Man Lu

Alas, looking at the tent on the top, it's still here.After taking several deep breaths, there was no sound in the room except for his own breathing.She lay there, thinking about her future, which was really clueless.Let's just live with it, fortunately I got a mysterious space, otherwise it would be really difficult to protect myself in this troubled world.

She straightened up and stopped thinking, put on a robe and went to wash first.It was only after he came back that he looked at the room seriously.When she first crossed, she was sick and had no energy to check her breath. When she recovered from her illness, she accidentally opened the portable space. She focused all her attention on exploring the mysterious space, but she didn't check the room she was in carefully.

Like a modern standard room, here is a 1.2-meter single bed, a dressing table, a large desk, and a large bookshelf. Except for the white European-style dressing table, all other furniture are painted with dark brown paint. Due to the long time, the parts touched by people have faded, slightly revealing the original color of the wood.She guessed that the dressing table must have been added by the original owner himself later.

The old lady Gu said that the Gu family is a "scholarly family", and she learned from them that Mr. Gu has worked in the bookstore for more than 20 years, so there are not many other things in the house but there are still a lot of books.

She walked slowly to Gu Manlu's closet, gently opened the closet door, and put all the clothes on the bed first. She was searching for the original owner's belongings.

In the end, Manlu found 800 yuan banknotes and 100 silver dollars from two old pockets and the interlayer at the bottom of the bed.One silver dollar is equivalent to more than 120 yuan now, and the price ratio is 120:23, and one piece can be used as 800 yuan.The original owner made a lot of money, raised such a big family, hired a maid, and saved so much money, it's really not easy, these are all her selling money.There were also scattered 23 seventy-four cents in the handbag and ten silver dollars received from Sister Jin. She put [-] yuan bills and eighty banknotes into the space. Twenty-three seventy-four cents back in the handbag.

Clean up the clothes, and put the clean ones back into the closet, and put those bright red and purple ones with high slits aside.She is going to pawn it to Mrs. Gu, as much as she can.

While she was tidying up, she heard the sounds of Gu Manzhen, Gu Weimin, and Gu Jiemin getting up and getting out of bed one after another.This morning, they were not as loud as in the past, and their steps were a little slower.The six members of the Gu family lived in this small two-story building. On the first floor were Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu, and on the second floor were Man Lu, Gu Manzhen, Gu Weimin, and Gu Jiemin.Man Lu and Gu Manzhen live in one room each, and the two brothers live in one room, plus a large study and a bathroom.In normal times, Gu Manzhen, Gu Weimin, and Gu Jiemin all read books and did their homework there.

This building is a brick building, and the floors and walls are covered with cement. This living environment is considered very good in this era.Man Lu couldn't understand how the original owner would do that job. Even if the head of the family, Gu Fu, passed away, they could rent out the building and rent a small room for themselves. The difference in the price would be enough to cover their family's expenses.The original owner is ignorant, so are Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu?No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it. After thinking about it, alas, let it be.

"Manlu" Mrs. Gu knocked on the door and called her softly.

Man Lu threw all the valuables into the space, checked the room and saw that there was nothing wrong with it, but turned around to open the door for Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu stood by the door frame and looked up to see that Manlu didn't have the evil spirit of last night, but she still said cautiously, "Manlu didn't see you coming downstairs for breakfast, lunch is ready downstairs, let's go and eat together?" Mrs. Gu is now To Manlu, I was a little scared. I was too surprised last night, and this month's living expenses were not enough. A few days ago, she asked Manlu for it, but she didn't give it. This has never happened in the past four years.She saw Manlu go to work last night, so she thought she would be able to bring the money back, and she was going to ask her for it as soon as she came back, but Manlu suddenly came and interrupted.

It was precisely because of the lack of living expenses that she came to ask Man Lu to go downstairs for dinner, and then asked for living expenses.Old lady Gu usually scolds fiercely, but in the past two years she knows the situation at home very well, but she is determined to eat Manlu.Last night, after Mrs. Gu put her two grandchildren to sleep, she called Mrs. Gu into the room, and the two had a secret discussion in the room, which is why Mrs. Gu made this trip.

"Okay." Manlu said lightly.Just as she was about to get up and go downstairs, Mrs. Gu pulled the hem of her robe.

Mrs. Gu looked at her cautiously, and then said softly, "The living expenses you gave this month are all used up today, can you give the Lord the next month now."

"I don't have any money anymore either." Man Lu raised her eyes to look at her, and then said calmly again.

"Didn't you go to work yesterday, and they didn't give you any money?" Mrs. Gu anxiously grabbed one of her arms when she heard that she had no money.

"I only worked a few days this month, and I was fired last night, and I didn't get paid." On the second day after she was born again, Mrs. Gu came to ask for money, and she only asked for money, and she didn't care about her illness at all. focus on.She said that the cost of living is almost used up, but in the past week, their fire food has not changed at all, and they have constant meals of chicken, duck and fish, and they eat new ones for each meal. .Even in this world, their family's food is not as good as Gu's.Good to the point of luxury.

"Then what should I do? I only have twenty cents left, which is not enough for tomorrow's food." Seeing that Man Lu didn't answer, she continued: "What about the previous money, didn't you save some money?" Man Lu kept telling her to save some flowers and save some money, so she wondered if Man Lu secretly saved some.

"It's not that I'm sick, it costs money to be sick. Even my maid was fired because I didn't have any money."

"Then what to do, then what to do? Man Lu, you have to think of a way. Your younger siblings have to go to school, and your grandma still needs to take medicine..."

"I picked up some clothes, you can take them."

"How much money can that be, Manlu, Manlu?" Mrs. Gu immediately believed Manlu's words when she heard that she was asked to work as a dressmaker, her face filled with anxiety.Normally, Gu Jiajian didn't go in her room. Mrs. Gu always thought they were cursing, and the two younger ones followed suit, calling her unlucky.At the beginning of the meal, Mrs. Gu refused to let Manlu serve, but Manlu was no longer the original owner. She only wanted to eat well and drink porridge to keep her body healthy.

"Eat first," Man Lu broke Mrs. Gu's hand away and went downstairs.

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