The school wasn't too far from home, only a ten-minute walk away. This was Pei Yuezhi's first time entering the school, and she found it quite novel.
Liu Yuanyuan was the same; the two of them looked around, and were even attracted by the sound of reading from a classroom on the other side.
Pei Yuezhi wanted to stay where she was and just look around, but Liu Yuanyuan wanted to go around to the back window to peek at the ancient learning atmosphere.
"Ouch!" Liu Yuanyuan cried out in pain, and her body fell backward due to inertia.
A pair of strong hands gripped her arm tightly, pulling Liu Yuanyuan back from the brink of falling.
Once Liu Yuanyuan had regained her footing, the person opposite her quickly released her grip and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, young lady, it was my fault."
The voice sounds familiar.
"Yunzhi? What are you doing here?" Pei Yuezhi looked over and saw that it was Pei Yunzhi again.
Why does he always seem to be hitting people?
"I'm sorry, Yunzhi, I didn't notice the corner," Liu Yuanyuan said somewhat apologetically.
"I just pulled Li Fu in a hurry... um... Lady Liu, it was Yun Zhi's presumption."
Previously, Pei Yunzhi always addressed her as Madam Li, which Liu Yuanyuan found very awkward. She was already a mother herself, so calling her "Miss" didn't feel right. In the end, she decided to call her "Lady Liu."
Liu Yuanyuan was at the corner and didn't see anyone, so she bumped her head hard into Pei Yunzhi's chin.
One of them rubbed his head, and the other covered his chin, while Pei Yuezhi tightly pursed her lips to suppress a laugh.
Pei Yuezhi's inner thoughts: "Quickly think of any sad things that happened in my life, I really want to laugh."
"I can't take it anymore, it's just too funny," Pei Yuezhi couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.
"Yueyue! What are you laughing at! Have you no manners? It hurts so much!" Liu Yuanyuan said, feeling wronged.
Upon hearing this, Pei Yunzhi apologized again, making Liu Yuanyuan feel extremely embarrassed, and she kept saying it was okay.
Seeing that Liu Yuanyuan was flustered, Pei Yuezhi quickly changed the subject: "Yunzhi, what are you doing here?"
"Sister, a friend introduced me to copying books for the school so I can earn some income. But sister, what brings you to the school at this hour?"
Pei Yuezhi originally planned to take a day off to go back to her father's house to discuss opening a shop.
I never expected to run into Pei Yunzhi here today, so I thought I'd share this with him.
"Here's the thing, Yuanyuan and I run a small shop in town. It's inconvenient to travel back and forth, so we rented a small house here. As things are getting better, we thought we'd come and inquire about sending Fan Chao and Nian'an to study here."
“This is good news, elder sister, Lady Liu, I will take you to find the doctor.”
The person in charge here is surnamed Wu. He's very easy to talk to. All I had to do was ask about my family background and pay the tuition.
"Ladies, you may bring your students tomorrow."
With her child's schooling settled, Pei Yuezhi finally felt relieved.
"Ding, the system task has been completed. Reward: 5 pieces of calligraphy and painting supplies."
The system is getting stingier and stingier.
"Yunzhi, your older sister is going to the shop this afternoon to prepare things for tomorrow's sale. Why don't you come with me and tell me how Father has been these past few days?"
Pei Yunzhi readily agreed: "Sister, please lead the way. Yunzhi would also like to see the shops."
The school was close to home, and naturally close to the shop as well; it didn't take long to get there.
"The shop isn't very big. There are a lot of workers here, so we get more customers around noon. There aren't many people in the morning or evening. I usually open the shop in the afternoon and serve customers when they come in. If there are no customers, I prepare food for tomorrow in the kitchen."
Pei Yuezhi introduced the shop.
"Sister and Lady Liu are very capable, resourceful, and hardworking. I admire them." Pei Yunzhi looked around the shops and finally gave a heartfelt compliment.
The three of them sat together and chatted for a while. When Pei Yunzhi mentioned Pei's father, he said that Pei had been taking the medicine that Pei Yuezhi had given him on time, and Pei's father's health had recently improved.
Pei Yuezhi was overjoyed to hear this; this product from the system was definitely a high-quality item with an extremely high cost-performance ratio.
After chatting for a while, Pei Yunzhi had to go back. He had walked all the way to town, and it would be dark soon.
A few guests came in the evening. Recently, there have been more guests coming in the evenings than on the first day when there were almost no people.
Liu Yuanyuan went home and brought her three children to the shop. They all stayed at the shop together that night because she was worried about leaving the children at home.
The two of them had just decided what to cook for tomorrow: braised pork belly, which they had both been craving for a long time, with plenty of green peppers so it could also be served as a vegetarian dish. One pot would have both meat and vegetables!
Make another stir-fried chicken and a refreshing stir-fried cabbage with vinegar.
When Pei Yuezhi was serving customers, she had already bought the ingredients and put them in the kitchen. Liu Yuanyuan knew what dishes to make and knew how to prepare them.
We sold another fourteen servings of fried noodles tonight. Since the dishes at lunch were so delicious that we didn't have any leftover rice, we had to make fried noodles instead.
After closing the shop, Pei Yuezhi went to the kitchen, where Liu Yuanyuan had already skillfully singed the skin of the pork belly until it was black, scraped it clean with a knife, and cut it into large slices.
They're chopping chicken now, and the three kids are preparing vegetables, onions, and garlic.
Although each day is busier than the last, everyone is working together better and better. By the time I finish my dinner, Liu Yuanyuan and the others have already finished processing the ingredients.
There were still two chickens left to chop, so Pei Yuezhi joined in. The chickens were very fresh, so she didn't blanch them. She would stir-fry them directly tomorrow, which would make them even more fragrant.
Separate the cabbage stalks and leaves. Tear the leaves into pieces and slice the cabbage stalks diagonally into large pieces. Keep the two separate.
The eggs in the braised pork are delicious, Pei Yuezhi's favorite, so I'm boiling a pot of eggs and planning to sell them separately for two coins each tomorrow.
This pot probably cooked about eighty meats; it looks like we'll need to stew two more pots of meat tomorrow.
After the eggs were boiled and rinsed in cold water, the group peeled them quite quickly.
After everything was settled, Pei Yuezhi and the others went home to rest.
Back in her room, Pei Yuezhi curiously took out the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone that she had been rewarded with from the mission. The material looked unusual, but neither she nor her previous life had ever been in contact with such things, so she didn't know what they were like.
"System, how much does this set of writing implements cost outside?"
"These are high-quality bamboo-carved wolf-hair brushes, pine soot ink, and an exquisitely carved landscape inkstone. According to market prices, the brush is worth about two taels of silver, the ink is worth five hundred cash, and the inkstone is worth about three taels of silver."
Pei Yuezhi was truly shocked upon hearing this. This was only the price for a relatively good quality pen. No wonder in ancient times, people couldn't afford to study if they didn't have money. This was too expensive. A single pen like this could rent a small shop.
I thought the rewards from the system tasks wouldn't be much, but these five sets of writing implements have cost quite a bit of money.
But let's wait until our family is better off before giving them to the children.
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