Chapter 12

Just 60 Cents

It was one thing for that vicious family to kick them out, but they didn’t even give them this shabby house?

Sooner or later, she would go to the Lin family and take back what they owed their family.

“Let’s think it over.” Lin Xiaoyue actually still wanted to build a house, but she knew that it required too much money, and there was the problem with the land title, so she didn’t mention it again.

Anyway, she had to get the money first.

With more money in hand, they would have options. She believed that her mother would definitely support her in building a house.

“Okay.” Liu Shi said with a smile.

In the past, her mother-in-law was the head of the Lin family. She and her husband would hand over the money to her mother-in-law, and she would be in charge of all the matters in the family.

Now that they were separated from the Lin family, although their lives were more difficult than before, they were also free.

Now that her daughter was awake, she could talk to her, so her heart was at ease.

“Then mom, how much money do you have now?” Lin Xiaoyue smiled as she looked at Liu Shi and asked.

Liu Shi paused, and then her face turned red.

“Just… 60 cents,” she said embarrassedly.

In fact, it shouldn’t only be this amount. When they came out of the Lin family, she actually had a total of 468 cents.

Later on, she spent some of it on pots, scythes, baskets, and the like. Well, these things were all taken away by the Lin family later on. In order not to let her starve to death, they exchanged them for some tattered items for her.

Then, she received work from the embroidery workshop in town to sew purses.

One purse was five cents. Because of her good embroidery skills, the embroidery workshop bought it at the price of 20 cents. She could earn 15 cents per purse.

When she was in the Lin family, if the patterns were simple, she could sew 10 purses a day and earn 150 cents a day.

However, after leaving the Lin family, the living conditions here were not good. She could not just focus on embroidery like before.

In addition, her husband was gone. She cried too much and her eyes were not as good as before. Now, she could only sew 2 to 3 purses a day. But even so, she could still earn 30 to 40 cents a day.

However, she still needed to support her children.

Besides, her mother-in-law had come to her house to steal her money and the purses she had embroidered.

In the end, after more than 20 days, not only did she not save any money, she only had 60 cents left on her.

“Pfft…” Lin Xiaoyue was amused by Liu Shi’s expression.

“Don’t worry, it’s better than nothing.” She patted her mother’s hand.

Liu Shi’s expression looked a little sad.

“Yesterday afternoon, I sewed two more purses, and there are still two blank purses left. I should be able to sew them this afternoon, and I can exchange them for a total of 80 cents.”

Lin Xiaoyue paused and thought about her mother’s skill.

Selling the embroidered purses for 20 cents each? After deducting the cost of the materials, how much profit could there be?

“You have to buy new materials after selling the embroidered purses. This can’t be counted as the money we saved,” Lin Xiaoyue said.

“Besides, it hurts your eyes to do too much embroidery work. It’s better for you to do less.” Lin Xiaoyue knew that her mother wouldn’t listen to her advice.

When she found a way to earn money, she would not let her mother do embroidery anymore.

Liu Shi heard her daughter’s concern and felt a warmth in her heart.

Her warm hand patted the back of Lin Xiaoyue’s hand.

“It’s okay. I am only doing it for half a day now, which is much shorter than when I was in the Lin family.”

When she was in the Lin family, there was a time when the family was short of money, and her mother-in-law even asked her to stay up at night to sew.

If not for her husband who talked to his mother, her eyes might already be damaged.