Chapter 4 Ancient Abacus

"Miss, get in the car quickly. Where are you going?" Hongluan called the carriage and caught up with Xue Mei.

Xue Mei really wanted to know what era he actually lived in.

She tried it and found that women could go out at will, which means that this was not the Ming and Qing dynasties; and that everyone was from the Central Plains, not the Yuan Dynasty.

Maybe it was the Tang Dynasty or before the Tang Dynasty.

It is more like a dynasty in a parallel space, not a history known to Xue Mei.

Xue Mei got on the carriage and said to Hongluan: "Go to the nearby street and find a pawnshop."

Hongluan was annoyed that she was not good at it, but when she heard her words, she felt ashamed as if she was slashed.

"Miss, you don't have to be a thing. If you go and admit your mistake to the old lady, the matter will be over." Hongluan persuaded her.

The girl Hongluan has a hot temper. Sometimes she speaks badly, but in fact she is very good-looking and soft-hearted.

"The main thing is that, I can't apologize for others." Xue Mei smiled helplessly.

Your eldest lady was so angry that she committed suicide, and she was unwilling to apologize.

Xue Mei inherited all the memories of the original owner, and she knew she hated her.

There is no need to apologize.

She went to the pawn shop not to be a thing, she just went to verify one thing.

Hongluan: "..."

This girl misunderstood what she meant and felt that she was only thinking about her monthly money, but ignored the sadness of the eldest lady. She cried again.

Faced with such a sharp-tongued maid, Xue Mei was also a little helpless.

The two of them arrived at the pawnshop on the street, and Xue Mei jumped out of the car with her cat in her arms.

She approached the counter.

The pawnshop is not as high as the counters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is just an ordinary storefront with a table placed.

An old man sat behind the table and placed a sand table in front of him.

Xue Mei saw it clearly and knew it in her heart: "Sure enough, it's Sha Suan."

The old man asked Xue Mei what she wanted to be, but Xue Mei said she had gone wrong.

Their master and servant entered the pawnshop and soon came out again, and the maid was confused.

Hongluan asked Xue Mei: "Miss, are you going back now?"

"No, I'm going to find a carpenter's shop." Xue Mei said.

Hongluan doesn't understand anymore.

When he arrived at the carpenter's shop, Xue Mei did not avoid Hongluan and gave the drawings to the carpenter and asked him to do some borders according to the borders.

Because Xue Mei painted all the parts that were disassembled, Hongluan didn't understand it next to her: "Miss, what are you going to do?"

Xue Mei did not answer, but just asked the carpenter: "I will take it in one hour and give you a tael of silver. Is it too late?"

"It can be done." The carpenter said.

Xue Mei gave silver on the spot and left the drawings.

Hongluan feels sorry for money.

The lady spent one or two taels of wood to make a few pieces of wood, which was equivalent to Hongluan’s half a month’s wage.

They found a small jewelry stall.

There are some cheap jewelry on the stalls, and there are also Buddhist beads made of wood.

Xue Mei was picking on those Buddhist beads.

There are some types of Buddhist beads that are flat and not big. There are twenty or thirty on one string, so Xue Mei bought three strings.

"Eighty-words a string." said the vendor

Xue Mei asked Hongluan to go to the money house not far away and exchanged one tael of silver for a hanging of money.

A hanging of money is a thousand copper coins.

Xue Mei counted three hundred copper coins to the vendor: "What's left is rewards."

The vendor was doing small business and had never seen such a generous owner. He was stunned for a while with the remaining sixty cents of reward.

Hongluan sighed beside her.

The lady is so poor.

Xue Mei had seven hundred cents left.

Having to wait for the wooden sticks, Xue Mei decided to sit in the teahouse and wait. The remaining money was enough to order a rich table of refreshments in the teahouse.

Hongluan was very annoyed at first. She felt so distressed when her master spent so much money. However, when the refreshments came, Xue Mei advised her to eat some. She was only a fifteen-year-old girl with a good appetite and was addicted to eating.

"Miss, this snack is even better than what we have in our house." Hongluan's mouth kept on for a moment.

Xue Mei tasted everything.

The cat sat in her arms and saw that the young lady had only taken a bite of it with a half of her snacks.

Except for a dish of jujube paste.

"She likes to eat date paste." Mao silently remembered it.

Before meeting Xue Mei, he was full of panic about the fact that he became a cat and asked for help everywhere.

His mother, his friend, and his trusted subordinates exclaimed after seeing the cat: "Where are the dirty things coming from? Beat to death!"

Xiao Jingcheng was almost desperate and tried to go back to his house and sneak into his bed.

The man on the bed lay motionless.

The cat was weak day by day, and the wounds on his body were painful and itchy. Just when he was about to die and even the cat could not do it, he met Xue Mei.

This girl is the only one who doesn't dislike him.

She coaxed him softly, applied medicine to him, fed him food, and hugged him wherever she went.

Xiao Jingcheng tried all the methods but could not return to his body. He could only be a cat, but at this moment he realized that there was nothing wrong with being a cat.

Someone loves him.

But she is facing difficulties now and she wants to spend all her last cash. I don’t know what she will next.

Xiao Jingcheng went to Baiya Town, a border at the age of fifteen. It has been nine years since then, and he only reported his work and returned to the capital by chance.

After nine years of war, he received rewards from the emperor, taxes from his fiefdom, spoils, and countless gold and silver piled up in the warehouse. He spent very little time in the capital, and the money was real dirt for him.

He never thought those things made sense.

Now, I can't take it out.

Although he knew where the warehouse was and how to open the lock used by the warehouse. However, his mansion was guarded by his own personal soldiers. As a cat, it was impossible for him to take Xue Mei into it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jingcheng sighed softly.

"Miss, you cat will sigh!" Hongluan had a piece of candy cake stuffed into her mouth, and her eyes were wide open.

Xue Mei: "I'm fussing, my Ah Chou is about to become a sperm, what's the point of sighing?"

Hongluan: "..."

Xiao Jingcheng: “…”

"A Chou, do you eat jujube paste?" Xue Mei twisted a piece of snack and handed it to the cat.

The cat had a helplessness on his face, but it seemed to be very indulging in her, and held it in one mouthful.

Hongluan: "God, it really is going to become a spirit."

Xue Mei happily pinched the cat's face.

She probably didn't know how hard it was for the cat to eat jujube paste to make her happy.
Chapter completed!