Zhou Ningyue didn't think too much and said with a smile: "I know. Dad doesn't believe this. If he hears about it, he will definitely scold me."
"Yes, even men don't really believe this." Mother Zhou told her daughter with a tired look on her face, "Mother, take a nap, and you should go back to your room and sleep too."
Zhou Ningyue left and the room became quiet, but Zhou's mother tossed and turned without feeling sleepy.
On the way back to the bookstore, Xin You and Ji Cailan walked together for a while and quietly inquired: "Sister Zhou and her family just came from out of town. Will their Mid-Autumn Festival customs be different from the locals?"
Ji Cailan immediately came to talk: "I heard from my cousin that there are some differences between the north and the south. The mooncakes they eat in the south are stuffed with meat."
Speaking of this, Ji Cailan couldn't help showing a look of disgust on her face.
Mooncakes are obviously made with bean paste, jujube paste, and five kernels. Meat mooncakes are simply evil!
"Meat moon cake?" Xin You responded with a strange expression.
Seeing her like this, Ji Cailan seemed to have found a soulmate: "Isn't it strange?"
Xin You nodded: "It is indeed different from what we are used to."
"Not only that! My cousin and the others in the south not only eat moon cakes filled with meat, but also salty rice dumplings, and spring rolls are also salty, but they eat tofu curd with sugar! Sister Kou, can you imagine sweet tofu curd?"
Xin You Congshan Ruliu shook his head: "It's unimaginable."
In fact, not only can she imagine it, she can also eat it deliciously.
Of course, whatever Aunt Xia cooks is delicious, fried or fried from all over the world. So she is used to eating both sweet and salty foods.
"So during the Mid-Autumn Festival, will Sister Zhou get used to eating sweet mooncakes?"
"In the early years, my uncle and the others were able to eat in the capital, but they have become accustomed to salty food over the years. Mooncakes with meat are better. I told my cousin two days ago that there is a snack shop not far from Jixiangfang. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Not only the common mooncakes, but also meat mooncakes will be on sale these days. My cousin said she would buy some back then, and wouldn't let me mention it to my aunt and the others, saying she wanted to give them a surprise."
Xin You couldn't wait to give Ji Cailan a hug.
How could there be such a caring girl?
There was surprise on her face: "Are meat mooncakes also sold in the capital?"
"Yes, that pastry shop is called Wuxiangzhai. It didn't sell meat mooncakes originally. It is said that the young master's wife was from the south, and then they started selling meat mooncakes. The business is actually pretty good, and most of the customers are from the south."
Ji Cailan's disgust when she mentioned "business is good" was so obvious that Xin You unconsciously curled her lips.
When they were standing at the intersection to say goodbye, Ji Cailan held Xin You's hand reluctantly: "Sister Kou, you have been in the bookstore, right? I will go and play with you later."
"I'm usually here whether it's a year or a holiday. Sister Ji can go to me at any time."
Back at the bookstore, Xin You told Aunt Fang: "There is a snack shop called Wuxiangzhai near Jixiangfang. Nurse, go and find out the specific location."
With the store name and approximate location, it was very easy to find out. It didn't take long for Nanny Fang to report the information she found to Xin You.
"That shop is just two streets away from Jixiangfang. It is open on the roadside and its business is very prosperous. In the afternoon, when the snacks are sold out, it closes early..."
Aunt Fang's words also verified Xinyou's conclusion that the murder occurred in the morning.
That night, Xinyou didn't sleep well, thinking over and over again in her mind what to do on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
She probably figured out the layout of the Zhou family. Today, she went to see Zhou's mother in the east room. The layout was different from what she saw in the picture, so the only place where the crime occurred was the west room.
There are three main rooms in the Zhou family. The west room is connected to the main room. There is no place to hide in the main room. It's even more inappropriate to do it under the window outside the house. If you don't time it right, you will be spotted by Zhou Ningyue who comes back from outside.
After much thought, the most suitable place to hide was on the beam in the west room. It seemed that she was going to be a "gentleman on the beam" for a time.
With a plan in mind, Xin You fell asleep.
The next day, while she was nesting in the east courtyard, Shitou ran over to deliver something, which turned out to be snacks from Wuxiangzhai.
"It's from your friend, Miss Ji."
Seeing that Xinyou was going to see Ji Cailan, Shitou said hurriedly: "Miss Ji heard that you were in the east courtyard, put down the snacks and left. She said that she happened to pass by here on her way to somewhere else, so she brought you the snacks for you to have a taste of. dislike."
Xin You opened the snack box and gave Shi Shi a few pastries: "You and Liu Zhou should try it too."
For children like Shi Shi who have a difficult life, snacks are a good thing that they can't even eat during the Chinese New Year.
"Thank you, boss." The young boy took the snacks and left happily.
Xinyou sat quietly for a while, then picked up a peach blossom-shaped snack and put it into his mouth, tasting it slowly.
The snacks were soft and sweet, and tasted very good, but her heart was not soaked by the sweetness.
After eating a piece of snack, Xin You sighed slightly.
Even if the outcome of Zhou's mother being killed is changed, it is inevitable that the couple will turn against each other. I wonder how Ji Cailan and Zhou Ningyue, the cousins, will get along with each other.
As for her friendship with the two of them...it was a friendship based on falsehood. If you think too much about it, you are asking for trouble.
In a blink of an eye, it was August 14th. Xinyou went to the front bookstore and walked around before going out and heading towards Wuxiangzhai.
She wanted to check it out in advance so that she could estimate the distance from Zhou's house to the dim sum shop.
As Ji Cailan said, Wuxiangzhai is indeed not far from Jixiangfang. Xinyou walked over slowly because he was not in a hurry, so there was already a long queue there.
The dim sum at this restaurant is really popular - Xin You suddenly thought about this and stopped suddenly.
Why is Zhou Ningyue in the team?
A moon-white shirt, a lilac-colored pleated skirt, and a small basket on her hand... Zhou Ningyue's outfit is exactly the same as in the picture.
Xin You stared at the beautiful girls in the queue, and her heart suddenly sank.
wrong!
It turns out that the time in the picture is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, but August 14th!
Xin You didn't care about being upset and concluded that she was wrong, and quickly walked towards Zhou Ningyue.
"Sister Kou?" Zhou Ningyue was pleasantly surprised to see Xin You, "You also know this dim sum shop?"
"The other day, I heard from Sister Ji that this snack shop tastes good. I was thinking of buying some snacks to take back to my grandma's house for the holidays." Xin You explained, holding Zhou Ningyue's hand, "You see, Sister Zhou, you can't buy snacks. ”
"What's wrong?" Zhou Ningyue was confused.
Xin You pulled Zhou Ningyue towards Zhou's house and said in a low voice: "I looked at Sister Zhou's face and it was because my parents were in danger, and they were right in front of me."
Relying on "parent" to refer to parents, Zhou Ningyue immediately thought of what Xin You said about her mother's bloody disaster that day, and couldn't help but change her face: "My mother——"
Xin You didn't need to hold on, she held up the hem of her skirt and ran home.
Xinyou chased after him silently.
Zhou Ningyue was worried that something would happen to her parents, so she ran quickly, but it still took her a quarter of an hour to reach the door of her house.
The door of Zhou's house was closed but not locked. Zhou Ningyue pushed open the door and rushed in, heading straight to the main room.
(End of chapter)
