After having lunch at Zhou Zheng's house, Shen Ruolan asked Gou Shengzi to drive the car, and took her to Chun Yuzhen's villa outside Jizhou City.
Even though she knew it was impossible for him to be there, she still couldn't help but want to go, even if there was only one ten thousandth hope, she still wanted to try.
Gou Shengzi was not familiar with this road, so Shen Ruolan had to sit with him on the shaft of the car to show him the way. The cold wind of the twelfth lunar month relentlessly blew on her body, piercing through her sable cloak and thick cotton padded coat, waiting to catch up with her. When she arrived at the villa, Shen Ruolan felt that she was completely frozen and almost died of freezing, but for him, she felt that it was worth it even if she died of freezing.
After arriving at the place, she knocked on the door herself. After knocking for a long time, the door seemed to be sealed, and there was no movement at all.
Although this was expected, Shen Ruolan still couldn't help feeling lost and sad. When she got back in the car, she was sad for half an hour. Later, she couldn't bear the cold anymore. Remind her, She told him to drive back.
When I returned to Jizhou City, it was already evening, and on the way to the inn, I happened to pass by Qiaozhen's sister-in-law.
Ever since I helped Qiaozhen's sister-in-law to open this shop, she was there when it opened, and she never visited after that. Now that she is at the door of the house, she is also idle, so she is called the dog leftover Stopped, gave him a piece of silver, and asked him to find a nearby tavern to eat and drink to warm himself up. She wanted to go into the store to have a look, and collect the bill for this period of time .
When we entered, sister-in-law Qiaozhen and her husband were busy in the store. One of the couple was selling vermicelli and the other was selling dried tofu. Although it was almost dark, there were still many customers in the store, which showed their business How prosperous. Their eldest daughter, Peony, and second daughter, Hehua, also helped out. One of the sisters weighed them, and the other tied them with ropes. They tied up the vermicelli one by one, so that it would be much more convenient and trouble-free when selling them.
The third girl and the fourth girl looked at the stove, and the other looked at the door. If there are customers coming in and out, but the door is not closed, that child will be responsible for closing the door tightly. The people here are waiting to freeze to death.
The few members of the family are busy, and they are all neatly dressed, all in brand-new cotton jackets, which are completely different from before.
Seeing that it was Ruolan who came, Qiaozhen and his wife rushed to greet her warmly, Shen Ruolan smiled and said, "You are busy with your work, I am just passing by, just come and have a look."
Qiaozhen's sister-in-law smiled and said, "That's fine, I won't be polite to you, you can sit casually by yourself, and I will greet you after I send these guests away."
Qiaozhen and his wife went to work, and Mudan and Hehua came to say hello to Shen Ruolan with their two little sisters. These little girls are all prettier than in the past few months. Not only are they better dressed, but they are also fatter than before. Now, even the complexion and spirit are much better than before!
"Aunt Lan, it's cold here, and you're still in a panic, I'll take you upstairs to sit!" Mudan shyly said to Shen Ruolan.
For this very capable Aunt Lan, Mudan sincerely admires and admires her. In her heart, Shen Ruolan is like an idol. In front of her idol, she is inevitably a little ashamed and unable to let go, so when she speaks, she is a little bit Shy and blushing.
Shen Ruolan smiled and said, "No need, I'm just passing by, just come and have a look, I'll leave in a while!"
Peony said, "Then I'll get you some tea."
"Don't be busy, I don't want to drink." Shen Ruolan called her to stop, "You should go and help your parents with your work, and leave me alone!"
Mudan hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to do. If she really listened to Aunt Lan's words, leaving her here alone and ignoring her would be a bit inconsistent with the way of hospitality. But if he didn't listen to her, he insisted on pouring tea for her to chat with her, and he was afraid that Aunt Lan would be angry because he didn't listen to her.
