PFC Chapter 328
Chapter 328
"Get married?" Zhong Ruyi frowned and looked at the person in front of her. "How long have you known him before you said you want to marry him? Isn't it too fast?"
Zhang Mingzhu's face was flushed, and she spoke hesitantly, "Not really that soon, anyway, I've known him since the day you got married, so I've known him for as long as you got married."
"I haven't been married for long. Why do you want to live with him so soon? Do you know him? What if his family is difficult to get along with after you marry him?"
Zhong Ruyi just wanted to give a big slap to this person who gave her explosive news as soon as he arrived. It had only been such a short time and he said that he had someone he liked and was going to get married. It was unacceptable for a flash marriage to be so fast.
Zhang Mingzhu pouted, "I can't do anything about fate. I can't stop it and can only choose to accept it!"
Although she said that, you can tell how happy she is by looking at the expression on her face.
Jiang Rong and Jiang Yun on the side secretly covered their mouths and laughed, but she didn't care and continued to chatter about how good her soon-to-be-married lover was to her.
"...Whenever he's free, he'll come over to help me sell egg cakes. Sometimes I'm too busy to have lunch, so he'll buy some buns for me to eat first while he helps me sell them."
When Zhang Mingzhu said this, Cuicui seemed to agree with her. She nodded as she listened to her and occasionally interrupted her with a few words:
"Really! My cousin's uncle is a very nice person! He even bought me candied haws and candied figurines."
Zhong Ruyi felt a headache after listening to the two people talking back and forth, so she quickly asked them to stop.
"Cuicui, aren't you tired after selling egg cakes in town for so many days? You didn't take a good rest after coming back. Your parents and grandfather missed you so much after following your cousin for so many days!"
The little girl smiled sweetly. During this period, she followed Zhang Mingzhu to sell egg cakes in the town. At the beginning, it was just a small business. Later, after they had regular customers, the quantity they had to make every day also became fixed. However, good things spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. More and more customers came to buy, and the quantity they had to make every day also increased.
Both of their arms were thicker than at the beginning, but their wallets were also thicker and bulger.
This time, taking advantage of the fact that the restaurant was closing for two days, they also came back to rest for two days. When they told the customers about this, they received a lot of complaints, saying that their family loved to eat egg cakes, and what could they do if they were gone for two days?
But the two were really tired. After working non-stop for more than a month, even an iron man would be exhausted.
Zhang Mingzhu took out a silver bracelet from her bosom with a smile, "Of course, Cuicui and I are where we are today thanks to you. Here, Cuicui and I pooled our money to buy this for you."
The solid silver bracelet was put on Zhong Ruyi's hand. She raised her wrist and looked at it carefully for a few times, then nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad, I like this simple style. The ones that are too fancy are not suitable for me. Thank you for your kindness!"
After dinner in the evening, Zhang Mingzhu secretly gave Li Guihua a silver hairpin and said, "Thank you for your care during this period, cousin. This is a small token of my appreciation."
Li Guihua had just received five taels of silver from her daughter, and now she received a silver hairpin from Zhang Mingzhu. She was so happy that she couldn't express it in words.
But she still pretended to be reserved and refused to accept it, until Zhang Mingzhu was anxious to stick it on her head, and then she pretended to accept it with reluctance.
The next day when she went to work, she would intentionally or unintentionally adjust the hairpin on her head with her hand. Whenever someone looked at her, she would cheerfully say, "Oh, this is a gift from Dafu's cousin. I told you not to use it! This child is so simple-minded! Look how beautiful this hairpin is, and the pattern is so nice!"
Time passed quickly, and Butler Fang brought his men to pick up the goods again. This time he was obviously much happier than the last time.
Zhong Ruyi cautiously probed, "Uncle Fang, has the traitor been caught? Or are the canned goods selling well?"
Butler Fang raised his beard, with a look of satisfaction on his face, "We have already determined who did it. Now we just have to wait for this person to fall into our trap!"
"Really?" Zhong Ruyi was also happy for the Fang family. The last time the cans were replaced, they suffered a great loss. Hundreds of taels of silver were wasted. There were still more than 3,000 cans left piled up in the warehouse and could not be sold. They could only be hastily sold at a low price.
"Boss Zhong, just wait and see!" Butler Fang narrowed his eyes, and when he thought of the suspect, he couldn't help but reveal an expression of revenge.
That person always spoke ill of himself in front of the master and vilified himself, causing the master to look at him with strange eyes during that period of time.
Now, he was the one who stole the money and left such a big tail for himself to find out.
Butler Fang still remembered that when he informed Master Fang of the suspect, Master Fang's expression was full of disbelief, "Impossible, I never treated him badly, why would he do this?"
But soon Master Fang had to believe it. The fresh canned food just brought from the workshop was loaded onto a truck, and he was going to have someone take it to Nanzhou the next day. However, the man on guard that night fainted after drinking the water brought by a maid. He woke up more than an hour later and everything was normal, but out of caution, he still called Butler Fang.
Upon learning that the night watchman had just fainted, Butler Fang quickly asked someone to open the two cans to check if there was anything unusual.
"Oh no!" A servant who was in charge of opening the cans suddenly exclaimed, "Butler Fang, this can is wrong!"
Butler Fang took the cans from the servant with a serious look on his face. He took a look and saw that, as expected, all the cans had been replaced! They had all become the cans that couldn't be sold before!
The news was immediately reported to Mr. Fang who had already gone to bed. Although it was already late at night, since it concerned the family business, Mr. Fang still put on his coat and came out.
Mrs. Fang followed out with some dissatisfaction, "Master, is there anything that can't be dealt with until tomorrow morning? It's so late at night..."
"Shut up! If you're sleepy, go back to sleep! No one is begging you to come out with me!" Mr. Fang was already angry because he suspected that the person he was looking for was Mrs. Fang's brother from her natal family. Now that he heard her complaining in a delicate voice, he became even more impatient.
Mrs. Fang didn't realize the impatience in her husband's eyes, and she was still talking to herself, "Butler Fang is really good at making trouble, and he can even be robbed in his own home. It seems that he can't do his job well!"
She didn't pay any attention to the expressions of the people around her, so naturally she didn't see Mr. Fang's murderous expression.
Soon the two arrived at the backyard. The canned food loaded into the car would be left there tonight, and someone would deliver them to Nanzhou early tomorrow morning.
Butler Fang looked uncertain as he stood by the wall, whispering something to a servant. When he saw his master coming, he asked the servant to do as he said, and he went to the master and told him in detail what had happened tonight.
The more Mrs. Fang listened, the more she felt something was wrong. She even yelled at the end, "Fang Zhenghong! You little dog slave! Who gave you the guts to throw dirty water on my brother?"
"Madam, whether it is true or not is not up to me, a servant, to decide. Just wait and see where the replaced cans were sent tonight and you will know everything clearly!"
Housekeeper Fang looked calm and stood there neither servile nor arrogant, allowing Madam Fang to curse at her.
I have disliked this woman for a long time. Now that her elder brother has done such a thing, I think the master will not let him go so easily.