C19

Soong Xintong happily walked out of the restaurant with an empty basket on her back. Now that she had signed this contract, the business of giving away 100 pounds every two days became more stable and she would get 1500 pounds every month. She would earn 10 taels of silver and when the time came, she would be able to pay off part of her debt.

Not long after he walked out, he saw a circle that was separated by three layers. He could vaguely hear the sobbing of a woman.

"Aiya, what a pity. This girl is from my mother's village, but she just died last month. I didn't expect my father to be absent now. What can a girl do?" A fat woman gossiped to the people around her.

Someone asked, "Then is there no one else in her family?"

"No, or else I wouldn't have sold myself to bury my father."

Selling his body to bury his father? Soong Xintong stood on her tiptoes and looked at the crowd. She had seen many of these kinds of scenes on TV before, but she didn't expect to see the real one today. She carefully protected the copper coins in front of her chest and squeezed into the crowd.

Sure enough, he saw a girl in mourning clothes kneeling on the ground, covering her face as she sobbed. Behind her, there was a corpse rolled up in a mat on the ground.

"How pitiful." A fat woman who was carrying a vegetable basket sighed, took out five pieces of money from her purse and put it at the girl's feet, who was still crying, "Aunt, I don't have any extra money to spare, so this five pieces of money is just like buying a kind heart."

With that, he got up and retreated into the crowd, not forgetting to mutter a few words of pity.

Soong Xintong felt that something wasn't right as she watched this scene. She looked around and found the fat woman outside the crowd. She was nodding along with the crowd on the other side.

Before she could turn around, she heard a man's voice say, "Then I'll give you 10 gold coins too. I don't have much money, so take it back to your father to do some decent work."

Soong Xintong looked into the crowd on the other side and saw a man in a short suit push his way out of the crowd, throw the coin at the girl's feet, and then quickly disappear into the crowd.

All the onlookers' hearts rose to their throats. Anyone who came to the street to buy groceries did not lack money, so they placed three pieces of paper next to the girl's feet.

Before long, the girl had a pile of copper coins at her feet.

As the girl cried, she said, "Thank you, my benefactors. I will definitely repay you."

Soong Xintongrin scoffed. So this was how it was, the same trick as those begging for cheating. She didn't expect there to be so many deceived people.

At this moment, a clear, melodious voice of a girl suddenly sounded out, "How can your heart be so vicious? I'm so pitiful, yet you can still laugh."

Soong Xintong was stunned for a moment. She looked towards the owner of the voice. If she didn't look, she wouldn't have known. But the moment she saw the voice, she was startled. This little girl dressed in emerald green was Grandma Zhang's beloved granddaughter, Soong Qingxiu.

"Soong Xintong, what are you looking at? If you don't pay me and you're smiling so happily, do you still have any conscience? "

Soong Xintong scoffed. What bad luck. He even encountered a retard in the midst of watching the show.

Soong Xintong couldn't be bothered with her and turned to walk out of the crowd.

Soong Qingxiu's annoying voice sounded again, "Soong Xintong, are you so ashamed that you want to run away?"

Soong Xintong stopped in her tracks and turned around to look at her, "I'm going my own way, what does it have to do with you? Your young mouth is so dirty, and your words are so unpleasant to listen to. Did your mother not properly teach you what to say or what not to say? "

"You …" Soong Qingxiu angrily glared at Soong Xintong before quickly turning to look at the two handsome young men behind her. She originally wanted to use Soong Xintong as a stepping stone to show off to her brother, but this was different than what she had expected.

Soong Qingxiu's face was red as she looked at her brother Soong Changyuan, "Second Brother, I just feel that she has no conscience and can still laugh."

"What does it have to do with you whether I laugh or not? It really is meddling in others' business." Soong Xintong glanced at the handsome young man beside Soong Qingxiu. He is Soong Changyuan? Because she stayed in the Academy all year round, her appearance was fair and clean, and there was still some scholarly air around her. It was just that she did not have any good feelings towards Uncle Soong Family and his family, so she did not have a pleasant expression.

Soong Changyuan was a scholar, so he naturally knew how to speak, "Little Sis, don't talk like that to your cousin." With that, she cupped her hands towards Soong Xintong, "I didn't mean to, but please don't argue with her."

"Second brother." Soong Qingxiu was so angry that she was about to jump up and down. "You're still speaking up for her?"

Soong Changyuan said, "Little sister, although our cousin's family split up with us early on, they are still family. Even if she did overdo it, you can't say that."

Hehe, Soong Xintong did realize that this entire family was like a small marten. She thought that there would be a good one, but she didn't expect that it would all end up like this.

The handsome scholar closed his fan and pretended to say, "Long term, don't you only have a family of three? Why does she have a cousin now? "

"Brother Qian He doesn't know anything about this. Because my uncle, who was my cousin's father, disagreed with my grandparents, they were separated early on. Although they weren't often together, their relationship was still peaceful." Soong Changyuan cupped his hands apologetically, "Because Uncle and Aunt are gone now, my older cousin's words were a bit more straightforward. I hope you don't take it to heart, Brother Qianhe."

"So that's how it is." Zhang Qianhe looked at Soong Xintong with disdain, "If you don't mind, you don't mind."

After a slight pause, he said, "But it's better for women to do good, and it can also eliminate some of the barriers."

"Brother Qianhe is right." Soong Changyuan agreed.

Seeing that Zhang Qianhe had also said so, Soong Qingxiu smiled complacently. Then, she looked at Soong Xintong provocatively, "I forgot that you probably won't have any money, so I'll give you two bronze coins."

With that, he took out five copper coins and walked over to the girl who was selling her father. He placed the coins on the ground and said with a serious expression, "Sister, don't cry anymore. Take the money and go home."

"Thank you, my lady, for your kindness."

Zhang Qianhe looked at Soong Qingxiu with a smile and said to Soong Changyuan, "Your sister is kind."

Soong Changyuan said: "I've been raised to be a pampered child, and I don't even want to step on an ant to die."

Watching these people singing along, Soong Xintong let out a laugh. "What the heck is this!"

She turned around and walked out of the crowd. She still had some important matters to attend to, so she didn't have the time to pay attention to them.

Soong Xintong found a clean and cheap clothing store and walked in. Their family's clothes were all patched up, and not a single piece of new clothing was passable when they entered the county.

"Girl, buy cloth? The quality of our cloth is both good and cheap, so we can guarantee that you won't lose out on it. " The shop owner's tongue was like spring as she greeted Soong Xintong, making her feel very comfortable.

Soong Xintong looked at the fabric shop and saw that it was made of coarse cloth, linen cloth, cotton cloth and some low-quality silk cloth.

Soong Xintong touched the cotton cloth, feeling it with her hand, and then touched the thin cotton cloth. "How much is this cloth sold for?"