In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chapter 153 Happy All Day

Chen He quickly left with the silver, but Li Zheng stayed behind. He smiled and said, "The villagers will probably be happy all day today!"

Li Zheng knew very well how much two taels of silver would affect the villagers. Not to mention the villagers, even he, a scholar, almost couldn't help but grin when he received one tael of silver from Chen Dao.

"Mr. Lee."

Chen Dao said, "If you're free today, why don't you have dinner at my place?"

After thinking about it, Li Zheng did not refuse, so he stayed at Chen Dao's house and ate with Chen Dao, Chen Cheng and others.

Meanwhile, Chen Lian, who was helping He Xuehua back to her house, carefully placed three taels of silver on the table. Looking at the gleaming silver, Chen Lian's body trembled slightly, a sign of excitement.

Chen Lian turned to look at He Xuehua and found that He Xuehua was also staring intently at the silver on the table: "Grandma, this silver is so beautiful!"

He Xuehua nodded subconsciously. At that moment, the metallic luster shimmering on the silver was the most beautiful color in the world in their eyes.

"Brother Dao is really generous!"

He Xuehua couldn't help but sigh. The three taels of silver that her family was able to obtain was all thanks to Chen Dao. Not only her family, but the whole village was the same. If it weren't for Chen Dao, how would the villagers have had the opportunity to earn silver?

Earning even a copper coin is considered quite an achievement!

After a sigh, He Xuehua looked at Chen Lian and asked, "Xiao Lian, what do you plan to do with this money?"

The money belongs to Chen Lian, and He Xuehua doesn't intend to interfere with its use. However, as an elder, she still wants to inquire about where the money goes.

"This is too much money, I haven't decided how to use it yet!"

Chen Lian said, "However, I plan to buy Grandma a new set of clothes, and I also need to get new clothes for myself."

As the weather gets colder, buying new clothes has become a necessity for most villagers, and Chen Lian is no exception.

The clothes she and He Xuehua wore were several years old, patched up in large numbers, and had extremely poor insulation. Every time they went out, the cold wind would blow, and they would feel as if they were wrapped in the cold wind and shivering.

Now that she has money, Chen Lian naturally wants to buy some cloth to sew new clothes.

"And...I'm planning to buy some meat to eat!"

Chen Lian licked her lips. When she worked at Chen Dao's house before, she could occasionally eat a bite of meat. She couldn't forget the aroma of the meat. Now that she had money, she thought about buying more meat to eat.

"Buying meat?"

He Xuehua frowned and said, "In this kind of year, there's no meat to sell in our village. We'll probably have to go to the city."

In the past, during peaceful years, some villagers in Chenjia Village would sell their livestock for money. However, with the cold disaster sweeping through the village, there were almost no livestock left. Under these circumstances, Chenjia Village naturally lost its source of meat, and if they wanted to eat meat, they would probably have to go to the city.

As for Chen Lian... He Xuehua, who had watched Chen Lian grow from a child into a young woman, knew very well that Chen Lian had never been to the county town.

"I know that."

Chen Lian smiled and nodded, saying, "I plan to go to the city with Dao Ge'er and the others in a few days."

Chen Lian, who had never been to the county town, longed to visit it because she often heard others boast about its prosperity and liveliness. Her eyes lit up when she talked about going to the town.

"It works!"

He Xuehua nodded. If it were anyone else, He Xuehua would definitely not allow Chen Lian to enter the city with her. After all, Chen Lian was still a virgin, and traveling with a group of men would inevitably tarnish her reputation. But He Xuehua felt at ease with Chen Dao.

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While Chen Lian and He Xuehua were discussing how to use the money, at Chen Gou's house, the family of three, who had just returned home, were also staring intently at the two taels of silver that Chen Sheng had placed on the table.

"This silver is really beautiful!"

Chen Gou grinned and said, "In all my years, I've never seen a whole tael of silver!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Sheng and Liu Jie nodded in unison. Not to mention Chen Gou, even they, who were nearly forty years old, had rarely seen a full tael of silver. Even in peaceful years with abundant harvests, they had never seen such a large sum of money.

After all, when there is a bumper harvest, the price of grain is low, and it is impossible to sell the grain produced from just a few acres of land for a full tael of silver.

To put it bluntly, for ordinary people in the Xia Kingdom, copper coins were their most commonly used currency; as for silver…

Very few ordinary people can actually use it.

At this very moment, two whole taels of silver were placed in front of Chen Gou and his two companions, making their eyes glued to the silver, unable to look away even a fraction.

After a long while, Chen Sheng finally withdrew his gaze and said with great pride, "Gou-ge'er, didn't you want to eat meat? I'll buy it for you tomorrow!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Jie couldn't help but feel a pang of pain on her face. Although she had never bought meat before, she knew that meat prices were definitely not cheap in this year. Buying meat for one meal would take away at least half of the two taels of silver on the table.

However, since Chen Sheng was ultimately in charge, she did not refute his words.

"I'm not going to eat meat!"

At this moment, Chen Gou unexpectedly said, "Father, we should use these two taels of silver for other things!"

"Other things?"

Chen Sheng was somewhat taken aback. Chen Gou, who had been shouting about eating meat earlier, was now acting out of character and didn't want to eat meat anymore.

"What's the matter? Buying fabric to make new clothes?"

Liu Jie asked about buying fabric, which was also part of her and Chen Sheng's plan. After all, the weather was too cold now, and it would be hard to get through without new clothes.

"no!"

Chen Gou shook his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "I think we should use this two taels of silver to make money."

How does this money generate more money?

Chen Sheng was even more puzzled. Money isn't a woman, so how could it possibly generate new money?

"Father, listen to me!"

Chen Gou suddenly stood up and paced back and forth in the living room, saying as he walked, "Father, Mother, do you remember that peddler named Wu Han?"

"of course I remember."

Chen Sheng and Liu Jie nodded in unison. Wu Han was a very familiar person to all the villagers of Chenjia Village, since most of the steamed buns they ate were made from white flour that Wu Han brought over.

"Do you know how much silver Wu Han earns by transporting goods to the village?" Chen Gou asked again.

Chen Sheng and Liu Jie exchanged a glance and shook their heads. They worked in the fields every day and rarely had contact with Wu Han. Even if they occasionally met, they wouldn't have much interaction with him, so they had no way of knowing how much money Wu Han could earn.