Chapter 36 Chapter 36 He is so good-looking, but so poor...

Seeing Fu Mingze leave after he finished speaking, Shen Moer stood there holding the wicker box, frowned at his back, and secretly muttered in her heart, "weird".

Since he didn't want it, Shen Moer naturally wouldn't force it, so she took the box and put it back into the house.

Originally, she thought that she and her father didn't have many things, so they could just put them in one box. Now that Fu Mingze didn't want it, she and her father would each have a box, and they didn't have to put them together.

After putting the box away, Shen Moer went to close the gate.

Although it was broad daylight, her house was located in a place where it was not the busy farming season, and there was no one nearby during the day. If something really happened, she couldn't call anyone even if she wanted to.

Shen Moer kicked the stone on the top of the door, and an idea suddenly came to her mind. She couldn't help but stare at the ordinary stone for a few seconds.

She felt that Fu Zhiqing seemed a little unhappy since she kicked the stone against the door.

Thinking about what he said about "maybe you will feel the need to keep a proper distance from other people", Shen Moer blinked and thought, is it what she thinks?

Not sure, let's wait and see.

With nothing else to do in the afternoon, Shen Moer cut some paper and pasted it on the windows of the new house. In fact, hanging curtains is the best, but unfortunately the fabric is too difficult to buy, so it can only be made like this for now.

Otherwise, the glass window is transparent when looking out from the inside and looking in from the outside, and it will be very uneasy to live in. Fortunately, the windows were high, so only the bottom row needed to be pasted up, and the top row could be left alone.

After pasting up the windows, Shen Moer sorted out the things in the house and put the more valuable things into boxes.

After everything was done, Shen Moer went into the treasure house to sort it out.

The gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and jade in the treasure house were all collected by her father year after year. These things were accounted for, but she was not quite clear, but her father knew it in his heart.

However, after the rebels besieged the city, the people below hurriedly packed up the things, and the father and daughter actually didn't know.

The treasury is huge, with shelves stacked on shelves and boxes stacked on boxes. They have never had time to count them carefully, so now when she is free, Shen Moer will go to the treasury to "hunt for treasures".

Every time before opening a box, she has no idea what is inside. What else is this but treasure hunting?

Of course, not every time she opens a box, she is pleasantly surprised. Sometimes she opens it with expectation, but when she looks at it, she is in a dilemma.

For example, last time, she opened a sandalwood box, thinking that there must be some precious items inside. As a result, it can be said that it is precious. The deeds of the manors around Daliang City and the deeds of the shops and houses in the capitals of the surrounding countries, if it had not been changed in time and space, it would have been a huge fortune. Unfortunately, in this world, like those banknotes that are deposited and exchanged in various countries, they have become a pile of waste paper.

Because the things in the treasure house are basically useless to them now, Shen Moer is not very enthusiastic about "treasure hunting". She will only come in to play around when she has nothing to do.

But she was lucky today. She opened a box and found it was full of neatly arranged fabrics. Moreover, they were not the precious fabrics that her father collected, but relatively common fabrics. They looked like fabrics purchased by the mansion to make clothes for the maids.

Unfortunately, it was satin, and the color was a bit fancy, so it would still be quite conspicuous when taken out.

Shen Moer thought about it, closed the box and pushed it open, and took out the two boxes under this box and simply opened them all.

This time it was a big surprise. One box also contained satin, but in plain colors such as white, black, blue, and brown, while the other box contained cotton, pure white cotton!

Shen Moer was happier than if she had found a box of rare treasures.

This cotton cloth looks slightly different from the cloth sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives in this world, but this is only a difference in craftsmanship, and it cannot be seen without careful observation.

The key is that China has countless textile factories of all sizes, and the production processes of each factory are slightly different. When the cloth is so scarce, no one will care about these things. She can definitely use these cloths.

Shen Moer was very excited and searched near these boxes again. Sure enough, she found several boxes of cloth.

This is normal. Her family is a royal palace, and they have countless supplies all year round. It was just that they were too confused at the time and did not have time to pack many things. Otherwise, it is estimated that this huge treasure house may not be able to hold them.

