Yoshida Mii

Chapter 303 The New Way

Without much effort, Dong Bao and Lin Shi found the teahouse Mrs. Zeng mentioned, and also found the teahouse proprietress who was "very friendly" with Song Zhaodi.Before she went, she asked Mr. Yan about the teahouse. The teahouse has been open for decades, and it is a legitimate business. Most of the customers are businessmen who come to Yuanshui to do business. The business is not booming, but it is still open. Go down that kind.

Speaking of the proprietress of the teahouse, what Dong Bao thought of was the lady who pimped Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing. Unexpectedly, after meeting the real person, she found out that the proprietress was very young, not yet 20 years old, with a round face and smudged face. Her eyebrows are painted with powder, and she wears a pair of silver earrings.

"Are you looking for me?" The proprietress smiled.

Dong Bao didn't go around with her, and said directly: "Is there a girl surnamed Song who often came to chat with you a few days ago? Do you know where she is?"

She thinks that it is unlikely that Song Zhaodi was taken away by someone. When Song Zhaodi disappeared, her luggage also disappeared. She must have packed it herself. Moreover, the old man Zeng and his wife also testified that they have always been at home, and no one else entered except Song Zhaodi. their home.

"Who are you?" the little daughter-in-law asked.

"She is a relative of my family. She works as a helper in our shop. I haven't seen her for a few days." Dong Bao said, "I heard that she has a good relationship with you. Do you know where she went?"

The little daughter-in-law hesitated for a long time, as if she didn't know whether she should say it or not, and finally said, "How would I know!"

Dong Bao also turned cold, and said: "My father's name is Yan Haifeng. If you don't tell me, I'll ask him to ask you. Everyone has seen that she has a good relationship with you. When the time comes, you will be charged with abducting a woman from a good family." !"

Those who do business in Yuanshui Town don't know Yan Haifeng's name. Immediately, the little daughter-in-law was a little frightened. She took a step back, looked at Dongbao again, and said falteringly: "That... I didn't mean it either. Keeping it secret, she didn't let me tell others, for fear that you would find her... She said that you treated her badly, let her do all the dirty work, scolded her, looked down on her..."

Dong Bao sneered, "I rented a house for her, provided her with food and drink, and invited her to see a doctor. I spent no less than ten taels of silver on her. Do you think I treat her well? Let her do all the work? Is ten taels of silver enough to buy a few maidservants to work for me for a lifetime?"

The little daughter-in-law didn't expect that there would be such troubles, so she hurriedly said to Dong Bao as if to flatter her: "I knew she didn't say a word of the truth, and she doesn't look like that real person!"

"Where did she go?" Dong Bao asked, why did such a living person disappear like this, Song Zhaodi had no relatives and no reason, where could she go?
Seeing that the young daughter-in-law was quite frightened, Lin Shi said softly, "We just want to know where she has gone. If she left by herself, we won't look for her. It's just that her parents want to ask, so we can have an answer." , save trouble."

"She left by herself!" The little daughter-in-law said anxiously, lest Dong Bao and the others think she had abducted Song Zhaodi, "She really left by herself, a few days ago...it seemed like five or six days ago, she came to my place Chatting with me, I met a wheat merchant who came to our place to drink tea and rest, and the two of them... fell in love. Miss Song told me that the wheat dealer wanted to take her away and marry her in..."

Dong Bao knew about such wheat dealers. Every year during the wheat and sorghum harvesting seasons, he would drive his carriage to the fields, and call him if anyone wanted to sell grain. Make money from this price difference, but Dong Bao doesn't know how much he can earn.

Don't be fooled again!The first reaction in Dong Bao's mind was that Song Zhaodi was cheated again, and then he and Lin Shi looked at each other, seeing the same doubt in the other's eyes, but it's a pity that she was cheated this time, she couldn't save Song Zhaodi.

"The wheat dealer..." Lin Shi frowned, "Do you recognize him?"

The little daughter-in-law seemed to see the doubts of the two of them, and said quickly: "Yes, he has four or five Mai Ke to help him harvest the wheat. They have been here for the past two or three years, and they often come to drink tea. They are well-dressed and easy to sell. Dafang, he calls for good tea, but I don’t know his name, he looks to be in his early thirties, I heard from Miss Song that his family has opened two or three grain and oil shops, and bought her a gold ring.”

Seeing that Dong Bao and Lin Shi were silent, the little daughter-in-law was also a little uneasy, and said, "She really left by herself. Our family has opened teahouses since my husband's grandfather's generation. We live on this street. For decades, everyone knows us, we are a well-behaved family, and we don’t do such wicked and immoral things! There is no reason to ruin our family’s reputation for decades by cheating a girl! Then Miss Song talks to me well, In fact, it's because I know a lot of things. She likes to listen to stories from parents and relatives. In fact, she didn't say anything. I don't even know her name. I only know that her surname is Song...Really, I told her Not very familiar..."

She could swear to God that they had never done anything harmful to nature, at most they mixed some old tea with new tea leaves, or mixed some bad quality tea with good tea leaves!
Dong Bao let out a sigh of relief, looked at the terrified little daughter-in-law, and said, "Okay, I understand, if that wheat dealer comes to your place again, you send someone to Baoji shop to tell us."

