Chapter 038: Another Place
Chen Qiuniang turned around and walked around the bamboo forest, and saw Chen Liushi sitting in front of the fence gate, and the hibiscus next to him was flourishing.
"Grandma, although the weather is good, but it is windy today, you are not in good health, why did you come out?" Chen Qiuniang said with a smile, pretending not to see her frosty face, and reached out to help her.
Chen Liushi brushed aside her hand, held the wooden stick, stood up angrily, and said, "Don't bother you, your wings are hard." β
Chen Qiuniang also knew in her heart that she used the Zhang family's guards to deal with Chen Quanzhong, and this old lady had seen it too much. However, she was not afraid that she would know. Sooner or later, she will know these things.
"Grandma, what are you talking about, Qiu Niang doesn't understand." Chen Qiuniang said with a smile, and didn't stretch out her hand to help her, just stood aside.
Chen Liushi stood aside, made a face, snorted, and said, "You have hard wings." The six relatives didn't recognize it, and they dared to let people beat their own fathers. β
"That's what Grandma said." Chen Qiuniang was still smiling.
"I can still laugh." Chen Liu's face was displeased.
"Grandma, I've heard what Dad told you the day before yesterday. He is now red-eyed, what he should say and what he shouldn't say, he is afraid that he has no sense of proportion. It just so happens that a lot of people have come to the village these days, if you don't drive him away quickly, he accidentally says something, won't he cause trouble? Chen Qiuniang said as she reached out to support Chen Liu.
Chen Liushi didn't resist at this time, just let her hold on, and didn't speak, just stared at Chen Qiuniang, as if he didn't know her.
The old lady must have suspected something. After all, she is quite different from the original Chen Qiuniang. But she didn't intend to hide herself, and she couldn't admit that she was crossing.
"Doesn't Grandma agree with me?" She asked in a low voice, and then without waiting for Chen Liushi to speak, she continued, "What secrets are there at home, I am still young." But when I heard Qiusheng talk about how nervous his grandmother was, his father said that he was going to sue the official, it must be a matter of life and death. That's why we took matters into our own hands and drove him out by the hands of others. β
"Who are you?" Chen Liushi suddenly asked.
Sure enough, the old lady was suspicious. However, she will not admit it, even if it is her closest person in the future, she will not sue sΓΉ. Crossing this matter will be her own secret, and she will let this secret rot in her heart.
"I'm Qiu Niang?" Chen Qiuniang replied crisply, with a look of surprise.
Chen Liushi rubbed his eyes, still staring at her, and asked, "Do you remember when you were three years old, I took you to Chengdu Mansion?" β
Chen Qiuniang knew that Chen Liu's was testing her, but unfortunately she received all the memories of Chen Qiuniang, and she knew what Chen Liu's asked. She pretended to think about it, and then replied, "It's a little vague, but I remember that there was a big room and a sister in beautiful clothes who gave me a piece of candy." It tastes so good. "By the way, grandma, who is that beautiful sister. I remember her clothes being more beautiful than the clouds on the horizon. β
Chen Qiuniang changed the topic with a move, but when she saw Chen Liu's stunned, she waved her hand and said, "That's just a sister in my former court, who was separated a long time ago after the war." β
"Oh. I also have a vague impression, I only know that the clothes are beautiful, her family is so big, I can't remember what she looks like. Chen Qiuniang successfully changed the topic, and then she turned back and said, "Grandma, Dad's business, I know you blame me." But we have to live. β
When Chen Liushi heard this, his heart was also sour, he raised his sleeve to wipe the muddy old tears, and said: "I know that he is not angry and has suffered you, but in the end it is your father." β
"I know he's my dad. But I can't watch my two younger brothers starve to death. They don't understand anything yet, and it's been less than a year since they came to this world. I also don't want Qiuxia to marry a rural village man in the future, and her life will be bleak, or she will be a concubine, or even a maid in a room, and she will be miserable in her life. I don't like such a smart and clever Akisei Ichikatsu Villager even more, he should have a brighter future. So, the lesser of two evils. I have to do it, Grandma. Chen Qiuniang stood in the sunlight and said her thoughts from the bottom of her heart.
