I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Bai Jingzhou thought about it and felt relieved. He and Gu Wenxuan, carrying their bags, went into Geng's carriage inn.

Gu Wenxuan did not interrupt the conversation between Bai Jingzhou and Ning Qirui. While Geng Dongjia was listening to their conversation openly, she left Geng's inn alone.

She had already put the things she bought in Bai Jingzhou's room, and the bulk of the money was temporarily kept by Bai Jingzhou. She took advantage of the fact that it was still early, took ten taels of silver and some change and copper coins, and went to the street to go on a shopping spree.

Gu Wenxuan directly bought about one-third of the brown sugar from the nearby grocery store and the freshly baked white flour pork buns from the noodle shop next door.

The brown sugar was easy to deal with, as it originally came in packs of one pound each. However, Gu Wenxuan had the shop assistants temporarily package the freshly-baked white flour and pork buns in oil paper.

A group of six meat buns, each as big as an adult man's fist, with a one-pound bag of brown sugar would be a decent enough thank-you gift to neighbors.

In addition to these, Gu Wenxuan also purchased two jars of sorghum wine, two pieces of fine gauze cloth, ten pounds of pork belly, and two old hens, intending to take them back to let Bai Jingzhou thank his uncle and aunt on behalf of Geng Dongjia for taking Ning Qirui in when he was desperate.

When Ning Qirui saw the things, he was completely stunned. He didn't expect that Gu Wenxuan went out to buy a thank-you gift for him.

Bai Jingzhou had already guessed the reason why Gu Wenxuan took the money out. He smiled and thanked Gu Wenxuan, "Thank you for your hard work."

Gu Wenxuan shook her head, "Let's eat first. After dinner, you can accompany Qi Rui to thank everyone."

She bought ten more buns, and she also asked the waiter at Gengjia Cart Inn to go to the kitchen in advance to order a dish of pork, cabbage and tofu stew, a dish of pickled eggplant, and a large bowl of sorghum rice.

Bai Jingzhou nodded and called Ning Qirui to come and have dinner with them.

Ning Qirui looked at the pile of buns and brown sugar, still in a daze, "Too much, too much. I don't have that many people to thank."

He had a good relationship with his neighbors, but there were only about a dozen families who really helped him. Even if he wanted to thank everyone, he would not be able to use all the thank-you gifts that Gu Wenxuan bought.

Gu Wenxuan glanced at him and said, "It's better to have too much than not enough. We can digest the ones we don't need later."

Before, she had been watching from the sidelines and estimated that Ning Qirui would need more than ten thank-you gifts, but she had no way of knowing exactly how many, so she simply bought twenty. This way, even if there were people she hadn't expected, Ning Qirui wouldn't be left with useful thank-you gifts to give away.

As for the extra ones, they are all food anyway. They can use the buns as a midnight snack and breakfast tomorrow, and they can take the brown sugar back home to give to their family members. In the end, nothing will be wasted.

"Oh oh." Gu Wenxuan obviously didn't give him a cold face, but Ning Qirui was subconsciously a little afraid of her. At this time, Gu Wenxuan glanced at him lightly, and Ning Qirui immediately didn't dare to continue speaking.

The three of them sat around in Bai Jingzhou's room and had a sumptuous dinner which was a little early. Then Bai Jingzhou took Ning Qirui to go door to door to deliver thank-you gifts.

The first person they thanked was Geng Dongjia, who had helped Ning Qirui the most.

Geng Dongjia originally didn't want to accept the things they sent, but he couldn't resist the fact that Bai Jingzhou was really good at talking.

The two of them talked back and forth for a while, and then Bai Jingzhou took Ning Qirui away. Geng Dongjia smiled and sent them out. He glanced at their empty hands from the corner of his eyes, and then he suddenly realized that he had agreed to accept those things from Bai Jingzhou without thinking...

He laughed and shook his head, "Qi Rui's cousin doesn't seem to be a simple person."

Bai Jingzhou, who had already walked far away, had no idea about Geng Dongjia's little emotion. He took Ning Qirui, who was responsible for showing the way, and distributed the brown sugar and buns he delivered in the name of his uncle and aunt to every household, just like distributing New Year gift packages.

The neighbors who received the thank-you gifts were very happy, but Ning Qirui's adoptive parents, who heard the noise and came out to see what was going on, were so jealous that their eyes turned red.

They regretted that they had driven Ning Qirui out during the Chinese New Year. If they hadn't done that, when Ning Qirui's relatives came, they would have been able to ask for a lot of money and cut a big piece of meat from Ning Qirui's relatives.

But it's too late to say anything now. Bai Jingzhou, Ning Qirui's cousin, would rather spend money all over the streets than send a copy to their home that had raised Ning Qirui for five years.

It's not that the two of them didn't have any evil thoughts, but the excitement had already alarmed the head of their area. The one called Bai Jingzhou was very cunning and directly stuffed a thank-you gift to the head's wife, saying that it was to thank the head's family for taking care of his cousin.

As for their village head who only gets benefits, who has he ever taken care of? That kid surnamed Bai is really lying with open eyes without any guilt.

The two were filled with indignation, but they did not dare to offend the head of the village, so they could only slam the door and go back to the house in frustration.

It was the first time that Ning Qirui was the one who suffered a setback when confronting his adoptive parents instead of being scolded or beaten. He felt so happy that it was indescribable.

After delivering the last thank-you gift to Bai Jingzhou, Ning Qirui thought about it again and again, making sure that nothing was forgotten. Then he carried the backpack that Gu Wenxuan lent him and went back to the inn with Bai Jingzhou.

"It's getting late today. Before we leave the city tomorrow, let's go to the tailor shop and buy you a new set of clothes." After the two of them washed up, Bai Jingzhou said this to Ning Qirui while motioning him to go to bed.

Ning Qirui couldn't believe his ears. He hadn't worn new clothes since he fell into the hands of the human traffickers.

He was still young and growing fast, but his adoptive parents would rather let him expose his wrists and ankles than make him a new set of clothes.

Later, the neighbors couldn't stand it anymore and gave him two sets of old clothes from their own children. Although the old clothes were patched up, they could at least cover his arms and legs, and Ning Qirui was very satisfied.

Of course, what made him even more satisfied was that he actually had two sets of old clothes.

With these two sets of clothes, he no longer had to wear his shiny black, battered, and tattered clothes with many holes from canes, which always became the reason for him to be beaten, but he had no means to change, wash, or mend those tattered clothes.

Until he was kicked out of the house by his adoptive parents, he always wore the two sets of old clothes given by the neighbor. He got some rags to sew the cuffs and trouser legs to the short cuffs and trouser legs with crooked stitches.

It is worth mentioning that he actually has a lot of these crooked and ugly stitches on his body because his adoptive mother never helped him sew his clothes.

But now, his little cousin actually said that he would buy him clothes tomorrow morning...