The night passed without incident.
Early the next morning, Jiang Yun woke up and efficiently prepared breakfast. After the family of four sat together and finished eating, Mu Changhong left first with Mu You.
Jiang Yun, meanwhile, gathered the money and coupons and took Mu Xi on a major shopping trip.
They intended to buy everything Mu Xi would need for going to the countryside.
Clothes for working, rubber shoes suitable for working in the fields, gloves, headscarves, and so on.
At home, Mu Xi had been a student. Although the clothes she usually wore weren’t particularly expensive or as fashionable as those worn by girls from wealthy families, they were still dresses and little blouses, which were completely unsuitable for working in the fields.
So Jiang Yun prepared four sets of clothes specifically for work.
Two short-sleeved summer outfits and two long-sleeved autumn outfits.
She also bought two pairs of rubber shoes. Mu Xi owned cloth shoes and even a pair of small leather shoes, but she really had never owned rubber shoes before.
Throughout the entire shopping trip, Jiang Yun paid for everything. Mu Xi didn’t fight her over it because everyone knew exactly how much money she had. There was no way she could take out the money she had earned last night.
She could only send more things home later.
She had heard that the mountains of the Northeast were rich in mountain products. Once she arrived, she could go wandering through the mountains whenever she had nothing else to do.
Mother and daughter returned home carrying bags of all sizes. After eating something simple, they began packing everything.
Once they had finally finished, Mu Xi stared at the two large woven bags in front of her and was somewhat dumbfounded.
She even lifted them to test their weight.
Each bag probably weighed thirty or forty jin.
Together, that was seventy or eighty jin.
The corner of Mu Xi’s mouth twitched slightly. If she hadn’t already begun cultivating, there was no telling whether she could even lift them, much less carry them all the way to the countryside.
Her mom really thought highly of her!
Jiang Yun smiled awkwardly.
“They are a little heavy, huh? Let’s repack them. We’ll put the things you urgently need into one bag, and you can take that with you on the train.
“We’ll put the things you don’t need for now into another bag, and I’ll mail it to you. Once you arrive there, remember to pick it up from the post office.”
As she spoke, she moved to open the packages they had painstakingly finished packing.
Mu Xi hurriedly stopped her.
“There’s no need, Mom. I can carry them. They’re fine like this. There’s no need to go through all that trouble again.”
They had finally finished packing everything. She really didn’t want to keep fussing with it.
Although she was only a little rookie at the Qi Refining stage, she still couldn’t be compared with an ordinary person. These two bags might be somewhat heavy for other people, but they were nothing to her.
Forget seventy or eighty jin. Even if they weighed two or three hundred jin, she could still walk briskly while carrying them.
“Are you sure you can manage?” Jiang Yun didn’t quite believe her.
As a hands-on stepmother, she had personally raised this daughter and believed she knew Xixi very well. She certainly didn’t remember Xixi having that much strength.
Seeing that she didn’t believe her, Mu Xi said nothing. She simply picked up both bags and walked a full circle around the room.
Her expression didn’t change, and she wasn’t even out of breath.
Jiang Yun: “…”
“All right, then. We’ll leave them like this.”
When had her daughter become so strong?
How had she never known?
Could Xixi have been hiding her strength all along?
Mm, having great strength wasn’t exactly something a girl would want to show off, and her daughter had never been the type who liked drawing attention to herself.
“Oh, right, Xixi. Take this five hundred yuan. This is the money your dad and I are giving you for going to the countryside. Remember to sew it inside your clothes tonight so a thief doesn’t steal it.”
“Five hundred?”
Mu Xi looked up at Jiang Yun in confusion after having a handful of money stuffed into her hands.
“If I remember correctly, when Eldest Sister went to the countryside, you and Dad only gave her three hundred, right?”
Jiang Yun thought to herself that her father had indeed guessed correctly.
“Oh, wasn’t our family struggling financially back then? That three hundred yuan was practically everything our family had. Things have gotten better over the past two years, so your dad and I thought we should give you a little more to keep on hand, in case you urgently need money after going to the countryside.”
“No. I can’t take it.”