After getting home Sun Baohai gifted Lin Ning a piece of Osmanthus cake as thanks. After sending her off, he immediately started cooking. Today he decided to make noodle dumpling soup. His dough had been already cut since yesterday so he only had to make the dumplings. The filling of the dumpling was veggies. Sun Baohai was really greedy for meat as he hadn't eaten some for three weeks now but he knew his financial state more than anyone right now and could only push the thought of eating meat to the back of his head.
Even if there was no meat, the noodles and dumplings turned out great. After setting the hot pot noodle on the table he called the kids who were currently practicing the calligraphy. The kids smelled the aroma and immediately went to wash their hands before coming to the table. Since the kids started living with Sun Baohai they more or less followed his rules. One of them was that they had to wash their hands before eating. Sun Baohai was really scared of contracting even a cold in this period when medicine was backward. He wasn't a doctor and barely knew some herbs and medicine that could him except for ginseng, so he paid extra attention to the tidiness of the house.
"Thank you for the meal!" The kids thanked as they picked up their chopsticks.
"Be careful it's hot," Sun Baohai warned as he picked up the baby and prepared to feed him. For the baby, he made some veggie puree and put a little of the noodle broth in there for some flavor. After feeding him a spoon the baby seemed to like it. The kids also ate the noodles with gusto. After feeding the baby, Sun Baohai gave him to the twins who already finished their food and started eating his food.
After dinner was over Qiqi cleared the table while Sun Baohai went to bathe Xiao Xi and Xiao Wan. After he was done bathing the two it was Qiqi and Xiao Yu's turn. While bathing them he checked their hair and noticed that the lice had decreased a lot but there were still some. Their hair had also become healthier, as the yellow color diminished and lush dark color started to take its place. After showering the kids he let them go play among themselves and took Xiao Yu to his room.
Ever since he started taking care of Xiao Yu, the boy had become somewhat sticky to him. If he didn't see him for too long he would cry. Sun Baohai felt strange seeing this but it somewhat warmed his heart knowing that someone, even if it was a tiny human was attached to him like this.
According to the village clock, it was currently seven o'clock so after coaxing the baby to sleep, he went to the room of the children and coaxed them to sleep. After all the kids were sleeping he took out a piece of paper from the stack the original owner had and a thin brush and started writing his response letter to Zhang Jinhai.
Dear Jinhai,
I am Sun Baohai, your new wife and the stepmother of your children. I am nineteen years old, fully educated, and proficient and multiple arts. I have received the letter you sent me. My third sister-in-law delivered it to me and also explained everything I needed to know. I want to assure you that the money sent back is more than enough as I am also currently providing some income, so for now, just focus on living and coming back to the children, and also me, because I do not wish to be widowed at such a young age. Do not worry about the kids as I will take great care of them. They are all adorable and I am fond of them, so please really do focus on yourself. I will try and write you thrice a month if I can. Please take care of yourself.
Sincerely, Baohai
After finishing the letter in an awkward manner, he made a makeshift envelope and put the letter in it. After finishing that task he went outside and took a shower. After the shower, he went and calculated everything he needed for his business. When it was around nine o'clock he finally went to sleep.
At the crack of dawn the next day he woke up and made breakfast. For today's breakfast, he made stuffed scallion pancakes. After waking up the kids and giving them a wipe-down, he brought them to the table, and the half-asleep kids immediately became awake with gluttonous looks on their faces. Seeing how the kids looked, Sun Baohai couldn't help but chuckle. After eating the filling breakfast, each of the kids was given a cup of soy milk. The kids were shocked that they had such a delicacy in their home and couldn't help but look at Sun Baohai in admiration. Seeing their looks, his ongoing heartache about the five points he had just spent on a gallon of soymilk disappeared.
After feeding them and cleaning them, Sun Baohai dropped the kids off at Aunt Lin's house. He brought the kids' lunches over which only needed reheating and brought some of the stuffed scallion pancakes for the Lin family. After taking care of everything he made his way to his shop in town. When he got there he was shocked to see the line of women and gers and even some men in front of his shop. As he approached he heard them talking and found the cause for this sudden wave of customers.
