Female supporting roles rely on food to save themselves

Chapter 38
The shack area in the county seat had gathered many refugees and disaster victims. Gu Xiang was a little surprised to hear that Li Zijun actually went to live there.

No matter what he is, he is also a scholar. In this season, literate people are popular everywhere. In the past, Li Zijun bragged in the village, saying that he was valued by his teachers and classmates in private schools. It should not be difficult to settle down in a dignified place.

Li Zijun was also extremely annoyed at this time, but he really couldn't do anything now.

At the beginning, although he was run over by Gu Xiang for a few words, he only had a bad reputation in a small area, mainly because he was not seen in the village. As long as he was thick-skinned, it would not affect him too much. When the county magistrate and county captain Zhou arrived, he rushed to show his face, and the Liu family, a big family in the village, happened to bump into him.

Everyone could see Gu Xiang's attitude towards Li Zijun at that time, and a shrewd person like Liu Chuanfu knew it too.

Coupled with the fact that the matchmaker Liu added fuel to the flames later, when she praised Gu Xiang, she often pulled Li Zijun out to show her eyes by the way, his reputation really stinks the street.

Li Zijun understands very well that if he continues to stay in the village, the neighbors will think of these things when they see him, and he will be tied to the pillar of shame forever, which will definitely affect his future. Then he will continue to move to the county town to stay away from these right and wrong.

Shouling County is a small and remote county, where the rent is not expensive, and the county gives preferential treatment to scholars. If scholars want to apply for low-rent housing prepared by the government, they can usually apply for it easily.

Li Zijun had studied in the county for several years, so he naturally knew these hidden rules. He planned to rent a low-rent house with his mother to spend a while.

He can also borrow a little money from his classmates to settle down. He doesn't think it is difficult.

He has a classmate, Guo Lin, who is from Heyan Village. His father died of illness the year before last, leaving only his old mother with an inconvenient leg. When he went home from the private school, it was the teacher and a few classmates who lent him some money and helped him bring his mother to the county and temporarily put him in a low-rent house.

The husband also introduced him to a lot of book-copying jobs. Last year, Guo Lin passed the entrance examination as a scholar, and married Mr. Jin's daughter as his wife.

The little lady of the Jin family is gentle and virtuous, she does embroidery well, she can make money and take care of her mother-in-law, now this kid only needs to study at home steadily, without worrying about anything, life is quite beautiful.

Li Zijun was very envious. After thinking about it, he felt that Guo Lin was not very smart. He could manage his life well, why couldn't he himself?
Mrs. Wang also trusted her son very much. Although she was terrified when she left the home where she had lived for decades, she cursed all the way, vowing to live a very good life, and let those idiots see what they lost.

His son is smart, she asked a fortune teller in the early years, and his son will definitely win the exam. The village has not produced a few scholars in these years, let alone Juren, and they will regret it in the future!
The mother and son were full of ambitions, but when they arrived at the county seat, they realized that Li Zijun's vision could not be realized even a single step.

The monthly rent of low-rent housing is cheap, and you can rent a decent courtyard with only [-] cents, but there are still more than ten people waiting to rent. Li Zijun is young, and Wang is not that old. not qualified.

As for his desire to borrow money, that's even more unrealistic.

Li Zijun is very talented and talented in the village. In fact, in the private school, he is just an ordinary student who can't get up and down. He hasn't been to the private school since last year. Now he has the audacity to ask his classmates to borrow money. Will you lend it to him?
Moreover, as far as his reputation in the village is concerned at this time, even though there is a distance, some rumors can spread to the private school. Scholars have the most reputation for character. Who would deal with people like him?
After staying in the county for a few days, Li Zijun ran into obstacles everywhere, and spent all the money he brought from home. He was so worried that he wanted to sell the house in the village.

