This small town called "Jiaojiao" is really small, about half the size of Yulin Town, and it is still a quarter of an hour's drive from Guandao. This is why its economy has not developed like Yulin Town.

Shuyao secretly laughed in her heart, it was really a horn.

The escort from the Xinyi Escort Bureau took the group to the so-called best and largest restaurant in Jianjiao Town. Shuwen rolled his eyes: "Isn't this similar to the Xiangxiang Restaurant in front of Xitang Street?" Is it the largest and best restaurant?

Zhang Caishu raised his finger and tapped Shuwen's head: "Don't be so demanding, brat. It's good to have a place like this to eat when you're on the road. In the next few days, we'll have to eat dry food most of the time."

"Hey, don't you think it's strange?" Shuwen is not picky about food, but he just thinks it is exaggerated and beyond his expectation.

The escort who led the way smiled and explained: "This town has a lot of small food stalls, which are cheap and affordable. People from the town and people going to markets in several nearby villages frequent them more. The town is too small, and rich people

We all want to live in other places, and there are many people who come to our Yulin town. How many people are willing to go to a restaurant? The owner of this restaurant is a filial son who originally studied in the capital.

Chef, his parents were in poor health and he didn’t want to leave his hometown, so he came back and opened this restaurant. Fortunately, he owns the store, and most of the employees are family members. In addition, he is good at craftsmanship and honest in business.

It has attracted some people who often travel on this official road and are particular about food. There are several rooms upstairs for accommodation, which are quite clean and not expensive."

There were only two tables in the whole store with a few customers sitting sparsely. When Shujie and his group came in, all the tables and chairs were filled immediately. The waiter was so happy that he laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes. He quickly poured tea.

Introducing specialty dishes.

The food was not served slowly, and the color, aroma and taste were no worse than those in restaurants in Yulin Town, and the portions were larger. Even Mrs. Xu nodded and said: "It's worth the extra detour, the food is very comfortable."

It happened that the store owner and chef came out to ask if the customer's taste was still suitable. He laughed happily when he heard Mrs. Xu's words: "Thank you, Mrs. Xu, and thank you all for your patronage! This small shop relies on word of mouth from everyone, so you can eat well."

We are satisfied. We are happy...Sorry, everyone, eat slowly, I will go upstairs for a while."

Shuyao had sharp eyes and her sitting position was just right. Before the store owner looked up, he had already noticed a cyan figure looking down at the stairs on the second floor.

Because the escort just said that there were guests upstairs, Shuyao was not surprised. It must be that the female guest who was staying in the hotel didn't want to come down when she saw so many people downstairs, so she motioned to the store owner to go upstairs.

After a while, a loud quarrel came from upstairs, and the shrill female voice shocked everyone's ears.

Mrs. Xu first frowned and put down her chopsticks. Fortunately, she was almost full, otherwise it would be difficult to have an appetite with the "accompaniment" of the noise.

Little Zhang Chen hid in Shujie's arms: "Afraid of fighting." He also raised his hands to cover his ears.

The escort who was leading the way had an ugly look on his face: "Brother, what's going on? Isn't your boss hiding his beauty in the golden room of his restaurant? It's so noisy that no one can eat."

The embarrassed waiter was looking up nervously. Hearing these words, he suddenly came back to his senses: "No, no, the woman quarreling is our boss's wife."

Mother Wu, who had just finished eating and stood behind Xia Ruoyun to wait on her, snorted: "Mrs. Boss? It's strange that the quarrel came into the store? I'm not afraid of delaying my own business."

Before he finished speaking, something was thrown down from upstairs. It landed not far from Shuyao. It was a small package of clear-colored floral flowers that had been spread out. There were several round things inside that began to scatter.

Get out of here.

Shuyao's eyes were fixed on a golden silk ruby ​​​​step in the middle of the small package. Isn't that a birthday gift from mother to Cuizhu? It can't be wrong. Mother specially asked someone to customize it.

She said in her diary that she drew it based on the empress's steps in "The Evil of the Golden Branch" she watched before traveling through time, because she felt that the green bamboo

She looks very similar to that lady, so she must look good wearing it. Shuyao looked next to Bu Yao and saw something very familiar, a pair of silver and gold double-buckle bracelets, which were given to her by Aunt Lan.

Li. When she found out that the bracelet was lost, Cuizhu always said to look again and again. She must have forgotten it somewhere. It turned out that she had hidden it long ago.

"Teng Teng Teng" the shopkeeper ran down to pick up the package and the silver nuggets, pearls, and other jewelry scattered nearby.

"Wait a minute," Shuyao suddenly stood up, "May I ask the shopkeeper where you got these things. The golden step rocker and the pair of double-buckle bracelets are both from our family. I can tell the mark on them."

The store owner was stunned, as were the people nearby. Shuwen heard the sound and turned around to take a closer look. Wasn't the pure gold bat-shaped longevity lock he just picked up on the store owner's right hand the one he wore when he was a child? He pointed directly at the long life lock.

Mingsuo muttered: "That's mine. There is a word '文' on the back, and a big word '福' in the middle of the front and next to five small '福' characters. My mother said it was 'Liufu'. This longevity lock is mine."

My sister also has one, and the two are a pair."

