Carried on His Back

Shopkeeper Liu stared at Liu Xiaolan and quickly made some calculations in his head. Although buckets are the most basic thing that a wood carver would learn to do, the issue is that the small buckets that Liu Xiaolan needs are a pain to make.

Even if he asked all of his man to work overtime and he himself helped, they could only make at most 50 buckets per day.

"Girl Liu, I really can't help you much with this. 50 small buckets is the limit for my shop, it's just that these buckets take too much time to make…" He sighed.

Liu Xiaolan was feeling a little disappointed hearing that. After all, even though she only sold 21 buckets today, in a few days when her stall's reputation is more known the number of her sales should multiply, perhaps even selling more than 100 buckets daily can be possible.

But now it seems that her packaging is still a huge obstacle she needs to overcome. "Uncle Liu, is there really no way to make them faster?"

Liu Jiahao shook his head. The small buckets she wanted had very specific data that was troublesome to make and took quite some time to carve.

Suddenly, he thought of an idea.

"Girl Liu, what if we made them half the size of a normal bucket? Although they would be a little bigger than the ones you want, the way to make them would be much easier and we could save some time…"

Liu Xiaolan thought about it and felt that it might be fine. To begin with, the buckets she originally wanted were to detailed. In the ancient times when people had no concept of packages, even if she uses buckets half smaller than normal ones, it would still be something of interest for the people.

"Alright, let's do it Uncle Liu." She said with a decisive voice. "But how much time can you save doing them? The more you can do daily the better…"

Shopkeeper Liu thought about it and said, "Well, if we can do them the way I said, we can probably shorten the time needed for one bucket by half. This way I can get you at least 100 buckets made daily…"

Liu Xiaolan felt that it was still a little slow, but compared to the original option it was already a much better speed. "Thank you, Uncle Liu. I'll bring the money to pay for them tomorrow."

"It's fine girl Liu. Just bring me the money once all of them are done, I'm not afraid that you'll run without paying." Liu Jiahao said with a smile on his face.

Once Liu Xiaolan went outside of Shopkeeper Liu's store, followed by Mu Yuchen, she turned towards him and said, "Little fool, we should probably hurry back home. We still need some time to prepare for tomorrow's sale…"

Mu Yuchen quickly nodded and they went outside the city and started their long walk towards Liuojia Village.

After they walked for some distance, Liu Xiaolan was already getting tired and her legs hurt a little.

Thinking of this, Liu Xiaolan sighed. Even though they could stay in the city longer and wait for the time when Zuo Xinghe would go back to catch a ride with him, it would still take too much time.

Once they waited for him to go back and made it back into the village, it would already start getting dark. It wouldn't make sense to try to prepare the chestnuts in too much darkness…

Mu Yuchen heard Liu Xiaolan's sigh and stopped walking.

Since the little fool usually liked to have his eye on her, he would most of the time follow behind her with a distance of about half a step. Because of this, Liu Xiaolan didn't immidiatly notice that he wasn't moving anymore.

It was only when she muttered a few complaints under her nose and didn't hear a response from her little fool that she looked towards him and noticed that he wasn't walking with her anymore. "Little fool, what are you doing?"

Meanwhile, Mu Yuchen looked towards Liu Xiaolan and walked in front of her.

"It's my fault, lady's legs must be tired by now. Lady quickly holds me so I can carry my lady back home…" He said as he squatted in front of her with his back towards her.

Liu Xiaolan blushed a little and refused to take another step. "It's alright, little fool. I'm just complaining because I'm bored, you don't need to carry me on your back."

But it seems like her explanation wasn't enough for him.

Mu Yuchen still didn't stand up and just looked at her with his sharp eyes. "Lady doesn't lie to me, I can see that my lady is already very tired from walking."

"Lady, quickly get on my back. I'll take the lady back to our village…"

Liu Xiaolan wanted to continue to refuse to him, but upon seeing his gaze she looked on the ground and slowly moved her body towards him, holding his body from behind.

"Lady holds me tightly, otherwise she will fall down and hurt herself…" Mu Yuchen said with a slight smile on his face while holding Liu Xiaolan's legs and picking her up.

Liu Xiaolan had no choice and could only hug his neck from behind while her face was getting more and more red.

Although Liu Xiaolan had a few times when she would wake up in Mu Yuchen's embrace, she still could try to downgrade it as just bad sleeping habits. But this time, she openly clinged to his body with her own free will.

Somehow the more she thought about this, the more red her face would become.

Mu Yuchen seemed to notice her weirdness and quickly asked, "Why is lady so red? Is it uncomfortable on my back? Should I hold the lady in another way?"

Liu Xiaolan lightly hit his shoulder with her hand and simply muttered in his ear to let him stop talking about their current situation...