"These are all things that you may need, including a hundred-year-old ginseng. I see that you are not in good health, so you can cut some ginseng slices to make soup or soak them in water. There are also some rice, flour, grain, oil and cloth.
I also bought you two new sets of clothes. It’s the New Year, so I bought a few more for Yinyin. I also prepared some for the beginning of spring. Little girls should dress up beautifully.
There is also some cloth, you can make some clothes later."
After that, Chaoge took out two money bags, one for Mrs. Zhang and one for Yinyin, "This is the red envelope and lucky money for the New Year. Just think of it as auspiciousness."
"Madam, it's too valuable! I can't do that! I can't do that!"
Touching the hard objects in the purse, one by one, Mrs. Zhang pretended to return them to Chaoge.
"I already told you that these are New Year gifts, so please don't be polite to me, mother-in-law. My father has been bothering you for a few days, and I should have come to thank you a long time ago, but I was always busy with work and didn't have time to come, so I only came today.
Mother-in-law, please pack your things. I have to go back to the city, otherwise the city gates will be closed."
Chaoge came in a hurry and left in a hurry, thinking that next time when he was free, he would go to Lan Kwai Street to see Ruan Qing.
In fact, seeing that Ruan Qing was a widow who had to take care of her children and support her mother-in-law, Chaoge wanted to find a job for her because of her help to Yunchang, so that she, a young woman, would not have to go out early and come back late, go out in the wind and rain, and be bullied while setting up a stall.
But this still requires observation. If you want to give a job, you have to think about what kind of job it is and ask people whether they are willing to do it.
As soon as Chaoge left the village, Ruan Qing came back with an empty load. As soon as he entered the house, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly closed the gate, reached out to pull Ruan Qing, and hurried back to the main room, even closing the door of the main room immediately.
"Mom, what are you doing? I still have to cook dinner. Today is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. All the roast geese I brought are sold out. I also bought some meat today. Let's make something delicious."
"Hey, let's take a look at this first."
Having said that, Mrs. Zhang no longer cared about Ruan Qing's happiness. Her expression became heavy, and she pulled Ruan Qing to the main house.
In the main room, Yin Yin was looking at the piles of snacks and swallowing her saliva. She really wanted to open them and have a bite.
She had never eaten dim sum before, but when she heard from the village chief’s youngest son that the dim sum was sweet, soft and sticky, she also wanted to have a bite.
But in Yinyin's memory, since she could remember, there was the scene of her father coming home to ask her mother for money, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, and selling almost all the valuables.
Either the debt collectors would come to make trouble, or the money her mother worked hard to earn would be taken away by those people. Her mother had worked hard enough, so how could she be so ignorant as to buy pastries from her mother?
Just now, grandma said that she would wait until mom comes back before deciding whether to take these things apart. But in this room, she can smell the sweet fragrance and she doesn't want to go out.
"Who sent this? These..."
Looking at the unopened packages of dim sum on the cabinet and the logo of "Imperial City Peach Blossom Dim Sum Shop" printed on the oil paper packages, how could Ruan Qing, who went into the city every day to sell roast goose, not recognize them?
Just the pastries in that pastry shop would cost several taels of silver for any one packet. Some even cost more than ten or dozens of taels. These were things that only the wealthy families and officials in the city could afford.
And those cakes that she couldn't even imagine, there were more than twenty of them, and they just appeared in her house? !
And the cloths on the table, brightly colored and with dark patterns, were piled up all over the large square table in the room!
"Look, this..."
Mrs. Zhang stepped forward and took out two wooden boxes from a pile of gifts. The wooden boxes had not been opened yet, but looking at the intricate carvings on them, Ruan Qing knew that the things inside must be valuables.
When she opened it, she was so shocked when she saw a ginseng with a complete root inside that her mouth opened wide.
"This, this ginseng is at least a hundred years old!"
"Ah? Ah Qing, how did you know? Such a good thing, we ordinary people may not see it once in our lifetime! The girl did say that it was a hundred years old and it was for me to replenish my body. But if I, an old woman, eat a single whisker of this thing, I would feel that I am wasting it. How dare I do that!"
Hearing this, Ruan Qing's shocked expression suddenly showed a hint of panic. She hurriedly closed the box and put it back where it belonged.
"Oh, when I went to buy medicine for you before, I was lucky enough to see someone else buying it in the pharmacy once. Don't say such things, mother. Miss Yun probably saw that you are not in good health."
"Oh, I see. This hundred-year-old mountain ginseng is very expensive, right?"
Ruan Qing nodded and said, "It is said that the value ranges from one hundred to five hundred taels, depending on the quality, but this ginseng is obviously of the best quality.
Mother, what's going on? Why don't you keep him here? These things are really too valuable.
By the way, who did you say sent it?"
"Ms. Yun, she is Yun Chang's daughter, the pretty girl who came with the Regent that day."
Ruan Qing!
"Look, there are a lot of dried fruits, tea leaves, and even hundreds of kilograms of rice and flour. There is also meat, pig's trotters, eggs... Oh, and this!"
As she spoke, Mrs. Zhang opened another box and handed it directly to Ruan Qing.
Looking at the golden lock of longevity in the box, Ruan Qing opened his mouth!
"This is for Yinyin. She said it's a New Year's gift for Yinyin. And these money bags are New Year's red envelopes for me."
"Mom, my sister also gave me a red envelope full of golden peanuts, golden beans and golden melon seeds! Grandma's too! I have never seen gold before, and grandma said it is more valuable than silver. Mom, I will give it all to you, so you don't have to work so hard every day to sell roast goose."
Ruan Qing!
"Oh my god, why did that girl give me so many gifts? How can I accept them? Yinyin, be good, these things are really precious. Mother will keep them first."
"Hey, Yinyin is greedy for these things, but I dare not give them to her. I am just waiting for you to come back and make a decision! I have never seen so many valuable things in my life. Even those cloths, in addition to fine cotton, I saw silk, brocade... Those things, even one foot, cost a lot of silver!"
"The Regent King can personally accompany this woman here, so her identity must be extraordinary. But she also came personally to give us New Year gifts, and she gave us so many gifts. Even if I saved her father's life, I feel unworthy of it!
What’s more, her father and his brother also saved me and Yinyin before. If they hadn’t given a hundred taels of silver to the debt collectors in the street without asking for anything in return, I…”
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