Yoshida Mii

Chapter 300 Zhang Qian Gets Angry

"Understood." Dong Bao smiled and led Old Man Song into the shop. Since Old Man Song refused to eat from the shop, she poured him a bowl of water.

Probably because he was really thirsty, old man Song drank a large bowl of water in one gulp, and Chunlei's daughter-in-law next to him quickly refilled the water, and he raised his head and finished drinking.

"How is your third uncle?" Old Man Song asked anxiously after wiping the water from the corner of his mouth.

Dong Bao smiled and said, "It's pretty good. Didn't Third Uncle work in a grain and oil shop before? Now he's changed his place and works in a silk shop. I don't know whether it's accounting or something."

Hearing this, old man Song's wrinkled black and thin face immediately stretched out, and he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He was happy, and he talked more, saying: "Silk and satin shops are better than grain and oil shops. Dealing with people makes a lot of money! Your third uncle must be someone's accountant, he has this ability, he has studied for a few years..."

"Hey..." Dong Bao echoed vaguely, feeling that he was really a kind person, Song Bai had treated her like that, so in order to reassure the old man and his wife, he still spoke good words for Song Bai.

After the old man was happy, he continued to ask: "Then your third uncle will go home at the Dragon Boat Festival? Your grandma asked the matchmaker to tell the girls of several families, and waited for him to come back to see each other. Hey, this kid can't patronize working outside Ah! Your niece is about to get married, and he has no one in the house yet."

Dong Bao resisted the urge to complain in his heart, shook his head and said, "Third Uncle said he was busy and didn't have time to come back. It's possible to come back during the Chinese New Year..." In fact, Song Bai didn't mention the New Year. She won't come back, but looking at old man Song's disappointed and expectant eyes, she added a sentence.

"It's okay to come back during the Chinese New Year!" Old man Song knew that his son was promising, and he couldn't be happier. The more promising Song Bai was, the smoother the marriage would be. If Song Bai really became a big shopkeeper and accountant, he wouldn't have to marry a country woman. Can marry an Anzhou girl as a daughter-in-law for him and the Huang family.

Seeing old man Song getting up to leave, Dong Bao quickly said, "Master, why don't you have lunch with us at noon?"

"No, your grandma has already cooked dinner at home." Old man Song waved his hand. He was different from the gluttonous couple who was the second son of Song.

Just as Dong Bao was sending old man Song out, the door leading to the backyard of the shop was pushed open with a bang. Dong Bao looked back, and his cousin Zhang Qian came out of the backyard with an angry face and hands behind his back.

"Brother Qian, what's wrong with you?" Dong Bao asked worriedly.In her impression, Zhang Qian had always been gentle and easy-going, she had never seen him get so angry, and Li Hongqin and Zhang Xiuyu seemed to be in the backyard, maybe there was some conflict in the family.

After Zhang Qian came out in a rage, he realized that Dong Bao was in front of him. He slightly softened his expression and nodded towards Dong Bao, then walked towards the academy without saying a word.

And it was Song Zhaodi who followed him, standing at the door and looking at Zhang Qian's direction, stomping his feet and shouting angrily: "Brother Qian, why did you leave before lunch?"

Old man Song hadn't left yet, he first shrank aside and watched Zhang Daxiu leave angrily, and then he saw Song Zhaodi calling at the door.Although Song Zhaodi had gained weight and her face became more fleshy, he still recognized it at a glance. This girl was Song Zhaodi, the eldest granddaughter whom he had watched grow up.

"You... Zhaodi?!" Old man Song pointed at Song Zhaodi in astonishment, "You, why are you here?"

Song Zhaodi turned around and found that Old Man Song was also standing at the door. She immediately turned pale with fright, and her tongue was tied up, "I...I..."

"Sister Zhaodi came to find her a few days ago and said she was too hungry to eat, so I took the initiative to take in Miss Zhaodi for a few days." Dong Bao said quickly, "I haven't had time to tell my second uncle about this."

The old man Song glanced at Song Zhaodi's belly. The clothes he wore in early summer were thin, and Song Zhaodi's belly was flat. It was obvious that the child was gone long ago or had already been born. He had a complicated look on his face and asked, "Where have you been going all this time?" What? Why don’t you even have a letter?”

Song Zhaodi's hands trembled from fright, and her upper and lower teeth were shaking when they touched each other. There was only one thing in her mind, which was that it was over. Song Yu would definitely take her home, and she didn't know what was waiting for her.She never expected that the Song family would still be in the town when the market was over at noon, otherwise she would not have dared to leave the shop at this time.

"I'm asking you something!" Dong Bao glared at Song Zhaodi, patted her hard, and cursed Song Zhaodi for being worthless, only daring to rush in front of her, and when she was about to speak, she was scared.

Song Zhaodi glanced at Dong Bao as if begging for help, but Dong Bao didn't meet her gaze, so she had no choice but to speak, "I... just begged around... Later, I couldn't bear the hunger, so I went to Dong Bao and my aunt Helped."

"You are begging around?" Old man Song felt a little unbelievable, "Then why has no one seen you?"