Shen Ruolan saw the little girl's embarrassment, so she smiled and chatted with her, and asked her if she was used to living here, and if she was tired from working every day
Peony told her earnestly that their family is living well here. She has never lived such a comfortable life in her life. She eats well, sleeps well, and wears good clothes every day. She is also willing to do some work. .
"Aunt Lan, you see we all have new clothes now, and it's not just the ones we are wearing. This is something we never dared to dream of before."
After getting acquainted with her, Mudan also talked more. She knew everything about her benefactor, and spoke out all the words from her heart.
Shen Ruolan smiled and said, "That's good, stay here with your parents. When I have enough time, I will transfer you back."
When Mudan heard it, she waved her hands again and again, and said, "I won't go back, we won't go back, Aunt Lan, please don't let us go back, if we go back, we will live a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, what kind of my grandma are you?" I don't know, she is eager to sell us all to buy delicious food for his grandson, we don't want to beg for a living under her hands."
Lotus also said timidly, "Aunt Lan, we are all working hard, please don't let us go back, please..."
Shen Ruolan saw the two little girls frightened like this, and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, I just said casually, if you want to go back, I will tell you to go back, if you don't want to go back, as long as you work hard, you can stay here forever Can."
"We will do our best, and we will do our best, and we will never let down your trust!" The two girls said with an oath.
Shen Ruolan saw that their business was going well, and that the family was hardworking enough, and the business was on the right track, so she felt relieved.
After a while, the number of customers finally decreased, and the man Qiaozhen could come here alone, so Qiaozhen entrusted him with all the sales and asked Mudan and Hehua to help, and came to talk to Shen Ruolan by herself. After chatting for a while, Qiaozhen said, "Lan'er, Brother Shouchang and I are thinking about discussing with you. In the future, my family will pay for the transportation and horse expenses for delivery from home to here. In addition, wait The rent for this house is due, so let us pay the rent in the future, you help us pull it out from our hometown, and you give us such a lucrative business, so we can't ask you to pay for our business?"
Shen Ruolan said, "Let's make half of the family. This business is not only for you to make money, but also for me. Half of the family is fine."
"That's not right. Whoever you ask for this job is paying for nothing. You don't have to give it to us, but if you give it to us, it means that you are good to our family. Since you treat us so honestly , let us change our hearts for our hearts, otherwise let us enjoy your benefits with peace of mind, and we will feel very sorry in our hearts!"
During this period of time, Qiaozhen and the others had an income of three to five liang every day, and they really made a lot of money. When the couple was excited, they felt that they should not make such old money. If there was no Laner to rent a shop for them, For supplying goods, why do they earn such old money
So, this money shouldn't be all theirs, Lan'er's delivery fee and shop rental fee should be given to Lan'er, and the rest is theirs.
Shen Ruolan just wanted to help them, and she was not short of the money, but Qiaozhen insisted on refusing, and insisted that her family pay for the shipping fee for the delivery and the rent for the next year's shop.
Shen Ruolan also knew that the two of them were earning money, and they could afford the money. Seeing her insistence, she agreed.
Afterwards, the two calculated the accounts during this period, and Qiaozhen remembered every account clearly, and then pointed it out to Shen Ruolan.
Shen Ruolan looked at the account book and felt more and more that Qiaozhen is a talent. Right now, she has no ambition to expand her business. When her business expands one day, she must use Qiaozhen again. Qiaozhen's ability is really better than that of men. strong.
Qiaozhen and Shen Ruolan settled the accounts one by one, and gave the money to Shen Ruolan, and then they made a fuss about cooking, planning to keep Shen Ruolan to eat at home,
Shen Ruolan only reasoned that she had finished eating and that she still had something to do, she rejected her offer, stayed for a while, then got up and left.
Qiaozhen's family sent her to the door and told her to come over when she was free. Shen Ruolan waved her hand and left.
When he came out, Gou Shengzi's carriage was tied in front of a nearby tavern, and he was supposed to eat in that tavern.
Shen Ruolan walked in, and sure enough, she saw Gou Shengzi guarding a plate of boiled fatty pork slices and a jug of wine, eating and drinking voraciously, his mouth full of oil.
