Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Snow of the Year
Another day passed, and the rations bottomed out, and in the summer evening, Rou sent Qingya to the Egret Academy to hand in the manuscript for money. She copied a total of thirty pages of manuscripts, and Qingya brought back six taels of silver.
Qing Ya said to Xia Wanrou: "Shen Xiuxiu thinks that you have copied very well girl, but the number is too small. If there is more next submission, he will give us an extra reward. β
Xia Wanrou understood as soon as she heard that it must be the Northern Academy urging Shen to edit, so Shen Editor used an extra reward to motivate her to work hard to transcribe.
She said to Qing Ya: "It seems that this work can't be done for a long time, we have to find a new way before Shen Xiu's side is finished." β
She knew that private bookstores could also transcribe books, but the money from private bookstores was too slow to make ends meet.
"No matter, let's go buy goat milk and jerky for Mi Mi first!" Xia Wanrou got up and asked Qingya to change her clothes for herself, "I'll also go out for a walk and see if I can find any way to make money." β
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, so the girl doesn't have to worry too much." Qing Ya soothed, "It's a big deal, let's send a message to King Lang's Mansion, the family was given by King Lang, and he can't watch the family starve to death in our house." β
Xia Wanrou frowned when she heard this, turned to look at Qing Ya, and said, "You are not allowed to say this again in the future." She couldn't wait to get as far away from King Lang as possible, how could she go to him again to ask for goat's milk and jerky. Goat's milk can't be put for a long time, you have to take fresh from time to time, if you find King Lang, won't they have to have a long-term relationship, this is the last thing Xia Wanrou wants to see.
"The servant knows." Qingya sighed in her heart.
The master and servant packed up and went straight to Qingyang Street. If it is cold today, there are few people going out, many shops are closed, only the shop on Qingyang Street, because the location is good and the rent is expensive, will be open until Chinese New Year's Eve.
They wandered around for a long time before they could buy goat's milk. As for the jerky, the jerky in the shop is marinated with salt and dogwood, and it is not good to eat it. In the end, after struggling for a long time, I went to the butcher's butcher's butcher's stall to buy more than 20 catties of lean meat, and bought a brazier, planning to go home and roast it by myself.
When I walked out of Qingyang Street, I saw many college students dressed as people walking on the road. Xia Wan pondered for a while, and remembered that today was the day of the holiday of Egret Academy.
"Xia Yinan is coming back." She muttered under her breath.
Qingya looked at Xia Wanrou and heard Xia Wanrou say again: "Lu Banjiang is also coming back." β
Qing Ya knew that Lu Banjiang was Xia Wanrou's ex-fiancΓ© and had given Xia Wanrou a letter of resignation, so she couldn't help but ask, "Girl, what are your plans?" β
"Intended?" Xia Wanrou asked Qingya blankly.
Qing Ya nodded and said, "Girl, don't think that the servant is arrogant, then Young Master Lu is too unkind, he just quits his family, he can exchange it back for Geng Ti, but he didn't write a letter of resignation, and the whole Lin'an City knew about it." Although it is not stated in the letter of divorce why the girl was abandoned, it has affected the girl's reputation, and maybe it will affect the ...... in the future."
When she said this, she paused for a moment and continued: "Now that the girl has not gone to be that fat girl, he may have to turn back, what are you going to do?" β
"There's no way he'll turn back." Xia Wanrou showed a hint of mockery on her face, "Don't you say it too, he wrote me a letter of resignation." If he turned back, wouldn't he tell the people of Quanlincheng that he had taken a wrong leave of absence from me before? It is impossible for Lu Banjiang to make people think that he is a person who goes back on his word. β
"It's getting colder and colder, it looks like it's going to snow, let's go back." Xia Wanrou tidied up her hat, raised her feet and left.
Qingya hurriedly followed.
Just walked two steps, I heard a surprised and hesitant voice behind me: "Is it the eldest sister?" β
Xia Wanrou turned around and saw Xia Yinan, who was carrying a book basket, smiling and standing not far behind her with his classmates.
Seeing her turn around, Xia Yinan said in surprise: "I knew it was my sister, I could see it by looking at my figure!" Let's go, I'm going back with my sister. β
After he finished speaking, he quickly caught up with Xia Wanrou and said happily: "Eldest sister, let's go!" β
Xia Wanrou looked at him coldly, Xia Yinan in the previous life was also so well-behaved in front of her, if it weren't for the fact that she saw him enter the Fat Jade Workshop with his fox friends later, she wouldn't know Xia Yinan's true face.
Xia Yinan didn't notice his sister's coldness, his gaze fell on Qing Ya: "Sister, who is this?" β
Qingya is from the eldest princess's mansion, and her figure and temperament have nothing to say. Such a young girl, following Xia Wanrou, looking like a maid, Xia Yinan suddenly wanted to be crooked.
Many sons of large families are thirteen or fourteen years old, and the family will arrange for them to be young maids and teach them how to learn about bed. He is thirteen years old this year, and he is the only seedling of the Xia family, and his grandmother has long said that she hopes that he will grow up quickly and spread the branches and leaves for the Xia family.
This maid sister must have been bought by his grandmother to make him a bedside maid!
Xia Yinan was embarrassed, he blushed at Qingya, and his ears were red.
"I know, sister, you don't need to be introduced, let's go home quickly!"
Old Mrs. Xia and the Xia Li family put the hope of the Xia family turning over on Xia Yinan, and looked forward to him studying hard in the Egret Academy, and they didn't tell him anything about the recent events in the family. He even sent a letter to Egret Academy two days ago, telling him not to go home this time. Xia Yinan missed the food at home and ran back without permission.
"Girl?" Qing Ya felt that Xia Yinan's eyes were a little strange, and leaned towards Xia Wanrou's side.
Xia Wan Judo: "Go back." β
Seeing this, Xia Yinan thought to himself, this bedside maid and eldest sister get along so well, they must want to stay in the Xia family. If she flatters me well, then you can also consider making her an aunt.
He thought crankily all the way, and soon arrived at the door of Xia's house.
The little lady walked slowly, and when they arrived, the owner who sold goat's milk and the butcher who sold meat had already delivered the things to the door of Xia's house and were waiting. Xia Wanrou thanked the two bosses and moved things into the house with Qingya.
Light snow was already falling from the sky, and it was snowing for the first time this year, earlier than usual.
The two of them had a hard time moving, Xia Yinan didn't want to join hands when he saw it, he said excitedly: "Eldest sister, our family has made a fortune, buy so much meat!" β
"Yes." He turned his mind and said, "You must have seen that I was studying too hard, so you plan to make it into sauce and let me take it to the academy to eat with my classmates, right?" β
Qingya glanced at Xia Yinan in surprise, but did not speak, and moved the goat's milk to Xia Wanrou's room, and then moved the meat to the kitchen, and cut the meat into strips with Xia Wanrou.
Xia Yinan felt that Qing Ya was very satisfied with her physique when she looked at her, and she was embarrassed to go to the kitchen for a while, so she shouted loudly to the kitchen: "Sister, I'll go back to the room to rest, you make me a meat slice soup first, I'm hungry." β