In fact, the palace also prepared a lot of food such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, etc., but when her father dismissed everyone, he distributed everything to everyone. After all, the rebels besieged the city for a long time, and food was the most important thing, regardless of other things.

The father and daughter did not hide food in the treasury. After all, they could not make a fire in the treasury, and it was useless to hide food. Besides, although the father and daughter hid in the treasury, they were actually prepared to die for their country.

They only hid some dry food and snacks in the treasury, which they ate up later.

If she had known that she would be transferred to this world of food and clothing shortages, she would have hidden hundreds or thousands of dan of food in the treasury.

What a pity, I should have known earlier that money can’t buy anything!

Shen Moer sighed secretly, but soon she became happy again. Finding so many cloths was almost like finding food. After all, in this world, cloth is simply the so-called "hard currency".

Shen Moer was very happy. She took out a batch of cotton cloths, covered several boxes and tidied them up. She didn't continue "treasure hunting" and prepared to go out with the batch of cotton cloths.

At this moment, there was a sudden bang from behind. Shen Moer turned her head and saw a leather box rolling down from a high place.

Maybe she bumped into the box over there when she was looking for cloths before, and this box happened to be placed high, so it might not be placed firmly and fell down.

The box was solid, and it didn't break or fall apart after falling. Shen Moer was curious and simply opened it to have a look. Then she found that it was actually a box of precious ingredients, including bird's nests, sea cucumbers, fish glue... Shen Moer's eyes lit up.

After looking at the place where the box fell, she immediately moved another box down and opened it. Wow, it was actually a box of medicinal materials. She

moved down another wooden box, and wow, it was actually neatly stacked hams! After

turning over several boxes in a row, Shen Moer found several boxes of food and medicinal materials.

Shen Moer stared blankly at the boxes in front of her, thinking of the time when the rebels besieged the city and the chaos in the city. Her father dismissed the servants in the mansion and asked them to go back to be with their families. However, the old steward Fu Bo led a group of people to pack up several carts of things and sent them to the treasury, and then left, wiping his tears.

Now that I think about it, this loyal old steward really packed up everything he could think of and thought could be packed up.

But little did he know that these things he packed up with such loyalty, which he himself might not have thought would really come in handy at first, were now extremely useful things to them, father and daughter.

Shen Moer spent a lot of time organizing all these things before she came out of the treasure house with a batch of cotton cloth and a ham.

When she came out, she saw that it was almost time to cook dinner, so she put the cotton cloth into the rattan box, took the ham into the kitchen, and cut the meat into pieces with a kitchen knife.

She happened to buy two rattan boxes, so Shen Moer put the things in the old wooden box into the rattan box, wiped the old wooden box, and used it to store rice, flour, and salted meat.

It is estimated that the original father and daughter were too poor and had little food in their home. Since Shen Moer traveled through time, she has never seen mice at home. But there is no guarantee that there will be no mice in the future, so it is safer to put the food in boxes.

Of course, it is better to put a cabinet in the stove, so that the dishes and chopsticks do not have to be placed directly in an enamel pot like now.

Every time this happens, Shen Moer has to sigh. This family is really poor and penniless!

I don’t know how the original father and daughter, two good and decent laborers, can live like this?

Shen Moer always felt that there was a lot of work to be done, such as furniture. In addition to the cabinets, she actually needed a proper dining table, as well as higher stools, a desk for writing, shelves for boxes and cages... Of course, it would be best to build a five-drawer cabinet to store things.

But they couldn't build everything at once. Not to mention that they couldn't come up with so much money at once, even if they could, it wouldn't be appropriate. Her family's new house would be eye-catching enough.

Shen Moer thought about building an octagonal table and a desk first. Eating and writing, these two things are the most urgent.

While she was thinking, she prepared dinner.

She cooked a pot of mixed grain rice and fried two dishes, one was fried cowpea with bacon, and the other was fried eggs with leeks. Even though there were only two simple dishes, the food quality of this group was probably one of the best in the entire Yangliu Brigade.

