W Chapter 54
by VolareChapter 54: Distributing Money, Strolling the Streets
Chapter 54: Distributing Money, Strolling the Streets
Velvet flowers became the most popular item at the soup dumpling stall.
Previously, Ling Xing thought that the Dragon Boat Festival would be the best day to sell velvet flowers.
After all, there was a large flow of customers on that day.
Unexpectedly, the popularity of velvet flowers only really took off the next day.
Yesterday was the festival, and many of those who bought velvet flowers went to visit relatives and friends.
Some added a velvet flower as a gift, while others wore them in their hair to add some color, making them look more presentable.
Either way, more people learned about velvet flowers.
The best-selling day was seven days later.
The youngest daughter of the cloth merchant in town, Little Lu, turned ten years old, and the Lu family celebrated her birthday in grand style.
Lu Xiaoxiao was the youngest child in the family, with fair skin and a lovely face, and a well-behaved temperament, making her very spoiled.
If she wanted the stars in the sky, her parents and older siblings wouldn’t pluck the moon for her.
In previous birthdays, she loved the gifts from Shopkeeper Liu the most.
This year was a milestone birthday, and Lu Xiaoxiao had been looking forward to it for a month, wondering what novel and fun things Shopkeeper Liu would give her.
On the day of the birthday banquet, Lu Xiaoxiao sent her personal maid to guard the entrance.
As soon as Shopkeeper Liu’s name was on the gift list, she was to pick out the gift separately and bring it to the backyard.
She couldn’t wait to see it.
The maid, Chunxing, waited at the entrance for a long time according to her young mistress’s request, and finally saw the familiar figure.
“Cloth Shopkeeper Liu Shan presents a set of velvet flowers.”
Chunxing heard the servant announce the gift, something she hadn’t heard of before, and her heart was certain.
It was a success.
The carved box hadn’t even been delivered when it was intercepted halfway by a hand.
Liu Shan knew it was the Seventh Miss who couldn’t wait when he saw Chunxing.
He smiled and handed the carved box to Chunxing, very confident in the velvet flowers inside.
Lu Xiaoxiao was wearing a pink dress, playing on a swing in the courtyard.
She was surrounded by many people, all children of her father’s business partners.
They were about the same age, had common topics, and could play together.
When she saw Chunxing returning, Lu Xiaoxiao didn’t even play on her favorite swing.
The little girls and ge’ers waiting to play on the swing rushed up, all wanting to play.
Some were curious about what made Lu Xiaoxiao not even play on the swing, so they followed her to find Chunxing.
Lu Xiaoxiao took the carved box and gently shook it to listen for sounds, but she didn’t hear anything.
A round-faced little girl who followed her curiously asked, “Xiaoxiao, what is this?”
“My birthday gift, do you want to see it?”
The little girls and ge’ers who followed were all under ten years old, the age with the most curiosity.
When Lu Xiaoxiao asked this, everyone naturally wanted to see it.
“Yes!”
Lu Xiaoxiao didn’t delay any longer; she was also curious to death.
The carved box opened, revealing delicate pink peach blossoms, filling the entire box, extremely beautiful.
“Wow! What beautiful flowers!”
“Can you still find peach blossoms in such good condition now?”
“Where are there peach blossoms? I want them too. They would definitely look good as hairpins.”
Every year when various flowers bloom, it is also the time for girls and ge’ers to wear flowers.
However, because fresh flowers are easy to wither and lose petals, you have to be very careful when wearing them.
You have to pay even more attention after wearing them.
Otherwise, without knowing it, the flower withers, or the petals fall off almost completely.
That wouldn’t be pretty, but a joke, and the meaning wouldn’t be good.
Lu Xiaoxiao was closest to the box, and she could see more clearly.
At first, she also thought they were real peach blossoms.
But on closer inspection, she felt something was wrong.
The flowers in the box seemed to reflect light in the sunlight.
It looked more like expensive silk under the sunlight.
Chunxing said, “Shopkeeper Liu said these are velvet flowers. Knowing that Seventh Miss loves peach blossoms, he bought a whole set, which will definitely look beautiful when worn on your head.”
It just so happened to match her clothing today.
