Zhang Village, Yuzhou, Ye Family.
In March of the new year, Zhuang Qiuling was already three months pregnant.
Because he had been wandering for more than half a year, he was often hungry and very thin. He stayed at the Ye family for a month, but the food he ate every day was not good, so he did not come back.
Look, Ye Youze married her just one month after returning home. During the bridal chamber, she suffered from morning sickness in the third month.
That is to say, from having a family to becoming pregnant, it takes no more than three months.
This never happened in the original plot. After all, the original owner hadn't gotten pregnant for so long. How could she have expected that she would get pregnant just after getting married to the eldest brother?
Before leaving, Chu Qi was worried that Zhuang Qiuling was too weak to endure the pain of pregnancy, so she specifically told her mother and grandmother that the food money she saved would be used to nourish Zhuang Qiuling.
Keep half of the eggs laid by the hen for hatching, and keep the other half for Zhuang Qiuling to eat. Don’t sell them.
No matter what other things the family members say, they must listen to their youngest son/grandson.
Furthermore, the 90 cents saved every month in food expenses is indeed equivalent to the money earned from selling eggs, so as Chu Qi said, half of it will be kept to continue hatching chicks, and the other half will be given to the daughter-in-law/granddaughter-in-law to nourish their bodies.
Originally, during the Spring Festival, an old hen hatched five chicks. Another hen, after laying enough eggs, also started hatching chicks.
When Ye Zhang was catching insects for the two old hens in the morning to nourish their bodies, she touched the two remaining edible eggs, frowned and whispered to Huang Ying:
"It's bad. The hen won't lay eggs after incubating them. Once these two are eaten, my grandson's wife will have nothing to eat."
Zhuang Qiuling is in her third month of pregnancy and her belly is not yet noticeable. She is currently sweeping the fallen leaves outside the door with a broom and has no idea that her mother-in-law and grandmother are worried about her nutrition.
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It is too expensive to buy eggs outside, one cent each. Even though Chu Qi saves ninety cents every month, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are still reluctant to spend it.
First, the whole family has to eat millet porridge every day. Although millet porridge is much cheaper than white rice, it still costs ten cents per pound.
Ninety cents can't buy much, and I have to buy medicine for Mr. Ye regularly every month, so I have to be even more frugal.
After all the calculations, how can I dare to buy eggs outside?
Huang Ying also frowned as she looked at the old hen with her three or four month old chicks not far away. They were too small, and it would take a long time to wait for them to grow up enough to lay eggs. Her daughter-in-law could not wait that long.
"No matter what, my daughter-in-law needs to nourish her body. After all, she is pregnant. Let's not buy millet porridge. It's the same if she eats some bran powder..." After thinking it over, she came up with a compromise.
Ye Zhang nodded and said, "That's good..."
With just two sentences, the family decided to return to their previous life, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had no reluctance at all.
Just as the two were whispering, Zhuang Qiuling's joyful voice rang out from the door:
"My husband, you're home."
Huang Ying and Ye Zhang looked at each other, then stood up and went out to greet them.
My son is away from home all year round and can only come home once a month.
Every time I go home, my family members are inevitably excited.
Ye Youze had only been living with his wife for a short time. This time, when he went out to work and came home, they hadn't seen each other for almost a month. However, because they had slept in the same bed for many days, he didn't feel much strangeness at this moment.
There was no sense of strangeness, but facing his beautiful daughter-in-law, his face turned red again, and he said "hmm" in a tepid manner, not as comfortable as when facing his younger brother, and said with concern:
"I'm back. My dear wife, are you doing well lately?"
Zhuang Qiuling touched her belly unconsciously and nodded with a smile: "My mother-in-law and grandmother took good care of me."
Soon, in the main room, Ye Zhang, Huang Ying, Zhuang Qiuling and Ye Youze sat around the eight-immortal table.
Ye Youze mysteriously took out a thick cloth bag. When he placed it on the table, there was a slight clinking sound.
"Grandma, mother, I've made a lot of money outside," he said with a silly and honest smile:
"He asked me to bring this copper coin home. He told me to buy some more food to nourish our bodies."
The cloth bag was spread out, and a pool of copper coins also scattered.
A total of five hundred copper coins, fifty copper coins in a string, a total of ten strings of money.
To be honest, except Ye Youze, who here hasn't seen the "big world"?
Five hundred coins were not considered much in the past, but for the Ye family, which was now in dire straits, it was truly a windfall.
With this money, Zhuang Qiuling no longer has to worry about buying an egg every day!
However, contrary to Ye Youze's expectations, his family members did not show much joy.
The air was silent for a few breaths,
Ye Zhang was worried: "Isn't Qingyun busy with school? How can he have so much money?"
Huang Ying was shocked and said, "Qingyun clearly said that the job he was looking for was copying books, and he could earn two or three coins a day at most. How could he have saved five hundred coins in two months? And he had to buy pens, ink, paper, and inkstones. How could he have saved so much?"
Zhuang Qiuling was not very clear about the situation in her husband's family and chose to remain silent.
Ye Youze was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then he slapped his head and said with a smile:
"Look at my memory, I forgot to tell you what I said.
I don't copy books anymore. I write stories and sell them instead. I sold quite a few stories in the past few days and earned more than a thousand coins!
He also said that there was no need to send money to him for the expenses for the past two months, as he could handle it himself.
Selling stories actually makes so much money!
When these words came out, the whole family was shocked.
Ye Zhang took a sip of water, and her wrinkled face showed a look of relief and worry:
"My dear grandson is really..... Tell him that we can still make up for his expenses. Focus on studying. Remember not to neglect your studies just to make money. That would be counterproductive."
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