Seeing Shen Ruolan coming in, Gou Shengzi hurriedly stood up and asked her to eat together.
When Shen Ruolan saw the greasy fat slices, she was so disgusted that she almost vomited. She quickly covered her mouth, forced herself to speak to him, and left quickly.
She walked to the best inn in Jizhou City and stayed there. She didn't eat outside for dinner. After entering the inn, she took out a watermelon from the space, split it in two, and ate the watermelon flesh with a spoon, as if she had finished her meal.
In the past two days, she felt like she was on fire. She couldn't eat those greasy things, so she wanted to eat some light millet porridge, small pickles, or some fruit. Anyway, meat is oily. She doesn't want to eat at all.
After eating the watermelon, she put the rind and watermelon seeds into the space, and went to bed early to rest.
It may be because of excessive worry, I can't fall asleep after lying down, I always think about him, where will he be? Will it be gone? Will I never see him again from now on
Thinking of this, her heart hurts like a needle prick. He can hardly imagine how bleak and boring her life would be without him in the future. No wonder some people say that asking what love is in the world is just called life. Promised to die. When she heard this sentence before, she still felt that the person who said this sentence was hypocritical, whoever left in this world would not be able to live? No matter how beautiful the love is, it will give time.
It wasn't until she fell in love with herself that she deeply realized how appropriate and profound these words were. Whenever she lay alone in the cold bed, thinking of his warm embrace, and the two of them rubbing each other's ears, she There will be a feeling of losing the whole world.
She felt that if she really lost him, her world would no longer be colorful and warm like spring. She will spend the rest of her life in meetings and misses, and use her whole life to deeply understand the true meaning of the saying "Just call life and death to promise!"
For the next few days, she stayed in this inn, waiting for news from Susu and Yinyin, but after waiting for more than ten days, Susu and Yinyin searched all the places they could find. People have also been contacted, but still haven't found any clues about him.
That night, Shen Ruolan was sitting in front of the window, looking at the tree shadows on the window paper in a daze, when she suddenly heard a shout from outside, "It's on fire, hurry up, it's not good, it's on fire..."
When Shen Ruolan heard this, she was so frightened that she quickly stood up and ran outside.
When I ran outside, the street was already full of people, all facing the south direction, talking loudly.
It turned out that it wasn't the inn that was on fire, but a certain mansion across the street from the inn was on fire.
According to everyone's comments, the burning house belongs to the Li family's richest man in Jizhou City. The burning house is located in a small courtyard in the northeast corner of Li's mansion. Fortunately, it is winter and the northeast wind is blowing, so the fire did not spread. After the small courtyard burned down, there was nothing left to continue burning, and the fire was slowly extinguished.
Shen Ruolan remembers that Shen Ruomei married into the Li family, the richest man in Jizhou. She doesn't know how she is doing now, but she can be sure that Shen Ruomei will not be happy. With her temper, which man would like her if he is crazy? !
She didn't know that the burning yard was actually Shen Ruomei's yard. Shen Ruomei was confined here, and every day she was only given some leftovers from other people's food. What she can't stand is the current weather. It was already cold in the north, and now it was the twelfth lunar month, the coldest time of the year, and the superiors did not provide her with charcoal and firewood. She couldn't stand the cold, so she had to burn the furniture in the house to keep warm. The fire burned the whole house.
Fortunately, Shen Ruomei ran fast and was not burned to death. But even so, several places on his body were burned, especially on the left side of his face, where a large piece of skin was scorched, bloody, as if it had been peeled off.
Shen Ruomei's burns were already painful enough, but the old lady and his wife of the Li family did not sympathize with her at all, and agreed that she set the fire on purpose to get angry, and ignored the burns on her face, and committed the crime of intentional arson He tied her up, beat her severely, and sent her to the government to ask the government to convict her.
When Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen received the letter and rushed to the government in fear, they saw their own daughter who was so horrible that the old couple almost went crazy.