Lu Xiaoxiao held the carved box, her big eyes staring at the delicate and beautiful velvet flowers inside, and quickly said, “Quick, Chunxing, I want to wear them!”
In no time, the beads and hairpins on Lu Xiaoxiao’s head were removed and replaced with velvet flowers.
The delicate and pretty peach blossoms were very lifelike, and Chunxing also matched Lu Xiaoxiao with pink ribbons. When the breeze blew, and the figure moved slightly, they would slowly flutter, making her look more playful and clever.
When Lu Xiaoxiao came out wearing the velvet flowers, it caused a chorus of “wows” from the group of children.
Even the ones who were fighting to play on the swing stopped fighting and all ran over to look at Lu Xiaoxiao with envy.
“Xiaoxiao, you are so beautiful!”
“Like a flower fairy!”
“Your gift is really great; I’ve never seen it before.”
Lu Xiaoxiao was praised, holding her head high and giggling.
She must have her father reward Shopkeeper Liu!
The peach blossom velvet flowers and Lu Xiaoxiao today were a perfect match, and the ribbons that Chunxing matched were an excellent combination.
Before the banquet, Lu Xiaoxiao and a group of children went to the inner hall.
She received praise and compliments from the ladies and husbands.
The children were extremely envious of the peach blossoms on Lu Xiaoxiao’s head, and their mothers and fathers saw it all.
Therefore, many people asked Madam Lu what Seventh Miss was wearing on her head, and they also wanted to buy it for their children.
Madam Lu was also dumbfounded; she didn’t know.
Fortunately, Chunxing reacted quickly.
“Reporting to all the ladies and husbands, Seventh Miss is wearing velvet flowers, which Shopkeeper Liu of the cloth shop specially found for Seventh Miss’s birthday.”
Madam Lu understood upon hearing this.
She knew Shopkeeper Liu, and he would send gifts for her children’s birthdays every year.
Although they were not expensive things, the gifts were carefully chosen, and she and her husband liked this shopkeeper very much.
“Go and invite Shopkeeper Liu.”
No one had heard of velvet flowers before, so they could only ask Shopkeeper Liu to find out the source.
Liu Shan arrived at the inner hall and learned the reason he was invited on the way.
He respectfully bowed and greeted, and at Madam Lu’s gesture, he explained in detail where the velvet flowers could be bought.
Giving gifts should be done in a way that pleases the heart and is just right.
Lu Xiaoxiao was a big hit at the birthday banquet because of the velvet flowers, and everyone praised her for being pretty.
Not insincerely, but truly thinking they were beautiful.
This made the parents who loved their children very happy.
Shopkeeper Liu had a magnificent “promotion.”
He was to be the shopkeeper in the county’s shop, earning two taels of silver more per month than before.
And the velvet flowers at Ling Xing’s stall were bought out directly by people from the county one day after Lu Xiaoxiao’s birthday.
News among wealthy people is always shared.
Because of their exquisite beauty and good meaning, velvet flowers set off a trend among the wealthy people in the county.
They didn’t think that this thing was cheap and would lose face.
At worst, after buying them back, they would put some pearls on them, or wrap them with gold thread.
Xu Youfang didn’t make many velvet flowers before, only seventy-eight in total, and they were all sold out in just two days.
After selling them all, Xu Youfang was full of energy and started making them again.
She also took out some of her private money and bought a delicate and small fire dou (a tool used for heating).
Because she didn’t know how to make velvet flowers before, she was slow, and the finished products were few.
Now, because practice makes perfect, Xu Youfang’s speed was very fast.
She asked Cao Manyue to help comb the velvet, fix the copper wire, and cut it.
She didn’t let her daughter-in-law work for nothing; Xu Youfang gave her fifteen copper coins per hour.
At this price, you would have to do hard labor to earn it outside.
Cao Manyue was embarrassed to take it, but Xu Youfang insisted on giving it to her, telling her to save it, as Xiaochun and Xiaxia would need money sooner or later.
Cao Manyue was so moved that she buried her head and worked carefully and seriously.
With someone helping with the previous steps, Xu Youfang’s speed was even faster, and she could make fifty flowers a day.
Of course, this was for simple ones.
For complex, full sets of velvet flowers, she could make two or three sets a day.
