The inner courtyard of the Lin family.

Mrs. Lin asked the maid to carry a cup of sweet soup and walked slowly to her husband's study. Because she was in a good mood today, she was not moved when she saw the two delicate and lovely maids waiting outside the study.

After saying a few thoughtful words as usual, she naturally mentioned Lin Si's matter.

"Although the fourth brother is not our own brother, he is not much different from his own brother, and it is also hard work to help take care of the shop in the past few months. Now that he has injured his leg, there are only servants and maidservants in the house, and he is not dedicated enough. I thought about asking his daughter-in-law to come and take care of him. What do you think? ”

Lin Hu thought of his cousin-in-law who was a little spicy, and frowned, but he had no choice but to respond.

Mrs. Lin was overjoyed, changed her mind again, and said a few words to Lin Hu about the rent in the field, the income of the shop, and the festival gifts sent to the capital, and then consciously retreated.

In the afternoon of the same day, Mrs. Lin Si arrived in a donkey cart.

Before entering the black lacquered gate of the Lin family, she muttered a few curses, to the effect that Lin Si was used to tossing, and this time she wanted to clean up the mess.

Next to him, Lin Si bought a girl for his widowed lady to serve, and this time he also came. Originally, Lin Si's mother heard that her son was injured, and she was so anxious that she wanted to go into the city in person, so she was persuaded by Mrs. Lin Si, who knew the inside story, and she was afraid that Lin Si's incident would make the old lady directly angry and ascend to heaven. The old lady stuffed Chunhua into the car, saying that she was hard and didn't need a girl to serve.

Chunhua was originally a country girl, and she hadn't been back to the city a few times, so she couldn't help but be constrained when she entered the Lin family this time.

The other subordinates couldn't help but be a little disdainful when they saw it, and some old people who knew about it laughed secretly in their hearts, this fourth master's family is really small enough. But after thinking about it, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the fourth master and his wife are like that, what can they expect from others?

Mrs. Lin Si is not a scholarly lady, her family opened a coffin shop in the town, and she has been helping in the shop since she was a child, and she has honed a neat mouth. Whoever doesn't open his eyes and provoke her can point at you and scold you for an hour without panting. Later, he married Lin Si and gave birth to a baby, and his temper did not converge. Most of the Lin family is in awe of this fourth wife who lives in the countryside.

As soon as she entered the small courtyard, she scolded: "Lin Laosi! Get the hell out of here! You are a bastard, the old lady is working hard in the countryside to serve the old lady and take care of the children, you are good, you eat and drink spicy food in the city, and you still think about other people's accounts! ”

The servants in the small courtyard all looked like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

Seeing that Lin Si didn't come out to pick her up, Mrs. Lin Si was even more angry, and strode directly into the house, grabbing Lin Si's ears and dragging them under the bed.

"Ouch, ouch, good lady, you lightly start~ Tear off your husband's ear, how can you go out to patrol the shop?"

Seeing his own mother worm, Lin Si couldn't care about pretending to be sick at this time, he just wanted to run away. It's a pity that the ears are pulled tightly, and I can't escape, but I still tear myself to the pain.

Mrs. Lin Si's subordinates became even stronger, and she sneered on her face: "Patrol the shop? When you don't know your tricks, you patrol and patrol to those rotten prostitutes? ”

Seeing that Lin Si was still struggling, she directly slapped her two big mouths over, and continued to scold him when he was starry and powerless to resist.

"You can bear it! In the past, I just touched the hands of the big girl and the little daughter-in-law on the streets and alleys, but now even other people's husbands dare to think about it? Why, can't the old lady even compare to a washboard with no meat on her chest? If you can't bear the loneliness, the old lady will directly use the rolling pin to quench your thirst! If it's not enough, your father-in-law's coffin has a lot of coffin boards, and it's just right to chop it with an axe, and it has barbs......"

Everyone in the house did not dare to persuade her, especially Chunhua, whose face was extremely calm, this was a scene she was used to seeing in the countryside.

The inner courtyard of the Lin family was jumping, but the county government was also very busy.

He County Ling received a "reliable information" yesterday, saying that the imperial history who came to inspect this time was unfortunately infected in the next county town, and I am afraid that he would have to return to Beijing for diagnosis and treatment first. The case between Lin Si and the Liu family could not continue to drag on, so he had the courage to make a verdict today. Unexpectedly, it was only half an hour after the court was released, and two people who claimed to be Yushi came to the door.

