At noon on August 16, Qi Ning sat behind the counter leisurely drinking tea and looking at the account book.

According to Qi Ning's hunger marketing, they are still limited to 30 roast ducks a day.

However, there is no limit to the number of saltwater ducks, and about 20 ducks can be sold out every day. A new dish was also added, which was the famous flower chicken in the previous life, because it was wrapped in lotus leaves and roasted with yellow mud, and when it was opened, the fragrance overflowed with oily juice, so Qi Ning changed its name to fairy chicken. The fairy chicken is only made thirty a day, two hundred wen a day, and many people come to pack and take it away.

A familiar voice came from outside the door, Qi stood outside the door and looked at Qi Ning timidly: "Ning Ning......."

"You still have a face, get out...."Tie Niu waved the rag in his hand and bombarded the Qi family, he once went to the stall of the Zhong family on East Street when he was shopping, so he recognized the Qi family.

Qi Shi knelt on the ground outside the door: "Ning Ning, I know I don't have the face to come to see you, but I beg you to save the big girl, right?" ”

"Tie Niu, she is willing to kneel, let her stay away, don't delay business at the door." After Qi Ning finished speaking, the iron bull and the stone dragged the Qi clan to the road. Qi Ning ignored the Qi clan who was crying loudly and went back to the backyard.

When it was about to close in the evening, Qi Ning went to the front to collect the cash, and Qi was still kneeling on the stone slab on the side of the road and shrunk into a ball.

"Dongjia, she has been kneeling for most of the day, it doesn't look good to go on like this, why don't you let the official come here?" Zhu Xiuwen frowned and looked at the Qi clan outside the house.

"What's wrong with the big girl?" Qi Ning still relented, standing at the door and looking down at Qi.

"Your uncle, every day with Wang Gouzi's gang to play money, lost the stall, last night he came back and said that he gave the big girl to Wang Gouzi to top the gambling account. Wang Gouzi will come to the door tomorrow to marry the eldest girl. Ning Ning knows I'm sorry for you, but I can't help it, I can only ask you. Qi Shi raised his red and swollen face when he heard the voice, knelt a few steps forward and pulled Qi Ning's skirt

Qi Ning also ruined the three views when she heard it, the eldest girl was not yet thirteen, but she didn't expect Zhong Dashan to be so bad, and her own daughter was willing to be sent to the fire pit.

"I don't have an uncle, you are no longer my aunt, I have no blood relatives in this world, don't come to me for your family's affairs, and I won't care anymore. But if I were to run away with the big girl, there would be no way to live anywhere with hands and feet. ”

After Qi Ning finished speaking, she pushed away Qi's arm holding her legs, closed the door and went to sleep. People like Qi are never worth helping, she has a cowardly personality and is not responsible, she will only blindly want to rely on others, if Qi Ning takes them in again this time. Maybe they'll be cheated again. To be able to say so much is already the end of benevolence. After all, Qi Ning is not the Holy Mother.

Five days later, the shopkeeper Hu came to the door, Qi Ning was leading everyone to work in the kitchen, and when he heard Tie Niu's report, he hurriedly washed his hands and went to the front.

"Uncle Hu is here."

"Miss Qi, the things in the wine shop have been purchased, and I temporarily rented a Zhuangzi outside the city. The young owner asked me to come to you. Shopkeeper Hu put down the teacup in his hand and stood up and said.

"Tie Niu, call Uncle Qi over." After Qi Ning finished speaking, he asked the shopkeeper Hu to sit down.

Qi Fugui came in with a brush in his hand to comb the horse: "Girl, what are your orders?" ”

"You take the shopkeeper Hu to Zhujia Village and tell those who originally picked the fruit for us that they will directly hand over the fruit to the shopkeeper Hu after picking the fruit, and they will talk about the wages themselves."

Qi Fugui agreed, got into the car and led the shopkeeper Hu to Zhujia Village.

"Girl, I found that Zhong Dashan and a few people have been hanging around outside our door for the past few days." The Iron Bull God said mysteriously.

"As long as they don't come in, they don't have to bother, and if they inquire about them, they will say they don't know." Qi Ning guessed that Qi might have run away with the eldest girl.

"Well, if they dare to come in, I'll fight out." Tie Niu has lived well in the past two years, Qi Ning spoiled him again, often bought him delicious food, and his body was long, and he was about to catch up with Qi Ning.

"Those big men, don't do anything with them, be careful of hurting you, if they make trouble, you can call me, and if I'm not there, you will go to Master Zhou."

"Girl, I'm not afraid of them, I can protect you when I grow up, and whoever dares to bully us in the future will be beaten." Iron Bull stiffened his chest.

"I know that our iron bull has grown up, but heroes don't suffer immediate losses, don't be impulsive, it's not worth hurting. You have to be flexible, you know? Qi Ning looked at the little adult and smiled with relief.

