"Auntie, I am Xiaohong, who are you?"
"It's Xiaohong, come in with me quickly."
The middle-aged woman grabbed Xiaohong's arm and pulled her into the alley.
Xiao Hong was a little panicked and grabbed the alley wall with her other hand, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
"Don't yell, don't yell. Your master asked me to take you in."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hong let go of her hand and followed the middle-aged woman into the alley and into one of the small courtyards.
As soon as he entered the yard, a sack was pulled down in front of him. When his vision went dark, he was hit on the back of his head by something that looked like a stick, and he completely lost consciousness.
Shuhua walked out of the alley with fifteen taels of silver in her purse.
Twelve taels is the money for selling Xiaohong. Xiaohong is a yellow-flowered girl. She has a good appearance and figure. She is young and the price is relatively high.
The other five taels are Xiaoqing's money that Renyazi paid in advance.
Xiao Qing is no longer perfect, and her figure is good, but her appearance is not as good as Xiao Hong's, so the price is naturally lower than Xiao Hong's.
The two girls put together fifteen taels of silver, and Shuhua didn't mind it being too little, so she took advantage of this chaos to sell the two careless foxes, especially since she still had the leverage in the hands of that girl Xiaoqing. When the husband came back, he said that the two maids heard about the disaster at home, took the money and ran away...
There is only oneself, sharing weal and woe, guarding the house without hesitation, waiting for him to come back.
Shuhua walked around the street, guessing that it was almost time, and quietly returned home.
At home, Xiao Qing is no longer there, and Xiao Qing's house is in chaos. You can imagine how shocked and panicked the dead girl was when people came to pick up the goods.
Shuhua thought about it more and more. She went back to her house and picked up all the hidden silver. She went out in the dark, found a regular bank, exchanged it for silver notes and hid it close to her body.
He didn't dare to go back to that house and found an inn to stay.
A woman with a certain beauty, she was afraid of being unsafe in an ordinary inn. She wandered the streets of Qing'an County. At night, the three-story Tianxiang Tower attracted her attention.
Well, I heard that Tianxiang Tower is opened by the wife of the General Protector of the Country. Although it is related to Changping Village, people here will not recognize her.
Moreover, the great general who protects the country is famous, and it is impossible for anyone to come to the restaurant owned by his wife to find trouble. Shuhua entered the restaurant and asked for a guest room.
As soon as Shuhua entered the guest room, Yang Huazhou got the news.
"Fifth Uncle, the woman mentioned in Qing'er's letter really came to our restaurant, what will happen next?"
The person who came to report the news was none other than Yang Yongqing, who ran to Qing'an County a while ago to avoid the revenge of Sanwu and Yang Yongxian.
Yang Huazhong thought for a moment, "Follow what Qing'er said in the letter and don't hurt people's lives."
Yang Yongqing smiled evilly: "Okay, I know the appropriateness, so I'll make arrangements."
…
After exchanging all the jewelry into silver, including the silver that Gu Zhihua had given him sporadically during this period, as well as the money from selling Xiaoqing and Xiaohong before, Shuhua had a hundred taels of silver notes hidden close to her body. I left about ten taels of silver as pocket money.
Because she couldn't go back to the house before Gu Zhihua came back, she would stay here overnight and hire a carriage early tomorrow morning to go back to Wanghai County to find her aunt and uncle for help.
The food was delivered to the house by the restaurant waiter. Even though she was on the run, Shuhua did not wrong herself or the child in her belly.
Saliva chicken, honey-glazed pork chops, sesame oil cabbage hearts, pig's trotters and soybean soup, and a plate of horse cakes.
"Brother, could you please help me find a carriage? The driver should look honest and reliable. I will leave for Wanghai County early tomorrow morning."
Shuhua grabbed a handful of copper coins and rewarded the man.
The waiter held the money in both hands and grinned widely. "Madam, don't worry. I'll go find it right now. I'll have someone waiting at the door of the restaurant early tomorrow morning."
After people went out, Shuhua twitched her lips. In this world, it doesn't matter where you go. It's easy to do things if you have money!
She had thought about it, if Gu Zhihua couldn't come out this time and the Gu family's business couldn't start up, she would fly solo.
She still had the title deed of the small house on her body, and the small yard was easy to sell for two to three hundred taels of silver.
When the time comes, I will have more than four hundred taels of silver with me, my heart, and this in my belly, and I will be able to live comfortably wherever I go.
…
Shuhua was still dreaming when someone knocked on the door.
"who?"
"Sir, I am a waiter in the restaurant. I have found the coachman as you asked. He is waiting downstairs."
There was a pause in the room, "I'll go downstairs right now. You first have someone drive the car to the back door of the restaurant and wait for me."
Shuhua's banknote was hidden close to her body in her clothes. She raised her hand and touched it. Yes, it was still there.
In order to go downstairs quickly to avoid being spotted by Lai Touhua's people, Shuhua hurriedly went downstairs and got into the carriage without opening her purse to check.
Before leaving, the waiter told the coachman in front of Shuhua: "This is a guest of our restaurant. You must carefully transport him to Wanghai County."
The coachman nodded, and the carriage left smoothly.
Near noon, Shuhua arrived in Wanghai County smoothly.
After paying the fare, she entered the city gate, and the familiar streets stretched all the way to Gu's house.
The door of the Gu family was tightly closed. The neighbors, across the street, and wherever there were idle people were all pointing at the Gu family.
Shuhua pulled down the curtain on her head to cover her face, and patted the iron ring on the door.
"Which one?"
"It's me, cousin."
Soon the courtyard door opened a crack from the inside. The old servant of the family poked his head out and saw that the person standing outside the door was indeed Shuhua. The old servant quickly stepped aside to let Shuhua in, and quickly closed the courtyard. The door was blocked with a wooden pillar at the back.
"Old Uncle Gen, what are you doing? What are you guarding against?" Shuhua asked in surprise upon seeing this.
Because the person sent by the family to Qing'an County reported that someone was causing trouble in the family's shop, the uncle was called by the official for questioning. He wanted Gu Zhihua to go back and ask the county magistrate about the situation. After all, he was a county magistrate.
"Ms. Cousin, you don't know something. Ever since our store was targeted, the family has not been at peace these days. There are always troublemakers coming to the door to make trouble." Old Uncle Gen frowned and opened his mouth to pour out his bitterness.
"Are my aunt and uncle at home?" Shuhua asked again.
"Here, everyone is here..."
When she heard that the county magistrate had let her uncle come back, Shuhua breathed a sigh of relief and stopped talking nonsense to the hunchbacked old man guarding the gate. She turned around and hurried to the backyard.
…
In the backyard, the maid was playing ball with Xin'er in the yard.
"Xin'er!"
"mother!"
The mother and son hugged each other, Shuhua touched her son's head and kissed him hard a few more times.
"Where's your aunt?" she asked.
"It's grandma." Xin'er's childish voice corrected her seriously.
"Ah?" Shuhua was stunned for a moment.
Beside, the maid said to Shuhua: "Miss Cousin, before you came back, the young master had already told the master and the wife about the young master's life experience."
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