reborn princess

Chapter 256 A Crisis

After sending the two of them to work, Ye Weilan felt that the door of her house was not strict enough, so she asked Li Feng to close the door and fasten the bar, and then asked Li Feng to quickly steam the meat buns and make sauced beef.

She wanted to help, but Li Feng was afraid that she would get rough, so she refused to let her live or die. Fortunately, Aunt Du was there to help.

Ye Weilan saw that she couldn't do the work in the kitchen, so she took the sauced beef that Du Xihua bought, put it in a bowl, went back to the embroidery room, and put it in front of Baihu.

The white tiger smelled the meat, and immediately started to gobble it up.

Ye Weilan got it another basin of water, and it ate and drank enough, lay down on the floor of the embroidery room, licked its hair for a while, then stood up unsteadily and left.

When it came to the gate of the courtyard, it looked around for a while, and suddenly it stood up with a force on its front paws, one paw was holding the gate, and the other paw slammed the door bolt, and then it twisted its buttocks and walked away. go.

Ye Weilan was dumbfounded, thinking to herself, is this still a tiger?This is so perfect that even the door latch can be opened.

She remembered that she hadn't delivered wine to Shen Luo today, so she hurried into the kitchen and made a gourd of wine. Just now she specially left a small piece of sauced beef and asked Song Jiayin to cut it into thin slices for her. Then Song Jiayin hurriedly baked a large pancake, put it in a carrying basket, and walked into the woods.

Seeing her coming again, Shen Luo couldn't help but feel a little helpless, "Didn't I tell you? Don't come to see me if you don't have Zhuyeqing for 30 years!"

She directly ignored his words, and put the basket on the kang with a smile, "Uncle, I brought you wine, as well as sauced beef and scallion pancakes, you roll them up and eat them, they are delicious."

Shen Luo looked at her innocent face silently, and felt that it was not easy for this girl to have such a temper like a hob.

Ye Weilan went out to fetch water from a wooden basin, came in with a towel wrung out, knelt down on the kang, grabbed his hands, and wiped them for him, "Don't be in a hurry to eat, just wipe your hands clean."

While wiping Shen Luo's hands, she said, "Uncle, has anyone ever told you that your hands are so beautiful!"

Shen Luo turned her face away uncomfortably, and then pulled her hand out, "Has anyone ever told you that you are annoying!"

"Yes!" Ye Weilan smiled and grabbed his hand again. "You, didn't you just say that?"

Shen Luo stared at her dumbfounded, is this girl teasing him?
Ye Weilan wiped his hands clean, and then poured water on him. When she turned back, Shen Luo had already drank the wine gourd. She sighed faintly, took out the things in the basket, and put them on the kang table on, and left.

Song Hengzhi and Du Xihua walked into the city, but when they came back, they called a carriage and brought a small wooden box. After opening the box, there were one or two small silver boxes inside.

Song Hengzhi said: "I'm thinking about it, and I don't know how many people my elder brother-in-law will ask to help with the work. If you exchange the silver ingots for twelve taels, it's not enough to turn back. It's not easy to let others take the silver ingots by themselves. I went to the bank to exchange them, so I chose this kind of one or two small silver coins, which are convenient for people in the yamen to share, and convenient for us to spend ourselves."

Ye Weilan smiled and said, "Uncle Song is really thoughtful."

As she said that, she counted out a hundred small silver coins, found a small box and put them in, wrapped them in fur skin, and handed them to Song Hengzhi, "Uncle Song, when Uncle Chen comes, you will hand over these silver coins to me." he."

Then he put the remaining ninety silver pegs into the kang cabinet.

In the evening, Chen An finally came, and Song Hengzhi invited him to talk in the study, while Ye Weilan was also listening.

"I've brought someone to investigate this matter. It's very strange. I couldn't find anyone in the three 'Home Inns' outside the city. All the shopkeepers said that such a family has never stayed here." Chen An When talking about this matter, his expression was extremely dignified, and he was obviously aware of the seriousness of the problem.

"If no one is found, it proves that what they said is indeed a lie." Ye Weilan said softly, deep worries flashed in her heart.

Chen Andao: "Brother-in-law, let me tell the truth, don't worry about it, now you are the only man in the family, and there is a half-grown child like Xihua, it is really useless when something happens, if it is convenient, find two people A strong long-term worker, firstly, I can help you with some rough work, and secondly, if something like today happens again, it is good to have a helper."

Song Hengzhi sighed softly, "Why don't we know this truth? It's just that, a family of common people and no official status in the family, how dare you invite someone casually? If I encounter such a rascal, I will surrender again." If you don’t have him, you will suffer.”

Hearing that what he said made sense, Chen An nodded and said, "You're right, but I didn't think carefully."

"You're right. It's just that you have to take your time when it comes to hiring people. Only those who are suitable can be taken home." Song Hengzhi smiled. "It's just that we are timid."

