nucmednet Chapter 215 Misfortune
Chapter 215 Misfortune
After contacting the midwife.
Xu Wenyan and Chen Sanlin rushed home.
But when I got home, I found that the atmosphere at home was a little bit wrong.
"Hey, what happened today? No one came to welcome us." Xu Wenyan and Chen Sanlin unloaded their things. Xiaoman was not at home today. No one knew where he went.
"Brother Xu." Xiaohu stepped forward to help with a wronged look on his face.
"What's wrong? Did someone bully you?"
Xiaohu shook his head and told Xu Wenyan the whole story.
Today's harvest was supposed to be very good. In the morning, Luo Sanyuan and his friends not only brought back all the bamboo shoots, but also caught a lot of snails and clams and put them in the pool at the back.
After finishing all this, Luo Sanyuan and his team went to work in the afternoon. Today was the day to transport the last batch of grain. The sweet potatoes and rapeseed were loaded this afternoon and transported to the county.
Today is the time to collect the money for the chicken blood vine and the backpacks, and those things had already been agreed upon long ago.
Today, Xiaohu originally wanted to help Xu Wenyan to get the money back, but those people said that they couldn't afford it. Xiaohu was unhappy to see that they were trying to default on their debts, because those were all earned by his brother Xu and brother Sanlin who worked hard every day.
And as for the medicine, if it weren't for Xu Wenyan, they would have suffered a lot. Now that the food has been distributed, they refuse to acknowledge it. It was really a good plan.
So Xiaohu started arguing with them, but in the end there was no result.
After listening to this, Xu Wenyan's brows slightly frowned. He thought that these people didn't take him seriously enough. He could just ignore their mess and come back when he was completely free.
Now my kindness makes people think I am easy to bully.
"Brother Chen, please cook the noodles. I'll be back soon." There are more than a dozen families who owe money to them. It's dinner time, so there must be someone at home.
"You want to go alone? No, I want to accompany you." said.
After all, he couldn't guarantee that the refugees wouldn't do something out of control.
"Okay, you guys just stay at home. Huzi, give Zheng Liwei some pottery jars from home. They have nothing to put all the pickled vegetables in."
The two of them rushed out and went to the first house according to the list.
Xu Wenyan knocked on the door. A middle-aged woman with a pale face and thin body opened the door. She was slightly stunned when she saw Xu Wenyan and the other man. "Xu, Captain Xu."
It was obvious that he was frightened by Xu Wenyan. His family owed money, and it was not something he could discuss with others.
But before Xu Wenyan could say anything, a man's voice came from the yard: "Xiaojuan, who is it?"
Xu Wenyan turned his head and looked over. He saw the man in the yard walking forward with a cane. It was noticeable that the man was not only missing a leg, but also his right arm.
"Xu, Captain Xu, please come in." The man limped and smiled as he invited the two in: "Wife, go cook some more sweet potatoes."
Xu Wenyan looked at what they were eating, which was some old sweet potato leaves and some wild vegetables mixed with wheat bran cooked into a paste.
"No need, we..." Xu Wenyan was too embarrassed to say the words "I'm here to ask for money". He had almost forgotten what era it was.
The moment of economic recovery after the war.
The only wealthy households are those with a background. Ordinary people without a background have very limited food to eat.
The reason why he could eat such delicious food at home was because he had the infinite knowledge of being a time traveler, but these people didn't have that.
If you accidentally eat poisonous plants, the only thing that awaits you is death. You can die from a fever, from starvation, from a simple cold or fever, or even from a minor wound.
So what if the Lin Kingdom won the battle? Why didn't General Huo pursue the victory? It's not that they didn't want to, but they couldn't.
After this war, the Lin Kingdom had no idea how many of its citizens had died, and there were more than one country outside that was eyeing them covetously.
"The time has come for you to get the money for the backpack and medicine from me." Xu Wenyan's face turned cold. He still had to explain the matter clearly.
They are not the only family that suffers from this. If every family is like this, do I have to be the one being taken advantage of? "
After hearing Xu Wenyan's words, the couple were obviously uncomfortable.
"Ahem, haha, then my wife should quickly give the grain we collected today to Captain Xu. I'm sorry, Captain Xu, we really don't have any money."
Xu Wenyan didn't say anything. After a while, the woman brought back a backpack. It was just a backpack, and it was not even full of sweet potatoes. There was a bag with two patches on it, and half a bag of rapeseed was filled.
That's all they got today.
Looking at the grain, Xu Wenyan was speechless for a moment. He took the rapeseed and two sweet potatoes, stood up and prepared to leave: "This is considered as paying off. I won't eat the meal."
How could the couple not know what Xu Wenyan was doing? The man burst into tears and said goodbye to the two of them. After they left, he kept apologizing to the woman.
He said that he was a useless person, unable to farm or work in the fields, and now he was causing women to suffer.
Listening to the crying sounds in the house, Xu Wenyan felt uncomfortable.
I didn't do anything wrong, but I always feel like a bad person.
After visiting several more families, the conditions at their homes were almost all very bad. Xu Wenyan originally thought that they were just some scoundrels, but he didn't expect that these people were really desperate.
From these dozen or so families, Xu Wenyan only took rapeseed and two sweet potatoes symbolically.
Just think of it as making good connections.
It is inevitable that something will happen in a village in the future. They owe me a favor, and maybe they should repay it at some critical moment.
The two of them took some rapeseed back with them, and they would come to get the bag themselves tomorrow.
After eating the side dishes that were not sold today, Xu Wenyan realized that setting up a stall in ancient times was really a difficult task. It was not at all as easy as what other time travelers had experienced.
I not only innovated the ingredients but also pursued the taste. I sold more than 20 bowls yesterday, but only 19 bowls today. If this sales volume were in modern times, I would have starved to death.
Xu Wenyan sighed lightly, he was really distressed.
Excluding wages, my total income today is just over 400 coins, a little less than yesterday.
But if you can keep up this daily income, it will be good.
Xu Wenyantang was lying on the bed, with her hands and feet resting on Chen Sanlin, forming a big letter shape.
Now his heart is filled with envy for other time travelers.
Earn a few taels of silver every minute and live in a brick house early.
Not only did I have to drag my sick body here, but I encountered a cold wave as soon as I arrived, followed by war.
Xu Wen was really convinced. If he didn't want to live, he should have said so earlier.
Seeing that his wife seemed to be in a bad mood, Chen Sanlin took her hand and kissed the back of her hand.
"What are you thinking about, wife?"
Xu Wenyan shook his head.
"Tell me about it." Chen Sanlin turned sideways and pinched Xu Wenyan's face.
Chen Sanlin couldn't suppress the smile on his face, thinking that his wife was so well-behaved.
"Brother Chen, what if I can't make any money?"
"Hmm..." Chen Sanlin held him in his arms and patted his back gently.
"Brother Chen will hunt and feed you, and make sure you eat meat every day."
Xu Wenyan snuggled in Chen Sanlin's arms and nodded. The person next to her no longer had the smell of alcohol and sweat from the first time they met.
It was a faint fragrance.