Song Zhaodi was about to cry, she was terrified to death, Dong Bao really couldn't see her cowardly look, and said directly to old man Song: "We haven't seen her before, Sister Zhaodi also said that she asked for several in the town God's food! Master, if it wasn't for the second uncle who beat Zhaodi too hard, sister Zhaodi wouldn't want to leave home. How hard it is to beg for food! When I first saw her a few days ago, she was skinny and skinny. It's not human anymore!"

Indeed, when Song Zhaodi came to ask for help with a child, she was so skinny and her body was bruised and purple. How inhuman Song Yu could beat her pregnant daughter like this!
Old man Song knew that Song Yu beat Song Zhaodi with a stick as soon as he came home in those days. Although he couldn't bear it, he didn't know what to say. It's none of their business, so he just pretended to be deaf and dumb, and now Zhaodi is eating fat in Baoji's shop, and his clothes are also good, compared to the days at Song's house before, it's a heaven and a world.

At the beginning when he asked Song Yu to find Song Zhaodi, Song Yu angrily brought up the matter of the eldest daughter of the Song family to pierce his heart. At that time, he felt heartache and embarrassment as if he had just experienced it. Forget it, if Song Zhaodi went back, she would inevitably be beaten. In the end, he still didn't know where he would be sold by Song Yu, so he might as well have never seen her today.

"Don't worry..." old man Song said in a low voice, "I won't tell your second uncle about this, Zhao Di can live here with peace of mind." It's fine if you don't go back, and you can live a comfortable life.

After sending old man Song away, Dong Bao looked at Song Zhaodi. Song Zhaodi looked relaxed after a catastrophe, and her round face couldn't hide her joy. Suddenly seeing Dong Bao looking at her with a straight face, she was a little embarrassed, with her eyelids downcast Said: "What do you see me doing? I have flowers on my face?"

"What happened to my brother Qian just now?" Dong Bao stared at him and asked. Aunt Qiuxia had already returned to Tagouji, and there were only Li Hongqin's family and Song Zhaodi in the backyard. From Dong Bao's point of view, Zhang Qian was gentle and filial , who would never blush with his mother and sister, the only person who might offend Zhang Qian is Song Zhaodi.

Song Zhaodi was a little uncomfortable, she lowered her head and picked her fingernails, and said with her mouth curled up, "How do I know what's wrong with him? I've read the scholar and look down on people like me! He would hate to serve him a meal!"

Dong Bao ignored her, turned around and went directly to the backyard.At the end of the year, Zhang Xiuyu and Liang Zi were going to get married. Now that she had finished her morning work, she was sitting in the room sewing quilts and embroidering pillowcases.When Dong Bao passed by, Zhang Xiuyu and Li Hongqin, the mother and daughter, pulled one end of a large piece of fabric and were about to cut it. The two of them were talking and laughing.

"Come here?" Zhang Xiuyu smiled, "How about making a quilt with this color?"

The fabric is dark red as the background, printed with two mandarin ducks swimming side by side, and a round vermilion double happiness character on the mandarin ducks, which is very festive. Although Dongbao looks a bit earthy and vulgar in the eyes of modern people, this kind of Fabric is a must for marriage in this era.

"Very good." Dong Bao nodded with a smile, and asked again: "Why did my Brother Qian leave without eating?"

Hearing that Zhang Xiuyu stopped the scissors in her hand, she asked in surprise, "My brother left without eating?"

"Yeah, I thought you two were arguing!" Dong Bao said.

Zhang Xiuyu shook her head, and said blankly: "He went into the room and talked to us for a while, then went out, saying that he had to go back to the academy to study after dinner, and the master will check in the afternoon..."

"Perhaps I'm worried about my master's inspection in the afternoon, so I won't be able to take care of the meal." Li Hongqin smiled, "I'll find out when he comes over for dinner in the afternoon."

Dong Bao nodded, that's all there is to it, things will definitely not be as simple as Song Zhaodi said, Zhang Qian will be angry if she serves Zhang Qian a bowl of rice?Zhang Qian is not that kind of person.

However, in the afternoon, only Lin Shi came over alone, and brought news that Zhang Qian said that he would not eat in the shop in the future, and that he and other classmates would light a fire and cook together in the academy.

"What's going on?" Dong Bao asked, "Why didn't you come to eat all of a sudden?" How did it get so serious.

Lin Shi also had a difficult expression on his face. Although Zhang Qian is a mild-tempered person, he is not very talkative at the same time, and he is a bit stubborn, especially when he is angry. No matter how much Ren Lin Shi persuaded him in the afternoon, he would not He opened his mouth to talk about what's the matter, and only said that he didn't want to run back and forth, and he would cook and eat by himself in the academy from now on.

"This kid, what's wrong suddenly?" Li Hongqin was surprised, but also a little angry, untied the apron on her body, and said, "I'll go find him. , I don’t know why I offended him!”

Dong Bao was also annoyed, and directly dragged Song Zhaodi to the backyard.Song Zhaodi staggered away being dragged away by her, very unhappy and a little guilty, she lowered her head and muttered: "Why are you dragging me? What's the matter?"

"Don't play tricks on me!" Dong Bao said with a sullen face, "Why did you provoke Zhang Qian?"

Song Zhaodi is also capable of turning Zhang Qian's good-tempered popularity into that.

(End of this chapter)