Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 70: Snacks

The old and young in the Dingguo Mansion were seated together and having a great time; however, in the Bai family in Saozhu Lane, there was chaos and commotion. Lou Xinyue and Bai Rouer were fighting again, and Bai Junzhe had to use some effort to separate them.

In the end, Bai did not go to the clinic. She just sent Li Po to buy some ointment. By the evening, Bai had a high fever.

As a last resort, she had to send Mrs. Li to call for a doctor early in the morning. The Bai family had long been blacklisted by nearby clinics because of Bai Rouer's behavior of beating and scolding the doctors on duty, refusing to pay and smashing the medicine box. Mrs. Li went to two clinics but no doctor was found.

Mrs. Li was tired from walking, so she sat down in front of a letter-writing stall on the street. She took out a yellowed piece of paper from her bosom and asked the stall owner, who was wearing a patched scholar's shirt, "Please take a look at what is written on this."

"Two cents," said the stall owner.

Mrs. Li took out two copper coins with a distressed look and placed them on the table.

"This is a contract of sale, the name is Li Huanxiao." The stall owner picked up the paper, took a look at it and said.

Li Huanxiao, when Granny Li heard someone calling her this familiar yet strange name, she almost burst into tears. This is Granny Li's name, her parents gave her this name, as the name suggests, they hope to have a boy in the next pregnancy. No one has called Granny Li this name since she was sold during the famine at the age of eight.

Mrs. Li carefully took back the paper, folded it carefully, put it in her arms, touched it again, straightened her collar, pressed it through her clothes, stood up, and walked in the opposite direction of Broom Lane.

Ever since Mrs. Li's daughter sent her the message, she gave her son the monthly allowance and rewards she had saved over the years, as well as other valuables, one after another while going out to buy groceries.

Today, she took advantage of the time when Bai was asleep and she stayed in the room to take care of her, stole the key from Bai's waist and found the indenture. She knew that the box containing the indentures used to contain many indentures, but now, there was only one left, so she stole this one.

Unfortunately, she was illiterate. She thought that she was the only servant in the family, and this must be her indenture. But she was afraid of the unexpected, so she spent two cents to let someone take a look. Now that it was confirmed to be her indenture, how could she possibly go back to the Bai family?

She sold a bushel of brown rice to the then prosperous Marquis' Mansion. Even the late Marquis Bai was not born yet.

Mrs. Bai hadn't paid her monthly salary for four months. Her monthly salary was eight hundred coins, which was more than three taels of silver in four months. After she arrived at Saozhuo Lane, the work she did alone was equivalent to that of three or four people, so it was equivalent to almost four taels of silver.

If she were to be sold, she would probably only be sold for two or three taels. A servant of this age was not worth much, and no one was willing to buy her. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people, and she wouldn't be the only one left. Even if she stole the contract of sale, she didn't owe the Bai family anything.

She knew the Bai family too well. If they knew that she wanted to buy her indenture, they would not let her go without squeezing the whole family dry. She had no choice but to steal.

Little did she know that her every move was seen by the people who were watching her. When she turned into an empty alley, she was knocked unconscious and brought in front of Feng Ye.

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Qiao Lili was riding in a carriage on her way to Fengqiao Academy.

During dinner yesterday, Qiao Zhen asked shyly if he could have the maid bring snacks back to the academy for him every once in a while, because he always felt embarrassed to eat other people's food.

In the evening, after Qiao Lili waited for Qiao Zhen to go to bed, she called Xiaodong and Xiaoxi to talk. Only then did she know that the mothers of Qiao Zhen and her classmates would always send snacks to the academy once between breaks. This was because the growing boys would get hungry early in the afternoon and had to go home for dinner, so they would always go to class for an hour on an empty stomach.

The snacks delivered were eaten by the whole class together. Today, the mothers of several classmates delivered them, and tomorrow it was delivered by other mothers. In this way, we had delicious snacks to eat almost every afternoon.

Because Qiao Zhen's mother passed away early and his grandmother was old, he didn't want to bother her, so he had been eating snacks from his classmates every day for a long time. He didn't know what was going on before, but maybe his emotional intelligence has improved recently, and he gradually felt embarrassed.

Occasionally, you'll hear some gossip and ridicule; the world of children is not all about kindness.

Xiaodong glanced at Xiaoxi and said, "I once heard two young masters say that Qiao Zhen's sister must be very ugly, which is why her engagement was broken off. Zhao Chengxi's sister also came to deliver snacks, but Qiao Zhen's sister never came once. She must be too ugly to dare to go out."

This is a world where women have an extremely low status. If there is any mistake, it must be the women's fault. It is clearly a broken engagement and a fraudulent marriage, all of which have been confirmed by the emperor, but they only believe what they come up with.

Seeing Xiaodong saying this, Xiaoxi stopped hiding her feelings and said, "There are also people mocking the young master for not having a mother who loves him and a father who is not in the capital."

At this point, both of them relaxed and talked a lot of things.

Qiao Lili never thought that Zhen'er would encounter so many bad things in the academy. How come she didn't know about this in her previous life?

Haha, in her previous life, her heart was all on Bai Junzhe. Apart from running the shop left by her mother, she spent the rest of her time making boots. After Bai Junzhe came back, she married him very quickly. It must be because she didn't pay too much attention to Qiao Zhen, which led to Qiao Zhen not telling her the truth.

Another day when I want to beat my past life self to death.

Qiao Lili spent most of the day making four baskets of dim sum. Well, the two ugliest-looking dim sum were made by her, and she even burned her hands twice. However, the appearance did not affect the taste.

The snacks made by the cook were delicious and tasty. After all, this was a huge mansion of Duke Dingguo, so how could there not be a good snack chef?

When arriving at Fengqiao Academy, one had to register at the gate as carriages were not allowed to enter. Caiqin, Caiwei, Caiqi and Caixing carried baskets and followed Qiao Lili into Fengqiao Academy.

Cai Xing and Cai Qi each carried a basket with a jar of fruit wine and a jar of Ban Yue Zui in them. Well, in the end they followed Feng Wu Zui's suggestion and named the newly brewed Qi Ri Zui Ban Yue Zui. Anyway, they would not go out to buy it and would not brew a lot, so it didn't matter what it was called.

Although this Ban Yue Zui is brewed based on Qi Ri Zui, it is more than one level higher than Qi Ri Zui. It has a higher alcohol content, a mellower aroma, and is soft and palatable. It does not cause headaches after a hangover. This is because Doctor Feng Shen added a medicinal ingredient to the grain used to brew the wine. Although you cannot taste it, the effect is there.

Therefore, there is an essential difference between Half Moon Drunk and Seven Days Drunk, and they cannot be considered the same kind of wine. Therefore, giving them away as gifts will not have any impact on the future sales of Seven Days Drunk by Dazhe Manor.

In order to give Qiao Zhen a surprise, Qiao Lili and Qiao Zhen did not tell him anything when they were practicing martial arts in the martial arts field in the morning.