She felt a little guilty. She had only given half of the wontons to her cheap father because she had already eaten some and couldn't finish the whole bowl.

Jiang Wanwan lowered her head, using the act of eating wontons to cover up her guilty conscience.

She took a bite, and her eyes lit up.

Without a doubt, the wontons from ancient times tasted better than the ones she bought from the mall.

Ancient things were unpolluted and lacked advanced technology and rudimentary techniques, resulting in wontons with more substantial ingredients, a purer flavor, and a tastier taste.

Both the soup base and the ingredients are made with the real, authentic ingredients.

And so, neither the father nor the daughter spoke, completely absorbed in showing off their wontons.

After eating wontons, the father and daughter went for a walk in the street.

The two happened to pass by a rice shop, and Jiang Wanwan turned inside without thinking.

She immediately spotted the white rice in the bamboo bucket, her eyes glued to it. Just thinking about the fragrant, soft rice made her mouth water.

"Boss, how much is the rice?" Jiang Wanwan asked, her eyes fixed on the rice.

"Sir, it's thirty coins a pound. How many pounds would you like?"

Considering the situation of Old Jiang's family, Jiang Wanwan said directly, "Give me 100 jin!"

"One, one hundred jin!" Jiang Jialin stared wide-eyed at Jiang Wanwan in shock.

He knew his daughter was tired of eating bran and chaff, which is why he wanted to buy rice.

He quickly calculated the cost of the rice: one jin of rice cost twenty wen, so one hundred jin of rice would cost 2,000 wen (two taels of silver).

Fortunately, he still had enough money.

Jiang Jialin couldn't help but raise his sleeve and wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Alright! Sir, is there anything else you need?" the rice shop owner said with a beaming smile. He had a feeling he had met a big customer today.

Jiang Wanwan glanced at it and quickly said, "Fifty catties of fine noodles, sixty catties of coarse noodles, and thirty catties of millet..."

She went completely mad when she saw the grain in the rice shop.

The rice shop owner was grinning from ear to ear, while Jiang Jialin was sweating profusely. He realized with dismay that the four taels of silver he had was simply not enough!

"Wait, wait," Jiang Jialin stammered, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. "It seems we don't have enough money. How about we buy less of everything?"

He felt ashamed. What could his daughter have done wrong? She just wanted to eat better and didn't make any unreasonable demands. Yet he couldn't meet her needs. He blamed himself for being so useless.

Jiang Wanwan leaned close to Jiang Jialin and whispered, "Father, don't worry, I still have ten taels of silver on me. That should be enough for us."

“How can this be!” Jiang Jialin said earnestly. “That ten taels of silver is your personal money. You should save it to buy things for yourself. How can you use it to pay for household expenses?”

“How about this, let’s buy a little of everything and pay with the four taels of silver that Dad has. Anyway, this money will be given to your grandma, so let’s just buy grain directly,” Jiang Jialin said.

"How about this, I'll pay first, and you can pay when we buy the meat later, Dad," Jiang Wanwan said readily.

Just as Jiang Jialin was about to speak, Jiang Wanwan made the decision, "It's settled then."

"Boss, pay up."

"Alright, please wait a moment, sir." The rice shop owner's abacus clicked loudly. "Sir, the total is four thousand three hundred and eighty coins."

After paying the money, Jiang Wanwan said to the rice shop owner, "Boss, my father and I are afraid we can't carry all this stuff. Could you please help me deliver it to the town gate later?"

"Sure, no problem," the rice shop owner readily agreed.

After arranging a time with the rice shop owner, Jiang Wanwan and Jiang Jialin left the rice shop and went into a general store.

P.S.: My darlings, I'm so sorry, something came up tonight and I was a little late. I'll make up for the last chapter now. See you tomorrow night!