Zhu Xiaoqi looked at what Duan Rong was handing her and paused slightly before asking curiously, "What's in here?"
"I didn't know what to buy either! So I picked up some Osmanthus Cake and candied fruit from the street."
Zhu Xiaoqi looked at Duan Rong's face, reddened by the firelight. The flames from the stove danced in his star-bright eyes...
Zhu Xiaoqi reached out, took the things from Duan Rong's hands, and set them on the stove counter.
Then she turned around, wiped her hands on the apron around her waist, lifted the pot lid, picked up six steaming buns with a dry lotus leaf, and stuffed them into Duan Rong's hands. "These buns were steamed this afternoon. Take them back and eat them!"
Holding the buns, Duan Rong's mouth watered. He glanced at Zhu Xiaoqi and said, "Then, Little Seven, I'm heading back!"
Zhu Xiaoqi sat on a low stool, feeding firewood into the stove, and did not answer him.
Duan Rong turned and left by himself.
After only two steps, he could not resist taking a bun and biting into it.
It was filled with sour and spicy long beans, with sesame oil added. A wave of satisfaction immediately spread across his taste buds...
As Duan Rong swallowed the bun, Zhu Xiaoqi suddenly called from behind him, "Honest Lad, come back!"
Still swallowing his bun, Duan Rong ran back. Thinking Zhu Xiaoqi needed something, he asked, "What is it?"
Sitting on the low stool, Zhu Xiaoqi lifted her right foot, removed the Silver Bracelet from her plump little foot, held it in her hand, and said, "Didn't you want to look at this bracelet?"
Duan Rong smiled. Only then did he remember that.
With the greasy hand that had been holding the bun, he directly grabbed the Silver