Chapter 3 Making Money

She was the only one at home. Liu Yinyin looked at the sky and saw that it was getting late, so she started to make lunch.

Lunch is similar to breakfast, and the staple food is wild vegetable Wowotou.

As for vegetables...they haven't grown in the fields yet, and it's the lean period between harvest and harvest. Apart from a few cabbages and radishes, all we have at home are some pickled vegetables and dried vegetables that were dried last year.

Liu Yinyin stir-fried some pickled vegetables and braised some dried beans.

After thinking for a while, she picked three eggs from the big bowl in the cupboard and planned to fry them.

Farm work is hard, and the whole family has to eat some meat, otherwise their health will be damaged.

Jiang Cuihua knew how many eggs were in the bowl. In the past, when they made scrambled eggs at home, they would only put three at most, and Liu Yinyin couldn't take more.

However...she thought about it and spent six dollars to buy a pound of eggs from the system, a total of eight eggs.

Liu Yinyin took one and mixed it with the eggs, smashed it and cooked the vegetables, and put the rest back into the system warehouse.

Yes, Liu Yinyin discovered that the system also has a warehouse function, which can store unused items and keep them fresh.

However, the warehouse is limited to storing items purchased from the system. Items from outside cannot be placed in it.

For fear that others might notice something, Liu Yinyin didn't dare take more things.

As noon approached, the other members of the Liu family came back from work to have lunch.

After working for a whole morning, the whole family was too tired to talk, so they started eating right after returning home.

"Hey, Yinyin, how many eggs did you use to cook?" Having been cooking for most of her life, Jiang Cuihua noticed at a glance that the amount of scrambled eggs in the bowl was not right.

We have six hens at home. Although we can lay four or five eggs a day, most of the eggs have to be saved to exchange for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. We can't eat as many as we can.

The other people in the family didn't react much, or rather... they even wished there were a few more eggs so that they could have more to eat.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Cuihua's eyes were so sharp. Liu Yinyin's heart skipped a beat. She forced a smile and said, "Mom, I only used three eggs..."

After he finished speaking, he paused and continued with a smug look, "But I thought everyone was tired from working, so I picked three large eggs, so it seems a bit too much."

Liu Yinyin felt sympathetic. It seemed that she was still a little too naive. After this lesson, she dared not use this method to improve the family's food again.

Mother Liu and her two sisters-in-law were all used to working in the kitchen, so they could tell at a glance that something was wrong.

Jiang Cuihua breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, thinking that the young lady was not an ignorant person.

Liu Laifu waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's eat."

I can take a nap at noon after eating early, as I still have to go to work in the afternoon.

Just like in the morning, Liu Yinyin got two wild vegetable nests. She had eaten a big meat bun in the morning, so she was not very hungry at this moment.

Thinking of this, Liu Yinyin broke off half of the nest and gave it to Liu Zhizhi. The little girl was seven years old and still had to help with housework.

But just like his younger brothers and sisters, he only had one small bowl of rice for each meal, which never made him full.

When Liu Zhizhi saw that there was half a nest of rice in the bowl, her eyes lit up: "Thank you, auntie."

Mrs. Liu curled her lips when she saw this, thinking that this sister-in-law was really good at putting on a show and using the family's food to do favors.

If she can't eat that much, she can cook less and save some food.

In the afternoon, Liu Yinyin and others went to work in the fields. Only then did she put on a straw hat and carry a basket to go out to dig wild vegetables.

She had these two days off, so she had to take the opportunity to dig more wild vegetables and sell them to the system to make money. If nothing else, she could have some extra money to secretly buy some food to satisfy her hunger.

Otherwise... thinking about the original owner's long-term diet, she, who came from the afterlife, couldn't endure eating like this every day.

Liu Yinyin spent the entire afternoon digging wild vegetables in the mountains and only returned home when the sun was about to set.

After a busy afternoon, the harvest was quite good. In addition to wild vegetables, Liu Yinyin also picked a lot of wild mushrooms.

Except for the ones in the basket, Liu Yinyin sold all the others to the system, and the system balance increased from 35 yuan to 280 yuan.

If it wasn't so late, Liu Yinyin would be reluctant to go home.

As night falls, the countryside nights are especially peaceful.

There were no cell phones or televisions at that time, and there was not even electricity in the countryside. Everyone went to bed after dinner.

Liu Yinyin has been a night owl all her life. It was so early now and she was lying in bed unable to sleep.

It's easy to have wild thoughts when you can't sleep. To be honest, Liu Yinyin's mind is quite confused right now.

Perhaps, she needs to think carefully about how to live in the future.

The Liu family... Actually, except for Mrs. Liu, everyone else was pretty nice to her.

However, family affection cannot withstand consumption.

Jiang Cuihua could protect her for a while, but not for a lifetime.

No matter how good the relationship is, it will eventually fade away if you keep quarreling.

However, Liu Yinyin was confused...

If not at the Liu family, where else could she go?

These days, you need a letter of introduction before you go out.

Houses and jobs in the city are extremely difficult to come by, and you can’t buy them even if you have money, not to mention that she is a penniless person.

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Suddenly thinking of something, Liu Yinyin lit the kerosene lamp, climbed up and opened a large box at the end of the bed.

This was her wedding dowry, which contained a new quilt and some clothes of the original owner.

When the Liu family came to pick her up, they remembered to take the box with them.

According to the original owner's memory, Liu Yinyin took out a pair of blue wide-leg pants, which were bought for the original owner by Gu Cheng when they got married.

Liu Yinyin took out a few large group photos from a pocket on the side of her pants.

I counted them and found there were ten in total.

Of these ten reunion cards, five were given by Mr. and Mrs. Liu.

Gu's family was well-off and Gu Cheng was a soldier, so he received a lot of allowance every month. However, Liu's father and mother were concerned about their daughter's happiness.

When they were discussing marriage, they didn't ask for much in the form of a dowry. According to the market price in the village, only 80 yuan was required.

On the wedding day, I gave her fifty dollars to keep in my pocket...

There are five more cards that Gu Cheng left for the original owner when he returned to the army.

No one else in the Gu family knew about this money, otherwise... based on the original owner's personality, it would probably have been confiscated by Gu's mother.

This one hundred yuan is all Liu Yinyin has now.

Is one hundred yuan too much?

In fact, in this era, it is indeed a huge sum of money.

Liu Yinyin put the money away carefully. It was not easy to make money these days, and this money must not be touched unless it was a critical moment.

Although I have enough money for now, the most urgent thing is to find a place to live.

I definitely can't live in the Liu family permanently. Liu Yinyin has a system in her body, and it would be a shame not to use such a good treasure.

But it is inconvenient to do anything in the Liu family, and even if I want to improve the food, I have to be cautious.