Wang's money for his son's medical treatment can't be saved, the money is spent like a flowing water, less than half a month, the money earned before has been almost spent, Wang had to reduce the food expenses, the family dinner table used to have meat every day, but now it is a long time since I saw meat.

The family is not used to it, after all, it is difficult to make a frugality from luxury.

The only thing that can be called good is that Xu Huaiqing's legs are slowly getting better, and he doesn't have to lie in bed every day, which is the only thing worth thanking at home for this period of time.

Wang knew that this was all Bai Jiujiu's credit, and Bai Jiujiu quietly mentioned it to Wang in private, asking her to pay attention to Xu Huaiqing's diet and the like, Wang didn't understand at first, but when he thought about it, he was immediately angry.

Bai Jiujiu was so good at talking about it that he suppressed Wang's anger and promised to hand over the matter to her and let her deal with it.

After Xu Huaiqing was well, Bai Jiujiu returned to the store.

She hadn't been here for many days, and even when she got to the town, she only passed by in a hurry, and when she went to the store today, she found that there was only a small servant sleeping inside, and there was not even a ghost in the rest, which was in stark contrast to the past, and the shelves were full of cloth.

Bai Jiujiu shook the little guy awake and pointed around suspiciously, "What's going on, why is there no one?" ”

The little guy rubbed his eyes, "It's Bai Dongjia, how can anyone come to buy cloth now, everyone is buying grain, and the business in the store is not good in the early days." ”

Bai Jiujiu's heart sank, it is true, how can people be in the mood to care about other things during the disaster, filling their stomachs is the most important thing.

"Show me the ledger."

The little guy presented it respectfully, Bai Jiujiu flipped over, his head was big, the income during this period of time was too little, more than half a month was only twenty taels of silver, this money could not even support Xu Huaiqing's medicine, let alone buy food.

The family is now counting on this, the Wang family should have some silver, but it is estimated that it is not much, Xu Huaiqing still has to drink medicine every day to recuperate, and life is suddenly stretched.

"What about Gongzi Han?" Bai Jiujiu closed the account book and asked.

"Our son-in-law has gone back and let me watch here, but I may come over today."

Bai Jiujiu wanted to talk to Han Zhaoyin, but when he heard this, he nodded, "Then I'll wait for him." ”

Han Zhaoyin came here in the afternoon, as soon as the drought came out here, he had already expected that the business of the store would decline, but there was no good way for the time being, Bai Jiujiu wanted to take care of Xu Huaiqing, and he didn't want to bother her, so he simply went to inspect the business of other stores.

As soon as I came back today, I saw Bai Jiujiu's figure, and the original upset mood was suddenly swept away, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, but he quickly covered it up again, and the two entered the store and sat down.

"What are your plans?"

Han Zhaoyin came all the way and found that several shops had closed, only the door of the shop selling rice and noodles was crowded.

But this is also inevitable, looking at this situation, every day like this half-dead support, and have to spend manpower to guard the door of the store, it is better to wait for the drought to pass before opening.

According to Han Zhaoyin's meaning, it is best to close the door.

Bai Jiujiu didn't answer directly, but asked, "How is it in other places, isn't it raining?" ”

"Well, I've come all the way, it's pretty much the same."

Bai Jiujiu frowned, if it is really so serious, then the problem is big, I don't know how long the drought will last, forget everything else, Xu Huaiqing's legs can't wait.

"It's better to close the door, do you still have food at home, if you need it......"

Before Han Zhaoyin could finish speaking, Bai Jiujiu raised his hand to interrupt him, "Thank you, but I don't need it for the time being, I don't want to close the store." ”

"Do you have another way?"

Bai Jiujiu didn't tell him directly, but just smiled vaguely, "There is one, you can give it a try." ”

Hearing Bai Jiujiu's insistence, although Han Zhaoyin was curious, he still didn't say anything more.

Everyone was expecting it to rain, but God couldn't hear people's voices.

The sun has roasted the ground for dozens of days, and he has no energy to even know it, and he is lazily lying on the tree.

"It's getting harder and harder, and today I have to go to the well at the head of the village early to get more water." Wang muttered to himself, "I think it's better to have more water, I don't know when the well will run out of water." ”

Bai Jiujiu was taken aback by Wang's words, and put down the embroidery work in his hand, "Mother, the well at the entrance of the village may be cut off?" ”

It's no wonder that Bai Jiujiu was surprised, in her impression, well water has always been the life of the croppers. Roots, I don't know how many lives a well saved during the drought years, and now even the well water is going to run dry, I'm afraid this day is really going to change.

"Now that the weather is so hot and it hasn't rained for so long, it's better for us to prepare early."

Wang sighed, raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead, it was getting hotter and hotter this day, he didn't do anything, just said a few words and couldn't suppress the sweat.

"It should rain soon." Bai Jiujiu was a little worried about the business in the store, she had boasted about Haikou in front of Han Zhaoyin before, but it was far from being as simple as she imagined.

"Jiujiu, I've already bought Huaiqing's medicine for him, you remember to boil it and bring it to him."

"Huh?" Bai Jiujiu was very surprised, "Mother, where did you get the money to buy medicine for him?" ”

As far as she knew, all of the Wang's private money was used to stock up on food.

Wang squeezed the broken hair around his ear, "You don't care about this." ”

Bai Jiujiu's sharp eyes found that the bracelet on her hand was missing, and her heart suddenly swelled with a sourness, "Mother, did you take your jade bracelet and pawn it?" ”

Wang didn't expect Bai Jiujiu to be so careful, and even found out about this, and smiled wryly, "The color of the jade bracelet before was not very good, and I don't like it either." ”

Bai Jiujiu was particularly guilty, the Wang family was like something about his jade bracelet treasure, and he hid it on weekdays and didn't show it to them. Only during the New Year's festival will I take it out for a while, and I was about busy before, and Wang forgot to pick it.

But now her precious bracelet is gone, it is said that the bracelet is still the dowry of the Wang family when she got married, and now it is for Xu Huaiqing's medicine......

"Mother, in fact, I still have some jewelry, and I don't usually wear it much, so I'd better redeem your jade bracelet and be mine."

"Nope." Wang immediately objected.

Those jewelry are her dowry, even if the Xu family is poor, they can't use their daughter-in-law's dowry, if this is spread out, others will look down on the Xu family.