Chu's Pawnshop

  "Miss... Rong Rong..."

  Soon after Wu Mingyuan left, Xiao Congrong heard Chunxiang's voice, with a tone of anxiety and uncontrollable excitement.

  There's money! She laughed and shouted: "I'm over here! In the back!"

  Chunxiang rushed over excitedly, her voice arriving before she did: "Rongrong, guess how much silver I made?"

  Xiao Zongrong couldn't help but laugh, it must be a lot! This girl is so excited that she's afraid the whole world won't know about it!

  "Rong Rong!" Chun Xiang rushed in, saw Xiao Cong Rong stunned on the ground, and pointed at her for half a day before calling out: "You... what's wrong with you?"

  "It's okay, I just fell down!" Xiao Zongrong said somewhat tiredly, raising his hand: "Help me up! I didn't get hurt, a wash and it'll be clean!"

  "Was it His Highness San who did this? I saw him pass by when I came back, and I avoided him!" Spring Fragrance hastily put down the bag in her hand and walked over to support her.

  Yaotou was not very old, but she had a lot of strength. With her help, Xiao Congrong sat back in his wheelchair.

  Her body was all wet and felt very uncomfortable. She struggled back to the front and only then remembered to ask, "Where is the craftsman you asked me to find?"

  Chunxiang's face turned slightly red, and she didn't answer. She first went back to get a bag and came over, excitedly saying to Xiao Zong: "Miss, I didn't expect your painting to be so valuable! From now on, we won't have to worry about money!"

  She excitedly told Xiao Congrong about her experience of pawning the painting. Following Xiao Congrong's instructions, when she entered the first pawnshop, they offered her two taels of silver for a painting, but she didn't pawn it.

  She took it out to the pawnshop of Chu, and she quoted twenty taels of silver for a painting. The owner looked at her strangely for half a day, holding the painting and looking at it for half a day, finally giving her forty taels of silver without saying a word.

  This frightened Chun Xiang, fearing that the shopkeeper would change his mind, so he quickly grabbed the silver and ran. He ran a long way without seeing the shopkeeper come out to chase him, and only then did he feel at ease, finding a quiet place to take out some loose silver coins to buy food and daily necessities.

  "The rest is all here, take it!" Chun Xiang handed the cloth bag to Xiao Zong Rong, who didn't accept it and said: "You keep it! Buy whatever you need to buy, when it's used up we'll earn more!"

  Chunxiang declined for half a day, and Xiao Zongrong insisted on taking the silver. He said hesitantly: "Rongrong, I've also found a craftsman, he's waiting outside! His craftsmanship is very good, you tell me what you want to do, and I'll go instruct him!"

  "You let him in, I'll tell him what I'm going to do!"

  Xiao Congrong hastily wanted to say let Chunxiang get some water to take a bath and change clothes, but Chunxiang hesitated and didn't move. She looked at her suspiciously and wondered: "Chunxiang, what's wrong?"

  "Miss, the workman outside is Zhang Qing. You may not remember him, but he's the nephew of our housekeeper and used to do carpentry for the Xiao family. Last time, because of the theft at the Xiao family, Madame suspected him and chased him away... But I swear to heaven that Zhang Qing is not that kind of person... He's very honest... If he really knew how to steal, he wouldn't have ended up begging on the streets... I saw him earlier on the street and couldn't bear it, so I brought him back... Please, Miss, for my sake, take him in and give him some work to do!"