[QTC] MBDT Chapter 78

Bei Yutang raised her eyebrows slightly. He obviously wanted to eat, but why didn’t he want it anymore?

“What’s wrong?”

Xiao Zimo shook his head, “It’s too expensive.”

Xiao Zimo knew that his mother only had a dozen copper coins in her pocket, so he could not bear to part with them.

Bei Yutang touched the coins in her pocket. There were indeed not many coins and she was a bit strapped. But, spending one or two coins would not make a big difference.

Bei Yutang took a little tiger directly from the shelf and handed it to Xiao Zimo, “How about this?”

“Mother.”

Xiao Zi Mo looked at her blankly.

Bei Yutang took out two cents and handed them to the stall owner.

“Let’s go.” Bei Yutang held Xiao Zimo with one hand.

Xiao Zimo held the candy man, which gave him an unreal feeling.

He had fantasized about his mother buying him delicious food countless times, and now that he actually had it, this feeling made him feel sweet in his heart.

He could not help but secretly glance at Bei Yutang.

His current mother is so good now.

The two of them went straight to the rice grain store. Here rice costs eight cents per catty, white flour costs six cents per catty, millet rice costs three cents per catty, and the cheapest kind of brown rice costs one penny per catty.

Brown rice is actually not rice, but something similar to grain shells. This kind of rice is eaten by livestock. Unless the family is really poor and does not open the pot, it will be eaten.

Eating too much of this stuff can lead to constipation and vaginal bleeding.

In her memory, Xiao Zimo often ate brown rice, and he had diarrhea and bleeding several times, which was so painful that he almost died. The woman Mu Zhitao ignored him and left him to fend for himself.

Fortunately, Xiao Zimo was lucky enough to avoid being tortured to death by that woman Mu Zhitao.

No matter how cheap brown rice is, no matter how poor she is, she will not buy it to make the two of them suffer.

Eighteen cents, excluding the two cents for Xiao Zimo’s candy man, there are still sixteen cents.

Rice is so expensive that if she buys only two catties, it will be all spent. White flour is also expensive, but it is better than rice.

Bei Yutang touched the copper coins in her pocket and bought four catties of millet rice. She spent twelve pennies and still had four pennies left. She had enough food and vegetables, so she bought some Chinese cabbage.

Chinese cabbage was very cheap, two for one penny, so Bei Yutang bought four and spent the remaining two pennies on salt.

Now, she is completely penniless.

“Look at him, the clothes he’s wearing are so tattered.”

“All the servants in my family are wearing better clothes than this.”

Xiao Zimo was eating candy when he heard two little boys in luxurious clothes pointing at him. Xiao Zimo looked toward them and the two little boys stared back at him.

“What are you looking at, you stinky beggar.”

“Let’s stay away from him. I heard from my servants that such poor beggars are very dirty, with fleas and bugs on them.”

Xiao Zimo looked at his clothes, which were full of patches, but he was not a beggar.

“I’m not a beggar.”

When the two little boys saw that he dared to talk back to them, they immediately stopped.

“Look at the clothes you’re wearing, you’re just like a beggar.”

“I’m not.”

“Stinky beggar, go away.” One of the little boys stepped forward and pushed Zimo down.

Xiao Zimo was unprepared and was pushed to the ground.

When Bei Yutang heard the noise, she came out of the salt shop and saw Zimo lying on the ground. In front of him, there were two little boys.

She can tell at a glance what’s going on.

“What are you doing?” Bei Yutang asked sternly.

When the two little boys saw the adults appearing, they turned around and ran away.

Bei Yutang hurriedly knelt down and helped the little boy up from the ground, “Are you injured? Where did it hurt?”

Faced with her concerned questioning, Xiao Zimo shook his head blankly.

“No.”

After Bei Yutang looked up and down, she saw that he was fine, so she was also relieved.

“Mo’er, what happened just now?”

Xiao Zimo did not dare to hide anything and replied straight away: “They said I was a beggar, but I said I wasn’t. One of them stepped forward and pushed me.” After speaking, Xiao Zimo lowered his head.

Will my mother be angry?

Xiao Zimo was already ready to be scolded by his mother.

 

 

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