She was originally worried that she would make too many and not be able to sell them, but she didn’t expect that there would not be enough to sell every day.
She heard from Xing Ge’er (Ling Xing) that as soon as the velvet flowers were put out, people from the county were already waiting, rushing to grab them.
Now the wealthy people in the county are popularizing the modification of velvet flowers.
Seeing who modified them beautifully and luxuriously.
To modify velvet flowers, you have to have velvet flowers first.
When the ladies and husbands get together for parties, everyone compares how well their velvet flowers are modified. If anyone doesn’t have them, they can’t join the conversation.
In this way, velvet flowers naturally became more popular and sold faster.
Those servants came to Yunxia Town the day before, found an inn to stay, and waited at Tangfang Street early the next morning for Ling Xing to set up his stall.
They lined up early in the morning and were very hungry.
The master gave them enough money to buy things, and they wouldn’t mistreat their stomachs.
The soup dumplings sold by Ling Xing were delicious, and they also became regular customers.
Because of the velvet flowers, the soup dumplings sold much faster than before.
If it weren’t for the lack of seasonings, and the difficulty in buying pig skin jelly and cold noodles, Ling Xing could have closed his stall two quarters of an hour earlier.
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After May, the weather became increasingly hot.
Ling Xing had to buy ice; cold noodles and meat fillings all needed ice to keep them fresh.
Fortunately, the family also dug a cellar, and with half a bucket of ice a day, plus keeping it in the cellar, it could be guaranteed to stay fresh.
Ice prices were high and low; edible ice was very expensive, selling for fifty copper coins per catty.
Inedible ice was cheaper, twenty copper coins per catty.
Ling Xing had to spend forty more copper coins per day to buy ice than before, but he did not adjust the prices of the food he sold because of this.
Summer is only two or three months, and you can’t be too concerned about these small gains and losses in business.
He was still making money overall.
The end of the month also came to calculate the money and divide the profits.
Previously, because there were too many copper coins, Ling Xing had gradually exchanged them for silver.
Looking at the account book, he didn’t expect to have earned so much money this month.
After a month, Ling Xing’s pure profit from the bun stall alone was 33,000 copper coins.
Ten percent to the family, 3,300 copper coins. Twenty percent to Shen Hui, 6,600 copper coins.
Ling Xing himself had 23,100 copper coins, of which 3,000 copper coins were from the profit of the cold noodles.
This was divided 20/80 with Cao Manyue, so he had to give her 600 copper coins.
The pickled vegetables were divided 40/60 with Shen Gui, and the pure profit of 13.5 jars was 2,160 copper coins. Shen Gui took 40%, which was 864 copper coins.
The remaining 1,296 copper coins were taken by Ling Xing.
The velvet flowers were only sold for half a month, and the pure profit was 4,368 copper coins.
Xu Youfang gave 20% to Ling Xing, which was calculated as 874 copper coins. This idea was Ling Xing’s, and no matter how much she sold in the future, she would give 20% to Ling Xing.
After deducting the wages for Ling Xing and Cao Manyue, Xu Youfang herself earned a full 3,104 copper coins in half a month.
That was three taels of silver.
This was much more profitable than embroidery.
Before, embroidery only earned two or three taels of silver a month.
Now she didn’t even make velvet flowers from morning to night. If she stayed up late to make them, she could easily earn ten taels a month.
The matter of building a house for the family finally had a chance to get done.
Xu Youfang was going to work half an hour more every day from now on, earning at least two more taels of silver a month.
Her money, plus the silver that Ling Xing handed over to the family, would be enough to build a house next spring.
Cao Manyue followed Xu Youfang and did combing and fixing copper wires for thirteen days. Two hours a day, earning 390 copper coins.
Plus the 600 copper coins divided from the cold noodles, she earned 990 copper coins in May just by working at home.
When she was in the Chu family before, she didn’t have a single copper coin in her hand.
In the first two years of coming to the Shen family, because her eldest brother was sick, she didn’t have much money in her hand either. But at least the family would give her enough money in advance when they wanted her to buy things.
Instead of making her beg her parents-in-law or husband for money in a low voice.
While giving her money, they would also scold her for being useless, only knowing how to ask for money all day long.
