Hearing this, he glanced at her helplessly. "The Meng family is celebrating a happy occasion. As a villager, you should just go to the banquet. Why are you staying here all this time? Yesterday, I heard Dalang and the other two say that you like the pastries from Tianxianglou. So, before dawn, I went to Qingshui County to wait for the first batch of pear blossom pastries to come out of the oven. Xiaohua, try them and see if you like them."
After saying that, he handed the pastry box in his hand to Su Hua.
He went to great lengths and spent over an ounce of silver to get this box of pastries.
So, there shouldn't be any faults in the person in front of you, right?
Unexpectedly, just as this thought crossed his mind, he heard her cold voice ring out, "Heh, what pear blossom cakes and peach blossom cakes? I'm tired of eating these kinds of pastries all the time. Scholar Feng should keep them for himself."
"What?" Feng Zicai's anticipation seemed to vanish suddenly, and the repeated address of "Feng Xiucai" made his heart ache.
Looking at the girl in front of him, he couldn't muster any anger. He paused for a moment, then asked softly, "Xiao Hua doesn't like pastries. What do you like to eat? I'll buy you whatever you like."
Su Hua felt nauseous upon hearing the name 'Xiao Hua'.
When they caught them in the act in the dilapidated temple, his first words were "Xiao Hua," but now he seems to have drunk a potion of forgetfulness, which is truly disgusting.
Her clear, almond-shaped eyes swept over the red and purple wounds on the man's face. The nausea subsided slightly, and she smiled, "I've heard that Tianxiang Restaurant has some good seafood, especially prawns and crabs."
Without waiting for the man's response, she called the two little ones and headed back.
"Seafood from Tianxianglou?" Upon hearing this, Feng Zicai froze on the spot.
Seafood at Tianxianglou has always been a signature dish unique to the restaurant. A small plate of shrimp alone costs ten taels of silver, while large crabs are even more outrageously expensive.
Xiao Hua actually likes to eat big shrimp and big crabs?
If it were in the past, he probably would have just laughed it off.
But now, he instinctively wanted to agree immediately. However, after touching the empty money pouch in his sleeve, he began to hesitate. Of the three taels of silver that Meng Yun'er had given him earlier, only a little over one tael remained. He was too short of money to buy shrimp or crabs, let alone pastries.
A flicker of disgust crossed the man's eyes as he thought of Meng Yun'er.
She said she was worried he would be lonely in Tangshan Prefecture and went there to keep him company, but he clearly heard from the villagers yesterday that she had been harassed in the river by Wang Ergou and his gang of hooligans, and was forced to come to their door to propose marriage, losing all face, which is why she fled to Tangshan Prefecture.
As a scholar from the Great Yu Dynasty, who was destined to become a Juren and then a Jinshi, there was absolutely no way he would marry such an unclean woman.
If the Meng family didn't still have some money, he would have immediately returned to Tangshan Prefecture and kicked them out.
Thinking of this, his desire for Su Hua intensified. For the past thirteen years, Xiao Hua had been in love with him. Although there had been some misunderstandings before, as long as they made amends and cleared up the misunderstandings, they could return to their previous relationship.
Since Xiaohua likes to eat shrimp and crab, he will do whatever it takes to get them for her.
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