The shopkeeper explained with a smile: "We often need to transport some valuable items, so there is no shortage of people to do the work. If you need it, I will send two people from the backyard to ensure that you are sent home safely. You can pay some hard work. ”
Ming Xi wanted to laugh after hearing this. He was indeed a businessman, but when customers came to pawn their items, they actually had to make two cents of the money.
She's not that stupid!
...Uh, wait.
Now that she has money, wouldn't it be more convenient to hire two people? When I go shopping for clothes later, someone needs to carry them, so I can’t carry them all by myself, right?
Her daughters have thin arms and legs, and she is reluctant to use them as labor.
Mingxi said seriously to the shopkeeper: "Please hire two stronger people for me. I don't need them to send me back. I'm just going to Dongshi to buy things in a while. There will be many big and small bags, so I need their strength." "
"Okay, please wait a moment." The shopkeeper smiled and nodded.
The clerk in the store immediately trotted out and soon brought two tall and strong women over.
Mingxi was wondering why two women came, when she saw the old shopkeeper looking approvingly at the store clerk, and she immediately understood - oh! It turns out that the waiter in this shop is quite attentive. Considering that she is a female customer, he specially picked a woman to come here to avoid attracting gossip to the customers.
Okay, as long as you have the strength, she won't pick.
Mingxi happily put the bamboo basket into the arms of one of the women, and said with a generous smile: "You two have worked hard today, let's go~"
"Yes, madam." The two mothers-in-law responded with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes.
Ming Xi felt relaxed all over and took her daughter out of the pawn shop.
Man Jing couldn't help but ask: "Mom, those beads are so beautiful, who are we pawning them for?"
Ming Xi chuckled and replied nonchalantly: "I'm pawning for the gods, right~"
Man Jing exclaimed: "Then how are we going to give the money to the gods? Should we burn it to Him? What if the silver ingot cannot be burned?"
Ming Xi was amused by her daughter and laughed loudly. She raised her hand and scratched her little nose. "Gods live in the sky. What do you need money for? Of course all the money will be spent on us!"
Ye'er was so shocked by her mother's words that she turned pale. She had watched the entire pawn process, a total of nine hundred taels!
Although her arithmetic level is limited, she knows that one tael of silver is equal to 1,000 wen, and nine hundred taels is equal to, equal to... In short, it is a lot of money!
Mingxi saw what his eldest daughter was thinking and happily calculated: "A big meat bun costing three cents a piece, and nine hundred taels can buy 300,000 pieces. Even if you eat ten meat buns a day, you can eat it for 30,000 days." That’s eighty-two years!”
The three daughters all opened their eyes wide!
Oh my God! Can they eat eighty-two-year-old meat buns? I can’t imagine how happy this would be!
Ye'er's heart was shaken for a long time, and then an unspeakable admiration and yearning surged in her chest.
"Mom, you can calculate so quickly. Ye'er can't calculate these things." Ye'er looked at Mingxi with bright eyes.
Mingxi touched her head and said with a smile: "It's simple, my future mother will teach you."
"I want to learn too!" Xiaoxue squeezed over, stretching her head like a fluffy chick, "Mom, I also want to learn arithmetic!"
Manjing tugged on her younger sister's sparse pigtails and said, "You little fool, it's hard to learn arithmetic. You'll get a headache if you do!"
Xiaoxue continued to shout: "You have to learn, you have to learn! You have to learn!"
Mingxi couldn't stop laughing, thinking that the children were so fun, "Okay, from now on, the three of you must learn, not only arithmetic, but also reading and writing!"
Manjing blinked and asked in confusion: "Mom, we don't need to take the scholar exam, why do we need to study?"
"Because reading can make your brain smarter," Ming Xi smiled and pinched her cheek, "Do you want to be a smart and clever person, or do you want to be a confused person who doesn't understand anything?"
Man Jing quickly said: "I want to be a clever ghost!"
Mingxi: "Hahahahaha!!!"
