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The brothers ate calmly, not at all tempted by the porridge in Tang Yue's bowl.
When Tang Yue looked over, she found that their bowls were full of cornmeal porridge. Lin Cuicui had been pressing cornmeal whenever she had free time these past few days; she used the coarser bits to make porridge and the finer bits to make flatbread.
Tang Yue frowned slightly, "The food my brothers eat is different from what I eat."
Tang Nan chuckled, "Little sister, eat up. The brothers are strong enough that they don't need to eat such good food."
After saying that, he couldn't help but swallow.
Lin Cuicui ignored the boys and said, "Yueyue isn't feeling well, so she should eat more good food to nourish herself."
Tang Yue didn't say anything. After the brothers finished their porridge, she stood up and scooped two spoonfuls for each of them. "Brothers, eat this. I can't finish it all by myself."
It was obvious that Lin Cuicui made a bowl for her, while no one else received one.
When it was Lin Cuicui's and Old Li's turn, the two refused to accept the porridge. Tang Yue had no choice but to finish the remaining half bowl.
The three older brothers also wanted to refuse, but Tang Yue said that if they didn't drink it, she wouldn't eat it either, which made the three brothers give up the idea.
They ate just two spoonfuls of porridge each, but it took them longer than a whole bowl. It was as if they were afraid of running out of porridge.
Tang Yue felt a pang of sadness.
"Mom, aren't we rich? Why can't we eat meat?"
Lin Cuicui blurted out, "It's already a blessing that our family can have enough to eat right now."
Tang Yue disliked Lin Cuicui's words. "Is it enough to just be full? How can their standards be so low?"
Seeing her daughter pout, Lin Cuicui wanted to explain, but couldn't bring herself to speak.
Old Li rubbed Tang Yue's head and said, "Our family is large, and the work points we earn each day are definitely not enough to eat. We'll have to make up for it with money later. Besides, we don't have any other income, and that money will eventually run out."
"Isn't money earned?"
Lin Cuicui and Old Li remained silent, clearly knowing that money is earned, but where could they earn it at this time? Without a letter of introduction, to exaggerate a bit, they couldn't even leave the village.
Tang Yue also learned about the situation here. "Mom, how much would it cost if our family ate meat every month?"
Lin Cuicui's flatbread no longer tasted good. She forced it down, saying, "Pork is only eight or nine cents a pound these days. If we eat meat every day, even if it's just one pound a day, that's..."
Tang Yue has already learned the multiplication tables, and she still likes this way of doing arithmetic. "It costs at most 27 yuan a month."
Lin Cuicui looked at Tang Bei, Tang Bei nodded, and Lin Cuicui nodded in agreement. Thinking about spending 27 yuan a month on pork, Lin Cuicui couldn't help but shudder.
"Yueyue, I think we should forget about it. Our family's annual income, including your grandfather's and mother's, is only about 150 or 160 yuan. We still need to save money to buy rice and cloth, and we'll need medicine if someone gets a headache or fever."
We really don't have the money to eat meat every day.
Tang Yue was a little frustrated. She knew she couldn't buy and sell here, and her family's annual income was really too low. Where could she get the money?
Whether we can get the money or not doesn't matter, we absolutely must eat meat. No one in this family is healthy; they're all very thin.
"Can we go hunting in the mountains?"
Lin Cuicui and Old Li exchanged a glance; they really didn't know that.
“Back in Qiligou, hunters earned work points for each animal they killed, which was a bit more than what they earned from farm work. Sometimes, they could secretly keep one or two for their own family to eat. I haven’t asked about that since we came here.”
Old Li said, "They should be about the same, but the mountains here are different from ours. I didn't see any animal tracks around here today, it seems like it's quite far in."
"Yueyue, we've been living like this for so many years, it's okay not to eat meat. These days, even high-ranking officials can't eat meat every day. We're already very fortunate that our family can have enough to eat."
Tang Yue didn't say anything more. She would go up the mountain herself tomorrow and find out what was going on.
When Tang Yue tried to sleep that night, her consciousness returned to her mind, and the needle was still wreaking havoc inside her. Tang Yue was speechless. What was this thing? Why wouldn't it stop moving?
"Hey, aren't you tired? Come down and rest for a while."
The needle trembled, paused for a moment, and then continued to spin aimlessly.
Tang Yue didn't know what it was trying to do, so she simply ignored it and started channeling her mental energy into the box. After trying for a while, she realized that the box was currently just a simple sketch, and it seemed that unless she filled the box into something substantial, it wouldn't be able to hold anything.
Finally, having no other choice, Tang Yue could only slowly replenish the box with her mental energy. This time, when she had only a little mental energy left, Tang Yue stopped. That feeling of mental exhaustion was unpleasant. She decided it wasn't worth the trouble and decided not to torture herself further.
The spiritual energy here is quite abundant, and Tang Yue feels that she should be able to reach the second and a half level soon. She cultivates every night, and estimates that in another month or so, she should be able to break through to the third level of Qi Refining.
There was no other way; each level required more spiritual energy, and it was truly uncertain how far she could reach with the limited spiritual energy in this world. Now that she had no comparison to make, Tang Yue wasn't in such a hurry anymore.
Anyway, she now has enough ability to protect her family, so it doesn't seem to make much difference whether she's at a higher or lower level.
The production team had basically finished weeding. The next few days were spent picking up any weeds left in the fields for 3 work points a day. The work would be finished in no time, and the village would have a few days of leisure.
Today, Tang Yue and the four Tang brothers didn't go to the fields. Instead, they went together to the mountain to collect firewood.
Of course, this was the idea of the three Tang brothers. Tang Yue's goal was simple: she had to get the meat.
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