Zhong Dashan's people didn't come again after a few days in a row, and Qi Ning's heart was also relieved.

On the first day of September, the emperor died of illness. The crown prince Li Yu succeeded to the throne and changed the name of the country to Changqingnian, and the new emperor was called Emperor Qing.

Subsequently, the new emperor granted amnesty to the world, the office school, Kaienke, Caoyun salt transportation was nationalized, farmland was exempted from taxation for three years, and merchants were exempted from tax for one year. It's like a new era of peace and prosperity. The DPRK and China appointed and dismissed a number of officials.

Because of the affluence of the people's livelihood, Qing'an City, which is located on the main road of water and land transportation, was changed to Qing'an Prefecture, and the Yamen of Zhili Prefecture was set up, and the original county commander was transferred to another place, and a new prefect was appointed to take over.

Master Zhou is a local, so he stayed.

For a time, the land price in Qing'an became expensive, and the land prices in several villages next to the city have risen a lot, and the paddy fields have risen to seventeen or eighteen taels of silver per mu, and they cannot be bought. Rents in the city have risen by five or six percent.

Qi Ning bought the original house of the tofu workshop and the yard together, the original owner was the former Wang County Order, and the business here was purchased in the name of his wife after he took office. Now that he has been transferred to Lingnan, he sold the house and moved away.

Qi Ning bought it through the tooth shop, and he didn't deal with Wang Xianling. It cost a total of 500 taels, six shops along the street, originally rented three to the tofu factory, and the owner used three to sell embroidery and ready-to-wear clothes, the yard is very large, but there are only three main houses, and the rest are warehouses and sundries.

After Qi Ning bought it, he asked Lu Washer to take someone to clean up the house and rent it to Xiao Yunsheng to open a wine shop, with fruit wine brewing in the back and four shops selling wine in front. I asked them for ten taels of silver a month.

For the remaining two rooms, Qi Ning posted a notice of rent, and within a few days, a paper and pencil shop came to rent, four taels of silver a month. Although the house price has risen now, Qi Ning did not increase the rent for the original tenants, and let them use the original price.

It's a pity that there has been no news from Jing Su, Qi Ning knows that it is now the new emperor to succeed to the throne, and those who have wolf ambitions are eyeing each other, presumably Jing Su is too busy to take care of it.

After the business here was settled, Xiao Yunsheng came to say goodbye to Qi Ning.

"Do you want to go to the capital with me?" Xiao Yunsheng asked tentatively.

"If you don't go, it will take four or five days to ride in the carriage, and you will be tired to death." The only thing Qi Ning doesn't like is the traffic and means of transportation in this era, the potholed sandy roads, the wooden carriages, and it is barely enough to sit in Zhujia Village, so that she can sit for several days, and it is enough to think about it.

"You don't want to know the secret I told me that day?"

"If you want to say it, you can say it, and if you don't want to say it, I won't spend money to buy your secret."

"What if it's about Jingsu?"

"What's wrong with him? Is something wrong? Qi Ning stood up and looked at Xiao Yunsheng nervously.

"Look at you scared, he wasn't hurt, it's good, but I heard that there is a beauty living in his house, presumably people are soft and fragrant every day, I can't remember that there is still a you in Qing'an City." Xiao Gongzi said in a disdainful tone.

"Hehe, I know you don't like Jing Su, I don't believe what you said, even if there are any beauties, maybe they are relatives or something."

"What's so good about that black-faced reckless man?" Xiao Yunsheng asked a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time, and he thought that he was more than twice as strong as Jing Su in terms of appearance and background. However, Qi Ning was not interested in him, which made him very devastated.

"It's good anywhere, he promised me that even if I get married, I will continue to do what I want, and he will not restrain me, nor will he ask Liu to marry a concubine."

"That's all?" Xiao Yunsheng looked at this woman with different ideas in shock.

"Isn't that enough? How many men in this world can allow their wives to show their faces, love only one person and marry only one wife in their lives, and not accept concubines if they don't go to Qinlou Chu Pavilion? ”

"You really think differently than ordinary people." Xiao Yunsheng shook it, no woman in this era dares to stop her husband from taking a concubine, that is jealous, in line with the rules of the seven.

"I can earn money to support myself and live well, so why should I marry a man who is not dedicated to me and allows me to serve a husband with others?"

"Then what if Jing Su brings another woman back, what will you do?"

"Then it depends on what kind of woman it is, if the two of them have a relationship between men and women, I will drive them out without saying a word."

"Don't, just because I didn't say anything, you cherish it without permission, I'll enter Beijing tomorrow, farewell."

Xiao Yunsheng left in a depressed mood, he had actually heard that Jing Su's family had lived in a stunning woman, and he had been taking care of Jing Su's life closely. But seeing Qi Ning so resolute, he swallowed what he wanted to say again, after all, he might not be able to play a good role if he said too much.