Their family was already very poor, and five taels of silver out of the fifteen taels of silver were borrowed from Aunt Wang's family next door, and they originally planned to return the wheat to her when it was harvested. It's good now, it's not yet time to harvest the wheat, and this owes Dr. Yu a lot of money for medicinal materials.

Their family has not eaten enough food for four consecutive days, just rice soup with wild vegetables every day, which can only be half hungry every day, and now it is a few days before the wheat harvest, and I don't know if their family can last until the wheat harvest.

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In the kitchen, smoke billowed from the kitchen.

Qian Shi held a small bowl with a missing hole in one hand, and picked up a soup spoon with the other hand and filled a bowl of rice soup from the big pot. Then he shouted into the house, "Shu'er, come to the kitchen." ”

Seeing Yuan Shu walking out of the house slowly, Qian washed the vegetables in his hands, looked at the rice soup on the board, and said, "Shu'er, you pick up this bowl of rice soup and feed it to her, I can cook this dish as soon as it is washed, and we can eat lunch later."

Just after feeding the medicine, Yuan Shu's stomach was holding back a belly of anger and there was nowhere to vent, seeing that Qian asked her to serve the woman again, and this time she didn't do it, she directly refused: "I won't go, I want to go to you." With that, he turned around and left.

"Stop!" Qian shouted at Yuan Shu's back.

Hearing this, Yuan Shu immediately stopped, chuckled in her heart, and suddenly had a bad premonition, as expected, her mother's words made her unable to resist directly.

"Hey—you're bold, aren't you? The wings are stiff, aren't they? You dare to talk back to your mother, right? Is it easy for your mother, a widow, to work hard to pull you and your brother to grow up? Do you think that your mother is useless, and you don't have the ability to live a happy life......"

"Stop!" Yuan Shu turned around and rolled her eyes, her mother knew that she was coming to this trick, and knew that she was afraid of being soft and not afraid of hard, so her mother's trick didn't work for her. Who told their father to leave early, it was her mother who pulled them up with hard work!

"Go, can't I go?" Yuan Shu stomped her feet, vented her dissatisfaction, picked up the small bowl on the board, and walked towards the house in a huff.

Qian looked at Yuan Shu's distant back and sighed heavily. She knew that Yuan Shu was very aggrieved in taking care of her new daughter-in-law on the bed in the past few days, but how could she have suffered it in her heart!

A few days ago, she saw that Lao Zhao's family bought a new daughter-in-law from the town for her son Zhao Wu, the new daughter-in-law was short and thin, but she was very good, very good at working, and cleaned up the old Zhao family's house. Buying such a good daughter-in-law, of course the old Zhao family was happy, and the daughter-in-law of the old Zhao family, Aunt Liu, said how good her daughter-in-law was, and she was afraid that others would not know.

Who doesn't know the situation of the old Zhao family's family in the village, their family is poor in the village, everyone understands in their hearts, if the girl's family doesn't look down on Zhao Wu at all, otherwise Zhao Wu, who is over twenty-three years old, will not have dragged on until now and has not married a daughter-in-law, you must know that the village got married early, like a man of Zhao Wu's age, and the children have already run all over the hillside.

Speaking of the money to buy a daughter-in-law, it was also saved by the old Zhao family tightening their belts, not enough money, and asked other people's families to make up a little bit from the east to the west, so that they could make up enough sixteen taels of silver to buy a daughter-in-law from the town.