She knew that sooner or later, her actions would need to be approved by Chen Liu's family. This is not only to get the support of her family, but also because she always feels that Chen Liu's family has been an errand boy next to the most favored concubine in the Houshu Palace, and she is the nurse of that concubine, so she will have some ways to help her career.
She originally wanted to find a suitable time to talk to Chen Liushi about Chen Quanzhong's problem, but she didn't expect that Chen Liushi took the initiative to give her such an opportunity today. She simply worked on Chen Liu's ideological work, saving time to start her own business, and she also had to worry about these family trivialities.
"Butβ" Chen Liushi said hesitantly.
"Grandma, our Chen family can't live like this anymore. I'm young, but I've died once. When I woke up that day, I felt that we had been too aggrieved for half a year. Asking for food, being dizzy with hunger, and watching my two younger brothers cry with hunger, there is nothing I can do. Every day I dream that my father is back to the shore, but my father is obsessed. From the moment I woke up, I didn't expect him to turn back. Chen Qiuniang said, the bitter days in her memory came one after another, making her feel aggrieved, uncomfortable, and depressed, and tears fell unconsciously. It wasn't her own experience, but it was part of her memory.
She raised her hand to wipe her tears, and Chen Liushi couldn't help the old tears, hugged her into his arms, and said: "I know that your father is sorry for you, but he is your father in the end, although he is not your own child, but in the end he still raised you and loved you." β
When Chen Qiuniang heard Chen Liu's words, she immediately understood in her heart that Chen Liu's was not opposed to giving Chen Quanzhong a small punishment and a big commandment, but was worried that she would not recognize Chen Quanzhong.
"Grandma, don't worry. He's always been my dad, I know that. I've always hoped that Daddy would come back and be with us. Chen Qiuniang wiped her tears and broke free from Chen Liu's arms, and said to Chen Liu's in no uncertain terms.
"That's good, that's good." Chen Liushi wiped his muddy old tears and said very excitedly.
Chen Qiuniang breathed a sigh of relief, helped her back to the house, waited for her to lie down, sat on the edge of the bed, and while feeding her two young brothers to eat vegetable leaf rice porridge, she gossiped with Chen Liu's family, saying that she went to Liuhe Town yesterday to find a job, help cook in the kitchen of the inn, manage the food, and have hard money every month.
"I don't have a lot of money, but I always have some hope, at least I don't have to worry about my brother starving to death." Chen Qiuniang felt that she still had to talk to Chen Liushi about going to the Liuhe Town Inn to help the cook, and as for her plan, she would skip it. After all, it is a matter that has not yet been skimmed, and I don't even know whether Chen Wenzheng will agree to the technology as a shareholder.
If he didn't agree, she could only settle for the next best thing, working in his kitchen for a while, helping his inn out of the predicament, and then waiting for the opportunity to submit her plan to Chen Wenzheng. She definitely doesn't think it's the best idea to open a store or sell snacks to attract people.
"The back kitchen of the inn? They, don't they know about you, your resurrection from the dead? Chen Liushi asked in shock.
"They should know." Chen Qiuniang replied. But I was also stunned in my heart, if Chen Wenzheng knew about her "deceitful corpse", I don't know if he would dare to ask her to go to the kitchen. This is really a problem, and tomorrow we must use this matter to probe Chen Wenzheng's tone.
"If I know that there is no other story, I am afraid that they have other intentions. Qiu Niang, to be honest, which inn in Liuhe Town is it? Chen Liushi seemed to realize that this matter was not simple, as if he was afraid that his simple granddaughter would be deceived, so he immediately turned over and sat up without caring about the back pain.
"Yunlai Inn. I don't think the boss's family is a bad person. Chen Qiuniang said. I can't help but comfort Chen Liu's family.
