Dream on!
The family was already living like this, yet Wu Jinshu stubbornly refused to marry off his daughter.
He didn't even consider his own abilities.
Fortunately, she was still clear-headed and able to make decisions for the household; otherwise, Wu Jinshu and Yan Erju would have dragged the whole family down!
Upon hearing this, Yan Erju's expression darkened. Then she said, "Mom, are you hungry? I'll go cook some dinner. Tonight we'll have aromatic white rice."
In later generations, rice was a common food, but in this era, struggling families could hardly afford a meal of white rice. Yan Erju's family normally only ate coarse rice.
Coarse rice, meant for feeding chickens and ducks, was hard and astringent, choking the throat and causing pain.
And even this coarse rice wasn't enough to go around.
Grandmother Wu glanced at Yan Erju. "Where did the money come from to buy white rice?"
Yan Erju explained the situation to Grandmother Wu.
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