Chapter 30 Dilemma
"You can do it if it's you."
"I can definitely carry it, brother, but you? By the way, who did you learn from to be so good at water?"
"I figured it out myself."
"..."
Shen Qingrou wanted to ask again, but Shen Nanzhou and the others were back.
They just sent Su Yue to the injured ship and then came back.
During the meal, Shen Muci thanked Li Erya again and again for saving his life. Li Erya was a little flattered and just said that it was the right thing for a family to do.
"Okay, let's eat." Shen Nanzhou looked at his son, then at Li Erya, and said kindly.
Shen Mici still had no appetite and only ate a little.
Li Erya also had no appetite. She had a cold, and it was a severe cold. She had no fever, but other symptoms were also very uncomfortable. She barely ate the last bite, but couldn't help but rush out and vomit.
"Are you okay?" Shen Qingrou couldn't help but feel sick when she saw her like this.
Li Erya had a dark look on her face. She just vomited the last mouthful of food she ate. As for what happened, she said, "It's okay, just a little nauseated."
"If you can't eat it, don't eat it." Mrs. Shen sighed, "No one will blame you."
"I thought I could eat it." Li Erya smiled.
However, she didn't dare to show off and offered to drink porridge at night. It would be better for her and Shen Muchi to drink porridge and boil millet porridge water to nourish their stomachs.
Mrs. Shen asked her son and saw that he still didn't want to eat, so she made millet porridge for them both.
It's just that eating porridge makes her hungry easily, and her stomach was growling with hunger before midnight.
Li Erya touched his belly and counted the sheep. He still felt sleepy, but he had to close his eyes tightly.
She didn't know when it would be dawn, and Li Erya was extremely depressed. Now she couldn't find anything to eat when she got up. Moreover, she didn't want to get up, and she didn't even want to open her eyes.
There was an unexpected sound in the room. Li Erya frowned and quietly opened a small gap, as if something was walking towards him.
"What do you want to do?"
"It's so noisy."
Shen Muyin put down the breast in his hand and ran back to his room for fear of being discovered by others.
Li Erya looked at the oil paper on the quilt and opened it. Not only was there a piece of bacon inside, it was cooked of course, but the taste was really average and it could at least satisfy his hunger.
But thinking that the male protagonist finally saw her sincerity, Li Erya felt a little relieved.
It's a pity that she never found a chance to show her sincerity to Mrs. Shen. She didn't want to occupy the position of Shen Muyin's wife. She could be the daughter of the Shen family. Shen Muci's life should be worth this price.
Just wait a little longer, Li Erya sighed, no longer thinking about everything.
Su Yue arrived as promised.
Shen Muchi also brought medicine, but he was still in a dilemma for Li Erya.
In fact, he also prescribed medicine for Li Erya, but the medicine did not have much effect on her problem and could only alleviate the current symptoms.
"Why don't you ask your master if there is any other way?" Su Yue said that he should drink this medicine for up to three days.
"Master... I will definitely ask if I see him." Li Erya was stunned for a moment.
The answer made him a little disappointed, and Su Yue asked about rescuing people.
Li Erya explained carefully.
"Did he teach you anything else?"
"No more."
She didn't do anything about acupuncture. Li Erya shook her head resolutely and took the initiative to pay the consultation fee.
Su Yue probably saw the current financial constraints of the Shen family, so he only charged her three cents and went back without staying for dinner.
Li Erya took a look at the medicine he prescribed. It was just an ordinary warm and tonic medicine, which was better than nothing. She was still good at decoction. She decoctioned Shen Muci's medicine first, and then her own.
After she drank the medicine, she found that Mrs. Shen's complexion was very bad and she needed medicine more than she did.
Seeing her look like the sky was about to fall, Li Erya felt a little uncomfortable, and she didn't want the atmosphere at home to remain depressed.
If nothing happened to Shen Mici, perhaps at this moment they would already be looking forward to ranking in the county examination.
Not only did Mrs. Shen look bad, but Shen Muci was also in a bad mood after the disaster. He wanted to improve the situation at home, but he didn't expect to cause such a big trouble to the family. You can imagine how he felt.
The biggest problem in this family is not money, but psychological. When Li Erya heard Shen Muci talking about the county examination, he just started and stopped talking, shaking his head.
Shen Muyin naturally knew what his brother was thinking, but he could only try to comfort him about such a thing and let him take the county examination again next year.
"Am I useless?" Shen Muci couldn't help it anymore, but she just cried silently.
"How could it be? Daddy asked me to learn from you. It's not your fault that we encountered a flash flood." Shen Muyin quickly comforted him, "We have been waiting for so many years, and we are not short of this year."
"Don't tell dad." Shen Muci sobbed and wiped away her tears.
Shen Muyin nodded vigorously.
Outside the school, Li Erya left He Tong and his friends behind.
He Tong's uncle worked in a pottery workshop, and she hoped that he would ask his father to help him make several boxes the size of rouge boxes.
"I'll go back and ask my uncle." He Tong nodded solemnly.
"If you have it in stock, you can give me one or two. The price can be discussed." Li Erya warned.
"I know." He Tong responded loudly.
The next day he came with his uncle and baskets of rouge boxes.
The original porcelain-white rouge box was abandoned because it was stained with red dye due to his mistake. He was forced to pay the bill, nearly two months' wages. When he heard that Li Erya wanted it, he immediately asked for leave to come in person.
"Do you want these?" The man in his twenties blushed and asked nervously.
Li Erya looked at those rouge boxes, and there was a red mark on the edge, which was in the same position. Knowing that it was a defective product and that he had paid for it, he hesitated for a moment and nodded, "How to sell it?"
"Eighty cents, seventy-six, I won't earn a cent from you." He Liqin scratched his head and said embarrassedly.
"That won't work. You still have to make money. You can't let your trip go in vain." Li Erya smiled and happily paid him a hundred cash.
He Liqin took the money and thanked him excitedly, "If you still want it, I'll talk to the person in charge and ask him to make it cheaper for you, okay."
"Okay, if you still want me to ask He Tong to tell you." Li Erya smiled slightly, put away his things and got ready to work.
As soon as she turned around, she found Mrs. Shen staring at her with a dark face. She must have been staring at her for a while. Li Erya was about to explain, but he only saw her back.
"I know you spend the money you earn. I'm not qualified to criticize you, but you have been married to our family for so long. Don't you know what's going on at home? Why spend a hundred pence to buy this broken box? Isn't a hundred cents money money? So generous." Shen Qingrou lowered her voice and scolded.
Chapter completed!