How could she not ask for money?
She didn’t have a single coin on her, but they wanted her to buy things. If they didn’t give her money, would they want her to steal?
Nine hundred and ninety copper coins were heavy.
In Cao Manyue’s hands, it was a full sense of security.
These coins, her parents didn’t want a single one, and gave them all to her to keep for herself as private money.
Cao Manyue hugged the copper coins and sobbed softly for a long time.
When Xiaochun and Xiaxia saw their mother crying, their hearts were also pulled.
Since coming to the Shen family, they had never seen their mother cry.
This cry directly brought the two children back to the memories of being in the Chu family.
They stood on the left and right sides of Cao Manyue, their little faces full of worry.
The two children reached out their hands and clumsily wiped away Cao Manyue’s tears.
“Mother, don’t cry.”
Cao Manyue sniffed, hugged her two children tightly, and smiled, “Mother is not sad, but happy.”
As long as her mother-in-law’s velvet flowers continued to be made, and the eldest brother-in-law’s cold noodles continued to be sold.
She would be able to save enough money to prepare a good dowry for her Xiaochun and Xiaxia.
Having money is having confidence.
Her children must never walk her old path.
She wanted her children to be happy.
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This month, Ling Xing earned a total of 24,670 copper coins from everything.
Converted into silver, that was twenty-four taels and six hundred and seventy copper coins.
Ling Yue’s medicine and tuition added up to only five hundred copper coins a month.
The medicine was cheap because Doctor Li tried to use cheaper medicines to replace the expensive good medicines. Of course, the effect was also greatly reduced.
The time needed for treatment would be longer, and the recovery effect would not be the best.
Ling Xing never expected to earn so much in a month.
But thinking about it, he sold three kinds of food by himself, which was a accumulation of small amounts.
The average daily profit was over one tael of silver.
The pickled cucumbers were only sold for half a month because there were not enough raw materials.
If there were enough raw materials, he could earn even more.
With silver in hand, Ling Xing decided to change Ling Yue’s medicine to good medicine first.
Doctor Li had given him a price before; using good medicine would cost ten taels of silver a month.
Money can be earned again, but if the best stage of treatment for the throat is missed, it will be a lifelong regret.
Thinking of Ling Yue not wanting to speak because his voice was unpleasant, Ling Xing was even more determined.
On Shen Hui’s side, Ling Xing was also going to give him an additional two taels of silver a month.
As the things sold increased, the weight that Shen Hui carried naturally increased.
The division of profits could not be changed again, so consider it a bonus for doing a good job.
Ling Xing put the ten taels of silver needed for Ling Yue’s medicine next month separately, and took out two taels of fragmented silver, which he would take to Shen Hui later.
The remaining twelve taels were wrapped in cloth and placed at the bottom of the cabinet. When it was almost the end of the year, he would go to town to look at shops.
The other six hundred and seventy copper coins were taken out for daily expenses.
It must be said that without paying rent, water, and electricity, and with food basically grown at home, the monthly expenses were really low.
Since Ling Xing set up the stall, he had handed over ten percent to the public every month for public use.
There was a period of time in the middle because Ling Yue could not come back and could only recuperate in the gambling house. In order to take care of him, Ling Xing did not set up the stall.
This month, he earned a lot and gave the family three taels of silver, plus the previous ones, there were also five taels of silver.
Shen Chengshan made a decision to buy ten catties of rice and flour each, and then cut one catty of meat, and come back to nourish Ling Xing and the four children’s bodies.
What he thought in his heart was simple, it didn’t matter if the adults were thinner. The children had to be well-nourished, otherwise they wouldn’t grow up.
Ling Xing was the exception in the family, no matter how old he was, the Shen family had to treat him well.
During this period of time, Ling Xing also needed to carry things every day, and his body had become much stronger, but he was still thin.
Every time Shen Hui went up the mountain to get banana leaves, he would get some prey to eat. He didn’t get thinner, and he was still as strong as before.
That little time was only enough for him to fill his own stomach, and he didn’t eat much of the family’s grain.
If he wanted to subsidize the family, he had no time to check the other cages.
Only Shen Hui was strong in the whole family.
Fortunately, he was strong, and the big guy was scary, so no one dared to cause trouble for the family.
