"The wages they gave me today." Zhu Qing answered truthfully.
"Don't we do work to pay for the medicine? Why do we still get paid?" Wang is an honest person, and she never expected this to happen.
"Probably because the Zhou family paid for the medicine for us, Doctor Qian didn't charge us a double portion." Zhu Qing expressed his guess.
Her guess was infinitely close to the truth.
She saved the old lady of the Zhou family, and the Zhou family immediately greeted Dr. Qian and paid off the medicine for Zhuqing's younger brother Zhushan. In addition, she told him to take care of the Sun family in the future.
Because they knew that Zhuqing and the others wanted to return the favor, they let Doctor Qian take care of it.
Therefore, before going out this time, Doctor Qian told his sister-in-law at home that if a girl from the Sun family comes to work, it should not be too difficult for her, and the wages will be counted.
As for the job of lighting fires in the pharmacy arranged for her by her sister-in-law, it was really up to her.
"Hey, this is too polite of the Zhou family!" Mrs. Wang took the money from Zhuqing's hand and carefully packed it up: "Qingya, this money lady saved it for you and will make you a new one during the Chinese New Year.
Wear clothes. Your cotton-padded jackets are torn, so it’s time to change them.”
Ms. Wang is a farmhousewife who lives a meticulous life. What she sees in her eyes are areas where money is urgently needed at home.
Like the maltose that Zhuqing just proposed, she automatically ignored it as a luxury product.
"Mom, I want to eat sweets!" Zhushan was young after all and couldn't resist the temptation of eating sweets, so he couldn't help but protest.
This money was what my sister promised to buy him sweets.
"Zhushan, what's so delicious about candy? It would be nice if the family could provide you with medicine! Be obedient, your sister is already a big girl in the spring, so she should have some clothes to show off to others!" Mrs. Wang said.
I feel sad.
These days, it is generally too early to get married. There are many thirteen-year-old girls who are mothers. But my girl is yellow and thin. She is almost eleven years old and she still looks like a bean sprout. If we go to see each other,
, no one can take a fancy to it!
Zhuqing didn't hear the underlying meaning in her words, because she didn't even think about this issue that Wang was considering. Eleven years old, to her, was basically a minor!
So she advised Mrs. Wang: "Mom, the Chinese New Year is still far away! Even ten cents can't buy a piece of clothing! If Shan'er wants to eat sweets, just buy him some! Maybe he will lose his appetite after eating sweets.
It can get better. If your appetite improves, your health will get better quickly!"
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she couldn't help but touch her daughter's head and asked softly: "Girl, are you really willing to buy sweets for your brother? Does your head still hurt? Mom, I have to make it clear to you. As long as my brother joins me,
If you have enough money for medicine, all the money your family saves will be used as a dowry for you! I will definitely not make you worse than Jin Yatou and the others!"
Why does this involve dowry? Zhu Qing was confused when he heard this.
You are only ten years old, right? Why do you want to get married?
The area on Zhuqing's head where Wang touched her still hurt slightly.
The pain reminded her why she had traveled through time.
The little girl before came back to question her mother, Wang, for being unfair to her because she listened to the instigation of some gossipy women in the village. Then after the argument, she banged her head against the corner of the table in anger.
When she woke up, Zhuqing had traveled through time.
She remembered that Mr. Wang cried with joy to her after she woke up and had been taking care of her carefully.
It was precisely this wholehearted care that allowed Zhuqing to quickly integrate into the family and plan to live a good life with them.
Now it is clear that Mr. Wang has a shadow in his heart because of what happened last time, so he takes this seriously.
"Mom, what do you mean by dowry? I'm still young! I don't want to get married!" A suspicious blush flashed across Zhu Qing's face, and then she quickly changed the subject.
"I remember that the Zhou family sent rice, flour, red dates, longans and other things, right? There are also eggs, why are they gone?" She looked at the corner against the west wall and asked.
It was packed there when she went out, but now it was empty, and she had to pay attention.
"Well, the second nobleman from the village came to ask for a debt, so my mother gave him something to pay it off. Your Aunt Huaihua came over and said that her little baby couldn't eat and had been hungry for several meals, so she gave it to him too.
