Chapter 218 Shopping

  The denomination of silver notes is one hundred taels, these two are two hundred taels.

  Xiuhua raised her hand and prepared to return it.

  Liu Zhihua frowned and pressed her hand, and said helplessly: "Okay, what's the matter, in the future you will earn a lot of money and then give your sister a big red envelope."

  Xiuhua opened her mouth and was about to say something, but Liu Zhihua interrupted her with a smile.

"Sister knows what you want to say. We have flowers in our family, so we keep the two hundred taels. Ancheng is a rich place, and food and clothing are not as expensive as those in the village. Mu Cheng has to go to the academy, and you have to eat well. Drink well, you can earn money slowly in the future, this eating and drinking is related to your body and you can't save it."

  Xiuhua pursed her lips and sighed, her sister's words made her speechless.

The prices in Ancheng are indeed high. When I came here today, my husband bought a piece of meat and some small sundries and spent two taels of silver. She really doesn’t have much silver left in her hand. In two days, she will have to pay the tuition fee to Mu Cheng Academy. There is nothing left after paying.

  Xiuhua held the bank note, only grateful in her heart, and said: "Sister, I don't take this money for nothing, and I will return it to you when I have it."

   "The two of us sisters are still saying these polite words, that's enough, you put it away quickly, let's go out and see if the kitchen is tidy, I'm still waiting to cook fish for you." Liu Zhihua patted her sister with a smile.

"Um."

  Xiuhua got up and put the silver ticket in her inner pocket of her clothes, her heart was warm, and she accepted her sister's kindness again in her heart, thinking that she must repay her well in the future.

  …

For lunch, Liu Zhihua took out three red fish weighing three catties, one steamed, one braised in soy sauce, and the other chopped into small pieces and stir-fried with dried chili. Fish, stir-fried a plate of green vegetables, mixed with a spicy cucumber stick, the main fish is very good with rice.

  The children all ate two bowls, and the two big men Wang Zhuangzhi and Mu Kuan even ate five or six bowls.

   After eating, the whole family still couldn't get enough of it. They praised the fish as delicious and Liu Zhihua's craftsmanship.

  After lunch, the yard is almost tidied up.

  Mu Kuan didn't go out when he came back, worried that the workers didn't do their jobs carefully, so he went to the pier with Wang Zhuangzhi.

   After Liu Zhihua helped wash the dishes, she and her sister led the children to the big house to rest.

  The terrain here is full of sunshine, standing in the yard is warm all over, and the children are sweating from running in the yard, and now they lie down on the kang to sleep after eating and drinking.

  The two sisters, Xiuhua and Liu Zhihua, were not dozing off. They were chatting with each other while holding cattail fans to gently repel mosquitoes for the children.

  …

   After an unknown amount of time, Jiaojiao woke up and found that she and her younger brother were the only ones sleeping on the kang in the room.

  She rubbed her eyes and got up, opened the door only to find that the sun had set a bit, and the sky was not as hot as at noon.

   "Jiaojiao is awake, come and eat watermelon." Xiuhua smiled and stepped forward to lead her.

  Jiaojiao found out that her father, mother, sister, and cousin Cheng were squatting at the door of the kitchen eating watermelon. She scratched her head and called out one by one: "Aunt Xiu, father, mother, sister, cousin Cheng."

   "Sister Jiaojiao came over to eat watermelon." Mu Cheng waved his hand with a bright smile.

   "Hey, baby woke up faster than your little brother today, reward us Jiaojiao to eat two more pieces of watermelon." Liu Zhihua said with a smile.

  Wang Zhuangzhi, on the other hand, was full of pampering, and got up to cut his daughter into small watermelons, which were easy to take.

  Erya ate the watermelon in her mouth, waved and said, "Well, sister, come here, it's cool under the eaves here."

  Jiaojiao and Auntie Xiu walked over together, before raising her hand to pick up the watermelon, Xiao Li rubbed her eyes and went out, seeing that everyone was eating watermelon.

  He ran over suddenly, with sleepy tears in his eyes, and said aggrievedly, "Why don't you call me for eating watermelon."

  Liu Zhihua touched his head with a smile, and explained: "You dozed off badly, mother wanted to wait for you to wake up before eating."

  Jiaojiao picked out a large piece of watermelon and handed it to the little brother, "Brother, eat first."

   Seeing this, Er Ya smiled and touched the soft cheek of the younger sister, only to feel that the younger sister is like a fairy in the sky, innocent, beautiful and kind.

   "Thank you, sister." Xiao Li took the watermelon handed over by his sister, and happily ate it, forgetting the grievance just now.

  Erya patted her full stomach, and said to her younger brother: "There are three big watermelons, I can eat enough for today, but you have to eat quickly, after eating, Niang and Aunt Xiu are going to go shopping in Ancheng."

  Hearing that the door was about to go shopping, Xiao Li's head suddenly cleared up, and he nodded happily, "Yeah!", then hugged the watermelon and ate it faster.

  —

  Here, Wang Zhuangzhi finished all the physical work that needed help in the warehouse, and Mu Kuan was there to supervise the work. Wang Zhuangzhi had nothing to do, so he came back.

  Liu Zhihua was planning to drive the Mu family's carriage by herself, but she didn't expect the head of the family to come back, so she asked the children to pack up and set off.

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  The carriage drove into Anseong,

  The lively and bustling street is still there, and the red lanterns are hung outside the shops soon after the lunar festival, which looks very bustling and gorgeous from a distance.

   "Candied haws, candied haws..."

  A seller of candied haws passed by the carriage, and the stake of the candied haws accidentally swept across the curtain of the carriage, almost touching Jiaojiao's little head.

  Xiao Li angrily picked one up and shouted: "I told you not to look at the road, you almost bumped into my sister."

   "Hey, you rascal, you sell candied haws and so on."

  Liu Zhihua asked the head of the family to stop the carriage, she jumped down and bought a bunch for each of the children, and paid for Xiao Li's bunch as well.

The children were very happy after eating the bright red candied haws. Liu Zhihua nodded Xiao Li's forehead and said in a low voice: "You are angry, and they didn't mean it. How can you take other people's things? Do it like this next time." Mother wants to spank her **** hard."

  Xiao Li chewed the candied haws, his cheeks puffed out, he nodded and replied vaguely: "Liang, I know."

   In front of her sister's family, Liu Zhihua didn't want to embarrass her baby, so she didn't say anything.

  The carriage drove for a while, and Liu Zhihua saw a clothing store.

  I don’t know the name of the plaque, but through the window, you can see that there are clothes on display inside. The clothes are exquisite, and the master likes it.

  If Liu Zhihua had encountered such a big store before, she would not have stepped in since she knew she could not afford it, but now that her wallet is full, she is very confident.

   "Xiuhua, there is a clothing store here, why don't we go in and have a look around, you can show Mu Cheng if there is anything you want to buy, there are quite a lot of clothes, shoes, socks and small items."

Xiuhua glanced at the magnificent shop, feeling a little hesitant in her heart, but then she thought that Cheng'er Academy's classmates were all children of wealthy families, and Cheng'er's poor clothes made people look down upon her, so she nodded and said, "Okay, Then go in and have a look."

  Liu Zhihua got off the carriage with the children, Wang Zhuangzhi looked at the clothes shop, most of them were women, it seemed inappropriate for him to go in by a man, so he said, "His mother, just go in and have a look, I'll wait for you here."

  Liu Zhihua glanced at the head of the house, and said: "It's hard to come out, you just happened to be taking measurements, and I'll show you two clothes."

  (end of this chapter)