"I'm not enough." Xiao Li said with a sly wink.

You can earn five cents by sending a letter, Xiao Li is eager to try, he wants to let the people here take all the work, now there is half a year to the New Year, if you do well, you can always save some money, and make a cotton coat for each beggar for the winter.

"Naturally, I don't want you alone, but she can't afford to delay her illness, besides, I look here, your words are still effective, I'll negotiate with you in a while, and the rest will be easy to handle." Du Mei smiled, this kid is clever, taking into account the overall situation, if he cultivates well, he will be a good shopkeeper one day.

"That's it." Xiao Li didn't say a word, grabbed the wheel and sat down, waving at the little beggars.

"You ......" Dumeyan handed, she wanted to say, he could sit in the carriage with them.

Murong Xi didn't wait for her to finish, then took her arm and got into the carriage, and whispered: "I know you want to use him, but he will be your buddy in the future after all, he has this consciousness, he is naturally very good, don't get used to it." ”

When Du Mei heard him say this, he had no choice but to give up.

Du Mei carefully checked Du Zao's pulse, and said anxiously outside: "Go to the nearest hospital!" ”

The coachman answered, raised his whip, and the horse ran briskly, and after a while he saw a hospital not far away.

The men in the hospital saw that the two people who came in a hurry were innocent and dressed extraordinarily, and immediately greeted them, and the doctor sitting in the hall looked at the child in Du Mei's arms, and Xiao Li, who followed behind, only when they were kind to save people, they immediately stood in awe, and hurriedly diagnosed the patient and prescribed medicine.

Du Mei took the prescription and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Doctor, this child has been sick for a few days, and he is too thin and weak, and his organs are delicate, I am afraid that he will not be able to bear this amount of medicine. ”

"You're a female doctor?" The doctor asked in surprise.

"Yes, I can treat her, but I don't have any medicine." Du Mei did not hide it either, and said generously.

"Oh, if you have medical skills, why didn't you get a job in a medical hall?" The doctor was not annoyed, and after reconsideration, he opened another prescription.

"Thank you, doctor, I open Mei Ji Restaurant, welcome to try it next time, I will give you a discount." Du Mei took the recipe and said with a smile.

"It turned out to be the famous Mei Ji shopkeeper." The guy behind the counter who grabbed the medicine according to the order heard it and couldn't help but exclaim.

Du Mei carried the medicine bag and Du Zao back to the restaurant, and hurriedly instructed Lin Dai to boil the medicine and porridge, and she took the sick child to the back hall to her own room, Murong Xi sent a pot of Yutang Chun in through the door, Du Mei dipped the muslin cloth in soju to wipe Du Zao to cool down, Xiao Li has been quietly guarding outside, staring at Murong Xi with big eyes.

After Du Mei did this, she found a new piece of cloth and wrapped Du Zao and put it on the bed, she came out and poured out the dirty wine, Murong Xi saw this, so he sent Xiao to the kitchen to look at the medicine and porridge.

After Xiao left, he followed Du Mei into the house and asked in a low voice, "Who is she?" You know her, don't you? ”

"She is Du Zao, the child who lost my third uncle's family." Du Mei had no intention of concealing it and whispered.

"How are you sure it's her? Besides, don't you say that your third aunt and ......" Murong Xi said to his mouth, but he still held back, and didn't say anything in the end.

"Although she is so thin and out of shape now, a few days after she was born, I went to see it, and this birthmark can't be fake." Du Mei touched the cinnabar mole under Du Zao's eyes, and then said, "I promised Grandpa that I would definitely take it."

The lost child of the Du family was found, and he said that Du Zao was the child of the third uncle, so it must be. ”

"In this way, that Uncle Ma is the long-term worker of your third uncle's family, do you want to report to the official and arrest him?" Murong Xi frowned and asked. This kind of evil slave who deceives the master must be cunning and greedy by nature, and stealing children should be punished by the government!

"The Xie family is dead, their entanglement, I can't participate in it, he can't support Du Zao by begging, if he is willing to return the child, I won't embarrass him." Du Mei just wants to fulfill Grandpa's last wish, and she doesn't want to care about the rest, who can tell who is right and wrong about the past?

"Wow!" Du Zao on the bed suddenly burst into tears.

"What's wrong with her?" Murong Xi frowned and stared at the child with thin arms and legs in front of him, and cried with his eyes closed.

"The temperature has gone down a bit, maybe I'm hungry." Du Mei picked her up and coaxed her, and touched her body, which was not as hot as just now.

Xiao Li quickly sent a bowl of thick rice soup, turned around and went to wait for the medicine, Du Mei slowly fed Du Zao some rice soup with a small spoon, the little doll had the spirit, and slowly opened her eyes, she was five or six months old, and she could already recognize people, at this time, she turned her black glass-like eyes, and saw that Du Mei and Murong Xi were both fresh faces, and the place was not a dilapidated City God Temple, and suddenly began to pout and cry again.

"Zao'er, be good." Du Mei untied the small silver bell from a hairpin and shook it to coax her.

The silver bell made a crisp sound, which immediately attracted Du Zao's attention, she reached out to grab it, and shook it to herself.

"This little thing is here, so abrasive, how can you do takeaway?" Murong Xi didn't have a good impression of this dirty and noisy child.