But since his father's death, his house has never been repaired. It is windy, rainy and leaky. No one in the village is willing to spend unreasonable money to buy it in such a dilapidated village, and people outside will not go to remote mountain villages to buy a few. It's a dilapidated house, and I can't sell it even if I want to sell it.

There was no way, the mother and daughter were confused like disaster victims and refugees, so they could only run to the shack area to settle down.

It was also fortunate that the two of them were so haggard and devastated that they had no valuables on them, so they were completely worthless to be robbed.

A few peddlers met Li Zijun when they went to sell brown rice in the shanty town. He was unkempt and very embarrassed. Gu Xiang had heard these gossips and tasted them a little bit. She had to admit that she was a little dark and happy.

It suddenly rained again that day, and the sky cleared up the next day, but the ground was already stained with autumn frost.

There was an old pear tree in the yard, which had fruit for no reason this year. When Gu Xiang looked up by chance, he saw a few overripe ones, so he asked Wulang to take a bamboo pole to beat them down, washed them carefully, and then dug out a jar from the box. Honey, avoiding people, sifting out a few pieces of rock sugar, and then adding a few medicinal materials, boiled a small pot of pear paste and put it in a porcelain jar.

Gu Xiang sniffed it, at least it tasted very good.

She just bought the formula of Longevity Soup... medicinal wine, and she felt that a lot of things had been poured into her mind, but she really didn't have the confidence to not waste medicinal materials, and it would be difficult to waste less.

At this time, I suddenly saw that the pear tree was full of fruits, so I had a whim, maybe start with the simplest diet prescription, try my skills and find confidence?
……

In the middle of the day, the wind blows along the river, so it is a little less sticky, but a little more rough.

Gu Laoshi put down the bamboo basket, took a bowl of warm pear ointment water handed by his daughter, and poured it down, suddenly felt his throat cleared, sweat appeared on his forehead, but the anger in his heart dissipated in an instant.

A group of laborers on the river embankment worked hard for most of the day, and at noon they all had dry mouths and tongues. Just listening to this movement and smelling this smell, their tongues became saliva, and they felt a little bit of "greedy" in their hearts.

Gu Xiang didn't even have to yell, the laborers on the river who had lost her food stall for a long time spontaneously took their own bowls and came to line up.

A bowl costs three Wen, but not many people back down.

The Gu family, young and old, were a little reluctant to drink.

The taste of the pear cream water is really good. When you get close, a sweet and sweet smell goes straight into your heart. You don’t need to drink it to feel comfortable all over your body. Cheng Hao squeezed his dry wallet, gritted his teeth, bought a bowl, put it in a bamboo tube, and hurried home .

The child in his family is sick, and he rushes back to take care of him after work every day.

The youngest son has been coughing every day since the beginning of summer. The doctor said it was a cold. Cheng Hao had to spend all his money to see a doctor for the child.

But several months have passed, and the youngest son's illness still hasn't recovered. He doesn't even like to eat food these days, and he seems to have lost a lot of weight. As a parent, his heart aches to death.

He tasted the pear juice today very good, and he didn't know if his son would like to drink it.

When he reached the door of the house, he heard the violent coughing of his younger son and the sobbing of his daughter, Xiao Taozi. Cheng Hao was startled, and hurriedly opened the door to enter. The younger son was sitting on the bed, his brows were furrowed and his face was coughing. His daughter, Xiao Taozi, was so frightened that he was at a loss for what to do. He gave her a reassuring look, and then patted his son's back skillfully.

After a while, the coughing stopped, and Cheng Hao showed a smile on purpose: "Miao Miao, Dad brought you sugar water, try it."

Xiao Miaomiao didn't want to drink, he felt uncomfortable when he ate food now, but this was Dad's wish, he still showed a soft smile obediently, took a sip carefully with Dad's hand, and poured a mouthful of pear ointment water into it. Suddenly, Xiao Miaomiao felt that something that had been stuck in her throat disappeared in an instant.

So comfortable!
(End of this chapter)