The shop owner suddenly smiled and said to Fu Ciyi, "Your wife is a very careful budgeter."
Yan Funing's eyebrows curved, "Boss, is it okay?"
"Okay!" the shopkeeper agreed with a smile, then asked, "Anything else you need? Writing requires a pen holder, a pen stand, and a pen washer."
Fu Ciyi asked calmly, "What's the price?"
"The pen holder is more expensive, two hundred and fifty wen. The pen holder and pen wash are made of ceramic, which is cheaper, fifty wen. So all together, I'll get one thousand two hundred wen."
Yan Funing only took out one or two taels of silver and said with a harmless smile, "One or two taels of silver is fine."
The shop owner suppressed his smile and said, "Young lady, you are too much. How can you bargain like this?"
Yan Funing continued to smile and said, "Boss, don't be angry. Harmony brings wealth. Let me explain. My husband is very skilled. We can make the pen holder ourselves. The pen stand and pen washer can also be replaced with ceramics around the house. We bought these three items as a gift."
Hearing this, the shop owner smiled again: "Okay, as you say!"
He counted out a few sheets of rice paper, took them out, and wrapped them in brown paper along with ten blank books and a set of books for the imperial examinations.
"Before copying a book, write it down on paper first. Once you have a good grasp of it, copy it into the notebook. Don't ruin the notebook."
After saying that, he also packed up the three wolf-hair brushes, ink sticks, inkstone, pen holder, pen stand and pen washer.
Fu Ciyi nodded, took the brown paper package, and left the bookstore with Yan Funing.
Yan Funing thought as she walked, someone needs to read a lot of books to take the imperial examination, and if he wants to buy all the books, he needs to save a lot of money.
She needed to make silver needles and instruments, which would also cost her money. Crucially, she also wanted to buy some medical books, which were probably even more expensive.
Besides, the rice and flour at home are almost gone.
The most urgent thing for her was to buy rice, flour and candy.
Thinking of this, she said to Fu Ciyi, "I'm going to the grain and oil store. Are you coming?"
Fu Ciyi looked around and said calmly, "I'll take a look around and come find you later."
Not knowing what he was going to do, she didn't ask, but just said, "Okay."
The two walked apart.
Yan Funing entered the grain and oil store.
Fu Ciyi walked slowly and unknowingly arrived in front of the clinic.
I stopped for a moment at the door of the clinic, wondering whether I should buy some scar cream.
Seeing that the woman was still in the grain and oil store, he walked into the clinic.
After asking, I found out that there was no scar removal cream, only beauty cream, and it cost two taels of silver.
Fu Ciyi frowned. A medical clinic didn’t have scar removal cream, but had beauty products.
He said, "The world is going downhill," and strode out of the clinic.
Yan Funing bought twenty kilograms of rice at the grain and oil store. Thinking that her mother-in-law liked to make noodles, she bought another five kilograms of flour.
The backpack immediately became very heavy, and she dragged it out of the grain and oil store with difficulty.
Fortunately, when I looked up, I saw someone and waved to him excitedly.
Seeing him walk slowly, she couldn't help but complain inwardly. In the past, when they walked together, he was as fast as the wind. Now that he knew he had to carry something heavy, he was unhappy?
Fu Ciyi couldn't understand why the woman, who always showed an unconcealable fear in front of him, was so happy to see him at this moment?
It's really incomprehensible.
Moreover, he really didn't like seeing her smile, as he always felt that she was seducing him in a subtle way.
This street in the town is not long, and the clinic is not far from the grain and oil store.
After a while, he walked up to her, put the two brown paper bags in his hands into the backpack, and carried it easily.
Seeing that he had memorized it without her having to say it, Yan Funing went to the candy shop with a smile and spent twenty cents to buy a small bag of malt sugar and a small bag of candy beans.
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The snow is melting and the weather is cold.
There weren't many people riding the bus.
After Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing got on the carriage, the coachman Li finally waved his whip.
There were not many pedestrians on the road, and the ox cart returned to the village faster than usual.
After returning home, Fu Ciyi put the newly bought rice and flour in the kitchen and took the stationery back to the room.
Yan Funing took two bags of candy to look for Fu Beimo, but he was nowhere to be found. When she asked Wan Niang, she found out that he had gone to the river to fetch water.
She then put the candy in the room and saw Fu Ciyi looking at the land deed, so she asked him, "Are you going to find out where the land is?"
"Um."
"I'm going too."
Fu Ciyi glanced at her calmly: "It's a field road, can you walk?"
Yan Funing: “Yes!”
Fu Ciyi raised his eyebrows, put the land deed away and walked out.
She followed immediately.
When she arrived at the fields, Yan Funing felt that she had boasted. The ridges of the fields were wet and slippery from the melting snow, and she slipped three times with every step she took.
On the other hand, Fu Ciyi walked as if on flat ground.
Unable to bear it any longer, Fu Ciyi pinched his brows, but he didn't want to hold her hand, so he handed her his sleeve.
Yan Funing was startled: "Ah, what is this?"
Fu Ciyi gritted his teeth, seeming impatient.
"I understand." She clutched his sleeve tightly. "Thank you!"
The two of them walked forward like this. Although she held on to his sleeves with all her might, she still couldn't avoid slipping every three steps.
But at least I can walk a lot faster and there is no danger of falling.
After walking a long way, Fu Ciyi asked the villagers working in the fields and finally arrived at the address written on the land deed.
The acres of fields in front of me are all planted with crops.
The couple frowned because their land had been occupied by someone!
I asked the villagers who had just shown me the way, but they all hesitated and refused to say who planted their fields.
The couple returned home and told their mother about the situation.
Wan Niang said, "This is a serious matter. The fields have been occupied. We need to find the village head."
Yan Funing guessed, "Could it be the Hu family?"
Almost at the same time, Fu Nanyao also said: "Could it be the Hu family?"
Seeing that they agreed, Fu Nanyao glanced at Yan Funing and sat sideways.
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