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Chapter 177 Just Asking A Few Things
"Hey, I, I won't talk to you anymore, don't you just admit to the wrong door? Look at you one by one, you, you will run on a hardworking person like me, I, I can't afford to provoke and hide Get up, let me go, go..."

Seeing that the situation was not right, Che Laoguai mumbled a few words, pulled the mule cart and ran away.

Xiu Niang was holding an umbrella and standing beside Chu Ge. Seeing Che Laoguai running away, she subconsciously yelled and walked a few steps.

The guys behind Chu Ge saw Xiu Niang making a sound, and they all chased after her, calling Che Laoguai back to speak clearly, but they were stopped by Chu Ge.

"Okay, don't worry about it, just leave when you leave, don't chase after him." He said, took Xiuniang's hand and went into the shop.

Seeing Chu Ge holding her hand, Xiu Niang said nothing with a sullen face. She guessed that Chu Ge had his own thoughts, so she followed him into the shop without saying anything.

"Hey, shopkeeper, just let that car go away like this, we should let him speak clearly." A guy who ran in front stopped, watched Chu Ge go back, and followed him to talk.

"It's okay, Wang Er, let's do it like this." Chu Ge said to him, then turned around and waved to the guys outside, telling them to go back to the shop first, so as not to get caught in the rain outside.

Wang Er pursed his lips in puzzlement, looked at Chu Ge and said, "Shopkeeper, this is not good, we can't fill other people's vats for nothing, and we didn't ask them to bring over the ingredients, why don't you let it go?" I'll call Che Laoguai back and explain clearly."

When he said this, the guys standing beside him all murmured, "Yes, shopkeeper, we should call Che Laoguai back and make it clear!"

Xiu Niang put away her own umbrella and Chu Ge's umbrella, and stood by the door to drain the rain, then took the two pieces of linen handed over by Wang Er's mother-in-law, one for herself and one for her. Chugo.

Chu Ge took the sackcloth, wiped the drops of water off his face, and said to the guys, "I'm not angry anymore when you become brothers, what are you still angry about?"

"Ah?! Why, shopkeeper, didn't you see Che Laoguai's virtuous behavior just now? It seems that we owe him!"

"That's right, who does he think he belongs to, and insists on telling us to get off that car!"

"Shopkeeper, you, you are really good!"

"It's the shopkeeper Li, we have to call Che Laoguai to our shop and have a good talk!"

"No, we have to let him say no to us!"

"That's that, we have to ask him to compensate us..."

The clerks in the shop chattered one after another, and they all wanted to ask Che Laoguai for an explanation.

Chu Ge stood in the shop, waiting for them to finish, and then he said, "It's okay if they admit the wrong person, but I don't want you to pester me. It's not a big deal to put it bluntly. There are often things, if we keep pestering them, it will show us stingy."

Xiu Niang looked at what Chu Ge said, and smiled to herself, this idiot was quite thoughtful, as expected, those who had wandered outside since childhood were different.

Wang Er still seemed a little annoyed, "Hey, no, shopkeeper, we are not..."

Chu Ge patted Wang Er's shoulder while muttering, "We were outside just now, and we have said everything we need to say, and the people on the street know it too, they know what kind of person we are."

Xiu Niang waited for Chu Ge to finish speaking, and began to wrap up, "Okay, okay, it's nothing at all, you guys should be busy with everything, don't stick around on the shop floor, people who don't know for a while I came to buy a board, and I thought something happened..."

The shopkeeper and the proprietress both said so, the guys in the shop stopped nagging, and all walked to the backyard, and the guys in the shop also returned to the counter to watch.

Seeing that everyone was leaving, Xiu Niang asked Chu Ge to go upstairs. She wanted to settle things with Chu Ge. Anyway, she felt that it was not accidental that the old gangster recognized the wrong door. .

Chu Ge listened to what Xiu Niang said, thoughtfully responded, followed her upstairs, and suddenly said, "Xiu Niang, you came back just in time, otherwise I don't know how it ended. "

Xiu Niang was taken aback when she heard that, and opened the door to let Chu Ge in, "Did you come back in time? I just settled the accounts upstairs, didn't I go out?"

Chu Ge frowned, "Hey, at this point in time, don't you always go shopping with Wang Er's family, and Qiaoer from Muzi's family? I saw Wang Er's family earlier and thought she would come back first. That's why I asked her to call you."

Xiu Niang pulled a chair for Chu Ge, sat down at the table by herself, and said, "Oh, I saw that there were still some vegetables in the stove this morning, so I asked Qiaoer to buy some meat and come back. I just picked vegetables in the stove, I have nothing to do, so I thought about going upstairs to settle accounts."

Chu Ge nodded, and said dumbly, "Oh, so it's Qiaoer. It was raining outside in the morning. I watched her go out from the room, and thought it was you."

