Lu Xiu took out the twenty taels of silver she had saved and gave it to Xinghong, and asked Xinghong's second brother to transfer it to the Chong family. Lan Xiaoyou only took out five taels of silver from it, and returned the remaining fifteen taels to Lu Xiu.

"You're about to get married, and it's only right to keep some more money in your hands. If you want to do your best, five taels are enough. ”

Xinghong nodded in agreement, returned the remaining fifteen taels of silver to Lu Xiu, and took out one or two taels of silver herself: "My monthly money is not much, but now I have saved two taels of silver, and I can take half of it out." ”

"No, you don't." Lan Xiaoyou rejected Xinghong, "You don't have much money, so keep it for yourself." And have you two forgotten me? Will your young lady have no money? And let you two girls pay? ”

"Lu Xiu, go to the chest where I put the silver and take fifty-one taels of silver." Lan Xiaoyu instructed Lu Xiu.

Lu Xiu complied, took out five silver ingots from the cabinet, each weighing ten taels, and wrapped them in cloth with the five taels of silver ingots she had contributed. The cloth was provided by Xinghong, cut out of the clothes she wore when she was a rough maid, and it was barely coarse cloth.

"Xinghong, wrap this to your second brother, let your second brother be so ......" Lan Xiaoyou ordered; gave Xinghong a big chase, and gave the remaining one or two pieces of silver to Xinghong, "This two taels of silver is for your second brother's errand expenses, and warns him that the rest of the silver is not allowed to be greedy." Otherwise, let me know, break his hands and feet. ”

Xinghong hurriedly assured her brother: "Third Miss, don't worry, my second brother knows how to be measured, and he will never deceive Third Miss and be greedy for these money." ”

"That's good." Lan Xiaoyou said, "After all, you are the maid I value, and I don't want to kick you out because your family made mistakes." ”

Xinghong gave Lan Xiaoyou a guarantee again and again, and proposed the package to go to Ermen to find her second brother.

After Qiusheng told his sister about the situation of the Chong family, he did not leave, and waited for news at the second gate. Sure enough, after drinking a cup of tea and sipping a handful of melon seeds with the mother-in-law guarding the door, and chatting for a while about gossip, he saw his sister-in-law walking out of the inner courtyard with a package.

"Second brother!" Xinghong beckoned Qiusheng to the side, and whispered Lan Xiaoyu's instructions to Qiusheng.

Qiusheng was surprised and amused when he heard it: "How could the third lady come up with such a solution?" ”

Xinghong also smiled and said, "Maybe Miss saw it from the book." ”

As he spoke, he handed the package to Qiu Sheng and admonished: "Miss said, if the second brother is greedy for the silver inside, she will let people break your hands and feet." ”

"Who are your brother and I, you still don't know? Am I the kind of person who is greedy? Although I love money, just like the reader said, 'A gentleman loves money, and takes it in the right way', this is my principle! ”

"Of course the second brother is not, I believe in you." Xinghong smiled and comforted her second brother, took out one or two pieces from her arms and handed them to Qiusheng, "Here you go, the errand fee that the third lady gave you." ”

Qiusheng happily took the silver: "Oh, the third lady is really refreshing." I hope to do more of this kind of errands in the future. ”

Xinghong said: "Don't worry, the third miss trusts me, and thus trusts you, if there is an errand in the future, the third miss will definitely look for you." ”

After speaking, he pushed Qiusheng: "You hurry up and do what the third lady instructs." If you delay, it will be bad to let the Chong family borrow the money from Yinzi. ”

"Okay, I'll go right away." Qiusheng immediately responded, and he also wanted to hurry back to Lihua Village to help the Chong family. In addition to the plight of Chong's family that made him sympathetic, Chong's father's character and identity also made him respect. Although Qiusheng is just an errand runner, he is very envious and respectful of scholars. When he was a child, his family was poor, and he eavesdropped on his husband's lecture at the window of someone's school, but he learned some words. Now that he is a subordinate, he has not extinguished his desire to read and write, and he usually practices his own words after finishing his work. It's a pity that there is no guide, but I read some books, but I don't understand the meaning between the lines.

Chong Zhusheng is eleven years old this year and is still a child, but now that his father is seriously ill, his mother is weak, and his younger siblings are still young, he is the eldest son and consciously takes on the burden of the family. However, after all, he is not very old, his strength is small, he can't do heavy work, and he doesn't know how to make money, how can he support his parents? Raising younger siblings?

Now that the family has run out of food, my father still needs money to buy medicine, but where did he get the money? His mother wanted to borrow money from Yinzi, but he felt that it was inappropriate. Who are the people who put the money? They are all vampires, and they will not stop if they don't suck the blood of the borrowers. If they borrow Yinzi money, their family will be burdened with huge debts for the rest of their lives, but if they don't borrow - looking at his father who is lying in bed and can't get up, and then looking at his younger brothers and sisters who are starving, Chong Zhusheng made up his mind, borrow, at least get through the current difficulties first.

"I'll go to Zhang San tomorrow to borrow money." Chongzhusheng said to his mother.

Chong's mother touched her eldest son's head and sighed, "I've worked hard for you." ”

"It's not hard, I'm the eldest brother, and I should be the one who should be in charge of this family." Chong Zhusheng shook his head and said, "I picked some wild vegetables earlier, mother, you can cook them for your younger brothers and sisters." ”

There is still a little rice at home, but this rice is to be boiled porridge for the patient Chongfu.

"You eat a little too." Worship the mother's way.

"No, I'm not hungry, just feed my brother and sister."

"You kid, if you don't eat, how can you have the strength to work hungry?" Chong's mother said distressedly, she blamed herself even more, it was because she was useless and couldn't bear the burden of the family, so she let her eldest son bear such a heavy burden at a young age.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable." A chant sounded outside the courtyard, and the mother and son turned their heads to look over, only to see a young Taoist priest standing outside the courtyard of the Chongjia family, saying to the mother and son, "Two laymen, the poor road passes through the local area, and the mouth is thirsty, can you give the poor road a bowl of water to drink?" ”

"Yes, yes." Although Chongmu believes in Buddhism, she also respects the Taoist priest, and hurriedly invites someone in the courtyard, "Daoye, please sit in the courtyard and rest for a while, bamboo fungus, pour a bowl of water for Daoye." ”

Chong Zhusheng obediently walked into the kitchen, poured a bowl of cold boiled water and brought it out to the Taoist priest.

"Thank you, little layman." The Taoist priest took it with both hands, held the bowl, drank a few big sips, put down the bowl, and let out a long breath.

"Thank you to the two laymen, the two laymen have good hearts, and they will be blessed." The Taoist priest gave the two of them a look of gratitude.

Chongmu and Chongzhusheng both smiled bitterly, good fortune? They can't even afford to eat, what blessing can they have? Can good fortune make the child and his father better? Can you give them money and give them food? Will they be able to get back all the fields they have sold?