"Cure her first, and then make plans." Du Mei hugged Du Zao and said.

Murong Xi looked at her helplessly, Xiao Li took a small half bowl of black medicine and blew it all the way.

Du Zao probably drank such a bitter medicine for a few days, as if she was used to it, she frowned, didn't cry or make trouble, and reluctantly drank the medicine. After a while, the effect of the medicine probably worked, and she slowly closed her eyelids and fell asleep in Du Mei's arms.

"Xiaoli, let's talk about sending letters." Du Mei put Du Zao on the bed and said, turning to the boy standing aside.

"You are so good to Sister Zao'er, I promise to help you deliver the letter." Xiao Li looked down at his toes and said unusually cheerfully.

"I want about ten boys who are as old as you and are familiar with Gangneung City, do you have friends and call them along?" Du Mei regarded him as an adult and spoke to him very seriously.

According to what the three of them discussed yesterday, Du Mei planned to divide the south of the royal street where the dignitaries and nobles lived into ten areas, and each boy would be responsible for one area.

"Xiaohai, Da Niu, Brother Xing......" Xiao Li wrenched his fingers, counted very seriously, and then nodded at Du Mei.

"In that case, Ming'er, you bring them here, each of them makes two clothes like the guys here, let's do things for Mei Ji on the street, always be decent, do you say?" Du Mei leaned over and asked, these children were used to being careless, and they were not necessarily willing to be restrained, so she had to talk to him slowly.

"Make new clothes? Two bodies? Xiaoli asked incredulously.

"That's right! In winter, if you are willing to help, you can also make padded jackets. Du Mei was afraid that he would not be willing, so he hurriedly said again.

"Xiaoli, hurry up and agree, you can see that the streets are full of you to run errands

Believe, who has given you such great benefits! Murong Xi saw that Xiao Li seemed to be a little hesitant, and hurriedly helped to speak.

"I know that when I put on Mei Ji's clothes, I have to be under Mei Ji's control, and I have to be responsible for sending letters and running errands, and I can't do it if I want to, and I can leave if I don't want to do it. I'm sure I can do it, but I can't make decisions for them, so I'm going to go back and ask them. Xiaoli thought about it and said cautiously.

"Okay, there's no hurry." Du Mei smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Then I'll go, Sister Zao'er has you to take care of it." Xiao Li clasped his hands together and bowed down.

"Bring some food back, delay you for half a day, I'm afraid that today's food will not be settled." Du Mei led Xiao to the kitchen and asked Lin Zheng to wrap a bag of steamed buns for him to bring.

Murong Xi had lunch at the restaurant and went back. The afternoon sun is blazing, there is no wind outside, only the endless screaming, it is really drowsy, there is not much business in the store, everyone thinks that ice cubes can be saved, and the cooks are all gathered in the front hall to doze off.

Du Mei asked Lin Dai to go out and buy a shaker, take Du Zao with her to take care of her, everyone slept, she lay down on the counter alone to write the menu, ready to sort out the main dishes of the restaurant, take them to Murong Xi to print, and then check them for the people who ordered the meal.

There was silence all around, and suddenly, the curtain of the door moved, and a wave of heat rolled in, Du Mei looked up, only to see a man in ragged clothes, sweating profusely, called Hanako, limping in.

"It's not a meal at this time, there's nothing left." Du Mei only thought he was begging, and said kindly.

"Du Mei, I'm Ma Rong, the long-term worker of your second uncle's family!" The man wiped the hair that hung down his cheeks, revealing a dark face.

"Is that you? …… Your legs? Du Mei looked closely, although the man was very thin, his appearance and voice were not bad at all, and it was really Ma Rong.

"That's the price!" Ma Rong grinned self-deprecatingly, and then said, "Brother Li said that the jujube was brought by you, I knew that I couldn't hide it, rather than waiting for you to report to the official to arrest me, I might as well come by myself." ”

Everyone who was resting on their stomachs was woken up by the sound of talking, and they looked at Ma Rong vigilantly, Lin Zheng stood beside Du Mei like a guard, and Lin Dai quietly went out through the back door.

"Why did you steal Du Jujube? Anyone who has seen their sister knows that she must be the child of my third uncle. "Du Mei is angry in the end.

"Your third aunt is playing tricks on me, shouldn't I take revenge on her?" Ma Rong said with a snort.

"You stole Du Zao, which had just been full moon, and let such a small person suffer with you, you did this, not only caused my grandfather to be angry to death, but also forced Du Zao and her mother to go crazy, she has now been frozen to death by the heavy snow after the year, you see, what have you done!" Du Mei scolded angrily, unconsciously raising his voice.

"Xiu'er, she's dead?" Ma Rong was shocked, and immediately rolled down two lines of tears.

"Yes, she is dead, and your sins should be over." Du Mei said coldly.

"The end? Who will pay for my leg? Ma Rong tearfully slapped himself lame and roared, "Back then, I took Zao'er, and I was afraid that I would be caught up by your people, so I fled from the shooting black, but I didn't know that the road to the Black Mountain was difficult to walk, I fell down from the mountain and broke my leg, but I saved her life!" Later, I only cared about running for my life all the way, and I didn't dare to stay to treat my legs, and as a result, it became like this, at this time, you said it was over, and it was over?! ”

"She's dead, what do you want?" Du Mei asked with a frown and disgust.