in spring

Chapter 113 The Immortal Dance

After hearing Chunying's question, Mrs. Jia smiled unnaturally: "Sister Chun, what are you talking about? The shopkeeper is naturally very well, no illness or pain." "Something happened to his family!" Sister Li looked up quickly He interjected, and was inevitably stared at by his mother again.

Chunying was taken aback: "What happened? What happened?!" She stared at Mrs. Jia and asked. My sister will know when she goes back and ask, you can persuade the shopkeeper a little more, and ask him to take care of himself."

Chunying lived in Funing Street for a few months, often running errands for shopkeeper Shi, buying a tofu nao or giving some books, paper and ink to Brother Dong, and so on. The four of them, mother and child, can be regarded as some kind of friendship, but this friendship is Limited, Mrs. Jia is very upright, neither let people gossip about her nor others, once Chunying heard her say that, she knew that she couldn't ask more.

She was so terrified that she didn't even bother to eat the tofu nao. She turned around and was about to run, but she was caught by Sister Yun, dragged aside, and whispered, "Don't worry, nothing serious happened." After finishing speaking, she sneaked a glance at her mother , and then lowered his voice a bit: "Everyone on the street has been spreading rumors these days that Mrs. Cheng and Uncle Cheng had a fight, and Uncle Cheng is going to divorce his wife. Mrs. has moved back to Shopkeeper Shi's house with her son. Everyone in the shop is worrying now."

Chunying opened her mouth wide, a little confused.Why is Mrs. Cheng making trouble again?Didn't she tell her to bear it, and when Uncle Cheng sees through the liar, she will be honest?She grabbed Sister Yun and asked, "Why did Mrs. Cheng make such a fuss? Have you heard about it?"

Sister Yun hesitated for a moment: "I don't know what it is. I just vaguely heard her call the concubine at home a liar, and Uncle Cheng turned against her. I don't know the rest." Sister Jia frowned and called out loudly. When the daughter went back to work, Sister Yun had to turn around and go.Chunying paid the money silently, and while eating tofu nao, she looked towards the direction of the Cheng family's yard, and then turned her head to look at Yunxiang Pavilion, suddenly feeling that she lost her appetite.

Arriving at the door of Yunxiang Pavilion, the store was really deserted. Two waiters were doing nothing, one was lying on the counter in a daze, the other was sitting in a corner and secretly dozing, but there was no sign of shopkeeper Shi. The faint smell of medicine, is anyone sick?
Chunying stepped into the store, and was about to ask shopkeeper Shi where he was, when he saw the latter sitting cross-legged on the floor behind the counter, looking downcast.

Chunying greeted the clerk before carefully walking over to ask: "The shopkeeper... are you okay?"

Shopkeeper Shi lifted his eyelids and glanced at her weakly: "Is it Xiaochun? Are you here to see us? Are you interested..." Chunying was embarrassed for a while, not daring to say that she was here to buy goods, so she asked in a low voice: "I just arrived at Jia I heard from Sister Yun at my sister-in-law's stall...how did it get so troublesome?"

"Sister-in-law Jia?" Shopkeeper Shi suddenly raised his head, with a sad expression on his face, "Did she tell you?! She is very angry, right?"

Chunying was taken aback: "No...she didn't say it, Sister Yun told me, but it seems that the mother and daughter are very worried..."

Shopkeeper Shi showed a gleam of joy: "Really? Sister-in-law Jia is really a good person. She didn't take her sister's rudeness to heart, and she was worried about our family..." He bowed his head in embarrassment for a while, then got up and took Chunying to the backyard : "Come, come, tell me, what did Mrs. Jia say?"

Chunying followed him in a daze, and caught a glimpse of the clerk behind the counter watching them leave curiously, even the one who was dozing in the corner raised one eyelid.She couldn't help muttering in her heart, is there any gossip in this matter?
Sure enough, when she narrated her experience at Jia's food stall in detail, shopkeeper Shi was both happy and ashamed: "Sister-in-law Jia is such a nice person! My sister is in a bad mood, so she blamed her and said a lot. The harsh words caused her to be pointed at by others, but it was Uncle Zhiliang who said something fair to save her. I thought she would annoy me from then on and ignore me anymore, even Brother Dong. Willing to come to our house again! I didn't expect her to care about me so much..." His face flushed slightly.