The daughter who was still juicy when she got married, now half of her face is skinless after being burned, and her bloody flesh is exposed, like a ghost. Not only that, but her body was still covered with blood. It is said that she was beaten by a board at Li's house and a stick by the government. Under multiple tortures, she passed out and fell to the ground dying.
When Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen saw their daughter falling into such a field, they felt distressed like crazy, hugged their daughter and cried loudly. While weeping, she scolded the Li family for being inhumane, and tormented their flamboyant daughter into such a state.
However, thin arms can't twist thick thighs.
Shen Ruomei is already the concubine of the Li family, she is a member of the old Li family, how they treat her is not up to them as parents, let alone beat her and send her to the government. Killed, buried alive, delayed, and ashes, they don't care!
However, the head wife of the Li family said that Shen Ruomei could be spared for the sake of not causing a catastrophe. As long as the Shen family returned the house that was used as a dowry to them, they would let Shen Ruomei go. , and restored her good status.
Otherwise, the Li family will ask the government to punish Shen Ruomei as the crime of arson. In Chu State, murdering a master by a slave is a major crime of beheading. Whether Shen Ruomei admits it or not, as long as the master sues, she will bear the consequences!
Although Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen were reluctant to part with the house, they were even more reluctant to part with their daughter. In order for Shen Ruomei to survive, they had to suffer from this dumb loss and agreed to return the house to them.
So they signed and pledged in court, and then the old couple took Shen Fucun and Shen Jincun, carried the half-dead Shen Ruomei back, packed up their things, and left the grand two-entry mansion in despair!
After leaving the mansion, they couldn't find a suitable house for a while, so they had to live in Shen Fucun's house first.
When Li Qiaolian saw that her father-in-law and mother-in-law were coming with her sister-in-law and uncle, she immediately blew up the temple.
I think back when Shen Ruomei married into the Li family, Aunt Shen and Uncle Shen wanted to get Shen Fucun's family to live in that big house, so that the family could reunite and live together, but Shen Ruomei didn't agree with anything, and purposely told Li Qiaolian She said that even if she had cats and dogs in this house, she was not allowed to live in Li Qiaolian for dogs and cats.
Li Qiaolian didn't live in a big house, and was squeezed out by her sister-in-law, and she was holding her breath in her heart. Seeing that my sister-in-law was being carried to her home in a half-dead state, she said she didn't do anything, and insisted on driving Shen Ruomei out.
Shen Fucun was also angry because Shen Ruomei didn't let his family of three live in his big house before, because when he rescued Shen Ruomei from Niujia Village, he, the older brother, even gave out two taels of silver. He only remembers that he is a bad brother, and he doesn't remember anything good about him, so he is very disappointed and sad with Shen Ruomei, and he doesn't restrain himself when he sees his wife doing it.
Up to now, Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen can no longer put on airs of father-in-law and mother-in-law in front of their daughter-in-law, so they had to accompany Xinxin to say a few soft words. The general idea is that they came out in a hurry, and they couldn't find a suitable house for a while. Li Qiaolian asked Li Qiaolian to take them in for a few days.
Shen Fucun felt a little sorry to see his father and mother acting like a lowly child in front of his wife, and after holding it for a while, he agreed without hesitation regardless of Li Qiaolian's objection.
As a result, it is conceivable that Li Qiaolian made a terrible meal, and everyone in the neighborhood knew about it.
Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen knew they were in the wrong, and they couldn't say anything when they saw their daughter-in-law's behavior, so they had to endure it silently...
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Shen Ruolan still doesn't know about these things that happened at the uncle's house. These days, she has been looking for Chunyuxuan, and she doesn't care about the rest. I just searched for so many days, but still found nothing.
In three days, it will be Xiaonianer. Seeing that there is no news here, Shen Ruolan intends to go back first, let Yinyin stay, continue to search and wait for his news, and only bring Susu alone, and go back to the mountain village to continue wait for him to go...
