In the morning light, in front of the corner gate to the east of Zhenyuan Marquis' Mansion, Madam Li was wearing a cotton cloth coat, talking to the gatekeeper in high spirits while waiting for Ningxiang here, occasionally saying hello to other servants who left the mansion. She could almost call anyone, and she had a very good reputation.

"Here!" The gatekeeper looked at the little maid walking over there and praised her sincerely: "Ningxiang is so handsome. If you want me to tell me, we can't find a better person than Ningxiang." With this appearance, it's okay to get a concubine in the future. She will do well like Aunt Liu. Not only will she live a good life, but she can also support her family.

Madam Li didn't know what the other person was thinking. She loved to listen to people praise Ningxiang's beauty. She nodded with honor and smiled and watched Ningxiang get closer and closer.

As the eldest maid of Lengmei Pavilion, Ningxiang usually wears silk clothes, which is not outstanding in this marquis' mansion. Once she goes out and is mixed with most common people, she will definitely attract attention. Ningxiang doesn't like being stared at by others like strange things, so she will change into a commoner every time she goes home.

Today she wore a 70% new apricot-colored jacket. The crow's hair was tied into two buns with a red rope, and there were no other accessories on her body. Except for her face being too tender and sophisticated, she looked like an ordinary village girl.

Pei Jinghan couldn't bear to see her dress like this, but when she thought about it, the safer she would be when she was dressed up all the way back, and she would hold back and not worry. However, she was beautiful and looked good in any clothes. The fourteen-year-old girl's face was red in the egg white, and her almond eyes were moist when she smiled. Everyone stared at her face. Who cares about what she was wearing?

"I've let my nanny wait for a long time again." Ningxiang said embarrassedly when she stopped in front of nanny Li.

"It's the nanny who is old and I feel young, I've come early." Madam Li explained with a smile, greeted the gatekeeper, and led Ningxiang out. After walking out of the corner gate for about ten steps, Madam Li asked Ningxiang with concern, "Have you eaten breakfast?"

Ningxiang shook her head and didn't care: "I don't feel hungry, so I'll eat when I go home at noon."

"That's not true, what should I do if I'm so hungry? I don't know how to cherish my body when I'm so grown up." Madam Li glared at her dissatisfiedly, then handed her the bag of greasy paper she had been holding, and said kindly: "I knew you didn't eat it, give it to it. This is what Madam gave you specifically, and it's still hot, so eat it while it's hot."

She opened the oil paper and exposed two big white buns, emitting a foggy heat. Ningxiang instinctively refused. Madam Li said nothing and stuffed the bun into her hand with the oil paper, and snatched the bag that Ningxiang had slapped on her shoulder, "You eat it first, I will carry it for you."

The old man was considerate and Ningxiang's heart was like his hands, and was warmed by the heat coming from the oil paper bag.

The big bun with cabbage meat filling is as big as a man's fist, and the fragrance is so strong that Ningxiang swallows quietly and asks Mama Li first, "Did Mama eat it? I can't eat it, we will one of them?"

"I've eaten it a long time ago and I've also drunk a bowl of porridge." Madam Li didn't ask for it, "You can eat it, you can't take it home for Amu."

"Amu must like it." Knowing that the Li family is from a good family and often eats white noodles, Ningxiang is no longer polite. She ate one by herself, wrapped the other again, and then took the bag from Mama Li.

Yesterday, the two had already discussed the itinerary. Ningxiang was going to buy candy fried chestnuts, and Madam Li also wanted to buy her grandson the most favorite candy for her boys. They were all on the same street. The mother and the mother left the Hou's mansion and headed straight there.

The stall was not far away, and the two of them acted separately.

There are mainly two waves of customers in the snack street in the morning. The first wave is to work, and it gets up when it’s dark. I come here to ask for a bowl of dumplings and wontons and eat two fried dough sticks. I don’t have much money. After eating, I hurried to work at home. The second wave is that people who have some spare money at home, who are lazy to make fires, so they come out to eat. Some even take their children and chew slowly, which is very leisurely.

The day before yesterday, the snow is slowly melting. It is the coldest time, and the stall business here is getting better.

There was a mother feeding her child wonton shop next to the road. Ningxiang looked at the girl who was waiting for her to pick her up. Uncontrollably thought of her younger brother, and she was home like an arrow. Ningxiang walked briskly and headed straight to the candy-fried chestnut stall.

The stall owner is a gray-haired old man. He has a good memory and is calling him Lizi. When he saw her coming, he greeted him with a smile: "Ningxiang is going home again today?"

There were four or five people around the stall. Ningxiang nodded softly and stood quietly aside.

All the ones in front were bought, Ningxiang was about to speak, but someone rushed over from behind her, bringing a gust of wind, "I want two pounds."

After being taken first, Ningxiang couldn't help but frown and looked over.

He was a man with a tall figure, taller than Pei Jinghan. He was wearing a gray coarse cloth short brown, like a green pine in the snow. The wheat yellow hands hanging on one side were exposed outside, with clear joints. Ningxiang looked up and unexpectedly met the man's handsome side face, with a wheat yellow complexion, with long eyebrows flying, and his lips were thin. Because he stood on his side, Ningxiang noticed his long eyelashes and drooping, which was even more beautiful than the girl's house.

