Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chapter 48 - 48 47 The Furniture is Ready

?Chapter 48: Chapter 47 The Furniture is Ready Chapter 48: Chapter 47 The Furniture is Ready The spring water sprang up more.

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Several people entered the room, allowed Alu to lie on the bed, wiped his sweat, changed his clothes, and prepared warm meals for them.

While eating, Mrs. Wang retold their journey to the capital city. The treatment for the illness was fairly smooth. However, Alu suffered a lot. During the bone setting, he passed out from the pain, and woke up to cry bitterly from the lingering discomfort. On hearing this, Chen Ming and the others were brought to tears.

Fortunately, the injury healed very well—it recovered faster than most, according to the doctors at Qianjin Medical Clinic. The medical treatment, medicine purchase, including over twenty packets of medication and dozens of ointments, totaled twelve and a half taels of silver.

Mrs. Wang continued, stating that Chen Shi’s family hosted them for more than half a month and had been greatly helpful. They even refused to take the silver dime she offered them.

Given the money left, Mrs. Wang bought bolts of silk from the fabric store to make clothes for each member of the family before leaving. The two silver dimes they initially refused, she left sneakily at their home.

Mrs. Wang also mentioned that life for the Shi family did not seem as comfortable as rumors had it. Their courtyard was very small and they lived frugally. They would stew some meat every day, but it was only for Alu to eat; the Shi’s three children couldn’t have any. Chen Shi had borrowed money to repair his house but had only managed to repay the debt a few months ago. Chen Shi’s wife, Mrs. Zhang, was full of complaints against Mrs. Hu and had no wish to return to Xiangluo Village ever again…

Chen Shi liked to keep up appearances, and as such, he only shared good news with Mrs. Chen and his brother Chen Ye. When he made money, he was always willing to give a portion to his mother and brothers. After being ruthlessly exploited by Mrs. Hu, he finally gave up on this pretense, letting Mrs. Zhang reveal their true circumstances. Their business in the capital city was small, they worked from dawn to dusk, and didn’t even make ten taels of silver a month. The cost of living in the city was high, plus they had to fund their two sons’ schooling…

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