Flowers in full bloom

Then Hua Lei bought dozens of wooden barrels and basins from the wood shop opposite the pottery shop, and followed the same procedure. After agreeing to have the goods delivered to the door the next day, more than half an hour later, Hua Lei and her partner finally walked out of Beiliu Eighth Lane.

Because the goods were delivered to the door, the two of them were still empty-handed. When they arrived at the market entrance, they took the mule cart, "Brother Xile, let's go back to Qingyun Lane, walk along East Street, and stop at Xiaoshengji Grain and Oil Shop." "Okay." This time Hualei got into the carriage, and the mule cart moved forward slowly. Hualei tugged at her collar, took a long breath, stretched her legs, and leaned against the wall of the carriage without any image. She closed her eyes and took a nap.

"Miss, we're here." Hua Lei heard Xile knocking on the wall of the car and whispering. "Oh, OK." Hua Lei rubbed her face, straightened her clothes, and got off the mule cart. The mule cart stopped in front of the "Xiao Sheng Ji" grain and oil shop. Although the shop was on the main street of East Street, it was near the end of the street market, and the business was not as good as those restaurants at the head of the street market. The jewelry shop had good business, and there was only one clerk in the shop at that time.

Although it is called a grain and oil shop, in addition to rice, flour and grains, the shop also sells oil, salt, sugar, and some seasonings. Hualei walked in and saw neatly arranged wooden barrels against the wall, all covered with wooden lids. The waiter came up to her and asked, "Miss, what do you want to buy?"

"I want to see some sugar. Do you have yellow sugar or white sugar here?" "Yes, yes, please come this way." The waiter led Hua Lei to a row of wooden barrels on the left and opened a few wooden lids.

"Miss, please look, this is the brown sugar, yellow sugar, and white sugar in our store, and this is coarse granulated sugar." In today's society, the refining of sugar is already quite good. Although it is not as refined as Hualei's in the previous life, we basically have white sugar. It's just that it is not refined finely enough, so the white sugar still has a slight yellow color, so it is called yellow sugar. It is already the most expensive sugar today, thirty cents per catty.

Hualei asked for 100 jin of sugar and paid the silver. He asked the waiter to put the yellow and white sugar on the mule cart and took Luo Xile back to Qingyun Lane.

It should be around 4:45 in the afternoon, which was about 4:00 in the afternoon in the previous life. Luo Xile opened the gate and drove the mule cart into the yard. Hualei got off the mule cart. The yard was very quiet.

Uncle Fu should not have come back yet. Looking from the back door of the bookstore, Brother Xiaoqun was introducing something to a customer at the long table in the bookstore, and the bun shop had already finished its morning and lunch business.

Aunt Song was sorting out the empty steamers in the kitchen of the bun shop. She walked into the courtyard carrying three or four stacked steamers. Seeing Hua Lei and Xi Le, she said happily, "Miss, you are back. Are you hungry? There are freshly steamed dumplings in the kitchen. I will bring them to you. Have some. Dinner will be a while before dinner."

"Okay, thank you Auntie Song, I'll go upstairs and put the things down first. Brother Xile, put the things in the storage room first, and remember to bring them with you when you go to the farm tomorrow." Hualei went upstairs and carefully read the land deeds and house deeds that were processed today in the cloth bag, as well as the deeds of the three families, sorted them out, put them in a locked wooden box, put it in the drawer of the desk, locked it, and then put it in the cabinet in Hualei's room and locked it. She will show it to Xiaoyuan when she comes back from vacation.

Hua Lei has formed a habit now. No matter when she first came to Shangjing City and bought the house here, when she was staying at the Pei Mansion of Zhenbei Hou and received rewards from her elders, or when she received cash from the bookstore and bun shop every month, she would communicate with me in time and let me see everything in the account books of the bookstore and bun shop.

The benefit of doing this is that, from a small perspective, I can understand the actual situation of my family, understand the hardships of life, learn to live within my means, and learn some things about people's livelihood early on. In the future, if I want to take the path of imperial examination and become an official, it will also be of certain help to me in my career.

If I become a rich farmer in the future, I won't be completely in the dark. He took out the remaining silver from the bag and locked it in the drawer, and then calculated it carefully later.

He went back to his room and changed into a loose-fitting outfit, then went downstairs, washed his hands in the wooden basin by the well, and wiped his face and neck with a towel. He saw Xile holding a small steamer in one hand and a small bun in the other hand, stuffing them into his mouth. Hualei smiled and said, "Be careful not to choke. Are you starving? The noodles you had at noon were not enough to fill you up." While swallowing the bun in his mouth, Luo Xile said, "I am a little hungry, mainly because I walked a lot today and I eat quickly. You should go eat soon. My mother has put it in the living room for you."

Hua Lei hummed and went back to the main room, where she saw a basket of dumplings on the table, with half a bowl of soy milk, an empty small plate, and a pot of vinegar next to it.

Aunt Song knew that Hualei liked to dip her steamed buns in vinegar. Hualei took the soy milk and drank a few sips. Then she carefully dripped a few drops of vinegar directly on each bun, and then she imitated Xile, holding the steamer in one hand and pinching a bun in the other hand and stuffing it into her mouth. While eating, she walked to the yard and saw Ping'an carrying a bag of flour to the kitchen of the bun shop. This was the flour for making buns tomorrow.

Hualei walked into the west courtyard and saw Aunt Fu washing clothes, while Sun Xiaoxiao was feeding beans to the mule who had just returned home and fetching clean water to put in the trough. The mule was also happily drinking water and eating beans.

Hua Lei walked over and stuffed a small bun into Aunt Fu's mouth. Aunt Fu took the small bun out of her mouth while laughing and said to Hua Lei, "Miss, you can't do this. Can't you go back to the main room and sit down and eat peacefully? How can you behave like this in a young lady's home? You don't look like a young lady's home at all." Hua Lei made a face and walked over to Xiao Xiao and stuffed a small bun into her mouth as well.

After swallowing half of the bun in his mouth, he said, "Auntie Fu, we are at home now. Just let me relax. I will be careful when I go out. Don't worry." "Oh, what if we are seen by outsiders?" "It's okay, the gate of the East Courtyard is closed tightly, and no outsiders come." Auntie Fu sighed slightly and stopped talking. She continued to work on her things.

Xiaoxiao secretly stuck out her tongue at Hualei, then reached out her hand and unceremoniously took a small bun from the steamer and stuffed it into her mouth. Hualei smiled, turned around and saw Sun Xiaoqun, and put the steamer with four small buns left in her hand directly into Sun Xiaoqun's hand, "Brother Xiaoqun, this is for you. Give two to Brother Ping'an."

He returned to the main room, drank the remaining soy milk, cleared the dishes on the table, washed them by the well, and placed them in a bamboo basket beside him.

He went back upstairs, took out the purse from the drawer, and began to carefully calculate the money he had spent on today's purchases.