"Shi Feng, you should give up the sugar water for now."
Su Liuye advised.
Shi Feng is very persistent in cooking. Since he knows that sugar water is the signature dish of Luoxi Town, he naturally wants to learn how to cook it.
It’s just that there are too many sugar water shops in the town. If you can’t have your own signature sugar water, you won’t be able to attract customers. The secret recipe of the signature sugar water in the old store is not disclosed. Shi Feng has been trying it for several days, but he still can't even scratch the surface.
The restaurant is about to open, and they don't have extra time to study this now.
Shi Feng scratched his head in frustration and had no choice but to agree.
"Aunt Su, please save my mother!"
Su Liuye was about to clear the table when a hurried call came from outside the door.
She looked up and saw Wu Yue running in with tears on her face, begging, "Aunt Su, please go save my mother, they want to kill my mother."
"What?!"
Su Liuye's heart skipped a beat, "What happened? Hurry, Yue'er, take me there quickly!"
"Um!"
Wu Yue wiped away her tears and took her out immediately.
Qin Lian and Shi Feng were also shocked, and they followed.
They came all the way to Wu's house.
The Wu family is considered a wealthy family in this town and lives in a big house. It's just that the ancestors of the Wu family bought this house, and now the entire Wu family lives here.
Wu Yue took them to the Wu family's ancestral hall. From a distance, she saw a group of people gathered here. Madam Zhang was kneeling in the ancestral hall. Mother Wu with a mean look on her face sat next to her, looking at Madam Zhang proudly. There are several old people.
These people should be the elders of the Wu family.
Wu Yun was also kneeling next to him, with a red slap mark on his face, and he lowered his head and wiped tears from time to time. Mrs. Zhang wanted to protect her daughter, but Mother Wu scolded her and asked her to continue kneeling.
"Mother!" Wu Yue ran over immediately.
Seeing her bringing Su Liuye and others over, several elders of the Wu family turned dark and cursed, "Who asked you to bring outsiders here? You are so presumptuous! Let them out quickly!"
"Isn't this the shopkeeper who bought Laifuxuan? It seems his surname is Su."
Someone in the crowd murmured.
Wu's mother leaned forward to take a look. When she saw Su Liuye, she showed disdain on her face and shouted, "This is the person who bought Laifuxuan, and I didn't even agree!"
"What's the use of whether you agree or not? Laifuxuan is not you! If you are not satisfied, you can go to the Yamen to make trouble!"
Su Liuye strode in, looked at the tragic situation of Zhang's mother and daughter, and couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"
Wu Yue choked with sobs, "They insisted that my mother return the land deed of Laifuxuan to them! But Laifuxuan has been sold, so they asked my mother to hand over all the money to them!"
"Isn't this a robber?" Qin Lian exclaimed. After speaking, she realized that this was the Wu family's ancestral hall, and several Wu family clan members stared at her.
The old man sitting in the main seat slapped the table hard and yelled, "It's not your turn for outsiders like you to talk about our Wu family's affairs. If you don't hurry out, you are not welcome here!"
At this moment, Su Liuye also knew what these people were like, and was too lazy to endure it. She directly sneered coldly, "Why is this matter none of my business?"
"You went to my store to make trouble before, weren't you just coveting Laifuxuan? Now that Laifuxuan has been sold by me, you are thinking about the money again. If I don't come over to take a look, I don't know if you will look for it next time. What an excuse to cause trouble!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
The old man sitting in the seat blushed angrily, "That Laifuxuan belongs to my Wu family! When Wu Ping and his wife married in, Laifuxuan was one of the dowries!"
Hearing the old man from the Wu family say the same thing, Su Liuye knew that there was nothing to say to this group of people.
She pulled Wu Yue up and asked again what happened.
Wu Yue held back her tears, "They insisted that my mother hand over the money for selling Laifuxuan. They also said that my mother was no longer a member of their Wu family, and they wanted to sink her into the pond." At this point, Wu Yue had already endured the pain. Can't stop crying.
Su Liuye frowned. She remembered that when she came, she did see a large pond in the Wu family's yard. It seemed to be connected to the Lingjiang River outside. The water looked very deep.
After listening to what Wu Yue said, Su Liuye discovered that there was a bamboo basket and rope that could hold an adult next to Mrs. Zhang.
Seeing these things, she immediately remembered the scene when Zhoujia Village was slandered by Zhou's mother, and she felt disgust in her heart.
"What are you talking about, girl?! These are our Wu family's affairs! Wu Ping's mother brought so many people there last time, and she saw your mother having an affair with a man. A woman like her should be arrested Isn’t it what Shen Tang should be?”
"That's right, we all saw it! Didn't that man come here today too?"
The people from the Wu family saw Shi Feng with keen eyes, and they immediately started talking with disgust in their eyes.
"I?"
Shi Feng pointed to his nose, feeling inexplicable for a while.
In the past few days, he had been busy in the kitchen researching the secret recipe for sugar water. He had forgotten what happened that day. He was suddenly pointed at by everyone, and he looked confused.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Mrs. Zhang saw that they were getting more and more outrageous and couldn't help but said, "This is the cook brought here by shopkeeper Su. I don't know him at all! The money from selling Laifuxuan has other uses. I I can’t give it to you.”
"Why can't you give it!"
Her words were immediately refuted by the Wu family. An aunt with a sharp and mean face stepped forward and scolded her harshly, "You are the daughter-in-law of our Wu family, and all your money belongs to our Wu family! What's the problem with handing over the money now?" A store like that must have sold hundreds of taels of silver, right? What are you doing as a woman with so much silver?"
"That's right! Now that Wu Ping is still in prison, you, a woman, hold so much money, who will believe you?"
The questions around her made Zhang's face look even more ugly. She wanted to refute several times, but was interrupted sharply by these people, as if she had committed some unforgivable crime.
"Don't talk nonsense, my mother has never done anything! All that money is useful! It's not yours, you just want the money!" Wu Yun suddenly stared at this man, his trembling voice full of disgust.
"You damn girl, it's your turn to speak in the ancestral hall!" The old man sitting in the seat darkened his face and raised his voice, "You guys, go and drive these two girls out! It's your turn to speak when the elders speak. You juniors are too talkative!"
The aunts who were called immediately went over to drag Wu Yue and Wu Yun out.
"ah--"
Just as the two sisters were about to retort, they were slapped in the face.
