After Transmigrating, I Gained a Wife - Chapter 13

That night, Luo Yan made dinner. She made the rib soup her wife loved drinking, and during the meal, her wife ate very happily.

Father Luo asked, “How did the milk tea sell today? Did everything go smoothly?”

Luo Yan looked at Father Luo and smiled. “It went much better than expected. The milk tea sold out before noon.”

“Mm.” As long as it sold well.

Mother Luo said, “I really didn’t expect the milk tea to sell that well. Those young girls drank one bamboo tube and still felt it wasn’t enough!” Thinking of how those girls had hurriedly drunk the milk tea in their hands while still wanting to take another bamboo tube with them, Mother Luo found it truly amusing.

“Yes, Mother. Tomorrow morning, I’ll have to get up even earlier to milk the cow. If nothing unexpected happens, we should earn more money than today,” Luo Yan said to her family with a smile.

Hanxue drank the rib soup in her bowl earnestly while watching Husband talk with the family. This kind of scene was something she had longed for, for a very, very long time back in the Li family.

In the Li family, her mother did not even dare say much. Every day, she basically stayed in her own room and rarely went out. Hanxue did not know how her mother was doing now. If there was a chance, she definitely had to let her mother and grandmother taste this delicious rib soup. They would surely like drinking it too.

She remembered that when she had just turned fifteen, Li Yan’s birth mother, Madam Cheng, had been nagging every day about when the Luo family, who had arranged the engagement, would come to deliver the betrothal gifts. Madam Cheng had Father’s partiality, so in many situations, the legal wife, Madam Meng, did not bother wasting words arguing with Madam Cheng.

Her eldest sister, Li Yan, was two years older than her. If she failed to marry for one more year, the tax would be doubled from two suan. Two suan was 240 coins, so doubling it would be 480 coins. Ancient women truly had it too hard. Without a skill, it was truly difficult to survive on one’s own.

Madam Cheng wanted to find a wealthy family for Li Yan, while Li Yan wanted to marry into the Wang family. As it happened, the Wang family was also wealthy, so mother and daughter secretly looked for opportunities in private. In the end, just as they wished, Li Yan married into the Wang family.

Fortunately, Grandmother was there. Although Grandmother did not ask about household matters, whenever something major happened in the family, Father still had to go ask Grandmother for her advice. All these years, Grandmother had treated Hanxue very well. Even when Hanxue married out, Grandmother had prepared a dowry for her.

Hanxue was naturally extremely grateful in her heart and thought that she must properly show filial respect to that elderly woman.

Mother Luo said, “Tomorrow morning, I’ll also get up earlier and lend Yan’er a hand.”

“Okay~” Luo Yan replied to Mother Luo happily.

After dinner, Mother Luo took charge of cleaning up. Luo Yan prepared all the ingredients needed for making milk tea in advance, then boiled a pot of water to use for washing up at night.

Seeing Yan’er tending the stove, Mother Luo asked, “Yan’er~ When did you learn all these things?”

Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo and, for a moment, did not know how to explain…

Luo Yan brought over a small stool and placed it beside herself, letting Mother Luo sit too. “Mother~ If I say it, I’m afraid you won’t believe me.”

“What kind of thing would there be to believe or not believe?” Mother Luo looked at her daughter in confusion.

“Mother~ After that day when something happened and I fell unconscious, these things appeared in my head on their own.” Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo with an utterly serious expression while spouting nonsense.

…

“Is that true? Yan’er?!!”

Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo and continued saying, or rather, tricking her, “It’s true, Mother. There’s even an old immortal in my mind.”

“An old immortal?” Mother Luo looked at Yan’er even more doubtfully.

“Yes, Mother. There was an old man wearing white clothes. His hair and beard were both white, and he looked just like an old immortal.” Luo Yan spoke to Mother Luo with such a serious expression that even she almost dared not disbelieve herself…

Mother Luo completely believed what Luo Yan said. “Daughter, it seems you really encountered an immortal.”

Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo and answered, “I think so too. At first, I didn’t dare believe it either. Later, after cooking and making milk tea, I believed it.”

“Mm. When there’s time, I’ll go to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, and thank the immortal,” Mother Luo said.

Luo Yan said, “Mother is right. After we earn money and have some free time, we’ll go worship Buddha. Mother, don’t think too much about it either. Having an immortal help me is a very good thing. This matter can’t be told to others. It might ruin the opportunity.”

Luo Yan reminded Mother Luo.

Mother Luo said, “Yan’er is thinking correctly. When we have time, our whole family will go worship Buddha.”

“All right, Mother!”

Mother Luo said, “Mm. I’ll go back to the room and wash up with your father before sleeping. You should rest early too. Tomorrow morning, you still have to be busy.”

“I know, Mother. Hurry back to the room.”

“All right.”

After Luo Yan finished boiling the water, she returned to her own room. “Wife, are you washing up now?” she asked, seeing that her wife seemed to be looking at something.

When Luo Yan walked closer, she saw that her wife was looking at her own dowry.

What was she planning to do?

Li Hanxue looked at Husband. “Husband, there are shops in my dowry. If you need them, you can take them and use them. But those shops are already selling things.”

Luo Yan frowned. She definitely could not use her wife’s dowry. Not only could she not use it, she had to work hard to earn money and prepare a new dowry for her wife!

“Wife, you have to properly keep your dowry safe, understand? These are all things your family prepared for you. You need to look after them well.”

Li Hanxue said, “If Husband doesn’t have enough money, tell me.”

“Wife, don’t worry. I still have money right now, so you don’t need to worry. If I really don’t have enough, I’ll tell you.” As Luo Yan spoke, she took out all the money she currently had. “The property I have right now is just this much, a little over one tael. After I earn more money, aside from the share for showing filial respect to my parents, the rest will all be given to you when the time comes.”

Looking at the little over one tael in Luo Yan’s hand, Hanxue fell silent. She had seen everything Husband had done these past days, and she would not separate from this person either.

Seeing that her wife did not speak, Luo Yan continued, “Do you believe me?” She looked at Hanxue seriously as she asked.

“I believe you.” Li Hanxue answered Luo Yan directly without even thinking.

Luo Yan was happy and touched inside that Hanxue could immediately believe her. She leaned closer to her wife and gently kissed her beautiful forehead. “Thank you. Thank you for believing me.”

Hanxue shyly lowered her head and put away her dowry. This person was too gentle right now, so gentle that when she said thank you, Hanxue did not even know how to respond.

Luo Yan said, “I’ll go prepare hot water for you. You wash up first.”

“…Mm~ All right.”

That night, Luo Yan did not bully her wife. She held her wife in her arms and slept peacefully until dawn.

This morning, the rooster crowed even more fiercely…

In an instant, Luo Yan regretted buying two more chickens!

Rooster: I’m reminding you that it’s time to get up, work, and earn money, all right! Can you stop thinking about how to eat me!!!

After breakfast was ready, Luo Yan first went to milk the cow once. After calling her wife to get up and finish breakfast, Luo Yan went to milk the cow again. Fortunately, the family had jars, which were just right for storing the milk.

The milk tea made today was much more than yesterday’s. Father Luo drank a bowl of milk tea before setting off to work. After Mother Luo packed up the milk tea, Luo Yan was responsible for carrying it, while her wife controlled the donkey cart outside. They quickly finished preparing everything, then Luo Yan, Mother Luo, and her wife locked the house and set off for the market.

When they arrived at the market, what Luo Yan had not expected was that there were already people lining up in front of the shop!

This was way too early. Everyone was far too impressive!

When Xiao Xu arrived at the shop, he was also startled. This kind of situation was very rare. But when everyone questioned him, he also began to grow anxious, because he did not know when the boss would arrive either. Looking at everyone, he could only say she would be here soon, very soon.

