"Amei, these are five jars of green plum wine."
A limping uncle walked to the door carrying a bamboo basket. When he saw Ye Xin standing at the door, he was stunned and stood there hesitantly, not daring to move forward.
"Brother Hu, didn't I say I would go? Why did you bring out the wine?"
The woman called Amei smiled apologetically at Ye Xin, and hurriedly walked to the man with limited mobility to take the bamboo basket.
The bamboo basket was a bit heavy. A-Mei stumbled while carrying it, and the basket fell to the ground. She was almost tripped by the basket.
Ye Xin hurried forward to support her, and picked up the bamboo basket on the ground with one hand.
"Sister, I'm not in a hurry. Take your time."
Ah Mei stood firm and glared at Ye Xin when she heard what she said, "You are such a sweet girl. Why call me sister? My daughter is almost as old as you."
Ye Xin put the bamboo basket on the table with a smile, "Really? I didn't realize that. Sister, you look only in your twenties, but your daughter is actually the same age as me?"
"My daughter will be coming of age in a year, so I'm saying I'm not worthy of being called sister."
A Mei counted the plum wine on the table, walked to a cabinet and took out an abacus.
She put the abacus in her hand and moved the beads inside in front of Ye Xin.
"One jar of green plum wine is one ounce of silver, and five jars of green plum wine is five ounces of silver. Girl, this is your first time buying wine at my house, right? I'll give you a pack of hangover tea. If you get drunk in the future, you can use it to sober up."
“Pah pah pah!”
A Mei quickly moved the beads, then took the abacus to Ye Xin so that she could see the contents clearly.
In fact, there was no need to use an abacus for this amount of money, but she did the math herself and had the girl look over it carefully.
Nowadays, there are very few women who can do math, and she is the one who manages the accounts in the family, so she has to be very careful in this regard, so that no one will accuse her of shortchanging people in the future.
Ye Xin didn't even move her eyes. She took out five taels of silver from her waist pouch and said, "Okay, Sister Amei, you don't have to show me. I believe you."
Ah Mei put down the abacus and took the silver with both hands. "I told you not to call me sister anymore. If you keep saying that, I'm going to get embarrassed."
"I forgot about it!"
Ye Xin blinked, looked at the sky outside, picked up the bamboo basket on the table and walked out.
"Sister Amei, I'll leave first. I'll drink the plum wine when I get back."
Seeing Ye Xin was about to go out, the uncle next to him suddenly remembered something and limped to the cabinet.
He removed the lock and took out tightly packed bags of tea.
"Girl, there is still tea!" Awu shouted in the house holding tea.
Ah Mei patted her head, picked up the tea leaves and chased after Ye Xin, "Girl, look at my memory. I said I would give you some tea leaves, but I almost forgot."
Ye Xin brought the bamboo basket in front of her and smelled it. Even though the tea was well packaged, she could still smell the scent of jasmine.
"Sister Amei, thank you for the tea. I will definitely enjoy it."
Ye Xin smiled with her eyes curved. Under the gaze of Amei and Awu, she walked out of the alley hidden deep inside, step by step.
After Ye Xin was completely out of sight, Ah Mei helped Ah Wu back to the house. "Brother Wu, next time, don't do this kind of work by yourself. It's just a few small jars. I can still move them."
Ah Wu smiled innocently and stroked Ah Mei's hair with his big hand. "I'm worried that you can't get down to the cellar! I asked Xiao Xi to help. It didn't take much effort."
"That's good. It's very dark down there. Next time, unless you have no other choice, neither you nor your daughter can go down there."
Ah Mei pretended to be angry and grabbed Ah Wu's arm hard.
"Hiss! It hurts."
Ah Wu hissed and made an exaggerated expression to match Ah Mei's actions.
Amei was amused by Awu's actions. She closed the front door and walked out through the open door at the back.
As soon as I went out, I saw a thin figure busying around in the yard.
Amei and Awu looked at each other, washed their hands, walked to the small house in the corner of the yard and brought out two plates of side dishes.
Chen Weixi heard the noise, wiped her hands and walked out of the house, "Dad, Mom, have the guests left?"
Ah Mei nodded and walked into the house with the dishes, "Let's go, the person who came is a little girl about your age."
Chen Weixi was shocked when she heard this. She instantly ignored the dish her father was carrying and went back to the inner room to sit on a stool. "Mom, is what you said true? She bought five jars of green plum wine?"
Ah Mei looked at her with amusement, put down the food and reached out to touch her between the eyebrows, "Why would I lie to you? Everything I said is true."
"I, your mother, thought that this girl couldn't find her way home. But after asking her carefully, I found out that she came here specifically to buy green plum wine."
"The little girl said our house was a little hard to find and she had to ask many people before she found it."
Ah Wu put the plate he was holding on the table and agreed with Ah Mei. "Yes, yes, your father and I agree too. When I saw that girl standing alone at the door, carrying a bamboo basket, I didn't dare to go up and greet her."
Awu described the scene just now and exaggeratedly demonstrated how he stood there in a daze.
His description made Chen Weixi giggle. "Dad, Mom, now that you mention it, this girl is quite brave! There's a very dark alley outside our house. If I walked down it alone, I would definitely be scared to death."
"Who says it's not? It's just this girl who's brave. Xiao Xi, you don't know that the girl just now is not only brave, but also very strong. It's hard for me to carry the bamboo basket with both hands, but this girl not only doesn't feel it's heavy, she can even lift it easily with one hand."
Ah Mei still feels her heart pounding when she thinks about what happened just now. A girl who looks so thin and petite actually has so much strength.
Carrying the bamboo basket with five jars of green plum wine was easier than carrying it for Brother Wu.
Although the jars they used to store wine were not very big, it still took a lot of strength to carry five jars of wine at a time.
She didn't know what this girl grew up eating. If she met this girl again next time, she would ask her what she usually ate, and then she would make some for Xiaoxi.
However, judging by the girl's attire, the food she eats might be something she can't buy.
if......
Ah Mei sighed inwardly and secretly glanced at Chen Weixi who was concentrating on eating.
If nothing had happened at home, Xiao Xi wouldn't have to curl up in this small yard like she is now.
Brother Wu’s leg wouldn’t have been injured, and my parents wouldn’t have to stay in that bitter and cold place.
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