He met with the other party with trepidation, checked the documents, and was convinced that nine percent of the "reliable information" he had obtained yesterday had been fooled by someone.

I saw that this person had a ruddy complexion, a short beard that was black and bright, and his eyes were deep and bright, except for the slightly loose and untidy bun, where did he look like a patient? Not to mention that he is still in bed with a sudden illness and is ready to leave for Beijing......

"Xie Yushi is here, the lower officials have lost their welcome, please ......"

Xie Congyuan waved his hand, interrupted his opening remarks, and said with a smile: "He County Order doesn't need to be polite, this official is just here for routine business." ”

He Xianling breathed a sigh of relief, and heard the other party say: "Not only must we evaluate the actual performance, but also postpone the water conservancy and people's livelihood in advance, and ask He Xianling to take out the file of the past year and let the official check it out." If there is any unjust, false and wrongful case, don't blame the official for being ruthless! ”

Xie Congyuan took a sip of tea, looked at He Xianling, who was slightly sluggish, and smiled even more happily.

Compared with the unlucky Lin Si and He County Order, Pei Baoer's mood at this time can not be described as bad.

When she came out of the Lin family, she slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.

With the help of Mrs. Lin's financial resources, opening the shop first is not just an expedient measure to deal with Lin Siyi's matter. It is said that saving money can never be rich, and only by doing business can money make money.

Although Mrs. Lin was very shrewd and cut the three or seven points she proposed to two or eight points, Pei Baoer kept her "patent right", that is, she did not have to hand over her so-called "ancestral secret recipe", which can be regarded as a good result.

Although he lost fifty taels of "huge money" in vain, he reached a cooperation with Mrs. Lin, if he can build a fat powder shop and open some semicolons in the surrounding towns, he is expected to make money every day. When the fifty taels are paid off and she has saved enough money for the new shop, she can get rid of the Lin family and go alone, of course, she has to change to a new site. For example, go to Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south to open a store.

What's more, Mrs. Lin also promised her another more important thing, which is much more attractive than silver.

Thinking back to Mrs. Lin Si's pungent temperament that Mrs. Lin revealed to her just now, she must have been a person who couldn't rub sand in her eyes, this time to see how Lin Si came to pester her little sheep Liu Yun!

After she returned to Osmanthus Lane and announced that she was going to partner with the Lin family to open a shop, Liu Yun and Dani were naturally very happy.

Liu Yun sighed and said: "This time I was able to turn disaster into blessing, all thanks to Sister A's wit." It's a pity that I can't help, and I'm always holding you back. Not to mention, now that he has lost his job and is idle at home, he has become a soft eater. He's even worse than Dani, who can still take care of the housework.

Pei Bao'er smiled and said, "Why can't you help?" From now on, you and Dani will have to help me tinker with those bottles and cans. Don't worry, the wages are enough. ”

Dani asked incredulously, "I, can I really do it?" Aren't those the ancestral secret recipes of the lady? She has always been in awe of Pei Baoer's hut that can toss a lot of strange fat powder, even when she goes in to clean the dust, she is careful, for fear that if she breaks a small porcelain jar, Pei Baoer may sell her in anger.

Pei Baoer pretended to be deep: "Cough, it is precisely because it is an ancestral secret recipe that I have to hold it in my own hands." The Lin family is responsible for the shop and the shopkeeper, we only need to produce products here, and it is still a good deal for us. Mrs. Lin said that there is a shop over there that can be changed to sell fat powder, and it will take half a month to reorganize, and then find a good day and an auspicious day. Well, the top priority on our side is to get the first month's product out first. ”

She is not three-headed and six-armed, and she will definitely not be able to cope with such a large output by herself. In addition, the cosmetics she had hoarded before had also sold a lot during this time, and now she needed the help of other people's hands even more.

If she wants the formula not to leak out, she can only ask Liu Yun and Dani, who she trusts the most at this stage, to help.

The two of them quickly agreed, especially Dani, who was so excited that she picked up a pie that fell from the sky. Pei Baoer felt that she regarded herself as the master who accepted her as an apprentice, after all, the conditions for craftsmen to accept apprentices in these years were very strict.