After everything was prepared, they began selling. In no time at all, the seats in the shop were quickly filled. Luo Yan had thought that after word spread yesterday, there would be more people today, but this was far too many…

There were fewer samples today. Most people directly bought it. It took about the same amount of time as yesterday, but physically, they were twice as tired as yesterday. From the moment they started selling, there was no free time to stop. It was truly incredible.

Sigh~ Sure enough, no matter where people were, they could not escape the fate of milk tea~

When calculating the money today, Luo Yan was very satisfied! Among the 621 wen, fifty-seven wen were bamboo tube deposits. She would have to buy more bamboo tubes again. Judging by the current situation, the remaining bamboo tubes were far from enough.

Mother Luo also had not expected so many people to come. By the time they finished selling, her body had grown hot and sweaty.

Mother Luo did not rest. She and Xiao Xu cleaned up the used bamboo tubes together. The bamboo tubes all had to be washed clean. Yan’er said that after washing them, they had to be scalded again with hot water. She said this was called disinfection. Mother Luo did not understand what disinfection was, but she still did as Yan’er said.

Li Hanxue said, “So many people came today.”

Luo Yan looked at her wife and smiled. “Yes. I truly didn’t expect it.”

After everyone finished cleaning up, Luo Yan removed the business sign and sat inside the shop with everyone to rest. “Today’s earnings are not bad. At noon, we’ll go to Boss Pu’s place to eat wontons.”

Mother Luo said, “That sounds wonderful.”

When they went to Boss Pu’s place at noon, Boss Pu was also terribly busy. Luo Yan and the others found an empty table and sat down.

Even if Luo Yan had not come to Boss Pu’s place, Boss Pu would have gone to find her. These past two days, the wontons had not only increased in price, they had also sold even better. Every day, his earnings were more than a little higher than before.

After everyone finished eating, when Xiao Xu left, Luo Yan gave him eight wen. “Tomorrow is the official opening. After this, I’ll pay you once a month.”

Xiao Xu naturally had no problem with that. The money Luo Yan gave counted as a second source of money for him.

Boss Pu found time to tell Luo Yan that he agreed to everything they had discussed before and asked Luo Yan to write the proof and press fingerprints.

After hearing this, Luo Yan was naturally happy. After greeting Boss Pu, the family of three returned home. She agreed with Boss Pu that they would sign and press fingerprints tomorrow.

Another reason for returning early was that Luo Yan needed to make pastries to bring to the shop and sell tomorrow.

That afternoon, Luo Yan first made mung bean cakes at home, and also made a mung bean sponge cake. After the cake was finished, Luo Yan felt so pleased that she could have died. The people here definitely had never eaten this thing before. Hahahaha~ She could sell it at a higher price.

“Mother, Wife, come taste this cake and see if it’s good.”

Cake?

What, what was that???

How was it different from pastries? Li Hanxue was very puzzled. When she watched Husband making it, she had been confused the entire time. This person had been there constantly stirring with great effort. In the end, when the liquid egg mixture took shape, it completely refreshed Li Hanxue’s understanding!

Looking at this cake, Hanxue felt a bit more curiosity…

Mother Luo and Hanxue were both very curious about this cake, but they still picked up their chopsticks and tried it.

Wu…

This cake was really delicious! It melted in the mouth. Mother Luo liked it very much. “Yan’er, the top and the inside are different?”

Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo and answered seriously, “Yes, Mother~ The inside is cake, and the top is cream.”

“It’s delicious. Mother likes the cake inside.”

“As long as Mother likes it.” Luo Yan looked at Mother Luo and said happily.

Li Hanxue said, “It’s very delicious. The cream is delicious.”

Author’s Note:

It’s already forty thousand words. Suddenly, I feel like this story is going to end up with a lot of words…

Ahhh~ Screaming online!

Sigh~ I revised the typos once.