For one thing, both father and son made their living driving an ox cart, and the village was so small that the number of people traveling to town daily was limited; one of them would inevitably waste time traveling between the two villages.
Furthermore, Lvcao was a young wife, the Li Family had no mother-in-law present, and she was with child, making life inevitably difficult. If they stopped living in the Dali Village house, there was no guarantee it wouldn't be occupied by uncles from their own clan. After some thought, the couple decided to keep things as they were.
Originally, they earned twenty or thirty coppers a day from transporting passengers, which was barely enough for the two of them to survive. This year, winter came early, the number of people going to town dwindled, and business suffered greatly. Just as Xiao Li was fretting over his unborn child, the Cheng family gave him a helping hand.
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