Ancient Couples: Save Money to Make a Living

After being purged out of the house by the family, the shack was leaking, there was no rice for the stove, and only a few old clothes were left in hand. Others say that this poor couple will break up in less than three months. Unexpectedly, they started from a borrowed chicken and saved penny by penny, brick by brick. In the first month, their entire possessions were: Three old clothes, two chipped bowls, a wooden spoon with a corner missing, and thirty-two copper plates. Wen Zhiyun divided the copper plate into four parts, eight to buy coarse grains, eight to exchange for salt, eight to keep as seed money, and the remaining eight to sew into the corners of his clothes - that was their life-saving money, and no one was allowed to touch it unless it was absolutely necessary. Shen Yanqiu used branches to keep accounts on the ground, and every entry and exit was accurate to the penny. In the first year, they got their first hoe, their first vegetable patch, and their first chicken that truly belonged to them. In the fifth year, they had their first acre of thin farmland, their first rainproof hut, and their first little piglet. In the fifteenth year, the warehouse is prosperous and respected by the neighbors. In the twentieth year, Shen Yanqiu entered the county government office and served as the last chief clerk. No adventure, no noble people, no golden fingers falling from the sky, just an ordinary life.