When Qiao Mai came back with a bowl of custard, he saw Ling'er lying on Shopkeeper Lu's shoulder, nibbling her fingers and grinning.

It's great, I didn't cry, there are so many people, and I'm worried that she will be scared.

Sitting next to shopkeeper Lu, he was about to take Ling'er, "You guys eat, I'll feed her."

"I'm almost full, I'll hold it, you come and feed it."

Ling'er was born on February 2nd, and it has been more than nine months now. When she saw Wan, she was so excited that she wanted to hug her.

"Hey, the bowl is hot, blow it on before eating."

Qiao Mai took out a spoonful of custard and blew on it. Shopkeeper Lu looked at her with a smile.

"Come up with a name,"

Qiao Mai thought for a while, "Seeing how agile she is, let's call Linger first, come on, Linger, ah, let's eat custard."

Linger opened her small mouth, and Qiao Mai fed a spoonful of custard into her mouth, while the three snacks next to her kept swallowing.

It seemed that the spoonful of custard was being fed to them, especially Chuan'er, who looked on pitifully.

Qiao Mai saw their expressions, and knew that Brother Fengyun didn't eat this when they were young, Chuan'er even lost his mother when he was born, and Yuan Jiaqi didn't know if he would do this.

So he said to them, "Tomorrow morning, I will steam a big bowl for each of you,"

"Hey, thank you mother."

After a while, Ling'er was full, and there was still half a bowl of custard. Qiao Mai handed the bowl to Chuan'er.

"Do you dislike my sister's leftover mouth?"

Chuan'er chuckled, "I don't mind it, I'll eat it, and mother will make new ones for my sister later."

He took the bowl, gobbled it up, and wiped his mouth when he was done.

“The custard is delicious, tender, smooth, so delicious”

Hearing this, he didn't eat it, Qiao Mai felt sad for a while.

The Yuan family got up to take the conversation, "Then father, starting tomorrow, I will steam a bowl for you four each day, okay?"

"Father doesn't know this?"

"Daddy can learn from your mother?"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

Ling'er behaved well after eating, and Qiao Mai hugged him to let shopkeeper Lu eat.

In mother's arms, watching everyone eat, seeing this person smiling, seeing that person smiling.

After dinner, shopkeeper Lu looked at Ling'er, "There should be nothing wrong with her. In such a cold day, I don't need to go to the clinic. I'll go and say hello to the mayor first."

"Sister Laolu is here."

"Why are you being polite to me?"

Hearing that the tone meant to say goodbye and leave, Chen's mother and son also stood up quickly.

"We're going home too."

"Well, if it's inconvenient for your mother and son to be at home, why don't you hum?"

"OK!"

Chen's mother and son left first, and shopkeeper Lu and her people also left. Fengyun and the others began to clear the table.

The Yuan family clapped their hands and took Ling'er, "I'll hold her, you see what needs to be cleaned up, and let the children do it."

"I need to get this copper pot, and just rinse the rest."

She returned to her bedroom with the copper pot in her arms, and threw the pot directly into the space, where she didn't need to clean it at all, and the space was automatically cleaned up, just like a new one.

After returning, Qiao Mai wrapped Ling'er again and carried her back to her bedroom.

She supported Ling'er in front of the window, "Look, it's snowing outside, it's snowing, does it look good?"

"Heck, heck, heck"

There was a burst of bell-like laughter from Linger, and Yuan Jiaqi smiled when he heard the sound.

Mrs. Qiao is a good person. She adopted Fengyun, and now she wants to adopt this girl. Maybe in her eyes, she is the same as the children she adopted.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Ling'er stayed in Qiao Mai's bedroom the whole time, never going out a step.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual about her, he felt relieved. At this time, shopkeeper Lu also sent a letter, saying that no children had been lost in the town.

So Qiao Mai asked Yuan Jiaqi to take care of the child first. She wrote down the child's name and date of birth on a piece of paper, and went to the mayor of the town to ask him to register for household registration.

After hearing that Qiao Mai picked up another child for adoption, the mayor was very moved.

"If everyone knows the general situation like you and adopts these orphans, then there will be so many beggars in the Ming Dynasty."

"Not necessarily. All good beggars are captured and sold by human traffickers, and the rest are disabled, lingering on their last legs. Such people should be helped."