Shen Shaoyuan came back just after the meal was ready. He had been walking for a long time and was already hungry. He fetched some water to wash up, then sat down, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing the dish of fried bacon with cowpea, Shen Shaoyuan paused with his chopsticks and asked in surprise: "Did you buy it at the mahjong market today?"

Shen Moer laughed: "No, Dad, you would never guess."

Shen Shaoyuan looked at her, picked up a thin slice of bacon and put it in his mouth, chewed it, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "This is the ham from Wuzhou!"

Shen Moer nodded with a smile: "I found it in the treasury."

Her father was not good at other things, but he was really good at eating, drinking and having fun. That's why the emperor's uncle would give some to the palace every time he got some good things from the tribute, as if he was afraid that his brother would be hungry.

Shen Shaoyuan thought about it and sighed: "Uncle Fu is thoughtful."

The father and daughter were silent for a while.

Although they were lucky enough to escape the disaster because of the change of time and space, they also left the time and space they were familiar with forever, and it was impossible for them to see their relatives and friends again.

They didn't know whether the capital had fallen, and whether the people they knew were still safe?

Shen Shaoyuan quickly adjusted his mood and changed the subject: "You met that Zhang Junliang today, right? How was he?"

Shen Moer told her about the encounter between them and their mother in Sparrow City and the meeting afterwards. Shen Shaoyuan frowned slightly, not very satisfied: "Even if you don't live with your mother-in-law, his mother is so difficult and unreasonable, and conflicts are inevitable in the future. This Zhang Junliang is not a good match."

Shen Moer was confident that even if she met an unreasonable mother-in-law, she would not suffer any loss. Shen Shaoyuan, as an old father, didn't want his daughter to suffer any grievances.

Shen Moer thought for a moment and said, "Zhang Junliang is quite modest and polite."

Shen Shaoyuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is he good-looking?"

Shen Moer shook her head, "He can only be described as decent."

Shen Shaoyuan: "That's even more inappropriate."

His Moer likes good-looking people. If Zhang Junliang is good-looking, she can barely consider him. If he is average-looking, there is really no need to consider him.

Shen Shaoyuan frowned. He naturally knew that in their current situation, it was impossible to carefully select a son-in-law from the handsome young men like they did in Daliang, but he really didn't want his daughter to just find someone to marry because of this.

"If it doesn't work, then don't recruit a son-in-law. At worst, I can find a way to live near your in-laws in the future." Shen Shaoyuan said.

Shen Moer didn't think so far ahead. She just thought Zhang Junliang looked like a decent person. She never thought that they could get married after just one meeting. So she thought she could meet him again to give him another chance. In addition, she was really interested in watching a movie, so she didn't directly reject his invitation.

Of course, this was a different time. She suddenly had an epiphany and had already decided not to meet Zhang Junliang again. Now she saw that her father looked very dissatisfied, so she said, "Then you can go back and tell Chief Xu to cancel."

Shen Shaoyuan nodded, and the father and daughter reached a consensus, and the matter was over.

Shen Moer remembered something and asked Shen Shaoyuan if any teacher from the commune primary school had come to see him today. When Shen Shaoyuan heard her ask this, he couldn't help but frowned and said, "There is no one in the Propaganda Department of the commune, and the higher-ups are busy with this activity and that movement, so there are so many things to do. I had already rejected those two people, but they came to Xu Weiguo and persuaded me to help teach a few students. They said that I don't have to go to school specifically to teach, I can just take them with me during my normal work time and act as an apprentice."

Xu Weiguo has always treated him well, and has been helping him to get a permanent job. Shen Shaoyuan wants to give him this face.

Shen Moer's eyes lit up and she smiled, "Then you can ask them to give us a few places in their competition. The higher-ups didn't ask us to participate, probably because they think we don't have the strength. We took the initiative to sign up, and they will definitely allow us."

Shen Shaoyuan thought about it, nodded and smiled, "That's a good idea."

