Chi Huifang didn't come back until the afternoon, she first went back to her room and then went to Father Lin's house.

"Sold out?" Father Lin said sullenly, since the older generation, the people in the village have the habit of saving grain, and now he is in a mood that is not much better after selling his family's grain storage.

As a last resort, how could he have come to such a step, he groped back and forth with the old smoking pot in his hand until the metal shell was polished, but if this year's harvest was not good, and there was no food, the two of them would have to suffer from famine.

"It's sold out, Dad, you've collected the money." Chi Huifang took out the copper plate from her pocket and handed it to Father Lin.

"Why are there only a few?" He looked at the two dozen copper plates in his hand and asked.

It was a whole big bag of noodles, and it was the best noodles, and it took him several days to grind out the finest white noodles.

How could it be possible to sell so many copper plates!

He couldn't believe it, staring at Chi Huifang directly, it must be the eldest daughter-in-law who made a ghost, and the eldest daughter-in-law was stared at so much that her scalp was numb.

"Dad, why are you looking at me like this, I can still secretly drop the silver, you don't know, the price has fallen so much, I went around the market and compared the price for a long time before I made a move, this is the best price." Chi Huifang opened her eyes and said nonsense, Shen Lingxiu knew that it was obviously her own self-enrichment and deduction of money, but she blamed the market price, she was really embarrassed to say it.

"Really?" Father Lin raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Of course!" Chi Huifang patted her chest and packed the ticket.

"Hey! It's not going to be easy! Father Lin sighed deeply, holding a few copper plates tightly, originally thinking of temporarily alleviating the situation at home by selling noodles, these twenty copper plates are enough for something, his body is not well, and he still has to buy medicine.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the situation of the Lin family was really not very good.

Shen Lingxiu looked at Father Lin, who had a sad face, and opened his mouth to comfort him.

"Dad, don't worry, just take care of your body, let's slowly figure out a way to deal with money, it's a big deal" Our family has a hard time. ”

Father Lin's heart was warm, and in the end, the third daughter-in-law he despised the most was the most sensible.

Shen Lingxiu received the money for food and clothing at home, and calculated carefully, excluding the money for medicine, there was not much left of the family this month, and the well-off life of the Lin family who cut some meat from time to time was over.

She walked around the yard and found dried eggplants that had been dried for a long time, and had an idea.

If there is no meat, just eat the eggplant and dry it.

At dinner, there were still few dishes, and there was no meat that they had been thinking about.

Po spoke.

"Third aunt, today is the day to eat meat!" That's right, in the past, the first fifteenth day of the new year was a day of adding meat and vegetables, but today, she really can't use extra money to buy meat.

"Come, Bao, eat dried eggplant! Wait for the third aunt to earn money to buy you meat! ”

Ah Bao obediently took it, the dried eggplant was very chewy, coupled with Shen Lingxiu's superb cooking skills, it was indeed somewhat similar to meat.

Chi Huifang was not satisfied, she had something to say in her cold words, accusing them of spending all the money on the medicine, causing their family to be unable to eat meat.

"You worked in the field for a day, and you couldn't eat a few bites of good food when you got home, what can you do when you're tired, and the whole family works alone, and you have to buy medicine, right?"

"Look at what you said, my eldest brother is strong, and he can't do it without these few mouthfuls of meat?" Shen Lingxiu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so she can't get used to Chi Huifang's appearance, this style.

Chi Huifang angrily took a few bites of rice, and then threw the bowl back to the room.

In the evening, she secretly went out and bought two taels of meat to hang on the beams of her house.

It wasn't until the next day when everyone in the family went out that she secretly went to the kitchen to make stew, and then packed the meat and hid it in her own house.

The child's nose is very smart, and he smelled the smell of meat as soon as he got home, while Chi Huifang lit wormwood in the yard, wanting to cover up the smell, but he didn't expect Ah Bao to come back suddenly, and he was very panicked.

"Auntie, our stew!" Po was so excited that he almost jumped.

"What meat, what meat!" Chi Huifang denied it, but she just cut two taels of meat, which was only enough for her and Lin Shengyuan to eat, how could others have a share!

"But I can smell the meat!" Po frowned, sniffed it carefully, and confirmed it even more. Chi Huifang reprimanded a few words, and then sped up the action of getting wormwood in her hand.

"Nonsense, I think you're crazy about eating meat! Let's get out and play! Don't get in my way! ”

At dinner, Chi Huifang gave Lin Shengyuan a look, and the two of them didn't eat much, so they went back to the room under the pretext of being unwell, and the door was closed tightly.

Po pouted and began to talk about this afternoon's events.

"As soon as I came back, I smelled the stew, but the eldest lady insisted that I smelled it wrong!"

After speaking, he looked aggrieved and picked up the food in his hand.

When Shen Lingxiu was just cooking, she also found that the meat foam in the pot was not cleaned, and the eldest couple really ate it by themselves!

The family looked at each other, knowing it, Shen Lingxiu touched Bao's head and spoke.

"Bao, bear with it for a few more days, the third aunt promised you to let you eat meat, and she will definitely let you eat it."

Po nodded and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

Lin Ziwen's leg had almost recovered, and he went to the village school early the next morning.

And Shen Lingxiu was frowning at home, just now she gave Father Lin the last bit of medicine in the family.

In other words, now the Lin family has no money to buy medicine. Father Lin's face was sad all day long, which was not conducive to recovery, so Shen Lingxiu decided not to talk to him about it, lest he get angry in a hurry.

She went back to the room and took out her small treasury, which was the capital she had left for herself to do business, and in fact, she had already taken out a large part of it to support the Lin family, which could never be touched.

She thought of Lin Ziwen, since Lin Ziwen had returned to the school, his salary should be able to be sent in advance to respond to emergencies.

It was almost noon, and Lin Ziwen went home for lunch.

Shen Lingxiu told Lin Ziwen the cause of the incident, and directly said about his salary, Lin Ziwen looked embarrassed, and said very entangledly.

"Lingxiu, I was about to tell you, I haven't been to class in the past few days, and I don't have much salary, so I only have a few pennies left." Shen Lingxiu looked surprised.

It's no wonder that Lin Ziwen was originally a kind teacher, and in today's words, he is a volunteer.

At that time, I am afraid that there was no school system that had been formed, and the salaries of teachers were naturally not taken seriously.