This was a really unexpected discovery.

Looking at the picture of Zou Yu's father and son in front of the bed, Zou Youheng pursed his lips and retreated silently. When I walked to the outhouse, I saw Wu standing at the door, covered in wind and frost, and probably stood for a long time.

Seeing Zou Youheng, he smiled bitterly, turned around and walked out.

"Mother......

The two were silent all the way, and when they reached the end of the corridor, Zou Youheng couldn't help but speak.

He can control his own feelings, but this does not mean that he is a person who can endure humiliation and accept the burden.

"Heng'er, don't say it. I know what you're going to say. ”

Wu looked up at the dragon and phoenix carvings on the pillars of the corridor.

I don't blame anyone, if you want to blame yourself, you don't have to fight for not being angry, and you didn't bring a man and a woman to the Zou family.

"Mother, this has nothing to do with you. If it weren't for you, my father would have died a long time ago. ”

Zou Youheng said.

Although since he was a child, everyone who has seen him thinks that he is a gentleman who does not learn and knows how to spend all his time. But in fact, he knows everything. More than ten years ago, if it weren't for the Wu family, Zou Yu would have died in Huangquan a long time ago, let alone what kind of prefect he is now and what second room he marries.

"Heng'er, if you marry a girl from any family in the future, you must treat her well."

Wu didn't retract his gaze that had stopped in the distance, but said a word without a beginning or an end.

"Mother, you think too much, I won't get married."

Zou Youheng said, looking down at the tips of his shoes.

It's troublesome to get married, where is there a person who is at ease?

"You bastard, you talk nonsense. What are you going to do if you don't get married!? ”

Wu frowned.

"Mother. Didn't we say it, since my father asked me to take the path of the imperial examination, then I definitely can't let him down, the great cause has not been accomplished, why do I want to be at home? When I become famous in the future, there will definitely be a lot of people who come to say goodbye, and I don't need to worry about it at all. ”

Zou Youheng smiled, revealing a small pear vortex.

"Mother, Xiaobao is still young, and it is normal for his father to be kind to him. You don't care. ”

Halfway through. Zou Youheng said.

Wu has never been a weak person, and a woman's jealousy is a very terrible thing. He was afraid that the Wu clan would sprinkle his anger on Zou Yu on Xiaobao.

"Heng'er, what are you thinking, how much I love Xiaobao, you should also know."

"yes. I know you're the best. Otherwise. You won't take me in either......"

Looking at the busy people coming and going not far away. Zou Youheng said.

"Heng'er, we are a family, don't mention such words in the future."

Wu turned his head. looked at Zou Youheng and said.

She only has one sister, but the incident more than ten years ago killed dozens of her family, leaving only Zou Youheng, who went out to play, escaped. Every time I think about it, that scene, every time I think of it, it seems like yesterday.

Zou Youheng was only three years old that year, and when Wu found him, he was still playing alone in the sand on the tidal flats behind Qingshui Nunnery. After that, Wu was worried about Zou Youheng's psychology all the time, the massacre was too terrible, although he did not witness the scene, but he still knew the truth afterwards. She didn't know how Zou Youheng came out of it back then, or that he hid it too well and never came out at all.

It is precisely because of this that she usually takes a laissez-faire attitude towards Zou Youheng, as long as he is happy, whether it is a fireworks Qinglou or a tavern gambling house, she will not care too much.

But what Wu didn't expect was that after letting Zou Youheng go for more than ten years, Zou Yu suddenly began to pay attention to him, forcing him to participate in the imperial examination, and explaining more yamen affairs to him, which seems to be a good thing on the surface, but ......

But Zou Yu did these moves, whether he valued Zou Youheng, or regarded him as a chess piece that walked in front of him and blocked the sword for him, Wu was really not sure.

*

Just after the New Year, the wicker in the city has not yet been drawn, but a hail suddenly fell in Rongzhou.

One by one, like pebbles falling from the sky, they were smashed from all directions.

Pedestrians on the street were so frightened by the sight that they fled with their heads in their hands, but they were still smashed several times.

Although people at this time already knew that hail was a natural phenomenon like rain and snow, hail in early spring was still regarded as a sign of a bad year. After the hailstorm, many people gathered in the temple, began to offer incense and pray for blessings, and even ran to the yamen to ask the government to invite someone to do a prayer for peace.

When it was hailing that day, Ye Xiaoyu was also on the street, so he was also smashed by the sudden hail. However, the hail did not last long, and after a while, it was replaced by a torrent of rain.

Therefore, spring has just poked out, and Rongzhou City has ushered in the rainy season again.

Rustle of falling leaves, snow and rain.

Ye Xiaoyu lay in front of the wooden lattice window of the bedroom on the second floor, looking at the rain that kept dripping from the eaves.

The operation of the three pastry shops has entered the track, and they have hired guys who look after the shops and make pastries, so there are not too many things for Ye Xiaoyu to worry about. She's been a lot more relaxed lately.

