Aftertaste carried two boxes of lard ham crisp and followed Su Miao to Bibo Lane, Fengzhou City is more prosperous than Changle Town, there are a lot of business burdens in a long alley, most of them are selling food and playing objects, groups of children are running around in the alley, and several women are gossiping in front of the door while washing clothes. Su Miao grabbed a mud monkey-like child and asked Cheng Tie about his residence with a smile, and the child led them to a large courtyard and said:

"Uncle Cheng is in the west room, I'm afraid I'm asleep at this time, you can go in and ask those who learn boxing."

Su Miao thanked him, and when he stepped into the courtyard gate, he saw five or six children practicing boxing shouting loudly. Learning boxing and kicking is not useless, there are many rich people in Fengzhou, and the martial arts are very popular, which is also a skill, and the cost is cheaper than that of the school, and it is easier to become a teacher, so many people will spend two dollars to send their children to practice martial arts, and then send them to the house when the children are older.

There are too many houses in the courtyard, layered on top of each other, and they are scattered, Su Miao couldn't tell which one was the Westinghouse for a while, so she asked a child who practiced boxing, followed the guidance to the west, passed an arch and saw a row of small houses, found the third room, and only then walked to the window and heard the snoring inside like thunder.

It was already cold, but the door was not closed here, Su Miao lifted the thick grass curtain and went in, a smell of wine came to her face, and the aftertaste subconsciously covered her nose. The ground is full of wine jars, and on the bed opposite is lying on all fours a fat uncle, it is difficult for such an uncle to imagine that he is actually a martial artist, with a mountain-like belly bulging like a mother about to give birth, and his hair is unkempt and unkempt. The beard was black and densely covering the wrinkled lower half of the face, and his complexion was dark and red, with long hands and feet. In late autumn, he wore only shoulders and thin trousers, his trouser legs were rolled up to his knees, and his exposed skin was covered with black body hair.

When he saw him, he remembered the gorilla paid tribute by the Borneo country, and this person was the sous chef of the original Pinxian Building?

Su Miao walked to the side of the bed and pushed Cheng Tie, who was snoring: "Uncle Cheng! Uncle Cheng! ”

Cheng Tie should not, sleeping happily with his mouth open.

Su Miao called two more times, but Cheng Tie still shouldn't. Su Miao thought about it and pinched his garlic nose with two fingers through the handkerchief. After counting ten, Cheng Tiehuo, whose face was blue and purple, jumped up from the bed and gasped for breath. Talking to himself:

"What's going on? I almost ran out of gas! ”

"Because you've drunk too much." Su Miao replied with a smile.

Cheng Tie was taken aback, turned his head in surprise, and became more and more surprised when he saw Su Miao's face clearly:

"Two girls?"

"Uncle Cheng, I bought lard ham crisp. Salty. Su Miao put two boxes of dim sum in front of him and shook them.

Cheng Tie laughed. Jumped down to the ground and washed his face in the basin in the corner, without wiping it, and after shaking it, he took the snack box and put it on the thick wooden table in the center of the room, and turned to make tea:

"I got a good box of tea before, but I didn't have a good snack to match, and it's just right today!" While making tea with great interest, he squinted at the aftertaste, and asked uneasily, "He came with you?" Who is it? ”

Su Miao glanced at it and was silent, as if she was disgusted by the strange aftertaste in the room. "It's a long story, for many reasons. He is now living in our house temporarily. After a pause, he said to Aftertaste, "Why don't you go out first?" ”

Aftertaste glanced at her and asked in a low voice, "Is there anything I can't listen to?" ”

"Not really." Su Miao was slightly stunned and blinked.

After the aftertaste, he stopped talking and did not go out.

Cheng Tie swept around them, poured three cups of tea with a smile, and asked:

"Three girls, old lady, Brother Yan, are they all okay?"

"It's all good, Chan'er has become well-behaved, the eldest sister is also honest, Yan'er has entered school, we have opened a small restaurant in Changle Town, and life is still passable. Before, I thought that Uncle Cheng had left Fengzhou. ”

"I left for a while, and I was thinking about going out again, but in the end, I am old, and I am a little powerless to do anything at this age." Cheng Tie sighed, paused, and asked, "How did you know I was here?" ”

"I just came back from Pinxian Building, and I asked Ah Yang to find out."

