin Yu said irritably. "You need to learn something from this experience!"

"Learn what?"

"Learn the essence of 'laying low'!" Lin Yu's voice was thunderous. "Why did they have to risk their lives? Because they had no other options! They have no skills, no safer channels to earn money! So, once this matter is settled and you return from town, our top priority is to launch the 'Family Poverty Alleviation and Prosperity Drive' Plan Number One!"

"What plan?"

"I need to consider this carefully, but I will absolutely help your family escape poverty and become prosperous," Lin Yu's voice carried a confident, strategic tone.Su Ming's heart was stirred into activity by Lin Yu's words.

Prosperity? Poverty alleviation?

This notion, like a seed, fell into his heart.

"So," Lin Yu's tone softened, "for now, put away those useless feelings of gratitude and guilt. Your brothers' investment is a 'sunk cost'—it's already been spent. The only thing you can do is ensure this investment yields the maximum return."

"Sleep now, conserve your energy. Starting tomorrow, you need to show Teacher Zhou a 'clumsy uncut jade' who will exhaust every effort to seize this opportunity. Play the part fully, secure the spot. That is the best repayment for your brothers."

Su Ming slowly closed his eyes.

Second Brother's even snoring was right beside his ear, that warm body heat passing through the thin clothing, gradually warming his icy hands and feet.

He clenched his fist.

He knew that from tonight onward, the burdens he carried were different.

As dawn's first light barely touched the sky, the Su family's small courtyard was already stirring.

Not the usual leisurely pace of farm life, but a kind of busyness suppressed with excitement.

Wang Chuntao was packing several black steamed buns into a cloth bag, muttering, "Father, Eldest Brother, eat these on the road, don't go hungry."

Mrs. Chen stood to the side, repeatedly checking the hemp ropes binding the game, afraid the pelts might get damaged on the bumpy road and not fetch a good price.

Su Shan squatted in the center of the yard, taking puffs from his long-stemmed pipe one after another, smoke swirling around him, obscuring his expression.

Su Feng and Su Yang were carefully wiping mud off the wild boar's tusks with a ragged cloth. The small wild boar and the roe deer were placed side-by-side on the flatbed cart, like two silent trophies.

walked out of the house, a trace

to glance at him, didn't speak, just shook his

cause extra trouble," Su Feng straightened up, wiping sweat from his forehead. "The road to town isn't easy; your small frame can't handle the strain. Stay home and properly

"Yes, Little Ming, we'll be

looked at them

in this family, everyone had their own

books. His brothers' battlefield was in the mountains and forests, on the

faded into the distance. Su Ming stood at the doorway until the three figures disappeared around the bend at the village

will they get a

equivalent exchange, one small wild boar plus one adult roe deer should be more than enough to cover

taking on a teasing note: "What?

back to his small room,

Su Ming

sounded vague and indistinct. The provocative looks Zhao Rui threw his way, he

flown dozens of miles away to Qingshi

and second brothers carrying the heavy game, imagined the shrewd or mean face of the town butcher

familiar footsteps and cart sounds came from the

Ming was the

pipe already lit, his

empty cart, their faces unable to

Chen and Wang Chuntao also went to greet

How much did you get?" Wang Chuntao's voice was the most

Feng grinned, pulled a heavy cloth bag from his chest, and handed

take it, just gestured with

walked over and stuffed the bag into

it.

felt surprisingly

broken silver and a large string of heavy copper coins, gleaming temptingly in

for

One tael of silver!

number made Mrs. Chen's eyes instantly

Chuntao was even more overjoyed, her voice rising an octave: "Heavens! Over a tael of silver! Now

the bag, his knuckles white from the

and second brothers' blood and sweat,

burned, making

money pouch by his pillow, and tossed and turned,

and second brothers were lucky, exchanging their efforts unscathed for one tael of silver. If luck had been bad, what might be lying on that

Su Ming remained silent.

tone became like a shrewd accountant. "But how long can this money last? The tuition gifts for your registration at the county school—fifty coppers; round-trip travel expenses—at least one hundred coppers; lodging and meals in town—even at thirty coppers a day, ten days is three hundred coppers;

never calculated so meticulously, always thinking one tael of silver was an astronomical figure. Now, dissected by his master, he realized how inadequate it

too high a risk for too low a return. What we need to do is establish

Su Ming was unfamiliar

strategic quality. "Let me ask you, what do you lack most in

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