Ling Xing also felt that the children’s nutrition needed to keep up.
Now the four children looked thin, which was the result of Ling Xing occasionally making some good food for them.
If they weren’t supplemented, they would be the same as when Ling Xing first came to the Shen family.
They all looked like skin and bones.
They had rice, flour, and meat, and they also needed some eggs.
Shen Chengshan pondered for a while, the family’s yard was big enough to make a chicken coop. He decided to buy some chickens back to raise, which could lay eggs later. He had thought about it, all the eggs laid would be kept at home to eat, not to sell for money.
Saving that little money from the eggs would not make them rich, but it could nourish their bodies.
The body was the most important thing.
It just so happened that Shen Lai had nothing to do all day, supporting his hands, basking in the sun and daydreaming.
So, Shen Chengshan said that raising chickens would be handed over to Shen Lai.
Hearing that he was going to raise chickens, Shen Lai’s eyes lit up.
Raising chickens was good, not only could he eat eggs, but he might also be able to eat chicken.
He had only eaten the wild pheasant that his second brother brought back from the mountain, and the taste was really good.
But other than that time in the spring, he had never eaten it again.
His second brother was very busy every day, and he would come down from the mountain very quickly, and he didn’t hunt anymore.
He had eaten eggs when he was sick before, which was steamed eggs.
It was smooth and tender and delicious.
Shen Lai couldn’t help swallowing his saliva, very greedy.
“Father, you are the best!”
Ling Yue’s legs were also much better, and he could walk normally.
It just so happened that he had to change the medicine to treat his throat, and he needed to go to town for Doctor Li to re-pulse and see the injury, and then prescribe medicine separately.
Ling Xing had also promised the children before that when Ling Yue’s legs were almost healed, he would take them to town to play together.
“Father, the noodles and meat I bought will be left at home to eat. The stall will be closed tomorrow, and I will take the children to town to buy rice and chickens.”
Shen Chengshan said, “I’ll ask your mother to make up for the money for the noodles and meat later. It’s not convenient for you to take four children to buy things alone, so call Erlang (Shen Hui) to go with you.”
The discussion in the main room was heard in the west room.
Cao Manyue, who was busy combing the velvet, couldn’t help but look towards the door, and Xu Youfang turned the fire dou in her hand, “Mother will give you a day off tomorrow, and you can go to town with Xing Ge’er and them. Just help mother buy some embroidery thread. You used to help mother sort the embroidery thread, so you know which kind mother needs.”
Xu Youfang used the excuse of buying embroidery thread to make it difficult for Cao Manyue to refuse.
Cao Manyue was grateful in her heart, knowing that her mother-in-law said this to make her feel at ease to go out for a stroll.
The last time she went to town was many years ago.
Her impression was already very vague, and she couldn’t even remember why she went to town.
“Okay, Mother.”
Cao Manyue and the children were going to town, and Shen Gui also wanted to go.
Such a big man, he still ran to his parents and hummed and hawed, saying that he wanted to go to town to play.
It made the Shen family elders laugh and cry.
Shen Chengshan slapped Shen Gui and said angrily, “If you want to go, go, who’s stopping you? You keep humming, do you have a toothache?”
Shen Gui was first overjoyed, then he shrunk his neck and whispered, “But I haven’t finished preparing the vegetables, the green beans have to be washed…”
Shen Chengshan glared, he said why he ran over to act like a child and wanted to go out to play.
It turned out that he hadn’t finished his work, and he still wanted to go out. He was trying to trick his old man into doing the work for him.
“Everyone says you’re missing a screw, I think you’re the smartest in the family.” Shen Chengshan poked Shen Gui’s head angrily, but finally said, “I’ll help you this time, but this is the only time.”
Shen Gui jumped up with a “hey,” “Father, I’ll bring you something delicious from town tomorrow!”
After speaking, he ran away in a puff of smoke, and his voice was still floating in the room, “And I’ll bring something for mother too!”
Early the next morning, the Shen family elders were at home taking care of the house.
The younger generation were all dressed neatly, with excited hearts, ready to go to town.
Ling Yue’s legs were not good for walking too far, so Shen Hui carried him directly from the village to the town.