Xiu Niang immediately frowned when she heard this, and looked at him angrily, "Okay, you're such an idiot, even your own daughter-in-law can get it wrong!"

Chu Ge didn't understand the meaning for a while, he was stunned for a moment, and said hastily, "No, no, Xiu Niang, I, I am not..."

"Pfft, hehehe..."

Xiu Niang was originally staring at Chu Ge with a straight face, but when she saw him like this, she burst out laughing,
Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and smiled, and he understood in his heart that he had her "way".

He also knew earlier that Xiu Niang is not that narrow-minded person, it's just that children are more playful, but he has nothing to do with her, seeing her frown, he feels... anxious.

Xiu Niang smiled and rolled her watery eyes, if she hadn't watched Chu Ge become silent, she wouldn't want to hold back her laughter.

She smiled at Chu Ge, "Okay, I was joking with you just now, why are you still thinking about it, you are really petty."

Chu Gemu blinked, looked at Xiu Niang, and muttered in his heart, his wife just gave a candied date, half sour, half sweet, and half of the good words, he became petty .

Xiu Niang smiled and said again, "Chu Ge, this Qiaoer girl is one or two years younger than me, and we are about the same height and figure. It's a rainy day, so you might be mistaken..." She said There was a sudden pause, as if she had thought of something, but the thought was so fast that she couldn't even grasp it.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and stopped talking, "Xiu Niang, what's wrong with you?"

Xiu Niang blinked, looked at Chu Ge, and smiled, "Oh, it's nothing, I mean, it's raining today, and the sky is overcast, so it's okay if you misread it."

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang strangely, and didn't say anything after thinking about it, he just asked, "Xiu Niang, what did you want to say when you called me upstairs just now?"

Xiu Niang said, "Oh, I forgot, Chu Ge, don't you think this is a bit weird today?"

"Are you talking about Che Laoguai admitting to the wrong door today?" Chu Ge thought for a while, "It's a little strange, our workshop is short of wooden boards, and I brought people to pull them myself, rarely Someone asked them to bring them to our shop."

Xiu Niang frowned, and said, "Oh, that's not right, Chu Ge, you said you pulled the wooden planks by yourself, but just now downstairs, when I just went down, Wang Er and who were standing there?" At the door of our shop, I heard from him that this cart Laoguai has delivered wood to us twice before."

Chu Ge listened to what Xiu Niang said, pondered for a while, and then remembered, he said "Oh".

"Oh, those two times, it was because our backyard was too busy, and the guys who could do some carpentry were all hired by Uncle Li to make washboards. There was no one to pull the wood, so I asked Wang Er to go to the garden. The lumber shop told me to send it to Mr. Che, his lumber shop has a lot of business and there is a lot of wood left, so we often go to them to pull wooden boards."

He clicked his tongue and said again, "Speaking of this car Laoguai is a special driver in the garden wood shop to deliver goods, you still need to have the ability to recognize the door and recognize the person, why would you say that if you admit the wrong door, you will admit your mistake."

Thinking about it, Xiu Niang patted Chugo's arm, and continued, "What's more, it's not just that, even if someone really asked him to pull the wooden plank today, but it's raining, he will have to find it no matter what. Let's cover it with something, and just drive out in the rain, isn't he afraid that the board will get wet and no one will be hurt, isn't he just making fun of himself."

Chu Ge pursed his lips and nodded, "Xiu Niang, there's one thing I don't understand. Why did Che Laoguai want to do this? Let's save face today and don't want to tear ourselves apart in front of people on the street. His reasoning is just to accept two carts of waste wood, what is he trying to do?"

Xiu Niang also shook her head when she heard that, the two of them looked at each other and stopped talking, as if they were thinking about something.

Chugo sat by the window, looking outside thoughtfully, watching the smaller and smaller raindrops falling from the sky.

Xiuniang was fiddling with the abacus on the table for a while. Earlier, when the aunts of Wang Er's family came to call her, she just put the ledger in the drawer.

After almost a bag of cigarettes, Xiu Niang spoke first, "Chu Ge, in the shop earlier, didn't there be two guys standing outside with you?"

Chu Ge said, "Xiu Niang, are you talking about Wang Er?"

Xiu Niang shook her head, she knew Wang Er, she was asking another guy, the guy who told her why Che Laoguai was injured in Yuanmuhang.

Chu Ge thought for a while, "Oh, you're talking about Muzi."

"Muzi? Is that guy Muzi, Qiao'er's man?" Xiuniang usually rarely interacts with those guys, so some guys only know their names, not people.

Chu Ge nodded in response, and then said, "Hey, Xiu Niang, why are you asking Mu Zi?"

Xiu Niang didn't say anything, she just smiled at Chu Ge, "It's nothing, I just want to ask him a few things."

(End of this chapter)