Without Lin Si's threat, the dark clouds that had previously shrouded above the Liu family's courtyard finally dispersed, and now there was a hot labor scene inside.

"Ah Yun, grind this piece of garcinia cambogia into powder, sieve it three more times, the finer the better. Oh, also, the Guanyin soil is almost gone, you can crush this after grinding Garcinia cambogia. ”

"Dani, the mica powder is gone, you go to the pharmacy and weigh half a catty back. Remember to bargain with the boss, and at most you can't exceed this price. ”

"Yan'er, don't catch that to play, oops, this is not good, you are not allowed to eat your fingers! Go out to see your ants move, don't come here to make trouble~"

At this time, the atmosphere in Whitewater Town was a little tense.

The man with a cold expression knocked on the table with his fingers, and Song Yan next to him opened his mouth and asked, "You are the owner of this pawnshop?" Although he deliberately lowered his voice, he could still hear that his voice was feminine.

Seeing that the other party nodded and said yes, Song Yan pointed to an open brocade box on the table and asked, "Have you ever seen this bracelet?" ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the silent man on the side, and for some reason he felt a chill, so he quickly settled down and focused on the white jade bracelet. I saw that it was white, warm and smooth, without a single flaw, and it was a rare treasure. Such a good thing, if it passed through his hands, it was naturally impossible to forget.

He nodded, "The little one has indeed seen it." It seems that last year or the year before last, someone brought this bracelet to the store to die. The little one saw that the bracelet was in good condition, so he gave her two taels of silver. Then, the boss of Zhenbao Zhai saw it by chance and bought it back for five taels of silver. After that, I don't know who I will sell it to, and I don't know if it's small. ”

The pawnshop owner replied as he tried to control his trembling legs, and he had a gut feeling that the person who bought the bracelet in the end must have had something big going on, and eighty percent of them had been brought over with evidence to seek revenge.

Unexpectedly, the man sitting suddenly sneered, "Two taels of silver? What a good deal! ”

The pawnshop owner was immediately silenced, but he was a little unclear. Song Yan on the side looked a little weird, this bracelet was a treasure of Gaochangguo's tribute back then, but it was reduced to this poor country, and it was only taken as two taels of silver. I really don't know whether to say that this person has no eyes, or a black-hearted profiteer.

Qi Heng gave him a look, and the boss of the Treasure Pavilion was naturally brought here.

"Back to the nobleman, the bracelet was indeed bought from Lao Zheng, and it cost a full five taels of silver, and I want to be the treasure of the town store. After a few months, some family members said that they wanted to buy a gift for their daughter, so they finally bought the bracelet for eight taels of silver. The small ones have always been in this branch, and they have done all the business of Tong Suo without deception, and they have never done anything wrong! ”

Song Yan immediately asked: "Who bought this bracelet, do you remember?" ”

The owner of the Treasure Pavilion scratched his head for a while, and then said, "It seems that the surname is Li or the surname Lin, I don't remember much." It seems to be a distant relative of some noble person in the capital, but it is just defeated, otherwise how can you buy and give gifts in a small shop like ours. I heard that those girls and young ladies from big families are all ......"

Qi Heng frowned, and before the word "shut up" was issued, Song Yan motioned for the others to sneak out the boss of the Treasure Pavilion.

"Master, now it seems that what they said is right, this bracelet was transferred to the cousin of the Lin family in this way."

The pawnshop owner who was left behind continued to tremble, because the big Buddha like an ice sculpture finally looked at him and began to ask: "Tell me honestly, who is holding this jade bracelet?" If there is anything to hide, there will be no forgiveness! ”

He racked his brains to recall, and then replied in a trembling voice: "It's a young lady, about twenty, and a red mark on her face is the most conspicuous." I don't know who the specific surname is. He cried and said with a sad face: "Every word the villain said is true, if we open the door to do business, where will we write down the names of customers......"

Red Mark?

Qi Heng's heart moved, and he leaned forward to ask something, but swallowed back the words that came to his mouth: "Song Yan, go out and inquire about that woman." It's a small town, and there must have been people who have seen her, who her name is, and where she lives. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and softened his tone: "If you find someone, don't be alarmed, come back first..."