Chapter 50 - Thick-Skinned (1/2)

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Ye Xiaoxian was in a good mood that day.

She went to a carpentry on her way back and bought a handcart.

There were two big wheels of this handcart and it won’t take much effort to push it. They could put cold jelly and shortbread in it when they came in to town to do business.

“Little Ye, you really bought a handcarf?” Li Hongmei saw Ye Xiaoxian came back pus.h.i.+ng a handcart and she was surprised with joy.

Ye Xiaoxian was beaming with happiness as well. “The handcart is not expensive and it only costs three hundred coins. I can make that amount of money by cooking a meal for Miss Liu so Baoshan won’t need to work that hard carrying cold jelly on his should anymore.”

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“Ah-ha, are you worrying about Baoshan?” Li Hongmei patted Ye Xiaoxian’s shoulder and teased her.

“We’re family after all!” Ye Xiaoxian blushed again and continued, “If Baoshan is not available, we girls can manage to do it as well.”

“Oh, is it?” Li Hongmei sized up Ye Xiaoxian one more time and found he being different from her usual self.

“Look at your face, as red as plum blossoms. Did you meet Baoshan just now?” Li Hongmei asked tentatively, “or, did you meet other men?”

“Ma, what did you say? I just met Baoshan on my way back and we didn’t chat much!” Ye Xiaoxian felt rather shy and changed the topic hurriedly, “Ma, how’s business?”

Once talking about business, Li Hongmei felt a bit not in the mood. “The cold jelly still sells well as usual but the business of shortbread didn’t go very well. We didn’t sell much for the whole day. It’s already this time and there were still half bucket left.

People usual ate shortbread for breakfast and some probably buy one for lunch but it was already afternoon and they wouldn’t sell anything more if they failed to sell any now.

“Little Ye, I swear that I’ve tried my best to sell the shortbread but I don’t know if it’s because of the hot weather, everyone said that they haven’t got the appet.i.te,” said Li Hongmei pitifully.