Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 151: Chapter 151 Where is this valuable?_1

It was clear that the little girl was the one-year and three-month-old daughter of An Fu and Shi Xiaolan.

”This must be Yu Yu, come here, let Aunt Jing hold you.” An Jing walked over and picked up Yu Yu, then took out the prepared gift from her bosom and stuffed it into Yu Yu’s hand. ”Aunt Jing doesn’t have much to offer, so she’ll give Yu Yu a little pouch.”

In fact, the pouch also contained two coins.

In these farming households, the customary greeting gift for children, if the relationship was close, was two coins, and if it wasn’t particularly close, it was also acceptable not to give anything.

As soon as Shi Xiaolan saw the material of the pouch was satin, she was taken aback and quickly took the pouch from Yu Yu’s hand and tried to return it to An Jing: ”This is too valuable, we can’t accept it.”

An Jing couldn’t help but laugh and cry, opening the pouch to reveal the two coins inside: ”How is this valuable? I simply followed tradition and gave Yu Yu two coins. Are you suggesting we don’t have a good relationship?”

”It’s not about the two coins, it’s that the pouch is too valuable. It’s made of satin, and satin is so expensive,” Shi Xiaolan whispered.

In truth, satin was indeed more expensive than coarse and hemp fabrics, with hemp being pricier than coarse cloth. Farming families usually only bought coarse cloth and could hardly afford hemp, so to them, satin seemed extremely costly.

An Jing finally understood and laughed: ”This pouch wasn’t something I bought with money, it was given to me by Wanbu Pavilion when my husband and I bought red fabric to make our wedding clothes. They gave me two pouches, look, I have another one on me, I really didn’t spend any money on it.”

As she spoke, An Jing even gestured for Shi Xiaolan to look at the pouch she was wearing at her waist, which she too wore for the first time today, not expecting it would come in handy.

Shi Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief.

An Jing looked on, finding it amusing: ”Now, may I give it to Yu Yu?”

Shi Xiaolan was still reluctant to accept it, even if it was a gift from Wanbu Pavilion, that pouch was a good thing, and to just give it to her child didn’t seem right. However, she didn’t want to reject An Jing’s kindness again and simply nodded: ”Um.”

An Jing stuffed the pouch back into little Yu Yu’s hand, letting her grasp and play with it, ”Yu Yu, come on, call me Aunt Jing.”

Yun Dame laughed: ”Yu Yu can only call mama, papa, grandpa, and grandma, she doesn’t call anyone else.”

”Is that so? Then Aunt Jing won’t make it difficult for you.” Saying so, An Jing chuckled and gently pinched Yu Yu’s little face.

Yu Yu had been playing with the pouch, but upon being pinched by An Jing, she immediately giggled towards An Jing.

”Such a cute child.” An Jing was also very happy to see Yu Yu smiling at her.

”You can also...” Yun Dame was about to say you can also have one with Changyi, but then she suddenly remembered what her daughter-in-law, Xiao Lan, had told her about An Jing not being able to have children, and she swallowed the words that were about to come out.

After that, her gaze towards An Jing was filled with deep sympathy, as if An Jing were truly pitiable.

An Jing saw how Yun Dame looked and didn’t need to guess the unsaid words, finding it amusing that she didn’t feel sad for herself in the slightest, at most just a hint of regret.

However, she could also see that Yun Dame truly sympathized with her, without the slightest hint of looking down on her, and definitely not feeling superior to her, a woman who couldn’t have children.

They were all good people.

An Jing sighed to herself and then acted as if she hadn’t heard Yun Dame’s words, moving on to the matter at hand: ”Uncle, Auntie, my husband and I came over today to find Xiao Lan and Brother An Fu, because we would like them to make some more tofu for us.”