She was a little bit. Aunt Wu across the street also came to borrow some white flour for her son to see each other. Then your second uncle just came over and asked for the rice noodles we owed in the spring, as well as the medicine money, so he took some over. There were also eggs,
He said that your grandpa and grandma wanted to replenish their health, so they took it away..." Mrs. Wang said hesitantly, feeling very guilty for her own incompetence.
"This is simply unreasonable! How much does my brother owe them for medicine in the spring? And rice and noodles, how much do we owe them? Why should we take them away? Grandpa and grandma are replenishing their bodies, but Zhushan doesn't need to replenish them? Doesn't he know that Zhushan has just gotten better?
?" Zhu Qing felt a surge of anger rushing to the top of his head.
"Zhushan fell ill in the spring, and your second uncle paid for the medicine in advance. It was about one tael or more! I have borrowed rice and noodles from them in the past few years, and in addition to the fact that I had to honor your grandparents before, it was almost the same.
"Eggs, we usually don't have anything good to offer to the elderly, so we just give them to them..." Wang's voice became softer as she spoke.
Seeing Zhu Qing's livid face, she quickly bent down and took out a few pieces of ginseng from the broken basket beside the bed: "My mother knew this was a good thing, so she hid it first. In addition, my mother also kept half a bag of rice.
.”
Zhuqing looked at the ginseng she had carefully hidden and couldn't help but feel angry and funny.
After all, my mother, Mrs. Wang, is still a little bit narrow-minded, so she is not completely hopeless.
"Mom, my brother is not in good health. It's time for him to take nourishment. Don't do this again next time!" Zhu Qing could only advise her.
She was actually very angry. She knew clearly that her younger brother Zhushan was in such poor health that her second uncle, as a biological uncle, did not say anything to help him as much as possible, but actually came to collect debts like an outsider as soon as possible! For fear that their family would not be able to repay what they owed him.
Debt! It’s so abominable!
It's just that it's getting late now, and it's obviously unrealistic for her to go and ask for it alone.
"Qingya, mother knows. I will definitely not let anyone take away all my things next time. Not even your uncle." Facing her daughter, Wang felt quite ashamed.
Seeing Wang's guilty look, Zhu Qing stopped talking to her, at least it would be useless now.
Her father, Sun Fucheng, has three brothers, and he is the eldest. Originally in the countryside, his parents should have lived with them.
But when his parents saw that they had given birth to Zhushan, who had been sick all year round, they separated from them on the pretext of not burdening them.
Now the two elders live with the family of the second elder who is a skilled carpenter. And because of their precious little son, they also help the third elder's family from time to time.
As for the elders, what they did the most was to secretly persuade the eldest son to give up his unhealthy grandson and have another one. In their eyes, Zhushan was what the elders often called a debt collector. He was full of bad luck and should have been put away long ago.
He lost it.
Sun Fucheng and his wife refused to give up their son Zhushan, which made them extremely disgusted. Therefore, let alone helping his family, they even deliberately put pressure on them.
Even though they knew that their family of four did not have enough to eat, the monthly pension supply for the two elders still could not be worse at all.
Both Sun Fucheng and Sun Fucheng were tough-minded. Even if they tightened their belts and endured hardships, they would not neglect their filial piety.
Zhuqing learned about these situations not long after she traveled through time, but she had no way to change them for the time being.
Three feet of ice lasted a day, their family was too poor, and the people around them had a foregone conclusion about their family, and she couldn't change it for a while.
Sun Fucheng worked in the town and usually didn't go home at night, so the three of them went to bed early after dinner.
The reason for going to bed early is also very simple: to save money on lamp oil.
Mrs. Wang worked in the fields and did housework during the day. She was tired now and fell asleep soon.
After all, Zhushan was young and had just recovered from a serious illness, so he fell asleep quickly.
There was only green bamboo, listening to the chirping of summer insects outside the window, and looking at the brightly lit calamus outside the dilapidated tent, I couldn't sleep no matter what.
She still has a long way to go before the situation of this family can be improved!
