Although Xu Huaiqian didn’t vomit much blood, Chen Liejiu still asked Doctor Sun to come and check his pulse.

Doctor Sun said the same old thing; live a wealthy and prosperous life and don’t be stimulated again. He added a medicine to Xu Huaiqian’s medicine and left.

After sending Doctor Sun away, feeding the chickens, ducks and geese and putting them in their respective pens, Chen Xiaomei’s face wrinkled.

“What are you worried about?” After closing the gate, Chen Liejiu saw her standing in the yard with a worried look on her face and asked in confusion.

“Brother, where can we get the money!” She just knew that her brother wanted to support Xu Huaiqian’s studies. Taking medicine to recuperate, reading and writing are all very expensive. If their family had money, she would definitely take it without saying a word.

But the problem is that their family has no money.

She wouldn’t be worth much even if she was sold.

 “Find a way to earn it,” Chen Liejiu pinched her little nose and smiled, “I once heard a scholar say that there will always be a way when the car reaches the mountain. As for you, just feed your chickens, ducks and geese well, and don’t worry about adults’ affairs.”

Chen Xiaomei wanted to roll her eyes at him.

If she stood at home, would the money grow legs and automatically run home? She would make blind promises.

Chen Liejiu did not comfort Chen Xiaomei, but made her sleepless all night.

She loves to eat meat and sweets. When she was five years old, her eldest brother bought her many chickens, ducks and geese for her to raise and play. Now she has four ducks, five geese and six chickens. With the eggs laid by these chickens, ducks and geese, she can earn a few copper coins a month and exchange them for some maltose.

She can also give her family a treat during the New Year and other festivals.

But now there is Second brother who needs medical treatment and education…

When Chen Xiaomei thought of Xu Huaiqian’s thin appearance, she gritted her teeth and sat up to calculate if she didn’t eat meat or sugar and exchanged it for money, could she lighten her brother’s burden a little?

The answer is of course no.

She raised too few chickens, ducks and geese. Even if she sold them all, she could only exchange for a few hundred copper coins, which was not enough to buy two sets of medicine for Xu Huaiqian.

It would be great if she raised a lot of chickens, ducks and geese, then she could exchange a lot of money.

But the cheapest chicks were also very expensive, three wen each. If she wanted to raise a lot of chickens, she would have to buy a lot of chicks, which would be a lot of money.

 Besides, you need to buy a lot of food to raise so many chickens, and you may not be able to keep them alive…

She knew that chickens could hatch chicks by themselves, but it had to be in season. And not all eggs could hatch chicks in season, and sometimes chickens would peck the eggs.

No matter how you think about it, it feels so hard to make money!

Chen Xiaomei was so worried that she didn’t sleep all night. The next day, she went out with two big dark circles under her eyes, holding the dragonflies and butterflies that Xu Huaiqian had woven for her.

When Chen Liejiu got up, he saw a circle of children in front of her. She was distributing the dragonflies and butterflies that Xu Huaiqian had woven for her to the children in front of her one by one with a look of reluctance.

“Don’t like it?” Chen Liejiu walked over and asked.

He knew how much his sister treasured her straw weavings. She never put them down after getting them, and even carried them with her when eating.

 “No,” Chen Xiaomei gave the last straw weaving away expressionlessly, “I asked Goudan and Erya to help me catch vegetable worms. One straw weaving for them to catch them for ten days.”

She has five or six, and can catch them for two months.

Chen Liejiu was puzzled: “What do you catch vegetable worms for?”

“Feed the chickens.”

She had heard that chickens can lay more eggs if they eat more worms. Although she didn’t know if this method would work, she had to give it a try.

Looking at her serious expression and a series of unusual actions, Chen Liejiu knew that she was still worried about money.

He pinched her nose: “Didn’t big brother say that big brother has a way?”

Chen Xiaomei didn’t believe it.

What can he do? He only earns three or four taels a year from collecting debts, and with some miscellaneous work, the family only earns five or six taels a year. It’s hard to earn money for Xu Huaiqian’s medicine, let alone money for studying!

 Chen Liejiu saw that he couldn’t convince her, so he didn’t force her. After all, they were her chickens, ducks and geese, so she could do whatever she wanted.

As a result, when he turned around and went into the kitchen, Wang Wanwan also took out a purse and gave it to him: “Brother, this is the money that Brother Jinhu and I have saved over the years, you can use it first.”

Chen Liejiu was speechless for a while: “Why do you all think that the family is short of money?”

Wang Wanwan tilted her head and looked at him.

Is it not short of money?

Studying and recuperation are the biggest expenses. She didn’t know how much money the family had, but she knew Chen Liejiu spent money lavishly. He would buy cloth for the family to make new clothes during the holidays, and no one in their family had ever worn patched clothes. Chen Liejiu only earned so much a year, so he definitely didn’t save much money.

 “Big brother doesn’t want your money,” Chen Liejiu poured himself a bowl of porridge and didn’t take her money, “If you have time, make some clothes for your second brother, just use the cloth in my cabinet.”

He looked through it yesterday, and Xu Huaiqian’s clothes were all washed white, and many of them were patched.

Come to think of it, the Xu family is just an ordinary farmer, and the annual income depends on the harvest from the land. They have to support Xu Huaiqian, a sickly child, and Xu Huaiqian’s studies. Life is tight, so how can they have so much spare money to buy clothes.

It’s no wonder that they went into the mountains to collect firewood to earn the firewood money and were bitten to death by wolves.

