Chapter 406: Not a Trivial Matter
It was just like when she and Zhuang Qingsui had just escaped from Zhuang Ruman and the Song family’s home, she was also suffering from the same nutritional deficiency, and her condition improved after a while.
Zhuang Qingning looked at Miao Erdan and thought of his own personal experience, feeling inexplicably distressed.
Miao Erdan tilted his head, looked into the kitchen, pulled Zhuang Qingning's sleeve, and whispered, "Sister, don't tell my mother about this."
"I just used the wages my mother gave me to pay off all the debts I owed. I saw a smile on her face. If she knew I was not feeling well..."
Miao Erdan lowered his head and stopped talking.
Zhuang Qingning pursed her lips.
The Zhang family lived in poverty, mostly because of the long-term illness of her parents-in-law.
However, these long years of living in poverty have made the young children realize that they can no longer add any burden to the family, especially if they get sick.
Children from poor families become independent and sensible early.
Zhuang Qingning pursed his lips and patted Miao Erdan on the shoulder, "Okay, I remember."
"Thank you, sister." Miao Erdan thanked her and picked up the bowl of water that Zhuang Qingning had just drunk from. "I'll go get some more water for you, sister."
"Okay." Zhuang Qingning responded with a smile.
But looking at Miao Erdan's obviously small body with a big head, I can't help but feel a little sad.
Miaozhuang is really too poor, and the Zhang family is the poorest in Miaozhuang. Although after a period of time, because of the existence of the sweet potato vermicelli workshop, the life of the Zhang family will gradually get better, so will their life.
But during this period of time...if these two siblings don't strengthen their nutrition and focus on calcium supplementation, it will affect their bone development.
If calcium is deficient to a certain extent, it will also affect the spirit, personality, etc.
Since I have the opportunity to have a meal at Zhang's house today, and the family members are all good-tempered, Zhuang Qingning doesn't mind helping out to the best of his ability.
[Ding, the host triggers the task, compassion. ]
[The mission content is that the host needs to help the Zhang family fully improve their nutrition. ]
[After the host completes the task, he can obtain the spice formula: Banyuexiang. ]
Here it comes, here comes the recipe that can be used.
Zhuang Qingning was immediately excited.
Improving nutrition is a simple task...
For example, give the Zhang family a basket of eggs, a basket of chicken, duck, fish, etc.
Oh, how could I be so smart? [Warm Tips: This task has special requirements, that is, you cannot directly give money and property, and you must not let the Zhang family find out that the host is giving the task. Once they are found out, the task will immediately show failure, and the host will never be able to obtain this spice formula. ]
Yeah, I knew it wasn't that simple.
As expected, based on the character of a certain Five, he would not give her the recipe so easily.
You can’t give money or property directly, and you can’t be discovered. You can only use someone else’s hand to give it, and this person will definitely not leak the news, and you can’t let the Zhang family find out that there is anything wrong...
While Zhuang Qingning was thinking, Zhang came out from the kitchen with a smile and invited Zhuang Qingning to have lunch.
The noodles are made of sweet potato flour, corn flour and a small amount of white flour, pressed into long strips. When cooking, Zhang specially put some unripe cabbage leaves and dripped a few drops of oil into it to make it more fragrant.
I fried some spicy and sour black fungus and some chopped green onion and egg.
The table was also filled with the sweet potatoes that Miao Ni had stewed in the stove. Miao Ni had carefully peeled off the skin, and the orange-yellow flesh smelled fragrant and sweet.
Zhuang Qingning thanked Zhang and picked up the bowl to eat.
Zhang’s cooking skills are indeed average, but the noodles are light in taste, the fungus is fresh in flavor, and paired with the sweetness of the sweet potatoes, it is very delicious.
Zhuang Qingning was also hungry at this moment and ate very happily.
Zhang and others, seeing Zhuang Qingning eating the fried noodles with big mouthfuls, felt relieved and friendly, and started talking to him enthusiastically.
The meal took longer than usual. It was not until the workshop was about to start work that Zhang hurriedly tidied up, told Miao Ni and Miao Erdan to go to the fields to cut sweet potato vines, and went to the workshop with Zhuang Qingning.
After arriving at the workshop, Zhuang Qingning talked with Miao Hongjin about the workshop for a while, then said goodbye and left, heading home.
Early the next morning, Zhuang Qingning went to the county town to Chengji to look for Cheng Ruize.
Coincidentally, Cheng Ruize was not at Chengji.
The waiter Fang Hou led Zhuang Qingning to the backyard with an apologetic look on his face and poured her a cup of tea. "Boss Zhuang, this is really unfortunate. There is something going on at the spice shop, and I'm afraid I can't spare the time."
"How about you go to Zhuang's Cloth Shop and wait for a while, Manager Zhuang. I will go and tell the manager how long it will take to handle the matter, and then I will go back and give you a reply."
The Cheng family has many businesses, and it is common for them to be tied up in important matters and unable to get away.
Zhuang Qingning thought it was quite normal, nodded and said with a smile, "Then thank you for making the trip. If Manager Cheng is really busy, I will come again tomorrow. It is not a very important matter, so let Manager Cheng take care of his own business first."
"Yes, thank you for your understanding, Shopkeeper Zhuang." Fang Hou said, "I will also go and take a look at the situation. If you are free, please ask the shopkeeper to come over. If you really can't spare the time, I will also go and tell you so that you don't have to wait."
"good."
Zhuang Qingning did not stay for long and went to Zhuang's Cloth Shop first.
Fang Hou asked the people in the shop to take care of the shop, and he went to the spice shop to look for Cheng Ruize.
Zhuang Yutian poured a cup of tea for Zhuang Qingning. When he heard him say that he was waiting for Cheng Ruize, he frowned and said, "Since the clerk said he would reply to the letter later, you should wait for a while. But I guess you won't be able to see Manager Cheng today."
"This incident at Cheng's Spice Shop is no small matter."
"Oh?" Zhuang Qingning put down the cup of tea he had just taken a sip of, "What happened at Cheng's Spice Shop?"
"The owner of this Chengji spice shop is surnamed Zhu, and his name is Zhu Ankang. He is also a well-known old owner of Chengji. He has been working in Chengji. I heard that he used to work in a shop in the capital, and later he was assigned to a spice shop here."
"I have also seen this shopkeeper Zhu. He looks quite kind, and he is very good at dealing with people. He manages the shop very well. Everyone secretly says that he is worthy of being the shopkeeper of Chengji. He is different."
"But a few days ago, I heard that Shopkeeper Zhu secretly embezzled the first, second and third-class goods in Chengji Spices. He mixed the third-class goods with the second-class goods, and the second-class goods with the first-class goods. He then sold the extra first-class goods outside to make money, and made up for the shortage of third-class goods by randomly finding some."
(End of this chapter)
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