"No, it's just..." Ah Chou scratched his head, and smiled at Kong Wenjie sheepishly after a long while. "Isn't there an old saying? If there is food at home, there is no need to worry. Hehehe, I am a bit more stingy than most people. Just having food is not enough. If my wallet can be a little fatter, I will be happier. Hehe."
Kong Wenjie looked at the dimples on her cheeks and couldn't help but curl his lips as well: "Okay, it's settled."
"Guard Kong, you're such a nice person!" Achou jumped up with joy.
With three taels of silver every month, she could buy cloth to make new clothes for Zhong Mingwei, and also buy more books for him!
Oh, and I can also buy Zhong Mingwei a pair of leather boots that are exactly the same as Kong Wenjie's!
Hehehehe!
Kong Wenjie looked at Ah Chou's expression and laughed too. He walked towards the butcher shop and said, "Follow me."
"Ah!" Ah Chou agreed crisply, and followed Kong Wenjie into the butcher shop in small steps.
"No need to tell him about this." Kong Wenjie bought ten kilograms of top-quality pork ribs and put them into a bamboo basket while talking to Ah Chou.
"Why?" Achou was very puzzled.
"This is the prefect's private order, so naturally the fewer people who know about it, the better." Kong Wenjie explained with a sullen face, while speaking to Ah Chou in a serious tone. "The prefect has repeatedly told me that this matter must not be known to him personally, do you remember that?"
"Oh..." Ah Chou didn't quite understand, but he nodded anyway.
"I didn't mean to hide it," Kong Wenjie looked at her confused look and said patiently, "You've been with him for a long time, so you naturally know his character, right? If he knew that the meat he eats every day is donated by others, do you think he will be able to eat in the future?"
"Oh, I see! I understand," Ah Chou nodded hurriedly. She knew Zhong Mingwei's temper. She leaned over and asked in a low voice, "But why did the prefect allocate funds privately? Could it be that the prefect and he are old friends?"
"How can a guard like me know all this?" Kong Wenjie said casually, "But I think the prefect doesn't know him. But his identity is unusual. If something happens in Ningguta, the prefect will naturally be responsible. So the prefect should have thought of giving him some subsidies privately for this reason."
"Oh, Guard Kong, what you said makes sense," Ah Chou nodded hurriedly, and at the same time, he was busy thanking Kong Wenjie, "Guard Kong, thank you very much."
"Why are you thanking me?" Kong Wenjie wiped his nose uncomfortably, paused, then looked at Ah Chou and said softly, "Then from now on, at the beginning and middle of every month, let's meet at the market?"
"Oh, okay." Ah Chou actually wanted to say, give me the money and I will buy it myself, but she had just exchanged three taels of silver with the other party, and she was too embarrassed to say this, so she had to bite the bullet and agree.
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"Why did you come back so late today?" Zhong Mingwei grumbled to Achou in dissatisfaction, while hiding something in his hand behind his back.
"I bought a lot today, so I came back a little late," Ah Chou said, putting the tray in his hand on the kang, sitting on it, and said to Zhong Mingwei with a smile, "I bought you some good things, you must have never tasted them, hehe!"
"What?" Zhong Mingwei looked at the bowls with lids on the tray, a little curious.
"Hehe, let me broaden your horizons today!" Ah Chou laughed as he opened the upside-down bowls and proudly introduced them to Zhong Mingwei one by one, "This is rice sausage, this is smoked meat pie, this is sweet and sour pork, and this is braised pork bones. Hehehe, are you drooling just by looking at them?"
Ah Chou didn't buy these foods at first. She was too embarrassed to buy them in front of Kong Wenjie, so after parting with Kong Wenjie, she quietly returned to the market and went to a delicatessen that she always coveted but never had the heart to buy from, and bought all these snacks that made her drool for a long time.
"You sound like you've eaten it before?" Zhong Mingwei looked at her greedy and smug look and couldn't help but laugh. He took the chopsticks and put a chopstick of sweet and sour pork in front of her, "Try it quickly. This sweet and sour pork is sweet. I'm sure you like it."
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