The three counties of Shangli, Zhongli and Xiali together are actually a "three-mile city", but because the geographical location of these three counties is extremely long along the river, it has gradually become three small county towns separated by fifteen miles each.

In fact, the scope of these three county towns can only be regarded as a market town at best, but because it is close to the capital, and it is the main water and land road into Beijing in the south, the town is simply changed to a county, and each county has a seven-grade county order, a nine-grade county cheng, a master book, and a head catcher, and a number of officials. Qiao Yuangui and Qiao Yuanfu served as county officials in Shangli and Xiali respectively.

The location of Qiao Mutou's restaurant is good, but it is on the edge of Zhongli, but it is the only way to leave Zhongli and go down.

It's just that......

Yun Ying had just arrived at the door of the restaurant and was almost vomited by the smell of medicine coming from inside, the entrance of the restaurant is the official road, and on the other side of the official road is a stream flowing to the canal, and there is also an unpleasant smell by the stream, such a restaurant, I am afraid that no one dares to approach.

"Dad, look who's coming." Qiao Yuanchang and Gu Banniang thought that they were used to smelling this smell, so they walked in through the open door as if nothing happened, and Yun Ying had no choice but to follow into the door.

The space inside is about fifty square meters, and there are six Eight Immortal Tables scattered around, and the clay pot on the stove in the corner is gurgling, and the strong smell of medicine is coming from that direction.

Qiao Mutou was dozing off on a table of eight immortals on the edge of the stove, and when he heard the words, he looked over, skipped Gu Banniang and Osmanthus, and saw Yun Ying at a glance, Yun Ying's appearance has changed a little from a few years ago, but Gu Banniang can recognize Qiao Mutou and how can he not recognize it, and he hesitated and squeezed out: "Lotus flower." ”

The arbor had been old for a few years. Now it looks even more withered, like an old man who is about to die, and when he counts his age, he is not yet fifty.

"Daddy." After struggling for a while, Yun Ying still cried out, and the right should be to do a filial piety in place of this body. Qiao Mutou wet his eyes because of this salutation, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

"Okay, okay, now that the flowers are here. You father and son also have a helper. Life will be better. Gu Banniang impatiently interrupted Qiao Mutou's surging feelings, put the osmanthus on the ground, and cut her hair, "You guys have a good chat." I went to Liu Yuanwai's house to do some work. ”

Let's talk about it. I went to the back and got a big bag, and I walked out of the restaurant without looking back. Looking at the natural appearance of Qiao Mutou's father and son, it seems that he is used to her coming and going at will.

"Sixth sister, you sit. I'll pour medicine for my father. Qiao Yuanchang still has a big basket on his back. Just like that, the pestle was placed on a table of eight immortals, and the water stains from the pig's water soaked out of the bottom of the basket and fell on the table, and then flowed to the ground again.

"Can't you boil medicine and put the back basket in the back?" Yun Ying looked at the door panel at the back door of the shop, and there was a small patio behind it, although the place was cramped, it should not be a big problem to put the stove.

"You can't keep the business if you boil medicine in the back, and now most of the family's expenses are supported by your Aunt Gu going to Liu Yuanwai's house to pick up some pulp, washing and sewing work." Qiao Mutou covered his mouth and coughed twice, explaining to Yun Ying.

Yun Ying took a look at the door panel, and there were two rooms in front of him, which should be the main hall and the master bedroom, one room on the left and one on the left, on the left was Qiao Yuanchang's bedroom, and on the right was a utility room. At that moment, Yun Ying had a plan, pulled Qiao Yuanchang over and asked, "What is the place behind the utility room?" When she came here just now, Yun Ying didn't pay attention to what the people were doing, she wanted to turn the utility room into a special kitchen, and make a stove with a small chimney outside the back window of the utility room to boil medicine, so as to avoid all the smells being locked up in the main hall where people rested.

"Behind the utility room? It's a cliff. "When Qiao Mutou bought the yard at that time, it was because there was a cliff behind the house that people could not climb, so it was relatively safe. Qiao Yuanchang couldn't understand why Yun Ying was asking this, and waved his hand violently: "Sixth sister, do you want to live in the utility room?" No, the cliff gap behind the house over there was water, and the house was very damp, and the doctor who came to see my father said that if someone lived inside, he would be sick. You can live in my house, and I will sleep in the bunk at night. ”

"Wet water in the gaps?" Yun Ying's eyes lit up, and she pulled Qiao Yuanchang over and ordered: "Yuanchang, you go find two craftsmen, I will open the back window of the utility room and see how tight the gap in Qinshui is." ”

"Sixth sister, please ask the craftsman to be so expensive." Qiao Yuanchang listened to Yun Ying's words very much when he was a child, and now that he is older, he is no exception, and he said in a snort: "All the money in the family was used to buy the pig this time, and it has to be sold to have money to hire craftsmen." ”

In a short period of time, Yunying basically did not plan to return to Lijia Village. At least, she didn't think about how to face Feng Duyou, she wouldn't let Feng Duyou find it, she was hidden in the city, why did she have such a ready-made hiding place to be found by herself. What's more, the baby in the womb does not allow her to continue to run, and it is also a good choice to have a good living environment to rest.

