jdhmnovel Chapter 148 Shopping and Watching the Fun
Chapter 148 Shopping and Watching the Fun
Before leaving, Bai Jingzhou specifically informed the shop owner that they did not plan to go further into the mountain due to heavy snow.
The shop owner felt a little regretful. Recently, they had received a lot of excellent mountain products from Gu Wenxuan and others. Even if they gave Gu Wenxuan and others a fair purchase price, they still made a lot of money from this batch of goods.
The shop owner would like to ask Gu Wenxuan and others to deliver goods every day. Their boss is wealthy and has shops in all states and counties. Even if the goods increase five or ten times, they don't have to worry about not being able to sell them.
But the reason why Gu Wenxuan and the others didn't go into the mountain was that "the mountain was closed due to heavy snow." The shop owner couldn't say, "Your lives are not important, or our shop's business is more important."
The shopkeeper couldn't say such a mean thing, so he could only warmly tell Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan, "If you have any more mountain products or game in the future, just send them to my house, and I will give you a fair price."
Bai Jingzhou smiled and nodded. The two of them said goodbye to the shop owner and went out the same way through the back door of the shop with Bai Jingshan and others who were responsible for driving the carriage and guarding the money.
"Everyone has worked hard during this period. We need to eat something good to replenish our bodies." Jumping on the ox cart, Gu Wenxuan smiled and said to her companions, "So before we leave the city, I plan to take you around first."
Bai Jingzhou nodded in agreement, "It just so happens that I want to buy something too."
There are many cheap and beautiful accessories, hair combs, small ornaments and toys in the county town. Bai Jingzhou plans to buy some and give them to himself and Gu Wenxuan’s younger brothers and sisters.
The wallets of others have also become fatter this year, and when they heard Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou say they were going shopping, they immediately became eager to try.
The crowd drove the ox carts and moved slowly along the street.
During this period, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou took everyone to a small restaurant for a meal.
That small restaurant mainly sells pasta and braised meat, and these two are what they do best. As for the other home-cooked stir-fries, stews, and cold dishes, their only advantage is that they are large in quantity and affordable, and the taste is all quite average.
Of course, this is the opinion of Gu Wenxuan, Jia Yuelan and Bai Jingzhou.
For other people who have to eat coarse food most of the time, every dish in this small restaurant is a delicacy that they can hardly taste.
They liked the pancakes, steamed cakes, noodles, steamed buns, braised pork head, braised pig's trotters, braised pork offal, and braised pork belly that Gu Wenxuan ordered. They also liked Bai Jingzhou, the tallest among the short ones, who picked and chose the spare ribs stewed with dried beans, chicken stewed with dried mushrooms, scrambled eggs with green onions, and pork belly stewed with radish.
The crowd devoured the food like a whirlwind, finishing off all the staple food and side dishes, including the soup at the bottom of the plates, leaving nothing behind.
Gu Wenxuan found it both funny and sad, with a complicated expression. Bai Jingshan and others, who came to their senses belatedly, thought that Gu Wenxuan was looking at them because they had embarrassed her and Bai Jingzhou by using steamed buns to "wash" dishes.
Several people exchanged awkward glances, wanting to say something but not knowing how to put it.
Bai Jingzhou's soft and gentle voice came from the position beside and opposite them, "Why do you look like that?"
He looked around and motioned for everyone to look at the other two tables of guests in the restaurant.
There were two tables, one of which was occupied by a grandparent and grandchild. They only bought two meat buns. At this moment, they were eating the buns with small bites of free noodle soup provided by the store, with great cherishment.
Next to the grandparents, a middle-aged man in coarse shorts was tilting his head back, trying to pour the last bit of noodle soup at the bottom of the bowl into his mouth.
This person only ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodles. After eating, he asked the boss for free noodle soup to fill his stomach.
Bai Jingshan and the others subconsciously followed his line of sight and took a quick look. Then they heard Bai Jingzhou say, "If we are not full, we can also ask the waiter for a few bowls of noodle soup."
It's not that he is stingy, he just doesn't let others eat enough even if he provides meals. After being together for such a long time, he has already figured out everyone's approximate appetite and knows that they are only likely to eat too much, and will never be left without a full stomach.
He said this just to tell his friends like Gu Wenxuan that it was okay to eat up all the food they paid for. It was not something they should feel ashamed of.
Sure enough, after hearing Bai Jingzhou say this and seeing Gu Wenxuan nodding in agreement with a smile, the embarrassment and awkwardness on everyone's faces immediately disappeared.
After leaving the small restaurant, Gu Wenxuan first bought a whole basket of white flour and pork-filled buns wrapped in oil paper. She planned to share some with everyone after returning home so that they could take them back to their families.
Afterwards, she planned to take everyone to the largest cloth shop in the county on another street to see if there were any new cloths. However, halfway through the journey, she was suddenly attracted by a group of idle people who were running to watch the fun, and all their attention was drawn to them.
They followed the flow of people and ran into an alley. They watched a fight between relatives on the wall of one of the houses in the alley.
Most of the onlookers were locals. While watching, they also did not forget to complain about one of the parties involved to the people around them.
Some people who are tough-minded and not afraid of offending others would even raise their voices and say a few words from time to time to help the children of this family to uphold justice.
From the words of the people around them, Gu Wenxuan and the others quickly figured out the whole story.
It turned out that the night before, a bad guy climbed over the wall and broke into this family's house.
The bad guys were all young and middle-aged men, and their number was almost twice the total population of their family. The adults in the family were unable to resist at all.
In order to protect the younger ones in the family from running away, they risked their lives to stop the bad guys.
The bad guys were afraid that their neighbors would be alarmed, so they became more and more ruthless.
Soon all the adults in this family were hacked to death by the bad guys.
Fortunately, the children in their family were very brave. When their lives were at stake, they were not frightened and at a loss. Instead, they listened to their grandparents and ran out together crying.
The bad guys who were robbing the house knew that the children's crying would inevitably lead to their exposure. In order to avoid being caught by the nearby residents, they quickly took the family's valuables and fled.
Luckily, several children survived. After receiving the report, the county government dispatched people to hunt for the murderer.
Since the oldest of these children was only thirteen years old, the enthusiastic neighbors were worried about them living alone, so they sent letters to their mother and grandmother's family members, thinking that no matter what, at least one of these three families should be able to spare someone to help the children run the situation.