Meng Changjin could understand what was going on just by thinking about it. Money can make people's hearts move.
After walking around a few times and no longer feeling like he was being stared at, Meng Changjin entered a clothing store.
The moment Meng Changjin walked into the clothing shop, he attracted a lot of attention.
Those eyes scanned her from head to toe, and their gazes gradually became filled with contempt and disgust.
After all, Meng Changjin's clothes were so tattered that she looked like she could beg for food with just a broken bowl, so she was not surprised at all to receive such a look, nor did she care.
She had been wondering if the shop owner would ignore her because her clothes were so tattered, but that didn't happen.
Meng Changjin thought about it and felt that it was true. When you come to the store, you are a customer. Who would push money away? Meng Changjin walked around the store and chose two sets of clothes with simple styles and low-key azure colors. He also bought a piece of cotton cloth to make some underwear.
Meng Changjin also learned needlework before becoming a casual cultivator. Embroidery was too difficult for her, but she could still sew normal clothes that were not too complicated.
Just these two pieces of clothing, plus a piece of cotton cloth, accounted for half of the total proceeds from selling Yu Jiaojiao's clothes.
Meng Changjin couldn't help but sigh in his heart that there was really a big difference between the new and the old.
After changing his clothes in the shopkeeper's room, Meng Changjin packed up the remaining money and the small package containing Yu Jiaojiao's hairpins and bracelets before leaving the clothing shop.
As for her original tattered and patched clothes, she just threw them away.
I won’t wear it again anyway, why not keep it for the New Year?
After leaving the clothing shop, Meng Changjin went to the pawnshop first and exchanged Yu Jiaojiao's hairpins, bracelets and other items for money.
Because it was a dead body pawn, the price was quite reasonable, and I got fifteen taels of silver in total.
Holding the heavy fifteen taels of silver, Meng Changjin felt mixed emotions.
For that kind of good paddy field, four taels of silver could buy one mu, and fifteen taels of silver were enough to buy almost four mu.
This was the price she paid for them at the pawnshop. When she bought them, the price must have been more than this. It should be about double the price, which is a full thirty taels of silver!
Even if one does not buy land, thirty taels of silver are enough for an ordinary family to spend for a year and a half.
But the Yu family only bought a hairpin and a bracelet for Yu Jiaojiao.
It would be fine if the Yu family was a wealthy family, but the Yu family is just ordinary people and their life is ok. It seems that in order to enjoy the blessing of Yu Jiaojiao's future success, the Yu family really treats Yu Jiaojiao as a treasure.
After leaving the pawnshop, Meng Changjin bought some yellow paper, cinnabar, and a brush, preparing to draw some talisman paper in case of emergency.
The yellow paper, cinnabar and brush didn't cost much.
All the things that needed to be sold were sold, and all the things that needed to be bought were bought. Meng Changjin touched his hungry stomach and walked into a noodle restaurant.
He ordered a large bowl of noodles. After the noodles were served, Meng Changjin peeled the two boiled eggs he had not finished and threw them in, then started eating.
Because of Meng Changjin and the action of putting eggs in the pot, the boss and a new diner almost got into a quarrel.
The reason was that the diner found that there was no egg in his bowl, so he suspected that the boss might not have put it in for him.
The boss was doubting his life because there was no egg in his noodles.
After some wrangling and testimonies from regular diners, the diner was finally convinced that there was no egg in the noodles originally.
When the customer pointed at Meng Changjin's bowl and asked her why there was an egg, Meng Changjin calmly said, "I put it there myself. Do I need your permission to eat an egg?"
Everyone else in the noodle shop burst into laughter, and the noodle shop was suddenly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
The diner's face turned red from the laughter. He finally ate the noodles in the bowl in a hurry, paid the bill and left in shame.
Meng Changjin finished his noodles and drank up even the soup.
After paying the money, Meng Changjin packed his things and prepared to return to Lihua Village.
When he reached the intersection leading to Lihua Village from Qingyuan County, Meng Changjin was stopped by someone.
Meng Changjin hurriedly searched through the client's memory and finally found the corresponding person.
The man's surname is Liu. He is one of the few families in Lihua Village that raises cattle. During the busy farming season, he rents his cows to other families to plow the fields. During the slack season, he loads the cows onto trucks and travels back and forth between Lihua Village and Qingyuan County to earn a little money.
"Uncle Liu." Meng Changjin called the other person using the name that the client used in his memory.
"Are you going back?" Uncle Liu was smoking a pipe while sitting on the ox cart. Although it was a question, his tone was affirmative.
"Everything that needs to be done has been done." Meng Changjin said with a smile.
When Uncle Liu saw Meng Changjin smile, he was obviously stunned for a moment.
In his memory, the little girl from the Yu family always kept her head down and looked timid.
Today is different.
After changing into new clothes, he looked much better.
Uncle Liu couldn't figure out the crux of the matter, but he did hear from the people who rode his ox cart today that there was some noise at the Yu family late at night. Could it be because of the noise last night?
In fact, most of the villagers in Lihua Village are simple and honest, and they look down on the behavior of the Yu family.
But this is someone else's family affair, and it's not easy for them to interfere. Now that the little girl from the Yu family has established herself, it's not bad.
"If you have any problems, you can go find the village head. The village head is an upright man." After thinking for a while, Uncle Liu spoke up and gave some advice.
They can't interfere in the affairs of the Yu family, but if the matter is brought to the attention of the village head, at least the village head will intervene. The Yu family are a group of people who bully the weak and fear the strong, so if the village head intervenes, they will have to restrain themselves.
It's just that this girl from the Yu family has always been the type to swallow her anger. If she doesn't stand up for herself, no matter how much help others give her, it will be of no use.
Thinking of this, Uncle Liu started smoking his pipe again.
"I understand. Thank you, Uncle Liu." Meng Changjin nodded.
The client did not have a deep impression of the villagers of Lihua Village and had little sense of their presence because she had relatively little contact with them.
The most profound thing is probably the indifferent, ferocious or contemptuous expressions of the villagers when they were drowned in the pond.
The villagers of Lihua Village are not unkind, it’s just that everyone cares more about themselves.
The Yu family pushed the client out as a scapegoat, but the villagers demanded that he be drowned in a pond because they felt that the appearance of a shameless person who had an affair in the village would affect the reputation of the village. For the sake of their reputation, they wanted to erase this stain.
Meng Changjin understood, but that was all he understood.
Without waiting to ride the ox cart, Meng Changjin and Uncle Liu thanked them and left.
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