Chapter 227 A man should know how to please a woman!
(Thanks to Fengwu Yuxi for casting 5 monthly tickets.)
Li Shiyue slept until the sun was high in the sky. She had noticed that whenever she ate a lot, she would sleep longer that night.
She felt that the time it took for the energy from food to be converted into power within her body was directly proportional to the amount of food she ate.
After lingering in bed for a while, Li Shiyue finally got up.
But when she went downstairs, she saw Li's mother and the others in the backyard.
Stone was chopping firewood, Zheng Meiniang was picking beans, and Li's mother was squatting by the well washing clothes, but Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian were nowhere to be seen.
When Li's mother looked up at Li Shiyue's face, she knew what Li Shiyue wanted to ask without Li Shiyue even having to speak.
“Your sister-in-law Min and Yan Niang took Qiutian and Xiatian out to the market,” Li Shiyue nodded. She opened her mouth to ask why Li Wangming hadn’t come over, but then she heard her mother say, “Your second uncle said he had to buy some gifts for his classmate at the prefectural school. He said he was able to book a private room at the Yuelai Restaurant on Mid-Autumn Festival night thanks to them.”
The third brother and Ma Zi were watching the shop from the front; they figured it would be best to work half a day at a time and open the shop for half a day if possible.
"I've left some rice for you in the pot, go and eat it," Zheng Meiniang said to Li Shiyue with a smile.
Meanwhile, Li's mother said from the side, "It has to be you. Look at any other woman who can sleep until the sun is high in the sky?"
"Mother, didn't your daughter sleep until the sun was high in the sky? Haha."
After exchanging a few words with Li's mother, Li Shiyue dashed into the kitchen to eat.
Li Qiutian and the others returned in the late afternoon. They had bought quite a lot of things, and after spending the money, they all had smiles on their faces.
Li Shiliang and Ma Zi also hung up the sign and closed the shop ahead. The group went back inside to change their clothes, comb their hair, and tidy themselves up before heading to Yuelai Restaurant together.
Of course, along the way, we inevitably had to stop by here and there to buy some snacks.
Zhao Min pressed the purse in her breast pocket. It was hard inside, containing not only copper coins but also silver. This silver was the share of the paper shop and paper mill that Li Shiliang received last month.
As soon as Li Shiliang received the money, he gave it all to Zhao Min. Zhao Min was somewhat surprised when she saw the money in her purse.
She hadn't expected Li Shiliang's share to be so much; she thought it would be around ten or twenty taels at most.
Little did she know that after carefully weighing the silver in the purse, she discovered that the dividend was actually as much as forty-three taels!
She was surprised and asked Li Shiliang how he could have so many!
Li Shiliang smiled and explained to her, "You think the paper mill isn't making money because we're sending less paper to the paper shops in the prefectural city?"
In October, she met people from Xingshenglou and the General's Mansion; most of them were there.
Otherwise, why do you think everyone is still so busy going to the paper mill every day after the autumn harvest?
You didn't see that when Xingshenglou came to pick up the goods, there were more than ten buses coming together.
That's not all!
In October, they said they should stock up on more goods before the border market, so that they could talk to the merchant caravans that arrived early.
Here, take this. It's your man's money; you can spend it as much as you want.
Therefore, when Zhao Min looked at the jewelry that she would never have bought in the past, she thought about it again and again before finally picking out a plum blossom hairpin from the stall to examine it.
Looking at the crudely made plum blossom hairpin, Li Shiyue pulled Li Shiliang aside and directly pointed out to him, "Third Brother, really, how come you don't know how to please a woman?"
The items on that stall weren't bad-looking, but they couldn't compare to the exquisite items in a gold and silver shop.
"Third brother, even with all that money you've earned, you still can't bear to buy Sister-in-law Min a few decent pieces of jewelry?"
Li Shiliang's first reaction was to refute Li Shiyue: "I... I gave her all the money!"
Let her buy whatever she wants. It's October, how could I possibly hesitate to spend money?
"I gave her all the gold I got from the barbarians when we went there."
Li Shiyue rolled her eyes at Li Shiliang. At this moment, Li Qiutian walked over. She had overheard Li Shiyue and Li Shiliang's conversation.
Faced with Li Shiyue's disdainful look, Li Shiliang was quite at a loss.
After Li Qiutian came over, she kindly whispered to Li Shiliang, "Third Brother, what Shiyue means is that you have to win over Sister-in-law Min to her heart."
You gave all the money to Sister-in-law Min, but Sister-in-law Min is a thrifty person.
Today when we went shopping, everything she bought was for you and your third aunt. She only bought two red ribbons for the little girl. She didn't buy anything for herself at all.
So you'll have to take Sister Min to buy it yourself, otherwise she won't be willing to spend the money."
Then Li Shiyue and his group appeared in the gold and silver shop. And you know what? There were quite a few people in the shop.
Li Shiyue picked out a pair of delicate gold earrings for herself. Now that she's made money, she can finally buy gold jewelry without feeling so bad.
Li Shiliang was a man who listened to advice. Ignoring Zhao Min's objections, he immediately bought her a pair of gold earrings, an exquisite silver hairpin, and a pair of gold-plated silver bracelets.
Moreover, Li Shiliang was able to think outside the box; he not only bought jewelry for Zhao Min, but also remembered to buy it for the other two women in the family.
Yes, it was Third Aunt and Xiaoya. Li Shiliang bought Third Aunt a silver hairpin and a gold-plated silver bracelet, and Xiaoya a pair of delicate earrings.
He even said sweet nothings to Zhao Min: "Minniang, I will definitely buy you a solid gold bracelet by the end of the year!"
Zhao Min was a clever woman. She touched the hairpin in her hair and looked at the bracelet on her wrist. She knew that her man was not a charming or romantic person who knew how to please women.
This set of techniques must have been taught to Li Shiliang by Li Shiyue and the others behind the scenes.
Therefore, Zhao Min felt even more that she should take Li Shiyue's words to heart. She thought that as long as Li Shiyue was there, Li Shiliang would not change.
Moreover, Zhao Min knew how much Li Shiyue cared for women and mothers. Even if Li Shiliang changed his mind in the future and treated her and Xiao Ya badly, she was not afraid!
She felt that, given Li Shiyue's actions, she would definitely not suffer any losses!
After strolling around, eating and walking, Li Shiyue and her group finally arrived at the entrance of Yuelai Restaurant.
The entrance to the restaurant was indeed bustling with people. Li Wangming quickly took the wooden sign and went forward. The waiter then led them upstairs.
After Li Shiyue sat down in the private room called Cuizhu on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant and had already started drinking tea, she sat by the window looking down at the restaurant's lobby, thinking to herself, "I hope nothing strange will happen today."
The last time I met Liu Tan, Jiang Huijun, Liu Shu, and Li Chunli, Liu Shu was recuperating in the Prince's Mansion, Li Chunli definitely wouldn't come out either, and Liu Tan and Jiang Huijun probably wouldn't come to this restaurant again, right?
After all, last time wasn't very pleasant.
Li Shiyue nodded to herself, feeling that she was right, because when she went upstairs, she made a point of looking at the private room called Green Pine on the left and Green Willow on the right of the Green Bamboo private room.
She listened carefully, and there was no one in either room!
So she happily sat down, thinking that she could finally relax and enjoy the feast while watching the play.
So, will tonight go as Li Shiyue expects?
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