Seeing that the three children all looked depressed, and having walked around the entire county today and found nothing, Mingyue could only take the children to find an empty place and sit down to rest for a while.
The meat bun that they had eaten earlier had long been digested, and now the mother and her two children were sitting on the ground, all starving.
But what worries the three children more than hunger is the uncertain future.
At this time, Mu Zhi grabbed Mingyue's clothes and suddenly said, "Mom, let's go back."
The city was not as good as he had imagined, and the people in the city were not as friendly as those in the village. He didn't want to stay here. He wanted to go home, back to that dilapidated temple. All he wanted was his mother and brothers.
Mingyue lowered her head to look at him and understood his thoughts almost at a glance.
But she shook her head and told her youngest son: "Muzhi, when we encounter difficulties, we should overcome them instead of avoiding and retreating blindly."
Mu Zhi's tears fell all of a sudden. He wiped them away with the back of his hand and said aggrievedly, "But except for mother, no one likes me and my brothers. The people in the city look at us as if we are dirty things."
Xingzhi and Yizhi standing by lowered their heads. Even though they had known for a long time that the man was of low status, this was the first time they realized this matter so clearly.
Those people even felt unlucky just by looking at them. Their words were more hurtful than my grandmother's. They had done nothing wrong, but it seemed like a sin for them to appear on this street.
Besides, it was impossible for my mother to find any work with them.
"Mom, let's go back. Actually, there's nothing good in the city," Xingzhi paused before continuing, "There's nothing good in the city."
Yizhi also nodded and agreed: "Yes, mother, things in the city cost money, how can we compare with our village? Let's go back and open up the wasteland next to the ruined temple and grow some food. The future life will be beautiful just thinking about it."
Mingyue looked at the expectation in her sons' eyes, sighed in her heart, and still shook her head: "I know what you are worried about, but mother promises you that mother has a way to solve all of this, so don't be afraid."
Without waiting for her sons to show their disappointment, Mingyue stood up, dusted off the dust on her body, and said to them, "Are you all hungry? Let's go, I'll take you to eat the wonton shop at the corner of the street. I've taken a closer look just now. The wontons there have thin skins and big fillings. They look delicious."
Mu Zhi was forgetful, so he immediately stood up and said with sparkling eyes, "Let's eat wontons!"
Yizhi thought of the wontons he had seen before, and suddenly his empty stomach felt even emptier.
But Xingzhi knew that his mother only had the piece of silver given by his aunt, and if she ate the wontons, she would be left with nothing.
Xingzhi opened his mouth to persuade: "Mom..."
Mingyue shook her head at him and signaled with her eyes that he didn't need to say anything more. He swallowed back his throat the following words of persuasion.
Although he didn't know what his mother's plan was, he knew that she was very powerful now and he should trust her.
Mingyue took her three children to a stall selling wontons. After asking the price, she asked the stall to serve four bowls of wontons.
The wonton seller frowned when he saw Xingzhi and the others, but the wontons in the three bowls he served to the children were obviously larger than the ones in Mingyue's bowl, and also larger than the ones Mingyue had seen from the other customers before.
Mingyue looked at the boss in surprise, but the boss glared at her and said unhappily: "You are so confused. Men are kept in the boudoir and never seen by outsiders. Why do you bring them out to show their faces? You also bring them around in this city. I don't know how many people have seen them. How can they get married in the future? They are so unlucky. How could they meet such an unreliable mother like you?" However, just as the boss finished speaking, Mu Zhi stood up, put his hands on his waist and shouted at the boss: "You are confused, you are the most confused. My mother is the smartest person in the world and the best mother in the world."
Xingzhi also stood up, his voice was not loud but firm: "It is our greatest luck that we met our mother."
Although Yizhi didn't say anything, he stood up and glared at the boss.
The boss was stunned by the performance of the three brothers. She did not argue with Xingzhi and the others. She just looked at Mingyue and sighed: "You gave birth to three good sons."
"Yes, they are always so well-behaved and sensible." Mingyue smiled at the boss and praised him, "Your wontons taste great."
The boss immediately forgot his previous unhappiness and raised his chin complacently, "Of course, I have set up this stall for more than five years. It is also a time-honored brand in the county. How can I continue to open it if the taste is not good? I am not bragging, my wontons are one of the best in this county."
Mingyue blinked: "I have a way to make these wontons taste even better. Are you interested in knowing?"
The boss looked at Mingyue with contempt, "Big sister, don't blame me for speaking harshly. When I see the four of you dressed like that, I know you must have had a hard life. You probably haven't eaten wontons many times, right?"
Since I haven’t eaten wontons many times, how can I make them taste better
She thought to herself that this poor woman didn't want to give her money, so she said this on purpose to coax her, right
The words 'Don't try to fool me' were clearly written in the boss' eyes, and without waiting for Mingyue to finish her words, he went back to the stall to make wontons.
Mingyue was a little amused, but to be precise, the original owner had never eaten wontons very often. After all, all the good things in the Jiang family belonged to Jiang Huiyue, and how could they belong to the second son, whom Old Lady Jiang disliked.
Mingyue called out to the three brothers who were still standing there stupidly: "Okay, sit down and eat. She has no ill will towards me."
In fact, this boss is a rare person who is kind to men, otherwise he would not have said those words just now.
So when paying the bill, Mingyue finally whispered in the boss's ear and told her two ways to enhance the flavor of the soup.
Faced with the boss's suspicious look, Mingyue did not explain much and left with her three children.
Mu Zhi touched his bulging belly and looked up at his mother: "Mom, where are we going now?"
Mingyue curled her lips and said, "Let's go and earn some money."
The smile on Yizhi's lips faded a little. With these brothers around, it was impossible for his mother to find a job.
Xingzhi looked up at his mother's back and made a decision in his heart. If those shops still didn't want them to follow their mother, he would take his brothers back to the dilapidated temple. He would take good care of his brothers and let his mother work in the city with peace of mind.
Mingyue didn't know what they were thinking, because the money she was talking about was quick money, which meant... selling the house directly.
(End of this chapter)