On the way back, when she passed through Harahai Town, she went to that blacksmith's shop again, bought parts for five sets of guns, and made an appointment to pick them up in a month!
Seeing these things she typed, Su Su felt weird, but she didn't know what they were, but seeing Miss Shen's serious look, she knew that these things must be very important.
At noon the next day, she arrived home. It happened to be a young year, Shen Dejian and his wife were worried about their daughter, and she just came back. The couple were very happy, and specially ordered Grandma Dong and Shouya to do a lot more. It's delicious, even Heizi's and Xiaobai's food has been upgraded to a higher level than usual.
After lunch, Shen Ruolan specially called the workers in the workshop to have a meeting, which is the favorite meeting of the staff of modern enterprises and institutions - the year-end welfare meeting, to distribute year-end benefits to everyone.
Shen Ruolan's welfare for everyone is that all workers working in the workshop will be counted on a head-to-head basis, and each person will be given five catties of vermicelli, five catties of dried tofu, and five catties of hot and sour cabbage, and an additional fifty Wen Money is considered as a year-end benefit he gave to everyone.
Everyone works here and earns wages that are suitable for all ages. They are satisfied with everything, but they didn't expect to have such an unexpected joy. They were very happy for a while, especially the whole family. Those who work with her can get dozens of catties of things at once, and now they can have a good year.
All the workers are very grateful to Shen Ruolan, but Shen Ruolan doesn't care about it, thinking that she just did what she should do. The workers have worked hard with her for several months, and she has made a lot of money herself. Some benefits are also deserved.
However, no matter whether she had a reunion dinner with her parents or saw the grateful eyes of the workers when they gave out benefits, she couldn't arouse any joy in her heart, just like the most precious thing in her heart. Lost, as if nothing could make her happy. Ever since Chun Yuxuan's accident, she felt that she couldn't even laugh anymore!
Shen Dejian didn't know the management model of modern enterprises, and he didn't know that there were year-end benefits. He felt that his family had already paid a lot of wages to the workers. If they can fill their stomachs, this family can be considered very worthy of them, and there is really no need to take out so many things and distribute them to them. However, in order to make her daughter happy, there was no objection and she was allowed to go.
Anyway, the family is not short of this little money now, as long as his daughter is happy, even if he spends a little more, he won't feel bad!
At night, Shen Ruolan was lying in the cold blanket, recalling the good times when the two were together, their whispers, their ears and temples, but now, he is gone, leaving her alone in the cold blanket, alone , bearing the loneliness of this long night alone.
Really chilling is better than profile!
As he was tossing and turning, he suddenly heard Heizi yell outside, a very short yell, and then fell silent.
Heizi is a smart dog, he won't bark without a reason, Shen Ruolan became vigilant, got up quickly and put on clothes, just after putting on, he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.
She never burns incense, and never buys spices at home, except for the smell of rice, there will never be any scents in the house.
Shen Ruolan immediately held her breath, and quickly took a sip of the spiritual spring water from the space, so as not to be tricked by the scent.
After drinking, the outside door suddenly opened with a creak, and several thin and tall figures walked in from the outside. Shen Ruolan quickly lay down on the kang, pretending to have passed out.
A black shadow approached, picked up Shen Ruolan violently, and carried it on his shoulders. The others protected him, and the group quickly walked out the door.
This group of people's steps were light and fast, and there was no sound at all when they stepped on the ground. It seemed that they were masters of flying over eaves and walls. In the blink of an eye, Shen Ruolan was carried out of the house, all the way to the back mountain.
Beside the ruins of the back mountain, several horses and a carriage were waiting there. Before the black shadow carrying Shen Ruolan and the people with him approached, there was a "clank", a golden lightning bolt Breaking through the silence of the night sky, it shot at the black figure carrying Shen Ruolan.
Because the man was carrying Shen Ruolan, his movement was hindered, and he couldn't dodge in time, and was shot in the buttocks, almost being shot through.
He froze, and then shouted loudly: "There is someone!"
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