Chapter 40 Nose
When passing by the old man selling vegetables, the old man said in a muffled voice: "Don't leave, pay for money!"
Yan Xuehuai hurriedly said, "You wait, I'll get your shoulder pole back."
I thought that at worst, I went to the yamen. In my previous life, except for schools, the place she went to was the police station. She is fourteen years old now and I don’t know if this ancient law would protect minors.
Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head: "Whoever wants you to pay for the shoulder pole, you have to pay for it. Thirty copper coins, not one child left!"
Yan Xuehuai understood. It turned out that the old man wanted to change a new shoulder pole. No, the newly bought shoulder pole in the shop two days ago only cost fifteen dollars, and thirty copper coins were enough to buy two shoulder poles.
Li Qiniang, who was standing beside her, took out two strings of copper coins without saying a word and stringed them together with a red rope. There were thirty or forty heavy ones. She gave all the two strings of copper coins to the old man: "Children are ignorant, please buy a new shoulder pole, old man."
The old man looked at it, put the copper coins in his arms, and said to Yan Xuehuai: "Little girl, I'm here every day. You will use a shoulder pole next time and come to me."
Yan Xuehuai was so happy that he said that the working people are simple and unpretentious. Look, you have no negotiations.
"Where is the food?" Li Qiniang suddenly asked.
Only then did Yan Xuehuai realize that she was just busy fighting, and all the things Li Qiniang asked her to watch were gone.
The pile of things was just placed next to the old man's vegetable stall, and now there is no vegetable leaf there.
"My man, have you seen my things?"
The old man stretched out his hand: "Two copper coins."
Yan Xuehuai gritted her teeth and took out two copper coins for him. The old man pointed in front: "Huang Ji's young master, moved your things to the car."
Sure enough, a mule cart was parked not far ahead, and Huang Bo was waving at them.
Yan Xuehuai smiled in a cold wind, and she gave the old man a thumbs up: "You're old, you're awesome!"
The matter was not over yet. The mother and daughter had just walked to the mule cart of the Huang family. The child had chased after him: "Two copper coins, you promised to call the person and give them two more copper coins. Why did you run away?"
Yan Xuehuai pointed at the old man just now and asked the child: "Your family belongs to?"
The child blinked: "How did you know? That's my grandfather."
Yan Xuehuai had no choice but to take out two more copper coins and send the child away.
Li Qiniang was thanking Huang Bo, and Huang Bo hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, don't be polite. I'm about to go there, and I just happened to take you along the way."
As he said that, he looked at Yan Xuehuai who was doubting his life: "Miss Li is as good as a man, and I admire him."
Yan Xuehuai grinned and showed a fake smile: "You are kind."
Li Qiniang didn't understand what was going on at all, but Huang Bo praised her daughter and she was happy to hear it.
Huang Ji’s mule cart is used to transport goods, and there are no carriages, and there are large and small sauce jars on it.
Li Qiniang and Yan Xuehuai were sitting in the jar, while Huang Bo sat in front of the handlebar, keeping a distance from the mother and daughter, and did not speak on the road. He was kind-hearted and respectful. When he arrived at the place, Huang Bo helped them take down the things and said goodbye before entering the door.
Li Qiniang endured it all the way. She didn't ask much in front of outsiders. When she returned to the shop, she stared at Yan Xuehuai, washed her hands, changed her clothes, and pulled her to ask about what happened today.
Yan Xuehuai explained in detail, worried that Li Qiniang would blame her for meddling in other people's business, so she went to see Li Qiniang's face quietly.
Unexpectedly, Li Qiniang reacted even harder than her, and she gritted her teeth: "These kids should all be damned. There is no difference between stealing people's children and taking lives. If your daughter is doing well, those animals should be beaten!"
Yan Xue was ashamed. She had never been the one who helped her when she saw injustice. The reason why she took action today was entirely because the girl looked like Xiao Pei.
Thinking of Xiaopei, Yan Xuehuai sighed in her heart.
Xiao Pei was rescued from human traffickers. Because she could not find her relatives, she had to hand her over to an orphanage.
Later, a couple who lost their daughter came to the orphanage to adopt the child. They found that Xiao Pei looked like their dead daughter, so they adopted Xiao Pei.
Before Xiao Pei left, the secret in her heart told her: "I know where my home is. I lied to the police and said I didn't know. I don't want to go back. I was not abducted by human traffickers. I was sold by my mother. My mother said that if I didn't sell me, I wouldn't be able to support my brother. If I go back, they will sell me. I envy you so much. You are an orphan. How great I envy you."
Xiao Pei is the only person who envies her as an orphan. Yan Xuehuai believes that she is not a person who values love and friendship. After she left the orphanage, she never went back again, and she never thought about repaying the orphanage for raising her. But she remembered Xiao Pei, and she often wondered what happened to Xiao Pei and whether she was doing well.
Could the girl I met in the morning be Xiao Pei?
She could walk through it, maybe Xiao Pei could do it too.
It was evening in the blink of an eye, and Yan Qi and Lu Jinxing did not come to have dinner. Yan Xuehuai was a little surprised, but he didn't care.
Yan Qiyi saw that he was not short of money. If he got tired of eating here, he would go to another place to change his taste. This is normal.
On the contrary, the young man named Fusheng, who was beside the Duke of Ding, came over at noon and put down two ingots of silver, and asked him to deliver meals every noon and evening. One of them should be made on a single piece, without any food, but there should be soup.
Li Qiniang was very happy. Li Shiji is a small business. Judging from the current business, twenty taels of silver are equivalent to a month's profit. What's rare is that they are not picky.
The next day, Yan Xuehuai did not follow Li Qiniang to buy vegetables. She went to Shuncheng Street to find Yu Min about repairing the city wall.
Yu Min heard about this and asked many craftsmen to build the city wall. They did not get the business, but they also received news.
"We just arrived in Xinjing and couldn't find a way to ask someone. Can you help me ask how those craftsmen eat? Their money was given to them and they were allowed to eat by themselves. If they were allowed to eat, they would definitely not be able to buy one or two restaurants. I will definitely find a few more. Can we make it in Li Shiji? "
Yu Min slapped her thigh: "This may really happen. Our boss has been running to the Ministry of Works every day recently. I ask him to help me ask."
Yan Xuehuai thanked Yu Min and hurriedly left the teeth. She thought that Li Qiniang should come back, and she had to go back to help with the work.
When I went out, I just looked back and said goodbye to Yu Min. When I turned around, I suddenly bumped into someone and hit her nose.
Chapter completed!