The nearby merchants all poked their heads around, wondering whose wife this was, smiling so boldly.
Then they discovered that this lady not only smiled boldly, but also acted boldly!
Complete sets of porcelain bowls, plates, tea sets and chopsticks, buy them!
Bamboo baskets and large backpacks for storage, buy them!
Pots, chopping boards, wooden spatulas and spoons for cooking, buy them!
Don’t miss it when passing by a pastry shop. Buy apricot blossom cakes, osmanthus cakes, chestnut flour cakes, and small sugar cakes all at once!
Mingxi also saw a store selling bathtubs. How could she not be tempted by this? !
However, even the smallest bathtub weighs more than fifty pounds. The two women have already carried a lot of things on their backs, and they will definitely not be able to lift it.
The mother-in-law seemed to see Ming Xi's worries and said with a smile: "Ma'am, just buy it. The master of this bathtub is famous for his good craftsmanship and good materials. As long as you pay an extra traveling fee, the store clerk I will deliver it to Madam’s doorstep.”
When Mingxi heard about it, she bought three of them, one for her own home, and gave two large bathtubs to her brother and sister-in-law, so that her two nephews would not have to jump into the river every time they took a bath.
After buying the bathtub, walk forward to an east-west street market. Cloth shops and clothing stores are gathered on this street, including some rouge, gouache and jewelry shops.
"Which shop on this street makes the best ready-made clothes and has the latest styles?" she asked the mother-in-law behind her.
"That must be Chen's clothing store." The mother-in-law replied.
Another mother-in-law also nodded in agreement: "Yes, I don't have to choose the craftsmanship of the Chen family, but the price is more expensive."
Mingxi immediately decided: "Okay, let's go to Chen's clothing store."
The group of people set off towards the clothing store in a mighty manner, attracting passersby's attention. As soon as Mingxi arrived at the door of Chen's clothing store, he was stopped by a man——
"Sister-in-law?!"
Mingxi took a closer look, oh! What a coincidence, isn't this her sister-in-law Lin Wanmiao?
To be precise, it should be the former sister-in-law. After all, she has been divorced.
Lin Wanmiao and a woman in Tsing Yi stood at the door of the clothing store, looking up and down at Ming Xi in shock, "Sister-in-law, why are you here?"
Ming Xi said to her former sister-in-law seriously: "You called the wrong person. Your brother abandoned his wife and daughter and divorced me. When you see me, you should call me Mrs. Ming, Mrs. Xi, or you can call me eldest sister." .”
Lin Wanmiao's face turned red when she heard this, and she argued: "I'm just saying hello, you... you don't have to be so vicious, to give my brother the reputation of abandoning his wife and daughter. Who in Huai'an County doesn't know that we The Lin family has been extremely kind to you, but in the ten years you have been in the Lin family, you have been short of breath after walking a few steps, and have become sick when the wind blows. You have never been filial to your parents-in-law, nor have you passed down the lineage to the Lin family. My brother has been hindered by you and cannot study peacefully. It has taken a long time to finally finally If you are admitted as a scholar, if you have any conscience at all, you should leave immediately and stop coming to the county to harass my brother!"
Passers-by heard the sound and started talking.
"Is the scholar she is talking about Lin Wenxiao from the Lin family?"
"That should be the case. I heard that his last wife had a weird destiny, which caused trouble for his family. Now he has married a new daughter-in-law. Not only did she have a son immediately, she was also admitted as a scholar. Things are turning around for her!"
"I've heard about it too, it's such a thing! Moreover, I heard that Lin Wenxiao's wife also gave birth to three little broomsticks. They also suppressed the father and the mother and the whole family. The old lady of the Lin family was almost killed by the little broomsticks. Kill him!"
"Ah, for such a thing to happen, the Lin family is really unlucky!"
Ye'er, Manjing and Xiaoxue could faintly feel the gazes from all around, and felt a little at a loss. They huddled behind Mingxi, not knowing what to do.
