Huaqiao Street, Yihong Building.
After Mr. Qu was led to see Xiangxiang, Xiangxiang played a song for Mr. Qu as usual, and then Xiangxiang talked about Shen Sili who worked in the Qu family.
She said that Shen Sili had stored some money with her before and wanted to return it to him.
Mr. Qu said with pity: "He is my servant now, and his money belongs to me. Treat these as gifts from me. Xiangxiang, just accept it with peace of mind."
After he finished speaking, there was a hint of gloom in Mr. Qu's eyes.
Damn it, Shen Sili can still be remembered by Xiangxiang after he died. If I had known, his death would have been more miserable.
"In this case, Xiangxiang would be disrespectful." After several rejections, Xiangxiang accepted it.
Shen Zhiyao knew about Shen Sili's death ten days before the New Year.
It is said that after discovering Shen Sili's body, he determined that the cause of his death was that he ate food laced with rat poison.
The servants of the Qu family explained that the bowl of food was specially prepared for poisoned rats. No one expected that Shen Sili would steal into the kitchen and eat it by mistake, leading to death.
I thought this was the whole story of this case, but who would have thought that the young master of the Qu family actually spoke the truth after getting drunk while drinking wine at Yihong Mansion.
He revealed that he deliberately led Shen Sili to the kitchen and killed Shen Sili.
The reason why he wanted to kill was because Shen Sili was the guest of Xiangxiang, the oiran of Yihonglou.
At this point, the young master of the Qu family was arrested.
This matter also spread in Tongfang County.
In this regard, Shen Zhiyao just listened and passed it by without paying too much attention.
On the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, she closed the two shops that Shen had run out of, and wrote a message on the door that they would reopen on the 20th day of the first lunar month.
"Sister Zhiyao, your clan leader has brought you a message, asking you to remember to go back on the first day of the new year and worship your ancestors together."
On the morning of the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, when Chen Hu came to pick up Chen Cuihua and Shen Shuisheng, he told Shen Zhiyao what Patriarch Shen had told him to bring.
Shen Zhiyao nodded: "Huzi, please tell the clan leader that I will go back that day."
On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Xiao New Year, Shen Baiqiu and his private school finally had a holiday.
After the holiday, Shen Baiqiu did not slack off. He was either reading or practicing calligraphy in his free time every day.
"Sister, brother."
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the sound of crescent moon could be heard outside the house. Shen Zhiyao and Shen Baiqiu went out and saw that it was indeed Shen Yueya who was back.
"elder sister."
The moment he saw Shen Zhiyao, Shen crescent-moonedly threw himself into her arms, not even caring about the baggage falling to the ground.
Shen Zhiyao picked her up easily: "Yueya, are you alone? Who sent you back?"
"Sister, Master arranged for a big sister who knows martial arts to give it to me. The big sister put me outside Zhuangzi and left."
Shen Baiqiu picked up the baggage on the ground while Shen Yueya was talking.
Shen Zhiyao nodded and asked her, "How was your stay in the Valley of Divine Doctors?"
"I'm very happy, but I miss my sister and brother a little bit."
Shen Yueya bent her eyes like black grapes and said with a smile: "Sister, in addition to the master, there are several senior uncles, senior sisters and brothers in the Miracle Medical Valley. Yueya has to learn a lot of things every day."
Shen Yueya opened his arms and gestured.
Shen Zhiyao smiled: "No wonder you look a little thin. Whatever you want to eat, sister will cook it for you and take care of it to raise the meat on our little Yue Yao face."
"I want to eat crispy pork and grilled fish." Shen Yueya hugged Shen Zhiyao's neck again with both hands and ordered the dishes in a happy tone.
"Okay, I'll satisfy you." Shen Zhiyao carried her into the house.
"Sister, brother, Yueya brought you a gift."
Entering the house, Shen Yueya took the baggage carried by Shen Baiqiu and swished out an armful of bottles and jars from inside.
