Hearing this, Qin Hexuan easily picked up the walnut hanging on his waist and said, "I don't like plates, I like this."
Qingtian smiled even sweeter when she heard that, and her big eyes narrowed into crescents.
"I'll go pick some for you next autumn." Qingtian said, "I didn't know you liked it so much. I never went with Xiao Su to pick walnuts again.
"He picked up a lot himself, and later he even put together a string of eighteen seeds and sold it for twenty taels of silver!"
Qingtian never hides anything in front of Qin Hexuan and always tells him whatever he thinks.
When Qin Hexuan heard about the Eighteen-Bead Bracelet, he was slightly startled and asked, "Beijing Eight-Legged Bracelet?"
"That's right!" Qingtian nodded. "Xiao Su goes to pick up the octopus every year. He brought us up the mountain to find yours!"
"Then who picked this one up?" Qin Hexuan asked hurriedly.
"I picked it up!" Qingtian said, "This is the first walnut I saw. After I cracked it open, Xiao Su said it was in great condition and would be worth a lot of money if I could put it into a bunch.
“It’s a pity that I only picked up this one, and the ones I picked up later were not even comparable to it.
"It happened that Nanny Jiang came home at that time, so I asked her to bring it to you for me."
Seeing the strange expression on Qin Hexuan's face, Qingtian thought he was regretting that he didn't have a bunch of walnuts, so he quickly assured him, "Brother Qin, don't worry, I will go pick them up every year and I will definitely be able to get you a bunch of eighteen walnuts.
"We only want the ones of this good quality. Anything less will not do."
But in fact, Qin Hexuan was thinking of the bracelet that he had asked someone to put into the warehouse before.
Ye Xianglei took Qingtian to pick walnuts. Qingtian gave him the first walnut he picked up. Others saw that he liked Beijing Balian, so they spent money to buy a string of Beijing Balian bracelets and gave it to Qin Fu. Finally, it was given to him by his father, and Ye Xianglei's family earned twenty taels of silver.
The twists and turns of fate are really amazing.
After hearing Qingtian's words, Qin Hexuan smiled instantly, pinched her nose and said, "Then every autumn I will come over and go up the mountain with you to pick walnuts. Let's look for them together, okay?"
"Really?" Qingtian's eyes were filled with surprise, and he extended his pinky finger towards Qin Hexuan. "Then let's make a pinky promise. You have to keep your word!"
"That's natural." Qin Hexuan imitated Qingtian and stretched out his little finger, which was hooked by her little hand. He followed her movements and shook it a few times awkwardly.
"We'll make a promise and stick to it for a hundred years!"
After Qingtian finished speaking, he put his thumb on Qin Hexuan's thumb, then said with a smile: "Once you stamp it, you are not allowed to change your mind."
"Don't worry, a gentleman's word is as good as gold. Unless I die, I will never break my promise."
"Pfft, pfft, pfft!" Qingtian quickly imitated Old Lady Ye, turned around and spat three times at the ground, "You say what you mean, you say what you mean!"
After she did this, she patted Qin Hexuan on the shoulder and asked him to do the same.
Qin Hexuan had never seen anything like this before, but seeing Qingtian's worried look, he finally hesitantly imitated her, spat on the ground three times and said, "You say one thing but mean another."
This scene happened to be seen by Mrs. Ye who was returning to the house after cleaning the kitchen.
Qin Hexuan's expression remained unchanged, as if the person who did that just now was not him at all, but his earlobes slowly turned red uncontrollably.
Mrs. Ye always thought that the young master of the Qin family was an unattainable person, but she didn't expect to see such a down-to-earth side of him, and she couldn't help but smile.
"Have you discussed the plate issue?" Mrs. Ye saw Qin Hexuan's embarrassment, so she tactfully changed the subject.
Qingtian quickly said, "Mom, Brother Qin said he wanted to take the plates to the capital to help sell them. I said it's okay if he doesn't sell them, you can give them to him."
After she finished speaking, she added, "I'll find you another plate later, okay?"
"We have plates and bowls at home, so mother doesn't need them." Sister Ye reached out to catch Qingtian who was leaning towards her, and said to Qin Hexuan, "We have received so much help and kindness from the Qin family, and we have always wanted to repay them.
"It's just that we are ordinary people, and we don't have anything that your family can use.
"If you think this plate is acceptable, and Qingtian has said he wants to give it to you, then don't bother talking about whether it sells for money or not.
"Whether we sell it for money or put it at home as a decoration, it is a token of our appreciation."
"Auntie Ye, I appreciate your kindness, but it's really not necessary.
“Speaking of helping each other, our two families have always been mutually beneficial.
"If your mother hadn't been so kind as to take you through the customs, wouldn't you have been unable to find anyone to help mend your skirt later?
"So my mother said, 'There's a god above us, and God is watching everything we do. Only by sowing good seeds can we reap good fruits.'"
"Mrs. Qin is absolutely right!" Mrs. Ye agreed repeatedly.
Qin Hexuan and Qingtian played for a while, and then it was time to go to bed.
There was limited space and bedding at home, so it was impossible to give Qin Hexuan a separate room, so he had to live in the west room with Wei Yan.
Mrs. Ye got a set of almost new clothes from Mrs. Ye's second wife for Mr. Wei to use, but she was in trouble when it came to Qin Hexuan.
Finally, I decided to go to Ye Juaner's house to ask if she had any new bedding to borrow.
You don’t say, Ye Juaner really has it at home.
Her eldest son is about to reach the age of getting married, and Ye Juan'er has already started preparing things for him.
Brand new bedding is naturally essential.
Ye Juan'er opened the box and looked for bedding while saying, "Hey, eldest daughter-in-law, I'm not being stingy.
"If Young Master Qin hadn't said he wanted Xiang Lei to be an apprentice in the Qin family shop, I would never have been willing to lend you this brand new quilt!"
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