When they arrived at the county town, Song Ning and others got off the carriage at the market first.

There were many people at the market, and Hang Shuheng was worried about the three women and two children wandering around in such a mixed place.

So he asked Uncle Chai to stay and follow them not too far away, while he drove the carriage to Wanjuan Bookstore.

Shopping seems to be a hobby of all women. Regardless of whether they want to buy anything or not, they can enjoy it by just walking around and looking around.

As for the children, nothing can attract them more than delicious food. After shopping for a while, the two children stopped in front of a candied haws stall, as if their feet were stuck to the ground and they could not move.

"Mom, can I buy some candy?" Yangyang turned around and asked. Today he was carrying a purse that his mother had newly sewn, which contained some copper coins!

"Of course you can! It's your own money, you can spend it as you like, buy whatever you want, but don't eat too much candy, or you'll get a toothache."

"Okay, got it." After getting his mother's permission, Yangyang nodded heavily in agreement. He would not buy more, just two, one for himself and one for Shitou.

"Uncle, how much is one string?"

"Hey! Young master, are you buying candied haws?" Seeing that the business had come, the stall owner introduced his own varieties attentively and quoted the price, "Three copper coins for a string, five copper coins for two strings, how many strings do you want, young master?"

Yang Yang took out five copper coins from her purse and handed them to the stall owner, "Two strings."

The stall owner took the copper coin and handed over two strings of candied haws. Yangyang took them and gave one of them to Xiao Shitou.

"Stone, here you go."

Little Stone swallowed, a little uncertain, "Yangyang, is this really for me?"

"Well, it's for you."

"Thank you Yangyang, you are so nice."

On the side, Shitou Niang watched the whole process and whispered to Song Ning: "Sister-in-law, why do you carry so many copper coins with your child? What if he loses it?"

"It's okay, it's not much, it's all his pocket money that he saved."

Shi Tou Niang and Sun Bao Mei were both very excited when they heard this. The Hang family was probably the first family in the village to give such a large amount of pocket money to a child!

You can easily take out five copper coins from that purse, so there must be quite a lot left in there!

Several people walked around the market but didn't buy anything. However, the two children had eaten a lot after walking around. At this moment, one of them was eating a pie with great joy.

Shi Tou Niang has become numb. She can hardly count how much money Yang Yang has spent on her. And her stupid son is so heartless and has no sense of mercy at all.

She felt quite embarrassed. The two children ate all the way during the trip and their family didn't spend a penny.

During that time, she wanted to pay the money, but Song Ning said that the children should handle their own affairs and she should not bother with them.

After coming out of the street from the market, the few of them went to the embroidery workshop where they got the work to deliver the goods.

Sun Baomei brought out all the treasures in her house. When the shopkeeper inspected the goods, he saw that they were all new and fresh. He was not stingy with the price and gave two cents more for each handkerchief.

This was also a big gain for them. The shopkeeper also said that if there were any new patterns in the future, they could bring them to him and they would buy them. If the embroidery was good, the price could be raised further.

The two sisters-in-law were delighted to hear this. After paying the bill, they each weighed some scraps of cloth. The raw materials for the handkerchiefs, purses and other items they embroidered were all picked out from those scraps of cloth.

After leaving the embroidery workshop, they planned to go to the grocery store to buy some household items.

Every time Song Ning came to the county town, he would basically go to a grocery store, because the grocery store sold a wide variety of items, and he could almost buy everything he needed just by visiting a grocery store.

Song Ning mainly wanted to buy some pepper, sesame and other spices today. After coming to this era, she was a big idler. Except for occasionally drawing designs when she was in a good mood, the rest of her time was almost spent studying food.

Look, the pepper and salt powder she made before has been almost used up, so this time, she plans to make a few more flavors.

Song Ning took them to the grocery store she often went to. The shop assistants were already very familiar with her. "Hey! Madam Hang, you are here. What do you want to bring today?"

She greeted the waiter with a smile, then told him what she needed and asked him to get it.

Shi Tou Niang also bought some things that she could use at home. Since they didn't buy much, they didn't leave them here and just took them away.

After coming out of the grocery store and buying everything they needed, Song Ning suggested going directly to Wanjuan Bookstore to meet Hang Shuheng.

There was a tea stall nearby where they could rest their feet, drink some tea, and then go back together after Hang Shuheng finished his work.

There were still many pedestrians on the street. In order to avoid collisions with passing horse-drawn carriages and ox-drawn carts, they walked as close to the side as possible.

When passing through a small alley, I suddenly heard someone shouting, "Ah! My purse, the thief is caught, come quickly, catch the thief..."

Song Ning and the others subconsciously turned around to look in the direction where the sound came from, only to see a figure running towards them quickly, knocking them apart, and then dashing into the alley.

If Song Ning and Shi Tou Niang had not been quick to protect the children, I'm afraid the children would have been in big trouble.

Sun Baomei was not so lucky. She was hit on the side by the thief. She lost her balance and fell to the ground. Her palm rubbed against the ground and the skin was abraded, and some blood oozed out.

Everything happened so suddenly that they had no time to react. Even Uncle Chai, who had been following them closely, was a step slower.

Unfortunately, the thief who rushed into the alley was run into by a man dressed as a yamen constable as soon as he entered. He didn't even have time to turn around and run away as he was kicked out of the alley and fell heavily to the ground.

Afterwards, the constable also walked out of the alley and stepped on the thief, making him unable to move.

"Detective Wang..."

Song Ning shouted in surprise, who else could this person be but Wang Jin? He looked at the alley carefully again, wasn't it Xiaoyu Hutong!

"Madam Hang, it's you..." Wang Jin was also surprised to see them. When he looked over, he saw Shitou Niang helping Sun Baomei who had fallen to the ground. He asked casually, "Are you all okay?"

"We are fine, it's just that Baomei was hit by the thief and fell down."

Sun Baomei quickly shook her head and said, "I, I'm fine."

But the scratched palms and the slightly red eyes couldn't deceive anyone.

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