Chapter 112: Worldly-wise but not worldly-wise
After the two finished their meal, Mu Dong sent three taels of silver to their home.
Song Jinsheng washed the dishes and continued to work. He filled a large pot of shampoo water. Song Yuntang boiled another large pot while it was still daylight.
At night, the brother and sister moved small stools to the yard and sat there, looking up at the starry sky.
"I made a reclining chair for Dad a few days ago. He loves lying on it and looking at the stars and the moon." Song Jinsheng said, looking at Song Yuntang, "When I have time, I will make one for you too."
Song Yuntang smiled and nodded.
"good."
Stools and chairs can only be used for sitting upright. If there is a reclining chair, it would be really comfortable to lie down in your spare time.
"It would be great if our family could be together." Song Jinsheng said with emotion.
Song Yuntang glanced in his direction and said, "Forget it. They always think that being nice to me means they are controlling me in every way, and they can't tell right from wrong. I will feel very uncomfortable living with them."
"I understand."
Because he had never experienced it, Song Jinsheng didn't understand it before, but after Zhao's nagging in his ears for the past few days, he roughly understood where Song Yuntang's aversion came from.
"It's just that Dad and Mom are so old now, it won't be easy for them to change. After all, blood is thicker than water. In fact, Mom has been very unhappy since you left, but she hasn't changed her mind yet." He looked at Song Yuntang, "Sister, can you give Dad and Mom some time?"
"Second brother also knows that it is difficult to change their minds, so please stop trying to persuade me."
She really had no intention of living together again.
Song Jinsheng knew that it was not appropriate to say too much now.
"Let's not talk about my parents for now. Now that you and Xu Qingye are engaged, has the Xu family considered the future?"
Song Yuntang looked up at the sky.
"Wait until I'm an adult."
Song Jinsheng looked at her and said, "Xu Qingye is already an adult, isn't he in a hurry?"
Song Yuntang said nonchalantly, "I don't know if he's in a hurry, but my second brother hasn't gotten married yet, so I'm not in a hurry."
"Our situations are different. You don't want to go home now. Living alone is really worrying. If you can get married earlier, having a man at home will be different." Song Jinsheng looked at Song Yuntang, "Although I have always minded Xu Qingye's age, I have to admit that my sister has good taste. Xu Qingye may be a little old-fashioned, but he is a person worth entrusting your life to."
Song Yuntang smiled.
"When has my vision ever been bad?"
Song Jinsheng said repeatedly, "Yes, yes, so the matter of getting married..."
Song Yuntang thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait a little longer. I've already told the Xu family that I don't want to be too anxious."
"Okay, you decide for yourself." Song Jinsheng shook his head helplessly, stood up and walked towards the kitchen, "I'll go to the kitchen to add another piece of firewood. After burning the remaining firewood, it should be almost done. Tang'er is tired, so go wash up and go to bed. I'll watch the fire in the stove."
Looking at Song Jinsheng's back, Song Yuntang pursed his lips and smiled, then looked up at the moonless starry sky again, got up to pour some water, wash up, and go to bed.
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The next morning, when Song Yuntang got up, Song Jinsheng had already scooped out the cooled medicine juice from the pot.
"When did the second brother get up?"
Song Jinsheng smiled and said, "I just woke up a little earlier than you."
"Did you sleep well last night?" Without waiting for his answer, Song Yuntang said to himself, "The door panel must be uncomfortable because it's so hard. I'll buy a set of bedding when I'm free. Next time, if your second brother stays at my place again, he'll have bedding to sleep on."
Song Jinsheng refused, "Don't spend money on me for now. You can buy these things when you make a lot of money. You have many other places to spend money now."
"We still have to buy what we need. It's still okay if it's hot today, but it will slowly get colder after this month. We can't let our second brother get cold."
After washing up, Song Yuntang prepared a portion of Wan Qingsi's customized shampoo and boiled the medicinal ingredients in the pot.
Next, she started preparing breakfast.
"Second brother, you and Mu Dong are going to the county town to deliver goods tomorrow, so don't forget about this."
Song Jinsheng nodded.
"Don't worry, I've got it in mind. I'll move the people to the farm first when I get back. After I've sorted out the things over there, I should be able to gather another 150 bamboo jars."
"Okay, Mu Dong said there are less than 300 cans in the shop. We filled 300 cans yesterday. If we bring another 150, the extra 50 cans can be sent to the shop." Song Yuntang said, and brought the food to the table, "Second brother, there is no rush to chop firewood, let's eat first."
"Hey, here I come."
Song Jinsheng stacked the chopped firewood neatly in the corner, wiped his face with the towel around his neck, and walked into the house.
Seeing this, Song Yuntang pointed at his hand.
"Brother, your hands haven't been washed yet."
Song Jinsheng was stunned for a moment, looked at his hands, smiled helplessly, and turned to go to the water tank.
Breakfast was white rice porridge and duck egg custard with a little lard and sauce. Song Yuntang was a very good cook, and the food was not only exquisite but also tasted very good.
After dinner, Song Jinsheng returned to Rongshu Village to arrange things there.
Song Yuntang cooked the medicinal soup that he had prepared early in the morning, extinguished the fire in the stove, and then went out to Yuchun Teahouse.
When she arrived, Jiang Surao and a man and two women were sitting in the lobby, drinking tea leisurely. The three of them each brought a servant, who was standing a little distance away from them.
Seeing Song Yuntang enter Yuchun Teahouse, Jiang Surao shook the teacup in her hand and did not look in her direction.
"You asked me to come earlier to watch the show, so you should come earlier too."
Song Yuntang, who had just walked into the teahouse, did not feel embarrassed, she just smiled generously.
"It's my fault that I didn't tell you the time clearly. I made Miss Jiang wait for a long time." She put a piece of silver on the counter and said, "Boss, I want two private rooms next to each other."
The private rooms in Yuchun Teahouse are not expensive, but they are definitely not cheap for ordinary people.
A pot of tea in the lobby costs ten cents, but the starting price in the private rooms is thirty cents.
However, in order to maintain Jiang Surao as a customer and the benefits she will bring to him, Song Yuntang feels that the money is worth spending.
Song Yuntang made a gesture to invite people upstairs.
"Miss Jiang and the other gentlemen and ladies, please go upstairs."
Then, she arranged Jiang Surao and the three people she brought with her to one of the private rooms. "Please keep quiet here, Miss Jiang, and speak as quietly as possible. When the people come, I will definitely give Miss Jiang a satisfactory answer."
After saying that, she went to another private room to wait for Lin Zhaozhao.
Jiang Surao actually admired Song Yuntang a little. She was generous and open-minded, worldly-wise but not worldly-wise. She was quite different from the impression she had of the former daughter of the Lin family.
It seems that the unexpected changes in her life a few years ago have changed her a lot.
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