Wealthy beyond measure, yet you call me a sister-supporting-brother demon?

When Yuan Sheng and Zhu Chenxi returned to town, he first went to the pharmacy to buy medicine for Chenxi's face and seasoning for braised meat.

At that time, there were no recipes for braising meat, and star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, fennel, and other spices were displayed in pharmacies as medicinal materials.

To avoid revealing the ingredients of the braised meat, Yuan Sheng went to different pharmacies to buy them, and then combined them with Zhu Chenxi's face medicine, making it even harder for anyone to guess.

With little money left, Yuansheng didn't buy much medicine or seasoning.

The medicine for treating my face at dawn is only enough for two days; I'll have to buy more the day after tomorrow.

After applying the medicine to Chenxi's face for a month, the red birthmark faded. After applying the medicine for two months, the birthmark was almost gone.

After applying the medicine for three months, my face was completely healed!

Yuan Sheng touched the 110 coins he had left in his pocket and sighed that money really doesn't last long.

Earlier that morning, he had earned a total of two taels of silver and one thousand coins. He spent six hundred and fifty coins on meat, gave Li the butcher one tael of silver, and received three hundred and fifty coins in change.

He also gave his father-in-law one tael of silver plus eight hundred cash (one string of cash), leaving him with five hundred and fifty cash.

The carriage ride cost two coins, and the medicine and seasonings cost four hundred and thirty-eight coins, leaving one hundred and ten coins remaining.

He went back to return the twenty coins his mother had given him that morning, and then he didn't have much money left.

He's poor! He's still too poor!

He had just passed a clothing store with many beautiful clothes. Looking at Zhu Chenxi's tattered hemp clothes and shoes with her big toes showing, and thinking of his parents' patched-up clothes and their aged bodies, his desire to earn money became even more urgent!

No way! He's going to make braised pork as soon as he gets back.

Today he's going to dress Chenxi and his parents in new clothes!

Thinking of how happy they would be, Yuan Sheng immediately became full of energy.

He took Zhu Chenxi to buy the groceries and then went to the meat market to get meat from Butcher Li.

All the meat at Butcher Li's meat stall has been sold out; he's just waiting for Yuansheng.

"Butcher Li, business is good today."

Butcher Li laughed loudly, "Thanks to you, young man, I was able to sell out so early."

The butcher next door had a huge pile of meat on his cutting board, but he hadn't sold much at all.

"Uncle Wang, hasn't the big customer who ordered the meat from you come to pick it up yet?"

Wang the butcher was extremely frustrated, but he tried his best to appear calm. "He'll come to pick it up later."

Yuan Sheng kindly said, "Then it can't be too late, the meat won't be fresh after noon. By the way, Uncle, did he pay in advance?"

"I've paid, I've paid." Butcher Wang's heart was bleeding, but he was still trying to hold on.

"Luckily I paid, otherwise he would have said he didn't want the meat later in the afternoon, and you would have lost a lot of money. Selling meat at a low price later in the afternoon would have been a huge loss."

Butcher Wang gritted his teeth, nearly losing his composure. He thought to himself, "Don't be so arrogant, kid. Stolen money isn't so easy to spend."

When you get back, you'll get a good beating from Yuan Laifu and Sheng Guihua first, and then you'll go to jail.

snort!

Zhu Chenxi blinked her big, bright eyes, leaned close to Yuan Sheng's ear, and whispered, "My lord, I feel like he's about to burst from holding it in."

Yuan Sheng looked at Butcher Wang's clenched back teeth and said with a smile, "Uncle, does your tooth hurt?"

Butcher Li laughed too, "I think he has too much internal heat, which is why his back molars hurt."

Yuan Sheng spent another two coins and got into Uncle Niu Gen's car with Zhu Chenxi.

……

Old Mrs. Zhang was greeting relatives at the village entrance when she saw two bailiffs walking towards her from afar.

She slapped her thigh. Oh no! They must be here to arrest Yuan Sheng.

Anxious, Grandma Zhang ran as fast as she could, and dashed to Sheng Guihua's house in a flash.

"Guihua, something terrible has happened! I saw two constables walking towards our village from afar. Could they be here to arrest Yuansheng?"

"What?" Sheng Guihua's eyes immediately reddened. "Old man, what do we do now?"

Yuan Laifu was also anxious. He had originally planned to wait for Yuanbao and his wife to return so he could find out the situation before deciding on how to raise the money, but now it was too late.

The police officer is here; he needs to make arrangements quickly.

Yuan Laifu stood on this side of the wall and shouted, "Zhang Wen, Zhang Wen, are you home?"

"I'm at home. I've been working on the farm these past few days and I'm taking a break today." Zhang Wen yawned and stretched in a fake manner as he walked towards Yuan Laifu's house.

"Brother Laifu, what's up?"

"I want to ask you, do you still want my well and that half-acre of land?" Yuan Laifu scratched his head.

"Yes, but I don't have that much money on hand. You know how expensive it is to study in Qingshu."

How much do you have on hand?

"I only have five taels on me, Brother Laifu, will you sell it?"

"What?" Yuan Laifu thought Zhang Wen would take the opportunity to lower the price, but he didn't expect him to be so ruthless! "Fourteen taels, the lowest price. Give me ten taels in cash, and write me an IOU for the remaining four taels."

"Brother Laifu, I can't buy it at this price. Why don't you wait until I have the money?" Zhang Wenming knew that Yuan Laifu was waiting for money to save Yuansheng, so he said this on purpose.

Yuan Laifu knew that he wouldn't get a good price if he was in a hurry to sell, but he really had no other choice. "Then tell me, how much money can you offer?"

Ma Guifen also came to the Yuan family. "Sister Guihua, Brother Laifu, we can only give you six taels at most. We really don't have any money on hand."

Sheng Guihua said, "You said you'd give me fifteen taels before, how come it suddenly became six taels?"

“The past is the past, and the present is the present. Times have changed. Sister Guihua, what can we do now that we only have six ounces?”

"Then give me six taels of silver in cash, and write an IOU for the remaining eight taels."

"That won't do, we don't want this price." After saying that, Ma Guifen pulled Zhang Wen and walked out. Anyway, they weren't in a hurry, but the Yuan family was. They were determined to take advantage of this bargain today.

"Brother Zhang Wen, take care." Yuan Laifu grabbed Zhang Wen. "Ten taels of silver!"

That well alone cost ten taels, and that half-acre of land was practically given away for free.

Zhang Wen said, "Eight taels! Brother Laifu, I can only give you eight taels of cash at most."

Just as Yuan Laifu was about to shout "Deal!", Yuan Sheng's voice rang out, "Eight taels for my well? Uncle Zhang Wen, are you dreaming?"