The splendid life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 55 Anxiety

Yao Yu asked, "Is there any horse seller in Hehua Town?"

Xie Zhimo was taken aback, then shook his head, "It seems that I can only buy it when I go to Jiangzhou another day."

"Don't worry." Yao Yu said with a smile, unexpectedly Xie Zhimo still remembered that she said she wanted to buy a horse.

"For today's dinner, I made ribs and lotus root soup, steamed fish cakes, fried clams, and green vegetables with lard residue. What do you think?" Yao Yu asked.

Just listening to the name of this dish, Xie Zhimo felt his saliva was about to flow out. These days when he was running darts outside, apart from missing Yao Yu and Nuoer every day, what he missed most was Yao Yu's cooking skills. When eating, Xie Zhimo always misses Yao Yu's food, "Good good."

Before dinner was ready, Nuo'er came back from the village school. As soon as she entered the door, she greeted Mr. Ji first, and then ran to the kitchen. Seeing that there was suddenly an extra person in the kitchen, she walked aside with some doubts.

Yao Yu smiled and said, "Nuo'er, look who's back?"

Nuo'er looked up at Xie Zhimo, and immediately screamed, "Daddy! Daddy! It's Daddy who's back!"

Xie Zhimo hugged Nuo'er, "My good son!"

Nuo'er cried loudly, "Father, you are finally back."

"Don't cry, don't cry, manly man." Xie Zhimo wiped Nuoer's tears, it's great, it's no longer the home where no one welcomes, only people care about his money, now when he comes home, some people are happy, some people are waiting Then, he felt extremely happy.

Yao Yu laughed, and Nuo'er was a little embarrassed, "Father, I am obedient and take good care of my mother."

"Our Nuo'er is really good." Xie Zhimo said, "Let's go, Dad will take you to see what Dad bought for you."

Xie Zhimo found a good inkstone on the way of running darts this time, and because it saved the man's life, he sold it to him for 50 taels of silver.

Nuo'er was very happy when she saw this inkstone, "Thank you dad." Then she took the inkstone and went to find Mr. Ji to taunt.

Yao Yu put the food on the table, and Nuo'er poked her head out of the room and asked, "Mother, can we eat in the yard?"

"Of course." At this time last year, the family was eating out.

Hearing this, Xie Zhimo hurriedly moved the table out. Mr. Ji wanted to help, but was stopped by Yao Yu's family, "You, just sit here with peace of mind."

Yao Yu and Nuo'er quickly brought up the dishes. Yao Yu brought out the sweet-scented osmanthus wine he had bought, poured a bowl for Xie Zhimo and Mr. Ji, and finally poured half a bowl for himself. High, so Yao Yu doesn't worry about getting drunk.

Nuo'er looked at the full moon and said involuntarily, "Jade is under the moon wheel, and I found Luhuaxin in front of the palace. So far I don't know anything about it, it should be Chang'e throwing it to people."

Xie Zhimo's eyes lit up, "Nuo'er is really good. After studying for a long time, she can compose poetry."

Yao Yu coughed lightly, "This is a poem written by Pi Rixiu."

Xie Zhimo blushed. He had learned a lot of words when he went out to run darts this time, but he still couldn't catch up with Yao Yu. He said a little embarrassedly, "I really don't know about this."

Seeing that Xie Zhimo didn't know, Nuo'er began to explain the meaning of the poem to Xie Zhimo. Mr. Ji kept nodding at the side, and Yao Yu felt that Mr. Ji's state at the moment was almost about to say "you can teach me."

After a meal, Nuo'er recited several ancient poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival to Xie Zhimo, some of which even Yao Yu hadn't memorized, Yao Yu kept nodding, it seems that old man Ji is still very good.

Nuo'er spoke dryly, and then said, "Grandpa Ji, I made a mistake."

"Very good." Mr. Ji stroked his beard. He had lived for sixty years, and he never thought that the short time in the pastoral life would be the happiest and happiest in his life.

It wasn't until Haishi that everyone planned to enter the house. Mr. Ji took Xie Zhimo's room, so Yao Yu said to Xie Zhimo, "Go to my room at night." Nuo'er has to go to school tomorrow, and Xie Zhimo will definitely say For one night, Mr. Ji is getting old, so he is definitely not used to sharing the same bed with other people.

Xie Zhimo's eyes lit up, "Okay."

"Don't think about anything else." Yao Yu quickly snuffed out Xie Zhimo's hope.

Fortunately, the bed is relatively big, and with one person and one quilt, no one can affect anyone. Xie Zhimo lay on the bed and thought of the scene of pouring Yao Yu into his arms in the morning. The more Xie Zhimo thought about it, the hotter he felt, the more difficult it was to fall asleep.

And Yao Yu on the side, I don't know if it was because of Xie Zhimo's return, he was extra at ease, and fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.

After waking up on the second day, Xie Zhimo sent Yao Yu and his party to Hehua Town, and then Xie Zhimo went to find Zhang Dehou. I have to say that after yesterday’s trouble, the business of the store was much deserted today. Yao Yu sighed, Bafang Inn’s account, She remembered it.

