Time gradually comes to August. Although it is still hot and rainy during the day, the temperature in the morning and evening has gradually become a little cooler. All signs are telling people one thing: the tail of summer is gradually slipping away, and autumn is slowly becoming the dominant weather.

The water accumulation in the shop in the town could not be resolved immediately because it had been raining.

Su Qingluan was still in a relatively stable state of mind. After all, she was rewarded with one hundred taels of silver notes for a day's hard work, and she was even exempted from the first year's shop rent.

As for Xie Zian, although the middle school boy always makes people think that "a good-looking boy has a big mouth", he is obviously not the material to be a black-hearted businessman.

Because the shop was severely flooded on the lower floor and could not be opened normally, he felt very guilty and ended up extending the lease for another half a year - which was obviously beyond the time required to clean up the water.

Su Qingluan thought that the middle school boy seemed to love sweets last time, so she made him a candied banana in return. As a result, the middle school boy loved it very much. Every time Su Qingluan and her parents set up a stall in the town, she would see him or the servants at home coming to ask when she would make another sweet and what kind of reward she would give him.

However, the old housekeeper was not very happy about this matter. According to the maid named Huang, Xie Zian had suffered from tooth decay several times when he was a child because he loved sweets and suffered a lot, so his family strictly controlled his consumption of sweets.

Although Su Qingluan liked money, she didn't want to be a thorn in other people's eyes, so she always found various excuses to refuse. Only when she had no choice but to go to someone's house to make a dessert, and she always paid attention to controlling the amount of sugar.

So even though Xie Zian often came to visit over the past month, Su Qingluan only came to make desserts two or three times.

Another thing that made Su Qingluan feel relieved was that her naughty brother, who was always like a monkey, was finally sent to study under Master Zhou.

Although Su Qingluan learned from Grandpa Xu Kekuan that Master Zhou was very picky about accepting disciples, which made her quite nervous and worried, when she really brought her brother to visit him, Master Zhou was as free and easy and generous as her first impression, and he was not particular about details. He did not ask Su Xuanhe to memorize any difficult knowledge, but only asked some simple questions before accepting him.

However, this created another problem – Su Xuanhe, who had been able to look after little sister Su Xueyan, had gone to stay with Master Zhou. What should be done with Su Xueyan? He couldn't just leave her at home, could he?

At this time, Sun Guixiang received the good news that she was pregnant. Her husband's family was worried about her and did not allow her to work in the fields. Her in-laws and her own family also came to help. So Sun Guixiang agreed to take care of Su Xueyan for a while.

"Your third daughter is so well-behaved and clever, and has a fair and neat complexion. She looks like a little beauty! Maybe the baby in my belly will grow up to be more rounded-looking after looking at the little sister every day - but don't let her turn out to be as dark as the bottom of a pot like her father!" Sun Guixiang joked with a smile.

Because Su Xueyan was often taken care of by Sun Guixiang, the little girl also liked her aunt Sun Guixiang very much, so this matter was settled.

That day, Yang was making burritos, but there weren't many customers. She couldn't help but sigh, "We've always been known for cutting corners on our burritos, so why are we seeing fewer and fewer customers lately?"

"I'm afraid that if other restaurants imitate ours and the taste improves, people won't necessarily want to eat ours anymore, right?" Su Guangfu sighed. "Luckily, Daya still has business at Hongfu Building, otherwise our restaurant would really have to close down."

Su Qingluan shook her head and said, "Dad and Mom, don't be discouraged. I just went to another burrito stall and saw that business is much slower than it was two or three months ago."

This is definitely not just their problem.

But what caused this? Su Qingluan was a little puzzled - could it be that the number of people coming and going in the town had decreased recently?

No way!

Su Qingluan looked at the crowds of people coming and going. It would be even more surprising to see that there were even more people than in May when she had just traveled through time.

She was once curious about the reason for this, and was told by Skinny Monkey that it was because many imperial examinations were supposed to start in September, so many students from the countryside had to go to higher-level provincial capitals or even the capital.

Lefeng County has always been the only way to go to Beijing or the provincial capital, and the number of people coming here has naturally increased in the past one or two months.

So in this situation, why does passenger flow decrease?

When returning the books again, Su Qingluan drank the tea brought by Song Bo while muttering to Mu Xingzhi who was sitting opposite her.

Nearly a month has passed since Su Qingluan first came here to borrow books.

During this period, Su Qingluan came several more times, either to return old books or to borrow one or two new books - she was afraid of biting off more than she could chew, so she simply borrowed only one or two books each time.

Fortunately, although the books of that era were all written in traditional Chinese characters without punctuation, Su Qingluan, with the double baptism of nine years of compulsory education and Taiwanese comic books, found it relatively easy to read "leisure books" such as travel notes, strange stories, and short poems.

So in just this short month, she has come several times to "borrow books" - on average, once every few days.

It's really not her fault that she comes so often. Life in ancient times was really boring. There were no mobile phones or televisions, no gaming stars, and even in this countryside where the people were simple and honest, even gossip was very rare. Su Qingluan was impatient to listen to the family gossip about who had a son and who got a wife. So she could only read more books to pass the time.

What's more, there has been more rainy weather recently, which means I have more free time at home, so my books are consumed even faster.

After a few visits, Su Qingluan became familiar with Mu Xing's house. At the same time, she felt very bad for bothering a person with limited mobility so often. So since her third visit, she always brought carefully prepared food, and each time it was different.

Today, as usual, Su Qingluan handed over the prepared crystal meat jelly: "This meat jelly can be eaten with condiments or on its own. I made it taste lighter, so you can eat it without food. But don't put it in a hot place, or it will melt easily. It's best to finish it today."

As she spoke, Su Qingluan handed the food box to Song Bo.

During this period, perhaps because Su Qingluan came more often, she gradually became familiar with Mu Xingzhi and Song Bo, so her attitude and behavior in words were much more casual than at the beginning.

"You really think highly of my appetite." Mu Xingzhi smiled helplessly.

Su Qingluan joked, "You should eat more. You look so skinny. In three to five years, I'll probably be bigger and stronger than you."