Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

Three bowls of plain noodles cost nine cents. After paying the money, Su Qingying asked the noodle seller: "Uncle, how to get to Luji Grocery Store?"

The noodle seller took the coin and pointed the way with a smile: "Follow this road to the end. Do you see the cloth shop? Turn right and you'll be there in a few steps. If you can't read, you can only read." The basket on the door. There was a big basket nailed to the door of his house.

"Okay, thank you, sir."

Su Qingying put her purse back into her arms and wanted to hold the twins' hands. She found Xiao Qingyang looking at the copper plate in the noodle seller's hand with a heartbroken look on his face, and couldn't help laughing.

Thinking about the few copper coins in my wallet, I felt a little uncomfortable. I don’t know how those two honest parents hid these coins under my step-grandma’s eyes.

The three of them left the snack stall, and Su Qingying took the twins straight to their destination, "Lu Ji Grocery Store".

It was the first time for the twins to come to the town. Although they had already passed the morning market, there were still some people in the town, and the shops were not closed, so they did not look deserted. Unlike the town next door, I heard that there is only a morning market every day. After the morning market, there is almost no one in the town, just like a big market put together by several villages.

Their Fengting Town is a big town. There are hundreds of households in the town, and there are only one or two thousand households in each lower county. Therefore, the liveliness of Fengting Town is not inferior to that of Pingchuan County, which is dozens of kilometers away.

When the twins entered the town for the first time, their eyes were straight. Their hands were held tightly by their sister, but their eyes were glued to the shop next to them. The passing children jumped past them, and the two brothers and sisters chased them with envious expressions.

It made Su Qingying feel distressed.

So I slowed down my pace and followed them, explaining something to them from time to time. In Su Qingying's memory, she had been to the town several times, but she didn't take a closer look. She just handed over the embroidery to the embroidery shop and that was it.

So at this time, she also watched it with gusto.

I saw that the streets of the town were relatively clean, with numerous shops on both sides, the shop flags rustling in the breeze, and the buildings on both sides had an antique feel.

As I approached the cloth shop at the corner, I saw various kinds of cloth stacked on the shelves inside, including plain cloth, floral cloth, silk and satin, and so on. The store also displays a variety of ready-to-wear, including men's and women's clothing, and even children's clothing. The two brothers and sisters couldn't help but stare straight at him, pinching the corners of their colorfully patched clothes, with longing in their eyes.

He looked down and lowered his head, but couldn't help but look up again. It made Su Qingying feel distressed.

Their big house now doesn't even have enough to eat, so buying new clothes is a no-brainer. Even if you buy it, it won't fall on them. Su Qingying pulled them forward for two steps and soon turned into another street.

The two siblings looked up at Su Qingying as if they had done something wrong. Su Qingying smiled at them and comforted them: "When my sister earns money, I will buy it for you. Buy cloth, clothes, shoes and socks. Buy a lot of them." , let you change it every day.”

"Yeah." The two siblings grinned and nodded desperately at Su Qingying.

I never questioned Su Qingying's words.

The three of them walked a few steps and soon arrived in front of the "Lu Ji Grocery Store" with a large radish basket nailed to the door.

This street is called South Street, not the main street. It's also past the morning market, and only a few pedestrians pass by in a hurry.

There were not many customers in Lu Ji's grocery store. Su Qingying stood there for a while and only saw two or three customers entering. After the customers left, they saw that in the crowded store, there was only one clerk moving back and forth in front of the shelves, moving items in and out. Looking inside again, I saw no one else.

Su Qingying took the twins around the grocery store and saw that the shelves were full of goods, including oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, rice, noodles and cereals, as well as bowls, chopsticks and dustpans.

The young man greeted her warmly. Su Qingying walked around twice without buying anything. She even asked him a few questions. The young man was not impatient at all, and finally sent her to her with a smile on her face. At the entrance of the store, I turned around and went into the store to tidy up.

Su Qingying stood at the door of the store for a while, thought for a while, then pulled the twins into the pastry shop diagonally opposite the grocery store.

The aroma of the pastry shop filled the air, filled with the sweet smell of pastries. Not only did the twins swallow their saliva, Su Qingying also looked at it with interest.

