Chapter 137 Money Lost
"He was taken out by his father, along with your family's head and that Young Master Zhou. The three of them said they wanted to go out for a walk." Hui Niang said with a smile.
Xu Qingmeng nodded and walked towards the kitchen.
Xu Qingmeng checked the pots and pans inside. They were all clean and did not need to be washed. There were also bamboo baskets and baskets, but there were no bowls and chopsticks.
But even if she had it, Xu Qingmeng didn't like to use other people's.
"Madam Gu, do you need to cook dinner tonight?"
She nodded and said, "Well, I have this plan, but now it seems that there are still a lot of things. I will go to the vegetable market later to take a look."
Hui Niang had also finished washing clothes. She stood up, wiped her hands, and said, "Then I'll go with you. Oh, by the way, how about we stay together tonight? No matter what, it's fate that we can live together. It's the first day, so we can celebrate it."
Xu Qingmeng had no objection. Although she was pregnant, fortunately their children were very well behaved and she had never suffered any hardship. Cooking was no problem for her.
And it is also necessary to get together on the first day of moving in.
When Hui Niang saw Xu Qingmeng nodded in agreement, she was very happy. She felt that although Xu Qingmeng didn't talk much, she was still easy to get along with. So she went to hang the clothes with a smile. All the clothes belonged to little Yuanbao.
Xu Qingmeng washed the pots and other things in the kitchen and cleaned the kitchen.
After working for a while, Gu Yunyi came back with a bamboo basket in his hand. Inside was everything needed in the kitchen, such as a chopping board, a rolling pin, etc.
Xu Qingmeng couldn't help laughing: "You are wearing such a white dress. If you match it with a folding fan, you will definitely be a handsome young man. You will definitely attract a group of girls to watch you. What's the point of holding these now?"
"That's right, sister-in-law, you don't even know these two. One of them was holding a baby and was buying some candies to coax her son, and the other was holding a bamboo basket and was picking out some kitchen supplies. People along the way kept looking at me, and I felt embarrassed to walk with them all the way."
Gu Yunyi pretended not to hear Zhou Yuanjia's complaints. Fang Ziheng also had a proud look on his face. He held the ingot and shook it, which made Zhou Yuanjia unable to bear to look.
"Leave them here, I'll wash them. You can check if they are suitable for your use. I asked the stall owner before buying them. If they are not suitable, you can exchange them."
Xu Qingmeng put down the work in his hands, walked over to take a look, and thought it was a suitable purchase. Although it was not very good, after asking about the price, he found that the price-performance ratio was very suitable for short-term tenants like them.
Gu Yunyi took over the work from Xu Qingmeng and said, "There is a street in front of here. There will be a small evening market there, selling some vegetables. When I clean up here, I will go with you to take a look."
Xu Qingmeng nodded and just watched Gu Yunyi work. Then she whispered to him that Hui Niang was thinking about having dinner together in the evening.
Gu Yunyi said: "Okay, Brother Fang is a very good person, and he is someone we can get to know."
Xu Qingmeng also understood.
She never doubted Gu Yunyi's way of looking at people.
Soon, Gu Yunyi had washed and put everything in order in the kitchen, and told the others that he was going out to buy groceries. They had just arrived in the city and certainly couldn't concentrate on reading, so they discussed it and decided to go together.
The street that Gu Yunyi mentioned is very close to the yard, and the things inside are also very complete. From this, it can be seen that the development of the capital city is much better than that of Yan County.
Gu Yunyi likes to eat chili peppers with red oil, so Xu Qingmeng thought of making some for her. She thought she couldn’t find chili powder or something, but finally found it in the grocery store on that street.
There weren’t many of these things, just like Shen’s, with only a few placed in the corner to suit the occasion.
Xu Qingmeng weighed half a pound of each kind, and then seeing that the grocery store had a very complete range of items, she simply bought them all at once to save the trouble of running back and forth later.
All in all, he spent more than half a tael of silver, which attracted Hui Niang's several glances.
Hui Niang also bought a lot of things, but she compared the prices carefully and only bought rice and flour, which were the best. Xu Qingmeng guessed that these should be Yuanbao's meals.
Even though he didn't seem to be very wealthy, he still bought a lot more groceries and specifically told her to buy less.
In Hui Niang's words, "If it weren't for your help today, they wouldn't be able to live in such a nice house as they wished. They should have paid for this meal. This is already a disrespect to you all."
After so much interaction, everyone became familiar with each other.
Xu Qingmeng then realized that the reason they were so short of money was not because they did not have enough money, but because Fang Ziheng had lost his purse when he entered the city gate in the morning.
Fortunately, she put a tael of silver in her clothes, and finally pawned a hairpin in exchange for some silver, which saved her from the predicament.
Xu Qingmeng asked again: "Then why do you insist on renting this yard?"
After all, the price is not cheap. If they only need one room, they can look around inside and may be able to find some cheaper ones.
She smiled helplessly: "Isn't that still my little ancestor? He has walked into many courtyards and started crying loudly as soon as he entered. Only in this courtyard, he didn't cry or make a fuss, but laughed happily. Isn't this..."
Xu Qingmeng looked at the ingot in Fang Ziheng's arms. It turned out that this fate was with this boy.
Xu Qingmeng had a gentle personality and Hui Niang had a cheerful personality, and they got along very well. After a while, they started talking about family matters.
When Hui Niang heard that Xu Qingmeng accompanied Gu Yunyi to take the exam even though she was pregnant, she smiled and said, "You two have such a good relationship!"
Xu Qingmeng was a little shy and said awkwardly: "It's not just to accompany him to take the exam. He heard that there is an old Chinese doctor in the city, so he brought me to see him."
"Your head of the family is really attentive."
The men over there were also not idle. Gu Yunyi and Zhou Yuanjia were carrying heavy objects in their hands, while Fang Ziheng was holding a baby. Even so, they did not delay and lamented how different the streets of this provincial capital were from those in their own county.
Baiyang Street is the longest street closest to where they live, so several people who came here to buy things have almost finished their purchases and are preparing to go back.
The crowd had not walked far when they saw Jiang Mingyu and Sun Jingyi.
Jiang Mingyu looked unhappy and depressed, no longer as cheerful as when he first arrived.
Sun Jingyi tugged at his sleeve and said something, but he just shook his head gently.
(End of this chapter)
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