Chapter 81 - Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Mind Made Up (1/2)
Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Mind Made Up
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Mrs. Liu Jin saw the child’s perplexed state and was in a hurry, “Qiao Qiao, you must quickly tell Miss Su you’ve thought it through; this is what your Aunt wants you to say.”
Seeing the struggle on Jin Qiao’s face, Su Wenyue didn’t want to pressure her too much, as after all, she needed to come to a decision herself.
“Let’s do this: first, take Jin Qiao to wash up and change her clothes, let her eat something, and then she can tell me her decision. This is a big matter concerning her entire life, after all, so it’s normal for her to need more time to think.”
“Exactly, exactly,” Mrs. Liu Jin quickly agreed, also hoping to use this time to persuade her niece.
As Su Wenyue spoke, she took out a set of clothes from the box, which were originally made for Mrs. Liu’s daughter, Xiao Hua, aged seven this year. Although Jin Qiao was a few years older than Xiao Hua, their sizes were similar, and now the clothes would fit Jin Qiao just right.
“This is a new set of clothes I made; they should fit Jin Qiao in terms of size. Take them for her to change into. The ones she’s wearing are too old to keep,” Su Wenyue said.
“How can we accept this? Our Jin Qiao is just a poor girl from the countryside; she doesn’t deserve such fine clothes.” Though Mrs. Liu Jin was a bit shrewd, she wasn’t ungrateful. She had always been planning for Jin Qiao’s future, already asking too much of others; she wasn’t about to accept more than she should, her face wasn’t so thick-skinned.
“There’s no harm in taking them, regardless of how Jin Qiao decides, she will still be staying with my Su Family. Giving her a set of clothes is not too much to ask; as long as she works hard in the future. Also, what she’s wearing now is truly too tattered for wear,” Su Wenyue said without mentioning that Jin Qiao’s clothes were more ragged than a beggar’s. The only thing that made Jin Qiao look different from a beggar was the cleanliness of her torn clothes. The young girl indeed seemed diligent and tidy.
Jin Qiao had been brought by Mrs. Liu’s eldest sister-in-law. Sensing her duty, Mrs. Liu consciously took Jin Qiao to get cleaned up, and Su Wenyue, having spoken, naturally couldn’t use the communal food supplies. She took flour from her room and went to the kitchen to cook several bowls of noodles—one for her mother-in-law, and the remaining two for Mrs. Liu Jin and Jin Qiao.
The effect of fresh clothing on a person was evident. After being washed and dressed in new clothes, the pitiful and unsightly little girl had transformed into a pretty and lovely young girl, obediently following behind Mrs. Liu Jin.
“Eat quickly; I made this specially for you. Aunt Liu must be hungry after the long journey too—eat together.” Su Wenyue called Mrs. Liu Jin and Jin Qiao to sit down, brought the noodles to them, the fragrant pork noodles bedecked with scallions, so tantalizing it almost made Liu stand salivating.
“Then I won’t be polite,” Mrs. Liu Jin said, truly hungry. In her hurry to bring her niece to the Han Family, she hadn’t had lunch, just taking two pastries and eating them with water, one for each of them. She was already famished and seeing the big bowl of enticing pork noodles, she couldn’t resist and started eating heartily.