Chapter 21 Auntie Saving Money

Author: Qi Liang Broken Silver

Chapter 21 Auntie Saving Money

The streets in the town are paved with stone slabs and are actually very narrow and not spacious.

On the longest street, there was no gap if three people walked side by side. Cheng Miaomiao walked close to Ye Ning along the way, her eyes constantly looking at the houses and shops on both sides of the road.

These shops are all made of wood, only one story high, and covered with tiles.

The people hanging in front of the door are selling things. The town is very lively in the early morning, and there are cries everywhere:

"Big buns! Hot buns freshly baked!"

"Sugar cake, sweet sugar cake!"

"We are selling wontons, pure soup made from old hens!"

…

Cheng Miaomiao asked curiously: "Mom, what is sugar cake?"

Sugar cake is a pastry made of flour and sugar. It is very crispy and sugary water will flow out when you bite it. It is not cheap. Not to mention that the price of food has become higher now that the weather is bad.

The things in the town alone dazzled Cheng Miaomiao.

With the few pennies she exchanged from Dr. Zeng, she couldn't even afford a piece of candy cake in the town!

She was immediately shocked.

Ye Ning led her into a shop with the words "Zhuang's Cloth Shop" written on the front. Cheng Miaomiao was still illiterate and could not recognize it, but this did not prevent her eyes from falling on the dazzling array of cloths in the hall.

Sitting at the counter of the cloth shop was a woman with her hair in a bun and a silver hairpin, with a fair and round face. She was fanning her fan slowly.

When she saw Ye Ning, she stood up and said with a smile: "Xiaoye, you haven't been here for a long time. Are you busy with farming these days?"

"Sister Lao Zhuang is thinking about me. The child has been ill for the past few days and has not been able to come."

Ye Ning explained with a smile, lowered her head and touched Cheng Miaomiao's head, and said, "Miaomiao, this is Aunt Zhuang."

"Hello Aunt Zhuang," Cheng Miaomiao raised his head to look at her, and called out obediently, revealing two sweet little pear circles, "Auntie, you are so beautiful, you look just like a fairy in the sky."

During this period, she drank a bowl of egg-sugar water every day, and ate nuts and wild fruits in the mountains, and her complexion gradually improved.

The little face is not fleshy, but the eyes are round and lively.

Sister Zhuang covered her face with a ball fan and giggled.

It can be seen that she was very happy: "Oh, look at this, she is such a cute and smart little girl."

Hearing this, Cheng Miaomiao laughed happily.

He nodded vigorously and said proudly: "I also think I'm really cute and smart."

Sister Zhuang was immediately overjoyed.

Ye Ning laughed dumbly and dumped all the tassels in the bag on the counter: "Sister Zhuang, these are the tassels I knitted during this period. I also knitted two new patterns and brought them with me."

Sister Zhuang flipped through it, and the new patterns she made were as beautiful as ever.

"Then let's stick to the old rules?"

"Well, please ask Sister Zhuang to save the money for me for the time being. I'll just use the money for braiding the tassels."

"A tassel costs two cents, and new patterns cost two cents each." Sister Zhuang's slender fingers counted on the abacus, "Then the total is four taels and forty cents. I'll give you forty cents first.

"

……Um?

Cheng Miaomiao tilted his head, a little confusion appeared in his eyes, and after a moment he suddenly realized——

Oh, grandma saved her personal money and stayed with Aunt Zhuang!

Then Mrs. Zhao won’t know!

Well, so smart!

Cheng Miaomiao immediately hugged Ye Ning's arm, looked at her with admiration, and praised without hesitation: "Mom, you are really awesome!"

Ye Ning didn't know what she was thinking of and her eyes were so bright all of a sudden, but she was still struck by her daughter's soft, trusting eyes. She smiled, pinched her face, and asked, "Really?

"

Cheng Miaomiao nodded: "Yes!"

"Your daughter is so well-behaved, much better than that naughty brat of mine."

Sister Zhuang looked a little envious and handed her two strings of copper coins.

Ye Ning took the money, shook his head in a funny way, and said, "She seems to be a good girl. She is so wild in the mountains all day long that I can't even see anyone. How dare such a young child wander around in the mountains."

Cheng Miaomiao retorted: "I'm not fooling around!"

After saying that, she reached out and took out a half-palm-sized paper bag from the cloth bag, urging Ye Ning to put it on the counter, and said: "The paper bag contains crushed mint, chrysanthemums and bamboo leaves, which can be cooked in summer."

Drink herbal tea and calm down to relieve the heat."

"I polished this with my own hands at Dr. Zeng's place and gave it to Aunt Zhuang."

The child's voice sounds soft, sweet and well-behaved.

Very well-behaved, so well-behaved.

Sister Zhuang was flattered and thanked her profusely. She waited until everyone had left and was still thinking about how wonderful it would be to have a daughter.

…

Cheng Miaomiao stepped on the stone slabs with great interest.

The straw sandals on her feet made a clicking sound when she stepped on the ground because they were too hard. She found that the slate was very clean and her feet would not get dirty even if she stepped on it without shoes, unlike at home where the soles of her feet were often stained with mud.

Human beings are really troublesome, Cheng Miaomiao thought to herself. She will also lay floors at home in the future so that she can step on the ground with bare feet!

When the two returned to the stall, they saw Mr. Qian with a red face and thick neck, haggling with an old woman carrying a basket.

"Auntie, eggs cost two cents each. Those are our own local eggs!"

"Look at the egg on my hand. It's round and white. Have you ever seen an egg like this? Even the county magistrate can't eat eggs like this. I sell them for three cents each. It's cheap. Three cents for two do you think?"

Eat shit!"
Chapter completed!