There are only five days left before the Shen family’s caravan sets off for the capital.
In the early morning, Li Qingzhi stopped writing and pressed his shoulder.
These days, after Jin Xiaoye fell asleep, he would come to the study to write, and then go back to sleep in the morning.
In order to avoid being discovered, he even found a curtain to hang in front of the study window to prevent the light from leaking out. He tiptoed back to the bedroom and saw that Jin Xiaoye was still asleep... Li Qingzhi lay down beside Jin Xiaoye and slept soundly for an hour.
When he woke up, Jin Xiaoye was gone.
He went downstairs to the kitchen and saw Jin Xiaoye cooking noodles.
"Where did the noodles come from?" Li Qingzhi asked curiously.
Making noodles is quite troublesome. Jin Xiaoye has never made it before. Even if she makes noodles, she only makes them into lumps, or stirs them into a paste and then spreads them into pancakes.
Jin Xiaoye said, "I ordered it from the noodle shop, and my father brought it to me early in the morning."
The noodle shops in the county town make their own noodles, and some of them even sell raw noodles.
She just found out about this yesterday, and then she ordered some—Li Qingzhi has been very busy recently, so she can give him some.
A delicious tonic.
Li Laogen helped her get the noodles back, and after that, Li Laogen couldn't wait to go out for tea. Since coming to the county town, Li Laogen has changed a lot.
Seeing that the old men in the city were all dressed neatly, he also began to pay attention to his dress and changed some bad habits.
As for gambling... Li Qingzhi privately found Li Laogen and told him that if Li Laogen continued to gamble it would affect his imperial examinations, and that he no longer wanted Li Laogen as his father.
Li Laogen was very scared. What would he do if Li Qingzhi had a different father? He didn't dare to gamble again!
After a long time, he felt that gambling was boring.
How nice it would be to go to a teahouse in the morning to drink tea, brag to others and eat noodles!
If he has extra money, he will buy some candies for Li Damao, Li Ermao and Zhao Xiaodou, and the three children will be close to him!
As for Chang Cui... Li Laogen would not buy candy for Chang Cui. This little girl had nothing to do with him, so why would he give her candy? He might as well eat it himself.
Jin Xiaoye cooked a pot of pickled mustard tuber and shredded pork soup in advance and put the cooked noodles in it, and that was their breakfast!
Then she scooped the remaining noodles into an empty bowl, added lard and soy sauce, mixed it, and passed it to the female workers.
The female workers would eat these noodles as a dish to go with porridge.
In their opinion, mixed noodles are still a very good dish.
While Li Qingzhi was having breakfast, Chang Zhan brought Cuicui out of the house.
Ever since Chang Zhan returned to Chongcheng County, Cuicui has lived with Chang Zhan, while Li Damao and Li Ermao continue to live in one room as before.
They had two beds, but they never slept in one. The other was used for building blocks and a chess board.
Chang Zhan and Cuicui ate noodles with them. Chang Cuicui was so cute when she tried to eat the noodles with a spoon...
Li Qingzhi smiled and went to chat with Jin Xiaoye.
He is very interested in gossip about other people.
"Miss Qu and Xu Qifei's relationship has been settled, but they will wait until after the college entrance examination to get married. In the next few months, Sister Wang and Madam Xu do not plan to let them meet, so as not to affect Xu Qifei..." Jin Xiaoye muttered.