() "I have become a waste, and this is all thanks to her, and since she is dead, she will pay the debt of nature!" Ma Rong said, rushing to the shaker, reaching out to snatch the child.

The cooks and the men in the restaurant were staring at him closely, and when they saw that he was so crazy, they rushed forward and held him down.

"Du Mei, you can't do this, she is my only hope to live!" Ma Rong fell to the ground, weeping bitterly.

"Wow......" Du Zao on the shaking bed seemed to be frightened awake, cried loudly, couldn't breathe for a while, choked, and spit out the rice soup and medicinal juice he ate at noon.

Du Mei hurriedly helped her wipe it, and hugged her gently to comfort her, Du Zao was sick for several days, and he didn't have much energy, so he cried until he had no strength, sobbed and fell asleep again.

"As you said, you are already a wasted person, it is a problem to support yourself, and you still want to bring her up, isn't it wishful thinking! She's sick like this now, you just give her some medicine indiscriminately, and I don't know if it's right or wrong, if I didn't happen to meet her today, I'm afraid that she won't grow up, you waste a life in vain, aren't you afraid of retribution?! Du Mei was afraid of scaring Du Zao, so she lowered her voice and said.

"I've already entered the Yellow Spring half of my body, I'm afraid of retribution, I just hate her for hurting me, and I died so cheaply!" Ma Rong struggled desperately, but the cooks pressed him so hard that he couldn't move.

"Your grievances are not as bad as her, I have no intention of caring about your bad things, I only obey my grandfather's orders, and the children of the Du family will eventually recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors!" Du Mei didn't want to clean up this mess, but the last bit of light in Grandpa's eyes before his death became her mountain-like responsibility, she carried this mountain, and her steps were difficult, but she was duty-bound!

"Who's making trouble here?" Just when they were at a stalemate, a calm male voice came from outside the door, and then, a tall and burly man came in with a curtain, followed by a group of soldiers patrolling the Beijing battalion.

"That's him!" The cooks said in unison.

"Blue sky and white day, your name is Huazi, people have it, I'll give you some, it's kindness, if not, you still have to grab it?" The man saw that Ma Rong was dressed in rags and smelled of sweat, so he frowned and covered his nose.

"She snatched my baby!" Ma Rong roared.

"I see that you can't even survive this summer, this is Mei Kee Restaurant, if the big shopkeeper wants to take in the child, it is her blessing, isn't it better than begging with you, hungry and full!" The man sneered, and turned to wave his hand at his subordinates, "Take it away, see how tricky he is!" ”

Ma Rong was dragged away by the soldiers, Du Mei breathed a sigh of relief, and re-opened the porridge for Du Zao. Due to the sluggish business of the restaurant, Du Mei handed over the previous affairs to Lin Dai and took care of Du Zao in the back hall.

In the evening, Chu Lin, who got the news, hurried over, and when he saw a half-written menu spread out on the table, and Du Mei was pacing around the house with Du Jujube in her arms to coax her to sleep, the weather was hot, and it didn't work very well to put ice cubes in the house, and her sideburns and hair were wet with sweat.

Seeing this, Chu Lin couldn't help but feel a little distressed, so he said: "You are the only girl in the restaurant, although the business is not busy, it is not easy to take care of a sick doll, why don't I take it back to the palace and let the maids and daughters help take care of it for a few days." ”

"Forget it, don't bother, this child has been living in a fixed place, she is timid and afraid to be born, I coaxed her for a day, she is still unstable, if she changes again, she is even more afraid." Du Mei shook her head and gently placed the sleeping Du Jujube on the bed.

"If the takeaway really starts, you must be busy all day long,

If you have to make time to take care of her, you really think you are iron. Chu Lin couldn't help hugging Du Mei's arm and said reluctantly.

"At this time, she is sick, I will take care of her for a few days, and when she is better, I plan to send her to live in the villa, and let Aunt Miao help bring it, her mother has such a thing, and she will inevitably be ridiculed and isolated in Dujiagou, the third uncle doesn't care, grandma is old, she doesn't want to see girls, and she will be angry with her because of her mother, but it is better to live comfortably in the villa." Du Mei turned around to take the needlework and pushed Chu Lin's hand away without a trace.

Chu Lin looked at Du Mei's back, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he seemed to be out of line. That day, Du Mei promised that everyone would be friends again, and he couldn't control this measure!

"If there is nothing else wrong, you can let Ma Rong go. I don't sympathize with him, anyway, he saved her life, and I don't know how he brought up a milk doll. Du Mei lowered her head and sewed small clothes for Du Zao with scattered cotton cloth, and sighed.

"I'm planning to send him back to his hometown, it's not a matter for someone like him to be in Gangneung City for a long time." Chu Lin sat at the table and looked at Du Mei's face, the dim light coated her face with a layer of soft light, gentle and demure.

"That's fine." Du Mei listened and nodded.

The two talked for a while, and it wasn't until the front closed to clean up the tables and chairs that Chu Lin said goodbye and left.

Early the next morning, Xiaoli brought nine twelve or thirteen-year-old children, they were different in height, short, fat and thin, but they all looked very clever, Du Mei was very satisfied when he saw it, so he asked Lin Dai to lead them to the ready-to-wear shop next door, and ordered two short fights of indigo muslin cloth for each person, and bought two pairs of cloth shoes for each person, and also made a cloth bag with a diagonal back according to the pattern painted by Du Mei.