Some members of the village still don't understand the art class in the Brigade Primary School. If the children can participate in the competition organized by the province, there will be less gossip. The

father and daughter didn't talk anymore. After they finished their meal quietly, Shen Shaoyuan took the initiative to wash the dishes, and Shen Moer went to fetch water and boiled some hot water. It was already autumn, and cold water could no longer be used for bathing.

After washing the dishes, Shen Shaoyuan went to get some mugwort, lit it and placed it in the house to repel mosquitoes.

After the hot water was ready, the father and daughter washed and brushed their teeth in the newly built bathroom. The wormwood in the room was almost done, so they took the broken enamel basin used for burning wormwood outside, checked the doors and windows everywhere, and then went back to their rooms and lay down to rest.

There was nothing to do at night, and lighting the lamp was a waste of oil. Most importantly, Shen Shaoyuan went out early and came back late every day, and had to walk back and forth, which was really tiring. Naturally, he would rest as early as possible at night.

Shen Moer lay in bed for a long time without falling asleep. She called out "Dad" and heard Shen Shaoyuan respond from outside. So she said, "Let's find a way to get a bicycle ticket. It's too hard for you to walk every day."

Shen Shaoyuan's voice rang outside, "Buying a bicycle will attract attention."

Shen Moer knew that buying a bicycle would attract attention, but she felt a little distressed because her father had never suffered such hardship since he was born. She thought that if she couldn't buy a bicycle, she would have to think of other ways.

Who made them dare not show even a little bit of wealth?

Unlike Zheng Jiamin, who always carried a lot of bags and was not afraid of being envied by others.

Thinking of pretending to be poor, Shen Moer couldn't help but think of the real poor man, who couldn't even afford a box, and most of the soap was taken away when he was left outside. She bought him a box, but he didn't want it.

"Dad, actually I think about it, I still like good-looking people, and also, whether the family conditions are good or not, whether he is a worker or not, it doesn't really matter. Aren't we afraid of showing off our wealth? It

's better to find a poor one and live in peace." Shen Shaoyuan was probably confused, his voice was a little weak, and he said casually: "Then don't you just want to find someone who is both good-looking and poor? There are so many poor people, and it's not easy to find a good-looking one..."

As he spoke, his voice gradually became lower, and he probably fell asleep.

Shen Moer stared at the dark void with her eyes squinting, muttering: "It's not hard to find it anywhere, isn't there one ready-made?" She

is so pretty, and so poor.

The next day, Shen Moer went to school and arranged a "class test" for the students. This method was learned from Cheng Tao, and it was quite effective. She quickly selected a few talented students from the students' drawings on various papers.

After selecting the good ones, she said nothing. When Cheng Tao asked about it, she just said that she wanted to test how everyone was learning.

Then she was laughed at by Shen Lingling: "You really think that the subject you teach is extremely important, and you even have an in-class test. It's really hilarious. I've heard of in-class tests in Chinese and arithmetic, but this is the first time I've heard of an in-class test in painting."

Shen Moer didn't treat her politely at all, and asked back: "There was no art class before, and you haven't heard of in-class tests in art classes. Isn't it normal? Oh, by the way, I've been busy recently, but I forgot to greet my second aunt. I wonder if she has come out of the police station?"

The main point is that if you hit someone, you hit them in the face.

Shen Lingling was so angry that she pushed the chair away and left immediately.

In fact, the fact that her mother was detained in the police station for half a month has become a laughing stock in the whole village. Moreover, on the day her mother came out of the police station, she quarreled with her aunt again and they even fought, and her clothes were torn.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that her cousin Wang Jinbao was also released that day, and he was beaten into a pig's head in the alley of the commune. Her aunt Tian Cui was almost crazy and insisted that it was their family's revenge. She has come to their house to make trouble several times recently.

The family was in chaos, and Shen Lingling's reputation was also affected. Before, a teacher in the commune primary school said that he would introduce her to a target, but I don't know if he heard about her family's affairs. Until now, there has been no movement.

