Chapter 7: The Silver Has Been Stolen
Shen Qiuyue was supported by Yuan Qiufen, lay back on the wooden bed in the house, and kept shouting in pain: "Ouch, it hurts, it hurts to death." ”
In the past, if the foot was injured, it would be good to rub it a few times, but now, the foot and neck are getting more and more swollen.
Yuan Qiufen couldn't help much, and because of Shen Qiuyue's painful cry, she felt that her stomach was very uncomfortable. She retched and practiced, and she was too busy to take care of herself, so she left Shen Qiuyue alone in the room.
Xiaojing came back from the fourth room, sat down on the side of the wooden bed after entering the house, looked at her mother's foot injury, and the expression on her face was very unnatural: "Mother, I'll take you to see the doctor." ”
Shen Qiuyue shook her head and said, "But we don't have any silver." Dr. Yang's consultation fee costs 300 yuan, where can I find this money? Grandma won't give us a penny, if you go to me and ask her to borrow it, she will only beat you and scold you. Your eldest aunt wants to have a safe baby, and the second aunt's money must be given to the champion......"
Xiaojing urged: "Mother, don't worry about it, anyway, I have money now, let's go to the doctor first......"
Shen Qiuyue suddenly felt strange: "Where did you get the money?" ”
Xiaojing lowered her head and swallowed nervously: "Mother, I just asked Sister Rou to borrow a tael of silver, let's go see the doctor first!" ”
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The fat old hen boiled a pot of chicken soup with golden oil floating on the surface. Garnished with shiitake mushrooms and green onions, the taste is endless.
Tang and Rou followed the cutting line and unloaded the chicken into eight pieces in the soup. The two children crouched beside her, staring at each other, desperately swallowing.
She took a bowl, first sandwiched a piece of chicken breast with skin, filled some soup and shiitake mushrooms, and handed it to Tang Dou'er: "This bowl is for the crazy uncle, she gave us so many shiitake mushrooms and banlan roots, we have to thank her." ”
Naturally, you have to have a good relationship with your neighbors, so you may be asking someone to borrow something.
"Hmm!" Tang Dou'er swallowed her saliva, carefully took the bowl, and left the yard.
The younger siblings each received a chicken leg and a chicken wing. Dou'er has a bad stomach and can't digest the chicken liver and gizzard, so the internal organs are distributed to the young lady. Tang and Rou, on the other hand, only ate some chicken breast and shiitake mushrooms.
She had a solid family background in her last life, and she was tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and she had just drunk ginger soup, although she was looking forward to it, but it was far from impatient.
When Dou'er comes back, the fourth room officially opens.
The three of them knelt at the low table, holding a bowl and eating silently. Tang and Rou had just taken a sip of soup, and saw that the young lady and Dou'er were like a whirlwind on both sides, gnawing the chicken legs to the bone, and the two small mouths were stuffed so bulging that they didn't have time to swallow it, and they coincidentally grabbed the chicken wings in the bowl with their bare hands.
It's like watching a movie at 32 times the speed! In the blink of an eye, the kung fu chicken leg is gone!
"Ahem...... Tang and Rou were so shocked that they almost sprayed the soup, shouting, "You two, don't eat so fast!" That's how to eat it, and the stomach will spoil! You'll have to chew it fifteen times before you can swallow it! Don't scratch it with your hands, look at your dirty hands, you have to use chopsticks for me! ”
The big sisters all spoke, and they didn't dare not listen.
The two villains chewed the chicken with exaggerated movements, and their little faces were indignant.
Big sister used to be so gentle, why do you even have to take care of them when you eat now?
Tang and Rou drank the soup slowly, and only then did they have a sense of leisure, slowly untying the dead knot on the pouch and pouring the silver into the palm of their hands.
I checked it, but the amount was wrong.
She raised her eyebrows, then carefully checked them, and couldn't help but squint her eyes.
The Tang family only gave nine taels of silver?
