Chapter 5 Procurement

Xu Qingmeng was thinking while running. When she had finished thinking, she felt that she was almost exhausted. She even stumbled and fell to the ground.

Xu Qingmeng was breathing heavily, her whole body was wet and sticky with sweat. Looking at her fat body, she realized that she must lose weight as soon as possible.

She sat on the ground and rested for a while. When her breathing became more stable, she stood up with difficulty. At this moment, she just wanted to take a hot bath.

Xu Qingmeng dragged her tired body into the kitchen, boiled a large pot of water, and carried a large wooden barrel to her room. She took out a not-so-bright dress from the closet and prepared to take a bath first.

The moment the hot water poured over her body, Xu Qingmeng felt as if she were alive again. She stood in the wooden tub and gently scrubbed her body.

After taking a shower, Xu Qingmeng felt a lot more relaxed. She changed into clean clothes, walked out of the room, and poured out basins of water.

Xu Qingmeng was afraid that she would forget the things she had just decided to buy, so she went to Gu Yunyi's study and planned to write down the things she wanted to buy one by one, and then discuss it with her when He came back.

Xu Qingmeng usually uses a fountain pen nowadays and hardly ever uses a brush. This was her first time writing with a brush and she felt a little uncomfortable. The words she wrote were crooked, soft and weak.

"Sister-in-law, your handwriting is so ugly,"

Xiao Yunsheng woke up from a nap, rubbed his eyes, and saw the words written by Xu Qingmeng. Then he burst out laughing, hahahahahahahaha.

Xu Qingmeng's chubby face turned red. He was actually laughed at by an eight-year-old kid. After all, he was a college student from a 985 prestigious university in modern times. This was too embarrassing. He couldn't tolerate this!!!

"We will have meat with Yun Mo tonight, and there will be no share for you."

Xiao Yunsheng begged for mercy, "No, sister-in-law, I was wrong."

Xu Qingmeng looked at Xiao Yunsheng's pitiful appearance and laughed secretly in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She deliberately put on a stern face and ignored her.

"Want to eat meat?" Yun Mo heard Gu Qingmeng's words and hurried over. He was no longer afraid of Gu Qingmeng like before, and hugged Xu Qingmeng's elephant legs like a dog.

"Sister-in-law, do you really eat meat at night?"

"Sister-in-law, I want to eat too." Yun Sheng looked at Xu Qingmeng eagerly.

Xu Qingmeng couldn't help but laugh when she saw Xiao Yunmo's servile appearance and Xiao Yunsheng's pitiful eyes.

It’s soft and chewy, so cute!

She reached out and touched the two children's heads. "Okay, let's eat meat together tonight."

He returned along with the sunset in the sky.

Behind He was an old man in a black short-sleeved shirt, carrying a medicine box on his back and with a smile on his face.

"Mom, you're back."

"Qing Meng, this is Doctor Chen from Chen Caotang. Is Yun Yi awake? Take Doctor Chen to check on him."

"Doctor Chen, please come this way. My husband had a bowl of porridge at noon and fell asleep. Why hasn't he woken up yet?"

Doctor Chen stroked his beard and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look."

"Mom, don't worry. I'll go in with Doctor Chen to take a look." Xu Qingmeng was mainly worried that Doctor Chen would say in front of He that Gu Yunyi had taken a poisonous drug.

Xu Qingmeng led Doctor Chen into Gu Yunyi's room. At this moment, Gu Yunyi was still sleeping.

Doctor Chen walked to the bed, sat down, and began to take Gu Yunyi's pulse.

Doctor Chen withdrew his hand and turned to meet Xu Qingmeng's gaze.

"It's just that the typhoid fever has entered your body, but it's that... your body is a little weak, so you need to take good care of yourself," Doctor Chen looked at Xu Qingmeng implicitly.

Xu Qingmeng nodded embarrassedly and led Doctor Chen out of the room.

He hurried forward and said, "Doctor Chen, how is my son?"

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem. I'll prescribe a prescription for you. You'll be fine if you take it for a few days." Doctor Chen replied.

Xu Qingmeng took the prescription written by Doctor Chen, paid the money, and respectfully sent Doctor Chen out.

After hearing what the doctor said, Mrs. He finally felt relieved. She now felt that the fortune teller was right and her son was really getting better and better.

After Xu Qingmeng came back, He came forward and grabbed her hand, "Qingmeng, mother wants to thank you on behalf of Yun Yi."

When Xu Qingmeng heard what He said, she almost lost face. If her original body had not drugged Gu Yunyi, he might have been able to get out of bed and walk today.

"Mom, what are you talking about? We are a family now."

"Well, okay, we're a family. I'll keep this tael of silver for Yun Yi to buy medicine, and you can take the rest. I know you want to open a shop, and I support you."

Gu Qingmeng knew that He felt that marrying Xu Qingmeng had made her son better, so she was trying to accept her.

Xu Qingmeng was not pretentious. She wanted to modify the front part, which would definitely cost money, and she would also have to buy vegetables and so on, so she took the money.

In order to let He know that she was not just talking, Xu Qingmeng took out what she had written in the afternoon. She was planning to open a breakfast shop, sell buns, and make some fast food.

He frowned, "Everyone knows how to make these buns. Will anyone buy them? And there are many people who make them for breakfast."

"It's okay, let's try it later. It's not expensive anyway. We'll have buns tonight. Mom, you try it."

He thought that if Xu Qingmeng wanted to try, she should give it a try, so she nodded and agreed.

He went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, and Xu Qingmeng went to Gu Yunyi's room. She saw that he had woken up, but was still a little weak. He leaned against the head of the bed with a book in his hand.

Gu Yunyi looked at her coldly. Xu Qingmeng complained inwardly, what kind of man is this? The way he looked at her seemed like he wanted to eat her.

"Mom has gone out to get medicine, and I want to go out too. Yun Mo is playing outside, so call him if you have any problems." Xu Qingmeng still said stiffly.

"Um."

Gu Yunyi lowered his head and continued reading, no longer looking at Xu Qingmeng, and answered coldly.

Xu Qingmeng turned around and walked out of the room. Xiao Yunsheng also wanted to go, so Xu Qingmeng took her with her.

It was already getting dark, and the vegetables in the market were not very fresh. Xu Qingmeng went to the butcher stall and bought some meat and pork bones to make soup for Gu Yunyi and the two twins to drink as well, to help them grow taller.

Half-fat and half-lean pork costs 25 wen per pound, and lean pork costs 23 wen per pound. Fat pork is very popular in this era, and costs 28 wen per pound.

The Zhao Dynasty experienced war and drought in the past few years. It has only been ten years since the unification and recovery. The current policy is to vigorously develop agriculture. The food is actually not that rich or refined, and the public actually prefers fatty meat.

Xu Qingmeng bought 2.5 jin of fat and half lean pork, 4 jin of all lean pork, and 4 jin of pork bones, spending a total of 160 wen. Seeing that Xu Qingmeng bought a lot and it was almost evening, the store owner gave her some unwanted pig offal.

(End of this chapter)