Chapter 168: Chinese New Year
Hearing this, the girl named Erya hurriedly walked a few steps, knelt on the ground and bowed timidly.
"Your name is Erya?"
Hearing the second lady ask, the girl underground seemed to be very nervous, and replied with a little trembling: "Yes, madam." ”
Tang Yanning said softly: "Raise your head." ”
Erya raised her head tremblingly, her eyes were full of uneasiness, and her hands seemed to be a little cramped, and she didn't know where to put them.
A flash of surprise flashed in Tang Yanning's eyes.
This girl has a cherry seed face, apricot eyes, and a typical beauty face.
And the complexion is fair, and the body shape is about the same as Shuang'er, I didn't expect that this poor country can still raise such a beautiful girl.
Lin Su'e was not surprised at all when she saw Tang Yanning's reaction, because she was also surprised when she saw Erya just now, she didn't expect this girl to be so standard in a year or two, no wonder her dead ghost father wanted to sell her.
She explained to her younger siblings: "This second girl is a child of Liu Yang's family in the village, and she is also a poor child. ”
Lin Su'e explained the situation and situation of Erya's family to her.
Erya is not Liu Yang's own daughter, she remarried with her mother Qian when she was ten years old.
At first, Liu Yang was quite dry, actively working every day to make money, but later I don't know why he got involved in gambling, lost all the foundation of the family, and his temper became more and more irritable, and he often beat and scolded his wife and children.
The people in the village couldn't stand it and persuaded Qian to reconcile with Liu Yang and find another way out.
The Qian family is only twenty-six or seven, in his youth, and he was originally wronged and married by Liu Yang's steadfastness and hard work, but he never thought that Liu Yang would be infected with bad habits and his temperament changed greatly, so he immediately decided to divorce and return to his parents' house with the child.
After Liu Yang found out, he resolutely disagreed with Heli, and also threatened to intimidate Qian's family, if he dared to leave, he would chop up her daughter.
Qian was afraid and timid, so he endured it for three years.
Liu Yang still did not repent, he was not at home all day, and when he saw that Erya gradually grew, he moved other thoughts.
quickly found an in-law for her.
The object is the famous Qi Lao Lai family in the town next door.
Qi Lao Lai's face is full of pockmarks, his character is ruthless, and no one around dares to marry his daughter, but Liu Yang doesn't care, as long as the dowry is high.
For ten taels of silver, he tied up the second girl and stuffed it.
It happened that Lin Su'e went to the town to buy things, and encountered this scene of forced marriage and forced sale, seeing that the second girl was crying pitifully, and sympathizing with her family background, she bought her for ten taels of silver.
Anyway, we are going to move after the year, and when the time comes, the place will be spacious, and it is indispensable to add some people, so you should buy one back in advance.
Qian knew that his daughter had not been sold, so he came over and hugged Erya and cried bitterly.
Lin Su'e looked at the trembling mother and daughter who were crying, moved her heart of compassion, asked Huai En to point the village chief, put pressure on Liu Yang, and finally gave a letter of resignation to let Qian go free.
Qian knew that his daughter was a maid in the Gu family, and he could trust the character of the Gu family, so he had nothing to worry about, and after being free, he thanked him again and again and returned to his parents' house.
Tang Yanning must have nothing to say to buy a little maid, she smiled and told Erya a few words, and renamed her Lingxiu again.
The little girl is beautiful and beautiful, and it is really inappropriate to call Erya.
Lingxiu kowtowed excitedly to thank her.
She told Shuang'er to go back and teach her the rules, and then let people go down.
Three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Tang Yanning received a letter from Tian Gang.
In the letter, he first made a report on the business of the store, but it was still a loss anyway, and then said some gossip news in the capital.
Mainly talked about the bad stomach at Mochizuki Restaurant.
It turned out that after the sister-in-law of the king of Runan went to the Mochizuki Restaurant to eat that day, he also went to Miaoyinfang, which is a place to listen to music.
On that day, the leader of Miaoyinfang performed and attracted a lot of customers, and Miaoyinfang and Mochizuki Restaurant were not far away, so many guests who ate in the restaurant went to Miaoyinfang that day.
So the owner of Deyun Restaurant secretly rubbed it off, bought the complicated tea in it, picked a few of his common repeat customers of Mochizuki Restaurant, and added laxatives to their tea, especially the beloved son of King Runan, which increased the weight.
His laxative is not an ordinary laxative, it can be said that it was researched a long time ago in order to chop pepper fish head for the signature of Mochizuki Restaurant.
Only when you eat a fish and drink it with laxative water will it dissolve, causing food poisoning.
Moreover, if the vomit is detected, it can only detect the problem of food, because the special ingredients in the laxative have been completely dissolved into the minced fish, so it is not clear whether it is a problem with tea.
After receiving the task, Qi Feng first screened and locked a few restaurants, because this kind of thing usually occurs, most of them may be the eyes of his peers.
After locking a few houses, he sent someone to quietly visit the other poisoned guests, and unexpectedly found that they had all been to Miaoyinfang, and after taking stock of the small houses that served those guests that day, he found out along the vine.
As for the two men who wanted to frame the food for making trouble that day, they were actually from another restaurant, and they also wanted to take the opportunity to intervene and push public opinion up, so that Mochizuki Restaurant would be on the cusp.
After Jin Niang found out, she personally went to the door to explain to King Runan, and brought the drugged little guy over, and brought many precious supplements to King Runan's beloved son.
After hearing the explanation, the king of Runan was furious, and put the little servant and the shopkeeper of Deyun Restaurant in prison together, and ordered him to stop business for three months.
The attitude towards Jin Niang is much softer.
The news that the shopkeeper of Deyun Restaurant was imprisoned spread in just one day.
The shopkeeper turned out to be this kind of character, and the reputation of the restaurant suddenly plummeted, and it is unknown whether it can be saved after three months.
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Chinese New Year's Eve.
Tang Yanning ushered in the first New Year after being reborn.
It is also the first New Year after leaving the Prime Minister's House.
Unlike in previous years, when it was cold and cold in the Xiangfu, a bowl of dumplings without heat, the New Year of the Gu family was very lively.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the family gathered around the house to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and hot meat dumplings were served on the table, and the fragrance suddenly wafted several miles away.
Finland is ingenious, deliberately wrapped several fillings, beef filling, pork filling, prawn filling, etc., a group of greedy little maids swallowed saliva.
Finnish smiled and quipped, "It's Madame's, but don't worry, we have it too." ”
Tang Yanning specially instructed the Finnish Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to make two tables, the little girl and them at one table, and the sister-in-law with them.
When I heard that I also had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the most excited thing was Lingxiu, how could she have eaten such delicious dumplings, and when she followed Liu Yang's cheap father, it was good to be able to eat a white noodle steamed bun during the New Year.