Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 383

When leaving the Zhong family, Chen Dongzhi always felt that his mother-in-law looked at him strangely, but he couldn't tell what was strange.

"What's wrong with mom? Why are you looking at me like that?" Chen Dongzhi asked his wife who was not with him tonight after they had just walked a short distance away.

Zhong Ruyi looked at him and smiled, but said nothing.

This made Chen Dongzhi even more confused, "What did my mother say about me?"

"I didn't say anything about you. I was praising you!" Zhong Ruyi spoke the truth. At first, when Zhong's mother heard that he secretly took medicine just to prevent her from having a baby, she thought it was crazy, but when she thought about it, he did it for her daughter, she felt relieved.

The two returned home, and after their nightlife, Chen Dongzhi got up as usual to boil water and wash up.

When I picked up the two burp bags beside the bed and prepared to throw them away, I found that one of them was torn.

He was a little flustered, holding the burp bag and looking at the sleepy Zhong Ruyi, "It's broken."

His word "broken" instantly woke up Zhong Ruyi, who was about to fall asleep. She turned over and saw the man holding a burp bag with a hole in it in his hand.

The two looked at each other, and finally Zhong Ruyi saw that his face was really bad, and it looked like he was about to have a shadow, so she quickly comforted him, "It's broken, it's not just one time, didn't we use it before?"

Chen Dongzhi pursed his lips, thinking that he was really careless. He was so busy enjoying himself that he didn't even notice that such an important thing was broken.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'll just wash it up later." Zhong Ruyi stood up and pulled him out to the kitchen to sit and light the fire together.

Soon the water was heated up, and Chen Dongzhi watched her wash herself thoroughly before he finished.

There was not much work in the escort agency for the next month, so Escort Master Duan took on two private jobs and asked him if he wanted to join in.

Chen Dongzhi shook his head and refused. He now only wanted to know whether his wife was really pregnant after the burp bag broke a month ago.

But during this month, Zhong Ruyi ate and drank as much as she could. Every day she either helped in the workshop or went to a restaurant in town.

"Really not?"

When going to bed at night, Chen Dongzhi carefully touched Zhong Ruyi's belly, which was still flat, not like she was pregnant at all.

Zhong Ruyi impatiently slapped his hand away. This month the man had asked her at least five times a day. At first she had been a little patient, but now she simply ignored him.

The next morning, she woke up and found that she had her period. She didn't tell Chen Dongzhi directly, but just piled the clothes with a little blood stains in a basin and asked him to go to the yard to wash them.

"!!" Chen Dongzhi, who had been silent, had just washed the upper pieces of underwear, and when he reached for his pants, he saw it at a glance.

He washed and hung the clothes with a grin, and then followed Zhong Ruyi closely. He watched her cooking and took the spatula from her hand, "You go sit for a while, I'll do it!"

Zhong Ruyi glared at him, "Are you relieved now?"

"Ok!"

"What if it really happens?"

"...Then give birth." What else can he do? Chen Dongzhi thought that even if he really gave birth, he would only have one. He would love both boys and girls! But he would not give birth now. He was not ready yet.

While the villagers were busy picking watermelons, the apple trees in the orchard had already started to bear fruit for the second time.

The small green fruits hang on the branches, two or three in a bunch, and one branch can grow dozens of them.

Ji Jiang and Zhao Gouxiong shuttled among them, picking some crooked fruits on the branches and throwing them into the baskets on their backs.

The picked fruits were of poor quality or grew too densely. In order to avoid competition for nutrients, Zhong Ruyi let people pick them. If anyone wanted some, they could take some back. If no one wanted, she would take them home herself, cut the cores into slices, dry them, and then soak them in water to drink.

The sixth uncle in the village saw that she could pick several baskets of green fruits from the orchard every day, so he asked for some. The next day, she made ice balls with them. She removed the cores, strung the fruits into bunches, poured light yellow syrup on them, and let them solidify after a while.

"Girl, you can have some too!" Sixth Uncle smiled with his toothless mouth and reached out to give her a big handful.

Zhong Ruyi asked for a few and took them back to share with the children at home.

When other people in the village saw this, they also thought this was a good idea. They went to the orchard every day to pick green fruits, took them back to make candy strings and sold them in the town or to peddlers, which was also a source of income.

Just when she asked Chen Dongzhi and Zhao Gouxiong to go to Qianniu Village to find Zhong Honghong to buy chicken manure, Master Fang in the town received a letter from the capital.

"Master, a letter from Young Master Xuan!" The butler came in hurriedly with the letter.

When Mr. Fang, who was eating melon in the back garden to enjoy the cool air, heard this, he stopped eating the melon in his hand and asked someone to bring him water so that he could wash his hands.

After wiping the water droplets off his hands, he opened the letter sent from the distant capital with trepidation.

The letter did not go into too much detail. After asking about the well-being of Mr. Fang and his family, it bluntly stated that Mr. Huang had refused the fresh fruits, beauties and fine wine that his guests sent every year, and asked for five hundred horses and five hundred cattle and sheep in exchange.

This is only part of it. Mr. Fang’s nephew did not explain the details, but only said that the guests had no choice but to accept the facts.

As for the Fang family's future affiliation with the Ding family, one of the five imperial merchants in Beijing, this matter has also been settled. Soon, the Ding family will send people to conduct an on-site inspection to see if they meet the requirements.

But the matter of affiliating with the Ding family was initiated by Young Master Huang, so it was a done deal. The Ding family sending someone to take a look was just a formality.

Mr. Fang held the piece of paper in his hand, feeling a little elated.

Royal merchant!

Their Fang family can actually do business under the Royal Merchant!

He was so excited that he seemed a little crazy. Fang Erlang came in to ask his father for some money and was frightened.

"...father?"

Master Fang barely calmed down when he noticed someone was around. He glanced at his second son and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Dad, can you give me some money to spend?" Fang Erlang came forward with a smile.

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The restaurant was closed for two days this month, so Sun Tao, Jiang Qin and his mother and son returned to Xinghua Village.

Zhong Ruyi learned from Sun Tao that something had happened in the Wei family again and frowned, "Didn't she bring her sister-in-law back? What happened again?"

Sun Tao was not idle during the holiday. He helped to remove the cores of the picked green fruits and cut them into slices. There happened to be a few large winnowing baskets available in the workshop for drying the fruits.

She said as she cut, "It was her awful mother-in-law who beat her sister-in-law's daughter while she was not at home. The child was only a few months old. She could not say anything except crying after being beaten."

"It was Xiao Wei's youngest son who saw it and ran to Xiao Wei to complain that his grandmother pinched his sister and even covered her mouth!"

"How can there be such a vicious person in the world? That child is her granddaughter after all! How could she do such a thing?"

The people working in the workshop yard slowly came over and spat when they heard this, "Xiao Qin's mother, don't disbelieve me, there are many people like this!"

"That's right! Let's just say this here. There was a family named Yang in our village before. They gave birth to four daughters in a row. It's not like they couldn't afford to raise them! Guess what happened?"

Sun Taoqing stopped cutting the fruit and listened attentively with his eyes wide open.

The aunt pretended to be mysterious and said, "Three people were drowned! They were secretly thrown into the urine bucket in the middle of the night, and the next day they lied and said they accidentally fell in!"