Chapter 40: The Remaining Silver

 Chapter 40: The Remaining Silver

Liang Shi nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll go later." A bowl of such delicious food was not enough.

But just as she finished speaking, Lu Sanzhu, who was slurping noodles, lifted his head and swallowed two strands of meat, saying, "Don't bother going."

"Why not? Don't worry, this time I'll go with Da Bao. Da Bao is a child, so Second Sister-in-law wouldn't refuse, right?"

Lu Sanzhu sighed. "It's not just about Second Sister-in-law. Now there's Second Missy…" He clicked his tongue and shook his head. "Let's forget it."

"Is Er Ya hard to deal with?"

"More than just hard to deal with." Lu Sanzhu suddenly fell silent, with a hint of emotion. "In the future, Second Brother's family's life will only get better. We better not offend Er Ya, you know?" He pointed to the bowl of noodles in front of them. "We didn't get this for free."

Liang Shi didn't take it seriously. She knew Er Ya was from a good family, but she was an elder, and Da Bao was just a child. Could she really harm them?

But the family affairs always followed Lu Sanzhu's lead. Since he said so, Liang naturally couldn't do anything else. She reluctantly gave a third of her own bowl of noodles to her son.

After dinner, it had gotten dark outside, and the Lu family had finished the entire pot of noodles.

Ruan shi and the others were rarely full and even felt like they needed to digest. They had never experienced such a feeling before in their lives.

Ruan shi didn't let Shu Yu do any more work. She, with Da Hua and San Ya, quickly finished all the chores like washing dishes, feeding chickens, and cleaning the yard.

Shu Yu went back to her room and took out her purse to count her money.

When Shu Yu left the Shu family, she didn't take a single penny from them. Most of the Shu family's money was dirty, and Shu Dalao's accumulation of wealth was unscrupulous. When the Shu family was exiled three months later, these accounts would be scrutinized and accounted for by government officials.

Although Shu Yu knew that she couldn't escape the fate of exile, she didn't want to add another charge when she was cleared. She still wanted to get away immediately after being exiled, to avoid trouble, especially since it would be troublesome to carry the Shu family's money.

So when she left the city, she only had the sixty taels of silver that she had earned herself.

Sixty taels of silver, of which Lu Erbai's leg treatment alone would require at least fifteen taels.

To be on the safe side, Shu Yu prepared twenty taels of silver.

After deducting this amount, the remaining money was the cost of her journey from the capital, and she used one and a half taels to rent a carriage. In addition, she spent about five hundred wen on buying meat, snacks, rice, flour, and other things today, as well as her dining expenses outside.

So now, she only had thirty-eight taels of silver that she could use. 

Thirty-eight taels of silver might be a large sum for the villagers of Shishi Village, and many households probably didn't have half that amount in savings.

But for Shu Yu, it was still too little. She had many places where she needed money, and it seemed that the urgent task was to make money as soon as possible.

Just as she was thinking about this, she heard a knock at the door.

Shu Yu put away the silver and got up to open the door.

Then she saw Ruan Shi coming in with a basket of needles and thread, smiling and saying, "I see that the hem of your clothes is torn. Let me help you mend it."

Shu Yu was taken aback and looked down at her dress.

Indeed, the hem of her skirt was torn. It had been accidentally hooked by a wooden thorn when she was blocking for Ruan Shi during their confrontation today.

(End of this chapter)