"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your agreement."
Cheng Shanshan didn't give him a chance to refuse. She took out a small piece of dried meat and stuffed it into his mouth, then took out a small bottle of wound medicine.
First, the wounds of Fourteen were cleaned, and then medicine was carefully applied to them.
During this time, Fourteenth Brother smelled the aroma of meat and a faint sweetness in his mouth. He felt as if he had seen his mother again, and he could hardly hold back his tears.
After Cheng Shanshan finished everything, she found a basin of water for the little guy to wash up. When she saw that his clothes had been torn open and his skin was exposed, she said, "Wash yourself clean. I'm going to buy something."
Actually, she has quite a few clothes stored in her online space, but none of them are for children.
Moreover, it would be too abrupt to suddenly take things out like this, so she took advantage of the time she was washing up to go to a clothing store on the street to buy clothes.
Although Ping'an City is relatively stable for the time being, there's no guarantee that something might happen in this light-year, so she simply ordered two sets of clothes for each of the fourteen children from childhood to adulthood.
Because the fabric chosen was cheap and durable, the total cost was twenty taels of silver.
However, when it came time to pay, she was embarrassed to find that she hadn't used any money in so long that she had forgotten she didn't have any. She searched and searched for a long time before finally managing to scrape together two taels of silver.
The shopkeeper noticed her strange look and immediately became extremely disgusted: "Miss, you didn't just mess with me for so long only to tell me you have no money, were you just kidding me?" He had thought a wealthy customer had come, but it seemed he had been too optimistic.
Cheng Shanshan really didn't want to do this, so she could only take out one or two taels of silver: "How about I buy a set first?"
"You should have said you wanted to buy one earlier! Look how long I've been looking for all this stuff for you." The shopkeeper said this with a resentful air, throwing the clothes around: "Stop dawdling, just take whichever set you want."
Cheng Shanshan knew she was in the wrong, so she didn't say anything.
However, as her gaze shifted, she noticed that there was a pharmacy right across from the clothing shop. She suddenly remembered that she still had quite a few medicinal herbs stored in her spatial storage, and exchanging them for some silver seemed like a good idea: "Shopkeeper, I'll take all of these. Please wrap them up for me first, and I'll go back to get the silver later." After saying that, she ran off in a flash.
The shopkeeper was cursing and swearing, so angry he wanted to strangle Cheng Shanshan: "Damn it, does this mean she doesn't want the whole set? I've really had a terrible day!"
After leaving the clothing shop, Cheng Shanshan found a corner and took out a bag of medicinal herbs from her storage space. After tidying it up a bit, she carried it into the pharmacy.
The pharmacy owner had just seen Cheng Shanshan being scolded and driven out of the clothing store. When he saw her, his eyes were full of impatience: "I don't have time to waste on you. You'd better leave quickly, young lady."
"You don't even accept medicinal herbs?" Cheng Shanshan asked as she opened the bundle and laid out the medicinal herbs in front of the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper initially looked disdainful, but when he saw what Cheng Shanshan was holding, his eyes lit up: "Come, come, let me see."
Cheng Shanshan pushed it into the shopkeeper's hands, and the shopkeeper looked at it carefully before asking, "Miss, how much silver do you want?"
Cheng Shanshan didn't give a price, but instead asked, "How much can the shopkeeper offer?"
"Thirty... taels, I guess."
Cheng Shanshan frowned and repeated, "Thirty taels?"
These words immediately made the shopkeeper anxious: "Sixty taels, sixty taels, young lady, the price I'm offering is very fair."
"good."
Cheng Shanshan didn't want to haggle anymore.
After all, she had a lot of these medicinal herbs in her storage space and nowhere to put them.
Now that she had received sixty taels, she immediately returned to the clothing shop, paid the shopkeeper, and, thinking of Fourteen's young age, bought him some shortbread. She also went to the pastry shop and bought a lot of pastries to take to the Ye family to express her gratitude.
Once everything was almost done, she took them back to the place where Fourteen had been staying.
Fourteen was curled up in the corner, head down, sobbing softly. This sight startled Cheng Shanshan: "Fourteen, what's wrong? Did your father come by?"
"..."
Fourteen raised his head.
When he saw Cheng Shanshan, his eyes were filled with ecstatic joy.
He waited for Cheng Shanshan for a long time but she didn't come back. He thought he had been abandoned again, and his heart sank lower and lower. He was in terrible pain.
At this moment, Cheng Shanshan saw the clean-up Fourteen. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his thin face did not resemble that of a four or five-year-old child. He looked more like a small version of a teenager. When he saw Cheng Shanshan, his childish voice trembled slightly: "I thought my sister didn't want me anymore."
"How could that be?"
Cheng Shanshan couldn't help but pinch his cheek.
Although she was thin, her skin still had a smooth, doughy texture: "I went to buy you new clothes, and I also bought this." After saying that, she took out a bag of shortbread.
When Fourteen saw the candy and clothes, her eyes immediately welled up with tears: "Sister..."
"Oh, stop talking, go change your clothes." Cheng Shanshan first gave him a piece of candy, then handed him a set of well-fitting clothes.
Fourteen quickly changed his clothes.
He was extremely thin, and the clothes he wore made him look even thinner. He clutched the hem of his clothes and looked timid, as if he was not used to the new clothes.
Cheng Shanshan was quite pleased: "Fourteen, come and let your older sister give you a hug."
"..."
hug?
Fourteen raised his eyes.
Meeting Cheng Shanshan's bright eyes, he was somewhat at a loss for words.
Cheng Shanshan ignored him and picked him up, only to find that the little guy was really light: "You need to eat more, you'll look better if you gain some weight, of course, you're very handsome now."
Humans are powerless to resist beautiful things.
Of course she would feel the same way. This little guy in front of her really reminded her of her own childhood, which made her want to get close to him and protect him.
She didn't know that his actions deeply moved Fourteen: "Sister, thank you."
"No need to thank me."
Cheng Shanshan pinched his cheek.
She thought a lot on the way back to the Ye family.
Since arriving in Ping'an City, whether visiting the Ye family or investigating with Ye Dong, she has always been in a relatively passive state, which is clearly not what she wanted.
She can't just sit and wait for her fate; she has to figure out a way out.
Putting everything else aside, since Ping'an City is still a place for buying and selling, she can take advantage of this opportunity to conduct another round of stockpiling and trading. In addition, she has also stockpiled too many medicinal herbs in her space.
What she needs to do now is to use the existing resources to get some money and more things in her hands!
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