"Look at our family, except for tofu, it's soybeans! The salt shakers have been empty for seven days! Dad, do you know that I cook every day by pulling a little salt out of the jar of braised tofu? Do you know how long it's been since we smell meat in our house? The last time I ate meat, it was the bacon left over from the Chinese New Year, and one person ate two slices!

Kaichun originally wanted to catch a little piglet to raise pigs, and when the Chinese New Year came, it could be sold for money, dad, what did you say, there is no silver! At that time, why do you remember that there is no silver, and now when things are sent out, you don't remember that there is no silver?

You can send it, send it, send this home away, and see if your younger siblings will take you in! ”

Shen Tuantuan was angry, turned around and went to his room, and closed his door with a bang!

When Shen Changzhi came back from selling firewood in the city and took out a piece of meat from the back basket, he found that the atmosphere at home was a little wrong.

Originally, every day when I got home, I could see Shen Tuantuan busy at home like a butterfly, but today I only saw Shen Zhong sitting in front of the stove and lighting the fire.

"Dad, where's my little sister?" Shen Changzhi is now accustomed to his own Tuan Tuan being busy at home, and after his mother left, Tuan Tuan carried the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation. So at this moment, I didn't see Tuan Tuan, but I was a little worried.

In fact, Shen Zhong had already made the porridge and served it with salty tofu. Shen Zhong has never been good at cooking, and he has tried his best to cook a pot of porridge.

"Changzhi, can you let Tuan Tuan come out to eat?" Shen Zhong had already knocked on the door before Shen Changzhi came back, but he didn't expect that Tuan Tuan's anger this time was real! No matter how he knocked on the door, Tuan Tuan refused to answer.

Shen Changzhi put down the meat strips, saying that the meat strips were a little too much, but they were just more than a pound of meat and a bone sent by the butcher. "Dad, are you messing with your little sister again?"

"How can it-" Shen Zhong snorted, he was always a little weak towards his eldest son Shen Zhong, and he couldn't tell why, Shen Zhong always felt that this eldest son was more capable than him, like several of his uncles.

"Then I can't help it, if my little sister asks me, I can't say anything to excuse you." Shen Changzhi fetched a bucket of water, washed his hands and face. Shen Zhong had been following him, gritting his teeth and telling today's events as they were.

"Your second aunt is not bad, but she loves to take advantage of her, and her mouth is unforgiving, but your second uncle is not bad at taking your brothers and sisters, for your second uncle's sake, they are all a family, and they have no face."

Shen Changzhi held the wooden basin and sprinkled the dirty water in the basin into the vegetable garden in the backyard. "The son doesn't say the fault of the father, who is right and who is wrong, the father must have a plan in his heart." Shen Changzhi has been studying in the academy, but since Mei left, he has returned from the academy. Without saying a word, he went up the mountain every day to cut firewood, and then walked on the road for more than an hour to sell firewood.

With such a pound of meat, Shen Changzhi didn't know how many days he had to save, how much he had to walk, and how much firewood he had to chop.

Shen Changzhi stretched out a pair of hands in front of Shen Zhong, the hands that used to grind and write were already scarred.

Shen Zhong let out a loud roar and grabbed his hair hard.

Shen Changzhi sighed secretly, he didn't expect Shen Zhong to say anything consoling, but he didn't expect that Shen Zhong would escape after just one glance......

"Our family is picking and picking, and my father doesn't know what to do, and what he does always makes her unhappy. The tofu that has been delivered for several days in a row has long been almost unable to hold back the fire. Today, it's still your dad who holds the tofu yourself and asks the Liu family to bring it back, isn't it the same as hitting Tuan Tuan's face? How can Tuan Tuan swallow this breath. ”

Shen Changzhi also knew that he was a son, so he could only respect Shen Zhong's father, and rarely "preached".

Since the day was hot, the tofu business has also plummeted, there is leftover tofu every day, Shen Zhong sometimes meets Liu's, he will take the initiative to leave a piece of tofu for Liu's, Shen Tuantuan didn't see it, but he was fine. Originally, the Liu family was waiting for Shen Zhong to come back from collecting the stall at the door of his house, but in the past few days, the Liu family thought that it was sunbathing outside, and they all came to Shen Zhong's house to ask for a piece of tofu when it was time to make dinner, and the excuse every time was "I can't eat", which has made Tuan Tuan really unable to swallow this breath.

"Aren't I also planning to make a compensatory move with Tuan Tuan?"

"You are a father, how can a father compensate his daughter!" Shen Changzhi's tone was cold, "Dad's words will be said in my mind a few times in the future, my little sister's reputation outside is not very good, is my father going to let others point his nose and scold my little sister for being unfilial?" Shen Changzhi was a little helpless, Shen Zhong did hurt Tuantuan, but sometimes he didn't pay much attention to it. It's just a way to grab the handle.

Shen Zhong sneered and muttered softly, "I'm also your father, aren't you afraid of being told by me like this?" ”

Shen Changzhi didn't hear Shen Zhong's muttering, he just stared at Shen Zhong, seeing that Shen Zhong himself lowered his head silently, and had to ask his eldest son for help, "Then what should I do?" If you don't eat, it's not good if you are hungry and your body falls ill! ”

"Tuan Tuan loves silver, why don't you hand over all the money in this family to Tuan Tuan in the future?" Shen Changzhi suggested very seriously.

Shen Zhong wanted to agree, "But our family doesn't have any money anymore—"

"No money?" Shen Changzhi asked in a panic, and even his normally steady voice was much higher.

Shen Zhong really shrank his head this time, "This business has not been very easy since last year, and this year it has dropped by a penny, and I can barely maintain the business, and since the weather is hot, the two plates of tofu have not been sold...... Besides, it's all tofu in exchange for soybeans—"

"So, all the original silver in the house was filled in?" Shen Changzhi helped Shen Zhong finish the next words.

"It's not all filled in, it's just not much-"

"Dad, just tell me the number!"

Shen Zhong stretched out one finger, glanced at Shen Changzhi's stern face, stretched out two more fingers, and then immediately retracted.

Shen Changzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "There are still a dozen taels of silver, which is not sad." Over the years, Shen Changzhi has been walking around the mountains every day and has saved a few dollars.

"Not so much—"

After a long time, Shen Changzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "One or two taels of silver, it's not too difficult-" These words were obviously just comforting himself.

"Not so much—" Shen Zhong said timidly.

"How is that possible!" This time, even Shen Changzhi couldn't help but exclaim!

With a "squeak", the door opened!

Shen Tuantuan rushed out and rushed in front of Shen Zhong in a few steps.

"When my mother went, our family still had more than 20 taels of silver, and over the years, even if we didn't make money, we wouldn't have a tael of silver left!"

It turned out that after Shen Tuantuan heard his brother's voice, he had been hiding behind the door and listening to the movement outside, and when he heard that there was not a single tael of silver in the family, Shen Tuantuan couldn't help it anymore, regardless of whether he was still angry or not.

You must know that Taohuazhuang is next to Xiakou Wharf, and the nearest Jiangxia City is only a little more than an hour away, but anyone who is more diligent in the family can find a job to do. Therefore, a deposit of ten taels of silver is not too much.

Therefore, even the Shen Tuantuan brothers and sisters didn't expect that their family really had no money!