Chen An asked: "Then what are you going to do about this matter?"

"Since we can't find anyone, we don't know what to do, just be on guard." Song Hengzhi said.

Ye Weilan suddenly said: "Uncle Chen, you said just now that you searched a total of three 'Home Inns' in the city and outside the city, but found no one. Then, have you asked the city gate officer? Have you ever seen such a hotel?" Have people entered and exited Liao City?"

"This..." Chen An was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head. "Never before."

He stood up suddenly, "I see, I'll ask tomorrow, at least to make sure whether this family is from the city or from outside the city."

Seeing that he understood, Ye Weilan nodded and said, "Then I will trouble Uncle Chen."

Song Hengzhi then took the 100 taels of silver that he had prepared earlier, and put the 100 taels of silver in a small dark blue cloth bag, and he handed the cloth bag to him, "Brother-in-law, we are our own family, I am not polite to you, But the brothers under your command have to take care of it, and if you take the money and let people follow you around under the sun, there must be some benefits."

Chen An was not polite to him this time, and took the money, "In that case, I will not be polite."

Ye Weilan said: "Uncle Chen, stay for dinner today. I told Aunt Ying today, don't fire at your house, and come over to eat. There is a ten-year-old Zhuyeqing at home. You and Uncle Song have a good drink."

"Success!" Chen An readily agreed.

Ye Weilan saw that the person was left behind, so she went back to her embroidery room, secretly pondering what happened today, and now she has not even found the person, which made her have a strong sense of crisis, she felt that invisibly , it seems that a big net has been opened, just waiting to catch her... no... She remembered that Miss Qian asked her clearly today if her mother could embroider double-sided embroidery, that is to say, this time The crisis was aimed at her mother.

After thinking about this point, she just felt a gust of cool breeze on her back, and thought to herself, fortunately Dabao came today, otherwise, she would have been shamelessly forced into the house by this family, and she didn't know what would have happened thing.

No, she thought to herself, her mother is her lifeblood, she can't let her mother have an accident no matter what she says, she must find a way to get over this crisis.

After dinner in the evening, she didn't have time to do needlework, she just sat quietly on the kang, thinking about this matter, Chen An has already helped her to mobilize the power of the government to help her investigate this matter.But she always felt that it was not enough, so she thought, she should think of another way.

But their family only came to Liao City, and they didn't know anyone else except Chen An, so who could she ask for help?
"Miss, what are you thinking about? You have been out of your mind since eating." Song Jiayin came over and asked with the handkerchief she embroidered.

"Ah? What did you say?" Ye Weilan couldn't help being startled by her disturbance.

"Oh, miss, did I scare you?" Seeing that she was frightened by him, Song Jiayin quickly rubbed her head with her hands. "Huh, huh, huh, I can't be scared..."

Ye Weilan covered her little liver with her hands, and couldn't help laughing, "I'm fine, you don't need to make a fuss."

Song Jiayin sat cross-legged beside her, and said with a smile, "Miss, what are you thinking about? You're so preoccupied!"

"It's nothing, come, let me take a look at the leaf you embroidered." Ye Weilan didn't want her to follow her to worry about it, so she reached for the handkerchief in her hand and commented. "The colors of the leaves are very well matched and have a sense of hierarchy. However, each flower and leaf grows differently, so you have to practice which flower matches which leaf. You can't embroider a hundred kinds of flowers, all of which are in the shape of a leaf." Otherwise, if you let an expert see this work, you will laugh your ass off. So, let’s go to the city in two days, and I’ll go to the embroidery shop to buy you a few books for embroidery..."

As she was talking, she stopped suddenly, thinking of something.

Song Jiayin nodded, looked at the leaf on her handkerchief and asked, "Miss, what kind of leaf is this?"

"Oh, this? This is the leaf of the apricot tree." Ye Weilan answered her question while pondering in her heart. She finally thought of a way to quickly find out the main messenger behind this incident. Zhuang started.

Historically, major embroidery houses have tried their best to win over embroiderers with superb embroidery skills, not only providing various protections, but also preventing other embroidery houses from poaching them.

The woman in the embroidery village really wants to establish a long-term supply relationship with her, in other words, she wants to buy out her and her mother's craft and use her and her mother to make money, so she will definitely do something to them Provide some protection.

And this embroidery shop is under the banner of "Jubao Trading Company", everyone knows the capabilities of "Jubao Trading Company", and the "Jubao Trading Company" has come forward to investigate this matter, which is much stronger than the officials in Liaocheng's county government.

Thinking of this, her heart settled slightly, and she decided to go to the city tomorrow to find the woman who is the shopkeeper of the embroidery shop, and tell her about this matter, and through this matter, she will be closer to the embroidery shop At the same time, I can find a backer for myself.

(End of this chapter)