This time I really saw an ancient candle. Not to mention, it was quite bright. Maybe it was because the candle core was thicker, so the flame was bigger.
Xiaoyue helped her spread the bedding and asked Qingyan, "Miss, do you have any other instructions? Why don't you, slave, go get some hot water, snacks and tea?"
Qingyan shook her head and said, "No need for snacks and tea. Just bring me some water. I need to wash up."
Xiaoyue agreed, blessed her body and went out.
After a while, he came back with a bucket of warm water. It was not hot to the touch, so it must have been blended and brought over.
There is no kitchen in this yard. From what Qingyan heard just now, Xiaoyue must have gone outside to get it. There is probably a place nearby that specially boils hot water and supplies it to the owners at any time. After all, there are no kettles or anything like that in ancient times.
Xiaoyue poured the water into the wooden basin on the shelf, took out a brand new cloth towel from the cabinet on one side, put it on the shelf, and stood aside, waiting to see what other instructions Qingyan had.
Qingyan smiled and said to her: "I'll go to bed after washing up. I don't have anything else to do. Miss Xiaoyue, go and have some rest. Thank you for your hard work."
Xiaoyue said quickly: "I don't dare, I don't dare, this is what I should do. Then you can rest, I will leave first."
Just shout if you have something to do. The slave is next door and can hear you. "
"Okay, I understand." Qingyan nodded to her.
After Xiao Yue left, Qingyan asked Chou Chou to bring out a set of light pajamas for her, wipe her body with a cloth and put them on.
He quickly took the little leopard out of the satchel and put it on the ground. It had been twisting in the satchel for a long time, so it must be hungry.
I asked Chou Chou to get a bowl of milk, and after it devoured it, I took it to the toilet in the cubicle to put water in it, and then sat down to rest.
Chou Chou also ran out of the space, took out a bunch of delicious food and put it on the table.
He sent a message to Qingyan: "Are you hungry? Eat quickly, these are all my treasures."
Qingyan looked at the food and drink on the table and couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
She hasn't eaten these snacks for a long time, mainly because there are always people around, which is too inconvenient.
I saw a variety of fruits, jerky, potato chips, spicy sticks, cans, cola, juice... on the table.
Qingyan looked at the next door with some worry and said to Chou Chou: "We are making quite a noise when we eat. Xiaoyue is next door. Isn't it good to be heard?"
Chou Chou: "I stimulated her acupuncture points with my spiritual consciousness. She was already asleep and couldn't hear."
Qingyan immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Great, then what are you waiting for? Let's get started!"
She reached out and picked up a bag of spicy strips and opened it. Because the taste was too overpowering, she hadn't eaten it for a month. She wanted to enjoy it first.
While eating spicy strips, he opened a bottle of Coke and took a big gulp.
"Ah~ it's so cool! This is life, I've been suffering so much this month!"
After finishing a bag of spicy strips, she picked up potato chips and dried meat to eat. They were all spicy and spicy. Chou Chou took out the ones with strong flavors and asked her to change her taste. Almost faded out of the bird.
"You are still happy. You can eat delicious food in the space. It would be great if I could enter your space. Whenever you want to eat, you can go in and satisfy your craving."
Qingyan stuffed things into her mouth while chatting with Chou Chou via voice transmission, without wasting any time on either side.
"Don't worry, when I return to my heyday, living creatures can enter my space. Then I will take you in to play. My space is much bigger than Xiangxiang's!"
Chou Chou was lying on the pile of snacks on the table, taking a bite of dried meat and a sip of Coke like Qing Yan. While talking to her, he did not forget to monitor the outside with his spiritual consciousness, helping to keep the wind in case anyone suddenly came in.
One person and one beast quickly finished everything on the table. Chou Chou put away the packaging bag and took out the box he had collected at Chen's house.
They planned to sort out some of the items inside so that they could go to a pawn shop or bank to exchange them for banknotes tomorrow and hand them over to Xue Minghua.
Although at present, the Xue family has a good attitude towards Xue Minghua and should keep them, and their future life should be worry-free, but money is a person's confidence.
Besides, this can be regarded as compensation from the Chen family. Again, the two children cannot rely entirely on their maternal family in the future. If they have some money in their hands, they will be tough to use it.
It depends on whether Xue Minghua wants to save it for his children later, or whether he wants to buy a yard or a village.
She opened the box and took a look. The first layer inside was a jewelry box. Qingyan took it out first and put it aside. Below were silver ingots. One ingot should be twelve taels, a total of fifteen.
