Time pa.s.sed by day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the New Year. Li Qingling had sent a group of rabbits to Fumanlou, and when the shopkeeper saw her, it was as if he had seen his parents again.After waiting for so long, he finally found this rabbit. It wasn"t easy at all!
The shopkeeper gave the rabbit the money and gave another 300 taels of silver to Li Qingling, "Miss Xiao Ling, this is the first share of the egg cake"s money, 300 taels, you can count it." On the original foundation, Fumanlou had produced many different flavors of egg cake, thus the sales volume of the egg cake in Fumanlou had always been good.
Otherwise, Li Qingling would not be able to get so many points.
Li Qingling endured the excitement in her heart and calmly took the three hundred silver from the shopkeeper"s hands. Without even looking at it, she placed it in her bosom.
"Thank you, storekeeper uncle." To the villagers, these three hundred silver taels were wealth that they had never seen before in their entire lives.
But for Li Qingling, this was far from enough. The children at home had to study and burn money, she had to work even harder to earn money!
The shopkeeper laughed and said that it was impolite. Li Qingling was in his heart now, and was Fumanlou"s money lender.
Li Qingling spoke a few more words to the shopkeeper before following Liu Zhimo out of Fumanlou.
The moment they walked out of Fumanlou, Li Qingling"s face revealed a little excitement. This was the first time she received so much money, so it would be false if she wasn"t excited.
She laughed and pulled on Liu Zhimo"s sleeves, "Zhi Moge, shall we save this money first?" With this fortune in her possession, she felt a little afraid.
If she was stolen by a thief, then she really would have no way to even cry. It would be better to save it.
"Alright …" Liu Zhimo nodded. Seeing that there were so many people on the street, he extended his hand and grabbed Li Qingling"s hand, bringing her to the money bank to save.
After storing the three hundred silver, Li Qingling heaved a sigh of relief.
"Alright, you can go buy New Year"s gifts now." Li Qingling said with a relaxed smile, "I bought a lot of things this time." It was New Year"s, so she didn"t want to be wronged by her family"s children. Clothes and other things must be bought, and New Year"s products must also be bought. They could be used to entertain the village children who came to pay New Year respects.
Seeing Li Qingling being so happy, he of course would not oppose it. Since the conditions at home were good, he wanted to let them have a happy New Year.
He followed behind Li Qingling. Whatever Li Qingling bought, he would extend her hand to take, treating herself as a laborer.
This was the first time that Li Qingling bought it so freely, if not for him calling her, she wouldn"t have been able to stop herself.
"Sorry, I bought the magic." She scratched her head in embarra.s.sment. It was very scary for women to go shopping. This time, she hadn"t even completely used up all of her power! Is that enough? What do you still need? "
"I"ve bought all of them. That"s enough." So it turned out that her previous purchases had suppressed her. This time, she had revealed her true nature!
He was a little scared, a little crazy.
"Sure, you wait here. I"ll call an oxcart over first." When Li Qingling finished speaking, she did not wait for Liu Zhimo"s voice and disappeared.
With so many things, if they weren"t called an oxcart, she and Liu Zhimo wouldn"t be able to take them back.
Liu Zhimo shook his head helplessly, resigned himself to his fate and stood in his original position waiting for her.
About fifteen minutes later, Li Qingling called for an oxcart. The two of them carried everything onto the oxcart, and rushed back home.
At this time, many people from the village came to the town to buy New Year"s gifts. When they saw Li Qingling and Liu Zhimo returning with an ox cart filled with goods, their eyes widened.
Previously, when they pitied Li Qingling and her parents, their days would be very miserable. However, they didn"t expect that other people"s lives would be so much better than theirs.
"Hey, Spring Flower, why didn"t you call your granddaughter and have them ride you?" Someone saw Madam Liu, who had her head lowered and was walking with large strides, smiling as he spoke to her.
Madam Liu raised her head to look at the woman, and snorted: "That pressure, I"m afraid you will fall down." She would never admit it in front of so many people. If she screamed in fear, but Li Qingling did not dare to give her a ride, that would be too embarra.s.sing.
In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, she wisely chose not to scream.
The woman looked at Madam Liu and laughed, who didn"t know that Li Qingling"s relationship with Madam Liu was not good, but she did not expose him, and said: "Xiao Ling has bought a cart full of New Year stuff, there should be you, right?" If Madam Liu didn"t do that, she would have enjoyed Li Qingling"s bliss.
Some people were like this. They were the ones who came up with it. They weren"t worth sympathizing with!
"Of course there is. I"m her biological grandmother, how does she look when she doesn"t have anything to show me during New Year"s?" Madam Liu raised her head, and gave a very definite answer.
No matter how bad the relationship between Li Qingling and her was, she had to do whatever she had to do. Otherwise, others would poke her in her back.
When the crowd heard this, they all began to praise her. "Spring Flower, you"re lucky to have such a good granddaughter."
Madam Liu snorted again, and did not reply, but the expression on her face was extremely imposing.