Chen Liushi nodded again and again, as if relieved, and said, "It's not the auspicious inn that is lost." The shopkeeper Liu of the auspicious inn is narrow-minded and forgetful of profit. β
"Grandma knows that family?" Chen Qiuniang immediately asked about future competitors.
Chen Liushi shook his head, only saying that he knew each other, but he was not familiar with it. Later, her handkerchief was handed over, that is, every time Mrs. Zhu Jia, she often went to the palace to see her, and she rarely had to gossip. I often talk about the customs of Liuhe Town, and I have mentioned the shopkeeper Liu who I know together.
"I haven't heard of that one at the Yunlai Inn. However, the salt elbow in the store is a must, and Xiao Lian loved it very much at that time. Shuying brought it to Chengdu from Liuhe Town every time. That taste, tsk, don't mention it, I've never eaten anything that delicious. Chen Liushi said as he tasted it and swallowed his saliva.
"That's good. I'm going to help with the cooking, so I can learn some skills. In the future, even if I go to a large family to work as a full-time worker, I can also maintain our family's livelihood. Then send Qiusheng to study and learn some skills. Chen Qiuniang tried her best to depict the blueprint as simple as possible.
When Chen Liushi heard this, tears came again, and he was still babbling about the Chen family's blessing to have Chen Qiuniang, and he only hoped that the Yunlai innkeeper's family was a kind person, and they knew that she had come back from the dead, and they could still use her.
Chen Qiuniang couldn't help but comfort her, the two talked for a while, Jiang Hang came, and said that the cousin meant, there are always sneaky people in the village these days, and the Chen family is in the corner of the village, and it is rare for something like this afternoon to happen. Therefore, the Chen family's guards will not be withdrawn for the time being.
Although Chen Qiuniang was a little unhappy that they did not remove the guards and hindered her from cleaning up Chen Quanzhong, she still smiled and politely thanked her.
Jiang Hang politely returned the gift, and then asked Xiao Wu to put a bag of rice and a bag of noodles in the house, saying that this was the old lady of Zhangfu to thank the gods for blessing the second son, and gave grace to Liu Village. Every household has it.
Chen Qiuniang heard that it was not a reward for saving her life, but something that every family had, so she gladly accepted it and politely asked Jiang Hang to thank the old lady for her.
"This Zhang family is a magnificent family." Chen Liushi sighed.
Chen Qiuniang just smiled, turned around and walked out of the house, and asked Chen Qiusheng, who had just come back, to throw all the grasshoppers he had caught into the wood ginger water and soak them, and close the lid. When this child grows up, he must see some meat. She couldn't hunt the things in the mountains, but he was very good at turning them into delicious things.
"Eldest sister, can you eat this? I've heard from the people in the village that these are insects sent by the gods. Chen Qiuxia squatted aside and asked excitedly.
"Do they read more, or do I read more?" Chen Qiuniang asked rhetorically.
"Big sister."
"That's it. They talk nonsense. Chen Qiuniang shrugged. changed the topic again and praised Chen Qiuxia for doing a good job and picking a lot of willow grass. While praising Chen Qiuxia, she picked a few leaves and put them in the palm of her hand, frustrated and rubbed, until the aquatic plants were foaming green, and she showed a satisfied smile.
"Eldest sister, can you eat this?" Chen Qiuxia asked.
"I can't." Chen Qiuniang replied. He also instructed Qiusheng and Qiuxia to dig up a few willow grasses and plant them in the vegetable garden.
Although Qiusheng Qiuxia muttered that she couldn't eat it, she still went out obediently. Chen Qiuniang looked at this willow leaf grass, a smile appeared on her lips, she seemed to see that she had added a stronger stroke to her brilliant career.
In this time and space, since I came, I would not just spend this life doing nothing.
(Alas, it's always updated late every day, I'm sorry everyone, I always have to wait until the baby sleeps, I don't really have time to write, everyone read it the next morning)
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