"Brother, do you think you don't consider me your brother?" Chu Qi pretended to be sad:
"I'm only so reserved with outsiders..."
Ye Youze: "......"
This is a familiar, headache-inducing sentence pattern!
However, this was what he could not refute.
So this "negotiation" ended with Ye Youze agreeing not to go out and stay at home obediently.
But staying at home does not mean just eating and waiting to die. Right now the Ye family is not rich yet, they are still at the "ordinary" stage where they don't have to worry about food and drink.
Things that are needed for daily consumption, such as firewood, have to be chopped in the mountains.
Only a small part of the fields and houses here belong to the people, while most of the mountains belong to the royal family of the Qian Dynasty. The people can go up the mountains to cut trees and pick plants to survive.
If someone in a commoner's family dies, they can spend three ingots of silver to buy a cemetery on the mountain to bury their family members.
One ingot of silver equals one thousand copper coins, and three ingots of silver equals three thousand copper coins.
For a poor family of five, the daily expenses are generally only two or three copper coins. What does three thousand copper coins mean?
I can’t afford it even if I spend all my money!
Just like the Ye family who had spent all their wealth just to treat the disease, in order to save some burial expenses, they chose to bury Huang Ying's deceased mother behind the thatched cottage.
This is also good. For Huang Ying, her mother is buried near the ancestral home, which can be considered a return to her roots. Sometimes when she feels sad, she will run to the grave to chat with her mother and relieve her depression.
Some of the mountains have owners.
The Lord's mountain cannot be contaminated by ordinary people, as it has clear boundaries.
Those who are wealthy and powerful will even hire someone to watch the foot of the mountain to prevent others from entering the mountain.
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Having said that, Ye Youze doesn’t do nothing at home every day.
As winter passes and spring comes, the ice and snow melt, and the vegetation on the earth gradually reveals its true appearance under the warm spring sun.
The young buds on the branches are busy growing, and it is a good time to cut the old branches back for firewood.
By cutting off old branches, new branches will get more nutrients from the bark and grow faster.
This cycle repeats year after year, and the people survive like this from generation to generation.
So on the day when he was not working, Ye Youze took an axe and went up the mountain to chop firewood with the other men from Zhang Village who also had different surnames.
Chu Qi decided to go to Yu Town that day to hand in the first draft of "Love Song of the Jianghu".
Her story has been going on for several months, and this time the first draft of the story is almost finished.
At the end of the month, it will be the finale.
Because it was inconvenient to go out in the winter, Chu Qi submitted her first draft once a month.
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Chu Qi wanted to buy things needed for hot pot, and Huang Ying followed him because she was worried that he couldn't carry them.
By the way, I also sold the thirty handkerchiefs I had saved up during the winter.
During the entire three months of winter, she only made thirty pieces. Compared with the past, this time she was much more restrained.
In the past, when the handkerchief show was very good, it was possible to make two or three in a day.
But they worked so hard before because they were short of money. This time the Ye family is not so short of money, so Chu Qi took the initiative to stop Huang Ying and told her not to work so hard, fearing that she would damage her eyes.
Huang Ying is not the kind of person who would abuse herself.
When I was busy making handkerchiefs, my eyes often felt uncomfortable.
She gladly followed Chu Qi's suggestion and didn't work so hard, but she still had to make one every two or three days. This time, she paid more attention to quality and used high-quality fabrics.
In this way, this kind of handkerchief can be sold to a shopkeeper for ten cents each, and the shopkeeper can make more money by reselling it.
After not seeing each other for many days, Li Yue, the owner of Li Ji Bookstore, is still as charming as ever, still sitting behind the counter and slowly calculating with his abacus.
Chu Qi and Huang Ying walked into the bookstore. There were not many people in the bookstore at this time, as it was class time.
"Boss."
Chu Qi smiled and bowed to greet him.
Li Yue looked up from behind the counter when he heard that, and smiled back subconsciously, then stood up and said:
"I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you these days, Brother Ye?"
Seeing the woman next to Ye Qingyun, Li Yue was stunned, "Who is this?"
"This is my mother." Chu Qi introduced.
"It's your mother. Please take a seat. I'll pour you two cups of hot water."
Li Yue said hurriedly.
Huang Ying said uncomfortably, "Master, you don't have to be so polite."
Having been in the dust for so long, she had long been accustomed to being treated coldly wherever she went. It had been more than ten years since she had seen someone as enthusiastic as her boss Li Yue.
"Yes, yes, please wait."
Li Yue ran around, cleaned the cups, and then personally poured two cups of hot water for the mother and son.
Chu Qi couldn't help but smile when she saw her boss staring at her hands silently. Then she took out a thick stack of drafts from her bag.
"This is the first draft of 'Love Song of Jianghu'. It's almost the finale. I'll give it to you at the end of the month."
Chu Qi handed the first draft to the host and said.
Because Jianghu Love Song is a story that is continued after the Tongsheng Examination, and the structure of Jianghu stories is inherently more grand, Chu Qi has probably written at least 300,000 words to date.
In three months, he earned more than 30,000 copper coins, which equals more than 30 silver ingots.
Apart from the daily expenses of the Ye family and the purchase of books, Chu Qi still had at least twenty silver ingots.
Chu Qi had other plans for the money.
When I pass the imperial examination in the future, I can use the money to buy a house in the place where I work, and then the whole family can move there...
Although one can gain a lot by being greedy for money, not to mention the many risks involved, Chu Qi believes that he is not the kind of evil person who can feel at ease plundering the people's wealth.
It’s safest to earn the money for buying a house yourself.
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