There are various bottles and jars of different sizes and colors.
"Sister, brother, this is Itchi Powder. If it touches someone's body, it will make them extremely itchy. Even scratching the skin will not help."
"This is a healing ointment that can remove scars."
"This is a hemostatic medicine that can stop bleeding quickly."
"This is smelly water. Sprinkled on a person's body, it can make him stink like a toilet for three days in a row. No matter how hard he washes, he can't wash it off."
"There are also heart-protecting pills, beauty pills, and long-gao pills..."
Shen Yueya introduced them quickly, and then gave all the bottles and jars of medicine to Shen Zhiyao and Shen Baiqiu, asking them to put them away.
There are some she made herself, and some were given by her uncles, sisters and brothers from the Valley of Miracle Doctors.
Shen Baiqiu was curious: "Yueya, which ones did you do?"
"Brother, what do you think?" Shen Yueya gave it a try first.
"Healing ointment?" Shen Baiqiu asked quickly.
Shen Yueya shook his head.
"Stinky water." Shen Zhiyao also joined in the speculation.
"You guessed it, my sister is the best." Shen Yueya chuckled.
Shen Zhiyao put away the medicines she gave her, "Thank you Yue Ya, my sister likes these gifts very much. You and Bai Qiu play on the village for a while, and my sister will make grilled fish and small crispy meat."
Since she bought Grandma Sun and the others, she has arranged for Grandma Sun to do some housework and cooking in the house.
Of course, most of the time, Granny Sun was only responsible for frying the dishes for the six of them. For Shen Zhiyao and Shen Baiqiu, Granny Sun would wash the vegetables and cut the meat, and Shen Zhiyao would fry them herself.
"Yueya, let's go. Brother, I will take you to Zhuangzi. We have changed a lot in Zhuangzi now." Shen Baiqiu decided to rest for a while and continue reading after dinner.
"Brother, you make it sound like I have been gone for a long time."
"It hasn't been a long time. The wintersweet that my sister transplanted to Zhuangzi has bloomed. Let's go and take you to see it."
Shen Zhiyao transplanted some wintersweet and planted them in Zhuangzi, just a few steps away from their house.
Soon after Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya watched the wintersweet, Shen Zhiyao also prepared the meals for the three of them.
There are grilled fish and small crispy pork that Shen Yueya ordered.
After eating, Shen Baiqiu went to continue reading, while Shen Zhiyao cooked over the charcoal fire and listened to Shen Yueya telling her interesting stories in the Valley of Divine Doctors.
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Years pass by, and seasons flow by. In a blink of an eye, it’s the first day of the first lunar month of the following year.
Shen Zhiyao, who was keeping watch on New Year's Eve, got up at dawn on that day.
After finishing her meal and packing her things, she asked Granny Sun, Zheng Er, Sister-in-law Zheng and Jiang Tao Dilan to take care of their home, while letting Wan Fang drive the carriage to take Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya to Lihua Village.
When they arrived at Lihua Village, Shen Zhiyao went straight to find Patriarch Shen. On this day, some members of each clan would gather at the patriarch's house, waiting to set out together to visit the graves of their deceased ancestors and clan members.
There are about a hundred Shen clan members in Lihua Village. When Shen Zhiyao and others arrived at the clan leader's house, there were already fifty or sixty people there, and the formation looked quite big.
But most of the people who came were men.
Seeing Shen Zhiyao and the three sisters, the clan members all greeted them loudly.
Ever since the clan members started selling bean curd sticks, and later followed Shen Zhiyao’s reminder to make tofu skin and dried tofu, every household’s savings had doubled compared to previous years, and almost everyone had good clothes. new clothes.
So they were very grateful to Shen Zhiyao.
"Zhiyao, Bai Qiu, Yueya, come over here and sit down."
Dong, the patriarch's eldest daughter-in-law, enthusiastically brought out several long benches.
