"Is there anything else, my lady?"
“Miss, I’ve been at the Sun residence all afternoon, which isn’t a short time. I’m in a hurry to get home; my family is waiting for me to have dinner.” Su Yun’er expressed her needs tactfully.
It was already dark, and the Sun family had lit their lamps. Su Yun'er should go back now, or she would miss the city gates when they were locked.
However, the Sun family has not yet paid the money.
Sun Wanqing immediately understood Su Yun'er's meaning, and her expression changed from excitement to apology: "Yes, thank you for your hard work today, my wife. Chunrou."
Chunrou responded and came over, handing Su Yun'er a money pouch, as well as a bundle containing a wooden box.
"This is what our young lady asked us to pack for you, madam. This afternoon in our room, we saw that you liked these pastries, as well as some unusual fruits, which are in this bundle." As she spoke, Xia Zhi handed over a small bundle. "Please take this, madam. The city gates will be locked soon, and we can't keep you any longer."
"Granny Wen," Sun Wanqing gave one last instruction, "send Madam Su back in the same way you brought her here."
After saying that, Sun Wanqing nodded in acknowledgment and then hurriedly went to find her grandmother again.
Su Yun'er never expected that Sun Wanqing would not only pay her commission—she weighed the money pouch and found it was much more than the amount originally promised by Granny Wen—but also bring her so many snacks and fruits.
They boarded the Sun family's carriage again and left the city. By then it was completely dark. Su Yun'er figured He Liu should have already sent the food cart and tents back, so she told the driver to go directly back to Da Liushu Village.
Through the car window, Su Yun'er could see Old Mrs. Chen standing at the door, eagerly waiting.
When Old Madam Chen saw Su Yun'er alight from the luxurious carriage of the Sun family, she was clearly quite surprised.
After thanking the driver, Su Yun'er took some copper coins to give him, but the driver refused.
"Our young lady specifically instructed that we not to accept your reward money. Thank you, madam. Now that you've arrived home, we'll head back to report."
"Little Tree's mother, what's wrong with you..." Old Mrs. Chen looked at the departing carriage in astonishment.
"Mother, don't worry, this is the carriage of the family who asked me to cook today. The owner of that house is very kind. Look, not only did they send a carriage to bring me back, but they also packed so much good food for me." Su Yun'er took Old Mrs. Chen's arm, and together they turned to go home.
In the courtyard, the food cart had already been placed in a corner.
As soon as the little trees and grass saw Su Yun'er return, they happily ran over to hug her and asked her why she was so late and made them so worried.
Su Yun'er coaxed them for a while, her gaze inadvertently sweeping over Gai Xue's rice bowl and water basin, and she thought of the fleeting shadow she saw on the eaves of the Sun residence that afternoon.
"By the way, where did Gai Xue go?"
"I don't know, he ran out at noon and hasn't come back all afternoon." Xiaoshu and Xiaocao were already used to Gai Xue's personality of not liking to stay at home.
Could that small dark figure I saw this afternoon really be Gai Xue? Was he looking for me? Or did we just happen to bump into each other while out for a stroll?
If it's following me around specifically, won't the cat forget its way home? You know, the distance from Daliushu Village to the city isn't far.
Su Yun'er felt a little worried, but she didn't dare to say it out loud, fearing that the little trees and grass would be sad.
After a few days of getting to know each other, they had developed feelings for Gai Xue.
"Come on, look what good things your mother brought back." Su Yun'er changed her mood and tried to open the snack box with the children in a relaxed manner.
The pastry box contained three or four kinds of pastries, including ox-tongue pastries, jujube blossom pastries, flaky white lotus seeds, and some dragon beard pastries.
Among these items were the ox-tongue pastry and jujube blossom pastry that Su Yun'er had eaten that afternoon.
She was waiting for Sun Wanqing to eat, and she was both thirsty and hungry, so she ate two or three in a row. Unexpectedly, Sun Wanqing remembered it. Su Yun'er really liked Sun Wanqing.
"Mom, what are these? They're so pretty and smell so good!"
"These are snacks, Little Tree, haven't you seen them before?"
Little Tree shook its head: "This is the legendary dessert. It looks so beautiful. I don't even want to eat it."
The legendary snack made Su Yun'er feel a little sad. In her and the Sun family's eyes, this snack was such a simple food, but in Xiaoshu and Xiaocao's mouth, it was indeed legendary. They had only heard of it, but had never seen or eaten it.
The three generations of the family each chose a snack to eat, and put the rest away.
"Little Grass, hand me that bundle."
Su Yun'er opened the second, even bigger bundle.
The bundle contained fruit, including several oranges, apples, and pears. Next to it was a small bamboo basket woven from bamboo strips, which surprisingly contained some cherries.
Each cherry reflects the light under the lamp, its skin a pinkish-yellow hue that immediately evokes images of beautiful young girls.
Unlike the deep purple-red cherries that people often bought in Su Yun'er's previous life, the cherries that Sun Wanqing gave her were a common local variety, sweet and sour, with larger pits, but the flesh was just as sweet and juicy.
The deep purplish-red cherries known as "cherries" are a foreign variety. Because these cherries were initially imported through the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, people there directly translated the foreign pronunciation as "cherries," and over time, the name "cherries" became widely used.
Compared to those big cherries that feel like swallowing two candies in one bite, Su Yun'er still prefers these local cherries.
"These cherries are so fresh! This family is so generous; they gave us so many!" Old Mrs. Chen exclaimed.
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