Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 346

"I'm not from Yunzhou. I came from Wuzhou."

The man said whatever he thought.

"Originally they wanted us to burn the whole village, but they changed their mind and only burned the canning workshop and the orchard on the mountain."

When he said he was from Wuzhou, Zhong Ruyi realized that this man was definitely sent by Boss Zhao from Wuzhou.

really.

The man said, "It was Master Zhao who asked us to come here. He said that he would give us 500 taels of silver each after this matter is settled, and that he would ensure that we would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of our lives."

Chen Dongzhi, who had hurried back, also heard this. He clenched his fists tightly and said in a deep voice, "We have no grudges against him. Why would he do such a cruel thing?!"

"Weren't you the ones who offended Master Zhao first?" The man looked up at them when he heard this, as if he didn't understand why they reacted so strongly.

"Mr. Zhao said that you guys didn't want to sell him canned food, so he found someone to steal the recipe, but it turned out that he couldn't use it at all. He suspected that you guys were working together to cheat him!"

Zhong Ruyi sneered. This Boss Zhao himself held the idea of ​​forced buying and selling. He thought that if others did not do things according to his ideas, they were going against him. It was simply ridiculous!

I thought it was infuriating enough that he asked Tian Er to steal the recipe and swap Fang's canned food, but I didn't expect that he could do such a heinous thing as killing someone.

"If the arson fails this time, what other tricks do you have?"

The man shook his head. "How would we, the little guys, know about this? Even the arson was done on short notice. The leader was one of Boss Zhao's men. He often helps him with things. He is the one who finds people to deal with all the dirty and smelly things."

He shuddered involuntarily, as if he had thought of something terrifying.

Zhong Ruyi and Chen Dongzhi looked at each other, knowing that no matter how much they asked, they would not get anything out of them. They could only leave the person here and go back to continue what they were doing.

This matter will not be so easy to let go. Sooner or later, Boss Zhao will pay the price for his actions.

"My daughter, will you give him dinner tonight?" Zhong's mother asked from behind.

"If you don't give it to him, just let him eat one meal a day!"

The collapsed walls can be repaired and some of the bricks that were not burned can still be used.

Chen Dongzhi took the two brothers of the Zhong family to mix mud and sand and build walls. In the process, some free people from the village came to help.

There is strength in numbers. The wall will be repaired in one day and work can start tomorrow. The less delay, the better.

Zhong Ruyi searched the mountain for fences that had been deliberately damaged and found three in total. There was firewood piled next to them, which was obviously left behind by the few people that night.

If Ji Jiang and the others had not stopped them in time, the orchard would have been burned.

When I got home, I saw Chen Dongzhi feeding Xiao Huang, and next to him was the arsonist who was staring at him with hungry eyes.

When Zhong Ruyi was having dinner in the evening, she deliberately took all the dishes out to the yard to eat, which made the man drool.

"...I'm so hungry...Can you give me a steamed bun?" The man finally couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food and started begging.

The couple didn't even look over there, they just kept eating. After dinner they took out the watermelon and shared half each.

"This melon is so sweet!" Chen Dongzhi doesn't like to eat it with a spoon, so he just breaks it open with his hands and eats it.

Zhong Ruyi leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Whether it's growing fruits or raising chickens and ducks in the space, they all taste better than what we raise ourselves!"

The two of them leaned against each other and ate watermelon, talking in low voices while eating.

Finally, just when the man thought he was going to faint from hunger, someone suddenly grabbed the back of his neck and lifted him up.

He opened his eyes and flapped his legs, but he had no strength to struggle. He could only allow the man to carry him to the kitchen and lock him up.

After the people left, he turned over and prepared to sleep with his eyes closed. He would not be hungry when he fell asleep.

Ugh.

I don’t know if anyone will come to save me?

He prayed silently in his heart. He knew what kind of person Boss Zhao was. Not only would he mess things up, but if he also made a fuss about his affairs, his entire family would be from Wuzhou, and it would be easy for Boss Zhao to find someone to deal with them.

So he tried to pick out the things he could say about today, but he really didn't know anything about the other things, otherwise he wouldn't have been thrown away like cannon fodder.

...

Looking at the two steamed buns and a bowl of water in front of him, the man's face turned pale.

"Didn't you give me a piece of meat yesterday? Why are there only two steamed buns left today?"

Zhong's mother was in charge of delivering food to him. Upon hearing this, she rolled her eyes at him and said, "You should be laughing secretly when you have something to eat, but you are still being picky! These are white flour buns. If it weren't for my kind-hearted daughter, I would not be too harsh on you for the bad things you have done!"

He picked up the two so-called white flour buns with shaking hands and asked in a trembling voice, "Why are your white flour buns mixed with sand?"

Mother Zhong was cheerful and not at all impatient. "There's nothing we can do. We are a poor family. We want to eat something good but we don't have enough money. So we have to mix some with sand, right?"

If he hadn't seen that the yellow dog's bowl was filled with meat and rice, he would have believed what the old woman said!

After taking a bite of the steamed bun that made him choke, the man silently shed two lines of bitter tears.

Apples were loaded onto the carriage one basket at a time. Zhong Ruyi took the water bag handed to her by Chen Dongzhi, drank a sip of water and said with a smile, "Mom said that the arsonist and Xiao Huang were stealing food."

Chen Dongzhi smiled, but soon his eyes were attracted by the sweat on her head. He wiped her sweat with his sleeve and said, "He deserves it. You should take a rest first. Let me take care of this. I only need to carry 200 kilograms."

Glancing at the Yu and Fang family's carriages, which were already filled with basket after basket of apples, she nodded, "Then I'll go back first. Remember to check the count with them. Both families have 2,000 kilograms."

"it is good."

When Chen's mother came to deliver the meal, she happened to meet Zhong Ruyi coming back. "Ruyi, didn't you say last time that you wanted to eat pickled radish? This is what I just pickled. It's crispy. Would you like to try it?"

"Okay," Zhong Ruyi took it and asked with concern, "Mom, how do you feel about the medicine you took recently? Have you had your period?"

Mother Chen's face instantly turned red, but thinking that her daughter-in-law was concerned about her, she stammered, "I feel, I feel pretty good, but I get hungry very quickly after taking the medicine. I have to eat five meals a day now."

"That's fine. As long as it works after you drink it, it's fine. Only if you take a lot of it will it be effective. Let Dongzhi take you to the clinic tomorrow to avoid a relapse."

"No, no! No need!" Chen's mother quickly refused.

She felt uneasy at the thought of someone accompanying her to see a doctor just for her own reasons. Even if that person was her son, she didn't want to trouble him.

Zhong Ruyi ignored him and continued, "It's a good opportunity to ask Dongzhi to bring Xiaoxue along. You haven't been to the houses in the town yet, right? Let Dongzhi take you to get to know the houses when the time comes. It's a deal now that he has time!"

Chen's mother, who was coaxed into a daze, came out with an empty bowl and before she could react, she met her son who happened to come home for dinner.

"Mom, take these apples back. Tell Xiaoxue and Xiaoman to eat one every day. You should also eat one every day. Ruyi said that eating this fruit is good for your health."

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Chen's mother smiled and went home with the basket of apples given by her son.