Chapter 440 - 440 Good News
440 Good News
The ox cart was too slow, and it would definitely be too late to make a round trip.
He had to quickly make popsicles and send them over while the popsicles were still available for sale.
“Oh, okay, okay! Leave it to me!” Xue Wufu immediately stopped complaining and went to hire a carriage to hurry home.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan finally said, “Sifu, prepare a bowl of rice noodles for Wufu. Wufu should have lunch before going.”
If he were to take the carriage home, he would probably finish his lunch by the time he reached home.
“Yes, we need to eat.” Xue Sifu didn’t want his brother to go hungry, so he asked Li Qingshu’s mother to make a bowl of rice noodles for his brother.
However, Xue Wufu stopped him. “There’s no need, no need. There’s a bun shop there. I’ll just buy a few meat buns and eat them on the way. Sifu, Jiang Yue, Xue Yan, I’ll be leaving then!”
Without waiting for a reply, he happily skipped away.
After buying the meat buns, he was not in a hurry to eat them. Instead, he went to hire a carriage. When he got into the carriage, the carriage brought back a few empty wooden boxes with him. Only then did he open the paper bag and gobbled up the meat buns inside.
Now that his family had money, he didn’t have to skim on the number of buns he wanted. In the past, when he came to town, he couldn’t even bear to buy a steamed bun.
Not long after Xue Wufu left, another large wooden box of ice arrived at home. There were also two buckets of sour plum juice on the ox cart. The other people at the stall couldn’t leave, so Xue Sifu went to help unload it, leaving the job of collecting money to Jiang Yue and Xue Yan.
One of the customers finished his ice and stood up to pay. “I waited in line for a long time yesterday but didn’t get to eat it. You said that you would give me a popsicle or give me three coins today, but I didn’t ask for a popsicle, so you naturally have to give me three coins.”
Jiang Yue didn’t pay much attention to the 30 people who didn’t get to eat the ice in the end. She looked at Xue Yan and tilted her head to check if there was such a person. Xue Yan nodded and she said, “Yes. You ordered a bowl of red bean ice and a bowl of cold rice noodles. That’s sixteen coins in total. If you convert it, you’ll only have to pay for thirteen coins.”
“You’re pretty smart.” The man laughed. He didn’t expect these children to speak so clearly and calculate the cost that quickly. “Alright, here you go. Keep the rest.”
Jiang Yue pa.s.sed the money to Xue Yan. She didn’t bring the small square pouch that Hehua made for her.
However, the reason why there were so many people lining up to eat ice cream was also because of Sifu’s promise of giving them a popsicle and three coins.
When Sifu helped unload the things from the ox cart and the sour plum juice was chilled again, the servant from the Pan Manor came again.
He was out of breath from running.
“M-my master said that the afternoon is fine too! However, it’s best to do it as soon as possible! It is still hot in the afternoon! S-sixty… huh… Sixty kilograms, right? Take the deposit!”
“Alright,” Xue Yan picked up his pen and started to write. As he wrote, he said, “The ice will be sent tomorrow. It will be sent to your residence every day around one thirty in the afternoon.”
“At that time, the sun will still be up. Alright, alright.” The servant was very satisfied and felt that he could go back to report on his mission confidently.
After that, a few more rich families came to order ice. They had no choice but to choose the late afternoon. It was better to buy ice than not have any at all. It was only two silver a day, so it meant nothing to them
Besides, they could still have ice at night too.