Yao Jingping broke into a cold sweat after walking around the bathhouse and finding no one.
If something happened, how would she explain it to Zhou Zhi's parents and Wang Shoulong?
She also ran to the bathhouse and asked the waiters, but they all said they had not seen Zhou Zhi.
Yao Jingping was so anxious that he was sweating profusely when he came out and looked at the dark night and the dark alley with no people on the opposite side.
Just when Yao Jingping was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, thinking that if he couldn't find her again, he would go to the county police station to call the police, Zhou Zhi limped out of the alley.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law..."
She looked anxious, panting and shouting loudly.
"Where have you been? I'm so anxious!"
Yao Jingping hurriedly pulled her up and down to look around. Except for some dust on the hem of the military coat, there seemed to be nothing unusual about it.
"Sister-in-law, I seem to have seen my brother. He walked past. Did my father ask my brother to come to me?"
Zhou Zhi gasped and sat down on the curb, covering his heart with both hands and breathing hard.
"That's not right. My brother has been out on a mission and hasn't come home. If he sees me, he will definitely come to me. If I call him so loudly, he can't hear me?"
Zhou Zhi frowned and said to himself.
"My brother was running very fast. I chased him anxiously and yelled. I couldn't catch up and even fell down... Oops, it hurts a lot..."
Zhou Zhi pointed to his injured leg, frowning and gasping softly.
Yao Jingping felt that Zhou Zhi, who was not very obedient, really deserved a beating.
She wasn't familiar with the place and wasn't sure whether that person was her brother, and she followed them into a dark alley. What if she met someone with ulterior motives, knocked her unconscious with a stick, put it in a sack and sold it?
"Okay, I must have seen it wrong! If your brother is really here, don't tell me that you shouted and chased him, just stop here, he will recognize you, can you take this trouble? Let's eat quickly. After dinner, go back to the hotel and rest.”
She lowered her head to check Zhou Zhi's injured leg and pressed it gently with her hand, not noticing anything strange. Then she breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, she wore a lot of clothes. She wore a cotton coat and trousers underneath, and a military coat on the outside. The whole person was wrapped tightly, and it played a certain protective role when she fell to the ground.
When we walked to Sun's restaurant, it was already past seven o'clock. There were not many customers in the restaurant. Boss Sun was sitting with his son Sun Dacai at the dining table not far from the counter, eating.
The two of them sat down at the table close to the stove. Zhou Zhi was busy rubbing his hands, which were red from the cold, while Yao Jingping got up and quietly came to Boss Sun's dining table.
Boss Sun picked off the meat from the meat bones bit by bit and put it in front of Sun Dacai. Sun Dacai, whose face was covered with oil after eating, was happily showing off the meat in his mouth. When he saw Yao Jingping standing aside, he grinned and his eyes He narrowed his eyes and called out happily, "little wife."
"Hey, little wife, it's you again! My daughter is here too!"
It is really rare for a customer to be as cheerful as Zhou Zhi, ordering four dishes at once when going out to eat, but Boss Sun remembered her.
He hurriedly wiped his greasy hands on his apron and told his silly son to eat well. He came over to greet Zhou Zhi and Yao Jingping warmly.
"Boss, two pounds of pork and cabbage dumplings, a braised pork elbow, and a home-cooked cold dish!"
Zhou Zhi is a person who spends money without blinking an eye. He took one look at the menu posted on the wall and shouted out.
Yao Jingping grinned. This meal cost more than ten yuan. Now that the enemy Wang Shoulong is not here, why should she, the "sister-in-law" treat her as a treat?
I only have so much money on me, and after I repay Wang Shoulong's 500 yuan, there won't be much left. How can I be so extravagant and wasteful?
"Sister-in-law, don't worry about money. I have money. I'll treat you! Sister-in-law, take a look and order whatever you want to eat!"
Zhou Zhi shouted boldly.
"Little daughter-in-law, hurry up, hurry up, you don't have to spend money, you think my daughter is a rich person from a big place! My daughter, you really came to the right place, our area belongs to my Sun Family Restaurant's food Affordable, that’s delicious and cheap!”
"Okay, okay, it's just the two of us. The dumplings alone are enough to eat, that's all!"
After thinking about it, I suddenly remembered something.
"Boss, can you deliver food to your door?"
She will be away from home all day tomorrow, and she is also worried about Zhou Zhi's food problem. If Boss Sun can provide door-to-door delivery service, it will naturally be convenient.
"If others can't do it, my little daughter-in-law can definitely do it!"
Boss Sun looked shrewd and agreed happily with a smile on his face.
"Then it's best. I'll ask Boss Sun to put the lunch tomorrow morning at the state-owned hotel. Just put it directly at the front desk. Zhou Zhi will take a look at what you want to eat tomorrow and tell the boss..."
Zhou Zhi was happy to save trouble, and nodded in agreement, saying that tomorrow morning there would be two steamed buns and one portion of porridge, and one portion of dumplings at noon tomorrow. I would definitely not be able to finish the elbows that I asked for today, and I would ask the boss to heat up the rest and deliver it at noon.
The boss naturally agreed wholeheartedly.
When the dumplings and vegetables were all served, the boss ran back to his son Sun Dacai's table and chatted with Yao Jingping while helping his son cut the meat.
"Where's your signature Mapo Tofu? Why don't I see this dish on several tables of guests..."
Yao Jingping noticed this problem when he came here, so he could take this opportunity to ask more about Bai Yulian.
"Don't mention it, it's a good thing that my daughter-in-law hasn't been a matchmaker for my son yet! If my family really marries such a person, my son's life will be harmed by her!"
ah?
Yao Jingping pretended to be surprised.
"Boss Sun, what happened? Didn't you tell me that you want to find a smart and capable daughter-in-law like Bai Yulian so that you can inherit the Sun family business?"
She knew in her heart that the news about Baijia Tofu's accident had already spread throughout the county.
"That Bai Yulian, he poisoned me. I heard that he poisoned acquaintances. I was so scared that I took out all the spare tofu in the kitchen and threw it away..."
"I'm worried about this. The Mapo Tofu in our restaurant is so popular. Could it be that Bai Yulian has given addictive drugs, so the guests who come to dine like to eat this dish?"
"I have been on tenterhooks these past two days, fearing that a customer would suddenly come to my door and say that eating my food would kill someone!"
Boss Sun lowered his voice and looked angry.
"If you really get married, why don't you poison my family's wealth? My little wife, do you know how people in the entire county spread this matter?"
Boss Sun simply came and sat down next to Yao Jingping, lowered his voice and lowered his head, put his hands to his mouth, and whispered mysteriously.
"They said..."
