Xiaowan was eating steamed buns and inadvertently saw Ling Chaofeng, she was a little weak-hearted, pretended not to see it, and deliberately carried it.

Aunt Zhang came out and said, "Shopkeeper, after breakfast, we will go to town." ”

Ling Chaofeng bowed: "Go early and return early." ”

Xiao Wan slowly finished eating the bun in his hand, and then turned around, the man had already left.

Not long after, Ershan set up the carriage, they loaded a drawer of buns into the car, Aunt Zhang took Xiaowan to sit in the car and look at the cage drawer, Ershan drove the car, and Uncle Biao sat on the side smoking and chatting with him.

The carriage went to Baisha Town unhurriedly, and Aunt Zhang grabbed two oranges when she went out, and at this moment she peeled the skin leisurely and handed it to Xiao Wan, Xiao Wan was stunned and didn't dare to take it, she never dared to think that someone would peel the orange for her and send it to her mouth.

The aunt asked her: "Don't you eat white tendons, you lose fire after eating." ”

Xiaowan took the orange and held it in her hand, Aunt Zhang continued to peel herself, and the little lady who overheard it said: "In the past few days, I have eaten a lot of good things every day, and if I can't eat them in the future, I will be sad." ”

"Why can't you eat it, as long as you like it, you can eat it every day." Aunt Zhang smiled, "It's not a good thing, it's just home-cooked food." ”

Xiaowan smiled, tore a break of oranges and put them in her mouth, sweet and sour, juicy, and completely relieved the greasy taste of eating too many meat buns, she had eaten oranges when she was a child, and she hadn't eaten them since, and she almost forgot the taste of oranges.

Aunt Zhang was eating oranges, and when she saw that the little lady was thoughtful, she thought of what she had just said, so she asked, "Later, do you still want to run?" When you get to town, will you run? ”

Xiaowan hurriedly waved her hand: "Auntie, I won't run, I, I promised the shopkeeper Ling, wait for my father to pick me up." ”

Aunt Zhang thought for a while and asked, "So you still have to go, Wan'er, are you so unwilling to marry our shopkeeper?" ”

Xiaowan lowered her head, holding the orange and reluctant to eat it.

"Do you believe your aunt?"

"Faith." Xiaowan nodded.

"I didn't tell you, we don't sell human meat buns, we don't kill people, we don't rob, we are serious about doing business, not a black shop." Aunt Zhang said patiently and gently, "The shopkeeper is a good person, and he is a good man, and it will not be a loss to marry him." And you are so beautiful and well-behaved, it is also his blessing to marry you, what a good couple, why are you reluctant? ”

"But ......" Xiaowan said, yes, if it wasn't a black shop, if Ling Chaofeng didn't kill people and sell goods, why didn't she want to marry?

"Mrs. Sun's matter, you will understand in a few days." Aunt Zhang touched her head, "I will see a lot in the store in the future, and you won't be surprised, if you believe me, take a good look at whether our shopkeeper is a person worthy of trust." What's more, you have already married, if he divorces you, how can you marry in the future, and stay at home without marrying, what ...... you are?"

Xiao Wan saw Aunt Zhang stop suddenly, stretched out her hand and gently lifted her sleeves, and said distressedly: "I know that you were tied up on the day you got married, and you had a wrist injury, but I didn't know that you still had an arm on it, Mrs. Sun asked me why, where could I answer, and then I thought about it, I must have been beaten by your stepmother at home, right?" Poor child, if you go home, will you not be abused by her again? ”

Xiaowan had tears in her eyes, and said aggrievedly: "Auntie, even if my father comes, he must persuade me to be honest and obedient, and follow the shopkeeper Ling to have a good time, he will not take me away." ”

Speaking of which, Xiaowan was very sad, she knew better than anyone else that her father didn't care about her at all, if she cared about her, how could she be abused at home for more than ten years, even if he deliberately showed him the scars, he pretended not to see it.

Aunt Zhang wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "Since you know, what else do you expect?" ”

Xiaowan was stunned, yes, what did she expect?

Aunt Zhang said with a smile: "You see that you have run and run, and you have cried, I saw a circle of tooth marks on the wrist of the shopkeeper, did you bite it?" ”

Xiaowan's face turned red, and Aunt Zhang smiled: "If the shopkeeper is a bad person, can he tolerate you tossing so much?" I broke your leg long ago. ”

Yes, Ling Chaofeng was very fierce, but he didn't touch himself with a finger.

Soon, when they arrived at Baisha Town, Xiaowan stopped crying, lying on the car window to look at the scene outside, she found that passers-by saw the carriage of the Lingxiao Inn, and they all stopped to look, or pointed in groups, and everyone's eyes flashed with curiosity.

The carriage stopped at the bridge, Ershan and Uncle Biao jumped out of the car and set up their stalls neatly and skillfully, and they even brought the stove for steaming buns.

In the blink of an eye, the steamed buns were steamed, the hot aroma drifted away with the wind, and Uncle Biao stood at the head of the bridge and shouted to passers-by: "Sell steamed buns, big meat buns." ”

Xiaowan stood aside, looking at the people coming and going, many people seemed to be afraid of Uncle Biao, and they were far away from the bridge, and some people were wandering not far away, as if they didn't dare to go on the bridge, she muttered in her heart, can this bun be sold?

But soon, a regular customer came, bought ten buns at once, and exchanged a few words with Uncle Biao and Aunt Zhang, looking at Xiaowan with a novel gaze.

Xiaowan rarely went out in the past, and it was inevitable that she would be shy when she was watched by so many people.

After this wave, more and more people came to buy steamed buns, and before noon, the five drawers of steamed buns were all sold out.