The reason why Mishan County is called Mishan County is because the mountains here are rotten and numerous. They are not the kind of mountains with many stones, but mountains and forests overgrown with weeds. The outer mountains and forests are all inhabited by people, so they can’t collect firewood at will. If they want to collect firewood, they can only go deep into the mountains and find unowned mountains and forests.

 There are many families in the county, and the amount of firewood used is also large. In winter, a cart of firewood can be sold for ten wen, and in summer, it can almost be sold for five or six wen. When it is not the busy farming season, going to the mountains to collect firewood and sell is indeed a free income.

It is a pity that making money is often accompanied by risks. The easier it is to make money, the greater the risk.

Wang Wanwan nodded in agreement. As for Chen Liejiu confiscating her money, she did not force it. At most, she would give it to her brother when he needed it.

Chen Liejiu ate his meal and went back to the house. He took out a dagger from under the pillow of the sleeping Xu Huaiqian and left.

Xu Huaiqian, who was sleeping soundly, knew nothing, and slept until noon again. Looking at the dazzling sun outside, he was thoughtful.

At first, he thought that his biological clock had not adjusted yet, but he went to bed at seven or eight o’clock for two consecutive days. No matter how sleepy a person is, it is impossible to sleep until eleven or twelve o’clock the next day.

It seems that his body is too useless. 

Xu Huaiqian coughed a few times, feeling that his internal organs were aching. He ate breakfast, drank medicine, and turned out the rattan box that Chen Liejiu gave him yesterday.

He thought that he would not have to worry about his livelihood if he found a rich woman, and he could just eat her soft rice.

He didn’t expect that the rich woman was a fake rich woman. He was in poor health now. Even if he didn’t want to earn money for medicine, he had to earn some supplements to restore his face first.

The body can be bad, but the face cannot be bad.

When he thought that he had to face people with a not-so-good-looking face every day, Xu Huaiqian still had to save face.

He placed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the eight-immortal table.

The Chen family had no scholars, nor desks, and the original owner’s desk was just two wooden boards put together casually. When Chen Liejiu went to dismantle the Xu family’s house, it was estimated that it had become part of the toilet when he brought it back.

Fortunately, Xu Huaiqian didn’t care about the environment.

 His parents died in a car accident when he was very young, and he grew up with his grandfather, who was a calligrapher and was obsessed with calligraphy. He learned nothing from his grandfather except for good calligraphy.

Although it is still a little short of the level of a calligrapher, it is definitely at an upper-middle level. In this era, it is much better than the words written by some people who have not systematically learned calligraphy.

However, his grandfather passed away later, and he became a civil servant. He was busy working in the countryside every day to help the poor, and he had long forgotten about practicing calligraphy. Now he doesn’t know how much he can still read.

He dipped his ink and wrote a few words to see.

It’s okay, it’s okay, just a little rusty, the pen tip and other things are still there, and he can practice.

He opened the original owner’s book and started writing by imitating the words here. He remembered that there seemed to be a profession in ancient times called copying books?

Many time-travel novels have written about it.

He also wanted to copy homework and make some money by copying books. It doesn’t matter how much he earns, it is at least an income.

 As he was writing, Chen Xiaomei took an egg, walked over the threshold and handed it to him: “Here?”

Xu Huaiqian put down his pen: “For me?”

“Yes,” Chen Xiaomei nodded, “My family can’t afford ginseng and bird’s nest but you can eat some eggs first to replenish your body.”

She thought about it. Selling eggs wouldn’t make much money so it would be better to give all the eggs to Xu Huaiqian. At least it would be a tonic.

The women and husbands who had given birth in the village could get better by eating eggs, so he, who had weak bones from birth could also eat them, right?

Xu Huaiqian took the egg and touched the scalding temperature on the egg.

Suddenly, he remembered that when he was helping the poor in the mountainous areas, he went to farmers’ homes with several colleagues and professionals in breeding to teach them how to hatch chicks. Because he had participated in it himself, those steps are still fresh in his mind today.

He didn’t know if hatching chicks and breeding are possible in this era?

 In modern times, even if the technology is backward, it is still tens of thousands of times better than here, and the cost of trial and error is low. But here, it is completely starting from scratch. Except for the few times he had participated in the experience, he had nothing and could only rely on trial and error.

Thinking of this, he asked Chen Xiaomei: “Are there many families raising chickens in the village?”

Chen Xiaomei thought for a while and said: “Quite a lot.” At least the families she knew seemed to have raised chickens, but they didn’t raise many.

“Are there many families buying chickens in the city?” The original owner’s memory was incomplete, except for some scattered memories of reading, Xu Huaiqian had almost no memory of the county town. Even if he wanted to engage in breeding, he had to understand the market before deciding.

“A lot!” Chen Xiaomei nodded. Every time she went to buy chickens and goose seedlings, she had to rely on snatching. If she took the chickens to the county town, they would be bought by others in a short while. There were also women and gers who had given birth who came to the countryside to collect eggs.

 Xu Huaiqian’s eyes lit up: “Then can second brother buy some eggs from you to hatch chicks?” Since the market is big, he can give it a try.

He remembered that Chen Liejiu told him that the chickens, ducks and geese at home were all private property of Chen Xiaomei. Since they were private property, they could not be taken at will.

Chen Xiaomei was shocked: “You can hatch chicks?!”

Before Xu Huaiqian answered her, there was a sudden noise outside the Chen family yard, and a bunch of people were talking and shouting: “Chen Liejiu! Is Chen Liejiu here!”

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Qianqian: Fight for face!