Chapter 1194 The rarer the better
His eyes turned red and before Yuan Jiuqi knew he was shedding pearl-sized tears which trickled down his cheeks. Qian Hai and Qian Lai came to the kitchen after making sure that the delicious scent was coming from their small kitchen and not the main one but when they saw Yuan Jiuqi cry the two of them were startled.
" Daddy, what's the matter with you?"
" Yes, why are you crying like this Qi'er?"
The mother and daughter asked at the same time causing Yuan Jiuqi to cry even more. He could hear the concern in his wife's voice similarly he knew that he had scared his daughter as well. How could he blame his wife and daughter for so long? Though the two of them had never shown it on their faces, they really did care about him.
" I am so sorry, I did … I did not even know that I was hurting you two!" Yuan Jiuqi cried as he reached out and then held Qian Lai in his arms. " I am so sorry my baby, I was so angry and upset after losing your sister that I started to take it out on you, who had done nothing."
When Qian Hai heard her father call her 'baby' she knew that her old daddy who loved her was back. Her eyes turned red as she hugged her daddy and said, " Silly daddy where did you go? I was scared. I couldn't even eat properly these days." There was a hint of grievance in her voice.
" I am sorry sweetheart, it's daddy who was at fault," Yuan Jiuqi apologized to his daughter as he hugged her tight.
He was indeed a bad daddy, if he was not one how could he scold his daughter like that?
When Qian Hai saw that her husband had finally let go of the knot in his heart she heaved a sigh of relief. She thought that the two of them would continue like this until they died as the loss of a child was not a small one.
Now that he was willing to let go of the pain that he was keeping in his heart, Qian Hai was naturally happy.
She stretched her arms wanting to take Yuan Jiuqi in an embrace but the latter blushed as he pushed her away and then said, " What are you thinking all day long? Go and set the table."
As Yuan Jiuqi did not want anyone to harm his daughter he fired all the servants and took care of his daughter alone. After the loss of his daughter, he became a bit paranoid and only now did he feel a bit better.
Qian Hai did not dare to refuse. It was rare for her husband to feel better, she walked over to the bowl which had scrambled eggs and leeks in it and was stunned when she smelled the delicious scent that was coming from it.
She turned to look at Yuan Jiuqi and asked, " Since when did you become so good at cooking?"
Earlier this week he was still having trouble making mashed potatoes right? Now he was actually cooking such wonderful things, was she dreaming?
Yuan Jiuqi rolled his eyes and then said, "It's not my cooking. It's the ingredients that you brought with you. They are really amazing." After he finished speaking, he paused and asked, " But why didn't you buy more? There are not even a dozen of eggs."
" Hehe, do you think that it's so easy to purchase these ingredients?" Qian Hai laughed sarcastically after listening to the words spoken by her husband. She rolled her eyes and then stated firmly, " These ingredients are sold for more than fifty taels. The leeks alone are sold for three taels a catty. How much money did you give me for me to bring a large amount?
Be glad that I brought these with the money that you gave me."
" What? These things are sold for such a high amount?" Yuan Jiuqi was stunned but after thinking about it he felt like the amount was reasonable. They were really good ingredients and if the boss selling these vegetables sold them for anything lesser amount she would suffer a great loss.
" If not?" Qian Hai remarked with a sort of pride brimming in her heart. " These ingredients are really popular, you know? You have no idea, the mall where they are sold was filled with crowds even when these ingredients were sold at a high price. I am not joking when I say that people were literally running to get these things off the shelves.
I at first thought that the people were exaggerating but then I tasted a few samples and knew that they were not exaggerating at all."
" I really thought that the woman was pretending but now that I know that her products are good, I think we should continue visiting the mall that way we will have a good time enjoying such delicacies."
Yuan Jiuqi and his daughter were stunned. Such good things were actually being sold and their foolish mother/wife did not buy them in large cities? She was seriously stupid!
At the same time, Yuan Jiuqi felt a bit upset, if he had known this would have happened then he would have never restricted his wife's finances. Now he had to suffer!
No this won't do. He needed to go to the mall and buy a generous amount of ingredients. He could see that these things were good, just their scent alone was enough to make him feel so good. If he ate these ingredients regularly then Yuan Jiuqi had a feeling that his health would get better as well.
On the other hand, when Yu Dong and everyone were done with their work, Chen Mi turned to look at his wife and asked, " Wife should we increase our stock? I can see that people genuinely want to buy it."
Yu Dong shook her head after hearing his words and then said, " No, we don't need to increase the stock. The rarer something is the more people will fight for it. If they find out that they can buy it any time who will bother to rush here?"