Chapter 53: Settling Accounts (Part Three)
"How about I help you do the math? If you're not a farming household, your cost of grain would be about 1.5 yuan for rice. Including oil, salt, and vegetables, the monthly food expenses wouldn't exceed 40 yuan, right? If you are a farming household, then you definitely have farmland in the village, so you wouldn't need to buy grain and would spend even less."
Li Chunhua snorted: "How could you calculate like this? You underestimate us; our food expenses are much higher than that."
"Your family only has your husband working, right? His wages are about 40 yuan, aren't they? For a family of four, you surely don't spend all the wages on food, do you?"
Li Chunhua begrudged with a snort.
In fact, Jiang Mengyu barely had enough to eat every day, and was often punished by not being allowed to eat meals for various reasons. In essence, Mengyu's monthly food cost didn't even amount to two yuan.
