Chapter 40 The Remaining Silver
Madam Liang nodded, "Alright, alright, I'll go again in a bit." Such good food, such a big bowl is too little.
No sooner had she finished speaking than Lu Sanzhu, who was slurping noodles, looked up, swallowed two strands of meat, and said, "Don't go."
"Why? Don't worry, I'll go with Da Bao this time. Da Bao is a child, and your sister-in-law wouldn't feel comfortable refusing, would she?"
Lu Sanzhu sighed, "If it were just Second Sister-in-law, of course there would be no problem, but now there's Er Ya too..." He clicked his tongue twice, shook his head and said, "Let's forget about it."
"Is Er Ya difficult to deal with?"
"More than just difficult to deal with." Lu Sanzhu suddenly paused, then sighed with a hint of emotion. "I'm afraid Second Brother's family will only get better and better in the future. We'd better not offend Er Ya in the future, understand?"
He pointed to the bowl of noodles in front of him, "We didn't eat these noodles for nothing."
Liang disagreed. She knew that Er Ya was a martial arts expert, but she was an elder, and Da Bao was just a child. Could she possibly lay a hand on them?
However, since the family always listened to Lu Laosan, and he had already said so, Liang Shi naturally couldn't do anything more. She could only reluctantly give her son another third of her bowl of noodles.
After dinner, it got dark, and the Lu family finally finished the whole bowl of noodles.
The Ruan family had finally had a full meal, and they were so full they needed to digest. This was the first time in their lives they had experienced something like this.
After that, Madam Ruan didn't let Shuyu do any more work. She and Dahu and Sanya efficiently finished all the tasks, including washing pots and pans, feeding the chickens, and tidying up the yard.
Shu Yu went back into the house and took the opportunity to take out her money bag and start counting the money.
When she left the Shu family, she didn't take a single penny from them. Most of the Shu family's money was tainted; the eldest patriarch of the Shu family was ruthless in amassing wealth. When the Shu family was exiled three months later, these accounts would be thoroughly investigated by the officials in charge of the case.
Although Shu Yu knew she couldn't escape exile, she didn't want to be accused of another crime when she was being held accountable.
She still wanted to get away as soon as possible after being exiled, to avoid trouble as much as possible, especially since taking the Shu family's money would be troublesome and worrying.
So when she left the city, she only had the sixty taels of silver she had earned.
Sixty taels of silver, of which at least fifteen taels would be for Lu Erbai to treat his leg.
Just in case, Shu Yu prepared twenty taels of silver for him.
Excluding that part, the rest was her travel expenses from the prefectural city, which cost one and a half taels for renting a car.
After that, there were still things to buy, such as meat, snacks, rice, flour, and cooking oil for today, plus the cost of her meals outside, which brought her to about 500 coins.
So now she only has thirty-eight taels of silver left to spend.
Thirty-eight taels was a large sum for the villagers of Shangshi Village; many families probably didn't even have half of that amount in their savings.
But for Shu Yu, it was still too little. She would need the money for many things in the future, so it seemed that her top priority was to earn money as soon as possible.
Just then, there was a knocking sound at the door.
Shu Yu put the silver away and got up to open the door.
Then she saw Madam Ruan come in with a sewing basket, smiling as she said to her, "I see the hem of your clothes is torn, let me mend it for you."
Shu Yu was taken aback and looked down at her dress.
The hem of her skirt was indeed torn. It happened today when she was confronting Granny Ruan and the others, and it was accidentally torn by a splinter while she was standing in front of Madam Ruan.
(End of this chapter)
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