"I will tell my wife to leave herbs for your wife's treatment..." Vincent placed his hand on Hop's shoulder and suggested, "I think it will best to do the most difficult food preparations and cleaning yourself and leave the easy parts to her since it can be boring not to do anything for the day."
"Thank you, Lord Vincent. You don't know how you saved my wife's life because of her, ahem... personality." Hop said. He averted his gaze and continued, a bit embarrassed, "My situation might sound like a simple problem compared to Phil and James's situation. My wife and I work overtime to pay the loan we took for this house because it was built with better material than smoked dampwood."
"Now that my wife can't work and the cost of the medical expenses appeared all of a sudden, we... we barely in the evening. Today is our anniversary, and we usually celebrate it with a feast, but one small chicken is a luxury to us now. " Hop explained their situation.