Wang Huai's young mention popped up in her mind again, the days were leisurely, and she had spare money on hand, instead of saving the money in the zài money bank, she might as well consider opening another pastry shop.

But Rongzhou has already opened three stores, although the city here is large, the population is large, and the economy is quite developed, but Ye Xiaoyu feels that three are enough. In the past two years, there have been a lot of copycats in the city, and although the competitiveness is not strong, the market share has still been robbed. The so-called scarcity is expensive, and opening too many homes in a row will not only make people feel aesthetic fatigue, but also reduce the grade. So this time, she plans to open a new one somewhere else.

But where is the next one?

Reborn for so long, she has only been to two places in total, one is Yuejing, and the other is here in Rongzhou, uh, if Quanxiu Village is also counted, then she can barely get three.

"Young Master Wang, Xiaoyu is ...... upstairs"

There was a man's voice from the shop in front.

"Xiaoyu, lying here in a daze again?"

In the twinkling of an eye. Wang Huaiqing wandered upstairs.

"On a rainy day, there's nowhere to go."

Ye Xiaoyu raised her eyes and returned to her original posture.

"You've been here for so long, and you haven't gotten used to the weather here?"

Wang Huaiqing said with a smile, and casually pulled over a chair and sat near Ye Xiaoyu.

"It's wet everywhere, and the whole person is about to get moldy."

Ye Xiaoyu rested her chin on the table and said listlessly.

"When are you going to Yuejing this year?"

"It's the second half of the year, it's still early. But if you want to go back there, I can do it earlier. ”

Wang Huaiqing was full of smiles.

"I don't dare to disrupt the itinerary of your eldest young master of the Wang family. But there's one thing. I'd like to talk to you. ”

Ye Xiaoyu also laughed.

Yuejing?

Gone for so long. It is enough to know that the people who stay there are living well. As for going there, forget it.

"Oh?"

Wang Huaiqing deliberately dragged out his voice.

"I'm going to open another shop."

Ye Xiaoyu looked at the raindrops in front of the window and said.

"Isn't that great? I think according to your current business situation. It's long overdue to open another one. ”

Wang Huaiqing said with a smile.

Ye Xiaoyu's current three pastry shops. It's all a profit-only model. She already had enough spare money to open a fourth.

"The key is the location, Rongzhou City can't be opened anymore at the moment."

Ye Xiaoyu turned his head to look at Wang Huaiqing.

"Yes, there have been three in a row here. It's just that there is no one in the North District. ”

"It's too remote in the North End. I'm not going to drive it. ”

Ye Xiaoyu said.

Originally, there were not many people living in the North District, and if she opened one there, the cost would be about the same, but the profits recovered would be greatly reduced, and she didn't want to do this kind of thing.

"Huaiqing, you have been doing business outside all year round, do you have any more suitable places to recommend?"

Resting his head on his arm, Ye Xiaoyu asked.

She can't be blamed for this, it's really hard to lift your spirits on a rainy day.

"You're going to a foreign country?"

Listening to Ye Xiaoyu's words, Wang Huaiqing was a little surprised.

"Yes, while there are no pastry shops like this in other places now, hurry up and open a few, otherwise when the fakes in this city come out in the future, then I will really cry......"

Ye Xiaoyu said.

Since seeing that her pastry shop will make money, Rongzhou City has opened several stores, although the style is average, and the taste is even more average, but what has been eaten is fine, for people who have never eaten authentic products, it doesn't matter if they are fakes, right? This is also what Ye Xiaoyu is most afraid of, because she has already gained a firm foothold in Rongzhou City, she is not afraid of her reputation being destroyed, but it is difficult to say in other places.

Although these people haven't gone out yet, there are so many outsiders who come to Rongzhou every year that maybe one day someone will open a cake shop to their hometown.

Therefore, what she is most afraid of now is not the problem of being squeezed out of the market share, but the impact on the reputation of her cake as a food. Because this cake is a product of the era in Ye Xiaoyu's previous life, this time and space did not, to put it a little exaggerated, now in the entire Daye Country, except for the people in Rongzhou City, no one else has ever eaten or even seen the cake, in this case, once someone else imitates Ye Xiaoyu's cake and opens a shop in other places, if it is delicious, then forget it, if it is unpalatable, it will leave a very bad impression, and when you see a similar shop in the future, this impression will pop up.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Xiaoyu has to quickly open a few more such shops in other parts of Daye Country to let more people eat them, so that those copycats can really not have room to survive.

"It's not appropriate for Yuejing to be too far away, and the only cities that are close to here are Huzhou and Qingzhou."

Wang Huaiqing thought for a while and said.

"Is Huzhou bigger than Qingzhou?"

Ye Xiaoyu asked.

When she was in Yuejing before, she seemed to have heard that Huzhou was the largest city in the south, and the prosperity of Cheng Dù would not be worse than that of Yuejing. (To be continued......)