The purses that Xia Daohua gave to the doctor and the midwife were not embroidered by herself, but were made by Jiang.

Since Jiang became pregnant, Xia Youtian and the children had taken on almost all the housework. Jiang, who couldn't sit still, had some free time, so she simply did a lot of embroidery.

She made a lot of small items such as silk handkerchiefs, purses, fan covers, insoles, shoe uppers, and table screens.

Xia Youtian has been very busy recently and has no time to sell embroidery, so Xia Daohua took on this task.

She sent part of them to the embroidery workshop in the town and got the market price. She then secretly sent most of the embroidery products to the space supermarket and exchanged them for supermarket coins.

Jiang's craftsmanship was excellent, and the supermarket offered a better price than the embroidery workshop. Xia Daohua used Jiang's embroidery to offset the bulk of her pickles from the supermarket, and she actually made a profit.

Xia Daohua went to the embroidery workshop twice and sold Jiang's works to the Space Supermarket twice.

Later, he simply kept most of the purses made by Jiang, put copper coins of varying amounts, small silver coins, and small-denomination silver bills in them, and temporarily placed them in the storage area of the space supermarket for use.

Although she doesn't need to use these preparations very often at the moment, they will come in handy sooner or later.

As for other embroidery products, they were simply sold to Space Supermarket.

After all, the Space Supermarket is very generous in paying, and the price is twice as high as that offered by the embroidery workshop, and it also has a twist.

Ever since Wulang started attending the village school, there have been two more people in the family who get up early before dawn and the roosters crow.

One is Goro.

Every morning he would go out under the stars, full of energy, carrying a small school box on his back, and walk about ten miles along the mountain road to go to the village school in the neighboring village to study.

Another one is pear blossom.

As the eldest sister, she gets up every morning to prepare breakfast for the whole family.

Xia Daohua felt that this was too tiring, so she bought some steamed buns from the space supermarket, but was scolded by Lihua:

"I know you can make money, but no matter how much you make, you can't spend it like this!

Just this small steamed bun can be exchanged for three such big three-grain dough balls!

The three-grain steamed bread we eat now is already very good, and it fills us up every time. Why do we have to eat such refined white flour?"

Xia Daohua was a little unhappy because she was scolded by Lihua.

Isn’t the purpose of making money to spend it?

However, seeing Lihua's distressed look, and thinking that before he traveled through time, Lihua might have always lived a life of eating dry food during the busy farming season and liquid food during the slack farming season, he could somewhat understand her feelings and said nothing.

Seeing that Xia Daohua was listening attentively, Lihua also softened her tone:

"I know you are capable, but even if we become rich overnight, we can't get carried away and forget our roots."

Seeing that Lihua was about to start a long speech, Xia Daohua nodded repeatedly, pretending to be extremely well-behaved and obedient. She also secretly reminded Lihua to take care of Wulang who had not yet had breakfast. Finally, Lihua remembered the important matter and stopped poisoning her ears.

Xia Daohua complained secretly, since you are so frugal, sister Lihua, don’t blame me for not inviting you next time when we eat something delicious!

After all, if I could be scolded for eating a steamed bun, then I would be eating whatever I want every day, even if Lihua saw me.

So in the following days, Xia Daohua happily ate secretly every day, hiding from Lihua, so that she could smell some of the fragrance.

Lihua wrinkled her nose several times in confusion: "What smells so good?" But she couldn't place it, so she just thought the neighbor had cooked something delicious and the smell was drifting over on the wind.

Xia Daohua covered her belly and laughed until she was out of breath. Linghua found out and secretly formed an alliance with Xia Daohua, and also joined in the laughter.

This went on for seven or eight days before Xia Daohua stopped her childish behavior and stopped teasing Lihua.

In fact, Lihua’s suggestion is not wrong.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

For a family in its rising stage, maintaining a consistent frugal lifestyle is a good thing and a correct strategy.

However, Xia Daohua possessed an endless space supermarket, where the goods were refreshed every 24 hours. For Xia Daohua, it was too difficult to expect her to guard a mountain of treasure while she had to eat coarse food.

Of course, Xia Daohua is not against frugality.

However, for her, thriftiness simply means not wasting, not "not eating what you don't use" or "using the worse when you have the better."

But Xia Daohua and Lihua have different ideas, and Xia Daohua has no intention of convincing her.

Actually, the family is rich now. Lihua and the others are just not used to it yet.

As long as Lihua gradually realizes this, her living standards in terms of food, clothing, and daily necessities will naturally improve.

However, when it comes to spending money, it's easy to spend too much without realizing it.

Xia Daohua had made up her mind. She would set up several separate account books and let Lihua, Wulang, and Linghua manage one each.

This will not only help cultivate their awareness of saving, but also make them feel more involved and have a sense of ownership in family life. It can also be an opportunity to instill some financial management skills and experience in them.

Even if the family's life gets better and better in the future, or even if they achieve a class transition, I believe that through this deliberate training, Lihua and the others will not grow up to be playboys who spend money lavishly.

If Xia Daohua knew about Dafang's situation at this time, she would definitely have a deeper understanding of "It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality."

These days, the eldest wife is having a hard time.

In order to treat Xia Youcai's illness, he had to go to Pujitang for acupuncture every three days.

Although the person who performed the treatment was Doctor Wang's apprentice, Xia Youcai was considered Doctor Wang's patient, so the charging standard was the highest in Pujitang.

Moreover, the medicines used are good and expensive.

Ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Tianshan Snow Lotus, whatever is expensive is used.

Xia Youcai cherishes his life very much. No matter how expensive the medicine prescribed by Pujitang is, he is willing to use it on himself.

All the money in the house flowed out like water.

Xia Youcai's family got used to being served. They didn't care about anything, and they were reluctant to even help if the oil bottle fell over.

All the housework fell on Zhu, the daughter-in-law with the lowest status.

Zhu was alone, having to take care of the infant A Liu and do the housework. She was so busy that she often had to deal with more problems than she could handle.

The food I cook is either too salty, too bland, or burnt, or there is too much oil and not enough vinegar... In short, there are all kinds of problems.

Zhu was busy, tired, and heartbroken. She saw her plump, fair, and plump young wife becoming thinner and more haggard day by day.