Suddenly, the eyelashes moved, probably because she noticed her gaze and turned her head to look at her. Ningxiang withdrew her gaze in time and did not meet him. However, she felt a little annoyed. Pei Jinghan, who was so luxurious in her jade-shu, had never been immersed in her eyes. At this time, she was staring at a stranger on the street for so long.

What's even more unreliable is that she doesn't seem to mind being taken first by him...

Ningxiang quietly shrank her neck and looked at the old stall owner uneasyly, hoping that the other party would not notice.

Lu Cheng just turned his head and before he could see who was standing next to him, he was called back by the old stall owner and said to him in hindrance: "Brother, wait a little longer. The little girl has been standing here for a long time. We have to pay attention to coming first and then coming?"

Lu Cheng didn't notice it just now. At this time, after someone reminded him, he immediately took two steps back and gave up the place in front of the stall. After standing up, he looked at the little girl who was accidentally sent to the lineup again.

When I saw this, my mind seemed to be empty.

She wore an apricot-colored jacket and walked forward two steps, not standing where he was before him. She looked down at the chestnut. Because of her height, she saw her white neck, so white and thin, and a sesame-sized black mole close to her left ear was very obvious. It was obviously just a small black mole, but Lu Cheng's heartbeat was inexplicably fast, and he had the urge to chew on it.

Lu Cheng turned his head awkwardly to the other side.

It’s all because of the bad guys in the family who don’t like to play with anything or laugh, but they like to chew on him. They are only ten months old, and their eyes are so sharp. When they see that there are moles on him, they will chew on him, which makes him saliva all over his body, which makes him even think of this abrupt idea when he sees someone else’s moles.

But Lu Cheng forgot that he had only touched the mole on the neck of the girl next to him...the appetite.

Ningxiang didn't know that she was being looked at by someone, so she looked at Lizi and said to the old stall owner in a soft voice: "Brother Zhang, you still need two pounds and divide them into two pieces."

Her voice softly and drifted into his ears like a spring breeze. Lu Cheng's eyes changed slightly. He pretended to look at the old stall owner and said to the chestnut. As he looked, his eyes slipped towards the little girl.

Ningxiang was also watching the old stall owner say that the sweet chestnut fragrance is satisfying. Her mouth bent slightly, and her beautiful face is white and beautiful.

For Lu Cheng, it was like suddenly seeing a beautiful flower in the snow all over the mountains.

He had been watching for too long, and this time it was Ningxiang's turn to feel something. He turned his head slightly, and Yu Guangli saw that the man behind him was indeed facing him. It was indeed possible that he was looking at her. Ningxiang's face became hot and red uncontrollably. He was afraid that he would see it, so he pretended to be attracted by the movements of the people from afar, tilted his head and left only the back of his head for him.

Lu Cheng withdrew his gaze tactfully.

The old stall owner just finished weighing the chestnuts and sold them for decades. He grasped the weight very accurately, exactly two pounds. He signaled Ningxiang to see it, and put down the weighing, spread two pieces of oil paper, poured half of them, and then pinched four chestnuts while putting two, then he smiled and packed the strings.

Ningxiang thanked with a smile, handed over the copper plate that had been counted long ago, then grabbed the chestnut, said goodbye, turned around and left.

The old stall owner watched the little girl leave and was about to call her a new customer a chestnut, but saw the man in front of the stall tilting his head and staring at Ningxiang!

The old stall owner coughed and asked knowingly: "I want two pounds, little brother?" These stinky brats' eyes were straight when they saw the beautiful girl.

Lu Cheng came back to his senses and nodded at Lizi as usual, "Split two."

He is quite thick-skinned.

The old stall owner silently commented in his heart, and the chestnuts were still very accurate without delay in his hand movements. The scale rod was flat, and it was not much or less. Because this was a dough-dried customer, he did not give more chestnuts and wrapped them directly.

Lu Cheng didn't care, so he counted twenty copper plates and handed them over, and walked away with a bag of greased paper.

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After Ningxiang met Mama Li, she went straight to the north city gate without delay.

There are officials of all sizes and countless wealthy families in the city. Most of the servants and maids in these families have holidays at the end of the month, and many of them are from the countryside. They are too tiring to travel long distances, so some people think of doing a cart business. Time has become a routine. During the end of the month and the first day of the first day of each month, people at the four city gates will be specially pulled. They set off at a fixed time in the morning, and walk up to fifty miles at most, and come back at a fixed time in the afternoon. Those who need to catch the cart will wait in advance.

Ningxiang and Mama Li arrived early, but Guo Laosan, who was driving the bus, had not arrived yet.

The mother and the mother chose a place where the sun could be sun-drunk and stood, chatting and looking at the city gate.

It was still too cold at the end of the first lunar month. I had to stomp my feet and rub my hands after standing for a while. There was no hourglass, and everyone was judging the time, but today, Guo Laosan was obviously late, and impatient curses gradually came from the crowd waiting for the bus on the roadside.

Madam Li covered her mouth and sniffed, then lowered her hands into her sleeves, and muttered to Ningxiang in a low voice, "This Guo Lao San must have slept in again!"

"Wait a little longer, it should be soon." Ningxiang comforted her inconclusively, stretching her neck to look at the city gate, after all, she was anxious to go home.

As I looked at it, I suddenly saw a donkey cart driving out. There was no vegetables or firewood on the car, and it was empty. When I walked towards this side, someone stepped forward to block the driver who was driving the car. Ningxiang couldn't see anyone, but she heard clearly what they were saying.
Chapter completed!