She tucked her pouch back into her sleeve, pondering the possibilities before finally thinking of the answer and sighing softly.
She was a little bored.
Now let her run back to the Tang family and quarrel over these two pieces of silver, it is really tiring, it is better to find another way to make a living.
In order to pay taxes, the original owner and the young lady used to make a living by braiding hemp. The two children have been weaving hemp day and night for several months, and they have to be exploited by Mrs. Tang. The younger brother helped to roll the straw rope and sell it for money, but his hands were broken, and he only sold a few hundred wen in total.
The technical content of weaving hemp and rubbing straw rope is too low, everyone can do it, the demand is very small, and it is absolutely impossible to survive simply selling linen and straw rope.
Tang and Rou thought that their medical skills must be useful here, and they had the idea of practicing medicine to make money, but they couldn't help but be a little worried.
In her previous life, she had seen a lot of medical troubles, and the colleagues who saved lives and helped the injured put on bulletproof vests one by one, but there were still people who could wipe their necks.
She is now just a village girl, and she is not a well-respected doctor, and she has the stigma of a disaster star, if she is misunderstood by the villagers, she will not be able to protect herself at all.
Rather than curing diseases and saving people, she would rather go to the mountains to pick herbs, pick them up and dry them, and then send them to the county hospital to sell.
Although this dilapidated house is deserted, it covers a large area, and the broken shed has been renovated and can be converted into a rain shelter for drying herbs. The north side of the village is against the stone mountain, there are no crops, and further away is the mass grave, and the villagers don't like to go here. If you pick up some precious medicinal herbs and dry them in a broken house, no one will covet them.
But this era is about the level of the last years of the Three Kingdoms, and even the cooking is a kettle and a bucket, and there is no chair to sit on your knees. Tofu had not yet been invented, and the family mill was only used to grind wheat, make soy milk, and make rice noodles. Even potatoes and corn, which fill the stomach, and cotton, which can keep you warm, have not been found. In case she knew the value of the medicine, but the doctors in this world didn't recognize it, I am afraid that the medicinal materials that had been dried so hard would not be sold.
Tang and Rou ate and drank to their heart's content, leaning on the haystack to rest. Probably because of the speed of the brain affected by the fullness, I was confused for a while, I felt that I could sell anything for money, and I was worried that I would not be able to sell it at a good price.
Anyway, tomorrow I will go to the county town to walk around, observe the situation of each shop, and then decide the way to make money.
Anyway, the money in hand is enough to spend, in fact, there is no need to worry. The weather is getting colder, so first of all, it is necessary to spend a tael of silver to repair the cracks in the mud house and strengthen one layer, so as to save the heavy snow from falling down and crushing the house. Then buy a soft and warm animal skin, which will cost four taels of silver, to say the least. I have to spend a few taels to buy new clothes, the clothes on my body smell so musty, it looks like I won't get sick for the time being, but in fact, the body has been consuming energy to resist these molds, and the resistance is all consumed in vain, and it will become a serious illness as soon as there is an infection.
The rest of the money to buy some rice, noodles, salt, sugar, charcoal to store, if the snow is heavy and it is inconvenient to go out to make money, she plans to stay in the mud hut with her younger siblings and survive the winter first.
She closed her eyes and thought, feeling that the grass on her left and right had sunk a little. When I opened my eyes, I saw my younger brothers and sisters, one left and one right, learning the action of lying on her head with both hands, also lying on the grass, looking at her with two pairs of eyes blinking.
"What's wrong with big sister? Are you tired? ”
"After a while, the young lady will clean up, and my sister will lie down here and rest."
Tang Yourou couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, touched a small head with one hand, stroked it vigorously, and hugged the two of them in his arms: "Tomorrow, we will go to Brother Niu to repair the mud house, and then go to buy a big animal skin and grain to spend the winter." ”
The younger brother jumped up in surprise: "We have money to buy big animal skins!" ”
The young lady was a little worried: "Sister, can this silver really be spent, will you find us to go back tomorrow?" ”