Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

chapter 96

Chapter 96 Uninvited Guest: Liu Sisi Gets Lost

“Ahem! Shopkeeper—”

Liu Sisi’s slender fingers tapped gently on the counter, her eyebrows and eyes curved in a charming arc.

Nan Tianzong jolted back to reality, instinctively wanting to use the book in his hand to block her view. Then he suddenly realized that he had been holding the Classic of Poetry upside down without even noticing, and his face turned beet red.

Like throwing a hot potato, he discarded the book in his hand, leaned down, shifted his direction, picked up a brush-pen, and started writing. He sneered coldly.

“What do you know? I am trying to read upside down on purpose, so I can recite it back-to-front. What are you still doing here? I’m hungry, you better go buy some noodles for me to eat.”

“Buy… noodles? If you’re hungry, why don’t you go eat by yourself?”

Liu Sisi was somewhat surprised that Nan Tianzong actually asked her to run errands and buy noodles for him!

Nan Tianzong didn’t say much more and directly took out twenty copper coins from the counter: “Go to the alley on the left, where there’s an Auntie selling noodles. Take the two kids with you, and don’t say that I’m harsh on them by not even allowing them to have lunch.”

After speaking, he buried his head back into his writing and refused to talk anymore.

He’s actually inviting their children for lunch!

At that moment, Liu Sisi’s worries were put to rest!

She initially thought that Nan Tianzong dislikes the children very much, but it turns out that he’s quite caring!

“Thank you, shopkeeper! I’ll take the children to eat noodles then.”

Liu Sisi happily put down the feather duster in her hand and called out to the two children, “Xuan’er, YingEr, let’s go. We’re having lunch outside.”

It was hard on the two children who had quietly played in the corner all morning. At this moment, hearing Liu Sisi’s call, they quickly scampered out.

“Mom, where are we going for lunch? Didn’t you say we have no money left?”

Mature YingEr came up to Liu Sisi with head tilted up, asking her.

Having picked her up, Liu Sisi then led Di Xuan out of the bookstore: “Today, the lunch is on the shopkeeper! Let’s go and eat noodles!” While saying so, she hastened towards the noodle stand Nan Tianzong had mentioned.

For this meal, Liu Sisi felt that she hadn’t taken advantage of him.

Although she agreed to let the two children work today without pay, working ten days a month for a total of 500 copper coins, they were paid 50 coins a day. In this small town, it’s indeed considered high pay and demands literate people who can read and write! How many real scholars would be willing to swallow their pride and work as a waiter?

Literacy is an intangible asset!

As such, 50 copper coins a day is honestly not expensive!

Now that she has foregone the 50 copper coins in wages and spent over a dozen coins on his noodles, no matter how she does the math, she’s on the losing end!

The three left, Nan Tianzong threw the brush-pen down casually, scratched his head in pain, and drooped his usually upturned mouth. He knew how stiff his smile was, but after wearing the mask for a long time, it was as if it grew on his face. He couldn’t take it off, and gradually it became the signature of him, Nan Tianzong.