Lu Xinghe glanced at Lu Xingping, "Stop staring and help count."
After he finished speaking, he sat aside and read a book.
As his voice fell, several children quickly started working.
In this pile, except for eight taels of broken silver, the rest were copper plates. After several people counted them twice, they found a total of 6,256 copper plates.
Lu Xingping rubbed his sore arm.
"Brother, can't you just ask someone to give you broken pieces of silver next time? Fortunately, we have a lot of family members. If there were only a few people, it would take a whole morning to count them all?"
Lu Xing'an rolled her eyes at him, "What I'm saying is, if someone doesn't bring any money, you won't sell this dish? You won't be happy even if you have money."
Xiaozhu tilted his head, thoughtfulness flashed in his eyes, and then he looked up at Lu Xinghe, "Brother-in-law, do each copper plate weigh the same?"
Lu Xinghe nodded and said, "Each one weighs about the same."
Xiaozhu returned his gaze to the pile of copper plates, "If each copper plate weighs the same and there are too many copper plates, can we calculate the number of copper plates by weighing them?"
Hearing this, Chu Yue's eyes lit up.
"Xiao Zhu is right, but the weight of a single copper plate is not easy to weigh. We can weigh the weight of the money, and then weigh the total weight of all the copper plates, so that it is easy to calculate the approximate number of copper plates. "
Yun Cuihe, Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan were confused.
Although Chu Wenzhu was the one who proposed the method of weighing, he didn't know how to calculate it.
Only Lu Xinghe nodded, "Indeed, if there are enough copper coins, this will be the most convenient."
Chu Yue smiled and touched Chu Wenzhu's head, "Xiao Zhu is so smart to come up with such a good idea."
Xiaozhu smiled sheepishly, "Where did I think of it? It was obviously my sister who thought of it."
Although she did not give the exact calculation method, it has to be said that Xiaozhu still has some talents.
Yun Cuihe had just put the money into the house when she heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
"Who?"
"Sister-in-law Yun, it's me."
She heard the sound and hurriedly ran out of the house and opened the door.
"Dazhu, why are you here?"
Sun Dazhu lifted his bamboo hat and said, "Sister-in-law, your old house was just crushed by the snow. It collapsed completely with a bang. My wife asked me to come over and tell you, so I came right away." .”
Hearing Sun Dazhu's words, Yun Cuihe was shocked, "No one was hurt, right?"
Sun Dazhu shook his head, "It's freezing cold and no one comes out, but no one is hurt."
"It's good that no one was hurt." Yun Cuihe turned around and shouted towards the house, "Xinghe, our old house collapsed."
Lu Xinghe also walked out the door after hearing the sound.
"I gonna go see."
Saying that, he started to walk out.
Chu Yue hurriedly took a bamboo hat from the kitchen and ran after him out of the yard, "Ms., please wear a bamboo hat. Be careful if the snow water melts on your body and you will catch a cold."
Lu Xinghe turned around and took the bamboo hat from Chu Yue, then turned around.
"Mom, you and Yueyue stay at home. I'll ask Dagui and Fourth Uncle to take a look. The house has collapsed now. You can just come back with some firewood."
"Sure, don't work hard yourself and pay attention to your injuries."
"I know, mother."
After Lu Xinghe finished speaking, he followed Sun Dazhu down the mountain.
Lu Dagui brought back the dry wood for beams from the old house in cart after cart. There was no room for it in the kitchen, so he piled it into the pig pen. Except for the space for mules, chickens and ducks, the other corners were filled to the brim.
Lu Xingping looked at the mountains of wood piled up in the kitchen and said carelessly, "It's better now. We don't have to worry about running out of firewood at home."
Yun Cuihe, whose heart was originally heavy because of the collapse of her old house, couldn't help but laugh because of his words.
"What did you say, monkey?"
"We built this new house because the old house was unstable. It is expected that it collapsed now. There is no need for mother to feel sad." Lu Xing'an comforted her from the side.
Yun Cuihe sighed, "This is the reason."
I cooked a big pot of porridge at noon, and all the people who helped dismantle the wood ate at home in the morning.
After eating, the snow subsided a little. Chu Yue and Yun Cuihe took their bamboo hats to the old house again to see if they could find anything useful.
The two searched for a while, but found nothing except a few small firewood, but even if there was something inside, it would have been smashed to pieces by the collapsed house.
Fortunately, the vegetable patch in front of the house was not affected, but it was so covered in snow that it was almost impossible to see what the vegetable garden looked like.
"With such heavy snow, I'm afraid these vegetables won't be ready." Yun Cuihe said, then stepped forward and pulled out a radish from the radish field, "It's only half a big radish, it's a pity."
"Mom, let's put these vegetables in the ground first. When the snow stops, we can ask my husband to take them to the town and sell them. After all, we won't lose money."
Yun Cuihe nodded and picked up a small bundle of firewood that he had just rummaged through the ruins of the old house. "That's right. It's closer to the town. If you sell it again, you won't go to the county town. It's strange to be worried about traveling at night." Miles."
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When the two returned home, they saw Mrs. Tian coming out of the main room.
"The third brother and sister are back."
Yun Cuihe was slightly surprised, "Why is sister-in-law here?"
Mrs. Tian usually doesn't go to her home, but today she might not go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything.
Yun Cuihe put the firewood in her arms into the kitchen, while Tian followed her.
"Third brother and sister, it's like this. A few days ago, the old man came to tell us that he was worried about the increase in food prices. We were also hesitant, so we only bought a hundred catties of food. Later, when the price increased, we bought another thirty catties, thinking that it would not rise too much. Gao, I didn’t expect that the food in the town is now sold in limited quantities, and the one with the highest price gets it. Your eldest brother went to the town and waited in line for several days but couldn’t get a turn. The family was almost unable to open the pot, so he wanted to come to you to borrow some food. .”
Hearing that he wanted to borrow food, Yun Cuihe frowned slightly.
She had asked her parents to remind her brothers to stock up on food in advance, but she didn't listen. Who's to blame if she didn't stock up on food?
Besides, I don't have much food at home. If I borrow it from her, my second sister-in-law's family may come to borrow it.
"To be honest, sister-in-law, I am running out of food at home right now, so I really don't have any extra money to lend out."
Tian Chunyan's face suddenly became unhappy.
"Isn't that true? I see that Lu Dagui and Tiedan still eat at your house from time to time. People who are not related to you can eat at your house. How come it's my family's turn and I can't borrow food?"
Yun Cuihe made a move and his face turned cold.
"Isn't it because Xinghe is injured? There are always troubles at home? If you are here to help, you have to leave someone to eat, right?"
"After all, we are a family. If you want help, you can call my parent Jin Changlian, or go to the second brother's house to call for help. The third brother and sister are better off. They would rather leave this wealth to an outsider than care about their own brothers." See. Yun Cuihe's tone was tough, and Tian Chunyan was also a little annoyed in her heart.
