Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The two little children immediately started eating excitedly.
Zhou Ying and Gu Ziyi started to chat.
After a pot of tea, Gu Ziyi said, âSister-in-law, to be honest, Iâm here to ask for a favor.â
âYouâre welcome. If thereâs anything you need, just tell us. Weâll definitely help if we can.â
Of course, she meant she wouldnât help if it were something too difficult, but she believed Gu Ziyi could understand what she meant.
Gu Ziyi understood and smiled. âMy fatherâs 50th birthday is coming up soon. I donât know what to give him in this trouble-filled year, so I want to ask you to help me make six longevity peach buns.â
âItâs the one that your restaurant sold before, the soft one everyone likes to eat.â
After she finished speaking, she handed her a bag. In it was a bag of about three pounds of white noodles and ten eggs.
âWhen is eldest uncleâs 50th birthday?â Zhou Ying was stunned for a moment.
âItâs on the 8th of July. There are only three days left.â
âAlright, Iâll remember this. Come and get it on the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Itâs too early to make it now. Also, six longevity peach buns donât require this much flour,â Zhou Ying said, pointing to the bag of flour. âHalf of these are enough.â
âThe rest can be made into a cake.â
âAlright, I know what to do.â
The two of them chatted for a while before Gu Ziyi brought her two daughters home.
Zhou Ying added another pot of hot water to her tea and sat in the courtyard.
After sending off the last patient, Gu Chengrui sat down and asked, âWhat was big sister here for this time?â
âShe said itâs the patriarchâs birthday in three days, and she came to ask me to help make a few buns.â Zhou Ying pointed to the bag at the side and poured him a glass of water. âYouâve been busy the whole morning. Have a glass of water.â
âAlright.â Gu Chengrui nodded and took a sip. âBy the way, I hoard that the meeting today is to drive out all the other relatives of the villagers from the village, right?â
âSomething like that, but they said that since theyâve come from afar, they can stay in the warehouse at the dock. That way, those people donât have to worry about the lack of water.â
âNo wonder itâs so lively outside,â
âThey all want to take advantage of us.â
âTo put it bluntly, theyâre poor. There arenât many villages that have a harvest this year. Most people rely on eating grass to survive. I mean, look at how many people went up the mountains after the wolf pack was exterminated,â Gu Chengrui added.
âDo you think we should take out some rations for them?â Zhou Ying asked in a low voice.
Gu Chengrui hesitated for a moment before shaking his head. âItâs not a good idea. Because of the warehouse, the food in the interspace is too fresh, so itâs not easy to hide its origins.â
âLetâs just wait for a while. Weâll do something when we harvest those sweet potatoes.â
âOkay, Iâve also seen people fight to the death for a little bit of food, while weâre guarding a treasure vault and watching helplessly. It just doesnât feel good.â
âIf I didnât know better, I would have thought I had been a great philanthropist for ten lifetimes. Otherwise, I wouldnât have met you.â Just as Gu Chengrui finished speaking, a dark and thin girl around 14 or 15 years old suddenly rushed in and said, âDoctor Gu, Manager Zhou, pleaseâ¦â
Before she could finish her sentence, Er Zhuang suddenly pounced on her.
âEr Zhuang!â Zhou Ying called out.
However, Er Zhuang still pounced on her. However, he didnât hurt her and quickly left.
Zhou Ying saw this and quickly went forward to help the girl up. âGirl, who are you? Do we know you?â
The lady was stunned for a moment. âI⦠Iâm Zhang Qingqing, the eldest daughter of Zhang Dacheng.â
âManager Zhou, please buy me and give me a way out. Otherwise, Iâll be sold to
a retardâ¦.â