It was dark, but fortunately, the weather was sunny and the moon stars were scarce, so the family had dinner in the moonlight.

It's not that Lu Manjing is reluctant to light an oil lamp, but that their family is now poor and white, not to mention lamp oil, even the wick of the lamp stand is not there.

White rice, boiled greens, steamed eggs. There is no oil and water in the green vegetables, and only two steamed eggs are used, but fortunately, there is no shortage of salt, so that it will not be tasteless, and this meal is a real coarse tea and light rice.

But it's already considered a luxury for their family.

Gu Yuqiao looked at his dry little body, and then at his mother's thin figure and high arched belly, and once again worried about his livelihood.

That's not enough nutrition......

After eating, Gu Yuqiao wanted to take a bath, only to remember that there was no firewood at home.

It's summer, and peasant men and boys like Gu Huaming usually go to the river to wash.

Only the old Gu family who wanted to save face all boiled water and bathed at home, so a special bathroom was built.

In the past, the firewood was cut by Gu Huaming and his son, but they ran out this morning. After the family was separated, Xiao Huang still found firewood bought by the children in the village.

And Gu Yuqiao's house was picked up by her, the weather was too hot, her father felt sorry for her, and called her back early.

So I didn't pick up much, just enough to make these two meals.

Chopping wood and collecting firewood is not an easy job, and it is natural to save it.

"Mother, do you still have firewood at Aunt Li's house? Let's borrow a little more, I want to take a bath. ”

It's not that she's ignorant, it's just that the weather is hot and stuffy, and she is sweating twice today, and she is uncomfortable without taking a bath.

She thought about it, and tomorrow she would hide it from her parents, and as soon as it was dawn, she would go to chop wood.

Lu Manjing was stunned, "There should be," she said and looked around, "But you look at this black light, their family seems to be asleep ......"

The girl had no choice but to take a bath with well water.

But the well water is so cold that it can't withstand the coolness in the season of July fire.

Just as she was about to scrub it casually, there was a muffled call from outside the courtyard door.

"Uncle Gu, Uncle Gu, have you slept?"

Gu Huaming hurriedly came out of the house: "Who?" It's getting dark, what's wrong? ”

Ning Hanqing scratched his head embarrassedly: "It's nothing, it's just that I saw that there was no firewood at your house, so I sent a load of it." ”

"Huh?!"

Gu Huaming thought that he was here to do business again, thinking that this family looked honest, and it seemed that they were very shrewd and business-minded!

However, his family doesn't have any money at all now, and people came to help in the afternoon, and he can't refuse, which has a bit of a sense of robbing while the fire is burning.

"How much?"

When he asked this, his face was not so good.

But when it was dark, the second child of the Ning family didn't see it, and still smiled and said, "No, I don't want money, even if it's those wooden additions." ”

"This ...... Don't need it......" Gu Huaming was a little flattered, those pieces of wood were also urgently needed by him, people helped, and now they are still sending firewood?

However, the next sentence of the second child of the Ning family made him relieved.

"Neighbors help each other, it's supposed to be, but our two families are still not very familiar with each other, and you won't want wood and firewood for free, so I and we just collected the money."

Ning Hanqing stumbled over what his family taught him, and he was afraid that he would not be able to finish what the third brother had explained.

"Uncle Gu, you...... You can afford our family, so take this load of firewood! ”

The two said a few more polite words to each other, Gu Huaming collected the firewood, and the second child of the Ning family went home happily.

As soon as Gu Yuqiao heard the person leave, he immediately came out of the bathroom happily.