Small supermarket welcomes visitors from all directions

Chapter 52 Choosing a Gift

"We ran out of food at home yesterday. I was planning to buy a few pounds of black flour today to last us for a few days." Wu Qingping smiled embarrassedly.

"Do you feed your children black noodles?"

"Yes! Black noodles are the cheapest. I can only afford this. Many people eat this."

Wu Qingping didn't think this was a big deal.

You have to know that the black flour in ancient times was even coarser than Tang Qiaoding's rice flour. And yet they were able to raise the child to the age of two. This was definitely a miracle.

The next morning, Wu Qingping brought his two children to the supermarket.

The two girls were just as Wu Qingping described, with big heads, big eyes, fleshless cheeks, and a few small yellow hairs on their heads. Wu Qingping was holding the children.

Surprisingly, although there were many patches on the two children’s clothes, they were still very neat.

Liu Xuehua asked: "Can the child walk?"

"He can walk, but he falls down every two steps. The old people say it's normal."

"Bring the children here, let me take a look." Liu Xuehua took the pulse of the two children, checked their teeth, and felt their leg bones.

Wu Qingping asked: "Doctor Liu, how is the child?"

"At the moment it looks like malnutrition and a weak spleen and stomach. There are no other problems. I'll go upstairs and draw some blood later to see for myself."

Then he took Wu Qingping and the two children upstairs.

"I didn't expect Wu Qingping, who is so young, to be able to take care of children so well. These two children are lucky to have met a noble person in his presence." Wang Yue felt a little emotional.

"This Wu Qingping is really good. My younger brother is about the same age as him, and he just plays around every day, like a child who has not grown up. But this Wu Qingping has to play both the father and the mother to two children." Li Xiaofei felt heavy-hearted every time she saw Wu Qingping, and she really wanted to help this kind child.

"Let's help as much as we can! Let's make his life a little easier!" Mr. Jiang couldn't bear to see a child having such a hard life.

Liu Xuehua conducted a full body check-up on the two children and found that they were malnourished and had poor spleen and stomach function. All they needed was supplementing them with calcium, iron, zinc, and protein.

When leaving, Wang Yue brought them a lot of clothes and some food for Wu Qingping to carry. She agreed with Wu Qingping to pick up the two children in five days. The two babies were taken care of by the hospital staff in the past two days.

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On this day, the Empress Dowager summoned Tang Qiao. Tang Qiao was very confused and didn't know what it was about, but he still went into the palace quickly.

In the Cining Palace, after Tang Qiao and the Empress Dowager exchanged greetings, the Empress Dowager asked Tang Qiao to hurry over and talk to her.

"Qiao'er, come quickly and talk to the Empress Dowager. I know you are busy, so I will keep you company for a while." The Empress Dowager was very kind.

"No need to be busy! Grandma, everything has been arranged. There are people specifically watching over it, so there won't be any problems."

"The Empress Dowager is worried that you are busy, so I asked you to come here because I have something to ask you."

"What's the matter? Please feel free to ask, Grandma Huang." It was probably about the supermarket.

"Aren't we going to the supermarket to participate in the auction tomorrow? I think I will be staying at someone else's house, so I must bring some gifts to the host. I don't know what the host likes, and I don't know if he has any taboos. So I came to ask you." Tang Qiao really couldn't think of what Wang Yue liked for a while: "Why don't you prepare according to the young girl."

"How can that be the same? Didn't you say that the supermarket owner is in her prime? At this age, shouldn't she have parents and children to take care of? Shouldn't she prepare gifts for her parents-in-law? Shouldn't she prepare a gift for the younger generation? Didn't your father and mother teach you that?"

The Empress Dowager scolded her eldest grandson and felt that he was a little unreliable today. In the past, this child was quite experienced in doing things.

"Grandma, no, the supermarket owner Xiaoyue hasn't told her in-laws yet, so there are no in-laws or children."

"Why didn't you tell me before that the supermarket owner was unmarried?"

"Haven't I always been talking about Miss Xiaoyue? She doesn't have a husband yet."

"I thought you were calling me Miss Xiaoyue just to make it easier for us to get around! Oh! It turns out I misunderstood. But Miss Xiaoyue's marriage is indeed difficult! This is a taboo. You should have told me in advance. I should be careful when I speak. Topics like marriage cannot be discussed."

"Really, no need to be shy about it. It's normal for women to not get married at 25."

"Aren't their parents anxious? Why don't they arrange marriages for them?"

"When they were 18 or 19 years old, they were taking the college entrance examination. The whole family, young and old, worked together to help their children take the exam. At that time, they didn't even think about getting married."

“Can girls read too?”

"Boys and girls go to school equally there."

"So they're not getting married?"

"Get married! You have to get married, but you have to graduate from college, have a stable job, earn some money and buy a nice house before you get married."

"How old does that mean?" The Empress Dowager found it hard to accept.

"Take the supermarket owner Miss Xiaoyue for example. Miss Xiaoyue graduated from university at the age of 25 and worked in a company for three years, that is, in our local business. During this period, she had a boyfriend. Oh! They got married after falling in love, but they broke up for some reasons. So now she is years old and unmarried. She has no in-laws, but it is not difficult to get married."

"Aren't her parents anxious? Aren't they urging her? If your uncle and father hadn't married by the age of 25, I would be so anxious!"

"There shouldn't be much of a rush. Her parents are currently living in another city!"

"Oh! That's right! If I were her parents, I wouldn't be too anxious. It would be great if my daughter could work in a business and support herself. This is something we can't do here."

"Grandma, that's not what you said just now. If my uncle and my father hadn't married by the age of 25, I don't know what would have happened to them."

"The situation is different. Here, everyone gets married early. Seeing all the good girls being engaged one after another, how can I not be anxious?"

"Then, Grandma Huang, is there nothing else? I'll leave first?"

"Why are you leaving? I asked you to come here to choose gifts. If you leave, who will help me choose?" The eldest grandson came with great difficulty, and he also said that it was nothing serious. What's wrong with him spending more time with an old man like me?
"Okay, okay! I choose, I choose, but you can't be disgusted! You can't say that my choice is not good!"

"I just want you to give me some suggestions. After all, you have more contact with the supermarket owner."

"Don't mention it, I actually remembered something that Miss Xiaoyue will definitely like."

"what?"

"It depends on whether you are willing to give it up. It's your building within a building. I found that Miss Xiaoyue likes exquisite things."