Scholar's Sweetheart

Three hours past ten, the carriages and horses of the restaurant had not arrived yet.

Aunt Xie looked worriedly at the broken ears that filled half of the courtyard. "Why aren't the people from this restaurant here yet?" "Don't say …"

"What are you talking about, woman?" Xie Daniu shouted with a sullen face.

"Xintong, you mentioned the address to the restaurant owner, right?" Grandma Qiu asked worriedly.

Soong Xintong nodded. "I did."

"There must have been a delay." Grandma Qiu guessed.

Xie Daniu guessed: "Our village is far away, and there is a big rock blocking the entrance. Could it be that we didn't notice and went the wrong way?"

"Righteous, go to the village entrance and take a look." Grandma Qiu instructed her eldest grandson.

Xie Yi immediately agreed and ran towards the village entrance.

Soong Xintong also felt very nervous. She glanced at the newly renovated roof and said, "Grandma, Uncle Xie, don't worry. Sit down for a while. I'm going to go cook."

"What kind of food?" Aunt Xie felt that since it was such a hot time, what was there to cook?

"Uncle Xie is helping me fix the roof today, so I have to say something. Aunt Xie'er, please take a seat first. Big Treasure is going to pour tea for Aunt." Soong Xintong went into the kitchen and started cooking.

"No need, no need. Let's go back and eat." Grandma Qiu replied.

"Don't, I made nine people's meals. You won't be able to eat if you leave." Soong Xintong mixed half of the crushed rice with the white rice and cooked four catties of rice.

Grandma Qiu walked in and saw that the rice had already been cooked. She didn't want to delay any longer, so she helped to light the fire in front of the hall. "Daniu, Sophora Flower, it's still early. Both of you go up the mountain and help Xintong chop some firewood."

"Alright." Uncle Xie immediately answered.

Soong Xintong quickly said, "There's no need to trouble Uncle Xie."

"What's the trouble? We even have to help you with your work when we're eating here?" Grandma Qiu interrupted Soong Xintong, "You and that storekeeper have an official document, right?" He said he would come? "

"It was erected." Soong Xintong thought back to the document carefully. There shouldn't be any loopholes, right?

"That's good. If he lied to you, I'll have your uncle find you!" Grandma Qiu snapped.

"Alright." Soong Xintong agreed with a smile. Afterwards, she went to the well and took out all of the fatty sausages and pork chops, placing them on the stage.

Grandma Qiu couldn't help but swallow her saliva when she saw the fat and thin streaky pork. After Soong Xintong cut a small piece, she said, "Enough, don't make too much of it. You can't finish it all. Leave the rest for yourself."

"Grandma, there are only three or four catties here. It's not much." Soong Xintong cut all the streaky pork into blocks and then steamed half a catty of soybeans from the jar with hot water. It would be used to cook the beans later.

Following that, he cut off half of the rest of the intestines and chopped up a bit of ginger and garlic.

"grandma, the car is here." Xie Yi's anxious voice sounded from outside.

Soong Xintong ran into the yard, but Grandma Qiu didn't follow her out. Instead, she stared at the fire while looking out through the door at the corner.

The one driving the carriage was Zhu San, who greeted her from afar, "Miss Soong."

"Zhu San, it's you." Soong Xintong replied with a smile, then told Dabao to bring another bowl.

"I'll go, I'll go." Xie Yi walked into the kitchen with a face filled with joy. He quickly brought out a bowl of tea and placed it on the table.

"Sit down and have some tea." Soong Xintong called over Zhu San and the other two coachmen, "Manager Soong, why isn't he here?"

"He was going to come personally, but he sent me out on a temporary errand." Zhu San gulped down the tea and wiped his face with cold water, "If I didn't have this little brother, I would have missed him."

Xie Yi said, "When I was at the village entrance, I saw three big carriages which couldn't find the way, so I went up to ask. I didn't expect it to be true."

"Our village has one thing that's hard to find." Soong Xintong smiled in embarrassment.

