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Cheng Xi secretly reached out and pinched Xu Sanlang unhappily. Sometimes he could be considered smart, but sometimes he was just a fool. Shopkeeper Xia was such a vain and hypocritical person, yet he would directly reject him.

After taking care of Xu Sanlang, Cheng Xi hurriedly said with a smile, "We also want to follow Shopkeeper Xia, we have a bright future, but look at my husband's wooden nature, it is definitely not good to entertain guests in front, I am a girl, it is not good to welcome guests in front of everyone."

The Shopkeeper Xia looked at Xu Sanlang, and then thought back to how he rejected his earlier, it was just like Cheng Xi said, it was like a wooden log, and was not really suitable for entertaining customers, and Cheng Xi was not willing to reveal herself in the front, so it was indeed a little inappropriate for a girl, and although Shopkeeper Xia wanted to rope in the two of them, but after hearing Cheng Xi say this, she could only give up, and thought that as long as the two of them were in the restaurant, there would definitely be an opportunity, so she said, "Okay, tell me if you guys have any problems with the kitchen, go rest for a while, you guys can stay in the rain for a while longer."

Cheng Xi replied, "With Shopkeeper Xia here, how can we have any problems, we'll go over first."

Shopkeeper Xia was very satisfied with Cheng Xi's wise move, and replied with a smile, "Go."

After leaving the hall, Cheng Xi exhaled, and said to Xu Sanlang: "Be more careful when you speak, there are some people that we can't afford to offend, if you were to offend them directly, it will bring us some trouble."

Xu Sanlang frowned as he replied, "I don't like him."

Cheng Xi didn't expect that Xu Sanlang, who normally didn't have anything to say, would this time express his opinion. Raising his head, he looked at Xu Sanlang, sighed, and said very helplessly, "You think I like him? "There's no other way. When we don't have the ability to offend others, we can only endure."

Xu Sanlang stopped in his tracks, lowered his head, and looked at the helpless Cheng Xi as he said in a serious tone, "I will do my best so that you don't need to swallow your anger in the future."

Cheng Xi saw the determination in Xu Sanlang's eyes, and for a moment, she thought that's words would definitely come true. However, the moment she smelt the smell of the kitchen oil, he quickly returned to reality.

Ever since Zhao Ke came over and said that he would be leaving in a few days, Cheng Xi kept looking forward to see his two elder brothers over. He didn't want to wait for a few days, so he only waited until the Old Man Wang to send a message to them.

Even though Cheng Xi felt regretful in her heart, she was not too sad. After all, to the current Cheng Xi, she did not know him for long, and her feelings were not that deep.

Not long after, the eldest son of the Chief Zhao left. Under the witness of the Butler Xu, Cheng Xi officially became the disciple of the Chief Zhao.

The most rare thing was that Shopkeeper Xia actually agreed to give them a raise. Now, with the two of them together, they would earn a thousand two hundred gold coins a month.

Cheng Xi calculated in her heart, if she paid six hundred gold coins to his Xu Family, out of a hundred gold coins, she would be able to save five hundred gold coins every month, and six silver coins every year. If she had the capital, he would set up a small food stall with Xu Sanlang, and her days would get better.

In this period of time, Cheng Xi understood that the safest thing to do here was to own land. She thought to herself that once she earned money, she would buy more land and become a small landlady.

As for his plan to leave, when he found out what kind of path he was going to take to lure him away, he temporarily put it aside by Cheng Xi.

had mentioned the matter of paying a visit to the Xu Sanlang Fourth Uncle twice, but the two times he did so, Xu Sanlang did not mention it anymore. From the looks of Xu Sanlang's expression, Cheng Xi felt that this Xu Sanlang's Fourth Uncle was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

When she was free, Cheng Xi would go visit Wang Ying. She was always in the city, and it wasn't too far away, so she also needed to ask Wang Ying about the situation of his two big brothers when they were in Prefecture City. However, communications in this era were way too backward, so there wouldn't be any news for the time being.

In a blink of an eye, two months had passed. Although her days were tough, she was very full, Cheng Xi had almost forgotten about the messy village, she did not want Xu Sanlang to suddenly ask him to go back to the village to take a look.

Cheng Xi also thought of her family members at home. Since his two elder brothers had left, she did not know how they would fare, so he agreed and asked Butler Xu for three days leave, planning to go back to take a look.

Butler Xu thought that since the two of them had started working, they had not rested. When he heard that the two of them wanted to go home and take a look, he agreed without a second word.

Butler Xu also saw the change in attitude the Shopkeeper Xia had towards the two of them. Although Butler Xu disdained their actions, but during this period of time, he liked Xu Sanlang and Cheng Xi more and more, and was pleased with Shopkeeper Xia's attitude towards them. For example, if the two of them wanted to leave and return home on their own, if the others in the kitchen were to leave for three days, they would probably not come back anymore.

