"Would you two like to eat something? I don't think the rain will stop for a while. Our noodles are pretty good. Would you like to try some? I'll give you a discount."
Xiao Yi is quite relaxed when it comes to interpersonal relationships.
He has a cheerful and humorous personality.
Moreover, he felt that the Liang family would be their family's long-term vegetable supplier in the future, so it was no big deal to give them a discount, it was just a favor.
Liang Cuicui's younger brother is Liang Dong. At this time of day, his sister would have been complaining about being hungry, but today, faced with so many delicious foods, she actually managed to resist paying for some.
The key point is that he is hungry, which is really strange.
So he looked at his sister and asked:
"Sister, do you want to eat something?"
Liang Cuicui had been struggling with her stomach. She felt nervous when she saw Xiao Yi. The key point was that he was always smiling, which made her even more nervous.
Forget it, she was used to eating a lot and her legs would become weak if she skipped a meal, so she nodded reluctantly.
"Then eat something. I want a bowl of hot and sour noodles."
"Then I want mashed potatoes and noodles!"
Seeing that his sister had given in, Liang Dong quickly ordered his favorite dish, mashed potato noodles, which he had been staring at for a long time.
"Okay, I'll make it for you right away, wait!"
Today, only his second brother was greeting guests outside, while his eldest brother and father were busy in the kitchen.
He went in, said hello, and asked Xiao's mother and the others to cook more noodles and add some toppings for the siblings.
So, when it was served, it was always a big bowl full.
There was a lot of meat added in it, and the brother and sister swallowed their saliva at the same time. Liang Dong didn't care so much, so he picked up the chopsticks and started to eat it in big mouthfuls.
After hearing Liang Cuicui's words, she felt that she had never been so polite in her life.
She was able to finish the hot and sour noodles if the amount was increased.
But then she also thought, if she finished eating, when Third Brother Xiao came to collect the food, would he complain in his heart that she was eating too much?
When a girl's heart is moved, she has a lot of inner thoughts.
In the end, she chose to leave some of it uneaten, as eating until she was 60% to 70% full was enough.
Liang Dong had finished eating, with not a single bit left. He looked at his sister in confusion, and was even more surprised to see that she had so much left.
"Sister, are you feeling unwell today? Or is this hot and sour noodles not to your liking?"
"No, I'm just not that hungry today. The hot and sour noodles are delicious." Liang Cuicui said a little guiltily.
Liang Dong was confused, but he didn't worry about it too much.
When paying the bill, Xiao Yi deliberately charged them two cents less for each bowl of rice, and told them to pay two cents less every time they came to eat in the future.
Seeing that the rain continued, Liang Cuicui was worried about her grandfather being alone at home, so she became a little anxious.
It was raining today and there were not many customers in the store, so he said hello to his second brother and ran home in the rain to get two sets of raincoats for the two siblings.
"If you are in a hurry, just put on my raincoat and go back. Next time you deliver the vegetables, just bring them back to me."
He was caught in the rain, his clothes were wet, and his hair was wet, but his actions were particularly heartwarming.
Xiao Yi probably couldn't have imagined that his small act of kindness would actually move the girl so deeply.
Finally, Liang Cuicui and her brother put on the raincoats he gave them and pushed the bus home.
On the way, she was in a good mood and kept humming a little tune, and she no longer had the deliberate pretense of reserve that she had just shown at Xiao Ji.
Liang Dong felt that this was right, this was his sister.
The next food delivery will not be until three days later, but Liang Cuicui is already looking forward to it.
…
Jiang Sui and Xiao Lanlan didn't return to the store until the afternoon. As soon as they came back, Xiao Lanlan excitedly talked about what she saw and felt in the girls' school. Every cell in her body seemed to be clamoring about how much she longed for the life in the girls' school.
Seeing how enthusiastic she was, the Xiao family was happy for her. As long as the child was happy and walked the right path, they, as parents and brothers, would support her.
Moreover, she is the youngest daughter, the youngest child in the family. Who wouldn’t spoil her?
That evening, after closing the shop, Xiao's mother went back and collected thirty taels of silver to give to Xiao Lanlan as a payment.
It just so happens that Xiao Hechuan has a day off tomorrow, so he will take Xiao Lanlan to the girls' school to go through a series of admission procedures.
Admission to the girls' school is different from that of Baiyun Academy, where you need to take an examination. Even if you are a woman in your forties or fifties, you can enter. The only requirement is that your family background is clean and there cannot be any villains or people with a bad reputation in the family. Everything else is not a problem.
Girls' schools also have special identity tokens, but the identity proof is something like a brooch. It is shaped like a lotus, which grows out of the mud but remains unstained, and is pure and innocent. It is the foundation of the girls' school.
Xiao Lanlan paid the tuition fee and received the brooch that represented her identity as a female student. From then on, she had to wear the brooch whenever she entered or left the school.
Tomorrow, she will start her first day of classes at the Girls' School.
She also received a class schedule. Tomorrow she will have tea art class, account bookkeeping, incense ceremony, and another class called "Applying Yellow Flowers in Front of the Mirror".
That is to say, it teaches how to put on makeup and powder in ancient times.
In addition, there will also be calligraphy classes, hair style classes, in short, many, many more, and each one is related to elegance.
After finishing classes in the morning, you can go home in the afternoon. Classes are not scheduled in the afternoon, and it is always not good for women to go home too late.
There are many things that you need to prepare by yourself, such as a set of tea sets and incense sets for practice. After you go home, you also have to study hard and practice.
Moreover, the teaching is not one-on-one, but many people take classes together, and the female teachers sometimes cannot provide individual tutoring, so you have to practice when you go home. The master can only bring you into the door, but the practice depends on yourself.
Xiao Lanlan came out of the girls' school, clutching the brooch tightly in her hand, her excitement evident beyond words.
She really wanted to tell Su Yanqing the good news, but she didn't know how to find him.
The one who knew her best was her brother Xiao Hechuan. He stood behind her, looking at Xiao Lanlan's excited back and asked:
"Lanlan, do you want to write a letter to tell Su Yanqing that you've entered the girls' school? How about I pass the letter to him for you?"
Xiao Lanlan had the same idea, but she didn't know how to talk to her brother about it. Unexpectedly, her fourth brother took the initiative to bring it up, which saved her from hesitation.
She was also afraid that her fourth brother would laugh at her for being worthless.
Now that he asked, I agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, I'll write it when I get back. I'll trouble Fourth Brother to pass it to him for me."
She has a good temper and is not pretentious.
After returning, she couldn't wait to write a long letter, which was three pages long.
Her handwriting is neat. Xiao's mother made many correct decisions in her life, including sending Lanlan to learn to read despite the strange looks from the villagers and the opposition from her parents-in-law.
Only in this way can Lanlan have such a correct outlook on life as she does today.
A lot of her confidence comes from literacy, because in rural areas, girls generally don't have the opportunity to go to school, and Jiang Sui was one of them.
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