There is a flag in each basket, recording the name and price of the cake. Cloud cake, Poria cake, plum blossom cake, bean yellow, mung bean cake, red bean cake, sesame pancake, peach blossom cake, cold cake, grass cake, walnut cake, almond cake...

The three siblings looked straight at each other.

There was no one in the store at the moment. The fat female shopkeeper was very fond of the twins who looked alike. She teased them a little and enthusiastically took the sample cakes on the plate for the twins to eat.

The two children entered the town for the first time, with curiosity and timidity in their eyes. When they saw the enthusiastic shopkeeper, they did not dare to reach out even if the other party had no ill intentions. Seeing the plate being handed to him, he took two steps back, grabbed the corner of Su Qingying's clothes, timidly looked up at the fat shopkeeper, and then looked up at Su Qingying.

"Take it and eat it, they are all for tasting." The fat aunt said with enthusiasm on her face.

Su Qingying saw that she really didn't care about the two or three pieces of cake, so she gently pushed the two brothers and sisters: "Eat it, try it and see which one is delicious. We will also buy some for our parents to take home later."

When the two brothers and sisters heard that they were going to finish the meal and choose delicious food for their parents to take back, their eyes lit up and they reached out to take it.

"Thank you, aunt."

"Thank you, aunt."

"Hey, you're so good. How old are you?"

"Six years old."

"Six years old? I thought you were only four or five years old. You look really alike, are you twins?"

Su Qingying smiled as she watched the two little things eating small bites while talking to the fat aunt.

Suddenly a piece of cake was handed to her mouth: "Sister, you eat."

Another piece of cake was also handed over: "Sister, eat it."

"Sister, if you don't want to eat, you can eat." Su Qingying pushed away the cake that the twins handed to her mouth.

"These two children are really sensible." The fat aunt said to Su Qingying.

Su Qingying nodded in agreement and looked at them with a smile.

Seeing them chatting happily with the fat aunt, they no longer felt timid at the beginning, which comforted me. Su Qingying saw that the fat aunt was shrewd and yet enthusiastic, and she had some thoughts in her mind.

Seeing her turn around and pour tea for the three of them, he took it and took a sip, then asked her about Lu Ji.

It was a rare occasion for the fat aunt to have someone chat with her, so she started talking non-stop.

"Lu Ji has everything you want to buy. No, it's the shop opposite. It's been open for more than ten years. The beer in this town is pretty good and the price is fair. You're here at the right time. His wife is the boss. No, you can be less talkative. Her boss's wife is a shrewd person. When an old farmer from the country delivers something, she would like to make it worthless. A penny is as big as a basket. Just like the basket hanging at his door."

The fat aunt curled her lips and sneered, her words filled with disdain for Lu Ji's wife.

I don’t know if I had some disagreements with the host’s wife, and I said some unpleasant things about her.

Su Qingying listened for a long time, and after synthesizing the information she had learned before, she finally understood something about the Lu family.

The three siblings sat in the cake shop for a while, selected two or three kinds of cakes, weighed a few taels each, collected enough to pack a pound, and were ready to leave.

Su Qingying was cash-strapped, so after sitting for a while, she bought a pound of cakes. The two little ones ate some of the cakes, and the three of them drank a pot of tea.

Su Qingying was quite embarrassed.

The fat aunt was quite generous and didn't care at all. The weigher still held his head high and gave two or three taels more. Before leaving, he rubbed the twins several times and warmly greeted them to come back next time.

Xiao Qingxing hugged the cakes in her arms tightly, and turned around to wave goodbye to the fat aunt as she walked out. The fat aunt pulled her, touched and kneaded her, and wished she could just leave her in the store.

After leaving the pastry shop, Su Qingying took the twins and stood in the shadows, looking at Lu Ji opposite. After such a long meeting, except for a few guests coming in and out sporadically, there was still only the little guy.

Su Qingying felt that she couldn't wait for that person today.

I felt a little regretful.

I took the two little brothers and sister for a few steps, thinking that it was a rare trip to the town, so I took the twins and walked around some main streets.

I was walking to a wine shop on North Street when I saw a table of young men having a drink and joking.

Su Qingying was about to pull the twins away quickly when she heard a man shout loudly: "Lu Bocheng, you drink so little, are you planning to save the wine for the wedding day?"

Su Qingying stopped and looked up.