A Blessed Daughter - Chapter 406

A Blessed Daughter
Chapter 406 – To get charcoal (2)

Translator : Virichime
Editor : Chu
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Because Wei Ruo had come looking for him more than once before, the shop clerks didn’t know her exact relationship with Sibaozhai, but they recognized her.

“Is your master in?” Wei Ruo asked.

“He’s in the courtyard out back,” the clerk answered.

Wei Ruo walked straight through the shop to the rear courtyard.

Wei Jinyi followed behind her, doubts in his heart but remaining silent.

In the back courtyard, Xu Zhushan was busy chopping firewood.

After the snowfall, the firewood piled up in the yard was covered with snow. Xu Zhushan was clearing it out, chopping it, and moving it into the shed for storage.

These past days, he had been helping Wei Ruo with matters at the estate, so he hadn’t had the chance to do these household chores. Since it wasn’t convenient to go out today, he took the opportunity to get them done.

“Uncle Xu.”

“Miss!” Seeing Wei Ruo, Xu Zhushan quickly put down the work in his hands. “In such cold weather, with snow making the roads difficult, what brings you here?”

“It’s not far. I came to check in, and also to pick up some things,” Wei Ruo replied.

Hearing voices, the nanny came out of the house. When she saw Wei Ruo, her face lit up with joy.

“Miss, quickly, come inside. It’s freezing out here—you mustn’t catch a cold,” the nanny said, hastily pulling Wei Ruo into the house.

It was only when she got closer that she realized there were two strangers following behind Wei Ruo.

The nanny froze.

“This is my second brother,” Wei Ruo explained.

The nanny didn’t quite know how to greet Wei Jinyi.

But Wei Jinyi spoke up, “Just speak freely, don’t mind me.”

To ease the awkwardness, Wei Ruo said to the nanny, “Nanny, I came today to get some silver-bone charcoal from you. Once I have it, I’ll leave. I won’t stay long.”

“Alright. I should have delivered it to you earlier. Now that the roads are so bad, I’m afraid I can’t send too much at once,” the nanny said with a touch of regret.

Hearing the conversation between Wei Ruo and her nanny, Xiaobei showed a look of surprise.

Silver-bone charcoal* was an expensive item—especially lately, when the cold weather had made fine charcoal like silver-bone even harder to come by.

*a very high-quality charcoal that burns hotter, longer, and cleaner than normal charcoal.

But from the way the young lady and her nanny were talking, it sounded as if her household had a great deal of silver-bone charcoal, enough to casually bring out a whole cartload.

“It’s fine, I won’t take much this time, just two bags.” Wei Ruo said.

“Wouldn’t two bags be too little? It’s been so cold these past few days, you can’t let the fire in your room go out, or you’ll easily catch a chill,” the nurse replied.

“Two bags will last for quite a few days. Once they’re used up, I’ll just come and get more,” Wei Ruo answered.

“In that case, I’ll have Old Xu deliver them to you,” the nurse said.

“No need, it’s just two bags. We can carry them back ourselves—no need to trouble Uncle Xu,” Wei Ruo said.

Xiumei quickly added, “I can carry two bags back by myself.”

Hearing this, Xiaobei hurriedly said, “Miss Xiumei, this kind of work isn’t something a young lady like you should be doing. Let me handle it.”

“Don’t fight me over this. Look at you, thin as a monkey. Just focus on walking properly. The snowy road is slippery, you could easily fall,” Xiumei said.

At that, Xiaobei became unhappy. “Miss Xiumei, if you as a young lady aren’t afraid of slipping, why should I, a man, be? No way, this heavy work has to be done by me.”

Wei Ruo couldn’t stand it any longer. “Stop arguing. Nanny has a handcart here—you can just push it.”

-handcart

Although a horse-drawn carriage couldn’t get through this path, a small cart could still be pushed along, as long as they were careful not to let it slip away.

“Yes, yes, there’s a cart. Pushing it back will save your strength,” the nanny quickly said.

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