Chapter 137: That Plate of Osmanthus Cake
In the early morning, Suncheonfu is shrouded in a faint morning light, and with the sound of roosters crowing from nowhere, it is about to start a busy day.
The show lady has insomnia again.
When the night came, she couldn't sleep, and always felt that footsteps would sound outside the door at any time, and her niuniu would come back.
How can she sleep, what if she falls asleep and misses Niu Niu?
The show lady lay straight with her eyes open, and did not fall asleep in a daze until it was almost dawn.
The sound of a rooster woke up the show lady who had just fallen asleep.
She rolled over and got up, put on her clothes, and walked out numbly.
After losing her daughter, what difference does each day make for her? It's just a day-to-day ordeal.
She was waiting, waiting until the brute with a thousand cuts was pushed to the entrance of the vegetable market and beheaded, and watching his filthy blood come out, she could go to Niuniu with peace of mind.
Her Niu Niu is only fourteen years old, how can she do it without her mother by her side.
The show lady moved slowly and opened the door.
The pain of losing her daughter and the insomnia of the past few days had almost dried up the woman's spirit, making her as sluggish as an old woman.
A small old bamboo basket sits quietly on the ground outside the door.
Xiu Niangzi suddenly shuddered, staring at the bamboo basket.
She has such a bamboo basket at home, and that day Niuniu went to the street to buy her osmanthus cake, and also brought a bamboo basket like this-
Xiu Niangzi suddenly thought of something, suddenly grabbed the bamboo basket and pulled open the lid covering the bamboo basket.
Eight pieces of osmanthus cake cut into a diamond shape are put together on a plate, which is mouth-watering.
As soon as Xiu Niangzi's hand was loosened, the bamboo basket fell to the ground, and the osmanthus cake on the plate rolled out.
She stared intently at the osmanthus cake on the ground for a moment, and suddenly knelt on the ground as if she was crazy, grabbed the osmanthus cake on the ground and stuffed it into her mouth.
The mother-in-law who heard the movement rushed over and hurriedly pulled her: "Ouch, Xiu Niangzi, how can you eat what falls to the ground?" β
Xiu Niangzi was shocked, grabbed her mother-in-law's wrist suddenly, and hissed: "Where did this come from?" β
The mother-in-law had never seen such a crazy appearance of the show lady, and she was frightened for a while.
"Say, where did this come from?"
The mother-in-law's eyes fell: "Do you ask these osmanthus cakes?" β
The show lady nodded violently.
"I don't know, there are some big men in the yamen, who eats osmanthus cakes. It's strange, I haven't seen it when I passed by here just now, why did a basket of osmanthus cakes suddenly appear? β
The show lady hugged the bamboo basket, tears falling like rain: "It's Niu Niu, it must be the osmanthus cake that Niu Niu brought me!" β
The mother-in-law cautiously asked, "Xiu Niangzi, what do you mean by this?" β
The appearance of this plate of osmanthus cake seemed to have regained the ability of Xiu Niangzi to speak, she pulled her mother-in-law and kept muttering: "Niuniu is going to buy osmanthus cake for me on the street that day......"
In the end, the show lady whimpered and cried, and the mother-in-law also wiped her tears.
"You say, are these osmanthus cakes sent by Niu Niu?" Xiu Niangzi asked expectantly.
The mother-in-law slapped her thigh violently: "It must be!" I said why is it so strange, this basket of osmanthus cakes appeared completely out of thin air, it must be Niuniu who can't rest assured of you, and came to see you with your favorite osmanthus cakes. β
"Niuniu can't rest assured of me?"
"It's not that you can't rest assured. Tsk, show lady, look at your current appearance, you are so skinny, how can Niuniu rest assured? β
Xiu Niangzi laughed: "I knew that Niuniu would come to me." Niuniu, you must wait for your mother, it won't be long before your mother will look for you-"
The mother-in-law was startled, and squeezed Xiu Niangzi's hand hard: "Xiu Niangzi, you can't think about it." β
Xiu Niangzi just smiled: "I didn't think about it, I just wanted to find my niuniu." β
"Show lady, you are really confused!"
The show lady was stunned.
The mother-in-law hated iron and said: "Why did Niuniu come back to see you?" Aren't you afraid that you will have a bad time because you think of her! If you really have the heart to seek death, Niuniu may not be able to reincarnate! β
"What do you mean?" Xiu Niangzi suddenly became nervous.
The mother-in-law sighed: "The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, this is the great unfilial piety of the black-haired person." Show lady, you should have heard this, right? β
Xiu Niangzi couldn't help nodding.
It's an old saying, of course she knows.
"Xiu Niangzi, Niuniu went before you, no matter what the reason, she already has a debt to her mother, if you seek death because of her, then she will be a great sin. When the time comes, Lord Yama will look at the merit book, Niuniu will be going to be a rich and noble family in her next life, so maybe she will have to go to the beast roadββ"
"Nonsense!" The show lady was shocked, and her face turned white with fright.
It doesn't matter what she does, Niu Niu can't suffer anymore!
The mother-in-law patted Xiu Niangzi on the back: "So, Xiu Niangzi, you have to live well." If you live well, Niuniu will have fewer debts, and she will be blessed in the next life. Hey, Niuniu is such a good boy, thinking about giving her mother osmanthus cake......"
Xiu Niangzi's eyes moved, and she murmured: "My Niu Niu will also become everyone's girlfriend, she will not follow me to grind tofu, be bullied, and she will not be killed, right?" β
"Yes, it must be." Secretly looking at the show lady's gradually glowing eyes, the mother-in-law sighed quietly.
It seems that she believes it, not to mention whether she can get the reward of the eldest master, saving people's lives, she can also be regarded as accumulating virtue.
Show lady, what a poor person.
Zhen Shicheng quickly got the news from his mother-in-law that Xiu Niangzi not only used an extra bowl of rice today, but also took the initiative to sweep the floor.
Zhen Shicheng's heart let go.
can eat and work, Xiu Niangzi seems to have dispelled the idea of seeking death.
That little girl really has a way.
Thinking of Jiang, Zhen Shicheng couldn't help but smile.
Jiang seemed to have told Zhen Shicheng what he had to do to arrange for the show lady to work, so he instructed Ah Fei to find a suitable shop as soon as possible.
The shop does not need to be large, it is best to have a pawnshop facing the street in front of it, and there is a yard in the back for people to settle down.
Jiang doesn't seem to expect this small shop to make money, just keep it running, the key is that with such a fat powder shop, she can appear there in a bright light, and it will be convenient to do many things in the future.
For Jiang Yi, letting the Hou Shizi of Changxing fall into disrepute is only a solution to a problem, and there are more troubles to be solved in the future.
For this reason, all precautions are necessary.
The second half of May passed in the vigorous case of the torture and murder of ten women by the Hou Shizi of Changxing.
During this period, except for the family of one victim woman, the family of the other victim women rushed to take care of the aftermath one after another, and Zhen Shicheng received considerable compensation from the Changxing Marquis Mansion.
The world always forgets it, and soon people's eyes were attracted by the violent death case of "Uncle Yang Guo", because the case did not make much progress, and Beijing seemed calm for a while.
But Yu Jin's mood has not been calm recently.
His eighteenth birthday arrived.