After getting the accurate information, Lin Boyu finished the task at hand and ran out eagerly to share it with his friends.
"After the banquet, will our family still have any money left?"
No matter how big or small the banquet is here, chicken and fish are the two indispensable dishes.
A feast is not complete without chicken, and fish symbolizes "abundance year after year."
On the day of the housewarming, families with the same surname and friends in the village would come to the banquet. Liu estimated that there would be at least ten tables to accommodate them.
Assuming a table of half a chicken and a fish, these two dishes alone would cost about two or three taels of silver. Including other dishes, the cost would probably be around four taels of silver.
The villagers would give gifts for the banquet, but it shouldn't be much. Based on ten cents per family, the most they could receive was two taels of silver.
According to her many years of experience, many families do not necessarily give red envelopes when they have a banquet. Some give eggs, meat, etc., and some people even just bring a bunch of vegetables as a gift.
To be honest, holding a banquet here would be a loss. Liu was very reluctant. The family's just a little income was about to go down the drain, and she felt very uncomfortable.
While others held banquets for the sake of excitement and celebration, they also served as a way to build closer ties with family and friends. Liu herself had few friends in the village to talk to. After her father's death, she had lost contact with her family and no one needed to visit. Furthermore, she preferred quietness and disliked banquets that cost the majority of her family's money.
No matter how much she disliked it, Liu didn't dare to say anything against it. If her husband really wanted to go down that path in the future, he would have no chance of not having social life.
"Don't worry, it won't cost much money." Lin Anru comforted her.
No one knew whether Liu had listened to her husband's words. She was used to keeping a low profile in the village, and not many people paid attention to her. However, in the past few days, when the village women were gossiping, they would mention "That Lin Anru wife went out in the hot sun to pick wild vegetables again."
The story of Liu and her children picking wild vegetables was already a thing of the past. Even if someone mentioned it, everyone would just listen to it. No one had a strong desire to talk about this topic.
Because they did not move to a new house, the herbs they picked were basically kept in their own house, the house of the two elders of the Lin family, and the house of the main house.
Every two or three days, Lin Anru would go to the county town to sell the prepared herbs so that he could make room for the freshly picked herbs.
Lin Anru always went out before dawn because she didn't want too many people to know that they were making money from this.
But it was difficult to hide the fact that they lived under the same roof. Every once in a while, the "wild vegetables" placed in the house were taken away by his son, which made Mr. Lin very confused.
"Where did San'er take this thing?"
Old Master Lin was puzzled. He went to his son's new home to help every day, so he knew that it was definitely not taken to the new home. If it was not taken to the new home, where else could it have gone?
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lin rolled her eyes at him and looked at him as if he were a fool.
Since the family split up, Mr. Lin has become accustomed to his wife's increasingly "insolent" behavior towards him.
Old Mrs. Lin didn't answer him, so he had to think about it himself.
He thought of all kinds of possibilities in his mind, and finally overturned all his ideas. Finally, his eyes lit up and he ran out in a hurry.
Lin Anru had just returned from the county town when he was stopped by his own father. Looking at Grandpa Lin's excited expression, he had a bad feeling.
“Hey!”
"Is there something bothering you, mother?"
Looking at her daughter's clear eyes, Liu shook her head.
These days, she was picking herbs while thinking, realizing that all her troubles were self-inflicted.
It’s all my fault for being too greedy.
Even though her husband has been in debt for more than ten years, her family has lived a comfortable life.
Apart from worrying about my daughter's health, I really don't have many worries. Who would have thought that this life without many worries would change just because the family has some money?
Shouldn't they, who were penniless, be happier when they have money? So why is this?
The only reason for this situation is that I am too greedy!
I originally hoped that my husband would have a stable income and slowly pay off the debt so that they could live a less difficult life, but now I hope that he will continue on the path of imperial examinations.
It's her heart that has grown bigger.
Her father had spent his entire life and countless dollars without success, and now her family had only a little more income, but she wanted her husband to continue on that path, the path where even spending money would not earn him any profit.
Liu laughed at herself, she was too greedy!
Lin Shiyu didn't get an answer, so she didn't take it to heart. After all, as long as she had money, most of the world's troubles would be alleviated. It was better for her to work hard to make money than to comfort Liu with empty words.
"I'm back!"
When Liu looked up, she saw her husband and subconsciously smiled. However, when she saw her husband's expression clearly, her smile immediately disappeared.
"What happened?"
Lin Anru lowered his head, he was a little irritated and a little guilty, and his whole body gave off a signal that he was very unhappy.
Thinking of what Mr. Lin had just talked to him about, Lin Anru felt helpless.
"Dad should have guessed that we were selling herbs at home. He just came to me to ask about it."
Lin Anru said this, and the rest goes without saying. Liu probably knew what was going on. It was nothing more than a way to make money and bring along the brothers and sisters at home.
"You admit it?"
Liu was sulking and in a bad mood.
"No, I just glossed over it." Lin Anru answered immediately.
He didn't know any herbs, so he didn't know how to teach his brothers and sisters how to identify and pick them. Besides, they had already split up the family business, so why should he share any money he made with his brothers and sisters?
If he were well off now, he wouldn't mind bringing his family along.
The problem is that their family is still in a mess. When his father said this, he didn't even think about his situation. He just wanted to divide their wealth. Don't even think about it.
Before the family business was divided, he handed over most of his income from copying books to his family.
His family never supported him when he was studying, and he never took a penny off his family when he had an income. He feels guilty about doing this.
Liu heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, but the breath got stuck mid-sentence: "Then we can't keep it a secret for much longer."
Thinking of the money that was about to leave her, Liu felt depressed. She decided to collect all the herbs in the village before anyone noticed.
"We can hide it for a while, but even if we can't, it doesn't matter. They don't know how to identify herbs, and they don't know how to process them. We still have a big advantage."
Compared to Liu's anxious mood, Lin Anru was more calm.
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