Chapter 6: Pawn
"Of course I know you are a good woman. You won't ignore us." Tang Dafu said with emotion, "I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position, Taohua. I will definitely find a job when my injury heals."
Qin Huiyin, who was outside the room, was listening to the conversation inside and was speechless.
Her new stepfather should be considered the ceiling of love-brain in ancient times, right?
Li Taohua had said so many things to dislike him during this period, but he had automatically filtered them out and didn't take them seriously at all. Now, Li Taohua only said a few soft words, and he was immediately moved to tears. In the original novel, he was not wronged at all to end up like that. After all, he really lost his mind for a woman.
However, now that she is here, it is actually a good thing that her stepfather suffers from late-stage love brain, which means that he trusts his daughter-in-law unconditionally, and his daughter-in-law is a daughter-con and trusts her unconditionally.
Li Taohua came out with a bag of things, and asked Qin Huiyin to count them. Then she said, "This silver hairpin is solid, and should be worth two taels of silver. If we pawn these clothes, we can get one hundred and fifty coins. With this money, let alone a few pounds of peas, we can even eat rice and flour."
"Mom, I can use this money as I please, right?"
"Of course, all my things are yours." Li Taohua wrapped the things and stuffed them into her arms. "Tomorrow I will accompany you to the town to pawn them."
"I want to pawn these clothes to buy some medicine for Tang Yixiao." Qin Huiyin said, "Tang Yixiao's medicine has long been gone, and what he eats now is the residue that has been boiled for several days. It is as bland as water and has no effect. If it continues like this, his body will not be able to bear it. Since we have joined this family, we must treat them all as our own family members and focus on important things first."
Li Taohua frowned, "He has a deficiency from his mother's womb. The medicine he takes is all tonic, and it contains ginseng roots. A month's worth of medicine costs one tael of silver. Now he has no money."
"Things have their priorities, so let's focus on the important things first!" Tang Luwu had just been rescued. If Tang Yixiao died like in the original novel, wouldn't that bring the plot back to square one?
Li Taohua was so distressed that she said unhappily, "You've already asked me, how can I refuse you? I just hope that brat can remember your kindness."
Li Taohua returned to her bedroom and said many good things about her precious daughter to Tang Dafu, which made Tang Dafu praise Qin Huiyin for being sensible and greatly increased her favorability.
Qin Huiyin took this opportunity to stuff two sets of clothes into her bag. She originally had eight sets of dresses for the season, and she altered two for Tang Luwu, and now she stuffed two more sets into her bag, leaving four sets.
In fact, she still had several sets of thick winter clothes, which were more valuable, and the price would definitely be easier to negotiate if she pawned them. However, those clothes were not cheap, and once they were pawned at a low price, it would cost two or three times more to buy them back later. If she was not penniless, it would be more cost-effective to keep these necessary daily necessities.
When Qin Huiyin went out, she saw Tang Luwu cleaning the yard.
She glanced at the backpack under the eaves, which contained bitter wild vegetables, and suddenly felt a headache.
It's not a famine now. The mountains are covered with green trees and the rivers are teeming with fish and shrimps. How have we fallen to the point where we have to eat wild vegetables and corn porridge for every meal?
"Sister Yin," Tang Luwu called Qin Huiyin. "I heard you say you were going to buy some medicine for me."
Tang Luwu's face flushed, and she said awkwardly, "Thank you."
Qin Huiyin smiled and said, "We are a family, and we should take care of each other. You don't have to thank me. My mother married your father, so we are sisters, right?"
Tang Luwu nodded quickly: "Yes. Sister, if you need me in the future, just tell me. As long as I can do it, I will definitely help you."
As long as she doesn't stop taking my medicine, she can do anything.
She didn't know why Qin Huiyin suddenly became so good, not only saving her, but also buying medicine for her younger brother. She only knew that her younger brother needed medicine, and without it, he would die. As long as her younger brother's medicine could be refilled, she would listen to the mother and daughter.
Tang Luwu lived with the original owner for two months and knew the original owner better than the Tang brothers. The original owner bullied her behind her back a lot, but she didn't want to worry her elder and younger brothers, so she never told them.
Qin Huiyin felt distressed. She was 25 years old in modern times, a generation older than the 12-year-old Tang Lvwu. In modern times, a child like Tang Lvwu would still act like a spoiled brat in the arms of her parents, while Tang Lvwu not only had to do housework, but also had to take care of her brother who was in poor health. She was more reliable than many adults.
After Tang Dafu lost his first wife, he never remarried. As a grown man, he didn't know how to take care of children, so it was almost Tang Yichen, the eldest brother, who raised his younger siblings. Later, Tang Yichen was spotted by a private school teacher, who asked him to study there, and the task of taking care of the sickly Tang Yixiao was given to Tang Luwu.
Logically speaking, Tang Dafu earns so much money, his family should live a good life, and Tang Luwu shouldn't be dressed so shabbily.
However, Tang Dafu was not always a promising man. Two years ago, Tang Dafu, like most of the farmers in the village, only knew how to work on the farm and take care of his own small piece of land. Until he met Li Taohua, who had fled from famine, he was completely distracted. As a pretty widow, Li Taohua was courted by many men, but she chose Song the hunter with the most financial strength.
Tang Dafu seemed to have his Ren and Du meridians opened up. He went to the town every day and finally found a job with the owner of a rice store. The owner of the rice store saw that he was honest and actually promoted him to be a manager.
However, not long after being promoted to manager, Tang Yixiao fell seriously ill. After seeing a doctor, he suffered from this disease of affluence ever since, and had to spend one or two taels of silver a month.
This matter was kept secret until Li Taohua and Tang Dafu got married. If she had known about his family's situation earlier, Li Taohua would not have agreed.
Li Taohua has no shortage of men courting her, but she knows how unreliable those rich men are. In addition, rich men only look for pretty virgins. No matter how pretty she is, she can't compare to those virgins. She has her own ideas when choosing a man, such as he must be financially capable and listen to her so that he will be good to her daughter.
Whether it was Hunter Song or Tang Dafu, both of them met her standards. Hunter Song was tall and strong, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and he was also good at making money. Tang Dafu was a little worse than Hunter Song, but there was nothing she could do, as he was the best one she could choose at the moment. If there was a better one, she would also like to choose the better one.
"Sister..." Tang Yixiao came back with firewood on his back. Seeing Tang Lvwu talking to Qin Huiyin, he was worried that his sister would be bullied, so he quickly stopped Tang Lvwu. "Help me answer it."
Tang Luwu hurriedly ran towards Tang Yi and smiled: "Why are you carrying so much?"
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