Cheng Tie made a movement in his hand and frowned: "Have you gone to Pinxian Building?" ”

"Well, I heard that Zhou Cheng actually became the head chef of Pinxian Building, I was curious, so I went to taste his skills." Su Miao chuckled, "Far worse than my father." ”

Cheng Tie thought that she was an old love and never forgot to run over to find fault, frowned, and sighed: "Second girl, why are you so troubled, that kid is indeed not a thing, not to mention your father, even if you were single-minded to him at the beginning, he was even engaged to get married, but he said to run away, and ran away with such a little girl...... Alas! But no matter how unwilling you are, you can't do it, he has now taken refuge in the Tong family, even Pinxian Lou can't compete with the Tong family's financial resources, even your father was also made by the Tong family at the beginning, Tong Si's bastard calf is in the shade, if you force yourself forward, there are still a bunch of people in your family! ”

"I know, I didn't pass because of that." Su Miao picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, she didn't like the black and red tea soup, paused, and said, "I didn't know anything about the poisoning case of Pinxian Building before, but I heard a few days ago that this case was not an accident, it was Zhou Cheng and Yipinlou who joined forces to frame my father?" ”

Cheng Tie's facial expression was obviously startled, and he looked at her with some surprise.

"Uncle Cheng, can you tell me what happened at that time?" Su Miao asked softly.

The daughters of the Su family were not involved in the operation of the restaurant at that time, and everyone only knew about it after the accident, but they also knew vaguely, about that matter, no one knew better than Cheng Tie, who was the former head chef.

"Second girl, why do you know that Pinxian Building has been sold, and your father is gone, so it's good that your mother can live well, so why bother yourself......" Cheng Tie frowned, and was unwilling to tell her the ins and outs of the matter.

"I feel like I'm entitled to know the truth." Su Miao said to him calmly, but her tone was extremely firm and insistent.

Cheng Tie was silent for a long time, sighed long, and said in a condensed voice:

"I don't know exactly what's going on, it's just that the guy surnamed Lin has had a holiday with your father before, and your father refused to be blackmailed by Lin Zhukuai and went to the yamen to complain. Let Lin Yu almost lose his errand, and since then, the surname Lin has often come to Pinxian Building to find fault. The day before the accident, the surnamed Lin made trouble in Pinxian Building again, and he almost had a big fight at that time. The next day, the surnamed Lin came again, not to say to order food, the guests always came to the door without greeting, your father let people greet him, it was that day, the surnamed Lin ate a bowl of mushroom soup, and then there was another scene. Bandao died, and later found that the mushroom that cooked the soup was a poisonous mushroom. Zhou Cheng has always been responsible for the purchase of Pinxian Building, and all the mushrooms that supplied the old Qian family to Pinxian Building were bought by Yipinlou that day. Zhou Cheng happened to meet a mountain man who was carrying a flat burden in the market, so he wrapped all the mushrooms in his hand, but he couldn't find who the mountain man was afterwards. Your father believed Zhou Cheng's statement at the time, and we also believed it. Just if it was an accident. Your father regretted that he didn't recognize the poisonous mushroom and ate people to death, thinking that it was his dereliction of duty, he cherished Zhou Cheng, at that time you and Zhou Cheng had just gotten engaged, and he was also afraid that you would be in a hurry, so he took it alone. You also know the rest of the matter, that bullshit Zhizhou didn't send money to the yamen, it was murdering, and sending money was an accident. When your father was released from prison, I just thought that Zhizhou was a mediocre dog official, who knew that Zhou Cheng ran away later. Then Zhou Cheng appeared in Pinxian Building and mixed with Tong Si, and the things before and after were strung together. How do you think about it, how do you think about it, Zhou Cheng can't pick it up. Before this incident, I had met Zhou Cheng and Tong Si together in Yipinlou, and I didn't know what I was talking about, I told your father at the time that your father didn't care, now that I think about it, Zhou Cheng and Tong Si already knew each other before the incident. ”

Su Miao pondered for a moment and nodded slowly:

"I see."

She quickly put aside this matter, and gossiped with Cheng Tie for a while, knowing that Cheng Tie's life was not a problem now, she relieved her heart and promised to come again, and then she got up to say goodbye, and Cheng Tie pulled the clogs until they were sent to the alley before going back.

Coming out of Bibo Lane, Su Miao went to the Wanjia Sugar Factory that she cooperated with, and she was very interested in sugar making, so she visited it carefully, but when she turned around, she found that Su Miao was whispering with Boss Wan from a distance, and she didn't know what she was talking about.

Obviously, Su Miao didn't come to visit, and after talking to Boss Wan for a while, he said goodbye and left, and they had to get out of the city before the city gate closed.

Coming out of Wanjia Sugar Mill, the sky was dusk, the thick clouds were rolling with a slight bright red, and with the wind moving forward fiercely, it was magnificent and vibrant.

