Big Thunder Sister, no, Sister Xiao Zhu

Grandma Zhou gave Liang Xin three yuan and left with three small boxes of eggs in her arms.

Next came Aunt Song, who was a little older than He Ting. Liang Xin weighed out two jin for her.

Aunt Song thanked him again and again, praising him at length for being so capable!

Liang Xin felt pleased as punch.

Aunt Song gave him two yuan and left with the eggs in her arms.

He Ting spoke up. "Give Sister Xiao Zhu hers first."

Liang Xin looked at Sister Xiao Zhu. She appeared to be in her early twenties, and she certainly lived up to her name: she was as round as a pearl and as smooth as jade.

Well, her broad face was a bit too broad.

But people in this era would probably consider her good-looking, right?

After all, she looked prosperous and well-fed!

"Sister He, thank you for thinking of me first when something like this came up."

Liang Xin thought Sister Xiao Zhu was just being polite. After all, she had only gotten a one-jin share.

Her family had two working adults too, and young people generally weren't as thrifty as older folks. Was it really that she couldn't afford two or three jin?

She must have been the last person He Ting had asked, and only a one-jin share had been left.

Still, what she said wasn't too much. After all, several other households hadn't managed to get even one jin.

"Xiao Liang, thank you too. I only had a baby recently, and I don't have enough milk. Sometimes the baby wakes up crying from hunger in the middle of the night."

"Sister Xiao Zhu, you're too polite."

As she spoke, the plump and rosy Sister Xiao Zhu unabashedly squeezed the two big thunderbolts on her chest right in front of them, as though blaming them for being so disappointing!

The sight nearly made Liang Xin break out in a sweat.

Big sister, this body of mine might be young, but I'm still a man!

And a dangerous bachelor at that!

Could you please be a little more careful!

Who said it? Didn't everyone say girls in this era were conservative? Sister Xiao Zhu was far too uninhibited!

Startled, Liang Xin hurriedly lowered his head and weighed the eggs.

This time, the scale beam was perfectly level too, neither high nor low.

Liang Xin wasn't surprised in the least. After all, the eggs came from the System Shop.

It wasn't hard to be this precise.

He Ting and Sister Xiao Zhu, meanwhile, clicked their tongues in amazement.

"Liang Xin, the fellow villager who sold you these eggs was very patient. Did they carefully weigh and pack each box separately? Every box weighs exactly the right amount. That must have taken quite a bit of care."

"After all, it's pretty hard to get eggs to weigh exactly the right amount without being off at all."

Hearing He Ting's words, Liang Xin felt a chill in his heart.

Apparently, the system's way of doing things wasn't all good. Being too precise could easily make people suspicious.

It seemed that if he sold eggs again, he couldn't be as precise as he had been this time.

At worst, he could take a small loss. A jin was five hundred grams, so giving people a few extra grams was no big deal, and it would keep them from getting suspicious.

The system definitely wouldn't give him that bargain.

But it didn't matter. He'd pay for those extra few grams himself!

Sister Xiao Zhu held her jin of eggs and gave Liang Xin one yuan.

Then she said, "Xiao Liang, if you get more eggs in the future, you have to come to me first. Just think of it as taking pity on your little nephew. My body really is letting me down."

As she spoke, she started to fiddle with her two big thunderbolts again.

Liang Xin hurriedly lowered his head in alarm and picked up the remaining box.

Forget calling you Sister Xiao Zhu from now on. Since you like fiddling with your big thunderbolts so much, I might as well call you Big Thunder Sister!

"Sister Xiao Zhu, since you're so short on nutrition, why don't you take this box too?"

"I'm a grown young man, so I'm not that short on nutrition. The most important thing is that my little nephew has enough to eat!"

Big Thunder Sister—no, Sister Xiao Zhu-immediately broke into a delighted smile.

"Xiao Liang, really? You can sell me this box too?"

Was it really that Sister Xiao Zhu couldn't afford two or three jin?

No! Even if you sold her five jin, she could still eat them all!

It was just that the others needed eggs badly too, and He Ting had asked her late, so only a one-jin share had been left for her.

Now that she could get another jin, her face bloomed with a smile.

"Yeah, my little nephew having enough to eat is what matters most! The fellow villager who sold me the eggs also said I could buy more in a few days. I'll let you know first when the time comes!"

"Thank you, thank you, Xiao Liang! Thank you so much! You've solved a huge problem for me!"

Sister Xiao Zhu didn't even stop to pick up the eggs first. She hurriedly pulled out another yuan and pressed it into Liang Xin's hand, as though afraid he might change his mind.

Only then did she leave happily with the two boxes of eggs in her arms.

At that point, He Ting began gathering up her own three small boxes of eggs and the scale she had brought.

As she packed up, she sighed and said, "Xiao Liang, don't hold it against Grandma Zhou."

Liang Xin was surprised. He had thought Aunt He would be the angriest of all, but unexpectedly, she was the first to speak up for Grandma Zhou.

Were people in this era all this kind?

"Although your Grandma Zhou is usually a little stingy, your Grandpa Zhou is a very good man."

"Uncle Zhou is warmhearted and has helped everyone a great deal over the years. Even if it's only for Uncle Zhou's sake, don't take it to heart."

He Ting wasn't in a hurry to go back, so she chatted with Liang Xin for a while.

It also gave Liang Xin a better understanding of the situation in the courtyard.

Eight households lived in this sprawling courtyard compound, which covered several hundred square meters.

Those several hundred square meters included the courtyard itself.

Counting just the living space, there were only around two hundred square meters!