Mrs. Qiu didn't know how she came out of Fushun. In her arms, she was holding tightly the two hundred and fifty taels of silver that Master Li had given her.

Yes, that's right, it's two hundred and fifty taels of silver.

Neatly arranged small silver ingots, twelve each, twenty-five in total, were all in the package in Qiu's arms.

Master Li originally said two hundred taels, and the Lu family agreed. Unexpectedly, shopkeeper Li, who had been silent, opened his mouth and asked them to negotiate the price again.

When shopkeeper Li said these words, Master Li's nose was so angry that he became angry.

Even if Mrs. Qiu is an ignorant country woman, she still knows that the two hundred taels are too short. Otherwise, shopkeeper Li will not let them negotiate the price anymore.

With the idea that more is better, Mrs. Qiu was cruel and asked for fifty taels more.

Unexpectedly, Master Li agreed without hesitation.

With this promise, Mrs. Qiu knew that she would still have less.

But there was no use regretting it. Shopkeeper Li had already reminded her, but she didn't dare to ask for a high price. She couldn't blame others.

But when Mrs. Qiu took the two hundred and fifty taels of silver ingots given by Master Li, she felt that it was quite a lot. This was two hundred and fifty taels of silver.

If you buy land, you can buy more than 20 acres of fertile farmland, let alone building a house in the countryside.

"Xiaosi, are you running out of money?"

Xiaoqing glanced at her mother, who was holding Yinzi with a nervous expression, and then at Xiaosi, who was looking around with an indifferent expression. After all, she couldn't hold back and asked the question in her heart.

"Is it missing?"

Hearing this, Mrs. Qiu turned around first and said, "Xiao Si, am I going to be short?"

"Quite a few."

Lu Xiaosi smiled and pointed to the Shaobing stall not far away, "Mom, I want to eat Shaobing."

"Eat sesame cakes. Mom will buy them for you."

Mrs. Qiu had to worry about the money in her arms, and she had to spend copper coins to buy sesame cakes for Xiaosi. Finally, she endured heartache as she watched Xiaosi and Xiaoqing spend her twenty-one cents and buy seven sesame cakes.

For these two prodigal children, she originally meant that the two sisters would buy one piece each, and she didn't even count the three children in the family.

Unexpectedly, Xiaosi not only bought it for them, but also forgot about her and her father's share of the child.

Very anxious and distressed.

Lu Xiuge gnawed on the sesame cake and asked, "Mom, we have money, what do you want to do first?"

do what?

Qiu subconsciously replied: "Buy land and build a house."

This is her lifelong dream, to have her own house and land, and no longer have to worry about starving to death or having her children suffer hardships with them.

"Okay, then let's buy land and a house." Lu Sheige looked at Lu Xiaoqing, "Sister, what about you?"

Lu Xiaoqing's speech is getting better and better now, but he is still so timid. Even when he walks, he walks behind everyone and shrinks into other people's shadows.

"Me, me?"

"Um?"

"I never thought about it!"

"Think about it."

Lu Xiuge secretly encouraged Lu Xiaoqing, "Now that our family has money to buy land and build a house, our family will become richer and richer in the future. Why don't you just think about what you will do in the future now and work hard towards this goal."

"What do you want to do?"

Lu Xiaoqing raised her head slightly, and the sunlight leaked from her mother's shoulders, shining right on her face.

Warm, soft, dazzling but not dazzling.

"I think……"

Lu Xiaoqing seemed to have fallen into a tender dream. She almost whispered her dream. "I want to open a hotel like La Fushun and cook many dishes that the guests like to eat. I can sit there every day."

Counting money behind the counter, one penny or two penny, one penny or one tael..."

Once upon a time, she was just a little girl who wanted to be fed and clothed.

But she followed her mother and her eldest brother into Laifushun, and the food she cooked was actually sold for money.

At that moment, the little girl suddenly had a dream in her heart. She also wanted to open a hotel like this.

In this way, she will not have to sell her son to others in the future. She will earn a lot of money, so that her eldest brother can eat well and clothe herself well, so that her parents, younger brothers and sisters can also have good food and clothing.

Lu Xiaoqing talked about her dream word by word, completely unaware that she spoke such a long sentence without stopping.

You know, in the past, she could not say a word sometimes throughout the day.

Mrs. Qiu looked at her eldest daughter's little face that was glowing with joy, and couldn't help but raise her hand to cover her mouth, suppressing the sobs she couldn't help but let out.

Her little one no longer stutters.

She...she said she wanted to open a store like La Fushun.

At this moment, no matter what kind of house or land it is, it doesn't matter in Qiu's eyes.

She actually had an impulse to give her daughter all the money she had in her hands so that she could realize her dream.

Maybe the sun is too warm, maybe the wind is too gentle.

After all these years, Lu Xiaoqing will never forget this afternoon when she stood on the stone road in Jiangjiaba and talked about her dream.

It turns out that as long as she works hard and has Xiaosi around, her dream can really come true.

Xiao Li and Xiao Yu didn't know that Qiu brought back two hundred and fifty taels of silver.

At night, the whole family huddled in the small cabin of the boat to weave eel cages. Lu Xiangge sat silently in the stern of the boat, staring at the increasingly rounder moon in a daze.

That world that she couldn't return to, she might have to say goodbye to it forever.

Lu Quan came out of the cabin, sat next to Lu Sheige, and asked softly: "Xiaosi, do you think the price of two hundred and fifty taels is too low?"

Although he felt that two hundred and fifty taels was already a lot, the share of the dozen or so stores in Fushun might not be that much in a year.

But what Xiaosi was talking about at the beginning was a share of the money, and now Qiu just takes the money back, will Xiaosi feel that it is less?

"Dad, I don't feel any less."

Lu Xiangge hugged his knees, looked down at the moon in the river and twitched the corner of his mouth, "Two hundred and fifty taels, maybe Laifushun's annual share is not that much. It's good, we get the silver, they get the formula

, I think it’s good that no one will bother me in the future.”

But she was a little disappointed in her heart. Originally, she wanted to use these eight recipes to do business with Shopkeeper Li.

She can still trust Shopkeeper Li's character, but unfortunately, Shopkeeper Li also works for others and cannot truly be the master of the family.

However, this is fine, who knows whether the owner of Lai Fushun is a good person or a bad person.

In this way, you pay the money in one hand and the formula in the other, which is a clean and easy way.

Lu Quan didn't understand Lu Shege's thoughts, and when he heard what she said, he felt slightly relieved.

"Then do you have anything on your mind?"

Seeing Xiao Si shaking his head, Lu Quan didn't ask any more questions, but instead talked about the things he and Qiu had discussed.

"For the money from selling the formula, your mother and I discussed whether we could borrow fifty taels first. I calculated that it would cost about five taels to build a homestead in the countryside, which is about one acre.

Fifty taels is enough to build a house and buy things. This money is considered as a loan from us. When dad earns money, can we pay it back to you later?"

Lu Quan was very cautious when he said these words. He was even too ashamed to look into Lu Sheige's eyes.

I am incompetent, so I have to borrow the money earned by a child to build a house.
Chapter completed!