Next were the gold bars. There were twenty gold bars in total. Qingyan picked them up and looked at them, and found that they were all marked.
The mark is rectangular and doesn't look like words, and I don't know what kind of mark it is.
He said to Chou Chou: "These gold and silver are all marked, I'm afraid it's hard to get rid of them, right? It won't be good if people come to find them. I guess this is not a good way to get here, otherwise the Chen family wouldn't be able to bury it underground." , dare not take it out."
Chou Chou also frowned, feeling that things with marks like this were really difficult to deal with and might cause trouble to people if they were not careful.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Otherwise, we can use a knife to remove the mark. With our strength, it shouldn't be too difficult to remove the mark."
Qingyan looked at the pile of gold and silver. The marks on it were quite deep. After finishing it, she probably wouldn't have to sleep today.
He bit the dry skin on his lower lip, thought for a moment and said, "How about we replace it with the gold in your dimension according to the similar weight? We will take this back. It won't matter whether there is a mark or not in future generations."
Chou Chou thought about it and thought it would be okay, but it would save the trouble.
Anyway, the gold in its dimension is quite pure and does not need to be refined. It just comes in different shapes and can be made into cake or brick shapes later.
After settling this matter, they looked at the two jewelry boxes again. The first box contained Diexi Peony's gold jewelry, inlaid with some gemstones. The style was average, but it was better than a complete set.
The second box is more rare, including an exquisite silver hairpin with emerald green dots inlaid with pearls, a silk hairpin, a sapphire blue dotted emerald hairpin, a cloud-footed pearl tendril hairpin, and a jasper teng flower. Jade pendant.
I don't know anything else, but the two green ones should be very valuable. She heard her mother say that green is very rare. In ancient times, there was a saying that it was hard to buy even a small amount of gold.
Qingyan felt that a thousand dollars might be a bit exaggerated, but it should be really valuable.
They also kept this and asked Chou Chou to convert it into silver coins for them.
She and Chou Chou made an estimate. The silver was one hundred and fifty taels, and the gold bars were two pounds each. There were twenty bars in total, which was four hundred taels. Adding the silver, it was converted to four hundred and fifteen taels of gold.
After discussing it with Chou Chou, he planned to exchange it for five hundred taels of gold for them. If he converted it into silver notes, it would be five thousand taels. When the time comes, he would give it to Xue Minghua, which should be enough for the three of them.
Five thousand taels may not be a big deal to a large family, but for some middle-income families, it should be the whole family’s savings.
At least they could buy a dozen or so shops, or buy a few shops and rent them out, which would be enough for the three of them.
Chou Chou picked out the gold according to the approximate weight, pressed it directly into gold cakes, and just took it out tomorrow.
Then another question came to mind and she said to Qingyan: "Yanyan, if we go to the bank here to exchange it for banknotes, the banknotes will be new. The Chen family is not a local resident here. What's your excuse? I’m afraid it’s inappropriate?”
Qingyan was stunned when she heard this. She really hadn't thought of this, but she couldn't run back to Handeng because of this, right? Even if it doesn't take long to ride a horse, it's still too much trouble.
He simply broke the jar and said: "Anyway, just give it to her. You can think whatever you want. Anyway, we will leave the day after tomorrow. If not, we will leave early tomorrow."
Even if Xue Minghua suspects something, he will probably only suspect that she deliberately subsidized it, and he probably won't be able to think of anything else.
After that, they put away their things and got ready to go to bed. Qingyan was really tired. She hadn't rested all day. She even fought with someone in the middle, and her whole body was already sore.
He bent down and picked up the little leopard that was running around on the ground, washed its paws with the water in the wooden basin, then wiped it with the rabbit skin in the satchel, and carried it directly to bed.
During this period of time, Little Leopard had been sleeping with her, and he was used to it. He rolled around on the bed twice and found a place to lie down.
Chou Chou helped blow out the candles, ran to the bed, put down the bed curtains on both sides, and lay down next to Qingyan.
In this summer, there is no need to cover the bed with a quilt anyway, just a thin quilt. The bed seems very spacious, and it is no problem to sleep the three of them.
Qingyan touched the mattress under the bed and felt that it was just like that. After all, unlike later generations, mattresses with springs or thick sponges were still a bit uncomfortable.
Of course, it was much more comfortable than the kang they had used before with straw mats and straw mats.
