Listening to it was because of Qu Yuanli, Chen Xiaoyi was relieved.

"It's good that it didn't come from a pit." Chen Xiaoyi muttered, grabbed the deed in his hand, turned around the hall a few times, looked around, and finally went to the east.

This is to hide the title deed in a small coffer.

"Is the Quyuan plough really that good? Don't be deceived by others, a restaurant can cost a lot of money, not more expensive than a piece of iron? Liu was still a little worried, pulled Chen Ping to sit in front of the brazier, and chatted.

"The person who came just now is County Lieutenant Li, mother, you have also seen it." The suddenness of the house deed made the family uneasy, Chen Ping could also understand it, and patiently explained, "That's the Jiupin official, can you still fake?" ”

Li Yingxing Liu has seen it, and because of Wansan's matter, Liu is also quite grateful to him.

"Well, my mother knows, and I believe that you will not do anything like your uncle." Liu said, but then he was worried about the thief, "I see that there is still blood on the knife of County Lieutenant Li, and the thief has not been caught, so nothing will happen, right?" ”

"No, the thief was injured, how dare he come to the village, he must have gone into the mountains and hidden." Chen Ping comforted.

Chen Xiaoyi came out of the east room and sat next to him.

"I'll keep the deed for you, and when the snow melts, I'll go to the restaurant to have a look." Chen Xiaoyi said to Chen Ping in a consultative tone, "Call your uncle to go with you." ”

"Why do you call Uncle?" Chen Ping asked, "I know the county well, and I have been to that place, so don't bother the uncle." ”

"How can you not go, your uncle has a grocery store at home, and if you want to open a restaurant, you have to ask his opinion." Chen Xiaoyi persuaded Chen Ping, "The decoration inside has to be repaired and replaced." ”

Grocery stores and restaurants should be different, right? One is a pot and scoop, and the other is cooking. The gap is still very large.

Chen Xiaoyi's thoughts, Chen Ping understands, it's only been a few days, it's not broken, Chen Ping nodded and said: "Grandpa is right, I walked outside the restaurant and saw that the utensils inside were dilapidated, the tables and chairs were full of oil, and the style was old-fashioned." I'm going to spend some money to redecorate, and the ground, which is potholed, and it's all dirt, and it has to be level. ”

"Don't you still have twenty taels of silver in your hand?" Chen Xiaoyi did not take the silver won from Hong Quan, and he is still with Chen Ping.

Chen Ping shook his head and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid it's not enough." ”

"What? Twenty taels of silver is not enough? Chen Xiaoyi was about to jump up, and the tone of discussion disappeared at once, "Do you want to spread silver in that store?" ”

Such a large area of shop, two floors, twenty taels of silver will definitely not be able to pave. It can be decorated with twenty taels of silver, but Chen Xiaoyi feels too much.

"If you want someone to go, the decoration can't be bad." If you want to do your best, money is not a problem, from the beginning of the plan to start opening a store, Chen Ping has been thinking about the layout of the store.

Now in the western room, Chen Ping has a place to hide things, and there is a stack of hemp paper with drawings on it, all about the renovation and decoration of the store. In terms of drawing design, and it is related to architecture, Chen Ping knows a little bit.

In the yard the horses neighed, and the little flowers spun around the horses, showing their canine teeth, and whispered, and the hair on their necks stood on end.

"I'm going out and changing the horses." When the snow stopped, and when he arrived in the county, the specific amount of money could only be known after meeting the mason, and Chen Ping temporarily avoided Chen Xiaoyi's anger.

Now this is a reminder, so that Chen Xiaoyi can have a preparation in his heart, so as not to be caught off guard when the time comes.

"Xiaohua, go back to the house." The horse was tied to a stake in the courtyard, and the reins were very short, which also gave Xiaohua a chance to be reckless, and the horse could only be trapped with his head towards the stake, circling in a circle.

The surroundings were empty and unobstructed, a thick layer of snow fell on the horse's body, and the mane was white, Chen Ping took a few steps closer and looked at the horse's buttocks.

"If you want to go over like this, will you be kicked away directly?" The huge horse's hooves, hooked, Xiaohua screamed, and the horse's hooves went up to the back, looking at the small movement, but Chen Ping believed that if he really had to take a hoof, most of the ribs would be broken directly.

His own life was at stake, Chen Ping gave up the idea of moving the position of the horse, pulled the rice stalk into the rice pile next to him, and threw it on the side of the stake.

Half a foot after the snow on the ground, Xiaohua saw Chen Ping in the courtyard, spread his legs, jumped and abandoned the horse, ran to Chen Ping's feet and rubbed, his head tilted against the back of Chen Ping's shoes.

"Let's go back to the house and leave you some fish bones." Chen Ping raised his toes and was about to walk back, when he caught a glimpse of Xiaohua's belly and stopped.

On the surface of Xiaohua's belly, there was some snow sticky, with some red in the white, and Chen Ping's fingers pinched it, it was blood.

"Hurt?" Because of Xiaoniang, Chen Ping has to take a bath for Xiaohua every few days, and he only washed it once yesterday, Xiaohua is not injured, and the bloody hair is removed, and Xiaohua's belly is smooth.

The blood was not theirs, it was brought by the floret from elsewhere.

Thinking of this, Chen Ping looked up at the snow in the courtyard. There is a messy circle of dog paw prints at the stake, which are small flowers, and the paw prints come from the direction of the latrine.

Chen Ping lifted his legs, glanced at Xiaohua's mouth, and followed the paw prints to the toilet. The paw prints turned a corner in front of the latrine and went to the backyard again, but did not enter the latrine.

The chickens, ducks and dolphins were all shrunk under the shed, and there was no trace of snow in the courtyard, and the paw prints fell on the shed, and they went out of the courtyard and went to the east of the village.

"It seems that there is no flower on weekdays, and it is from here that it goes out." Chen Ping looked at this paw print, it was already much shallower, and in another two quarters of an hour, it would definitely be covered and there would be no traces.

To go, or not to go?

Hesitating, Chen Ping walked quickly to the gate of the courtyard, opened the door, and looked in the direction of Liuhe Mountain, there was no one in the village, and the mountains in the distance were also white and misty.

Exhaling white air, looking up and looking at the place in the backyard again, Chen Ping turned around and went back to the west room, and pulled out a dagger from the corner, the dagger was sheathed outside, and there were ropes up and down the leather sheath, Chen Ping lifted his robe and tied the rope to the side of his calf.

"Mother, I'll go out for a while." Chen Ping hurriedly went out, took the courtyard door, went around to the backyard, and walked all the way along Xiaohua's paw prints.

A layer of snow soon fell on his body, and Chen Ping did not help it off. Gradually, the paw prints faded out of the village and disappeared in front of the fields to the east.

Standing outside the village, the appearance of the fields is not safe to see, only the undulating white hills, with a few occasional depressions, which are field canals.

"Am I being oversensitive?" Chen Ping squinted his eyes, put up a pergola in his hand to block the snow, swept around, and there was no one.

Turning around, Chen Ping was not disappointed, but gave a sigh of relief.

"That's not right." After another scene in his mind, Chen Pingxin suddenly beat hard and found the clue, "There is a problem with the field canal just now." ”

Turning his head, he looked carefully at a field ditch more than ten zhang away. It was covered with a layer of snow, and the snow at the bottom of the canal was two feet shallower than the edge of the canal.

In the adjacent fields, the bottom of the ditch is flat with the edge of the ditch.

"There's a problem." The ditch was only turned over a few days ago, and the rice and silt in it were cleaned up, and there should be no blockage.