Chapter 14 Restaurant Experience (1)

Mrs. Du quietly pulled Caiwei's sleeve and whispered: "Wei'er, don't make trouble. If we don't buy coarse cloth, should we buy fine cotton cloth?"

Caiwei said as a matter of course: "Of course we should buy fine cotton cloth. Coarse cloth is rough. My younger brothers and sisters are young and have delicate skin. Wearing coarse cloth will hurt their skin."

Mrs. Du pinched the purse in her arms and hesitated. She also agreed with Caiwei's point of view and wanted the children to wear soft fine cotton cloth, but the price of one foot of fine cotton cloth could buy three feet of coarse cloth, and coarse cloth was durable and could not be easily worn out.

Caiwei saw through Mrs. Du's thoughts and couldn't help feeling sad. The reason why the mother hesitated was because she was afraid of poverty. How could someone who was just wandering on the edge of life and death with hunger take out a lot of silver to buy luxurious fine cotton cloth? If possible, the mother really wanted to spend a copper coin in half!

She lowered her eyes, then smiled and said: "Mother, just buy it with confidence. Although our family only has ten taels of silver now, we will have one hundred taels, one thousand taels, ten thousand taels in the future. In the end, there will be so much silver that you can't count it..."

Her smile was calm and distant, as if what she said was true, which made Mrs. Du laugh and said: "You kid, you just coax me. I dare not think about one hundred taels, one thousand taels, or ten thousand taels. As long as I have these ten taels, so that my children will no longer starve, I will be Amitabha! Forget it, I will do as you say this time!"

She naturally thought that her daughter was coaxing her. It was a blessing that the family was not starving, so how could she dare to expect anything else.   But even if she knew that her daughter was coaxing her, she felt very happy in her heart.

Encouraged by her daughter, Mrs. Du gritted her teeth and bought a piece of fine cotton cloth for each person in the family, four or five kilograms of high-quality cotton, some silk thread, soles and other things. After buying them, she actually packed two large bundles.

After sending the two away, the clerk weighed the silver in his hand and was so happy that his mouth was grinning.

The old shopkeeper slowly strolled out from the inner room holding a teapot, looking at the backs of the mother and daughter from a distance, stroking his white beard, thinking.

The clerk smiled and shook the silver in his hand, saying: "Old shopkeeper, I didn't expect that two poor country bumpkins are so rich. Look, they spent more than one or two taels of silver without blinking an eye."

The old shopkeeper hit the clerk on the head with a slap, sneering: "You kid, I told you not to look down on others, but you just didn't listen. To tell you the truth, although the mother and daughter are in a bad state now, the girl is a real phoenix life, and she will be extremely expensive in the future! And that woman will also be a dignified first-class lady in the future. You kid, you are not even worthy of carrying shoes for others, and you dare to laugh at others here?"

The clerk curled his lips and laughed: "Old shopkeeper, you are pretending to be a charlatan again ! "

The old shopkeeper sipped his tea and said slowly: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. Anyway, you will meet again in the future. When the time comes, you will know how powerful I am!"

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After leaving the cloth shop, Caiwei and Dushi each carried a big bag, but they still walked on the street with interest, buying some needles, thread, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar from time to time. When passing by a small restaurant with a clean front, Caiwei suggested going in to eat something to fill their stomach. They had been busy with the wild boar since morning, and they had not eaten anything yet. Her stomach had been rumbling for several times.

Dushi originally wanted to buy a few steamed buns on the roadside, which were delicious and economical, but when she thought of her daughter who almost starved to death yesterday and picked up a wild boar for nothing today, bringing a windfall to the family, she couldn't bear to refuse. She pinched her purse, made up her mind, and took her daughter in.