When Butler Xu heard this, he could only roll his eyes. Of course he didn't need to worry, he didn't need to care about the kitchen from the back. From time to time, he could also find some problems and go to the Lady Boss's place to apply medicine.

The two of them went back quite a distance away, and on the afternoon of the day when Cheng Xi and the others went back, Butler Xu let them go.

In these two months, Cheng Xi had actually arranged a new set of clothes for each of them. Even though they were both coarse clothes, they were still new clothes, and were much better than the old clothes.

The two of them could not bear to wear it even if they had to work. Thinking to return, Cheng Xi took out the new clothes, but she did not wear it. Instead, she said, "Father should be able to wear this clothes, so bring it back for Father to wear."

Cheng Xi speechlessly rolled her eyes, but this person's call for his father was even smoother than hers. "Let's buy it for your dad in a while, you wear it first."

Xu Sanlang shook his head, "Then I will keep it for now, don't wear it back, it will be troublesome if my family finds out about this."

Hearing Xu Sanlang's words and thinking about the group of people with the Xu Family, Cheng Xi let out a sigh. After hearing Xu Sanlang's words and thinking about the group of people with the Xu Family, Cheng Xi let out a sigh.

The two of them went to walk around the streets and bought some things to bring back, then decided to leave the city. The things here were bought by Cheng Xi, and of course they were bought for her family.

Of course, Cheng Xi still asked politely. Xu Sanlang just shook his head and said he would send the money back.

During this period of busy work, Cheng Xi occasionally trained herself, which was much better than before. But she was still tired enough, halfway through she sat on the side of the road covered in sweat, not wanting to move, after that she took a break. As she walked, Cheng Xi thought, in the future, when she had money, he would definitely buy an ox-cart, and it would be really hard to rely on her two legs no matter where she went.

The sky gradually darkened, and Xu Sanlang was worried that things might go on like this. It was already midnight, and there were not many people left on the road, so the round profound moon hanging in the sky was so blurry that he could barely make out the road ahead. Then, Xu Sanlang directly squatted in front of Cheng Xi.

During this period of interaction, the two of them could be considered to be familiar with each other. Cheng Xi was truly unable to walk anymore, so she unceremoniously climbed onto Xu Sanlang's back. With her small body, she wouldn't be too heavy anyway, and with Xu Sanlang's strength, Cheng Xi wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to carry his.

Feeling the weight on his back, Xu Sanlang's usually expressionless face gradually changed. The corner of his mouth raised slightly, and his eyes showed warmth, as if a sense of bliss was circulating on his face.

It was as if the weight on his back simply did not exist. It was only at the entrance of the village that Xu Sanlang unwillingly put the person on his back down.

Cheng Xi was about to fall asleep on top of Xu Sanlang's back, waiting for Xu Sanlang to put him on the ground before he rubbed his hazy eyes and asked in a daze, "Have you arrived?"

This kind of Cheng Xi was a rare sight to Xu Sanlang. Usually, he would always display a calm and maturity that was inconsistent with her age, and would be even more mature than Xu Sanlang.

Looking at Cheng Xi who was in such a state, Xu Sanlang couldn't help but reach out his hand to stroke Cheng Xi's hair that was originally a little messy, and replied gently, "We're at the entrance of the village, shall we head back to your parents' home first?"

Cheng Xi nodded, this was something she had agreed upon first.

Although Xu Sanlang felt that it was a bit inappropriate to go to Cheng Family at such a late hour, when he thought about the situation in his own room, there was nothing in the thatched cottage, so he had no way of staying. Even more so, it was impossible to go to the Xu Family courtyard.

Coming back so late, there was one good thing about it, and that was that they wouldn't run into any villagers, and without the people of the village pointing fingers, the two of them quietly went to the Cheng Family.

After knocking on the door for a while, Lady Wu's voice came from inside. "Who is it?"

Cheng Xi stood at the crack of the door and replied, "Aunt Wu, it's me and Xu Sanlang."

Shortly after, light came from inside the house, and very soon, the courtyard door opened. Lady Wu stood at the door with an oil lamp in her hand, looking at the two of them with a frown and a worried tone, "Isn't it in the county city?" Why did you come back so late? "Let's enter the house."

Cheng Xi explained to Lady Wu as she followed the two into the house, "We came back to take a look. It's too late to leave from the county city, and there's no ox-cart.

Lady Wu let out a sigh of relief, led the two into the living room and asked, "Have you finished eating? You two sit for a while, I'll go get some food for you guys."

Then, he took a different oil lamp from the table and lit it up, Cheng Dagui came out of the house with his walking stick, the two of them immediately went over to help him sit down.

Cheng Dagui looked at Cheng Xi with a face full of smiles. Even Xu Sanlang didn't shake his face at this rare occasion, and asked, "Are you still well in the county city? Are you tired? Have you eaten your fill? "