21. Is this a curse or a blessing?
Blessings and misfortunes do not go alone!
Rong Ning was awakened by the cold rain hitting her face.
Rong Ning sat up suddenly, her back hurt, but she couldn't care about so much, so she could only find a place to take shelter from the rain first.
Rong Ning hugged herself tightly under one roof, shivering coldly.
Scold! Before falling asleep at night, the sky was obviously full of stars, but who knew that it would rain in the middle of the night!
God really didn't want to let her go, she had never done anything bad, why should she be treated like this!
Rong Ning leaned under the eaves and didn't sleep again, and the rain could still be drenched under the eaves!
Rong Ning sat with her arms in her arms until dawn.
The next day, as soon as the people of this family opened the door, they saw Rong Ning lying at the door.
Rong Ning's high fever did not go away, and he was already unconscious.
"Ouch! Shopkeeper, come and take a look! There's a girl lying at the back door of our store! ”
"Quickly help people in, don't affect our business!"
Rong Ning was in a daze, feeling that she was being carried to a musty place, she wanted to struggle, but she was soft and couldn't do it even if she wanted to struggle!
When she woke up again, Rong Ning didn't know where she was, and there were chopped firewood around her, stacked neatly. There is a large spider web on the top of his head, and a large spider is eating a mosquito that has landed on the spider web.
She lay on a straw push, stinging all over her body, but she had to admit that it was much warmer than sleeping on the ground.
Rong Ning looked at everything around him, and realized that he should be locked in a firewood room, his stomach was empty, and his internal organs were screaming because of hunger.
'Squeak! ’
In a quiet environment, this sound is particularly harsh.
Rong Ning looked at the door vigilantly, and saw a woman wearing a blue cloth shirt and pants walking in from the half-hidden door with a stoneware bowl.
Rong Ning looked at the woman, looking at the copper bracelet in the lady's hand and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.
"You're awake, you've been burning for two days! We all thought you were going to die in this woodhouse! Our shopkeeper is going to throw you into a mass grave! I didn't expect me to come over this time, and you have already woken up! It's a big deal! ”
As she spoke, the woman stepped forward with a smile and gave Rong Ning the stoneware bowl in her hand.
It was a bowl of stick batter, very thin, but it aroused all the cravings in Rong Ning's stomach.
Rong Ning swallowed her saliva, and the woman smiled and said, "This is what it was brought to you!" Drink it! Otherwise, you will not die of illness, but starve! ”
Rong Ning didn't care about the heat, so he directly poured the batter in the bowl into his mouth and swallowed it down.
"Slow down!" The woman said with a smile.
Rong Ning finished eating a bowl, and still felt unsatisfied, so he used his fingers to drive the paste hanging on the edge of the bowl into his mouth.
"Where are you from? How did you show up in our backyard! ”
The woman saw that Rong Ning was not a fool, so she began to talk.
Rong Ning is not a fool, these people saved themselves for no reason, it stands to reason that he should not doubt them! But this is not the society she is familiar with the rule of law, in which the sale of human beings is completely legal and reasonable! Rong Ning didn't want to be close to the wolf's den just out of the tiger's den.
"Where is this?" Rong Ning's voice was hoarse, and it sounded like a broken drum, which made people's hearts respond.
The essence in the woman's eyes flashed, and she looked at Rong Ning and said with a smile: "We are a restaurant here, and I am the proprietress of this restaurant!" If we hadn't kindly brought you in, I would have been pouring water on you today to give you a life, and now I'm afraid that you would have gone to the ghost gate to see Lord Yama! ”
Rong Ning looked at the woman and thanked the woman very sincerely.
"Thank you! If it weren't for you, I'd be dead now! It's just that I'm penniless, and I really don't know how to repay you! ”
"I don't have to say anything in return! We're just a little bit of a stretch! It's just that if we really say that we don't want your return, your heart will not be happy! Our restaurant still needs a person to help in the back kitchen, so you can help in the back kitchen! Giving you food every day can be regarded as your life-saving grace in return! ”
In other words, she has no salary, and now she has become a free handyman in this restaurant.
Rong Ning thought about taking a look at the situation here first, and then finding a way to get out after seeing the situation clearly.
The family did save themselves, and it was indeed a little ungrateful to think about leaving as soon as they woke up.
"Then thank you, auntie!"
"Huh! You will be in the firewood room in the future! Tomorrow I'll take you to see what you're going to do! ”
Rong Ning nodded.
Fortunately, there is still one day to rest.
The woman went to the front yard, where the owner of the restaurant was a tall, thin man in his forties with a goatee and a melon-skin hat on his head. Seeing his daughter-in-law come in behind, he hurriedly asked, "How is that girl?" Don't die! Don't get into a lawsuit for nothing! ”
"How can you! I just went to see it! The woman showed the man the stoneware bowl in her hand, "Look! Who ate the stick batter in this bowl! ”
"Wake up!" The old man pursed his lips, a little disappointed.
"Or else! You wish that girl was dead! I've already told her that we saved her life! So now I want that girl to be a cow and a horse for us, and I don't think she will refuse! Wouldn't it be nice to have one less expense in this store! The woman smiled shrewdly.
"No pay!"
"Not really! What kind of wages do you give? We're her lifesavers! If we hadn't rescued her, this girl would have died a long time ago! ”
Rong Ning followed the woman to the back kitchen the next day, and the cooking in the back kitchen was a man with a big waist and a round waist, with a beard on his face, and he didn't look easy to mess with.
Seeing Rong Ning come in, he also looked up and down, and turned his face in disgust and didn't bother to look.
Rong Ning is not a lazy person, but I have to admit that there are too many things in this store.
Every day before dawn, I have to clean the whole hotel up and down, wipe the tables and sweep the floor, clean up the backyard, feed the chickens and dogs, and take care of the flowers in the private room. After breakfast, it is time to chop wood, wash clothes, boil water, wash rice, and steam rice, and then wait for the guests. Rong Ning has to chop vegetables, wash dishes, and burn the fire! After resting in the afternoon, Rong Ning still has to clean up the table.
These menial tasks continued until the evening, and it was not until lying on the pile of straw that they really relaxed.
Rong Ning felt sore all over, this is to help do some work.
This is clearly the work of running the hall, the kitchen handyman, and the nanny in this hotel to her alone!
After four or five days in a row, Rong Ning was a little overwhelmed!
She was originally a half-grown child, so she naturally ate a lot of work with such a high intensity.
When eating the third bowl of stick batter, the proprietress looked at Rong Ning and said unhappily: "You eat less!" I can't work, but I eat more than anyone else! ”