The pension plan of the ancient cannon fodder woman

Chapter 258: One Day in the City

Su He was excited, she wanted to go.

"Old lady, take me one. Although I can't afford it, I can take a look and protect you at the same time."

"That's right. I still get along well with you. In that case, tomorrow, Chenchu, you will wait for me directly at the gate of Zhou Mansion. The carriage cannot enter this time because there are too many people. Everyone is parked at the gate."

"Okay, I will definitely go. Can I bring someone with me?"

"You can't go. You have passed the inspection of the county magistrate, so I can take you. No servants can go in. There are only officials acting as servants. Magistrate Ge only allows those who pay taxes on time to go in."

Su He understood that this was a benefit given by County Magistrate Ge.

"How can Zhang's mother go there?"

"Originally, Magistrate Ge invited me, as well as the second son and his wife. The second son's wife has been feeling unwell these past two days, so I brought Mother Zhang with me. As for you, Magistrate Ge will definitely agree. The three of us can just watch the fun together."

When Su He heard Chen talking about County Magistrate Ge, she remembered that she had not yet shared her experience of working in the government.

"Madam, County Magistrate Ge asked me to work in the government office. Two taels of silver a month."

"Please?"

Chen really didn't know about this.

“Yes, I drew this.”

Su He pretended to take out a stack of papers from his arms, but actually he took them out from the space.

Chen took it and looked at it, and was startled, "Isn't this Zhou Tianfu? Take it away quickly, take it away, it's so scary, why do I feel like he is staring at me."

Mother Zhang quickly took it away and returned it to Su He, "He Hua, why didn't you tell me earlier that you have this skill? We don't need to hire anyone to draw the illustrations for our storybooks. I'll leave it to you from now on."

Su He's smile froze for a moment. If she had known this, she would not have told him. It would have been an extra job for nothing.

"Madam, I don't have time to paint. I have a regular business now. I'm afraid I won't have time to write my storybook. I've been busy painting these past two days and haven't written any."

What? That’s not possible. She has already taken the deposit.

"I think you should quit your job at the government office. You only get two taels of silver a month. What can you do with it? It's not even enough for a snack for me. By the way, A Yuan, where is my thank-you gift for He Hua? Bring it here."

Chen looked down upon the work of the government office. "To tell you the truth, Magistrate Ge is very poor. The whole government office is poor. You should just concentrate on following me and write more storybooks."

Su He burst out laughing. She didn't expect that County Magistrate Ge was actually a nose-picker in Chen's eyes.

"That's impossible. This is the south. There are no poor county magistrates in our northern part of the country. Didn't you, old lady, give tens of thousands of taels of silver to the county magistrate every year as a gift?"

Chen took the wooden box from Mother Zhang and placed it next to the lotus herself.

"That's because the Huai River is far away. We didn't take care of it at first. Later, the county magistrate was beheaded. We have Chen Shi and his gang watching Guangyuan. I don't think County Magistrate Ge will become rich."

A pair of Hetian jade bracelets in a wooden box.

Chen took Su He's hand and put the bracelet on her hand.

The jade bracelets set off her round and plump hands, making them look even more dignified and beautiful.

"This is what I used to wear when I was young. It looks good on you. You should wear it whenever you see me in the future. Also, make me some more exquisite dresses. Look at what you wear. It's worse than even the maids in our house."

Su He curled her lips, "Madam, your clothes cost dozens of taels, I can't afford them. Why should I, a peasant, be so exquisite? I just need to be well fed and healthy."

Chen was so angry that she tapped Su He's head with her finger.

"You have a fortune of at least several thousand taels. How can you not afford to make a few clothes?"

"I can afford it, but it doesn't suit my status. If I wear a precious jade bracelet, I have to match it with a set of exquisite clothes, and then with exquisite shoes, and then with gorgeous gold hairpins. One set is not enough, and there will be another set, and it will never end."

"So I just don't buy anything. I just wear comfortable clothes. We used to wear patched linen, and some people can't even wear that. You have to be content with what you have, otherwise happiness will stay away from you."

Su He's idea was unheard of for Chen. She grew up in a wealthy family. She saw beautiful clothes and jewelry every day. They were the most common things. She could not think of this at all.

However, this did not affect her growing favorability towards Su He.

"Look, this is the girl I trained. She's not like that other girl who was so cheap that she wanted to be my concubine."

Chen was obviously thinking of something unhappy again, and her face was full of anger.

Mother Zhang winked at Su He, and Su He tacitly changed the subject.

"By the way, old lady, how are the sales of our storybooks these days?"

When Chen heard this, she burst into laughter.

"It's fine. Just leave it to me. But you have to hurry up and write the third book. I've already received over 200 copies of the deposit for the third book. You better hurry up."

Su He was embarrassed. This old lady was really good at marketing. More than two hundred people paid for the book without even reading it. Was the book she wrote so attractive?

The three of them started talking about business lively.

Su He came out of Zhao's house and went to the restaurant they had booked with Liu Bai. The fairy chicken was indeed delicious. Su He was reluctant to throw away the soup, so she paid a deposit and took the rest away. She planned to have noodles in the evening and use this as the soup base.

My plan for this afternoon is to sleep in.

After Su He had eaten, he lay down on the bed. The sun was shining brightly today, and even inside the house, he could smell the scent of the sunshine. The noise in the distance seemed to help him sleep, and Su He fell asleep just like that.

When she woke up, it was dark again. She was too lazy to move until her stomach growled, then she got up and went to the kitchen.

"Xiaobai, have you eaten?"

Su He went to the stove and saw that the noodles had been rolled out and the chicken soup was ready.

"If you're hungry I'll put it in the pot right away and it'll be cooked in no time."

Su He nodded quickly, "No, no, no, I'm so hungry that I have no strength left."

Seeing this, Liu Bai added some more firewood to the stove, and then put the rolled noodles into the pot little by little.

Su He couldn't wait and waited with the bowl in hand, looking at the big pot of chicken noodle soup with some confusion.

"Xiaobai, we didn't bring this much soup at noon, did we?"

"I added half of the soup with hot water. When I ate it with rice at noon, the chicken soup tasted just right. But when we ate noodles at night, it felt salty. Adding half of the soup with hot water was just right."

As Liu Bai spoke, he put in another handful of green vegetables, and when they were cooked, he added some chopped green onions.

Dinner is ready.

As soon as Su He sat down, he anxiously picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and gobbled it down. Sure enough, the taste was just right.

Both of them served themselves a bowl of food first, then added more from the pot when they were done. Su He ate three bowls in a row before reluctantly putting down his bowl and chopsticks.

"By the way, where's Guan Xiao? Why didn't I see her?"

Liu Bai paused and replied nonchalantly.

"She said she didn't want to disturb us, so she went back to Bianguan Village. Her brother's house is also there. She left yesterday. I forgot to tell you."