Pei Yao smiled at him: "Then thank you for your kind words, Miss Su."
Pei Yao's smile was faint, a standard fake smile; she smiled like that at every customer.
After all, a smile is the most basic requirement for welcoming guests.
Lin Shaoqing looked at the faint smile on the girl's face. He wanted to say something else, but the people in the line behind him were already impatiently urging him on.
"Hey you, buddy, go on your way after you finish your purchase. Don't keep chatting with that girl. We're all waiting here."
Some people in the crowd had been queuing for a long time and were getting impatient. When they saw that Lin Shaoqing had finished buying but was still not leaving, they said in an impatient tone.
"Exactly, hurry up and leave after you've bought everything, the sun is making me dizzy."
Lin Shaoqing had a good attitude. He wasn't annoyed by being so fierce. He looked at Pei Yao with the same gentleness as always: "Miss Pei, I won't bother you any longer. You go ahead and do your work."
Pei Yao nodded: "Take care, Young Master Lin."
After Lin Shaoqing left, Pei Yao got busy again, continuing to prepare ice jelly for the next customer.
How many servings would this customer like?
Lin Shaoqing held the ice jelly and watched Pei Yao's busy figure. Even though she was constantly busy, the smile on her face was still very bright, like a tenacious little grass.
Lin Shaoqing was in a good mood, and his smile widened as he walked toward the carriage.
He deliberately suppressed his smile when getting into the carriage, but Su Xue'er didn't care. Seeing him return, she immediately approached him with a gossipy look: "Little cousin~ hehe~"
Lin Shaoqing: "......."
"Cousin, here's your ice jelly." Lin Shaoqing watched as his cousin silently took a step back.
Su Xue'er didn't take the ice jelly, but continued to look at Lin Shaoqing with an ambiguous smile.
Xia: "..."
Miss, please stop laughing like that, it's creepy.
"Cousin, what were you laughing about just now?" Su Xue'er asked Lin Shaoqing with a smile.
Lin Shaoqing shook her head calmly: "Cousin, when did I laugh?"
Seeing that Lin Shaoqing wouldn't admit it, Su Xue'er took the ice jelly from his hand, gave another cup to Xia Xia next to her, and then started eating.
She sneered inwardly. Still trying to deny it? I saw it all just now. When you came over from the Pei family's stall, you were grinning from ear to ear, and you were laughing so happily.
Of course, Su Xue'er's grin was an exaggeration, but it's true that Lin Shaoqing was all smiles after coming from the Pei family.
"By the way, cousin, aren't you going to host a flower viewing banquet in four days?" Lin Shaoqing asked.
Su Xueer was enjoying the delicious ice jelly, but she still nodded in response to her cousin's question.
Lin Shaoqing remembered that four days later was the day Pei Yao would deliver lychee wine to Su Xue'er, so he said, "I'll go that day too."
Su Xue'er paused, her hand still holding the ice jelly. "Last time I asked you if you were going, didn't you say no? You said it was all women's gatherings and you didn't like it."
Su Xue'er has loved lotus flowers since she was a child. These days, the lotus flowers she planted have just bloomed. She heard that the ladies in the capital like to hold flower-viewing banquets when they have nothing to do. So she thought that since her lotus flowers were blooming, she could also hold a flower-viewing banquet with her young ladies and keep up with the fashion in the capital.
Lin Shaoqing studied at the county school. Because of his handsome appearance and gentle and kind manner, many girls secretly admired him.
Su Xue'er's girlfriends knew about the relationship between Lin Shaoqing and Su Xue'er. When they heard that she was going to hold a flower viewing party at home, they all asked her if she could invite Lin Shaoqing as well.
When Su Xue'er heard that her sisters all wanted Lin Shaoqing to come, she asked him a few days ago, but he rejected her without even thinking about it.
His exact words were: "Cousin, you know I don't like being with women for tea, I always feel uncomfortable. You guys have fun, I won't go."
Su Xue'er tried to persuade him at the time, but the boy was completely unyielding and no matter what Su Xue'er said, it was no use.
Unexpectedly, he himself said he was coming.
Lin Shaoqing explained, "I suddenly became interested in lotus flowers."
Lin Shaoqing's expression remained unchanged, still indifferent, making it impossible for Su Xue'er to guess his thoughts.
Who cares? This ice jelly is more likely to attract her attention.
This Miss Pei is truly amazing; she can actually make such delicious food.
......
It was another busy day. After buying the ice jelly, the Pei family packed up and went straight home.
Although Pei Erlang's leg was not fully healed, he still felt some pain in the wound when he walked with force.
But seeing that the whole family was busy, he didn't stay idle when he was home alone either, and kept busy tidying up the yard that he had messed up in the morning.
Pei Xuan looked at Pei Yao who had returned and hugged her tightly: "Sister, Xuan'er missed you so much."
Pei Yao rubbed the little girl's head and took out a piece of malt candy from her bosom, giving it to her: "Here, take this, this malt candy is very sweet."
Pei Xuan was overjoyed to receive the candy.
Business was good today, so they returned relatively early.
Pei Yao recalled that when she went to the field a couple of days ago, she saw a jujube tree next to the field, but she was in a hurry at the time and was not quite sure if it was her.
I happened to get back early today, so I decided to go check to see if it was a jujube tree. If it is, I can pick some to make jujube cake.
When Pei Yao went, Pei Yichen and Pei Xuan, upon hearing that she was going to see food, also wanted to go along.
Fortunately, the adults at home were able to handle the chores, so Pei Yao took the two of them with her.
Pei Yichen had gotten used to it; whenever he went out with Pei Yao, he would always carry a basket on his back, as if it were a conditioned reflex.
When they arrived at the field, Pei Yao first looked at the vegetable seedlings. Because fertilizer had just been applied, the vegetables in the field were sprouting wildly and had grown much larger than when Pei Yao had come two days ago.
After inspecting the vegetable garden, Pei Yao led them to the jujube tree.
The ground beneath that huge jujube tree was covered with fallen jujubes.
Pei Yao picked up a ripe sour jujube. With a gentle pinch of her hand, she could easily peel off the skin. She held it to her nose and smelled it, and immediately a sour and astringent smell hit her nose.
Pei Yao put the jujube in her hand into her mouth and immediately felt a jolt of sourness: "It's definitely a sour jujube."
When Pei Yichen heard that it was what her older sister was looking for, and thinking that the wild fruits her older sister had found before were always very delicious, she put a bite in her mouth without thinking when she saw the round and plump jujubes.
Pei Yichen: "Ptooey...it's so sour..."
Pei Yao couldn't help but laugh when she saw Pei Yichen's face scrunched up from the sourness.
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