Now whenever someone mentions this matter, Shen Lingling doesn't want to say a word.

Shen Moer raised her eyebrows and put away the various sketches in her hands.

Cheng Tao, who had been watching the show, couldn't help but laugh and said, "Many people in the village say that your personality has changed a lot. Now it seems true, but it doesn't matter. People who are submissive are easy to be bullied."

No matter how others evaluate Shen Lingling, Cheng Tao has worked with her for a while and has his own observations. At least he knows that Shen Lingling is not as gentle and kind as the outside world says.

According to Shen Moer's previous personality, she was really easy to be bullied.

Shen Moer heard what he meant and smiled and thanked him, "Principal Cheng, thank you."

Shen Moer simmered half a pot of mung bean soup in the pot before going out in the morning. When she returned home at noon, the mung bean soup was already cooked. She poured the mung bean soup into an enamel pot, lit the fire again, and spread two egg pancakes.

After she had prepared the egg pancakes, she ate one with mung bean soup. Just after she washed the dishes, there was a knock on the courtyard door.

It was Fu Mingze, and the grandsons of Aunt Chen and Aunt Cai, one nicknamed Maomao and the other Shuner.

The two naughty kids were a little listless. It was obvious that no child would be happy to be dragged over to do homework in the middle of the day.

Shen Moer directly served three small bowls of mung bean soup. When Maomao and Shun'er saw the food, their eyes immediately lit up. They held the bowls and gulped down the soup. After a while, they finished it. They raised their hands to wipe their mouths and sighed: "Sister Moer, your mung bean soup is so sweet!"

"Yes, you put a lot of mung beans, unlike my family, which is just like water."

Shen Moer laughed: "Then come and drink it another day."

In fact, she still exchanged her mung beans with Aunt Chen. Aunt Cai's family should have planted some, but they are all frugal people, and there are many people in the family. When cooking, they didn't put that much mung beans and sugar, so naturally the soup was a little watery.

Fu Mingze also finished drinking and took the bowl to wash it. Shen Moer glanced at him, but didn't see any clues from his expressionless face.

She ignored him for the time being and moved a small table and stools to the two naughty children, letting them sit down to do their homework.

Cheng Tao's habit is to assign homework for the day in the morning, so that some children can find time to finish their homework without waiting for school in the afternoon, so as not to delay going home to work in the evening.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Rural children who are in elementary school are basically considered laborers. Many children usually need to do some trivial things at home. If they delay their work because of going to school, some families may not let their children go to school.

Sure enough, the two naughty children took out the arithmetic textbooks from the small bamboo basket they brought, and took out the slightly wrinkled homework books, and then each took out a pencil about the length of a finger from their pockets, and started to do their homework. They

are quite well behaved.

Shen Moer took two not-so-broken chairs that Zhao Zhengyang had repaired from the house and placed them at the other end of the corridor, some distance away from the two naughty kids, ensuring that they could see each other but not hear each other's conversation.

Fu Mingze came out after washing the dishes, took a glance, and then walked over and sat on the empty broken chair.

"Do you need me to explain it from the beginning?" he asked.

Shen Moer shook her head: "No, there are some things I don't understand, you can just help explain it."

She opened the textbook, found the first place she didn't understand, pointed to the text and said: "Here, this paragraph..."

After that, she turned her head to look at Fu Mingze, but she didn't want to meet his deep eyes directly. Shen Moer blinked and said nonchalantly: "Can you help explain this paragraph?"

Fu Mingze cleared his cough to cover up, retracted his gaze from her, and looked at the textbook: "Well, the meaning of this paragraph is..."

After explaining a paragraph, Shen Moer compared it with the questions in the textbook to deepen her understanding. Fu Mingze looked at her slightly drooping eyes in the midday sun, and her long eyelashes trembled gently, as if brushing against his heart again and again, making him feel uneasy.

Fu Mingze sighed secretly and couldn't help but say: "Comrade Shen Moer, I want to apologize to you for what happened yesterday."

His voice was a little low, and it sounded as if there was a hint of begging for mercy.