Chapter 203 – Taking Charcoal

Wei Ruo and the others walked over and saw that a mansion in the alley had collapsed, and snow covered the ruins of the house.

Asked the onlookers, the owner of the house is fine, has been rescued, but the house collapsed, the family has no place to live, the women sit in the alley crying, the men are trying to find something from the rubble that can be used out.

Wei Ruo watched for a while, then pulled Wei Jin Yi away.

Wei Ruo did not do anything, not do not feel sorry for this family, but look at this situation this family at least live without worry, and now there must be even worse than this family’s situation.

Wei Jin also didn’t say anything, although he didn’t ask, Wei Jin also knew what Wei Ruo had in mind, their views on this matter should be the same.

Moving on, almost every other road you could see houses that had collapsed in disrepair, but most of the people who could live in the city were not in very bad condition.

It just sends a message that with so many houses crushed in the city, the situation is bound to be even worse in the small mountain villages outside the city.

After walking for a while longer, Wei Ruo and the others walked in front of the Four Treasures and Xu Ji Marinated Food Shop.

Sibaozhai store door half open, there are people inside, but the store is not in business; Xu Ji brine store is open, but the door is cold and quiet, in sharp contrast to the previous lively scene.

Thinking about it, I knew that no one would be in the mood to buy lo mein for dinner today.

The other fellow inside the store was not there, only Chen Ah Qing was still busy in the store.

Seeing Wei Ruo, Chen Aqing’s eyes flashed with delight, but after seeing a strange man by Wei Ruo’s side, they quickly returned to blandness.

“It’s fine, this person is an exception, he is my second brother, the only one in my family that I can befriend and trust.” Wei Ruo explained to Chen Aqing.

Wei Ruo didn’t notice Wei Jin Yi’s eyes change behind her as she explained.

Unique and sympathetic, that’s what she recognized about him.

“Ah Qing, didn’t I send a letter yesterday? If the snow is too heavy, we don’t have to open today. Didn’t you get the letter?” Wei Ruo said.

“I received it. Don’t worry miss, I only made a very small amount today, occasionally there will be so one or two people who will come over to buy it, by the evening it should just be sold out.” Chen Aqing explained to Wei Ruo.

“That’s not what I meant, it’s so cold and there aren’t many customers, plus the year is coming to an end, you can take this opportunity to rest for two days.” Wei Ruo said.

Working in her store is basically no day off.

Chen Aqing shook his head, “Miss you let me keep working here, they said that New Year’s time is when business is good. And I don’t have anywhere to go, I don’t have anything else to do if I don’t open a store.”

Chen Aqing’s parents are still alive, but it’s not a home for her to go back to.

If she went back, all that money she’d earned would probably be taken back by her parents, probably without a beating.

“That’s fine, anyway, if you’re tired, take a break for two days, it’s New Year’s Eve, and I, the boss, don’t want to carry the charge of oppressing an employee.” Wei Ruo laughed.

“Don’t worry miss, I won’t.” Chen Ah Qing replied.

After briefly explaining a couple of things to Chen Aqing, Wei Ruo went back to the Four Treasures next door.

The door was hidden, and Wei Ruo easily pushed it open and entered.

“The young lady is here to see our dangerman, isn’t she?”

Because Wei Ruo had come looking for someone more than once, the store’s fellows recognized her even though they didn’t know her exact relationship with Four Treasures.

Wei Ruo asked, “Is your leader here?”

“The Dons are in the back yard.” The fellow replied.

Wei Ruo then walked straight through the store and went to the small courtyard at the back.

Wei Jin also followed behind Wei Ruo, although he had doubts but did not open his mouth.

In the backyard courtyard, Xu Zhushan was busy splitting firewood.

It had snowed, and snow had accumulated on the firewood piled up in the yard, and Xu Zhushan was sorting them out, chopping them up and moving them to the shed for storage.

A while ago has been helping Wei Ruo busy things on the manor, these chores inside the home Xu Zhushan has not had the opportunity to do, today inconvenience to go out, just to these chores to do.

“Uncle Hsu.”

“Miss!” Seeing Wei Ruo, Xu Zhushan hurriedly put down the work in his hands, “Miss it’s such a cold day, and the road is snowy and difficult to travel, why did you come here?”

“It’s not too far away, I came over to take a look and pick up a few things on the way.” Wei Ruo replied.

The milkmaid who heard the sound also came out from the house, seeing Wei Ruo, the milkmaid was full of joy.

“Miss, quickly go inside, it’s cold outside, don’t freeze.” Nurse hurriedly pulled Wei Ruo into the house.

It was only when she walked up that she realized in hindsight that Wei Ruo was followed by two people she hadn’t seen before.

Nurse froze.

“This is my second brother.” Wei Ruo replied.

The nanny was a bit at a loss as to how to greet Wei Jin Yi.

Wei Jin also spoke up, “You guys just talk about yourselves, don’t worry about me.”

In order to avoid continuing the awkwardness, Wei Ruo said to the milkmaid, “Milkmaid, I came over today to get some silver bone charcoal from you, after I get it I’ll leave, it’s not good to stay for a long time.”

“Good. I should have known that I should have sent it to miss earlier, nowadays the road is not good, I’m afraid I can’t transport too much at once.” The milkmaid said with some chagrin.

Hearing the conversation between Wei Ruo and her nanny, Xiao Bei revealed a surprised look.

This silver bone charcoal is a very expensive item, especially these days when the weather has made good charcoal such as silver bone charcoal very hard to come by.

But why did you listen to the tone of Missy and her nanny’s speech, like the family had a very large amount of silver bone charcoal and could casually take out a large cart?

“It’s okay, I won’t take more than two bags this time.”

“Would two bags be too little? It’s been cold for the past two days, miss’s house can’t be cut off from the charcoal fire, or she’ll easily catch a cold.” The milkmaiden said.

“Two bags are enough for some days, just come back for more when you’ve used it up.” Wei Ruo replied.

“Alright then, I’ll have Lao Xu send it over to Miss.” The milkmaiden said.

“No, just two bags, we’ll just take them back ourselves, don’t bother Uncle Xu.” Wei Ruo said.

Xiu Mei followed suit, “Two bags I’ll carry back alone.”

Hearing this Xiao Bei hurriedly said, “Miss Xiu Mei, this kind of work shouldn’t be done by a girl like you, just let me do it.”

“Don’t argue with me, look at you, you’re as thin as a monkey, just take care of your own walking, the road is slippery in snowy days, it’s easy to fall.” Xiu Mei said.

Hearing this Xiao Bei was not happy: “Miss Xiu Mei you are a girl who is not afraid of falling down what am I a man afraid of? No, this kind of heavy work must be mine.”

Wei Ruo couldn’t look on, “Don’t argue, Nurse here has a cart, just push it.”

Although the carriage can’t go on this road, the cart can still be pushed, just need to pay some attention when pushing not to let the car slide away.

“Yes, yes, yes, there’s a cart, push it back to save energy.” The milkmaid was busy saying.

meso- (chemistry)