Chapter 40: Chapter 40 She’s Happy, He’s Happy_1 Chapter 40: Chapter 40 She’s Happy, He’s Happy_1 After confirming with the carpenter in the shop that the shelves bed would be delivered to their doorstep in three days, Xiao Changyi carried An Jing on his back as they left the shop.
When they came out, it was precisely noon, the time for lunch. Xiao Changyi asked, “What would you like to eat?”
“Meat buns~” An Jing smiled with narrowed eyes, “I could smell them earlier, they’re so fragrant~”
She actually wanted to save money, but she couldn’t resist her craving for meat buns now. She guessed it was because Lin Anjing’s body had never eaten meat, which made her feel like she hadn’t tasted meat for many years as well…
After all, her food in the army used to be very good. How could she possibly have no meat to eat?
“Hmm.” Xiao Changyi had no objections at all. He carried An Jing straight to a small stall selling meat buns and bought six meat buns and two steamed buns.
A meat bun cost one coin each, and two steamed buns cost one coin, making a total of seven coins.
Right next to the bun seller, there was a resting tea stall—one coin for a bowl. Xiao Changyi bought two bowls of tea and then sat at the tea stall with An Jing, sipping tea and eating buns and steamed buns together.
The moment An Jing sat down, she unceremoniously took a meat bun out of the paper wrapper to eat and simultaneously handed one to Xiao Changyi, “You eat too~”
The meat bun was quite big, with a thin skin and lots of filling. An Jing bit into it and immediately smiled contentedly upon tasting the meat flavor.
It can’t even compare to those wild greens and cornbreads.
“Hmm.” The corners of Xiao Changyi’s mouth slightly curved up, almost imperceptibly. He nodded gently, accepting the meat bun An Jing handed him, and began to eat.
When he told her ‘it won’t happen again’ yesterday morning, he understood that he should not only be good to her but also to himself.
Because he knew, she wanted to be good to him, too.
And he, didn’t want to make her unhappy.
Seeing how absolutely satisfied An Jing was with the meat bun, Xiao Changyi’s usually stern heart softened ridiculously.
If she was happy, so was he.
While An Jing and Xiao Changyi were eating buns at the tea stall, Niu Dahua had already walked back to Jiuping Village.
There was a big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, and quite a few people were gathered under it now. Upon seeing this, Niu Dahua immediately walked over and shouted, “Do you know, do you know, Xiao Changyi has struck it rich!”
One older woman immediately burst into laughter that rocked her back and forth, “Niu Dahua, you must be dreaming. Go take a look at Xiao Changyi’s thatched hut—it’s the shabbiest house in the village. You say he’s rich, and you’re not afraid of making people die laughing.”
“I’m telling the truth!” Seeing no one believed her, Niu Dahua yelled frantically. “I saw with my own eyes Xiao Changyi buying cloth for thirty coins a foot to make wedding clothes for him and An Jing, thirty coins! Not three coins! That’s the most expensive, bright red cloth from Wanbu Pavilion! Hardly anyone can afford it! I don’t even dare to look at that cloth! But he didn’t just buy it—he bought fourteen feet, for a total of four hundred and thirty coins! Four hundred and thirty coins! That’s more money than my family has saved up, and probably more than half the families in the village, how could he not be rich?!”
Four hundred and thirty coins?!!!
“Hiss—” Everyone instinctively gasped in unison.
At first, nobody really believed Niu Dahua’s claim that Xiao Changyi had struck it rich, but as she spoke with such agitation about what she had witnessed, they slowly began to believe her, and they were increasingly astonished by her words.
In the end, they were all stunned.
That was nearly half a tael of silver!
What kind of deal had been made for him to be willing to spend so much Silver Coin? And more importantly, how could Xiao Changyi, of all people, get his hands on it?