Disaster Apocalypse: Farming, Family, and My Hidden Secret Space-Chapter 53. What do you make money for?

Other people also protected their bowls, refusing Hua Jin’s scooping of the egg custard.

Looking at her loving family, Hua Jin sighed: "Grandma, Grandpa, and Mom and Dad, why are we earning money?"

Without waiting for a response, Hua Jin continued: "Isn’t it just so we have enough to eat and wear, and to live a good life."

"But Jin’er..."

Old Lady Hua just began to speak but was interrupted by Hua Jin, "Grandma, I know what you’re trying to say. Indeed, people need to anticipate danger in times of peace, and shouldn’t spend recklessly even when they have money, but having a good body is more important than money. If you only think about replenishing my body, yours is also important. Anyway, I’m laying it out here: good things should be shared, and we should all nourish our health together."

"Moreover, there’s no need to worry about money. Your granddaughter has plenty of ideas in her head and could keep painting different designs for months without a problem. Besides, don’t Dad, Mom, Grandpa, and Grandma also have an income?"

Money represents a person’s confidence, dignity, and self-esteem. Since we’ve found a way to make money, Hua Jin decided to improve the family’s living conditions over the next few months, at least saving a certain amount so that they won’t lose their footing when something happens in the future.

After offering reassurance, Hua Jin looked seriously at her family, persistently holding her bowl.

Basically, she wanted to express one thing: if we’re eating, we eat together.

The dining table immediately fell silent, the family fixed their eyes on Hua Jin.

With relief and pride, especially for Old Lady Hua and Mrs. Qi, whose tear ducts were more sensitive, their eyes immediately reddened at the understanding child, and their relieved and proud looks almost broke Hua Jin’s serious expression.

"Alright, we’ll do as Jin’er says. Children being filial, we as elders should accept it."

After a long while, Old Man Hua spoke, his loving gaze falling on Hua Jin as he proactively passed his bowl over.

"Yes, listen to the old man. Now I think of it, it’s our granddaughter’s blessing." Old Lady Hua said joyfully, her gums showing, following up by passing her bowl over too.

The family wasn’t so poor they couldn’t cook, it was just that with two children studying, they were habitually frugal.

It was all to save more money for the children.

Truly eating a little better was not unaffordable, so they also voiced out.

Mrs. Qi and Hua Chengtian nodded as well; they couldn’t dampen the child’s filial piety, and since Dad and Mom agreed too.

At the same time, a sense of pride welled up. If the daughter weren’t clever and capable of earning money, how could they dare eat freely?

For some reason, the couple suddenly remembered the wandering monk from ten years ago.

Saying that their daughter was blessed, and if she passed the calamity after ten years old, she would enjoy prosperity.

Now, aren’t they enjoying their daughter’s fortune?

Moreover, what the monk said seemed true, now it was all coming to pass.

The couple exchanged a glance and extended their bowls simultaneously.

As for the youngest, it goes without saying, by the time Grandpa and Grandma spoke, the little one’s bowl had already been extended.

Initially thinking it would take some persuasion, unexpectedly they were convinced so easily. Hua Jin’s serious expression turned into a sweet smile instantly as she quickly distributed the egg custard, giving an extra two tablespoons to the youngest, who responded with a big smiling face and loudly said, "Thank you, sister."

Pinching the little cheek ingratiatingly, Hua Jin humorously added: "If you want to thank me, just remember your own... starting from today, okay?"

"Got it." The smile on Xiao Si’s face paused, and he instantly sulked, deciding to bury the sadness by stuffing a large portion of the egg custard into his mouth.

Glancing at her granddaughter, "Hurry and eat, it’ll get cold otherwise." The old lady jokingly chided.

"I’ll supervise." said Hua Jin while eating, adding another line.

She mainly feared Grandma and Mom being reluctant.

At dinner time, sure enough, Hua Jin went to the kitchen and was satisfied to find, instead of wild vegetable and coarse grain porridge, a mix of white rice and coarse grain porridge, along with stir-fried cabbage with oil dregs, using more oil than usual, pickled vegetables, and a cold dish of wild vegetables.

Seeing the pained looks on Grandma and Mom’s faces, Hua Jin secretly smiled.

You can’t become obese in one mouthful; you have to make changes little by little, starting like this.

Moreover, the family had quite a bit of coarse grain; they couldn’t just not eat it.

Thus, a month passed quickly.

During this time, Hua Jin went to the embroidery workshop a few more times, selling many designs and clothes patterns, especially the clothes patterns, each fetching a good price.

In a short time, Hua Jin had saved over twenty taels of Silver Coins in her space, and there was even more on her mom’s side, over two hundred taels of Silver, instantly boosting the family’s confidence substantially.

They were no longer frugal with their meals, though coarse grains were still present their quantity had reduced significantly.

She would also bring some meat back each time she went to town, though her parents would feel distressed, but under her coquettish attacks, they could only ultimately concede.

Under her efforts, the family’s complexion visibly improved over a month’s time, maybe because they didn’t slack off, even though they didn’t gain much weight, they looked truly healthier.

Meanwhile, the weather started to get colder, and thin clothes were replaced with winter clothing.

Touching the winter clothes made of willow fluff, Hua Jin was genuinely worried whether she could survive this winter.

Sigh! It would be nice to live in a warm southern region.

The small city located in the north, every winter, gave only one sensation, which was cold, extremely, extremely cold. Unless necessary, almost every household stayed indoors, rarely going out.

For heating, aside from burning wood, there was nothing else. As for charcoal stoves, how many poor people could afford them? Even buying them was like a drop in the bucket, more often enduring cold as it was.

Feeling the occasional chill as she finished sketching, Hua Jin couldn’t help but frown.

This could be her final batch of designs; it was already late November, and as her father said, soon the roads would be blocked by heavy snow, and unless necessary, there won’t be any going out.

Therefore, she drew substantially more this time, planning to make more money to prepare for the winter.

Furthermore, Hua Jin believed she should manage to make charcoal. Back then, due to the end-of-the-world scare, she bought quite a few survival books, among which there seemed to be content on this.

She also needed to come up with a way to bring out the cotton from her space. Exiting her brother’s room, Hua Jin looked at the big mountain at the back.

Sigh! The only option was to think of a way in the mountains.

Fortunately, her body was completely fine now, and her family no longer restricted her, allowing her to move freely within the village.

Because of envy turning to ruthlessness, Hua Xiaocao received a heavy sentence, overheard by Hua Jin through her grandma and mom discussing once. It was miserable.

One could imagine, during good times, she had to finish all the house chores and was either beaten or scolded daily, not to mention being starved.

And now, being insane, she could do nothing but eat and occasionally have a mania episode. Even Zhao Granny, who had always favored sons over daughters, couldn’t endure it, and after some turmoil, Hua Xiaocao was secretly sold to a village dozens of miles away.

Reportedly sold to an old bachelor; his family was extremely poor but still managed to scrounge up enough money to buy Hua Xiaocao, taking her home that very night.

It wasn’t until several days later that the villagers found out when Hua Xiaocao’s younger brother bragged while eating candy.

Many villagers sympathized with Hua Xiaocao’s misfortune, lamenting her poor fate but only to that extent. Worrying about their family problems left little room to meddle in others’ affairs.

Grandma and Mom only mentioned it briefly, cursing Zhao Granny for her heartlessness but towards Hua Xiaocao’s situation, they held little sympathy, because she hurt the ones they valued most.

Hua Jin was most satisfied with this; she had truly worthy family.