Li Mengyue didn't know how to use the ancient scale, so she asked the village head's wife to help her. She kept accounts and settled accounts beside her.
When she handed the two copper coins to Li Yan.
“Ahh…”
Li Yan, a grown man, burst into tears in front of everyone.
I have two locusts. I actually earned two cents in one afternoon. If I catch locusts all day, I can make five cents. If I could catch locusts and sell them earlier, Zhao Lei would not have broken off the engagement.
After crying for a while, Li Yan's face was covered with tear marks.
Li Mengyue casually picked up a piece of paper from the table for accounting and gave it to Li Yan, saying comfortingly, "Don't cry, wipe your tears quickly."
Li Yan looked at the paper in front of him. It seemed that he was still sad but couldn't bear it. He suddenly felt embarrassed.
He is about the same age as Li Mengyue, and is even two years older than Li Mengyue.
He actually cried his eyes out in front of Li Mengyue. This was definitely the darkest moment in his life. Even when his fiancée broke off the engagement, he didn't think it was a big deal. The worst that could happen was that he would be single for the rest of his life. Now he felt too ashamed to face anyone.
Li Yan cried in front of everyone, but no villager laughed at him. Instead, they all thought it was normal. If they also took the copper coins, they would probably not be much better than Li Yan.
However, it was Li Yan's crying that gave the villagers hope that the coins could really be sold for money. Didn't you see that Li Yan was still holding the copper coins tightly in his hand?
Even if they can only catch locusts for more than a month, they believe that if the whole family goes to the fields, they can catch a lot in a day, and selling a dozen or so locusts will not be a problem.
How much should it be in more than a month? At least three hundred yuan, possibly more. The catch is fast, and the family has many people, so it can probably be sold for one or two taels of silver.
Most families in Xinghua Village could not earn more than a tael of silver a year, let alone save any money, except for growing crops in the fields.
Now that the girl from the Li family is collecting locusts, they must take this opportunity to go to the fields and catch more locusts to sell for money.
After crying for a while, Li Yan felt much better due to the excitement. He wanted to take the money quickly and show it to his parents.
However, he didn't ask Li Mengyue to hand him paper, but just wiped it casually with his sleeve.
Are you kidding? Paper is such a valuable thing, how dare he use it to wipe his tears? What's more, it was brought by the village chief's wife. If his parents knew about it, they would definitely give him a beating.
So he thanked Li Mengyue and left quickly.
After Li Yan left, it was Goudan's mother's turn.
She took her son and daughter to catch locusts yesterday afternoon, and she was still very nervous when she came to Li's house.
Seeing Li Yan took the copper coins, she was not only happy for Li Yan, but also felt relieved.
After all, she was the one who grew up with Li Yan. She felt bad when she heard that Li Yan's engagement was broken off.
You should know that Li Yan, a very energetic young man, has become very decadent since Zhao Lei from Zhaojia Village broke off his engagement with him.
One time she went to the river to wash clothes and saw Li Yan sitting on a rock by the river in a daze. She called him several times in succession, but Li Yan did not respond to her.
Seeing Li Yan like this, she was very worried. She didn't even wash her clothes and quickly ran to Li Yan's house to tell her parents not to do anything stupid because of the broken engagement.
Fortunately, Li Yan came to his senses only after his parents passed away.
Li Yan saw that his parents were so old and still had to rely on him for support in their old age. If he passed away, his parents probably wouldn't be able to survive.
Although Li Yan had never been to the river since then, he looked visibly more haggard.
She felt like she didn't know what to do every day, like a "corpse" without a soul that could only eat, walk and sleep.
Now it seems that Li Yan has changed because of selling locusts. She seems to have come alive in an instant, and the smile on her lips has never faded.
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