Since the business of the shop is quieter, Yao Yu prepares fewer ingredients every day, and naturally the door closes earlier. After Xie Zhimo arrived in Hehua Town, he went to do some errands. Yu, Aunt Wu and Wang Fengzhen went back to Shuangshui Village.

Going back early, Yao Yu, who was used to being busy, naturally wanted to find other things to do, so she turned out all the duck feathers that had been put away a few days ago, and stuffed them one by one into the clothes and trousers that Wang Fengzhen had made.Xie Zhimo tried his best to ask Mr. Ji about knowledge before Nuoer came back, making Yao Yu dumbfounded, but it is a good thing to live to learn.

There are a total of 110 sets of clothes, and it took Yao Yu more than ten days to finish all of them and sell them in the coldest winter.There are still a lot of duck feathers left, mainly because Yao Yu has been harvesting duck feathers.Before winter came, Yao Yu made two sets of duck down jackets for each of the four members of her family. Last year, Nuoer and Xie Zhimo both thought the clothes were easy to wear.

On this day, Zhang Dehou, who hadn't seen him for a long time, came to the door in person. Xie Zhimo invited Zhang Dehou to the room, and the two discussed it for a while before coming out.

Seeing Xie Zhimo's mysterious and happy expression, Yao Yu asked with a smile, "What are you planning to do?"

Xie Zhimo said, "The Bafang Inn picked on you so much, we have to pay him back."

"What did you all do?" Yao Yu was a little curious. The Bafang Inn has been in Hehua Town for many years, and it would be a lie to say that it has no background at all.

"Actually, some evidence was collected about them. They used various ingredients to cook their dishes. For example, they used sick pork for food, and sometimes they used rat meat."

Yao Yu was immediately disgusted. The fact that Bafang Inn used ordinary flour to make fish cakes made Yao Yu feel that the shop was deceiving customers, but he didn't expect Bafang to go too far in other aspects.

"Their food once poisoned a child. It took a lot of effort to find this family." Xie Zhimo said, Zhang Dehou came here today to say that this family is willing to testify. In success.

"It's simply too much." Yao Yu is also in this line of work himself, so of course he knows what kind of harm it will be if these bad ingredients are eaten in the stomach.

"So, tomorrow we will go to the town's yamen and report them!" Xie Zhimo said.

"Okay, then the store won't open tomorrow at all, so I'll go talk to Sister Feng Zhen and Aunt Wu right now." Yao Yu said and went out.

Xie Zhimo clenched his fists, this shopkeeper Wen, he must not let him have a good end.

Early in the morning, Xie Zhimo and Yao Yu went to Hehua Town after sending Nuo'er to the village school, "Let's put the ox cart in the shop first." Yao Yu suggested.

"Okay." There are many pedestrians in the town, and sometimes they move slowly with the ox cart.

As soon as the two arrived at the shop, they saw Zhang Dehou rushing out, "Something happened!"

"What's the matter?" Xie Zhimo asked, Yao Yu at the side was a little nervous, could it be that he was discovered by the Bafang Inn?
"All the evidence we have collected has been destroyed." Zhang Dehou looked angrily, and if he wanted to know who did it, he would never let that person go.

Xie Zhimo smiled and said, "I have saved a copy of all the evidence, don't worry."

Yao Yu's heart sank. The destruction of the evidence was enough to prove that Bafang Inn had released their whereabouts and knew what they were going to do. "Brother Zhang, where are the people who can testify?"

Zhang De said kindly, "Don't worry, the siblings are placed in my house. I saw that the evidence was gone early in the morning, so I hurried over to find you."

"Let's go and have a look." Xie Zhimo was obviously a little worried. After all, he hasn't gone to court yet, and everything will change.

The three hurried to Zhang Dehou's house, the door of Zhang Dehou's house opened, and a bad premonition floated in the hearts of the three. Xie Zhimo rushed in first, Zhang Dehou followed closely, Yao Yu followed, and when they came in, they found that the house was empty. one person.

"Peng Kang?" Zhang Dehou called out.

No one answered.

The three of them turned around the house, but they didn't find anyone, "Oh no." Xie Zhimo had to admit that the witnesses were taken away.

"It's all my fault. That kid Peng Kang doesn't know kung fu, so what can we do!" Zhang Dehou was impatient in the morning. He thought that nothing would happen to the witness at home, but unexpectedly, something happened.

Xie Zhimo stayed where he was, apparently feeling uneasy about losing a witness, but luckily they still had other evidence in their hands.

On the other hand, Yao Yu suddenly thought of something more worrying, and ran out quickly. Seeing this, Xie Zhimo and Zhang Dehou quickly followed.

"What's wrong?" Xie Zhimo asked anxiously.

"I don't know if Yang Lan sent Yang Gui to Brother Zhang's house today." Yao Yu felt uneasy. If the two siblings were implicated, she would really regret it for the rest of her life.

(End of this chapter)