Su Miao walked to the station without saying a word, her face was calm, but she was obviously thinking about things. Aftertaste walked beside her, glancing at her face from time to time, although people can't laugh all the time and are not fools, but when she doesn't smile, she makes him feel strange and distant, obviously by his side, but the face that is not good in his heart makes him feel very uncomfortable. He couldn't guess what she was thinking, he didn't know what she wanted to do next, and he couldn't even tell what she was thinking of that bastard named Zhou Cheng. The former fiancé is suspected of framing and indirectly leading to the death of his father, this is quite a shocking truth, isn't it, but from the time she knew it until now, there was no fluctuation on her face, he always thought that she was a type who would show all her feelings on her face, was not good at hiding herself, and was easy to understand, but when she didn't laugh, she didn't understand it at all.

So, is her smile just a veil to hide her heart?

He couldn't guess her, but he still liked the way she smiled brightly.

His elbows were slightly heavy, and when he looked back, a little girl of eight or nine years old was looking at him with a smile, with a box that could be opened and closed hanging around her neck, supported by both hands, and the top and bottom sides of the box were covered with all kinds of silk flowers:

"Big brother, buy a flower for my sister to wear, all of them are handmade by my sister, each of them is not only the only one in Fengzhou City, even if there is no duplicate in the entire Yueliang Kingdom, twenty wen one, everything is carefully made by my sister, the big sister looks like a fairy, if you wear a big red one, it will definitely look better!"

The women in the Jiangnan area are the most popular hairpins, and there are many children who sell silk flowers like this, but there are few who dare to pull people to peddle business. Aftertaste, although the material of those beads is not expensive, it is very meticulous, and the color matching and overall appearance are also very chic. Su Miao, who was contemplative, was also attracted to attention, seeing that the child came out to beg for life at a young age, he felt a little more pity in his heart, and only then did he want to speak, and he had already taken out a piece of broken silver from his arms and threw it into the box, picked up a big red silk flower inlaid with a circle of small beads, and inserted it into Su Miao's bun, and said to the child:

"No need to look for it."

The little girl was overjoyed, thanked her one after another, bowed and then squeezed through the crowd with the box.

Su Miao touched the silk flower on her head, glanced at the aftertaste, and muttered, "You are so generous!" ”

"I've wanted to do this for a long time." Aftertaste said with a smile.

When Su Miao heard this, he was stunned, did he want to try to buy silk flowers for girls a long time ago, or did he want to try to say "don't look for it" to children?

Huiwei grabbed Su Miao's hand to pull off the silk flower, and said unhappily: "Don't move, just wear it like this, it looks good." ”

"You're plugging in the wrong place, it's making me ......hurt so much," as soon as the words came out, it always felt as if something was wrong.

The aftertaste that prevented her from plucking silk flowers suddenly froze, and the atmosphere seemed to become strange all of a sudden.

“…… I mean, my hair hurts. Su Miao added lamely.

The aftertaste that had been stiff before tried to come back to her senses calmly, adjusted the silk flowers in her bun, and the two walked side by side on the long street, feeling embarrassed for some reason, and after a while, Su Miao suddenly asked:

"Where did you get the money?" He said that she didn't want to be paid, so she really kept letting him do day labor, and only made him two new clothes, because Su Dong's leftover clothes he wore inappropriately.

"Secret." Aftertaste looked ahead and spit out two words lightly.

Su Miao was speechless.

Before the closing, I rented a car to go out of the city, and I could have rushed back to Changle Town, but I was only halfway through when I suddenly rained heavily, which was probably the last rain of the year, like the Milky Way pouring down, like ten thousand scoops splashing, lightning and thunder, wind and rain. It is dangerous to travel on a rainy day, and the road is not easy to walk, so Su Miao and Huiwei obeyed the coachman's construction and rested in a land temple on the side of the road.

The land temple is built next to the official road, the area is not large, probably often shelter passers-by from the wind and rain, the inside is very clean, the futon straw is also neatly and comfortably, the center of the temple also built a stove, there is still dry firewood that has not been burned out. Aftertaste made a fire with a fire fold, pulled some straw to spread the ground softly, and put a futon on it, afraid that she would be dirty, and took out a handkerchief from her bosom and put it on the futon.

Su Miao blinked twice, thanked her, and sat down on the futon.

The coachman's uncle pulled the mule under the tree to shelter from the rain, but he lit a fire and sat under the porch, Su Miao called him in, but he refused with a smile. Su Miao was puzzled, but in retrospect, she felt that this uncle understood the atmosphere very well. (To be continued......)

PS: This is Chapter 74, I'm really sorry for the mistake, but I can't change it, it's good for everyone to know.