Chapter 55: The Su Family Sisters
"Everyone, it just so happens that we have a spare carriage for this trip, why don't you go to the back and ride with us."
In the mountains and forests, the guards on the side of the road retreated to both sides to make way out, and Situ Xi looked at Hua Shaoying and gave her a look.
"In this way, thank you to the nine kings, Chaoyun, Chaoyue, don't hurry up to thank the nine kings." Hearing Situ Xi's invitation, and also receiving the signal released by Situ Xi, Hua Shaoying looked at him and smiled charmingly, and reminded the two girls beside her to salute quickly.
"Thank you to the Nine Kings!" The two women thanked each other in unison.
"You're welcome, the three of you should get in the car first, and we'll talk about it later."
Waving his hand, Situ Xi motioned for Zhong Limo to go back to the carriage together, and Zhong Lixi was also holding the curtain in the carriage at the moment to look at them.
"Three, please."
After Situ Xi and Zhong Limo walked back, Steward Chen immediately came to the front of Hua Shaoying with a smile.
"Sister Flower......
The girl in the green dress was named Chaoyue, she saw Situ Xi walking away, staring at his back, looking at the bamboo tube in his hand, and looking at Hua Shaoying with some puzzlement and cast an inquiring glance at her.
"It's okay, get in the car first." Hua Shaoying shook her head slightly, then turned to look at Steward Chen and smiled, "I'm sorry for you." ”
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"Xianggong, is that the one who is the flower family?"
Back in the carriage, Situ Xi sat down next to Zhong Lisu, who obviously heard their conversation just now and asked him about the situation.
"Yes, that's a coincidence." Situ Xi nodded, took the bamboo tube in his hand and tossed it gently, feeling something shaking in it.
"Brother-in-law, are they old acquaintances with you? You didn't make an appointment with them in advance. Zhong Limo also asked curiously, and when he heard Situ Xi say that it was a coincidence, he had an expression on his face that was really like this.
"The two sisters around the flower family were very surprised when they heard their brother-in-law say that you invited them to play, and besides, these three people didn't bring Qin Se."
"You're observant." Situ Xi looked at him approvingly, Zhong Limo was actually a very delicate child.
"Uncle is really kind-hearted."
Whispering sent a good person card to Situ Xi, she knew that Situ Xi was not very familiar with this flower, and her uncle was still a person who was afraid of trouble, but when the road was wrong, he still chose to lend a hand.
The convoy set off again, Situ Xi carefully looked at the bamboo tube in his hand, he opened the lid and put the bamboo tube on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and immediately smelled a large smell of gunpowder.
Sure enough, he found that there was some fine powder on the inner wall of the bamboo tube and the lower end of the letter, which should be flammable materials such as sulfur and saltpeter, and there were small holes in the lid of the cylinder, which was supposed to be used to destroy the letter in an emergency.
Taking out the letter paper, Situ Xi shook the dust on it, unfolded it and began to read its contents.
Just at this look, Situ Xi immediately froze his eyes.
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"Sister, now that the house in the family has also been taken over by the Leng family, how can this be good? All the money we've earned these days has been handed over to that guy, where are we going to rest tonight? ”
On the streets of Xuan'an City, in front of a needlework stall, Su Hejiu was looking at his sister, frowning.
"I still have some savings, let's find a slightly more remote inn during this time."
Su Heluo stroked her sister's hair, and there was some apology in her eyes, the money she earned recently was earned by her and Su Hejiu, and when she decided to hand over the money to the third uncle in the family, Su Hejiu had objections, but still agreed.
The two of them were not from Xuan'an, and their family used to live in a remote village, and their mother relied on the ancestral female red craft to make a living, and raised the two alone.
But later, their mother became ill from overwork, and although the second daughter could earn a little money, she still could not cover the family's expenses and medical expenses, and finally their mother died of illness, and the second daughter also owed a lot of foreign debts.
In the most difficult time, it was the third uncle Su Hori who was far away who learned about their situation, extended an olive branch to the two, and invited them to work in his ready-to-wear shop in Xuan'an, and the monthly money was much higher than in the remote township.
Thinking that it was his own relative, Su Heluo agreed to the matter at that time, signed a deed with Su Hori, and Su Hejiu naturally followed his sister.
But when the two arrived in Xuan'an, they found out that the third uncle was a greedy person, he did something in the contract, and sometimes deducted the monthly money of the two.
Su Hori has business dealings with many nobles, but they have no acquaintances in Xuan'an, so they can only find time to set up a stall to make money and subsidize their families.
Recently, Su Hori negotiated a big business with the Leng family cloth shop, but in the end he lost all his family property, lost all his wealth overnight, and he used the ready-to-wear shop and house to pay off the debt.
Early this morning, he found the Su sisters again to borrow money for dinner.
Thinking that it was these three uncles who gave the two of them the opportunity to make money in the first place, Su Heluo was still grateful to him, so he gave him all the money he had recently obtained, which could be regarded as repaying his past kindness.
"Sister, in fact, I saw the third uncle drinking and listening to music in the restaurant yesterday, we gave him money, and he also used it to squander, so he will come to us again after he spends it......"
"Jiu'er, don't worry, I won't care about him anymore."
"That's fine." Su Hejiu breathed a sigh of relief, his sister's heart is too soft, and she always can't see people suffering, which is actually not a good thing in many cases.
"Let's help Situ Gongzi finish this hair embroidery first, now that I have done half of it, I am gradually familiar with the skills of this hair knitting, it should be completed soon, if it exceeds the agreed deadline, it will not be good."
No longer discussing these troubles, Su Heluo picked up a long strand of hair in his hand and began to thread the needle, which was the ink embroidery that Situ Xi had booked.
"Hair embroidery...... It's really good, but I don't embroider some words on it, and I always feel like something is missing. Su Hejiu also looked at the half-finished product in front of her, and she remembered that Situ Gongzi and his wife were in harmony.
At this moment, a middle-aged man with a somewhat sloppy face led a nobleman in fancy clothes from the far side of the street to the front of the two of them.
Soon, the sloppy man came to the second daughter.
When Su Hejiu saw this person, he immediately stood up from his chair vigilantly.
"Luo'er, Jiu'er, you're all here. Come on, let me introduce to you, this is Young Master Leng, I have transferred the mediocre documents of the two of you to him, you quickly pack up and follow Young Master Leng to the cloth shop of the Leng family. ”
The young man who looked a little handsome behind Su Hori lit up when he saw the second daughter, and after raising his eyebrows at Su Hori with satisfaction, he turned to Su Heluo, and a smile on his face immediately put on his face that he thought he was very graceful.
"The two girls, meeting for the first time, are in the next cold sauce."
The movements in his hands were chaotic, and the tip of the needle pierced the index finger of Su Heluo's left hand.