In the hall, Luo Feng divided the freshly boiled Butuo from the clay pot into a wooden bowl, and boiled half a bucket of flour into the don't, and finally filled ten sea bowls.

This wooden sea bowl is so large that even the soup and water can't hold three catties.

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and eat it while it's hot?"

Luo Feng made a good face, but when he saw that everyone was still stunned, he couldn't help urging. "I don't have any materials at home, so I asked Xiaoliu to borrow some woad vegetables from the third uncle's house next door, and borrowed some lard from the fourth aunt's house, and pulled a few green onions from my own vegetable field, so let's make do with it first."

"It smells so good!"

Qin Qiong took a breath and gave a thumbs up to her cousin, "This doesn't smell fragrant, it looks good, I can't imagine that Xiao Wu you still have this cooking ability." ”

"What kind of cooking is this, when I have time, I'll buy some fish, meat, wine and food, and cook a good meal for everyone to taste."

At noon that day, the small courtyard of Luo Cripple's house wafted out a burst of fragrance, and the hall was full of laughter, which was a long-lost laughter.

The dark horses in the courtyard, the strings of copper coins in the hall, and the stone millet, a bucket of rice and the remaining half a bucket of flour, plus the incense of the incense, all made everyone happy.

Several other houses in Nanshan Village also wafted the fragrance.

"My mother feels like she is in a dream, for fear that she will wake up from this dream." Luo's mother only ate half a bowl and put down her chopsticks and sighed.

"Mother, if you don't eat it, it's going to be cold." Xiao Liu finished eating a large bowl of noodles in one go, and when he saw that his mother had only eaten half a bowl, he was busy.

"Mother is full, let's eat this bowl for you." Luo's mother loves this child who has been a little stupid since he was a child, and others always like to call Xiaoliu Luo a fool, but Luo's mother never treats this child as a fool, let alone dislikes it, on the contrary, she gives this child more love.

"Thank you, mother." Xiaoliu didn't know how polite he was, and when he saw that his mother let him eat, he took the bowl with a smile and ate it.

"If only your father and brother had returned." Luo Mu said.

The Luo family is very prosperous, but now several strong men are outside, especially Father Luo and the eldest have been gone for a year, and they have only received a letter in the middle, saying that the task of building ordnance is urgent, so they will not be able to come back for a while.

"I don't know if they have enough to eat in Zhuo County, I heard that it's cold early over there, and I don't know if their clothes are warm enough."

The mother of the child is worried that the lame husband has come back with several sons in Hebei, Dengzhou in Dengzhou, Luoyang in Luoyang, and five sons in Jijun, but there is still a husband and four sons outside, especially the husband and eldest son, this trip has been a year.

"Mother, when I go back, I will write a letter to my father and brother, go to the county to see if there is anyone who is going over there, and ask them to bring the letter over."

Everyone was very happy to eat a meal, Luo Feng's untrustworthy cooking was very popular, and even the two weak sisters-in-law ate a large bowl of sea by themselves, and Luo Feng who watched it was secretly worried, for fear that they would eat too much.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, you go and put the grain brought back by Xiao Wu into the grain jar, cover it well, don't let the rats, insects and ants destroy it." After the meal, Luo's mother began to arrange, "Although Xiao Wu brought some food back, it can't be wasted like today, in the future, our family will still have two meals a day, morning and evening, with some wild scattered vegetables and vegetables, boiled millet porridge to drink, flour and rice don't move, keep it until your father-in-law and the eldest and their brothers come back before eating." ”

"Okay, mother." The sister-in-law has nothing to say about her mother-in-law's arrangement.

Today's meal was very happy, but they didn't think about living such a day every day in the future, it was too luxurious, and they didn't dare to imagine it.

"Second daughter-in-law, you go and collect the money that Xiao Wu brought back, the family will have a long time in the future, the money has to be used tightly, don't be extravagant."

"Yes, mother."

Luo Feng said with a smile, "Mother, I got a reward of sixteen times for catching thieves, and the county order rewarded me with five times, and then the county order thanked me for saving me and gave me some gold leaves, and I exchanged it for white money in the gold shop, a total of fifty-eight pieces of white money, and then it cost ten times to buy a horse, and more than a hundred dollars to buy grain and eat·······"

He took the initiative to report to Luo Qin's family, before in the gold shop, he not only exchanged the gold leaves given by the county order for white money, but also the copper coins rewarded by the county, as well as the silk cloth rewarded by the county, and the copper coins rewarded by the county order, all of which were exchanged for white money, adding up to a total of 58 guan and 72 wen, 10 yuan for buying horses, 200 wen for grain, and 100 yuan for eating and buying flax cakes.

At this time, there were still a total of forty-seven seven hundred and seventy-two dollars left, and Luo Feng didn't hide them privately, so he took them all out.

Although it is white money, it is more than 40 yuan, which is also a lot of money.

Luo's mother said with relief, "Little Five, my mother thinks so, save this money first, and then give it to your brothers to marry, and your sister to buy a dowry, forty yuan for your sister-in-law to keep, and the seven dollars of zero, just put your pocket money, you are about to go to the county on an errand, and you must have expenses." ”

"Mother, doesn't our family still owe some old debts, I think it's better to pay off the old accounts first, and then there is the remaining money, let's make up a dowry for the two sisters, and then talk about the rest." Luo Feng also has his own ideas, and it is natural to repay the debt, there was no way to pay it back when the family was poor before, but now that he has money, he must pay it back first.

After all, people are willing to borrow money, that is love, and now if you have money, you have to pay it back first, and you can't default on it, otherwise you won't be able to live up to other people's feelings.

As for making up the dowry for the two sisters, he felt that he should do it, and he couldn't owe the two sisters, otherwise the two sisters would always not be able to raise their heads in the husband's house without the dowry, and they would have a hard time in the future.

"Xiao Wu, you can think of this, I am really happy for my mother. Our family has indeed borrowed a lot of foreign debts over the years, adding up to more than 10,000 yuan in principal and interest, nearly 20,000 yuan. Originally, I planned to wait for your father to come back to get an idea, but since you plan to pay back the money first, I'll listen to you. ”

The foreign debts borrowed by the Luo family are mainly the medical expenses of Luo's father's injured leg at the beginning, as well as the gift money raised by the two elder brothers who married later, and the dowry money when the two daughters got married.

"Then tomorrow, I will invite all the creditors to come over, and we will pay off the debts together and repay the principal and interest." Luo Feng decided at the moment that it was difficult to borrow money in these years, and the interest rate was generally high, even the official government yamen in various parts of the imperial court used the capital of the public party to lend, and the interest rate was still eight cents per month, and the annual interest was nearly double the capital, and the interest on private loans was even higher.

The Luo family still has a blacksmith shop, and there is a little extra income in addition to farming every year, otherwise it would have been dragged down.

After discussing with his mother, Luo Feng finally decided to repay the nearly 20 yuan foreign debt first, and then give each of the two newly married sisters a dowry of 10 yuan, so that the family still has more than 7 yuan left for backup.

In the end, Luo's mother agreed, but only five times were left at home, and more than 2,700 below zero were left for Luo Feng to use.