"Go to sleep."
Chu Yan patted the quilt.
Dabao muttered, lying on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
Chu Yan sat by the bed for a while before leaving and going to the hall. Su Liuye was still busy, walking among the diners without even having time to breathe.
Chu Yan felt distressed and hurried over to help, causing regular customers to tease him, saying that this was a mom-and-pop shop.
Ruilan happened to go to the kitchen to serve Wu Xiang lunch. Hearing these words while passing by the hall, he felt ashamed and walked very quickly while serving the food.
"Ruylan, why are you leaving so fast?"
As soon as they arrived in the backyard, Shaolan walked towards her and saw her carrying food. She went over to take a look and said, "The lady just said she wanted to eat sweet and sour pork ribs. You can go to the kitchen to get it."
With that said, he took the food unceremoniously and turned to leave.
"Shaolan, wait!"
Ruilan wondered, "Sweet and sour pork ribs is the signature dish here, but you have to place an order in advance to make it. The lady suddenly said she wanted to eat it... I'm afraid there isn't any extra in the kitchen."
"You can just take other people's." Shaolan said matter-of-factly.
Ruilan hesitated.
In the past few days, their young lady has been living and eating in the restaurant, and so have their two maids.
Every time the people serving food in the kitchen talked about her, although no one said it directly to her face, the looks from around her seemed to be stabbing her with criticism.
She always thinks of what Su Liuye said that day...
If their young ladies continue like this, will they offend shopkeeper Su and sell them directly to Mr. Zhang?
"Ruilan, what's wrong with you? Why don't you go over? The lady is still waiting!"
Shaolan said dissatisfied.
"I……"
"Did you forget? You have to go to the medicine hall to help the lady get medicine in the afternoon, so you have to hurry!" Shaolan said, stuffing a prescription into her, "You will go there in person later, and don't show the prescription to anyone!"
This prescription was written by Wu Xiang himself. Ruilan didn't know much about reading, but she also saw the word "croton".
Croton is a laxative, so naturally it cannot be the medicine her young lady wants to take...
She sighed, not daring to say anything more, took the prescription, returned to the kitchen, and took away one of the plates of sweet and sour pork ribs under Qin Lian's dissatisfied gaze.
After lunch, Ruilan went to the pharmacy to get medicine.
Holding the bag of croton, she felt unable to lift her hands...
If shopkeeper Su finds out, he will definitely kick them out!
Ruilan bit her lower lip and rushed back to the medicine hall to replace the croton.
The Wu family has long been ruined, and she doesn't want to become a victim of her young lady and be sold to that Mr. Zhang!
Now it is Su Liuye who is helping them, and she is still the eldest sister. Even if Wu Xiang is sold, no one will say a word.
If that day comes, the maids like them will definitely be the first to be unlucky.
Back at Cyclamen, she handed the medicine to Wu Xiang, didn't dare to look at it, turned around and left.
"Shaolan, what's going on with Ruilan recently?"
Wu Xiang put down the medicine bag, her eyes full of displeasure.
Shaolan added a cup of tea next to him, glanced outside the door, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I'm probably tired recently, right?"
Wu Xiang had been pretending to be sick in bed these days, and their two maids were handling all matters.
"It's so weird! I left before I finished speaking."
"Miss, are you looking for Ruilan? Please call her back."
"No, it's useless to ask her to come here now." Wu Xiang snorted, "By the way, did something happen in this restaurant this morning?"
"Yes, miss."
Speaking of this matter, Shaolan became interested, "The Zhou family came this morning, and the daughter of the Zhou family, Zhou Yun'er, seems to be the princess the Fifth Prince is looking for!"
"She is the princess?"
Wu Xiang was shocked.
"Yes, Miss, people outside are talking about this! Zhou Yun'er came for Shopkeeper Su early in the morning and wanted the guards to escort Shopkeeper Su and Qin Lian out, but..."
Speaking of this, Shaolan lowered his voice and said, "After Mr. Chu came, he had a few words with the executives of the palace and scolded them for helping shopkeeper Su and letting Zhou Yun'er leave first."
"What?"
Hearing this, Wu Xiang couldn't sit still at all, "Chu Yan can actually persuade the housekeeper of the palace, who is from the capital!"
After all, the Wu family had a prosperous past, and Wu Xiang had also met the nobles in the capital.
Those noble people are completely incompatible with the families in Qingzhou County.
Chu Yan is just a hunter in the mountains. How can he persuade the distinguished guests in the capital?
"Miss, do you feel that Mr. Chu is different from ordinary hunters?" Shaolan's eyes flickered and she lowered her voice, "In the past, hunters would bring game to the house, and I have seen many hunters, but These people are different from Mr. Chu. I even think Mr. Chu is better than those young masters."
Shaolan had never read, but Wu Xiang still understood.
She frowned, not feeling anything different.
Chu Yan was indeed handsome, but in her eyes he was only a first-level hunter, but Chu Yan was much better than those playboys.
Her family was in dire straits, and if she wanted to avoid being ruined by those people, she had no choice but to marry herself off quickly, and Chu Yan was the best choice.
"Forget it, I don't care about this. Give this medicine to Ruilan and ask her to put it into the Cyclamen well when she finds an opportunity. Don't let others find it!"
"I understand, miss."
Shaolan took the things and left.
Wu Xiang walked to the window, and she happened to see Su Liuye and Chu Yan's room.
Just as he was watching, the door to the room over there was pushed open, and two baby dolls jumped out of it.
"Er Bao, hurry up! Mother is in the hall, let's go find her."
"good!"
The female doll following behind was white, tender and cute, and the sound of her breasts made her heart melt.
Wu Xiang just looked on coldly.
She knew that these two wild children belonged to Chu Yan, and that Su Liuye was just the stepmother, or even a second wife.
Why should someone like this overpower her?
…
After dark, the cyclamen's backyard is silent.
There was a sound of a night watch coming from the alley outside.
It was past midnight when a figure sneakily walked to the entrance of the well and took out something from his arms.
After looking around, the man poured all the things in his arms into the well and left quietly.
Early in the morning, Cyclamen became busy again.
"A Liu, A Liu! Are you awake?"
The door was banged, suddenly waking up Su Liuye from her sleep.
"What's going on...ahem!"
When she opened her mouth, it felt like there was a knife hidden in her throat.
When I touched my forehead, my palm felt hot.
Is this an illness?
Su Liuye bit her lip, got up with difficulty and walked to the door. When she opened the door, she saw Qin Lian's face was sweating anxiously, "A Liu, you finally woke up! Something bad has happened. Several guests had breakfast today. After--what's wrong with you? Why are you blushing so much?"
Halfway through her words, Qin Lian discovered something was wrong with her.