In order to save time, they still took the mountain road, and everyone had a pack of snake repellent powder made by Xie Qingya.
It was a safe journey.
In addition, the mountain road had trees to shade it from the sun, although it was hot, there was still a hint of coolness, allowing people to breathe.
The Shen family had not bought new cloth to make clothes for a long time.
Everyone was wearing patched old clothes, but most of the people around were like this, and no one would look at them with strange eyes.
Ling Xing wanted to buy cloth to make new clothes for everyone in the family.
Especially him and Ling Yue, who didn’t have their own clothes and always wore the Shen family’s clothes.
Sometimes when they wore them, the Shen family had nothing to wear.
Fortunately, the weather was hot now, and if they washed them in the evening and wrung them dry, they could be dry the next day, without delaying wearing them.
Shen Lai had been wearing the same clothes for almost half a month, washing them every evening and wearing them during the day.
Because his other two summer clothes were given to Ling Yue to change.
Ling Xing brought five taels of silver out today, ready to replenish everything that was missing.
Linen was the cheapest in summer, two hundred copper coins a bolt, with four zhang (a unit of length).
Ling Yue’s figure could make four sets of short jackets and pants.
Ling Xing wanted to buy a bolt for everyone in the family, but Cao Manyue stopped him.
She earned money herself, and her husband also earned money, and kept all the money she earned.
Cao Manyue was happy and comfortable in her heart, and she also brought a lot out this time.
Thinking of buying everything that Shen Gui and the two children were missing.
Cloth was within her plan, buying a bolt of cloth could make a set of clothes for each of the children and Shen Gui, and the rest could be used to make some small clothes for herself.
Seeing that Cao Manyue was determined not to want it, Ling Xing only bought six bolts of cloth.
Shen Hui also said that he didn’t want it, but he was directly rendered speechless by Ling Xing’s sentence, “You must have it,” only knowing to listen obediently.
Ling Xing didn’t feel a bit of heartache for spending more than one tael of silver at the cloth shop.
It was worth it to spend money on family members.
The cloth was temporarily deposited at the cloth shop, and the shop assistant patted his chest to ensure that he would take good care of Ling Xing.
After coming out of the cloth shop, they went to buy shoes.
Only Ling Xing was wearing cloth shoes, which Shen Hui bought for him because he saw that his heels were badly worn.
Ling Xing didn’t wait for Cao Manyue to react before pulling Xiaochun and Xiaxia to choose shoes.
“Fourth Sister-in-law, Ah Yue has Xiaochun and Xiaxia to play with, and there are more smiles on his face. I won’t buy too much, just one pair of shoes for each of them.”
Cao Manyue had limited money in her hand, and she was very embarrassed to want them, but seeing the broken straw shoes on the children’s feet, Cao Manyue nodded.
“Then thank you Eldest Brother-in-law. Quick, Xiaochun and Xiaxia, thank Eldest Uncle-in-law.”
Xiaochun and Xiaxia knew that they would have beautiful and comfortable cloth shoes, and they couldn’t hide their happiness, looking up with smiling faces.
“Thank you Eldest Uncle-in-law.”
The children’s voices were very sweet, and Ling Xing rubbed their chubby little faces, “Come and choose shoes.”
Calculating the money in her hand, Cao Manyue chose a pair of cloth shoes for Shen Gui.
He had to walk a long way every day to sell pickles, and wearing cloth shoes would make his feet more comfortable.
Cao Manyue didn’t buy any for herself, thinking that she was at home every day, and straw shoes were enough.
Shen Gui touched the cloth shoes, and the feeling of being cared for by his wife was really good.
He also made up his mind that the next batch of pickles would be sold to buy his wife new shoes and new clothes.
Ling Xing bought a pair for each of Xiaochun, Xiaxia, and Shen Lai.
He didn’t dare to buy too much for Shen Lai, because if he bought too much, his parents would definitely give the money back to him.
It’s better to be the same as Xiaochun and Xiaxia, so his parents can only let Shen Lai accept it.
Ling Xing temporarily bought two pairs of shoes for Ling Yue to change into.
Children grow fast, and shoes will soon not fit.
Buying two pairs was to prepare for rainy days.