Twenty pieces of clothes, which could not be made in the shop for a while, Du Mei and Xiaoli said that they would come back in two days.

Du Zao drank the medicine for two days, the heat finally subsided, Du Mei bathed her, changed into new clothes, looked better, people are more energetic, just love to cry, anyone hugs and cries, Du Mei can't, except for sleeping, she has to hug and coax, her brother Juniper has not been so difficult to bring.

Du Mei was trapped, so she had to send Lin Dai to send the written menu to the Humble Garden, and Murong Xi helped her print hundreds of copies, which was enough for a while.

After noon, Du Zao, who was full of food and sleep, no matter how Du Mei coaxed, only closed his eyes and cried.

Just when everyone was in a rut, two soldiers escorted Ma Rong in.

"The big treasurer, this man will not leave until he has seen the child, so we brought him here." A soldier bowed his hand.

"Give me a hug, give me a hug!" Ma Rong saw the child crying breathlessly in Du Mei's arms, and stretched out his hand anxiously.

"What are you doing!" A soldier glared at him.

Du Mei has been holding and shaking for more than half an hour, but the child just doesn't buy it, she thought about it, and couldn't bear Du Zao to cry like this, so she handed the child over to Ma Rong.

"Xiao Zao'er is a good doll, and a good doll has candy to eat." Ma Rong asked Du Zao to lie on his shoulder, patted her back slowly, and hummed a self-made tune in his mouth.

I don't know if it's the smell of his body or his voice, which makes Du Zao have a familiar feeling, she slowly stopped crying, and sucked her fingers to play.

"Du Mei, I beg you, don't drive me away, I'll make you a cow and a horse, just ask me to watch the dates." Ma Rong hugged Du Zao and suddenly knelt down.

"You're doing it

What the! I said earlier, she is not your child, and if you follow her like this, you can only let the people in the village remember her mother's unbearable past, which will only hurt her, not do her any good! Du Mei hugged Du Zao and frowned.

"Don't let her go back to Dujiagou, I know you have a way!" Ma Rong begged bitterly, and after saying that, he buried his head and knocked down, and there was a bang.

"Wow!" Leaving Ma Rong's arms, Du Zao immediately cried again.

Du Mei looked at Du Zao who was crying with a handful of snot and tears, and then looked at Ma Rong who was desperately kowtowing and begging on the ground, she couldn't bear it for a while, this child followed Ma Rong and begged everywhere, she had already recognized him as a relative, and refused to part for a moment.

"That's it, you accompany her to live in the villa for a while, but there is one thing, when Du Zao turns one year old, you have to leave, this is for her good, do you understand?" Du Mei thought for a moment and said.

Now Du Zao's body is weak, crying day and night like this, not only can not heal the disease, but it is easy to fall into the root of the disease, if she waits for half a year, she is older, less dependent on Ma Rong, and is familiar with the people in the villa, and it is not too late to send Ma Rong away.

"Good, good!" Ma Rong hurriedly agreed, and he got up from the ground, his dusty forehead reddened.

Du Zao opened his hand to ask him to hug him, but Du Mei couldn't, so she had to hand her over.

Ma Rong held Du Zao in his arms like a treasure, except that they didn't look like each other, they really looked too much like a father and daughter.

"This ......" Seeing this, the two soldiers looked at each other.

"Two little brothers, please go back and say that Mei Ji Bao Ma Rong has been in the capital for half a year, and then send him back to his hometown after this time, so okay?" Du Mei turned and said.

"I don't dare to be, but General Song Lang said that if the big shopkeeper changes his mind, he has to bring someone back to sign a letter of guarantee before it can be done." A soldier said politely.

"I'll go, I'll go." Ma Rong was afraid that Du Mei would regret it, so he agreed one after another.

Du Zao was probably tired of crying, and fell asleep in Ma Rong's arms for a while, he put her on the rocking bed and followed the soldiers.

Du Mei originally only planned to send Du Zao to the villa alone, but now seeing that she couldn't do without Ma Rong, she had to agree, she thought about it, and after all, she was not at ease, so she wrote two letters, one to Zhong Yu and one to Du Zhong. She thought that she could be sure that nothing would go wrong, but she didn't know that a few months later, because of her kindness, everything about her and her was almost ruined!

On the second day, Lin Yong and his wife came to deliver the ducks, and Du Mei took Du Zao and Ma Rong back to the villa, and handed the letter to You Shi, and asked Du Zhong to send it to Zhong Yu, who was illiterate, and Zhong Yu would tell him.

The next morning, the little left them as promised, the children specially washed and cleaned up, put on the new indigo clothes, all in good spirits, Du Mei sent them a blue cloth bag embroidered with red plum characters, which contained menus and charcoal, what the guests want to eat directly sketched on the line, it is very convenient, and they also explained their respective places to them one by one.

"Mei Ji takeaway, Mei Ji takeaway, you order me to deliver it, enjoy the food at home!" Xiaoli is smart, he is like selling newspapers, blurting out a smooth sentence, which is good to listen to and easy to remember.

Ten boys dressed exactly the same shouted slogans, ran out of the restaurant quickly, and scattered in the crowd at once, and the Mei Kee takeaway team was born!

"Boss, can they really bring in business?" Lin Dai put his hand on his forehead and asked with some concern, he was only afraid that these stubborn little beggars would never come back if they put on new clothes.