Wu Yu nodded, and before he could speak, someone came to the door again, it turned out to be Aunt Yun, the old lady also carried a small half basket of eggs, and when she saw Ruixue, she shed tears, and said straight God doesn't open her eyes, how can you let such a good person as Mr. Zhao suffer from illness, and finally lay down in the crack of the door and looked at Zhao Fengnian lying on the kang, and stuffed a bag of copper coins to Ruixue, and said that the wharf was about to start, and when Shanzi came back after making money, he would send her some more.

Rui Xue thanked her gratefully, but the old lady blushed with shame, she actually had a few taels of silver at home, but Lei's daughter-in-law was born in two months, so why should she leave some emergencies.

Throughout the afternoon, the Zhao family received six or seven groups of guests, most of whom were Mengtong's mothers in the school, and although they only gave one or two hundred yuan, Rui Xue solemnly accepted them, and thanked them again and again.

It is worth mentioning that Cuilan from the West Courtyard of the Zhang family also sent a hundred yuan, and apologized for the lack of morality of the third brother's family. There is also money black charcoal in the south of the village, and he actually carried a large basket of charcoal to send it, and said with a red face that his family really didn't have any silver deposits, so he couldn't help, only more charcoal, and his daughter-in-law asked him to send some to keep her husband warm.

Rui Xue had no other dealings with his family except for that time to buy charcoal, and now with such help, she almost burst into tears, ran back to the east house to get ten eggs, and asked him to take them back to replenish the body of Qian sister-in-law, but Qian Heitan didn't want to live or die, and trotted away.

Rui Xue made a heavy note in the account book, Wu Yu looked at it from the side, and the look in his eyes became clear, after all, there are still many good people in this world, right?

In the evening, the Gao family and his wife came back from selling tofu, and when they heard such a big event, they didn't even bother to eat a bite of food, so they ran to Zhang's house, discussed with Zhang's sister-in-law, and came to see Ruixue together.

Rui Xue just fed Zhao Fengnian half a bowl of egg custard, waiting for Wu Yu to boil the medicinal soup in two moments, and then drink the medicine, so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach. Hearing that the four members of the Zhang family and the Gao family were here, they helped Zhao Fengnian cover the quilt and went out to invite them to sit down.

Sister-in-law Zhang and Cui Niang are not verbose people, they each took out the silver money, put it on the table and said, "This is the salary and red envelope obtained from the sister-in-law, the sister-in-law will take it and give the medicine to the husband first." ”

"Then how can it be done, you work hard, this salary is what you deserve, and besides, your family still has to live, and the spring is about to start farming, where do you need money?" Rui Xue refused to accept it, "Besides, Sister-in-law Zhang also knows the inside story, Mr. is not seriously ill, and he will wake up in ten days and a half months." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang stretched out her hand and pushed the silver money back, and sighed, "I just know the inside story, so I told the truth to Cui Niang and his wife, although Mr.'s medicine is not as expensive as one or two silver, and the shop at the dock plus the income from selling tofu, can barely cope with it, but what kind of fruit does it taste, but it costs three hundred taels of silver, how can this be raised?" The two of us can't help much, so we can only send the money back and add a little more. ”

Rui Xue hung her head and said nothing, she took a closer look at the red flame fruit when she slipped it just now, but it was bigger than a walnut, and it was a four-day dosage, if Zhao Fengnian's condition had not improved by then, she would have to smash the pot and sell iron to buy another one back. Three hundred taels of silver, where is she going to find it?

"Okay, I'll take this money, I remember the kindness of my brothers and sisters-in-law, we will get along for a long time in the future, and the future will be long."

The Zhang family and the Gao family breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door and entered the house, looked in front of Zhao Fengnian, and felt sad, and didn't want Ruixue to be more sad, so they whispered, "Mr. looks much better, he will definitely wake up in a few days" and other things, and then said goodbye and went home.

At noon on the second day, all the people who were willing to help had already come, Rui Xue counted them, a total of fifteen houses, and sent six taels and three coins of silver, and some eggs and mushrooms and other things to eat.

She carefully put the account book away, and secretly thought that in the future, her tofu factory will be opened, but all the people who need it will come from these people's homes, and if she earns ten taels of silver, how can she give them two taels, so as to repay them for their help today.

Wu Yu came in with a pot of hot tea, and when he saw his sister in a daze, he asked, "Sister, what to cook for Mr. at noon, I'll prepare it." ”

Rui Xue got up and went to the ground, glanced at his left hand, and said with a smile, "I don't want to eat shredded potatoes fried with human flesh, you accompany Mr., I'll go and prepare, and I will give you more steamed egg custard." ”

Wu Yu shrank his fist a little shyly, last night he saw that his sister was busy, and wanted to help cook some food, but the kitchen knife just didn't obey the call, and cut his five fingers to break, "Sister, I don't eat, you can eat it when it's steamed, you've lost weight in the past few days." ”

Rui Xue's heart warmed when she heard this, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a proud look, "It's only been two days, how much weight can I lose?" Our family is not so poor that we have to push it to eat an egg custard, steam three bowls, one bowl per person! ”

Wu Yu's thin eyebrows and eyes were bent when he smiled, he didn't know what kind of place his sister grew up in, he only knew that his sister was different from all women, Mr. was now sick and dying, and her sad cheeks in her heart collapsed, but she still smiled at him, as if as long as she was there, even if the sky fell, he didn't have to be afraid, and he was relieved for no reason, and it made him feel more distressed...