Everyone mocked her in their hearts, but no one revealed it on their faces.
Li Qingling didn"t know about any of this. She followed Liu Zhimo back to his house and told him to bring the stuff out.
After looking at the goods for so many years, the two children grinned and ran back home happily while hugging their things.
After moving all the things back, Li Qingling made the children line up and stand. She took out their clothes and distributed them in sets for each of them.
"We can try if it fits or not."
"Are these both mine?" Li Qingfeng"s eyes widened, after getting two sets of new clothes in one go, his eyes turned red from fright.
In the past, when his parents were here, he didn"t even have new clothes to wear during the new year. He could only look at Li Qingfu in envy.
Looking at Li Qingfeng"s reddened eyes, Li Qingling knew how he felt. She felt a little sour in her heart, and nodded with a smile on her face, "Yes, it"s all yours. Go and try it out. She felt a little upset that her brother was so happy about just two new sets of clothes.
Li Qingfeng nodded his head heavily, he carried his clothes and ran into the room, while Liu Zhiyan followed along with a smile on his face.
Liu Zhirou hugged her clothes hard as she tried to walk in with her short legs, but she was hugged by her and kissed her on the cheek. "Big sister will help you change." She carried Liu Zhirou into Liu Zhimo"s room.
It was fine as long as Liu Zhirou could wear new clothes, anyone could change.
The three children came out after changing their clothes. They looked at each other, then they started laughing.
The thing that children look forward to the most is that not only are there new clothes, meat, and red packets for the new year.
Li Qingfeng carefully touched his new clothes, looked at Li Qingling, and asked her why did he and Zhi Moge not have new clothes.
"We have them too. We"ll wear them on the new day for you to see." Li Qingling laughed: "You guys try another set for Zhi Moge to see, I"ll go cook for you guys." She smiled at Liu Zhimo, then took her things to the kitchen.
On New Year"s Eve, Li Qingling carried two kilograms of pork on her back and went to Old Lee with a few bags of snacks. Since the entrance to the Old Lee"s courtyard was open, she directly went in and saw Old Li sitting in the courtyard smoking.
Old Li looked at Li Qingling with a complicated expression.
"My home is still waiting for me to go back to cook. I"ll be leaving first." Li Qingling said, and without waiting for Old Li to speak, she turned and left.
Old Li looked at Li Qingling"s back, her mouth moving but she did not say anything.
Madam Liu walked out of the kitchen, looked at Old Li and asked him, "I heard Li Qingling"s voice just now, is she here?"
"Yeah, give us New Year"s gift."
As soon as Old Li heard about the New Year, Mrs Liu immediately took it from him. "What did you bring?" She lowered her head to look, and saw that it was a pig"s head and a few packets of snacks. His face revealed an expression of dissatisfaction, "Seeing that she bought a cart full of New Year"s products, he sent such a small amount. He"s so stingy.
Old Li coldly glanced at Madam Liu, "If you"re not satisfied, then take it back to her!" He wasn"t an ignorant person. Just a few packets of pastries were already expensive enough, yet this woman was still unsatisfied. She was truly greedy.
With their relationship with Li Qingling, it wasn"t anything strange that she didn"t bring the New Year stuff. However, she did bring it, and she even took it pretty well, which proves that in her heart, she still had a grandfather like him.
Old Li was quite satisfied with Li Qingling knowing how to conduct himself.
Hearing Old Li"s words, Madam Liu choked. She snorted and carried the thing back to her room and placed it there. When she had the thing in her hands, he still wanted her to take it out, so there was no need to even think about it.
Li Qingling did not care about the matters of the Old Li family, she was currently cooking dinner at the Liu family. She had discussed it with Liu Zhimo before.
After the New Year"s Eve dinner, they would return to their homes to keep watch.
On New Year"s Day, Li Qingling was still cooking. The few children were very happy as they happily ate their New Year"s Eve meal. Then, Li Qingling brought his brother and sister back to their house.
It snowed while on vigil.
When Li Qingling saw it, she ran over to the window to take a look, "Xiao Feng, come take a look, it"s snowing." During this period of time, there had been no snow. The villagers were somewhat worried that it would not snow. They didn"t expect it to snow on New Year"s Eve. This way, the villagers wouldn"t have to worry about it.
Hearing that, Li Qingfeng also ran over to the window and looked outside. It really was snowing, and it was still snowing quite heavily.
He was so excited that he wanted to go out and take a look. If Li Qingling did not let him go, he was afraid that would feel extremely cold.
He had no choice but to watch from the window.
When it was midnight, Li Qingfeng was sleepy, so Li Qingling didn"t let him guard, and let him go to sleep.
He originally wanted to persevere, but he really couldn"t, so he ran off to sleep.
With him sleeping like this, only Li Qingling remained on guard.
Li Qingling kept guard until the latter half of the night. She was a little sleepy, and just as she was about to stand up and walk around, she heard a burst of noise coming from the roof.
With an inexplicable panic, she started to walk towards the room.