Seeing such a "blessed" uncle showing a shy expression in front of her, Chunying felt extremely horrified. In order to save her young heart, she quickly changed the topic: "Why is auntie in a bad mood? When I came last time, Didn't you agree not to tell the story of the partner being a liar? Why are you making trouble again?"

Shopkeeper Shi restrained his shyness, and sighed: "It's not my sister's fault, it's all that Mu Niang's fault! She gave her brother-in-law some kind of misty soup, and her brother-in-law actually lost his head and beat Su Yi half to death. Su Luo came crying for help in the middle of the night, and we brought the two children back. I asked Su Luo, only to find out that Su Yi overheard my conversation with my sister, and knew that Mu Niang was a liar, so I went to look through her things. Then she found out."

Chunying hurriedly asked: "Is Su Yi okay? Is it seriously hurt?"

"It's just a skin injury. I've seen the doctor and used the medicine. It's much better."

Chunying breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Did you tell Uncle Cheng about the liar? Did he not believe it?"

"Of course I didn't believe it. He thought we were trying to stop him from getting rich." Shopkeeper Shi curled his lips, "The businessman he said he wanted to partner with had all the deeds of the new house he bought in Beijing. At least it was worth two thousand silver. Even if he paid the deposit for the shop first, he didn't feel that he was at a disadvantage. When I saw him outside in the morning, he also said that he invited several silk merchants who had done a lot of business to have a drink yesterday. Well, that smug face... as if he has never seen the world, I introduced those masters to him!" After a pause, he approached Chunying and said: "I heard you and Brother Hu say that businessman It's a liar, I was half-believed, but now that I think about it, it's really weird! The man kept saying that he was rich, but he didn't pay any more money, even the house It happened suddenly, and I didn’t hear who was hired as a guarantor. You know, they are foreigners. How can it be so easy to buy property in the capital? They didn’t even tell my brother-in-law! My brother-in-law said all day long that he would soon To make a lot of money, he actually spends all his own money, thanks to his 30 years of wandering in the north and south, he didn't even catch this little trick!"

Chunying asked in surprise: "Is he not alert? You told him, but he still wouldn't believe it?" She found it a little hard to imagine that Uncle Cheng is no rookie!

Shopkeeper Shi snorted coldly: "We have all become his enemies! We deliberately stopped him from getting rich! He also said that my sister committed two crimes of jealousy and evil words, so I want to divorce her and go back to her natal family! My sister dragged him to cry for his son, and he still With a look of indifference, he said that his son is being disciplined by Mu Niang, and that his sister is not needed, and that he wants her to return all his family wealth. What are he talking about?! I can't stand it anymore!"

Chunying was annoyed when she heard this: "Why do such a scumbag care about him?! Let him be deceived!"

Shopkeeper Shi even claimed it was, but in the end, he still sighed: "He is still my brother-in-law after all. Seeing him being cheated, but being unable to help, I feel really uncomfortable." He glanced upstairs: "Sister, since then In the future, she would swear at people all day long, and it was only these two days that she became quieter, only in a daze in the room, Su Luosuyi chatted and laughed with her, but she never showed a smile. Poor two children, they are still so young, what should they do in the future manage?"

Chunying felt heavy after hearing this, and planned to go upstairs to comfort Aunt Cheng, but knocked on the door for a long time, but no one came out to open it, so she had to go back to the shop.Shopkeeper Shi seemed to be a little more energetic, and he greeted the rare customers enthusiastically. After seeing them off, he turned around and smiled at Chun Ying: "I almost forgot, are you here to get the materials? The weather has changed recently. Cold, there are a lot of thin gauze materials left, if you like, you can take them all, and I will give you [-]% off."

