13 Li Lizhi, Li Shu, Li Hui, the three little princesses' night talk

Xiren went to boil water and wash up.

Xu Mo glanced at the sky and shook his head. What a pity... He wanted to have another hot pot tonight, but the curfew was approaching and those stalls should have closed long ago.

At this moment, in the imperial city.

Li Lizhi called her two sisters, Li Shu and Li Hui, who had the best relationship with her, over: "I went to the supermarket today and bought some facial masks to share with you."

She had already sent the portion for Empress Changsun.

She bought twenty and sent ten.

She planned to give two to each of the remaining two sisters and keep six for herself.

"What does the store owner look like?" Li Hui took the facial mask and asked curiously while putting it in her arms.

Li Shu had a similar expression.

Although they had not heard their father praise the shopkeeper in person, they had heard Li Lizhi's exaggerated description, so they were naturally interested in that...

In Li Lizhi's heart, the shopkeeper who was sometimes tall and strong, with three heads and six arms, and sometimes short and hunched, with white hair and a childlike face, was very interested.

She also wanted to know if there were really such strange people in the world.

When mentioning Xu Mo.

Li Lizhi blushed, and she took a deep breath: "That shopkeeper, just like what my father said, is a man without ambition."

"I left the palace at noon, and waited there for another hour, and the shopkeeper finally came to open the door!"

Li Shu was stunned.

She grew up in the deep palace, but...she knew a little about merchants. Which merchant didn't get up early and work late? She wished that the curfew would no longer be enforced and that they could open all night.

How can there be such a store... It's almost noon and it's not open yet.

Li Hui shook her head. She was not interested in the business. "What does he look like? Does he really have three heads and six arms?"

Li Lizhi's face turned redder and she shook her head: "How can he have three heads and six arms? Isn't he a monster? That shopkeeper is extremely handsome..."

She thought of Xu Mo as she spoke, and then she subconsciously uttered a sentence: "And it smells good."

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Lizhi's face turned redder, and a strong regret surged in her heart.

Oh my God, what nonsense am I talking about.

How could such a fierce word come out of my mouth.

The two princesses were stunned.

They looked at Li Lizhi in surprise.

Smell good...

What kind of adjective is this?

Figure, appearance, voice, and even feeling... These are the words commonly used to describe a person. I have never heard of describing a person by smell.

And... Sister!

What happened between you and that shopkeeper that made you say that he smells good.

"Why do you say he smells good?" Li Hui tilted her head, looking puzzled, "Sister, I have smelled him. What kind of fragrance is that? Is it the fragrance of osmanthus?"

Now is the season when the city is full of golden osmanthus.

Li Shu also became curious. Unlike the ignorant Li Hui, she knew a little about the relationship between men and women. When asked, she was full of desire for gossip.

Li Lizhi coughed twice unnaturally, waved her hand, picked up a facial mask, and explained: "I tell you, facial masks are very particular about how to use them..."

No matter how the two girls asked, Li Lizhi would not talk about the smell.

She was serious, which made her two younger sisters seem not so serious.

This made Li Shu, Li Hui and the others feel itchy and curious about the shopkeeper of the Datang Supermarket.

It was so strange what the smell was.

They quarreled and discussed when to go out of the palace to take a look. Tomorrow... tomorrow is not possible, there are classes tomorrow, and the teacher is the famous old-fashioned scholar Kong Yingda. They can skip classes, but the consequence is the mother's lesson.

The next day.

Xu Mo got up in a daze. Xiren had been waiting outside the house. Hearing the movement in the house, she opened the door and asked, then pushed the door open and walked in to help dress.

When he went out.

The water for washing was ready, and the toothpaste was squeezed out of the toothbrush-Xu Mo taught Xiren how to use this thing last night.

After washing, he was completely awake.

He stretched and looked at the sun in the sky. He couldn't help but feel that the two strings of silver were worth it. This is the life of luxury and corruption.

It is really nice.

"Have you washed up?" Xu Mo turned his head and looked at Xiren.

Although she was still in rags, she looked two shades whiter after taking a bath last night. A bunch of wrinkled and dull nasturtiums blossomed into a cluster of tender and lovely spireas.

Xiren nodded and exhaled a little.

This was the first time she had seen a toothbrush. Even now, she still felt a cool feeling in her mouth and smelled of mint after brushing her teeth.

She got up two hours earlier. According to the rules at home, she should have fed the chickens, chopped firewood, and then looked for any shepherd's purse or plantain that had been missed by others in the field.

But here...

after brushing her teeth and tidying up the things in the yard, she had nothing to do.

She waited until the sun was high in the sky. The man who said he would get up at 7:00 a.m. really got up at 7:00 a.m., and… it looked like the sun was almost up.

"Let's go, I'll take you out for breakfast." Xu Mo waved his hand, "Take that half piece of cloth, and buy some more things."

The East Market Square was already open.

After eating two bowls of soup noodles to fill his stomach, he went to the cloth shop to use the half piece of cloth to weave a dress for Xiren - but the size had been measured and it would take two days to pick it up.

Xu Mo thought he would have to pay some labor fees, but the cloth shop only wanted scraps of cloth, or even a whole piece of cloth that was larger than a handkerchief after cutting clothes, and would keep it for Xu Mo. He also bought some vegetables.

This was not smooth.

There were too few types of vegetables. There were only a few seasonal vegetables, Artemisia selengensis, also known as Artemisia argyi, Wild rice stem, Shepherd's purse, Okra, and Xu Mo didn't even see a mushroom.

Meat... not to mention.

The smell of pork made Xu Mo stay away.

Beef... There was no beef.

This disappointed Xu Mo, who wanted to buy some tripe. Hot pot without tripe was equivalent to losing half the fun.

There were some chickens and ducks, but they were alive and needed to be processed after they were bought back. Xu Mo asked Xiren if she could do it. When she shook her head, he bought some chickens. They were very expensive, one cent each.

Xiren knew a lot of housework, but her family was poor. Even eating was a difficult task, let alone killing chickens for meat. She had never eaten meat in her life.

He cut two pounds of mutton, which was not cheap either. The shank meat cost thirteen cents per pound, and the tendon meat cost ten cents per pound.

Xu Mo bought them without blinking an eye.

Xiren looked at them and couldn't help feeling distressed.

Just buying vegetables cost more than thirty cents, which was enough to cover the expenses of her original family for two months.

Finally, he went to the blacksmith shop again, paid the last balance of one coin, and took the pot away. Originally, he had said that the boss would deliver it, but now that the maid was there, she happened to take it herself.

The three iron pots weighed nearly twenty pounds, and Xiren couldn't lift them. She could only hold the vegetables and carefully follow Xu Mo to the supermarket.