In the early morning, the Shuntian Mansion was shrouded in a faint morning light, and with the sound of cocks crowing from nowhere, it was about to kick off a busy day.
Madam Xiu fell asleep again.
When night came, she couldn't sleep, she always felt that footsteps would sound outside the door at any time, and her Niuniu would come back.
How can she sleep, what if she falls asleep and misses Niuniu
Madam Xiu lay down with her eyes open, and fell asleep in a daze when it was almost dawn.
The sound of roosters woke up Mrs. Xiu, who had just slept for a while.
She turned over and got up, put on her clothes, and walked out numbly.
Losing her daughter, what difference does every day make to her? It's just a day-to-day torment.
She was waiting, and when the beast with a thousand cuts was pushed to Caishikou to be beheaded, and watched his dirty blood come out, she could go to Niuniu with peace of mind.
Her Niuniu is only fourteen years old, how can she do without a mother by her side.
Madam Xiu slowly opened the door.
The pain of losing her daughter and the days of insomnia had almost drained the woman's energy, making her as sluggish as an old woman.
On the ground outside the door stood a small old bamboo basket quietly.
Madam Xiu shivered suddenly, her eyes fixed on the bamboo basket.
She had such a bamboo basket at home, and that day Niu Niu went to the street to buy her a sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and also brought a bamboo basket like this—
Madam Xiu suddenly thought of something, and suddenly grabbed the bamboo basket and pulled the lid off the bamboo basket.
Eight pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes cut into diamonds form a plate, which is mouth-watering.
Xiu Niangzi loosened her hand, the bamboo basket fell to the ground, and the sweet-scented osmanthus cake rolled out from the plate.
She stared at the sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the ground for a moment, and suddenly knelt on the ground like she was going crazy, grabbed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the ground and stuffed it into her mouth.
Hearing the movement, the old woman rushed over and hurriedly pulled her: "Oh, Mrs. Xiu, how can you eat something that has fallen to the ground?"
Madam Xiu was shocked, grabbed the old woman's wrist suddenly, and hissed, "Where did this come from?"
Madam Xiu had never seen Madam Xiu look so crazy, and was frightened for a while.
"Say, where did this come from?"
The old woman's eyes fell: "Are you asking about these sweet-scented osmanthus cakes?"
Madam Xiu nodded sharply.
"I don't know. There are big men in the yamen. Who eats sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus cake? It's strange. I passed by here just now and haven't seen it. Why did a basket of sweet-scented osmanthus cake suddenly appear?"
Xiu Niangzi hugged the bamboo basket and burst into tears: "It's Niuniu, it must be the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Niuu brought me!"
The old woman asked cautiously, "Miss Xiu, what do you mean?"
The appearance of this plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake seems to have regained Mrs. Xiu's ability to speak. She pulled her mother and kept mumbling: "Niuniu was going to buy me a sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the street that day..."
At the end, Madam Xiu burst into tears, and the old woman also wiped away her tears.
"You said, are these sweet-scented osmanthus cakes sent by Niuniu?" Xiu Niang asked expectantly.
The old woman slapped her thigh sharply: "It must be! I said why is it so strange, this basket of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes appeared out of thin air, it must be Niuniu who couldn't worry about you and came to see you with your favorite sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. "
"Niuniu can't worry about me?"
"It's not that you can't rest assured. Tsk tsk, Xiu Niang, look at your current appearance, you're skinny and skinny, how can Niuniu rest assured?"
Xiu Niang laughed: "I knew Niuniu would come to me. Niuniu, you must wait for Niu, it won't take long for Niu to find you—"
The old woman was startled, and squeezed Madam Xiu's hand: "Miss Xiu, you can't think about it."
Xiu Niangzi just smiled: "I didn't think about it, I just wanted to find my Niuniu."
"Miss Xiu, you are really confused!"
Madam Xiu was stunned.
The old woman hated the iron and said: "Why did Niu come back to see you? Isn't it because you think she is having a bad life! If you really have the heart to seek death, Niu may not be able to be reincarnated!"
"What do you mean?" Madam Xiu suddenly became nervous.
The old woman sighed: "It's the black-haired person's great filial piety for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person. Madam Xiu, you must have heard this before, right?"
Madam Xiu couldn't help nodding her head.
It was an old saying, of course she knew it.
"Miss Xiu, Niu Niu left first, no matter what the reason is, she already owes her mother a debt. If you seek death because of her, then she will be guilty of a big crime. When the Lord of Hell sees the merit book, Niu Niu will live in her next life. Originally, I was going to invest in a wealthy family to enjoy happiness, so I might have to invest in the animal way—"
"Nonsense!" Madam Xiu was shocked, her face turned pale with fright.
It doesn't matter what she does, Niuniu can't suffer anymore!
The old woman patted Madam Xiu on the back: "So, Madam Xiu, you have to live well. If you live well, Niuniu will have less debt, so she will be blessed in the next life. Hey, Niuniu is really a good boy. , I'm thinking about giving my mother a sweet-scented osmanthus cake..."
Madam Xiu moved her eyes and murmured, "My Niuniu will also become a lady, she won't grind tofu with me, be bullied, and won't be killed, will she?"
"Yes, it must be." The old lady sighed quietly as she secretly looked at Madam Xiu's increasingly glowing eyes.
It seems that she believes it. I can't say whether she can get the money from the eldest master, save a life, she can also be considered a virtuous person.
Madam Xiu, what a pitiful person.
Zhen Shicheng quickly got the news from the old lady. Madam Xiu not only used an extra bowl of rice today, but also took the initiative to sweep the floor.
Zhen Shicheng was relieved.
Being able to eat and work, Mrs. Xiu seems to have given up the idea of seeking death.
That little girl really has a way.
Thinking of Jiang Si, Zhen Shicheng couldn't help but smile.
Jiang Si told Zhen Shicheng about arranging Mrs. Xiu to work, and then told Ah Fei to find a suitable shop as soon as possible.
The pavement does not need to be large. It is best to have a pavement facing the street in front, and a yard in the back where people can stay.
Jiang seems not to expect this small shop to make money, just keep it running. The key is that with such a fat shop, she can appear there upright and bright, and it will be convenient to do many things in the future.
For Jiang Si, bringing Changxing Hou Shizi into disrepute is only a problem, and there are more problems to be solved in the future.
To this end, all precautions are necessary.
The last ten days of May passed in the midst of the dynamism of the Changxing Hou Shizi torture and murder of ten daughters.
During this period, except for the family member of one victim who could not be found, the other family members of the victim came to take care of the funeral one after another. Zhen Shicheng received considerable compensation from the Marquis of Changxing.
The world always forgets it, and soon people's attention was attracted by the sudden death of "Yang Guojiu". Because the case did not make much progress, Beijing seemed calm for a while.
But Yu Jin's mood has been quite unstable recently.
His eighteenth birthday has arrived.