Ye Yuqing's face looked a little ugly, but she also thought that it would be better if she didn't borrow it from Grandma, and the money she would save would be distributed to her in the future.
It's best to embroider secretly, so that grandpa, grandma, and third uncle don't know about it, and you can hide the money yourself.
"Mom, do you still have any money on you?"
Huang Yunqin hesitated for a moment before saying, "A little, but not enough to pay the deposit."
Ye Yuqing thought for a while and said: "Mom, let's not take on the big embroidery work first. Let's buy a piece of cloth and some silk thread. When I finish the embroidery, you can sell it. When I make money, I can embroider big things. Embroidery.”
Huang Yunqin was still a little worried, "Qingqing, can you really do it?"
"Mom, let me try it and I'll know."
She didn't want to waste any time talking with her mother. She would know how good her craftsmanship was when the embroidery was finished.
Shitou carried a large bundle of firewood, and his wife carried a large basket on her back. They walked down the mountain.
Seeing the two of them, he smiled and nodded.
Huang Yunqin stood on tiptoes, glanced at Shitou's wife's basket, and asked with a smile: "Qiuyue, did you two go into the mountains today? How many wild vegetables did you dig? Did you find anything good?"
Chen Qiuyue sighed, "Sister-in-law, the land on the mountain has almost been dug back. What good things can be found? The two of us walked around for a long time and dug a handful of wild vegetables."
She also stood on tiptoes, imitating Huang Yunqin's example, and looked into the basket on her back, with a smile on her face and said:
"Sister-in-law, I see that you two are each carrying a large backpack. You must have dug a lot today, right?"
Huang Yunqin quickly turned away, looking a little unhappy.
Chen Qiuyue snorted in her heart, "You are only allowed to look at other people's things. If others look at you, you will be annoyed. What's the point?"
Shitou put the big bundle of firewood on his shoulder and said, "Let's go now. The family is still waiting for these wild vegetables to be put into the pot."
"Sister-in-law, let's go first." Chen Qiuyue waved to them and followed her man back to the village.
Ye Yuqing looked at the two people's backs and curled her lips in disdain.
Although Shitou's family survived in his previous life, they only worked hard to earn some food.
Until she and Yu Lang came to the capital, the family had not changed much. The men worked hard and the women washed clothes.
This time I came to the capital like them, and I don’t know if I will be more successful.
The couple walked farther away, and then Shitou smiled and said, "Why are you talking to her? That family is full of hate, laughs, and has no good people. Stay away from them in the future to avoid getting involved." trouble."
"I know, you haven't noticed that I usually avoid them. Today, I really don't like Huang Yunqin, so I deliberately teased her to see if she dares to inquire next time?" Chen Qiuyue said with a smile.
Thinking about what they saw on the mountain today, both of them felt heavy in their hearts. More and more victims are gathering in the capital, and the wild vegetables in the mountains are almost being dug up.
"Shitou, what do you think we'll do next? You guys are so tired from helping people carry goods on the pier, and you only have to feed a few cornbreads a day. Now you can still dig some wild vegetables, but what about winter?"
Shitou was silent for a while and said: "The price of food is getting higher and higher now. I wonder what the weather will be like next year? Go back and discuss with your parents and buy all the money at home into food."
Chen Qiuyue asked in surprise: "Buy it all as grain? What will you do if something happens in the future?"
"Is there anything more important than being hungry?"
"Yeah, nothing is more important than food."
Chen Qiuyue also thought of the two months on the road to escape the famine, when she could not even buy food even if she had money.
"I don't know what happened to Sister-in-law Wenxiu and Yongchang." Shitou said worriedly.
Chen Qiuyue comforted her husband, "We should have found a place to stay. Sister-in-law Wenxiu is successful, and Mingxuan is also very powerful. And Tongtong's little husband, he looks extraordinary at first glance, and his martial arts is high. No one will dare to bully them." ."
"It would be great if that's the case. I'm afraid their roads are not smooth and there are few people. If something happens to them, they won't have anyone to help them."
The two of them started working as soon as they got home. They didn't go to the dock to work today. Mu Mu and Tietou took their wife and children to build the east house.
There were three east rooms, one for each of the three brothers, and two west rooms were built, one for the boys and one for the girls.
The trees were cut from the mountains and the soil was made by themselves at no cost. With a thatched roof built on top, their family would have settled down in Dongzhai.
Shitou placed the bundle of firewood by the south wall. There was already a lot of firewood piled there, almost enough for them to burn for a whole winter.
After dinner, Shitou called his eldest and second brothers to his parents' house to talk.
He didn't beat around the bush and asked straightforwardly: "Mom and dad, how much money does our family have?"
The uncle glanced at him and said, "Why do you ask?"
Shitou didn't make jokes as usual today. He said seriously: "Dad, take out all the money at home and exchange it all for food. I think this situation is getting worse and worse."
Mu Mu said: "It's not cost-effective to buy food now. The price of food in the city is really ridiculously high. How about we wait a little longer? Will it drop a little over time?"
We have also planted more than an acre of land and will plant wheat in two days. We can always harvest a little next year. In the spring, we can dig some wild vegetables in the mountains and we can almost harvest wheat. "
Grandpa and Tietou didn't say anything, they just sat there in deep thought.
Shitou didn't rush to persuade them. In fact, this was just his guess. There might be a bumper harvest next year. Who can say for sure.
The money was in the hands of his parents, so he could only comment on whether to buy food or not. The second person is still the one who calls the shots.
The grandfather thought about it for a long time and called his wife, "Old lady, go and take out all the money."
The old lady took out a small wooden box from under the bed, which was filled with small and large pieces of silver, as well as several silver ingots.
"They're all here. One hundred and eighty-six taels in total. I still have some copper coins in the cabinet."
The old man stared at the wooden box for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Keep fifty taels of silver for crossing the river, and use the rest to buy food."
Then he said to his three sons: "Expand the cellar that was dug some time ago. We will do it tonight. We will go to the city early tomorrow morning to buy grain. Then we will bring it back secretly so that no one can see it."
"Yes, Dad."
The cellar of their family was dug in the room where their father and mother slept.
There was also a large sack of sorghum inside. They brought it from their hometown. Although some were robbed on the way, most of them were saved.
Tietou asked his parents to go to the child's place to rest first, and the three brothers began to deepen the cellar.
When Li Yunze and Ye Yutong arrived at Qingzhou City, there were more victims at the door than before.
They did not stay here, nor did they enter the city. They took the small road directly and rushed to Qingshan Town.
