Chapter 30 Picked up a little doll
Gu Xixi enjoyed the meal very much, but her brain was also working.
The soil and climate in this area are indeed very suitable for growing peaches. The peaches are sweet and juicy, with delicate flesh.
The boss said that this kind of peach is late peach, pink and white in color, and more juicy than peaches produced in midsummer. It's a pity that it can't be stored for a long time.
Gu Xixi had to pick two peaches that were so soft that they were about to go bad in order to buy them for one penny.
However, soft peaches are most delicious when they are at this stage.
Zhi Xiao easily peeled off the thin skin and took a bite, his mouth was filled with honey.
It would be great if improvements could be made to make these late peaches more durable in storage.
Mu Nanzhao glanced at Gu Xixi's actions, peeled the peach, and ate it directly.
Looking back, since he left the capital, he had been among the exiled prisoners, sleeping in the open air and experiencing all kinds of things.
It was just eating a peach in the street. If he couldn't even do this, wouldn't Gu Xixi laugh at him?
After Gu Xixi finished eating, she found Mu Nanzhao holding a peach pit, looking awkward, not knowing where to put his hands.
She couldn't help but laugh, "I almost forgot you like to be clean. It must be uncomfortable to have peach juice all over your hands?"
"It doesn't matter." Mu Nanzhao said with a cold face.
Gu Xixi saw that he was not used to it, but she did not expose him.
She walked ahead, found a garbage dump on the street, and threw the peach pit away.
I asked the old lady selling eggs on the street and found a well deep in a nearby alley to wash my hands.
Coming out of the alley, Mu Nanzhao looked visibly relaxed.
Gu Xixi glanced at him and asked, "Are the peaches delicious?"
Mu Nanzhao said, "It's still edible."
Gu Xixi curled her lips and said, "Your evaluation is too forced. The price of disposing of broken ones is two coins per pair, which is quite expensive."
Mu Nanzhao suddenly glared at him.
"One. Wen. Qian?" The three words were squeezed out from between his teeth.
"Gu Xixi, are you trying to say that I'm just like these two broken peaches, and you think even a penny is too expensive?!"
Gu Xixi looked at Mu Nanzhao's sneer and then realized what was going on.
Is it impossible to get over the one-penny issue?
"How could that be!" She denied with a smile.
"How can a penny be so expensive? I got a huge advantage. Oh no, it was just a coincidence."
"How can a person like you be measured by money and vulgar things?"
Mu Nanzhao glanced at her coldly, then walked away.
Maybe it was because he promised not to threaten her life anymore, Gu Xixi was becoming more and more adept at making up lies in front of him.
It’s so damn tight!
Near noon, Mu Nanzhao finally took action.
He first took Gu Xixi into a clothing store, and when they came out, both of them looked brand new.
Mu Nanzhao was wearing a sky-blue gauze robe.
He had a straight back and wore a belt, which made his broad shoulders and narrow waist appear more prominent.
With that face that was already so handsome that it enraged everyone, almost all the women along the way were looking at him.
Gu Xixi wore a cyan-colored chest-length skirt and a narrow-sleeved gauze shirt of the same color.
Even after putting on her new clothes, she couldn't smile at all.
"Before buying it, you didn't ask me to pay for it."
Mu Nanzhao said, "It's just the cheapest gauze."
"I said I would pay it back later."
Gu Xixi turned her head and looked at him. Her anger subsided and she was left with only a smile. "Okay, I'll open a separate account book for you when we get home."
"Including the one I'm wearing, all of this will be remembered by you."
Recently, she asked Aunt Zhang to sell some food and medicinal herbs. She finally saved some money, but she spent most of it on a trip to a garment store.
If it weren't for the fact that Mu Nanzhao would be the regent in the future and would definitely not be short of money.
She would never buy such expensive clothes that she couldn't even wear in the village on a daily basis!
Mu Nanzhao did not comment.
This time he led the way, turning left and right, and suddenly we heard a child crying in front of us.
Gu Xixi looked up and saw a little girl, about three or four years old, wearing a pink embroidered skirt and two buns on her head. She was as cute as a pink ball.
She looked around and saw that there was no one else around, so she walked over and asked, "Little sister, why are you here alone?"
"Where are your parents?"
When the little girl saw Gu Xixi, she stopped crying and sobbed, wiping her eyes and saying, "Qing'er was chasing the kite, and the nanny and Cuijie were gone."
Gu Xixi understood that the child probably ran away while chasing the kite.
"Don't be afraid, Qing'er. Tell me where you live, or what your last name is, and I'll take you back."
After a while, Gu Xixi came back with the child.
Mu Nanzhao said, "You really suit this kid's taste."
Gu Xixi looked at him strangely.
The two followed the clues provided by Xiao Qing'er and found a jewelry shop in the center of East Street.
At the door of the store, a woman in luxurious clothes pointed at several servants with an anxious look on her face:
"You can't even tell from a child, why don't you go find him!"
Qing'er waved her little hands, "Mother!"
The woman looked over in surprise, "Qing'er?"
She ran over quickly and snatched her daughter from Gu Xixi's hands. "Where have you been? I'm so worried."
"If I can't find you again, Mom will have to ask your uncle to send someone!"
The woman hugged her daughter and kissed her again and again, then she remembered that she had not yet thanked the benefactor who sent her daughter back.
"My surname is Meng, and I am the child's mother."
"May I ask your names and where you live? I will come to thank you someday."
Gu Xixi bowed and said, "It's just a small favor. Madam Meng, you are too kind."
Mu Nanzhao said, "My last name is Zhao."
"My wife and I came from Jiangnan to do business, and we don't have a fixed residence for the time being."
Gu Xixi glanced at Mu Nanzhao without leaving a trace.
She thought that picking up the child was too coincidental.
Now it seems that this was all a deliberate plan on his part?
Mrs. Meng ran a jewelry shop, and when she heard about doing business, she immediately became interested.
"From Jiangnan? That's a great place."
"I don't know if it's tea, raw silk, or..."
Mu Nanzhao said frankly, "Pearl."
Madam Meng's eyes lit up, "Dongzhu?"
Mu Nanzhao smiled, "Dongzhu is hard to come by, and good quality ones are even more expensive."
"Most of the pearls I have at home are freshwater mussels raised in lake water."
Madam Meng smiled and said, "Freshwater pearls of good quality are hard to come by in our northwest."
She was interested in buying pearls, so she invited Mu Nanzhao and Gu Xixi to the second floor of the store to have tea and discuss in detail.
Half an hour later.
Madam Meng personally saw the guest off downstairs.
They had a very pleasant conversation just now. Madam Meng held Gu Xixi's hand, as if they were old friends who had known each other for many years.
"When I returned to my parents' home after my divorce, I said I wanted to start my own business, but they told me that women shouldn't show their faces in public. My brother also said that he could support me for the rest of my life."
"I didn't expect Sister Gu to understand what I was thinking and wishing for. She is truly a bosom friend in life. I regret not meeting her earlier."
Gu Xixi also got along well with Madam Meng.
Because of this, she felt even more uneasy that he had deceived her with a fake identity.
"It is my good fortune to meet Sister Meng."
Mu Nanzhao and Madam Meng agreed to visit again in three days.
On the way back, he noticed that Xixi was unhappy and said, "Don't worry, I have no intention of harming her."
"I just want to borrow her to help me."
Gu Xixi finally couldn't hold it in any longer and said, "But she wanted to do business with you, but you cheated her!"
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