But Shen Qingqian blinked at her helplessly. Although she also felt that the Wu family was making too much of a fuss, the Shen family was like this. They valued girls very much. As long as conditions allowed, they would not want the girls to suffer any harm.
"Mom is right, although sisters have to learn to do housework, there should still be an adult watching over them." Shen Xiao also agreed.
Shen Shan and Shen Yong also echoed, expressing concern for Shen Qingyu and giving a lot of advice.
They don't only care about the sixth sister. All the sisters in the family have responsibilities on their shoulders. However, because the sixth sister is the youngest, they can't help but feel a little partial.
Seeing that things were almost done, Shen Qingqian opened her mouth and said: "Auntie, although we have two tools now, we still lack a lot, such as hoes, shovels, shovels, etc. The people in the yard opposite said that the court will not care about these. , then we have to buy it ourselves, can the family come up with the money now?"
The punishments meted out to prisoners in Dajin were ubiquitous. They were allowed to open up wasteland without tools, and were allowed to work in the mines without even being given a basket. If they wanted to complete the task, they had to bring their own things.
But most of the prisoners had nothing on them, so the guards in charge would "kindly" remind them that they could help get things, but they would have to deduct the prisoners' rations.
In other words, under such circumstances, there are still people who want to make money from prisoners.
But there are such people in any era, and to these people, prisoners are people who have been abandoned by the court. Even if they are known, they have nothing to fear as long as there are legitimate reasons.
What Wu borrowed from the yard across the street in the past few days was bought by others, but it was all money they earned in other ways. Only a few people had no choice but to let the guards deduct their rations.
After all, the rations distributed by the imperial court to prisoners were extremely limited.
Just like the situation of the Shen family, each person over the age of fifteen has a portion of whole grain cake and a handful of cereals per day, those between ten and fifteen years old only have one coarse grain cake, and those under ten years old only have a handful of cereals.
Miscellaneous grains are a variety of rice, millet, sorghum, etc. mixed together, but the amount of rice and millet is very small.
These are distributed per person every month. If there is not enough food, you have to find a way.
The Shen family still has things that can last until spring, plus winter is about to begin, and land reclamation is a punishment from the court, so they must be at the forefront, even if they can't achieve anything, they have to maintain a correct attitude, so they don't have it for the time being. Think about livelihood.
"Should we buy it ourselves?" Mrs. Wu frowned, "We can scrape together the money, but...if we spend it on this, it will be difficult for us to do anything after spring."
No matter when, money is the foundation of a family. Wu now only has more than 20 taels of silver left after exchanging gold last time, plus she brought some valuable jewelry with her when she came out.
But she didn't want to touch those things unless she had to. After all, they were her most important dowry.
Shen Qingqian was just about to say that she still had some golden melon seeds and silver peanuts when Shengze's voice came from the door, "If Auntie doesn't mind, I still have some money here."
Everyone looked towards the door and saw the Cheng family brothers standing at the door. Cheng Yun was still smiling, and Cheng San felt calm and relaxed all over his body.
"Third Brother Cheng? Please come in quickly," Shen Xiao hurriedly approached and declined, "Where is the need for your money? Besides, you have to leave yourself a way out here. We will think of another way."
