Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 90

The horses pulling the cart trotted all the way, and the people in the cart chatted without saying a word, but they didn't seem lonely.Liu Ya is not a chatty person, so she sat in the car with her eyes closed and took a nap.

It was not until the carriage stopped and everyone got out that Liu Ya got out with an empty basket.Then he asked the driver, "Uncle Wang, which way is the market going?"

"Go straight two streets to the east, then turn south and you will see it. My little girl, my carriage is parked here. Do you remember that I will be back in two hours." Uncle Wang, who was driving the carriage, pointed to Liu Ya. On the road, he squatted beside the carriage and smoked a dry cigarette.

After thanking Liu Ya, she walked towards the market.But she never poured out the mushrooms, but carried the empty basket with the mushrooms on her back.Firstly, it was convenient to walk like this, and secondly, she didn't really intend to sell mushrooms, but wanted to see what kind of profitable business there was in Ning'an Town.

Walking, Liu Ya felt hungry.Looking around, I saw a stall selling steamed buns and buns on the side of the road.

Liu Ya walked over and asked, "Sister, how do you sell this bun?"

"Three pennies for the vegetarian ones, and five pennies for the ones with meat stuffing. However, there are no pure meat ones. They are stuffed with cabbage and meat."

"Then give me a vegetarian filling." Liu Ya is not particularly gluttonous, and seeing the size of the buns is quite big, she thinks that one will fill her stomach first.

The eldest sister who sold the buns agreed, wrapped a bun in half a lotus leaf and handed it to Liu Ya.Seeing that Liu Ya was a ten-year-old girl, she said, "Sit aside and eat, there is still hot water over there, you can pour a bowl yourself."

"Then thank you." Liu Ya saw that there were a few small benches next to the steamed stuffed bun stall, which should be prepared for customers who often want to eat before leaving.Next to it was a large kettle with a stack of bowls.

Liu Ya thought for a while, even though she brought a bamboo tube of water with her, she still picked up the kettle and poured half a bowl of water.She didn't want the eldest sister who sold buns to feel disgusted by her, after all, he was really kind.

Holding a bowl and eating steamed buns, Liu Ya asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Sister, what's new in Ning'an Town recently?"

"In such a small town, there is nothing new. The biggest thing is that the Ping An Restaurant is going to close. I heard that there are quite a lot of bills these days. The accountant of the restaurant ran away with money. I was sick and sold my things in the store to pay back the bills." The eldest sister greeted the guests and sighed to Liu Ya: "Oh, this Ping'an restaurant has been open for more than [-] years. The old shopkeeper is very good, and the business has always been good. But the old shopkeeper got sick, and his son didn't live up to it, so he found an eloquent accountant to manage the store, and he himself acted as a hand-off shopkeeper. As a result, the accountant was not a good thing. Didn't this just take people's rice, vegetables, and meat on credit, and then rolled up the money and ran away."

Liu Ya asked: "Didn't you report it to the official? It's not a trivial matter to take money and run away."

"Reported to the official, but the son can't tell where he found the accountant. He said that he met by chance, and saw that he was very smart and capable, so he asked him to help run the restaurant. Do you think this son is stupid? , Can you still call an outsider to manage the accounts? The government just put up a notice to let people in the know report, and then they can arrest people. But people run away and run away. Who can see it here? Eighty percent, Neither the money nor the people can be found.”

As soon as Liu Ya heard it, she knew that the old shopkeeper had raised a prodigal son. It is estimated that the accountant had colluded with the son in seven or eight out of ten.Otherwise, if the money is stolen away, the son must be in a hurry, it must be his part of the family property.How could it be impossible to tell where the person was found?If he was really such a fool, the old shopkeeper would not trust him to run the restaurant.

However, Liu Ya didn't have the heart to say these words, she is not from the government, so she can manage all the right and wrong.

Liu Ya originally wanted to use the time of chatting to see if she could find some ways to make money.But after talking for a while, I didn't hear any useful information, and Liu Ya's buns were also finished.I got up and said "Thank you, sister" again, and left.

Going forward along the road indicated by Uncle Wang who was driving the car, Liu Ya saw a lot of people gathered in a circle ahead, chatting about something.

Liu Ya wasn't a lively person at first, but when she passed by, she looked up and saw the signboard of "Ping An Restaurant" hanging on the shop's facade, so she realized that this was the restaurant that was confiscated and pursued.And most of these people around the door came to ask for a bill.

Liu Ya had no choice but to turn around, planning to go around the back alley.She didn't want to hang around here to watch the excitement, that would be no different from "the wall fell down and everyone pushed".

The back alley is the back door of Ping An Restaurant, which is the small door for delivering food and taking out garbage.

When Liu Ya just walked to the back door, she heard a "crash" sound, and a broken bamboo basket was thrown out from inside, and the contents inside were scattered all over the floor along with the basket, it turned out to be some dishes and the like.It was broken a lot by such a throw.

Liu Ya was startled, stepped over the basket of broken dishes and looked in, and saw a clerk walking over with another basket of dishes, intending to throw them away.

Liu Ya hurriedly asked: "Brother, look after it before throwing it away, it almost hit me."

"Oh, I'm sorry, little girl. I'm not in a hurry. I'm not hurt." The guy apologized and carried the basket out of the door.Although he didn't throw it away this time, he put the basket heavily on the ground and turned back.

Liu Ya glanced at it, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she asked through the door: "Brother, do you want the dishes in this basket?"

"No more, it's all used." The guy shouted, and went to pick up another basket.He said again: "If you change to a new owner, you have to change to a new one."

Liu Ya hurriedly said: "Brother, let me ask again, can I pick up these thrown away dishes?"

"Okay, let's pick it up. But you can just clean up this doorway for me. Here, with this basket, there are three baskets in total. You have to clean up the broken ones, our new owner is coming soon. "

"Okay, thank you big brother. I'll borrow the broom here. Make sure to clean this door." Liu Ya said, and entered the door.

Seeing that Liu Ya was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, the guy didn't mind. He pointed to the broom in the corner and said, "It's over there. You can clean it. Then just remove the basket. Be careful." , don’t cut your hand, come to me again.”

"No, no, thank you big brother." Liu Ya replied with a smile, and went to get the broom.

(End of this chapter)