After careful calculation in Chunying's mind, she felt that it was better to be conservative. After all, she and Hu Fei were not selling cloth. If things were suppressed, even if they were not afraid of damage, it would be difficult to turn over the funds, so they went to the warehouse with Shopkeeper Shi for a while. I only picked four kinds of yarn materials that can be used to make Supa, namely plain white, rained sky blue, light crimson and light yellow, and bought another half a bolt of bright red soft satin, together with some scraps of fabric, embraced.

After paying the money, she caught a glimpse of someone on the stairs. Looking around, it turned out to be Su Luo. I haven't seen him in a few months. The little boy has grown a lot, but lost weight. He is a bit timid, not as lively as his younger brother. Now he looks even thinner. Seeing Chunying greet him, he forced the corners of his mouth to curl up, then bowed his head and went back to the room.Chunying couldn't help but sigh secretly.

When I got home, Hu Fei had already returned. She told me what she had seen and heard today, and he frowned: "This won't work, you have to find a way to expose those liars, otherwise Shopkeeper Shi and Mrs. Cheng will both Those who are implicated may even owe heavy debts."

Chunying's eyes widened: "Impossible? All the money Cheng Da earned in the past is in the hands of the aunt. As long as the aunt doesn't hand it over, Cheng Da will have no money in the future. Can they still live?"

Hu Fei said with some shame: "I was negligent last time, and I only remembered later that Uncle Cheng has been selling Songjiang cloth for many years, and the big silk and satin merchants in the capital were naturally introduced to him by Shopkeeper Shi, that is to say, They all know that shopkeeper Shi is related to Uncle Cheng. Since the liar has drawn such a big cake and even used a beauty trick, he will not be satisfied with just defrauding the Cheng family of a mere thousand or hundreds of silver. Fame deceived those big silk merchants, took the goods and sold them for silver, leaving Uncle Cheng behind and ran away. Not only would Uncle Cheng have to bear the debt, he would also be unable to gain a foothold in the business world of the capital! Before the official divorce, Aunt Cheng and shopkeeper Shi cannot get rid of their relationship, even if they do divorce, the two children of the Cheng family will not be able to escape."

The more Chunying heard it, the more frightened she became, and she jumped up immediately: "Then I'll go back and tell them right away!" "Don't!" Hu Fei got up and pressed her down, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "It's getting late, I'll go, You are born to wait at home. I think they have not succeeded, so it should be too late."

Hu Fei tidied up in a hurry and went out. Chunying went back to the courtyard of her second uncle's house alone, cooking, eating, and washing dishes, but she was always a little uneasy. She was afraid that something would happen tonight, and she was also worried about Hu Fei. Can't convince Uncle Cheng.She was worried for most of the night before she fell asleep in a daze, opened her eyes at dawn, washed up in a hurry and ran to find Hu Fei, but unexpectedly heard Wei Gong say that Hu Fei hadn't come back all night.

Sure enough something happened!
Chunying worriedly walked around in Hu Fei's small courtyard, unable to calm down to work. After a while, she gritted her teeth and simply changed the clothes she went out with, took her coin bag and went out towards Funing Street .

Before arriving at the destination, she saw a lot of people gathered on the street from a distance, and they seemed to be discussing something. Listening carefully, they vaguely were words like "Zhuhuodun" and "Liar", She didn't understand half of what she heard, but she also guessed that something must have happened to the Cheng family, so she hurried to the yard of the Cheng family in the street house, and heard Uncle Cheng scolding from a long distance: "You knew they were liars, Why didn't you tell me? Now my money was cheated by them, and I almost owed a huge debt, it's all your fault!"

Chunying couldn't help but rolled her eyes, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.Hu Fei finally stopped this fairy jumping scam in time.

(First of all, I would like to say sorry to everyone. Tomorrow, I will go to the starting point annual meeting. I will come back from NO.16. Although I don’t know if I can guarantee the update, I will try my best. By then, the number of words in the update may be a little less. Please bear with me. ~~~ ^_^ ）

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