Even the cheapest vegetarian noodle soup costs three cents a bowl.
Poor students usually choose to eat steamed buns for three meals a day or cook the food they bring from home.
The original owner's daily food expenses were three cents.
That’s 90 cents a month.
This does not include additional tuition fees and the cost of writing materials, ink, paper and inkstone.
Every month, his family had a hard time supporting him and he was literally living on a tight budget.
Ever since the original owner became addicted to gambling, he hasn't had a full meal every day for a long time.
In order to save more money for gambling, he only ate one steamed bun a day, or food like sweet potato bran brought from home.
Sometimes I don’t eat for a whole day and only drink cold water.
I have not lost weight to death in these two years, all thanks to the monthly subsidy from my eldest brother and the semi-annual subsidy from my younger sisters.
Chu Qi copied books for three days. He only earned four cents on the first day because he was not skilled. On the second day, he became skilled and could earn six cents.
After three days, excluding the two cents spent on the first day, the three cents spent every day thereafter, plus the one cent given by her mother, Chu Qi now has nine cents saved.
These nine cents are comparable to the income of my brother from carrying a bag for two days.
It was getting dark, and Chu Qi caught up with the closing time of the steamed bun shop and bought two multi-grain steamed buns made of white flour mixed with bran powder.
I held one in my hand and ate it, and put the other in a cloth bag to be eaten tomorrow.
Just as she was about to return to the school dormitory, Chu Qi caught a glimpse of a few skinny men in tattered clothes with wandering eyes walking towards her.
Her expression remained unchanged. She swallowed the mouthful of steamed bun in her mouth and stuffed most of the remaining bun into the cloth bag.
"Brother Ye, why haven't I seen you come to the casino recently..."
A thin man with messy hair and a slightly foul body odor wiped his nose and asked Chu Qi with a grin.
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