He also bought two pairs for himself, and pulled Shen Hui to try on shoes, also buying two pairs for Shen Hui.
With his family present, Shen Hui saw Ling Xing naturally tugging on his arm and forgot to breathe for a moment, his mind blank.
Seeing out of the corner of his eye that Shen Gui and his wife were not looking this way, and the children were also looking down at their shoes, Shen Hui breathed a sigh of relief.
Ling Xing was unaware of Shen Hui’s tension, and chose two pairs of cloth shoes for him, asking him to try them on.
Looking at the cloth shoes personally selected by Ling Xing, Shen Hui couldn’t say the words of rejection.
Silently taking them over, the action of comparing the size of the shoes against his feet was much faster.
Shen Hui remembered Shen Chengshan and Xu Youfang’s shoe sizes, and Ling Xing bought a pair for each of the elders.
A total of 510 copper coins were spent in the shoe shop.
The shoes were not heavy, and Shen Hui directly put them in the basket on his back.
After leaving the shoe shop, Ling Xing and Shen Hui took Ling Yue and Shen Lai to buy rice.
Shen Gui’s family was going to the embroidery shop to buy silk thread.
The old rice at the grain shop was 60 copper coins per catty, terribly expensive.
When Ling Xing arrived at the grain shop, he found that there were many people in line.
After asking, he learned that the prices of rice and flour had dropped.
Ling Xing was also overjoyed when he heard this.
It was really good, the Da Yu Dynasty was finally stabilizing.
The price of grain had all dropped by half, and Ling Xing thought that he would buy the best fine white flour for making soup dumplings and cold noodles in the future.
In this way, the cost was about the same as before, without adjusting the price, but the taste would be better than before.
Ling Xing also bought the flour he would use tomorrow, and put it in the same place as the ten catties of old rice, also depositing it in the shop first, and taking it when he came back.
It was common for shops to deposit things.
Ling Xing was a regular customer, and the shop assistant directly stuffed his things into the counter, afraid that he wouldn’t pay attention when he got busy, and someone would take them away.
Afterwards, the group went to the medical clinic to see Ling Yue’s injury.
Doctor Li was shocked when Ling Xing said that he wanted to change to good medicine to treat Ling Yue’s throat, surprised that Ling Xing had money, and also happy for Ling Yue.
Using good medicine could recover 90% in one year.
For the other 10%, unless it was a fairy medicine, it could not be recovered.
If they continued to use the current medicine, the best result would be a 70% recovery in two years.
If it was not good, it could only recover 40% or 50%.
After writing the new prescription to treat the throat, Doctor Li also looked at Ling Yue’s leg.
“The recovery is good, I’ll prescribe another nourishing prescription, which can reduce the feeling of leg pain in the future when it’s cloudy and rainy. Drink it for half a month first, and then come back to see if you want to continue.”
Ling Xing spent one tael of silver after leaving the medical clinic.
But he was very happy in his heart.
Ling Yue’s badly injured body could finally be repaired.
Ling Yue was also very grateful to his brother for his care and love.
His brother got up early and worked hard to make money every day, and after finally saving some, he basically spent it all on him.
He was happy to be loved, but also guilty that he was a burden on his brother.
His ears were red, and he put his hand in his brother’s and held it.
“Brother, I will definitely study hard.”
In the future, he wanted to become his brother’s backing, and protect him forever.
Ling Xing lowered his head and saw a serious look on the child’s small face, he did not discourage or deny it, but agreed, “I believe in Ah Yue.”
Ling Yue received affirmation, and his expression became more firm.
Shen Hui and Shen Lai stood by the side, Shen Lai looked at Ling Xing, and then at his second brother.
Forget it, he didn’t expect his second brother to speak to him gently and considerately in this life.
Shen Hui didn’t notice Shen Lai’s eyes, but stared at Ling Yue.
He had examined Ling Yue’s homework, and if nothing unexpected happened, Ling Yue could go far.
Cao Manyue bought the silk thread that Xu Youfang wanted, and the family of four left the embroidery shop laughing and talking.
They were discussing going to find Ling Xing and the others when suddenly a dirty-faced teenager ran over from not far away.
The other party rushed directly towards Cao Manyue, shouting heartbreakingly:
“Mother!”