Crossing the Homeland

Chapter 68

Seeing that Xia Junyan was a little distracted, Lu Chenshan sighed immediately: "I scared you like this just by talking casually, woman, it's better not to run around! Look at you... Really! Forget it, you go down , um... this fish is very good, I will order this dish next time, don't forget it!"

Xia Junyan nodded in a daze, and left the private room full of thoughts.

Although she is the cook of Jufulou now, except for those two dishes, her level is far behind the other chefs in the kitchen.Shopkeeper Sun was not in a hurry to let her learn new dishes. Seeing that she was idle, he asked her to clean the ear room in the backyard so that she could live in later.

Next to the ear room is the backyard corner door, and living here is also for the convenience of guarding the door.Mrs. Zheng who lived here knew that she was a cook, so she didn't treat her like a servant girl. When she saw her coming, she only gave a few simple instructions and went to the backyard to help.Xia Junyan slowly wiped the dust around her with a rag, but her thoughts had already drifted away.

Just as he was thinking about something, he saw a person bumping towards the corner door from the corner of his eye.

"Miss Xia!! Help!!" Liu Wu was in a state of disarray, and he didn't have the prestige he had before.Rolling and crawling to Xia Junyan, Xia Junyan was startled instead.

"Liu...Master Liu?"

"Don't call me a little one like that! You can't afford to be a little one! You can just call him a little Liu Wu." Liu Wu lay on the ground crying bitterly, "The little one used to have eyes but didn't know Taishan, offended Miss Xia. Miss Xia, you have a lot of adults, but don’t be as knowledgeable as the little ones! The little ones were deceived by lard. They were all members of the Cheng family back then. It's just a middleman. This is 300 taels of silver bill, and I hope Miss Xia will accept it." Liu Wu tremblingly handed over the silver bill in his arms, and kowtowed a few more times.

Xia Junyan was startled by his actions for a while before she came back to her senses, and asked tentatively, "You...what's the matter?"

Liu Wu cried: "Miss Xia, those mountain bandits are really not looking for by the little one! The little one swears that the little one has nothing to do with this matter! Miss Xia, please go to the county magistrate for the little one. Let me say something nice there. The 300 taels is not enough, and the youngest family still has a few acres of fertile land, which I gave to Miss Xia."

Xia Junyan understood a little.

Lu Chenshan said that the yamen determined that those bandits had something to do with gambling houses.Bandits appeared in Shuanghe Village, and Xia's family in Shuanghe Village owed money to the gambling house.After thinking about it for a while, I can think that the gambling house thought that the Xia family would not pay back the money, so they hired murderers to kill people.But generally those who run gambling shops have connections in the yamen, so why is Liu Wu so frightened?
It feels that this matter is far from being so simple, what else does she not know?

Seeing that Xia Junyan didn't speak, Liu Wu hurriedly kowtowed a few more times: "The little one was blind before, and Miss Xia was upset, so she kicked the little one a few times." After finishing speaking, she slapped her face He was slapped several times, his cheeks were red from the slaps, and after a while, the corners of his mouth were cracked.

Liu Wuchao was really merciless when he did it himself.

"Wait a minute!" Xia Junyan said suddenly.

Liu Wu's eyes lit up, only to see Xia Junyan moved out a stool from the side, sat firmly on it, and said with a slight smile: "You continue to fan. I was a little tired from standing just now. When the police officers come, Get up again." In order to avoid the gambling shop's pressing on her, how she begged humblely, and then made her face like that, how could this Liu Wu think that she would save him? What a joke!
(End of this chapter)