After a small pot of japonica rice porridge, a plate of shredded potatoes, and three bowls of egg custard out of the pot, the sisters and brothers supported Zhao Fengnian and fed them with their hands, and they were busy for a quarter of an hour, so they could barely be fed most of the bowl, Rui Xue raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her head, and said with a smile, "Mr. is really getting better, I have eaten two spoonfuls more than yesterday." ”

Wu Yu nodded yes, put down Zhao Fengnian, went down to the ground to put on his shoes, the sisters and brothers ate quickly, and were about to pick up the dishes and chopsticks, when they heard a rough voice shouting outside the gate, "Is the sister of the Zhao family at home?" ”

Rui Xue opened the door and couldn't help but be stunned, there were more than a dozen people standing outside the courtyard gate, Xu Kuan, Ma Lao Liu, Shi, Lao Wang, Bolt, and the rest were all common acquaintances on the dock, the Yun family's Shanzi stood at the front and shouted with a smile, "Sister-in-law, we are here to visit Mr.'s illness." ”

Ruixue woke up, hurriedly stepped forward, welcomed everyone into the house, sat down, Zhang Luo served tea, she guessed that everyone came over at this time, I am afraid they didn't have lunch, and moved out all the food at home, fortunately, the delicious food in the New Year is much more prepared, twist flowers, baked cakes, jujube steamed buns, as soon as it is hot, it will be served, and everyone is not welcome, they all take it and eat it.

While eating, the stone said, "Master, yesterday I and my senior brother went to the dock, I didn't see you and my aunt go to open a shop, and I thought you had miscalculated the day. ”

Ma Lao Liu finished eating the baked cakes in his hand in a few bites, and said with a smile, "No, sister, there is such a big thing in your family, why do you have to send a letter to the dock to say, although everyone is not rich, but there are many of us, we can always help." ”

Xu Kuan has been in charge of the dock gang for a long time, and gradually has the posture of some leaders, waiting for everyone to talk about the same, before taking a sip of tea, and said slowly, "Sister, everyone has just discussed, you can take the half of the box of copper coins you saved up a year ago to buy medicine for Mr." ”

"No, that's everyone's hard-earned money, I work hard at the dock every day, everyone works hard, I know better than anyone else, don't say that my family can still last, but I don't have money to eat and starve to death, and I can't touch everyone's money."

Xu Kuan frowned, and said with a slight annoyance, "You came up with the idea of saving money at the beginning, just to prepare for someone's emergency, and now you need money here, why can't you use it, don't you think of yourself as the third leader of the Peishui Gang?" ”

"That's it, that's it." Everyone agreed, their faces were a little anxious, there was no hypocrisy in their eyes, they were full of concern, so that Rui Xue's nose couldn't help but be sour, turned her head, secretly took a few breaths, suppressed the tears in her eyes, and solemnly bowed, "Brother Xu, Second Brother Ma, brothers, I am a weak woman who can be treated like this by you, it is really a virtue accumulated in my previous life." In the future, I will always remember that I am the third leader of the Peishui Gang, but this money is the back road of the brothers, and it can't all be used on me alone, so let's keep five taels, and the rest will be put in the shop in case of emergency, okay? ”

Xu Kuan and Ma Lao Liu glanced at each other for a long time before nodding slightly.

There are 200 people in the Peishui Gang, although most of them are righteous bloody men, but it is difficult to guarantee that there are also those who are careful, in case they don't say it because of their face, but they don't agree with taking out this deposit silver and burying this small gap, it is inevitable that there will be changes in the future, it is better to avoid it as much as possible, in this way, half of it will not only help Ruixue, but also leave spare silver for the gang, which is the best way.

The two heads of the house nodded, and everyone did not refute anymore, and asked one after another about the proper opening of the shop, and whether there was any rough work at home that they needed to help do.

Rui Xue answered one by one, took the key to the bolt and the stone, and explained that they had arranged food in the shop, and today opened the door to boil tea so that the brothers had a place to keep warm, and tomorrow Sister-in-law Zhang will rush to prepare lunch.

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, the two boys didn't wait for an answer, Zhang's sister-in-law ran in from outside the door in a panic, and when she saw that the house was full of big men, she was also stunned, and then she saw that it was an acquaintance, so she couldn't care so much, and pulled this Ruixue and said urgently, "Sister, Zhang Dahu is coming to the village again." ”

Rui Xue frowned, "Sister-in-law doesn't need to panic, his family's paddy field is outside the village, maybe there is something wrong with him." ”

"No, no." Sister-in-law Zhang was so anxious that she waved her hand, "I see that he is running to our street, and Wu Laosan's bad seed is also sitting on the wheel." ”

Rui Xue's face sank, and a fierce color flashed in her eyes, it seems that the lesson from the last time still didn't make Wu Laosan remember it for a long time, and now I heard that Zhao Fengnian was seriously ill and dying, so he bullied the door again?