Chapter 94: The Young Man
In the following days, everything returned to normal.
Xie Jian went through the motions, thanked everyone he was supposed to, and paid his respects, then he started to return to the academy, going home with Lord Lu every three days.
Chen Heng returned to the Meng family shop to continue working. Under the management of his clerk Liu Gang, his grocery store was also very successful. He now had two permanent workers following him and made a profit every day.
While taking care of her son and doing housework, Xia also began to inquire about her son's tutor.
It is May now, spring is here, flowers are blooming, and the weather is getting warmer.
There was not much to do in the shop today, so Chen Heng went home early. The streets were busy at this time. Several months had passed since the snowstorm, and the people were gradually recovering from their grief. The streets had returned to their previous state.
Just as Chen Heng was thinking about buying some cakes for Min'er, a bookkeeper suddenly ran out from the corner and bumped into her, and quickly reached out to grab her when she was about to fall.
The bookworm was about sixteen or seventeen years old. He was quite handsome, but too handsome, with a touch of rouge.
Realizing that he was being rude, the secretary quickly withdrew his hand: "Young lady, are you okay?" But when he saw Shen Heng's appearance clearly, his eyes lit up.
Well, this look made Chen Heng feel how beautiful she was. However, this scene of being hit made her feel scared. She quickly took out her purse from her arms and then breathed a sigh of relief that she had not been stolen.
Shubei: “…”
"No. Be careful when you walk next time." Shen Heng said, and walked past him. Shen Heng was the same age as Xie Jian, but he was so impulsive. This kind of personality was impossible to appear in Xie Jian.
The bookkeeper was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect the young lady to leave like this. In the past, whenever he looked at a girl like this, she would become shy.
It was just a small incident, but Chen Heng didn't take it to heart. She bought some mung bean cakes for Xiao Miner and walked home happily.
On the North Street where the Xie family lived, everyone who saw Chen Heng would say hello, and she would respond one by one.
At the Xie family's door, Xia was talking to a family member: "No, take it, but this mother-in-law can't drink too much."
"I know, thank you. Oh, Chen Heng is back?" The tribesman said with a smile, "We've run out of rice at home. I'll ask the servants to bring a bag over when you have time."
"Okay, I'll send it over tomorrow." Chen Heng also responded with a smile.
After the tribesmen left, as soon as she entered the house, she smelled the fragrance of an old hen: "Sister-in-law, are you stewing chicken for dinner today? It also smells like ginseng."
"None of us got a share of today's chicken. It's for Jian, who's still growing." Xia smiled and said, "This native ginseng was sent by Uncle Xie from the frame shop. He wants to thank Jian for leading his men to rescue him during the snowstorm."
According to the custom in Nanshan, every grown-up child would be given a stewed old hen in the spring with some astragalus and other qi-tonifying foods. Families with a little more money would also add ginseng, while poorer families would dig native ginseng from the mountains that was more than three years old. The one that Uncle Xie brought was only four years old, and it was very difficult to find.
"How is Uncle Xie's health now?"
"It's not very good. Ever since his youngest daughter died in the snowstorm and his legs are crippled, he says there is no hope for the future." Xia thought about the past grudges and the current situation and sighed.
"Auntie, what did you buy?" Little Xie Min carried Xiao Huang out of the living room with difficulty: "Is it pastries?" Auntie was holding a box from the pastry shop.
Xiao Huang struggled desperately, not wanting his privacy to be exposed to humans. It was too insecure.
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