Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 187

On the way back to Xinghua Village, Zhong Ruyi listened to Sun Tao's experiences along the way.

"...After eating that bowl of porridge, I felt a little uncomfortable and went to sleep. When I woke up, I was already at Zhuang Laosi's house. No matter what I said, he was unwilling to let me go, saying that he had bought me for thirty taels of silver.

He beat me every day, whether he was drunk or not, or as long as he was unhappy.

Sometimes he hit me so hard that I couldn’t get out of bed for days, but he didn’t care at all and just kicked me and told me to cook.”

Zhong Ruyi gnashed her teeth when she heard this. She should have asked for more consultation fee! Zhuang Lao Si was really getting a bargain!

After Sun Tao finished talking about what had happened in the past three months, she asked how her mother-in-law explained her whereabouts to them after she left, and where Xiaorong and Xiaoyun had gone.

Jiang Qin pursed her lips and told her grandmother and uncles what they had done after she was sold.

"Are they, are they really so cruel?" Sun Tao's lips trembled. She thought her mother-in-law sold her because she was an outsider and would at least treat the other children in the family well.

But what did she hear now?

It turned out that not long after she was sold, her mother-in-law sold her three children in the same way.

If the children had not met a noble person, I am afraid they would never have met each other in their lives.

"Thank you! Miss Ruyi, I will never forget your kindness to our family. I will repay you by working like a cow or a horse for you."

Sun Tao said this and fell to his knees with a plop.

Jiang Qin also knelt down. He felt guilty and could not get up no matter how Zhong Ruyi pulled him.

Passersby, either driving ox carts or pulling carts, looked at them with curiosity.

Just then, an old man driving a bullock cart suddenly shouted, "Hurry up! It's going to rain!"

Not long after he finished saying this, it began to drizzle, gradually getting heavier.

Zhong Ruyi didn't care about the mother and son. "Kneel if you want! I'm leaving first."

Jiang Qin quickly pulled his mother up and followed Zhong Ruyi's footsteps. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it started raining as soon as the three of them reached Yangliu Village.

You can't hide under a tree, for fear of being struck by thunder would be terrible.

I could only grit my teeth and rush towards Xinghua Village.

Sun Tao followed the two men. She didn't know where they were going, but she would follow wherever her son was.

The three of them ran back to Xinghua Village in the rain.

There were also people in the village wearing straw raincoats and holding hoes hurrying back. When they saw the three of them, they couldn't help but shout, "Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhong Ruyi and the other two had disappeared.

There were knocks on the courtyard door. Li Guihua and her sister-in-law were sitting in the main room, chatting and doing work.

Hearing the knock on the door, Li Guihua wondered, "Who would come to visit in such heavy rain?"

She put down the needle and thread in her hand, went out to take a look, and immediately started yelling.

"Little sister! Why did you come back in the rain? Come in quickly."

Li Guihua opened the door and let the three people in.

As soon as they stood under the eaves, the rain stopped and the three of them were soaked.

"Little sister, go change your clothes quickly. I'll go get some hot water for you to wash."

Li Guihua saw that there was another unfamiliar woman, but she didn't ask. The most important thing now was to let the few people take off their wet clothes and take a hot bath.

"Cuicui! Go to your grandma's room and find some clothes." She shouted, and Cuicui came out. When she heard what she said, she hurried to get the clothes.

Zhong Ruyi took Sun Tao to her room and changed her clothes first. "Aunt, please wear my mother's clothes first. My sister-in-law is boiling water now. Please change your clothes first."

Sun Tao stood in the room, not knowing where to put his hands and feet.

She didn't even dare to take the clean clothes that Zhong Ruyi handed over, and said in a panic, "It's okay, Miss Zhong, I don't need to wash it."

Zhong Ruyi interrupted her directly, "You are injured, and now you are caught in the rain. What if you get sick if you don't take a shower? If you get sick, you have to spend money to see a doctor. Calculate how much money you owe me."

She thought she didn't need to see a doctor, she could get through it.

But looking at her eyes, I couldn't say anything.

For the past three months, I have lived in fear every day, worried about the children's situation and worried that I would be beaten to death one day.

Everything now seems like a dream.

Zhong Ruyi saw her immersed in her own world, sighed helplessly and walked out.

Jiang Qin had already changed his clothes. He didn't plan to take a shower. As a young man with a healthy body, he wasn't afraid of catching a cold.

Jiang Qin felt very nervous when he saw her come out.

He pursed his lips, "I'm sorry, Sister Ruyi, I've caused you trouble again! Don't worry, I will definitely return the twenty taels to you as soon as possible!"

Zhong Ruyi waved her hand, "Let's talk about it later!"

She looked at her second sister-in-law, "Second sister-in-law, why don't you see my eldest brother and third brother?"

"They followed Dongzhi Mountain!" Liu Yu Niang said with a smile.

"Going up the mountain to hunt again?" Zhong Ruyi smacked his lips. "Are there so many wild animals to hunt in the mountains?"

Liu Yu Niang said, "They went far this time, to another mountain, saying that they wanted to give the wild animals on our mountain a rest and recuperate for a while. They have been gone for five or six days."

As the two were talking, Li Guihua suddenly came in, looking a little serious, "Little sister, the aunt you brought back seems to have a fever."

"What? Fever?" Whatever she said was true. Zhong Ruyi just said that if she didn't take a bath, she would get sick. It hasn't been long since then, and she actually has a fever.

She slapped her mouth and went into the kitchen.

Sun Tao had already finished taking a bath, but he still had to sit in front of the stove to help add firewood and boil water.

Li Guihua couldn't persuade her, so she let her sit on a small stool in front of the stove.

The two were still talking, and Li Guihua asked her where she was from.

After just a few words, Sun Tao leaned against the wall and stopped talking.

When Li Guihua looked over, she saw that the man's face was burning red and the air around him became scorching hot.

As soon as Zhong Ruyi entered, she saw Sun Tao's body leaning against the wall, teetering. She quickly instructed the panicked Jiang Qin, "Go! Carry your mother to my bed."

Jiang Qin is a fourteen-year-old boy. He has grown a lot taller and stronger in the past one or two months because of the good food.

However, it was still a little difficult to lift an adult woman, and he barely carried Sun Tao into Zhong Ruyi's room.

"Jiang Qin, go to the next village to find a doctor." Zhong Ruyi ordered him, mainly to send him out and then take out the antipyretic medicine in the space.

After everyone left, Zhong Ruyi's consciousness probed into the space, found the medicine box in the wooden house, and took out the antipyretic medicine inside.

After a box of antipyretic medicine was taken out, a new box of antipyretic medicine appeared in its place.

Once she takes away something from the space, new ones will soon appear in an endless supply, so there is no need to worry about not having them in the future.

Li Guihua brought a glass of water and said, "Little sister, let me do it. Her lips are cracked. Give her some water to moisten them."

Behind her, Liu Yu Niang came in with a bulging belly, looking a little worried, "Little sister, where did this person come from?"

Zhong Ruyi took the water cup from her sister-in-law and said, "This is Jiang Qin and their mother."

"Ah?" Li Guihua was surprised. "Didn't they say that Jiang Qin's mother was sold to an unknown place? How did you meet her?"