In the evening, they continued to eat the leftovers.
This made Lin Shiyu look bitter. Who could understand the feeling of a person who takes pleasure in eating delicious food, eating leftovers every day?
"It's so delicious. I really hope I can eat such delicious food every day."
Lin Boyu, who has not seen the world, is the opposite of Lin Shiyu. Although he eats leftovers, there is meat to eat, and even the vegetables are fried in oil. How delicious!
"Just daydream!" Liu nodded her head and said with a smile.
It is such a luxury to eat greasy food every day. They can't even put a little oil on the dishes when cooking. No one in the whole village does that, let alone eat meat.
"Mom, everyone should have dreams. Maybe one day they will come true."
Lin Shiyu retorted that if there were no conditions, then she would create them. If there was nothing delicious to eat, she might as well kill herself early and be reborn again. Maybe in her next life she would be reborn into the modern era.
"Is that a dream? That's just wishful thinking."
She grew up and never dared to think about drinking thicker porridge every day, but her children actually thought about eating greasy food every day.
"I don't care, as long as I dare to think about it, it's a dream."
"Ah, yes, yes, brother is the best."
Lin Boyu is more confident with the support of his sister.
He didn't know that what his sister was thinking at that moment was that when she had money, she would pack up any leftover food and give it to her brother so that his dream would come true.
"Ah, yes, yes, you are all the best, work hard!" Liu imitated her daughter's tone and said perfunctorily.
"Mom, I'm going to get angry if you do this!"
"Don't be angry, don't be angry first, mother will show you something good."
"What?"
Sure enough, Lin Boyu was attracted by his mother's words and ended the previous topic.
"Go and see if the gate is locked?"
Lin Boyu ran over eagerly, looked around, and immediately ran back, panting, "Mom, it's all closed tightly. What on earth is so mysterious?"
"Come with me."
The three of them walked towards the master bedroom. Since the bedroom didn't have a door installed, they only used a curtain made of cattail to block out the outside view. Lin Boyu, who hadn't seen the room yet, stretched his neck but couldn't see what was inside.
"Wow!"
"Wow!"
?(?'?'? )??????
The three of them had the same expression, they were so surprised.
No matter who you are, when you were so poor that you couldn't even afford eggs, and suddenly saw a small "silver mountain" in front of you, you would probably have this kind of expression.
"How come there are so many copper coins?"
Liu left the two children and walked over. She reached out and took the copper coin on the bed and looked at it again and again.
Is she dreaming?
"Mom, don't you know either? Didn't you want to bring us in to see some good stuff? Isn't this pair of copper coins the good stuff?"
Lin Shiyu asked three questions in a row, and while asking, she walked to the bed with her brother and climbed onto the bed.
Liu: ...
She really doesn't know.
She just wanted to show the children the money collected from the wedding banquet. She expected that some people would give copper coins, but she didn't expect that much.
In the past, they only gave money to the wealthy, and those without money were given eggs and grain, right? Some poor families even gave firewood.
Had the villagers become wealthy without her knowledge? They were suddenly so generous.
"What are you thinking about?"
Lin Anru looked at his wife who was daydreaming and couldn't help but call her back to her senses.
"I was wondering when the villagers became so generous that they actually gave all the money in silver."
Although there were eggs and grains, at this moment all Liu could see were these hard copper coins.
“That’s really generous.”
Lin Anru nodded in agreement, perhaps because the villagers knew that he owed too much silver and gave him silver specifically, or perhaps because his daughter had recently treated their illness.
But no matter what, this money touched his heart.
"But you guessed wrong. At least half of it was given by my uncle."
Lin Anru explained that in addition to the two hundred coins in the red envelope, Uncle Lin also secretly gave him five taels of silver.
"Uncle??(?'?'? ?)?" Liu was really surprised.
When they divided the property, neither of them got five taels of silver, but the uncle actually gave them five taels.
"Yes, this is a subsidy from my uncle secretly, so that we can pay off our foreign debt first. So please don't spread it outside, understand?"
Lin Anru reminded Liu that she didn't need to be reminded, because she knew not to tell anyone, and that it was mainly for the two younger ones at home to hear.
"I know~"
The two little ones are not stupid, nor are they two or three-year-old children. They are still very obedient.
"Dad, with so much money, we can eat meat from time to time."
Lin Boyu held the copper coin excitedly and looked at his father with anticipation.
Since eating meat every day is wishful thinking, isn't it practical to eat meat from time to time?
"You're just dreaming. Didn't your father say that it was your uncle who subsidized your father to pay off his debts?" Liu patted his head and brought his unrealistic thoughts back to reality.
"oh."
When he heard that there was no meat to eat, Lin Boyu stopped looking at the pile of copper coins. The more he looked at them, the more distressed he felt.
"If you really want to eat meat, then be more serious when you pick herbs with me. After we sell them for money, I'll ask dad to cut some meat and cook it for you. Once a month, please!"
"Then mother, please wake me up early tomorrow."
It has been two days since he went to collect herbs or study. Apart from having a fulfilling time when he went out to play with his friends, Lin Boyu felt idle in his spare time. He even missed the days when he was busy all the time.
"Sure!" Liu couldn't refuse his request: "You two string these copper coins together, and then go to bed early, so you don't get up too late tomorrow."
The brother and sister started counting immediately. Lin Boyu could only count to one hundred and had not learned the rest. In order to accommodate him and to hide Chuo, Lin Shiyu also counted one hundred at a time.
Each string of money is ten hundreds, which is one thousand copper coins and one tael of silver.
At such a young age, they have experienced what it feels like to count money until their hands cramp.
How can the adults relax when the two little ones are busy?
The oil lamp still needed to be lit, so Lin Anru couldn't afford to waste it, so he started copying books. He had to work hard to finish copying this batch of books, and then go to the county town to see if there were any books related to the imperial examination that needed copying.
He couldn't afford to buy books, so he could only take on tasks related to books and copy them, which allowed him to make money and review his knowledge at the same time.
Liu picked up the needle and thread and started sewing. Since picking herbs, she was almost always outside during the day and had no time to take care of these things. There was no light at night and it was pitch black, so she couldn't do anything.
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