Yun Ying is not a fool, when she heard Yuanchang say that she had no money, she would not immediately pay for the Virgin Mary. patted Qiao Yuanchang's shoulder comfortingly: "Listen to the arrangement of the sixth sister, everything will be fine." ”

"Well, the sixth sister is very capable." In Qiao Yuanchang's heart, and perhaps in the words and deeds of Qiao Mutou and Gu Banniang, Yuanchang has always felt that Yun Ying is a very amazing sister.

There is an obedient little brother, Yun Ying took him to the stream under the official road, and found that the stream flow is still quite large, there should be no animal carcasses stranded here, where does the smell come from? Yuanchang pointed her in the direction, not far from the shallows on the edge of the water piled up a few piles of dried cows, horses and human dung, it is now the end of spring, there are already big green-headed flies flying, and you can see the traces of slow wriggling, and the unbearable stench is coming from there.

Such a disgusting scene made Yun Ying, who had never had morning sickness during pregnancy, suddenly vomit towards the stream. was so frightened that Qiao Yuanchang was so overwhelmed that he almost cried.

"You get all that stuff into the river and wash it away." Yun Ying can't manage any environment or environment, if this problem is not solved, she will not stay here. Leaving Qiao Yuanchang to deal with the pile of "gold" by the river, Yun Ying went ashore alone to observe the environment on the left and right.

It is worthy of the extreme edge of Zhongli County, except for Qiao's restaurant, there are basically no shops in Shangshou, they are all low shantytowns built along the cliffs, with wooden planks at the door, and some small things such as pancakes, tea, cowhide bags, and insoles are scattered around.

The houses that go down are getting better and better, they are generally Qiao's restaurants like the door face courtyard, restaurants, tea shops, small inns, carriages and ......horses, all kinds of shops are available, but they are not far away from the county center location of the high-end, presumably it is only the foot power and small merchants who come and go, but there are also some customers, if the restaurant taste is not too bad, the environment is not too bad, the designated guests can still have two.

When I returned to the restaurant, it was dinner, and I didn't expect that there were two or three peasant-looking customers in the restaurant.

Xu is a farmer, he didn't react much to the smell in the restaurant, gathered at a table and drank mixed wine and talked about something, Yun Ying got closer and heard that they were farmers from Zhongli County, and they came to the county to see if they could buy some night incense as agricultural fertilizer. Spring ploughing is busy, villagers who do not need some manure, self-production and self-sale is certainly not enough, many people have set their sights on this "county seat" along the roadside. It's just that there are more monks and less porridge, and the representatives of these three villages have been running for a day and have not heard from them, so they are gathering here to complain.

Thinking of the smell just now, Yun Ying was still disgusted and wanted to vomit, but the three of them kept talking over there, and I don't know how they sent the pig's intestine that still exuded a slight smell to their mouths while they said it. However, listening to it, Yun Ying's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and she came up while she was delivering the mixed noodles and cakes: "Three uncles, in fact, I have an idea, I don't know if the three of you are interested?" ”

"Little lady, what are you talking about?" One of the village chiefs at the table who had complained the loudest just now turned his head to see Yun Ying, who was handsome-looking and dressed as a woman, and his voice couldn't help but be a little lighter.

"Uncles can actually build public toilets along the way, send people to guard, there are a lot of people and cars along the way, who doesn't have a three urgency, alone can go to the teahouse restaurant to borrow a thatched toilet, what can I do with the livestock? Besides, it's not just any teahouse and restaurant that can allow people to borrow a toilet. Yun Ying also thought that anyone who could be the village chief was not stupid, but there was no such thing as a "public toilet" in ancient times, she just provided an idea, how to operate or let the people of this era worry about it.

Sure enough, the village chief's eyes lit up, and he slammed the table and jumped up: "Those livestock also have to eat, drink, and Lazar, and they are building a livestock shed next to the public toilet, so that the women and children in the village can get some grass or something in exchange for two dollars." This method is authentic! It's worth the meal today. ”

"Hehe, if the uncle thinks it's worth it, take care of our family's business more in the future." Out of the corner of her eyes, Yun Ying saw Gu Banniang carrying a burden into the door again, her face full of spring breeze looked like she had gained some benefits, and she didn't know if it was an illusion or what, Yun Ying felt that her red face didn't look like she was going to do hard labor, but as if she was single and comfortable with someone.

Yun Ying shook his head, threw this thought out of his mind, and turned to look at Qiao Mutou who was guarding the stove while coughing and baking cakes, his withered and rotten appearance and Gu Banniang, who was in her thirties, did not look like a husband and wife, saying that they were father and daughter, and some people believed it.

"Take it, this is the salary this time." Gu Banniang took out a small silver nude from her sleeve and threw it into Yun Ying's hand: "I can't be in charge of this family, since you are here, you should be this family." ”

Yun Ying frowned, and pushed the silver back to her, "Aunt Gu, you take it first, I still have a few taels of silver here, even if it is a stake in the restaurant." If Aunt Gu can trust me, don't go to the pulp washing work, take care of my father and little osmanthus at home, but if I have a bite to eat, I will definitely not be hungry for you. (To be continued......)