The seven emotions and six desires are all my nourishment

Chapter 129 The Downtrodden Merchant Girl 6

"Hmm..." Jiao Datou's big-headed brother's status instantly dropped and he became a little brother.

It hurt so much, and he couldn't hold it in. He cried out in pain, and Shangguan Wan'er retreated from his arms, "Ah, your nose is bleeding! Did I hurt you just now? Wipe it off!"

Shangguan Wan'er approached in panic and covered his nostrils with her hands. Jiao Datou lowered his head slightly and could easily see her loose collar from his superior position.

And that vaguely visible snow-white softness made my nose bleed even more violently.

Shangguan Wan'er's wrists were covered in blood, and she was so frightened that she started crying, "Ah! Get up quickly and go see a doctor! Wuuuuuu!"

Jiao Datou covered his nose, jumped off the kang with his upper body naked, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm fine! Don't move!"

After he left the house, he scooped up some snow and rubbed it vigorously on his face. The bleeding stopped, and his face turned red...

"Hehehe... so white..." He grinned foolishly.

The door creaked open again. Jiao Datou quickly stood up, turned around, and said angrily, "What are you doing? You little girl are so ignorant. You just recovered from your illness, and you want to die? Go back to the house!"

As he said this, he pushed Shangguan Wan'er, whose eyes were red, back into the house. He touched the clothes hanging on the kang, which were still a little damp, and he put them on.

"Don't run around today. I'll go buy you some ready-made clothes. You're such a spendthrift woman. You're sick and you're spending money at the same time. Tsk!"

He looks like a sunny young man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, but his mouth is really mean...

Shangguan Wan'er's forehead throbbed when she heard this and she turned away in annoyance.

"Go see a doctor first! I won't freeze to death! It won't cost you any money!"

"Oh, you're still angry! Get on the kang! I'm going to cook! Humph, look at you, you'll burn the stove even if I ask you to cook!"

Shangguan Wan'er was furious. She stood up from the kang and grabbed his ear. "Didn't I tell you not to curse or call me Laozi? Who are you to call me Laozi?"

"Oh, I won't say anything more. I just forgot for a moment! Let go! Don't force me to do it!" Jiao Datou felt itchy in his heart and stared at the little feet on the bed struggling...

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Jiao Datou chewed a piece of dry biscuit and looked at Shangguan Wan'er who broke the biscuit into pieces and put it into the corn paste to soften it.

He looked at the little girl's calves and feet with secretive eyes. Tsk, she chewed her food for a long time and said she was full before finishing a bowl of rice.

"Are you full now?"

"Well, I'm full."

With a "tsk" sound, he took Shangguan Wan'er's leftovers and swallowed them in one gulp.

Shangguan Wan'er blushed a little. It was the first time someone ate her leftovers.

Shangguan Wan'er squatted down, picked up the shoes, and tore open the soles. "Hey! You spendthrift woman, what are you doing! What are you going to wear if you tear the soles off!" Jiao Datou dropped the bowl and grabbed the shoes.

Shangguan Wan'er's eyes were red, and Jiao Datou was so anxious that he jumped up and down. He put down his shoes and picked up Shangguan Wan'er to comfort her, patting her with clumsy hands, "I just made a little noise, don't cry, hey, tear it if you want!"

Shangguan Wan'er took the shoes, tore open the soles, and pulled out a fifty-tael silver note and another twenty-tael note, making a total of less than seventy taels.

"This is the banknote I hid. I originally wanted to use it to help my mother and I settle down in Ningguta. But my mother got sick, so I thought of going to the town to buy medicine for her. But she passed away suddenly."

"I was sick and sad and fainted, so my father sold me to you. Now our family is short of so many things, you can use the money to buy household items." As he said this, he pushed the banknote over.

Jiao Datou suddenly felt that the money was hot. His wife was richer than him. If she hadn't been lucky enough to be bought by him, maybe his wife could have saved herself.

Besides… he was a little worried that his wife would take the money and run away. But if she used his money to buy household expenses, wouldn’t it be shameful for him to actually spend it?!

Jiao Datou was dissatisfied and stuffed the banknote into her hand, "Old...ah, your husband has money, I won't let you starve! Wait!"

As he spoke, he removed a brick from the end of the kang, and then took out a bag of copper coins and silver from the corner of the wall, the beam, and the small house opposite.

Throw it on the kang with a bang, the visual effect is quite pleasant.

"See! These are all my possessions, your husband's. You won't starve!" He didn't know how much he had, but apart from drinking and buying food, he saved whatever he had.

He felt empty inside and a little inferior.

Shangguan Wan'er looked at this pile of small change, and her wealthy gene suddenly came online. She praised, "You are really amazing, you can save so much money."

Then he asked in confusion, "Then why don't you buy some household items?"

While doing so, he quickly divided the copper coins and small change and counted the quantity.

"...I don't need it. It's you who made the house short of things. Well, of course I'm willing to buy it for you."

Shangguan Wan'er smiled. "Okay, one hundred and one copper coins, a total of twenty-one. Bring me the cotton thread and I'll string it together."

"There are about thirty-seven ounces of silver, including mine, making a total of one hundred and seven ounces."

"Cotton is expensive these days. At fifty cents a pound, two sets of clothes would require six pounds, and a quilt would require sixteen pounds. I also need to buy cloth, salt, vinegar, grain, basins, and so on..."

"Alright, alright, forget it. I have a headache. Just tell me what you want to do and give me the money. I'll do it myself!"

"Then I'll give you ten taels of silver and ten strings of copper coins. Use the extra money to buy some vegetables..."

"Stop. Vegetables? What vegetables? If it's pickles, you can go to the house opposite and grab a couple of handfuls. You can have a bowl for two coins. If you mean the green ones in summer, we don't have them!" Jiao Datou was really helpless. Pickles, cabbage and radishes were okay.

Seeing Shangguan Wan'er was unhappy again, he said carefully, "How about this, cabbage? I'll see who has more in the village and buy a few pounds, okay?"

"Okay~ Thank you, Brother Jiao. Then please get me a small box so I can put the money away~" Shangguan Wan'er said softly, with copper coins still strung on her little hands.

“…Okay.” The money was just given away like that?

Jiao Datou slapped himself when he went out, what if he ran away? !

She was very angry. Where could he get a box for her?

I walked into the kitchen and saw the salt jar, and poured the salt into the bowl. After taking two steps, I thought of Shangguan Wan'er's picky personality...tsk.

He walked to the water tank and brushed the jar inside and out. "It was originally red? I don't even remember it." He held up the jar and looked at it, but he really couldn't remember it.

After giving her the jar and taking the money counted by Shangguan Wan'er, he walked out of the door in a daze. The snow was still falling, not heavily but it had not stopped. The snow on the ground was already half a foot high.

There were few pedestrians on the road. He was in a hurry to buy things and then to go home, and he was sweating all over.

As he came back dragging himself through the snow, carrying it on his back, holding it in his hands, and even wearing a basin on his head, he was calculating the three cents in his hand.

"How come my wife is so smart? After buying things, only three cents are left." Jiao Datou felt very magical.

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