"That's right, there's a big rock blocking the road, and those who don't know about it really don't know that there's such a big village inside." That's right, there's a big rock blocking the road, and those who don't know about it really don't know that there's such a big village. Zhu San said.

"Scholars don't like poor people like us. They go to famous mountains and rivers." Soong Xintong poured more tea for Zhu San and the others.

"Not necessarily." Zhu San put down the bowl and looked at the neatly cleaned broken ears. He was very satisfied, "Then let's weigh it now."

"Alright." Soong Xintong pulled the stools apart, revealing an open space for them to carry the goods.

Both Xie Yi and Xie Hao helped to move the goods, and in less than an hour, they had already moved all the broken ears.

The accountant, who was brought by Zhu San, moved the abacus and said, "A total of 2200 pounds, a total of 15 taels of money."

Soong Xintong calculated in her heart. She had dug up a total of one thousand and seven hundred pounds of Xie Family, but she had only dug up five hundred pounds, so she wanted to give six or eight hundred taels of silver.

Xie Yi and Xie Hao, who were at the side, gaped in shock. More than they had earned in two years.

"All of you give the young lady money?" The accountant had prepared a lot of crushed silver and a lot of money.

"Give me some broken pieces, I still have a little more copper coins." Soong Xintong thought to split the silver with Xie Family later.

"Okay, I want some." The accountant handed the money bag to Soong Xintong.

Soong Xintong had already counted them when the accountant was counting the money, so she didn't count anymore. She held the heavy bag of money and thanked the accountant.

"Miss Soong, we'll be back the next day." Zhu San said.

Soong Xintong nodded. "Sorry for troubling you. If you don't want the goods, please remember to tell me in advance."

"Of course." Zhu San greeted the other cars and was about to leave.

"Stay for dinner." Soong Xintong invited them with great hospitality.

"No need, we still have to rush to the other restaurants." After Zhu San said that, he pulled the carriage along the path beside the stream and walked towards the village entrance.

Xie Daniu, who just came back with the firewood, saw the figures of three large carriages leaving. When he saw the empty yard, he couldn't help but raise his voice: "Sold?"

"Dad, I sold it." Xie Yi still had a gaping mouth, "They've all been sold, and they even said that they would come back in the future when the day comes."

"That would be great." Xie Daniu laughed until his chest was shaking. "That's great!"

Soong Xintong also smiled and said with her eyes bent, "In the future, I will ask Uncle Xie and Aunt to help out, and dig a little more."

"Helping you is helping ourselves, right?" Aunt Xie was also grinning from ear to ear. "How much did you sell it for?"

Soong Xintong counted out eleven to eighteen silver coins and gave them to Aunt Xie, "Aunt, I have six to eight gold coins for the discount, as well as five silver coins that I borrowed from my father when he was sick. I'll return them to Aunt now."

Aunt Xie, holding the silver taels, was so excited that she couldn't speak.

Xie Daniu was not too excited. Instead, he asked, "Xintong, do you still have money after paying the money back? Just take it and use it. "

"There are still others. Won't they be selling more in two days?" "When the time comes, there will still be some silver to earn some money." Soong Xintong felt less pressured after she returned the five taels of silver. "Uncle Xie, I'm really sorry for the money that I owed your family."

"What's wrong with that? Ah Pa and I are good brothers, why are you talking about that?" Xie Daniu said, "If you return it to us, then what about the other families?"

"I'll slowly return it after a few days." Soong Xintong was confident that if she was given another ten days, she would definitely return it.

"Why don't you take these silver and return it to the other families first? You can return it to us when you have more money in the future." Xie Daniu snatched the silver from Aunt Xie's hands and gave it to Soong Xintong.

Soong Xintong hurriedly dodged it. She took a peek at Aunt Xie's ugly expression and said, "Uncle Xie, quickly put it away. Don't worry about us, I will return it as soon as possible. It's the same as owing you guys."

Xie Daniu sighed, "Alright then. If you need money, go to Uncle."

Soong Xintong heaved a sigh of relief. "I understand, Uncle."