To save up
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Cu á NL í NGH é zh ě ng, which means to put pieces together into integers. It's from Chen Zhou.
Notes on Idioms
Gather: gather, gather.
The origin of Idioms
In Yuan Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's Chen Zhou Tan Mi: "the money collected in the Chuang yuan is a few taels of silver."
To save up
resort to stopgap measure detrimental to one 's long-term interest - wān ròu yī chuāng