Uncle Biao said, "You go back first, I'll go have a cup of tea and listen to two books." ”

Aunt Zhang said angrily: "Tea or wine? If you come back and let me smell the wine, you look good! ”

Uncle Biao smiled, sent his own lady and Xiaowan into the carriage, told Ershan to be careful to catch the car, and separated from them.

The carriage walked by the side of the street, and Aunt Zhang saw that there were sugar gourds for sale, so she asked Ershan to stop the car, bought a string of sugar gourds from the window, Xiaowan happily took it, and let her aunt eat it first, Aunt Zhang smiled and said: "I'm afraid of sour, you can eat it." ”

The carriage left, but saw a middle-aged woman in a coarse cloth shirt come over and asked the person selling sugar gourds, "Where did this carriage come from?" ”

The man said, "Didn't you see a lantern hanging in front of the carriage?" The famous Lingxiao Inn, have you heard that the wife of Lord Sun from the capital died in their shop. ”

On this side, the carriage rushed back, Xiaowan was eating sugar gourds, while watching Aunt Zhang count the money, she remembered that when she was tied to the firewood house, she heard the rumors from the women in the village, so she asked Aunt Zhang why they opened an inn and went to the town to sell steamed buns.

Aunt Zhang said with a smile: "Every time I receive distinguished guests, there are always a lot of ingredients left, and a few of us can't eat them all, and it's a waste if it's broken, so your Uncle Biao will chop these ingredients into stuffing and pinch buns to sell." ”

Xiaowan felt that it made sense, but that day she saw Uncle Biao carrying a whole half of the big fat pig, and she asked again: "We all came out, and Uncle Biao is not here, what should I do if there are customers in the store?" ”

Aunt Zhang looked at her and smiled deeply, in fact, Xiaowan also had the answer in her heart, there was no business in the inn at all.

When they returned to the inn, she sat in the store for most of the day, and Uncle Biao came back at sunset, but she didn't even see the ghost of a guest in the store.

Xiaowan shook her head, this is not something she should worry about. After dinner, she took the initiative to go to the well to wash the dishes, and now she dared to roll up her sleeves generously, reluctant to soak such a good material in the water.

At this time, I just fetched a bucket of water, and suddenly saw a woman walking towards me, through the light from the back door, with a bang, the bucket fell, Xiaowan's eyes widened, is this the hell?

She asked in a trembling voice, "Sun, Mrs. Sun?" ”

The night was deep, Ershan closed the door of the store, bolted the door latch, carried the lantern to check everywhere, looked up and saw a figure on the third floor, it seemed to be the bride, was going to the shopkeeper's house, the little brother smiled, and hurriedly ran to tell Aunt Zhang.

Xiaowan held Ling Chaofeng's clothes, washed them and folded them neatly, hesitated for a long time, and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Ling Chaofeng said in the room.

"I'm in." Xiaowan responded softly, pushed open the door, this room and their "wedding room" face to face, the layout is the same, the difference is that there is no big red mandarin duck bed tent, the room is clean and tidy, Ling Chaofeng is sitting at the desk, looking at her expressionlessly.

"The clothes are washed, and I put them here." Xiaowan put down her clothes, and when she saw Ling Chaofeng continuing to bow her head and write something, she was about to go out, but after thinking about it, she still turned back, hung her head and said softly, "Shopkeeper Ling, I'm sorry, I wronged you." ”

It turned out that Mrs. Sun really wanted to poison the second lady, there was no poison in the soup she made at that time, but there was poison on the spoon, and she gave it to the second lady, just to poison her, along with the red bean soup in the afternoon.

But at that time, when she saw the second lady bringing the soup back to her, she felt that this was fate, and she had no faith in living again, so she drank it without hesitation.

Ling Chaofeng had long been aware of Mrs. Sun's murderous intent, whether it was to kill the second lady or kill herself, the poison was dropped, although the appearance of spurting blood and fainting was very terrifying, but it did not damage her life. The doctor invited was naturally also Ling Chaofeng's person, and the doctor did not go to treat Mrs. Sun, but asked her whether she wanted to live or "die".

Mrs. Sun said to Xiaowan: "It's better to mourn than to die, Wan'er, I don't want to live with that man anymore." But the shopkeeper said that it was not worth dying for them, since I had already died once, I was free. ”

There were some words that Xiaowan couldn't understand, but then Ling Chaofeng came with people, and those people drove the carriage and took Mrs. Sun away.

Either way, she knew she had wronged someone.

At this moment, Ling Chaofeng didn't make a sound, and continued to write on his own, and when he finished writing, he slowly put it away, put it into an envelope-like thing, and then said: "I'll write a letter and send someone to find your father, if it goes well, your father will be able to come around August 15." Of course, if you can't find it, it's another story. ”

Xiao Wan's heart was inexplicably empty, her eyes looked at Ling Chaofeng sadly, and her red lips trembled slightly: "My father won't care about me, look for him...... It's useless, I just can't help it, so I said that. ”

Ling Chaofeng got up and walked in front of her: "Then what do you want?" ”

Xiao Wan's hands were entangled, her left hand was tightly grasping the jade ring on the ring finger of her right hand, and her head was about to be buried in her chest if she lowered her head, she said: "Shopkeeper Ling, can you take me in, I work for the store, I don't take silver, I don't have to live in such a good house, I don't have to wear such good clothes, as long as there is a place to sleep and eat." ”

Ling Chaofeng reached out to lift her chin and raised her other hand, revealing the tooth marks on her wrist: "You also bit me." ”

Xiaowan slurred and said, "I'm sorry......"

Ling Chaofeng said: "Then let me bite back." ”