"It's better when the weather is warm, but when it's cold, we can only stay in the ruined temple. It's better if the rich give out porridge. If not, it's hard to say whether we can survive this winter."

"Is there a soup kitchen in our town?"

The mayor gave her a blank look, "Why not? The old man is just one!"

"Oh, it turns out that the mayor is still a kind person?"

"Hey~, the mayor of this town can only take care of our area. If there are too many, he can't take care of it. There are tens of thousands of beggars in the Ming Dynasty, and our Qian family is not a family where I have the final say."

Qiao Mai naturally understood what he meant, "Mayor, when will my daughter's household registration be completed?"

"Soon, well, I'll let the guards send you there."

"Thank you, Lord Mayor."

"Remember the annual ceremony."

Qiao Mai rolled his eyes, "Got it!"

Ever since Ling'er came out of the space, Qiao Mai hadn't left the stall again, and stayed at home to watch over Ling'er every day, doing embroidery as soon as she fell asleep.

The temperature in Tianshui Town is about ten degrees below zero during the day, and about twenty degrees below zero at night, which is really cold.

Ling'er is still young and needs someone to take care of him. Yuan Jiaqi is a man, and it's okay to take care of boys, but for girls, he still has concerns in his mind.

So, she can only stay at home.

A few days ago, she entered the space at night, searched the Internet for weaving nets, found a few novel ones, learned them, and then taught them to Sister Ruxin.

Unexpectedly, these kinds of nets were very popular, so shopkeeper Lu came to visit her whenever he had nothing to do.

When Ling'er woke up, she helped Qiao Mai look after the child and let Qiao Mai do embroidery work properly.

"Sister?"

"Um?"

"Look, there's still a month to go before Chinese New Year. How can I make the business of my shop more prosperous?"

"What's the matter? Are you in a hurry to use the money?"

"No, I just want to improve the business and have a New Year's atmosphere."

Qiao Mai raised his head and glanced at her, "When my clothes are sold, I should be able to give you a few thousand taels of silver."

"I didn't do anything, it's not appropriate to ask for your money."

"You can't eat a big fat man in one bite. You haven't even cultivated people yet, so how can you have a prosperous business? I don't accept custom-made jobs, and I won't accept them whatever you say."

"I know, I know, isn't Ruxin and Ruyi picking up?"

"Is Xiuhong and Xiuyu made of that material?"

"I'm still studying, so it should be okay. After the new year, I can start embroidery work."

The two were chatting with nothing to do, and Qiao Mai was determined to give her a dyeing craft, thinking that now is not the time.

Shopkeeper Lu's small family is small, and if he can't keep this skill, it may bring disaster to her.

Dang, dang, dang, the courtyard door rang, and Qiao Mai stood up immediately.

"Sister Lu, sit down, it may be that Linger's household registration has been completed."

She ran out happily, and the Yuan family retreated back into the house when they saw her coming out.

The sound of children reading came from the living room. Listening to this sound, I felt that the whole small courtyard was full of books.

Qiao Mai opened the door, and sure enough, he saw Brother Guard.

"Miss Qiao, your household registration has been completed."

"Thank you, Brother Guard, now I have a son and a daughter, and I have both sons and daughters."

"congratulations!"

Naturally, Qiao Mai would not let him make this trip in vain, so he gave him a piece of silver, and then went back to the house to carry two boxes of pancakes.

"No sugar and melon seeds, just this?"

"Thank you, Mrs. Qiao!"

"Brother guard, go slowly!"

She happily closed the courtyard door and plugged it in, and ran back to the house with her household registration in her hand.

"Sister Lu, look, the household registration has been completed."

"See if you're happy."

She hugged Linger and put a cotton hat on her, and went out of the house and went straight to the living room. When the children saw her coming in, they immediately stopped reading.

"Aha, I'm so glad to bother you. Ling'er's household registration is completed. She will be your biological sister from now on. Come and say hello to my sister."

"Sister, sister!"

Qiao Mai knelt down to let Feng'er, Yun'er, Chuan'er, kiss Ling'er's cheeks, and finally hugged her in front of Yuan Jiaqi.

"Come on, Ling'er, this is Daddy!"

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