The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 303
Gao Yuan had already moved out because of a quarrel with his brother-in-law before, and rented a house with his wife outside.

This time, he sold his yard, borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends, and finally bought his own real estate in Ping County, but it was true as his mother said: he owed a huge amount of foreign debt!
"It's a noodle shop..." Aunt Gao was a little dejected, and her son had been an apprentice outside, learning the business of a shop. It would be a bit of a stretch to ask him to run a restaurant, but if he was asked to make a living making noodles, That's a bit of a donkey's lip and a horse's mouth!
"He can do the math, collect money, write a few words, and he can't stretch noodles..." After a long sigh, Aunt Gao's eyes lit up again: "Or, I'll give you some money tomorrow." Just ask him to come back and I will teach him how to stretch noodles, don't worry, he will be no worse than those young people!"

"Hehe!" Pushing the cut vegetables to the side of the chopping board, Su Xiazhi took out the salted pork from the basket hanging under the eaves outside and sliced: "Okay, don't bother, really It hurts my ears and eyes when I get on the sedan chair!"

"Then what should I do?" Aunt Gao couldn't figure out what the boss meant, so she asked cautiously: "He earns a little more money in his current job than our workshop, but he doesn't care about food, as long as Master, if you are willing to use him, I..."

"That's it, auntie." Su Xiazhi turned around and said with a smile: "Don't look at anything else, just rush to Xiaosi and accompany my scholar to go for these few months, I have to give you face. Don't learn to stretch noodles, first Try it for a few days there, if he can handle the business there, I will let him be the shopkeeper."

Aunt Gao found a completely unexpected job for her son, she said thank you several times, and in the end she only had to give Su Xiazhi a knock to express her gratitude. On the steps outside the courtyard gate, she made up her mind: Tomorrow, bring a letter to her son. If he dares not to do a good job for the scholar's family, I will let his father beat him to death!

Now that the shop in Pingxian County has been finalized to open a noodle restaurant, Su Xiazhi led the staff to work intensively.Going out early and returning late every day has no time to cook. Min Qinglan and Jiaojiao joined the school, and it was difficult for the mother and daughter to see her.

On this day, Su Xiazhi entered the house again exhausted with the help of the stars, said a word to Jiaojiao, and then walked into her room.

"Xia Zhi, there's a letter from Lan Sheng!" Min Qinglan excitedly chased her from the east room with a letter in her hand.

"Huh?!" Su Xiazhi, who was so tired that she was about to shrink into a ball and walk, immediately stretched her pen and stretched her body. Instead of accepting the letter, she looked at Min Qinglan suspiciously and asked, "Who sent the letter?" here?"

"It's the messenger from the government. It was sent to the candidates who took the exam in Ping County, and Lan Sheng also wrote it to you! Take a look!" Min Qinglan pressed the letter into Su Xiazhi's hand eagerly. But she herself did not leave, obviously she also wanted to know what her younger brother wrote...

Min Qinglan held the letter with both hands and stared at Su Xiazhi eagerly, waiting for her to take it and open it to talk about her brother's situation.

It's just that she held it up for a long time, and Su Xiazhi still looked at the letter thoughtfully and remained silent, not reaching out to pick it up.

"Hey, I'm talking about you!" Min Qinglan urged anxiously like a cat scratching a dog, with a pale face, "Your husband sent you a letter all the way, why don't you even read it!"

"Bah!" Su Xiazhi, who had been silent all this time, stared immediately after hearing this: "Don't talk nonsense! Who the hell is this husband?"

"..." Min Qinglan was stunned by such vulgar words. She looked at Su Xiazhi with her mouth tightly shut, and she even forgot to take her hand back, just holding the letter in such a dull manner.

Su Xiazhi reached out and took the letter out of her palm, and said, "All the girls are asleep?"

"Just fell asleep..." Min Qinglan, who was scolded for being stupid, answered pitifully, and then she felt wronged, and tears rolled down her eyes.

"Come in." Seeing her crying, Su Xiazhi was just annoyed and didn't feel any pity for her. She opened the door of the main room, but didn't close it. She groped for the fire folder on the desk by the window and lit it. oil lamp.

Min Qinglan stood where she was, intending to go back to the house with her hands shaken, but she couldn't control her legs, so she walked in with her head drooping.

"This letter was not written by a scholar." He motioned her to close the door, and Su Xiazhi pulled a chair for her: "Sit down."

"Ah?" Min Qinglan immediately forgot to cry when she heard Su Xiazhi's words. She picked up the envelope on the desk and read the handwriting on it again and said in a positive tone: "That's right, Lan Sheng's words are mine. I still know him, his handwriting is like this!"

"Are you sure it was written by your brother?" Su Xiazhi looked at her with a smile, obviously scoffing at the judgment of the eldest sister-in-law!

"I..." Min Qinglan carefully read the letter several times, and still felt that it was Lan Sheng's handwriting, but she was not sure about her own judgment when asked by Su Xiazhi.

"I can tell you that this letter was definitely not written by a scholar!" Su Xiazhi tapped her fingers on the book case, and she was meditating while looking at the flickering light and shadow reflected on the window.

"Why did you arbitrarily know that it wasn't written by Lan Sheng without even reading the contents of the letter?" Min Qinglan seemed to be still determined, since it was believed that Su Xiazhi's name was written on the envelope, and it was difficult for her to open it, so she took it Put the letter on the desk and push it towards Su Xiazhi.

Why can you know that this letter was not written by a scholar without reading it?This question made Su Xiazhi's heart flutter, and then he remembered that on the eve before Xiucai left home, during the lingering intermission between the two of them, he had said that he would write to her, and at that time Su Xiazhi said: "It was you who wrote me. I don’t reply, my handwriting is too ugly, I really can’t show it..."

Min Lansheng didn't force it, he had seen the lady's handwriting before, and most of them were written with a lot of missing strokes and typos, and he had to guess when he read it, so he settled for the next best thing, and agreed with Su Xiazhi that luckily he went to Beijing During the days of rushing for the exam, they stopped writing family letters and only missed each other terribly, and when they meet again, they will relentlessly relieve the pain of lovesickness!
At that time, when Xiucai said these words to her, he leaned on her and told her how to "relieve the pain of lovesickness" with actions. Su Xiazhi still blushed and heartbeat when he thought of his appearance at that time, and this is also Naturally, they couldn't tell the eldest sister-in-law about the shady affair between the young couple.

(End of this chapter)