I trade in both worlds

Xu Xu followed her gaze and saw the waiter in the yard. He nodded, stood up holding Xu Tiantian, and Xu Ziqing also picked up the backpack and walked out together.

After leaving Jinxiu Pavilion, the two were discussing going to a porcelain shop when they smelled an enticing fragrance. Xu Ziqing walked forward following the scent and Xu Xu could only follow helplessly behind.

Following the aroma to a mutton soup restaurant, Xu Ziqing sniffed hard and exclaimed, "It smells so good. I want to eat it."

Xu Xu looked at the sky. It was just after noon, and there were not many customers in the store at this time: "How about we have lunch first and then go shopping?"

"Okay, okay." Xu Ziqing took the lead and walked into the store. He found an empty seat and sat down, then called out, "Xuxu, hurry up."

Xu Xu walked over, put down the backpack, picked up Xu Tiantian, and then sat down opposite her.

Seeing Xu Tiantian still holding the osmanthus cake and eating it, she had almost eaten half of the half palm-sized osmanthus cake.

The rest was covered with saliva and became soft, so Xu Xu simply took it over, broke it off in small pieces and fed it to her.

Xu Tiantian looked left and right curiously while eating, and Xu Xu also looked up at the store from time to time.

The shop is very small, with a total of 6 tables. The kitchen is semi-open, with a one-meter-high wall built below and separated by wooden boards above. A one-meter-wide window is left in the middle to facilitate serving of food.

From the window, one could see busy figures in the kitchen. There were eight or nine people sitting scattered in the lobby. As he was watching, he saw a teenager wearing an apron and holding a rag coming out of the kitchen and going straight outside the store to solicit customers.

"Boss, what delicious food do you have here?" Xu Ziqing asked loudly.

"Wait a moment, it will be right there." The boss looked up and answered while adding soup and chili to the mutton offal in the bowl.

After a while, the waiter came in, lifted up his apron and wiped his hands: "What would you like to eat?"

"What delicious food do you have in your store?"

The waiter pointed to the sign hanging on the wall and introduced: "Lamb offal soup, mutton soup, boiled mutton, boiled mutton offal, hand-pulled lamb chops. The staple food is noodles, naan and fried cakes. The noodles include vegetarian noodles, mutton offal noodles and mutton noodles."

Xu Ziqing followed his finger and saw a wooden sign on the wall. There was a menu written on it.

"I want mutton offal noodles, one portion of boiled mutton, and one portion of hand-pulled lamb chops. Xuxu, what do you want to eat?"

"Can you finish it?" Xu Xu looked at her suspiciously.

The waiter quickly said, "We have small portions. You two can order small portions so you can finish them."

Since he could finish it, Xu Xu ordered what he wanted to eat: "Then I want a mutton soup and a fried cake. No spicy soup. It's for the children."

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment, it will be ready soon." The waiter said and left.

Xu Ziqing's eyes followed his figure and moved: "Xu Xu, have you ever eaten here before?"

"No." Xu Xu was also looking around: "I seldom come to the county town. Every time I come, I always come early and rush home after finishing my business."

Xu Ziqing turned around and looked at her: "It's okay, we may come here often in the future, and sooner or later we will try all the delicacies in the county."

Xu Xu smiled at her. The transportation here is not as good as modern ones. It is very tiring to come to the county town. After the novelty wears off, let's see if she is willing to come more often.

Soon the waiter came over with a tray and took two trips back and forth to serve their meals.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, Xu Tiantian looked up at Xu Xu with drool, pointing at the table and shouting "Ahhhh".

Xu Ziqing smiled and teased her: "Which little greedy cat is so greedy."

Xu Tiantian buried her head in Xu Xu's chest in embarrassment, and Xu Xu smiled and straightened her up: "Okay, let's drink the soup first."

Xu Xu asked the waiter for a small bowl, scooped two spoonfuls of soup, blew it cool and started to feed Xu Tiantian.

Smelling the aroma of mutton offal, Xu Ziqing couldn't help but lean over and gently sip a small sip of the soup: "Ah, it's so comfortable to drink a bowl of hot mutton soup in cold weather."

Xu Tiantian looked at it, took a big sip of soup from Xu Xu's hand, and then let out a loud "Ah~"

"Hahahahaha~" Xu Ziqing gave up on sucking the soup that had reached her mouth. She was afraid that if she continued to drink it, the soup would flow out of her nose.

Xu Xu couldn't help laughing and pinched her little face: "You learn quickly."

Xu Tiantian held her little face with both hands, squinting her eyes and laughing.

She seemed to have found the joy of playing. Every time she took a sip of soup, she would let out an "ah", followed by a giggle.

Xu Xu looked at her helplessly and picked up a piece of mutton. She saw a dish of black sauce and a dish of chili peppers next to it. She dipped it in the sauce and tried it. It tasted surprisingly good and not smelly at all.

The mutton had been cooked very soft and Xu Tiantian could eat it, so he simply tore off a small piece of mutton with his hands, lightly dipped it in some sauce, and let her hold it and eat it slowly.

Xu Tiantian was so busy fighting with Lamb that she had forgotten about the fun she had just had.

Xu Xu tore off half of a fried pancake, took a sip of mutton soup and a bite of fried pancake, and ate it very happily.

The three of them felt refreshed after having a warm lunch.

After the meal, it was time to get down to business. Xu Xu, carrying a backpack and holding Xu Tiantian and Xu Ziqing, walked slowly towards the porcelain shop in the county town.

Bathed in the warm sunshine of early winter, Xu Ziqing thought of the boss that Feng Jie mentioned: "Xu Xu, who is Feng Jie's boss?"

Xu Ziqing thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be an official businessman from Beijing, but I don't know who it is."

I remembered that television and novels had mentioned that the shops of powerful families would be handed over to their clansmen or hereditary servants for management, and I also remembered that human trafficking was legal in ancient times.

Xu Ziqing asked curiously, "Is Sister Feng a family servant?"

Xu Xu weighed Xu Tiantian in his arms and shook his head: "No, Sister Feng is a free person."

"Is she married?" This is a question Xu Ziqing has always wanted to ask.

Since I met Feng Jie, I have never met her family, nor have I heard Xu Xu mention them.

"Yes, but not long after they got married, her husband died of illness."

"How did a widow in ancient times become a shop owner? What did she go through to achieve her current success?" Based on the inherent rules of TV dramas and novels, Xu Ziqing began to imagine Feng Jie's miserable life.

Xu Xu looked at her with amusement: "There is no such thing as a miserable life. You think too much."

"She became a widower not long after her marriage, childless and miserable, isn't she?"

Xu Ziqing thinks this is nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, there was no social security, no nursing homes, and medical care was not perfect.

What would she do when she was old and unable to move, with no money and no one to turn to? Even if she had money, she, a widow, would not be able to keep it.

Xu Xu looked at her speechlessly: "Who said she has no children?"

Xu Ziqing glared and accused, "Didn't you say that her husband passed away not long after she got married?"