Han Qingyun and his family stayed at the Lu family until dusk before returning home.

Mrs. Chen was sorting her belongings when suddenly a childish and cheerful voice came: "Grandma, I'm back. I missed you so much."

When Chen heard this familiar voice, she couldn't help but smile. It was Han Huaian's voice. Like Han Huaixi, he was also a sweet talker.

"Little Sweetheart No. 1" Han Huaixi and "Little Sweetheart No. 2" Han Huaian, each holding a toy brought back from their grandparents' home, ran towards Chen happily.

This was the first time Chen saw Han Huaian after she traveled through time. He looked very similar to Han Huaixi, but his appearance was more heroic.

Compared with Han Huaixi, Han Huaian has thicker eyebrows, a straighter nose, and a rounder chin. She is very beautiful, but not feminine.

Chen was delighted and stretched out her arms, hugging the two children tightly.

Seeing Han Qingyun and Lu Yanyan enter the house, Chen let go of the two children and asked them to go find their older brother and sister first.

Spreading her hands, Chen said to Han Qingyun and the others, "This family is really poor."

Yesterday, Chen and Lu Yanyan discussed that after the family split up today, they would take out all the money in the house.

Most of the valuable things in the house cannot be taken away, but you must take all the silver and money with you, as you will need money everywhere when you settle down.

Chen was busy for half a day this afternoon. After deducting the thirty taels given to Han Qingshan today, the family now has only two hundred and eight taels of silver left, and not much food either.

That’s all, and it’s because of the 170 taels that Lu Yanyan brought over.

In the countryside, more than two hundred taels of silver is a huge sum of money, enough for many families to live a comfortable life.

But if they want to settle down again, this amount of money is far from enough, not to mention Han Huaijin's tuition fee. If they go to Luocheng, the academy will no longer waive his tuition fee, and Han Huaian will also have to go to school next year.

The Han family was originally an ordinary farming family. After Han Hongyuan passed the imperial examination, he was rewarded with fifty taels of silver by the town because he was the first scholar in Fengxi Town. In addition, he later taught in a college and his land was exempted from taxes. This is how he gradually accumulated some family property.

After Han Qingyun passed the imperial examination, Han Hongyuan spent most of his family fortune to invite Master Lin. Add to that the daily expenses of writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as the expenses of participating in the autumn examination. The Han family was not as wealthy as outsiders imagined.

Especially Han Hongyuan's illness and funeral arrangements completely drained the Han family's wealth.

Han Qingyun was a person who cared about his reputation, and he refused to use Lu Yanyan's dowry, and even more so refused to accept financial support from the Lu family.

The Han family was in a really difficult situation during that period, so it was not entirely unreasonable for Chen to take the opportunity to stop paying Han Xigu and Han Beiwang's salaries.

It was not until Han Qingyun took over Han Hongyuan's position in the academy that the Han family gradually got better.

The Han family's food and clothing are much better than those of ordinary farmers, so their household expenses are also high.

Han Qingyun's income and the income from the land were only enough to maintain a normal life, with a slight surplus.

Lu Yanyan was originally wealthy. In addition to the 100 taels of silver from her dowry, she also earned 100 taels of silver every year from renting out her two shops in the town.

But at the beginning of the year, she went to Lu Fugui's shop in the county town and saw that the business of the shop in the county town was much better than that in the town. She was so excited that she bought a shop as well.

The total cost of the shop and its decoration was more than 1,200 taels of silver. Lu Yanyan not only spent all the rent from these years, but also sold most of her dowry jewelry to make up the enough money.

The reason why the shop in the county town was not rented out was because Lu Yanyan wanted to start his own business.

Han Huaijin's knowledge became more and more outstanding, and Fengxi College also planned to recommend him to study at the county academy like Han Qingyun.

Lu Yanyan wanted to have a shop in the county town so that Han Huaijin would have a place to stay in the county town in the future.

There is no rule in Dayu Kingdom that prohibits businessmen from entering the government, so she doesn't have to worry about affecting Han Qingyun.

This shop was planning to do perfume powder business. It was originally planned to open on June 8th, but now there is no need to wait for the opening.

More than a thousand taels, thrown away in vain. Lu Yanyan felt very sad when he thought about it.

Fortunately, I paid the rent for the shop in town in March, otherwise I wouldn’t even have the 170 taels.

Han Qingyun originally didn't care about money and didn't understand the family's situation. He never expected that this family only had this little money.

He took out the four taels and eight cents of silver he had in his pocket, and now he only had two hundred and thirteen taels at home.

The children are still young and have to travel every day to escape. He originally planned to buy another mule cart for them to ride, but now he has to make new plans.

Han Qingyun made a list of things that had to be bought, such as water bags, charcoal, small clay stoves, oilcloth, etc. Lu Yanyan and Chen added a few more items. They had to go to the county as soon as possible to buy all of them.

The helpers in the fields will come tomorrow. Because of what Han Qingyun said, Lu Fugui found ten more people. There are enough people, and the harvest should be completed in the next two days.

The grain yield was not high in that era, but forty acres of land could still yield more than 12,000 kilograms.

It is such a waste of time to grind wheat into flour after harvesting it.

They had already decided to sell all the harvest and buy some rice and flour for the journey.

Including Mrs. Liu, there were eight of them in total. It would take them nearly two months to walk from Wuping County to Luocheng, and they would need a lot of food.

Adding clothes, bedding and other items, a mule cart was stuffed to the brim. They also needed to carry some small items with them. Han Qingyun felt dizzy just thinking about it.

As for why they didn't go to the closer Lin'an Prefecture, the original book said that Lin'an Prefecture was soon controlled by Prince Lin.

Later, Prince Lin's army returned to the northern border to fight against foreign enemies. After that, Prince Lin's son signed a ceasefire agreement with the Dayu Kingdom, and Lin'an Prefecture returned to the hands of Emperor Zhaowen again.

Emperor Zhaowen treated Lin'an Prefecture as a rebel, and many Lin'an residents lost their homes and homes.

Han Qingyun was also worried that after the Jiyang Army took over Lin'an Prefecture, they would probably increase taxes a lot, and they would have a hard time living there.

May 5th was also the fourth day since they arrived.

Early in the morning, Han Qingyun hurried to the county town again. He had too many things to buy today, so he had to go early.

Lu Yanyan, Chen and Liu Po ​​continued to make "instant noodles".

Today, she was also going to make fried noodles and fried dough twists. Mrs. Liu didn't understand why she had to make these. Lu Yanyan just told her that Han Qingyun was going on a long trip with some friends in a few days, and she prepared these for them.

Just after breakfast, Lu Fugui's long-time attendant, Erlin, brought people to collect food for Han Qingyun's family.

A large group of people went straight to the fields of the second branch of the Han family to harvest wheat, which made the villagers very confused.

They felt that they could harvest more grain if they waited a few days, and the people from the second branch of the Han family were too anxious.

Some curious villagers ran to ask Chen, and Chen just said that she was afraid of rain and asked them to harvest as soon as possible.

It’s a pity that the villagers don’t know the reason behind it. How can they bear to harvest now? Wouldn’t it be better to produce more grain?

The grain collected from Han Qingyun's family was sent directly to the threshing ground in the village.

The weather has been good recently, so the work is done quickly and the threshing is done well.

That evening, Han Qingyun returned to tell Chen and the others that he had contacted a grain buyer. He would come the next day to take the dried wheat away, but the purchase price would be much cheaper than selling it himself.

Chen nodded. They didn't expect to sell the grain for much money, they just didn't want to waste it.

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