Xia Ruoyun looked at the shape of the longevity lock carefully and nodded: "Yes, yes, at that time I asked my sister-in-law why a bat-shaped 'longevity lock' should be hung on the baby because bats are so ugly. My sister-in-law said, '

"Bat" is the same as "Fu", which is auspicious. No one except my sister-in-law knows how to do this."

The woman upstairs who had only heard the sound but not seen anyone suddenly rushed down, grabbed the gold lock in the shop owner's hand, looked through it carefully, and then shouted: "There is the word '文', and there are also six words '福', I said

Isn't that spring grass a good thing? I said these valuable jewelry came from a shady way, right? They were indeed stolen, and the real owners have come to find them. Don't you believe it?"

Chuncao? The three Shuyao brothers and Liu's mother were all slightly startled.

The store owner said dullly: "This... this... can't be done... it can't be done... Chuncao is a kind girl... she won't steal anything."

The woman in Tsing Yi (the shopkeeper’s wife) grabbed the floral package and threw it at the shopkeeper: “No? Where did she, a rough servant, get these expensive jewelry? There are also gold nuggets. Are you talking about her neighbor?

It was said that her mother didn’t even get a good coffin when she died. She was wrapped in a straw mat and buried. Even the two broken houses were taken away? So she buried these things?

What are you doing? You are seeking death, and you are so obedient that you went to dig this thing for her, and even went to the capital to ransom her. Do you want our whole family to be killed by that little vixen? Now the real master has come to your door.

I'm afraid I'll drag you to see the official! Please explain everything clearly and return the things to others. We have nothing to do with that spring grass."

Shuyao said calmly: "You can take a look at that step again. There is a dent in the lower part. I accidentally hit it on a rock when I was playing. There are also the pair of bracelets, one of which is engraved with

There are four words for "Yaochi Fairy Spirit" and the other one is "Fifth Birthday".

The shopkeeper dumbly followed the instructions and picked up the bag and the bracelet to take a closer look. Sure enough, it was true.

The store owner with a stern face seemed really frightened: "I...I really didn't know she stole it. She said it was saved by her sister."

"Her sister's name is Cuizhu. She turned out to be our wife's maid. She stole things and betrayed her husband, and was later sold to the house. Why are these things here with you?" Mother Liu's voice had a hint of majesty.

The shopkeeper’s wife didn’t bother scolding her husband anymore. These people were dressed in extraordinary manners and brought with them so many maids, mothers-in-law, and guards. They must not be ordinary people. She was so frightened that she knelt down with a “plop” and said, “What kind of spring grass are we talking to?”

It has no connection at all, and he is definitely not an accomplice. My husband-in-law once went to Damingfu City to work as a second chef for half a year, and rented it with his cousin.

A family with two rooms happened to be neighbors to the Chuncao family. One time, my husband-in-law caught a cold. Chuncao's mother picked herbs and cooked them for him according to a family recipe. She took care of him for a few days. My husband-in-law always remembered it.

In my mind, a few days ago, a carriage taking a prostitute to a house in the capital stopped at the door of our store, and those escorting the carriage came to our place for dinner.

I don't know what went wrong, but they stayed in our store all night. Chuncao recognized my husband-in-law, and my husband-in-law also recognized her. I thought of her mother's kindness and wanted to buy her out with some money, but she was escorted away

The people said that these women were all chosen by Liyun Pavilion in the capital. They all paid money and could not be sold elsewhere. They had to go to Liyun Pavilion to redeem them.

Who would have thought that when they left early the next morning, Chun Cao suddenly thrust a note into my husband-in-law's hand without anyone paying attention. It was written on toilet paper with carbon, asking my husband-in-law to go to Damingfu City to bury her.

Dig out the stuff and then go to the capital to get it

After she redeemed the person, she said that all the money left over from the redemption was given to my husband-in-law, and she also worked as a slave and maid for our family for the rest of her life. Bah, why do you want to be a slave and a maid? Didn't she just want to covet my husband-in-law? That woman has fox eyes.

, it doesn’t look like a good thing.”

The shopkeeper's wife was calm and could explain the whole matter clearly, but the shopkeeper didn't seem to have come back to her senses. Perhaps she felt deceived, and there was even a touch of pain in her eyes.

Shu Yao said: "Well, we are going to the capital. I am also going to ask Chuncao some questions. We will take these things away. If you are not worried, I can pay you a banknote of the same value and treat it as something I bought."

"No, no, no," the store's wife waved her hands, "you made it so clear that these things must be yours. Why should you buy them with money if they are returned to their original owners? Can you believe that we are not accomplices and that these things were not stolen by us?

That's good." The store owner who came back to his senses also nodded: "That's right, that's right, we can't collect cash, so you can take all these things back."

Shujie thought for a while and said, "Let's do this. I'll write you a..."

"Brother Jie," Zhang Caishu interrupted Shujie, turned to the store, and said, "I'll write you a receipt. Our Zhang family's Yunyuan is in Lucheng, which is less than a day's drive away.

If you have any questions, please come to me in the future, and don’t worry that we have lied to you." Zhang Caishu knew what Shujie wanted to say, but Shujie has already

He is an official, and he will inevitably take an official career in the future. He cannot take any unnecessary "reputation" risks. How can he just leave IOUs, receipts and other things in other people's hands? He is just a businessman, so it doesn't matter. (To be continued.)

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