It turned out Madam Li had a get-together yesterday after buying the jam. The tea and some of the pastries served at the get-together all had jam in them. The ladies and gers were surprised that the always slightly bitter tea now had a sweet light mellow taste to it and the bland pastries were now delicious. The ladies were immediately curious about what was used to achieve this and asked. Madam Li never liked to gatekeep and that's what kept her popular for so many years, so she immediately said where she bought it. Because of the taste of the pastries and the tea, Madam Li managed to please the wife of the dean of the town school. Previously they were on good terms and could be considered acquaintances but now the dean's wife considered her a friend. Madam Li was so happy that she praised his shop to the heavens which resulted in this wave of customers.
"Excuse can I please go through so I can open the door?" Sun Baohai asked the ladies who were in front of the line.
"Y-yes," The lady was shocked by Sun Baohai. Not only was he young but he was beautiful. He wasn't an out worldly beauty but a great beauty was a great beauty no matter what and Sun Baohai was exactly that. He had light brown doe eyes, his eyelashes long and curly. He had a straight nose bridge but his nose was small and cute. His lips were red plum and were the shape of a heart. He had straight dark eyebrows which made a lovely contrast to his pale skin. His jawline was sharp but the softness of his face was there to balance it out. His hair was curly at the ends and two sections of his hair from the front were tied at the back of his head with a light blue ribbon that matched his light blue hanfu. His looks were soft and pretty giving people the vibe that he was a young ger from the capital.
Not knowing what the crowd was thinking, Sun Baohai made his way into the shop. As soon as the door was opened the customers immediately filled the little shop. They immediately went to where the jam was and bought the amount they wanted. Sun Baohai was shocked and at this point, he was just thankful that Madam Li was his first customer.
{New Mission: Crowd Pleaser. Please at least 75% of your customers. Reward: 12 jin of peaches and 10 jin of sugar}
Sun Baohai was shocked by the sudden voice but nevertheless accepted the mission, but he was curious about the fact that this mission didn't reward him any points and asked Nuo Mi for the reason.
{Not all missions will give you points as they are different from one another}
The explanation was short and did not answer his question but he didn't continue to pay attention to this seeing that the customers were approaching him. Remembering that he had a mission he immediately put his thoughts away and focused on pleasing the customers. He spent all day giving compliments to his customers as he nervously looked at his mission progress bar. The customers indeed liked getting complimented and saw Sun Baohai in a better light.
After complimenting non-stop for almost the whole morning, Sun Baohai completed his mission and was rewarded. Though he was satisfied Sun Baohai had to admit that today was especially hard for him. Though he was somewhat smart in his past life, he was not so smart to say he was an elite who could multitask important matters, and today proved that. He made several mistakes while accounting because his customers overwhelmed him. If it wasn't for the fact that he was born into a noble family in his last life and it was required that he knew accounting so he knew what to do when he was married off, he would've been in huge trouble today.
He knew that this meant that he needed to hire somebody to help him, but he was reluctant too. Especially knowing that his business had just started out, and he just started making some profit. Today he sold twelve jars of jam which brought him a revenue of four silver and twenty wen. Since his jam was sold out, he closed his shop and went to the military courier office in town to send the letter. The courier's office was about fifteen minutes away from his shop so it didn't long for him to arrive.
"Hello, what can I help you with?" The young man who was at the desk asked politely. The young man was shocked by such a beautiful ger and immediately started having covetous thoughts about him.
"Yes, I would like to send a letter," Sun Baohai responded politely. The young man was dazed for a moment but forcibly pushed the thought that such a beautiful ger was already married to the back of his head. This ger must be a child or a sibling of a soldier, it couldn't possibly be his husband.
"Who will be the receiver," The young man asked.
"My husband," Sun Baohai replied completely breaking the heart of the young man who had already planned their future together.
"His basic information and his position?" The young man inquired, trying his best to not show any abnormality.
"Zhang Jinhai, twenty-four, recently transferred to the armored division with the position of a Chuangzhu." Sun Baohai reported.
"What would you like to send?" The young man asked.
"A letter and a jar of jam," Sun Baohai responded as he took out what he wanted to send from the basket.
"Okay, no problem. Your total is five wen," The young man informed.
"Thank you," Sun Baohai replied as he paid, and turned around to leave. It was very early so he decided to explore town a bit.
Question of the day
Winter or Summer?
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