She didn't notice Zhou Shuren sitting next to her at all.
Zhou Shuren, "I just came back a while ago, and I saw you were sleeping so soundly that I didn't dare to move."
As soon as he came in, he saw Zhulan hugging Mingteng and sleeping head to head. Zhulan was particularly gentle when she was sleeping. The scene in front of him struck his heart hard. He longed to have a child with Zhulan, no matter it was a boy or a girl, as long as it was theirs.
It’s a pity that the current stage is only the initial stage. It will not be very stable in the next few years and the end is too far away. However, according to the plan, he is not in a hurry.
Ming Teng woke up as soon as Zhulan moved. He rubbed his eyes with his chubby little hands. He was thinking about the snacks and suddenly sobered up. "Grandma, my stomach is empty."
Zhulan chuckled, "Okay, okay, grandma will get you some snacks."
Zhou Shuren stood up and said, "Don't get off the ground. I'll go get it."
"In the cupboard."
Zhou Shuren carried the paper bag and put it on the kang table. Zhulan took out the egg tarts and cakes. Zhou Shuren squinted his eyes and said nothing. Zhulan kept some for her and Zhou Shuren, and put the rest back. After Mingteng had sweated off a little, she took her cotton-padded jacket and wrapped Mingteng and Zhou Shuren and said, "Take the snacks and send Mingteng to the daughter's room. The little guys can eat together."
Zhou Shuren picked up Ming Teng with one hand, his arm felt very heavy. The little guy was fat to begin with, and he gained weight after coming to Pingzhou, so he was really heavy. He went out with snacks in his other hand and came back soon.
Zhulan has already eaten the cake. The sugar in ancient times is not as good as the modern ones, and the taste is not as good as the modern cakes, but it is not bad. "Try it quickly, it's not bad."
Zhou Shuren likes sweets, otherwise he wouldn't have bought so many snacks when he came back from Jiangnan. He likes cakes in modern times. Why does he like sweets so much? It's all because he couldn't eat them when he was a child, and it gradually became an obsession. "Not bad."
Zhulan asked, "How was your visit to the academy today?"
Zhou Shuren took off his shoes and got on the kang. "I looked at a few academies and they are all good. Mingyun, Mingteng and Rongchuan will come here to enroll in the winter next year."
Zhulan asked, "Changlian, where is Changzhi?"
Zhou Shuren said, "Aren't they going to give it a try next year? Let's wait and see."
The children went to the academy. This was planned by Zhou Shuren and Zhulan. This year Zhou Shuren became a scholar, and next year after Chang Lian, Chang Zhi and Jiang Sheng finished the examination for students of higher learning, their family would move to Pingzhou. The children entered the academy not only to make friends and get a better education, but also as a transition, so that the children could better adapt to interpersonal communication, so as to avoid being embarrassed when they change the environment and go to other places.
Zhulan and Zhou Shuren are both people who like to think ten steps ahead, and they had a plan when they decided to buy a house.
Zhou Shuren leaned over for a while with his eyes closed to rest, then woke up and took the jewelry he had brought out to pawn. There were many pawnshops in Pingzhou, and he could pawn two items in each shop and come back quickly.
Because there were no valuable jewelry such as pearl necklaces, there were only some old hairpins and bracelets of poor color. No one paid attention to these old jewelry if they were pawned carefully. All the jewelry was pawned for less than two hundred taels. Zhou Shuren took away one hundred and fifty taels of silver notes, forty taels of which were exchanged for four taels of gold, and more than eight taels of change.
Zhulan was worried about the silver bills and planned to exchange them for gold bit by bit.
In the evening, there were some bones left from the meat Zhao Bo bought, so Zhulan asked Li to make some bone soup noodles for her. Li also took her portion back home.
Zhulan looked very sad, but in fact, in comparison, her status was really good. She had no worries about food and drink, had savings and private property, and had Zhou Shuren as a cheat. Now she had a two-story house and a shop, and was at the top of the food chain in the family. She was already super lucky.
People should be content. Zhulan is very content now.