Early the next morning, Qingyan woke up according to her biological clock. She opened the bed curtain and took a look. It was a little dark inside the room, but it was already bright outside the window.
I picked up the watch on the pillow and looked at it. It was just half past six in the morning. The sun shouldn't have risen yet, but when I'm a guest at someone else's house, I'd better get up earlier.
And she still had things to do today, and she was also ready to take a tour of the Xingtang Mansion. Fortunately, Beijing, one of the three capitals, was definitely much more prosperous than Handcheng.
After finishing shopping today and giving the banknote to Xue Minghua, she found a reason to leave. She had to leave tonight or tomorrow at the latest. She couldn't disappear suddenly. Then there would be too much noise.
She planned to leave here on horseback before tomorrow afternoon and find a mountain forest to wait, so that no one would know when she left.
After taking off her pure cotton pajamas and changing into a set of clothes similar to yesterday's, Xue Minghua knew that she didn't bring any baggage and her things were all on the donkey cart.
Fortunately, I asked Granny Lanhua and the others to help me make three sets of identical clothes, and one of them was placed in the Chou Chou space, otherwise they would all smell.
The clothes are made of light blue muslin, which is very comfortable to wear, especially in summer. It is breathable and sweat-absorbent.
Qingyan suddenly thought of something and said to Chou Chou, "Oh no, the rabbit we shot yesterday is still on the donkey cart. Isn't it already smelly?"
Chou Chou lay on the bed and groaned, "By the time you think about it, there will probably be nothing left, and I will have been sent to the space long ago.
When Manager Yang asked someone to take the car away, I thought about it and collected all the things that shouldn't be in it. "
Qingyan felt relieved. Not only had she forgotten the rabbit, but she had also forgotten the plastic sheet. If someone looked carefully and saw that there was indeed something wrong with it.
Then Qingyan had another question, "Then when we leave tomorrow night, can you take the little leopard and the horse with you? Don't turn around and abandon them."
If the horse can't run away, the most it can do is pick it up and give others an advantage. But the little leopard doesn't know how to hunt, so it will be dead by then.
Chou Chou turned over and rolled his eyes at her, "Don't worry, if I say you can, you can. When the time comes, we will follow Xiang Xiang's scent and return directly to Xiang Xiang's space through the gap in time and space. It will definitely be no problem. of."
Although Chou Chou said so definitely, Qingyan was still a little worried, but she had no other choice but to take a gamble.
Thinking that it couldn't work, they went to a mountain forest, found a safe cave for the little leopard, put down some food, and if they persisted for a few more days, the little leopard would be two months old, and he should be able to try to catch some small prey. .
Thinking of this, Qingyan asked Chou Chou to take out milk and a piece of pheasant leg. She cut it into pieces with a dagger and put it into the milk, trying to feed the little leopard.
After realizing that it had been eaten, I felt relieved a little.
After that, I took it with me for convenience and put it in my satchel.
Just when I was about to wash my face with the remaining water in yesterday's bucket, it doesn't matter whether the water is warm or not in summer, just cold water, when I heard Xiaoyue's voice coming from outside.
"Miss, are you up? I'm here to get you some water."
Qingyan was startled. She was just chatting with Chou Chou and didn't pay attention to what was going on outside.
He walked over, opened the door, and said to Xiaoyue outside the door: "Come in quickly."
Xiaoyue came in with a bucket, cleaned the wooden basin, poured the water into the previous bucket, and poured the new water into the basin for Qingyan to wash up.
Qingyan thanked her, washed her face, rinsed her mouth, and tied her hair up casually.
Seeing that Qingyan just tied her hair into a ponytail, Xiaoyue couldn't help but said, "How about my slave help you tie your hair into a bun?"
Qingyan's eyes lit up, she nodded quickly and said, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry to bother you."
He sent a message to Chou Chou who was hiding in the space: "Chou Chou, help me pick out some good-looking hairpins and put them in my bag. I want to try this ancient bun."
Chou Chou picked out two jewelry items that Qingyan had bought and received before that were more suitable for an unmarried woman, a bell with flower steps and a cloud-footed pearl tendril hairpin.
Qingyan pretended to go to the bed to get her bag and took out two hairpins. "Then I'd like to trouble Miss Xiaoyue. Can I use these two hairpins?"
Seeing that the two hairpins were very delicate, Xiaoyue nodded and said, "That's enough, that's enough. How about I give the lady a butterfly bun?"
Qingyan nodded. Actually, she didn't know what a butterfly bun looked like, but it sounded like it should look pretty.