"Okay, okay! This must be done!" The little daughter-in-law said quickly.

On the way back, Lin Shi saw Dong Bao's gloomy expression, and advised, "Don't be angry, everyone has their own destiny, she...the way she chooses, no one else can do anything about it."

Although Lin Shi persuaded Dong Bao, he was actually very angry in his heart. He felt that Dong Bao and Li Shi were good enough to Song Zhaodi, regardless of spending money, Song Zhaodi did such scandals one after another, and they didn't have the heart to kill Song Zhaodi. After rushing out, Song Zhaodi still didn't follow the right path, and no one was happy.

Even if the wheat dealer is really rich, he is over 30 years old, probably older than Song Zhaodi's own father...

"I'm not angry either." Dong Bao pulled Lin Shi's hand and laughed, "I just don't know what to say, it's good that she's gone, we don't have to worry about her. A few days ago my mother said After searching for a long time, I couldn't find a suitable person and told her that she would not like her when she was bad, and she would not like her when she was good... She was still worried about her future, but now that she is fine, she has found a new way." Ruren The drinking water is warm and cold, and they seem to be a single-plank bridge, which may be Yangguan Avenue in Song Zhaodi's eyes, so let her go!

Back home, Dong Bao, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Yan talked about Song Zhaodi. Mrs. Li was so angry that her hands were shaking, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence, "It took a lot of money to put her on." Hard work, why doesn't she follow the right path!"

"Don't be angry!" Lord Yan persuaded, "It's not worth being angry about her."

Mrs. Li sighed heavily, shook her head and said, "If her parents knew about it, why would they come here to make trouble? They don't dare to make trouble with me now. Isn't it Dong Bao who made the trouble? It's my fault. Don't worry about it, if she sends her back to Tagouji after giving birth, there won't be so many troubles."

"Thousands of money are hard to buy, I knew it earlier." Dong Bao smiled, "Now that she is gone, the trouble is gone, let's just treat her as nothing. I don't think the second uncle dared to make trouble. Uncle was quite frightened, and he wouldn't dare to ask me to extort money if he had the guts."

After Lord Yan left, Shi Li chattered with Dong Bao while taking off the thick quilt.

"At the beginning..." When Li Shi mentioned it, she regretted it at the beginning. If she hadn't been so unbearable and kind, she would not have reached this point. "She had a hard time in the Song family. Second uncle and second aunt, your second uncle and second aunt can scold and beat you whenever you want, it’s pitiful to look at, that tricky and sharp temper is the same as your second aunt and your milk, I’m sorry, okay The girl was raised badly. Later she came to beg us, I thought she had changed, alas!"

Dongbao silently helped Mrs. Li wrap up the thick cotton thread removed from the quilt. Every summer, the family had to dismantle and wash the thick winter quilt, re-stretch the cotton tires, and sew them up again. Otherwise, the quilt would be damaged every year It's not warm anymore, and the thick cotton thread used to sew the quilt is not cheap, so it needs to be recycled.

Seeing Li Shi's distressed expression, Dong Bao didn't say a word. She felt that after Song Zhaodi's series of blows, even if the old man Song Huang fell to his knees in front of Li Shi crying, Li Shi would no longer be soft-hearted and pity them.This is the nature of these people, and it is basically impossible to expect them to change.

After Song Zhaodi disappeared, the scene that Dong Bao expected Song Yu to make trouble did not appear. It is very likely that the old man Song did not mention Song Zhaodi to Song Yu, or it may be that Song Yu did not want Song Zhaodi as a girl at all. More things are worse than less things Anyway, even if he came, he alone would not be Dong Bao's opponent at all.

When it was time for the autumn harvest, Dong Bao didn't wait for the letter from the proprietress of the teahouse. According to the proprietress, the wheat dealer who looked very rich never came again, and Dong Bao never saw Song Zhaodi again.

As time entered the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Xiuyu's marriage was put on the agenda.As early as when he was out of Fu, Liang Zi flipped over the three large tile-roofed houses and the two wing rooms in the east and west, preparing to build a new house and marry Zhang Xiuyu.

After discussing with Mrs. Li, Dongbao invited craftsmen to measure the size of the newly built house, and they paid for Zhang Xiuyu's furniture. On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day before Zhang Xiuyu's marriage, under the blows and blows of the Xile team, the scenery was beautiful. wrapped in scarlet silk and carried into their new home, envious of the big girls and young wives who came to the town to go to the market.

Li Shi looked at the red cloth on the furniture, her eyes were sore from the dazzling winter sun, she just wanted to shed tears, and whispered to Mama He, "Xiuyu is only less than two years older than Dongbao, she is married, Dong Bao is going to die soon, I can't stay at home for a few more years, and when I think about her leaving, I feel very uncomfortable, it hurts like someone gouging out a piece..."

Xiaodong would have been running all over the place long ago, skinny like a monkey, but now when he heard Li Shi's words, he grabbed Li Shi's skirt in fright and shouted: "Don't let my sister go!"

(End of this chapter)