Chapter 24: Money Always Goes Somewhere

"Xiao Yan, you're truly my lucky star! You've only been here a few days, and there hasn't been a single day without income at home!"

Lu Qiniang was holding two heavy ingots of silver and did not dare to stop on the road. She always felt that someone was going to steal her money, so she ran back home in one breath.

Seeing Xiao Yan, she was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes, and she didn't even think that he was annoying by still hanging around at noon.

You know, her tolerance towards San Ya is not that high.

"How much silver did you get?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Twenty taels, exactly twenty taels!" Lu Qiniang leaned close to his ear and whispered excitedly.

She couldn't say anything, otherwise Erya would have to worry about new clothes again.

This money cannot be touched.

Firstly, she wanted to save some for buying piglets in the spring and resume her pig-raising business, and secondly, she had to be prepared for any problems at home.

After all, there are so many people in the family, eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, having headaches and fevers, and social interactions, which one doesn't cost money?

If you have money in your hands, you won’t be worried.

The hot breath from her words sprayed behind Xiao Yan's ears, making his earlobes red.

Xiao Yan suddenly said, "You may have to spend some money on me."

Lu Qi Niang: "What's wrong with you?"

"I think my ribs are broken."

Lu Qi Niang: “?!”

Is this General Po Lu made of paper?

It was tattered, waiting for her to pick it up and put it back together. If she wasn't careful, it would break again...

So, Doctor Hu was invited again.

He confirmed Xiao Yan's guess.

"Don't move. I'll fix it for you and just take care of it." said Doctor Hu.

Having said that, everything is normal.

But he suddenly changed the subject, "Change the position next time. You are too big to sit on him."

Xiao Yan understood and his face instantly turned red to purple.

But Lu Qiniang didn't understand.

She complained, "What are you talking about? Who can control the way they fall? If I could control it, I wouldn't fall on him. Isn't this just ruining my money?"

"Did you accidentally fall on him?" Doctor Hu asked doubtfully.

Is there too much yellow waste in his brain?

"What else? Did I do it on purpose? What grudge do I have against him?"

Doctor Hu rolled his eyes, picked up his medicine box and walked out.

"Wait, how much is the consultation fee? I'll give it to you."

"Why, are you rich now?" Doctor Hu turned around and looked at her.

"Anyway, you can't always buy on credit. If you borrow, you must pay it back. It won't be difficult to borrow again." Lu Qiniang said vaguely.

"Fifty taels of silver." Doctor Hu held out his hand.

Lu Qiniang's eyes flickered, "Hurry up and go home for the New Year."

But Doctor Hu didn't leave.

He asked again: "Lu Qinniang, do you have any silver in your hand?"

"Not much." Lu Qiniang said hurriedly, pushing him out, "Your wife is waiting for you to come home and put up Spring Festival couplets."

"How many are there?" Doctor Hu held onto the door frame and refused to leave.

Xiao Yan felt that there was something behind the words between the two people, and Lu Qiniang was obviously guilty, as if she was deliberately hiding something.

"Where would I get the money? I'm lucky enough to feed so many mouths, where would I have any money left?"

Doctor Hu was so anxious that his face turned red and his neck became thick. Unfortunately, he was thin, with a pointed face and monkey-like appearance. In Xiao Yan's eyes, he looked like an angry monkey.

"Lu Qi Niang, I told you, you haven't recovered completely. Forty or fifty taels of silver is enough to save your life. If you want to recover, you need another forty or fifty taels! Give it to me as soon as you have money, and I'll buy you medicine. Are you saving the money to have children? Aren't you afraid that you'll earn money but not spend it?"

"Doctor Hu, what did you say?"

Erya came in, her eyes wide open. "My mother's illness hasn't healed yet? Are you crazy about money? It's New Year's Day, and you curse my mother!"

"I cursed your mother? Why don't you curse others?" Doctor Hu was also angry. This was a questioning of his professional ethics. "Did I tell your mother today? When I saved her that day, I... Uh-huh——"

It turned out that Lu Qiniang covered his mouth.

"It's okay, Erya, just listen to his nonsense, he's drunk."

"Mom, let him go." Erya gritted her teeth, her eyes full of tears, and just stared at Lu Qin's mother.

Lu Qi's mother was very afraid of this little hot pepper and smiled awkwardly: "It's okay, Mom is fine."

"Let him go!" Tears welled up in Arya's eyes, and she stamped her feet. "If you don't let him go, you must be guilty! Okay, you won't let him go, right?"

She banged her head against the wall.

Xiao Yan was shocked and almost subconsciously tried to stop her, but his broken bones were affected and he felt a piercing pain.

Lu Qiniang quickly let go of Divine Doctor Hu and hugged Erya. With lingering fear, she slapped her on the butt a few times, "Are you trying to scare me to death? You're such a stubborn person, you bang your head against the wall when you're upset. Just pretend to scare me, don't do it for real!"

"Doctor Hu, tell me, if you're lying you're not a human being!" Erya struggled and shouted, "Sister, sister, come in and listen!"

Doctor Hu looked at Lu Qiniang and said, "They are not children anymore, and you are still hiding this from them!"

He sat down on the edge of the kang and rubbed his mouth, which was sore from being pressed by Lu Qi Niang. "You woman, why are you so stubborn? How long can you keep this secret?"

Seeing that she couldn't hide it any longer, Lu Qiniang angrily said, "Isn't it just a few years of life lost? It's not like I'm going to die immediately. Can't I make more money after the New Year?"

"You're going to have to endure it all! I told you back then that the medicine I gave you would make you fat, which would..." Doctor Hu seemed to have some reservations and didn't explain clearly, "After saving your life, you have to take medicine again to lose weight, only then can you fully recover."

"Then why didn't you cure my mother completely? Because you had no money?" Erya asked crying, "You should have told us."

"What's the point of telling you? Three or five taels can kill a person, let alone forty or fifty taels." said Doctor Hu.

"Er Ya, don't cry. Don't listen to him. He says that few people can survive. Am I not fine?"

"Forty taels of silver, right?" Erya gritted her teeth. "Forty taels is enough?"

"almost."

"Okay, you wait." Erya looked at Daya, "Sister, the Zhou Mansion is looking for a maid, and the two of us together can definitely sell for forty taels."

Teenage girls are the most valuable.

Because even if they stay at home, they can still get married for a dowry, so the price remains high.

"Shut up!" Lu Qiniang was furious. "If I spend the money you earn from selling your bodies on medical treatment, I might as well die right now!"

In order to put an end to Erya's idea, she took out the twenty taels of silver she had just obtained.

"What's forty taels of silver?" she said casually, "Don't I already have twenty taels? We'll make more money together after the New Year. Good girl, don't cry, it's the New Year! I hope mother lives a long life to see you get married and have children!"

"Twenty taels of silver, that's still twenty taels short." Erya ignored her and said to herself, "Okay, okay, Doctor Hu, you wait here, I'll find twenty taels of silver right away."