Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 48 - 46 Difficulty on the Way Home_2

Chapter 48: Chapter 46: Difficulty on the Way Home_2

Chapter 48 -46: Difficulty on the Way Home_2

Xiao Fuzi brought the guests over and excused himself: “Young Master Shen, Mrs.

Shen, young gentlemen and ladies, please enjoy your meal at your leisure, if you need anything, you can ring the bell for service, I will take my leave.”

“Thank you for your help.” Shen Chengyao replied.

Their family didn’t have the habit of not talking during meals or sleep, so while eating, Shen Chengyao asked what had happened, and Jinghao vividly relayed the whole story.

Shen Chengyao felt as if a large pie had fallen from the sky, making his head spin.

His family had been experiencing an unusual amount of good fortune lately.

Recalling Mrs.

Liu’s words about Master Yunfa, he felt both delighted and worried.

“Father, did you manage to find the contractor?” Xiao’er asked, remembering what Shen Chengyao had gone to do previously.

“I did.

His current job will be done in a couple of days, and he’ll be able to start building our house the day after tomorrow.

He’ll try to finish it before New Year so we can move into our new home.”

“There will be a lot of things to be busy with next.

Tomorrow, you’ll need to get people to clear the wasteland for the house, buy bricks, tiles, beams, and furniture…” Xiao’er listed out one by one.

“We haven’t told my parents about our plan to buy land and build a house.” Mrs.

Liu suddenly remembered and spoke out.

The family was silent for a moment, then quickened their eating pace.

They needed to hurry back home to get things done.

After eating, Liu Shi had finished feeding her baby girl and the family prepared to leave the restaurant for the cloth shop to buy cloth and scraps to make dolls.

Liu Shi said, “There are four cloth stores in the city.

Why don’t we collect leftover fabric from all the stores?” She had seen in the morning how profitable it was to use scraps to make silk flowers and dolls, and doing needlework wasn’t tiring.

Now that Xiao’er had already signed contracts, they needed more scraps to make samples.

Xiao’er agreed, “Then dad and mom can take the bullock cart to get the leftovers from the farther cloth stores, while my brothers and I go to the same cloth store as last time.

After you finish, you can pick us up there, okay?”

Shen Chengyao agreed and took the three siblings to the largest cloth shop in the county.

Then he and Liu Shi took the bullock cart to the other three cloth stores.

The three siblings went into Jixiang Cloth Store where Xiao’er carefully checked the cloth, chose a thicker cotton fabric to make the down jackets, and then chose two medium-priced satin suits for each of them.

Xiao’er chose rose red and light purple for herself, purple and autumn fragrance for Liu Shi, Shen Chengyao chose dark blue and universal blue, the two brothers chose silver grey and lake blue respectively.

Then they chose two sets of ready-made clothes for Master Shen and Mrs.

Zhuang Lin according to their sizes.

Seeing that Xiao’er bought a lot, the shopkeeper was smiling till his eyes almost closed.

Business had been especially good recently.

With New Year coming, many people came to buy fabric to make clothes.

Their ready-made clothes had sold quite a lot as well.

Seeing the increased amount of scraps, he understood.

When he heard Xiao’er wanted scraps, he only charged twenty coins for five bags of scraps.

Xiao’er spent a total of twenty taels and three hundred and thirty-six coins.

The shopkeeper, seeing Xiao’er was generous, also charged six coins less.

After buying the fabric and waiting for a while, Shen Chengyao came over in the bullock cart.

The cart was loaded with ten bags of scraps.

Xiao’er thought of the five bags she had, and couldn’t help but think they had bought too much.

But they would come in handy later!

It seemed like they would need to hire a bullock cart to go home, as there was no more space for them to sit.

The shop assistant helped to move the thing Xiao’er bought onto the bullock cart, and Shen Chengyao used hemp rope to tie them securely.

He told Liu Shi to take the children to the city gate to ride the bullock cart home, and walked ahead.

Generally, there will be some farm households with bullock carts at the city gate.

Taking advantage of the market day, they would come out to take passengers.

Usually, they take people between the town and the county.

Each bullock cart can take ten people, charging five coins each, earning fifty coins in one trip.

When Xiao’er and his party arrived at the city gate, there was a bullock cart waiting, but there were already eight people in the cart.

Liu Shi thought since there were three children, she wanted to ask if they could squeeze in a bit.

Fortunately, two people on the cart were from the same village, so she thought there would be no problem.

However, the other people on the cart had no objections, but Aunt Wang from the same village strongly disagreed.

“No, coachman, there’s already eight people here if you force in twelve, do you want to crush me?

You four are like five with the one on the back.

You could take up half a cart by yourselves.

Can’t you wait for the next one?

What are you trying to achieve by insisting on this one?

If I get hurt because of the squeeze, will you be responsible?” Aunt Wang ranted, hands on her hips, acting like a shrew.

Everyone looked at the city gate.

Most of the people who came to the market had already left, and there was no chance for the next bullock cart.

“Aunt Wang, only because this is the last bullock cart am I thinking about squeezing in.”

“No bullock cart, then you can walk!

Who made you have so many people!” Aunt Wang had just seen Shen Chengyao driving a bullock cart full of purchases, and although she didn’t know what they were, she did see the fabric, which made her immensely jealous, so she deliberately made things difficult for Liu Shi and the others.

The coachman was an honest man, eager to make more silver, but since Aunt Wang boarded first, it wouldn’t be right to force her off, so he said nothing.

Liu Shi saw that Aunt Wang was unyielding and was about to tell Jingrui that she, Xiao’er, and Jinghao would take the bullock cart home while she and he would walk home.

At that moment, a carriage pulled up and stopped on the side.

Driiving was Di Zhaowei’s manservant.

Xiao Fuzi got out of the carriage and walked over, bowed to Liu Shi and the children, “Mrs.

Shen, young masters, and Miss Xiao’er, my master invites you to get in the carriage.

He’s heading in the same direction and can give you a ride.”