The road to wealth for waste peasant women

Chapter 3

This is the family's breakfast?How poor is it?Is she going to live such a miserable life in the future?God, your punishment is too heavy, right?This little thing is not enough to fit between the teeth, how can it fill the stomach?Not to mention the 12-year-old next to her.

Seeing the family's usual appearance, Nan Qiutong had no choice but to bite the bullet and eat.

The porridge can only be drunk as water, and the wild vegetables have no other taste except an earthy smell, and she has never tasted any oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.How does Nan Qiutong, who grew up with delicacies from mountains and seas, endure this?
I used to be lavish before, even abalone and lobster, as long as I can't eat it, I just throw it away, but now, with such a bowl of rice soup and a plate of wild vegetables, "I can't eat it anymore" Nan Qiutong said no matter what I can't tell.

Seeing other people eating devoutly, Nan Qiutong could only bite the bullet and stuff the wild vegetables into his mouth, and swallowed them directly into his stomach without chewing.It was the hardest meal she had ever had growing up.

"Why are you eating so fast today? Are you hungry? Mother, I'll give you these too." Seeing Nan Qiutong gobbling it up, Mrs. Nan pushed her plate of wild vegetables down in front of Nan Qiutong.

Again?What a joke!
"No need mother, I'm full." Nan Qiutong smiled innocently and pushed the plate back.

"Really?" Mrs. Nan looked at Nan Qiutong suspiciously.

"Of course it's true." Nan Qiutong chuckled and patted her stomach.

"It's good to be full, it's good to be full." Mrs. Nan lowered her head, as if there was a drop of crystal water dripping into the bowl.

full?How can you be full with just this rice soup and wild vegetables?Three meals a day are such food, how can Mrs. Nan not know?But what can she do?
Their master only knows how to do business, but since that business failed, he has been unable to make a comeback no matter what. He just drinks a little wine and basks in the sun all day long. What happened back then was too shocking to be able to recover anymore.

She is a woman and three children left in the family. The eldest Nan Qiutong is only 15 years old, and the youngest Nan Qiutu is only 12 years old. What can these children be expected to do?She can only rely on her to embroider others for a living, but how much money can she earn in a remote place like Pingcheng?It's hard for her children...

Looking at Mrs. Nan surrounded by sadness, the corners of Nan Qiutong's mouth twitched.She... didn't say anything she shouldn't have said, did she?Can you not be so sad?She was the last person to cope with this atmosphere.

"That...Father, mother, I'm wandering around the city, so you don't have to wait for me to eat at noon."

"Where are you going?" This child doesn't go out very often on weekdays, unless she is asked to buy something, what's wrong today?
"Just to go around." Nan Qiutong chuckled, "By the way, although I'm a little embarrassed, but father and mother, can you give me a copper coin?"

She needs money!She couldn't stand another meal like this!

"Is there anything you want to buy?" Mrs. Nan looked up at Nan Qiutong.

"No." Nan Qiutong scratched his head, "If there is no one, forget it, then I will go."

"Wait!" As soon as Nan Qiutong stepped forward, Mrs. Nan's eager voice sounded, "Our family is poor, but there is still a copper plate lady. Here, you take it. If you want to buy something, go buy it. , ah. Don’t worry, the family has money.”

"Well, I see." Nan Qiutong took the copper plate, and when holding it in his hand, he suddenly felt that the copper plate was worth ten thousand gold.

Thinking that the money in this family must not be much, this copper plate must have accounted for a considerable proportion. This copper plate is the love of the Nan family couple for their daughter, how can it not be heavy?Nan Qiutong felt very uncomfortable.

Suddenly, she felt an unfriendly gaze fixed on her.Nan Qiutong raised his eyebrows slightly, without making any major movements, but rolled his eyes.

Nan Qiuyue?Heh, isn't it just a copper coin? How about making her face contort with jealousy?Besides, she, Nan Qiutong, is the biological daughter of the Nan family couple. If she is not nice to her biological daughter, is she really nice to an outsider like Nan Qiuyue?

"Sister, I'll go too." After stuffing the last piece of wild vegetables into his mouth, Nan Qiutu also stood up.

"Well, Tutu should not go." What she was going to do seemed not suitable for children.

"I'm going."

"Tongtong, you can take him there. You two rarely go out together, don't you?" Mrs. Nan looked at her pair of children with a smile.

"Well, that's fine." Nan Qiutong smiled, took Nan Qiutu's little hand, and walked out of the dilapidated courtyard.

I don't know if this madam would happily let her lead Nan Qiutu out if she knew what she was going to do.

I don't know why, but their family lives outside Pingcheng City. Although it is not far from the center of Pingcheng City, it is not very convenient after all.Could it be because there is no money to buy a house?It seems that the problem of housing prices has been the same throughout the ages.

"Tutu, is it cold?"

If I remember correctly, ten miles outside Pingcheng is an area of ​​water that cannot be seen, and I don't know if it is a big river or a piece of sea.But the wind in winter will be extraordinarily cold. The cold wind just blows over the cheeks, which makes people feel painful.And her patched clothes didn't do much to keep out the cold.

"No, it's not cold." Nan Qiutu sniffed and leaned against Nan Qiutong.

She didn't know when this family began to decline, it seemed that Nan Qiutong had been living in that dilapidated wooden house since she was sensible.

The wooden house was built when there were still servants. Later, the family really couldn't pay the wages, and those servants left one after another.

Day after day, I don't know how they persisted in this kind of life without enough food and clothing. In short, she, a rich lady, couldn't bear it. She couldn't bear this kind of day of falling from heaven to hell.

Her highest ideal in life is to be a profligate rice bug, but according to the current conditions of their family, she will not be able to realize this wish after she dies, so the top priority is to get some money, let alone get rich, at least first Solve the problem of food and clothing.

"Sister, what are we going to do in the city?" Nan Qiutu sneezed and looked at Nan Qiutong with his head tilted.

"Make money."

"Make money?" How?
"Don't ask so many children, just wait for the money."

Nan Qiutu rubbed his nose, just follow it, if you have money, you should pay it.

"Hey, aren't these the brothers and sisters of the Nan family? Are you going to the city?" Mrs. Nan often went to the city, and sometimes she would bring Nan Qiutong or Nan Qiutu with her, so their family was quite familiar with the guards.

(End of this chapter)