"Aunt Qian, stealing money is a very serious matter. It proves that there is a big problem with Li Ji's character. If we don't tell Li Wei, what if Li Ji becomes more and more depraved in the future? Li Wei will definitely do it by then. Blame us for not teaching him well and making him like this." Zhou Shichu said with a serious face.
"In the past, Li Ji was just a bit naughty. He liked to be naughty and didn't like reading. It can be said that he has a playful nature. But now that he has started to be a thief and steal money, he cannot be tolerated. Many children become bad starting from small things. , now I am stealing money from my family, I will definitely steal other people's money in the future. We will consider that he is a family member and will not beat him to death, but others will not. Others will only want to beat him to death, and even if he is beaten to death, we will not beat him to death. Without responsibility, who would let him go to someone else's house to be a thief?"
Zhou Shichu spoke logically. Aunt Qian heard her solemn tone and understood the seriousness of the matter, so she did not stop Zhou Shichu from complaining to Li Wei.
But Li Wei yelled: "Don't tell my dad! I'm not a bad boy!"
"You're not a bad boy, why did you go to my room to steal money?" Zhou Shichu asked.
"If you just gave me the money, would I still steal it? It's all your fault! Who told you not to give me the money! It's all your fault that I'm like this, and you beat me like this..." Li Ji confidently felt that he was not wrong at all. Aunt Qian was stunned when she heard it, and finally realized that Li Ji really had a problem.
Zhou Shichu then wrote a letter and told Li Wei about Li Ji's "glorious deeds".
The reason why he told him was because Zhou Shichu didn't want Li Wei to blame her for Li Ji's lack of talent in the future. He would educate his own son by himself, so don't think about passing the responsibility to her. She is not that kind. Educating a stepson who was always against her.
I don’t know how Li Wei, who is in the military camp, will feel when he receives Zhou Shichu’s letter, but Li Ji is really suffering at home. His injuries are not serious. He needs to lie in bed to recuperate and cannot get out of bed. There is no one here. In the ancient times when there were no mobile phones or TVs, he was extremely bored. What's more, he didn't like reading. In fact, judging from the fact that he often skipped classes, it was unclear whether he could read all the words in the enlightenment textbook.
Zhou Shichu had been selling steamed buns for several months, and finally earned enough money to buy a shop, so he directly asked an agent to help him find a suitable shop.
The agent worked very hard, and within a few days he helped Zhou Shichu find a shop of about 20 to 30 square meters on Jixiang Street. Jixiang Street is the busiest main street in Cuicheng, equivalent to the commercial street in later generations, so he can live in this place. If you open a shop on a street with the largest traffic volume, you can imagine that the business will be good.
It's just that the price of a store with a good location is naturally higher. The money Zhou Shichu spent selling buns during this period was not enough to buy this lower shop. She had to use the money she had saved in her companion space to afford it.
Although the shop is not the busiest place in the middle of the street, it is still very good near the end. Zhou Shichu was very satisfied, so he found someone to repair and remodel it, and then hung up a plaque with the name "Golden Jade Steamed Buns".
From now on, she and Aunt Qian won't have to work so hard to set up a stall on the street, subject to wind and rain.
Because her steamed buns have accumulated a good reputation in the past few months, regular customers were so embarrassed when they learned that she had opened a shop that they went directly to the store to buy. Therefore, when Zhou Shichu's steamed bun shop opened, there was no business at all. Of course, this is because her steamed buns are made with real ingredients and are delicious and tempting.
Zhou Shichu's career was finally on the right track. She was very happy and made a pot of braised pork that day to celebrate.
The food in this era was really not refined and delicious enough. Zhou Shichu got tired of it after eating it for a long time. He missed the strong braised food, so he bought a chicken, a duck, two pig's trotters, chicken feet, duck feet and other odds and ends. All kinds of meat were stewed in one pot with a bunch of marinade.
There is no braised food that is not fragrant. When Zhou Shichu made this pot of braised food, the aroma wafted to the neighbors' houses. If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Shichu was a promiscuous woman, those neighbors would have come to check it out.
Zhou Shichu's bad reputation blocked their urge to pry, but it did not stop them from drooling.
The neighbor on the left of the Li family is the home of a traveling merchant named Chen. Chen traveling merchant often travels around the world. Although the world is in chaos now and he rarely goes out to do business due to safety reasons, this does not affect him at all. He is a well-informed person.
However, no matter how knowledgeable he was again, he had never smelled something as fragrant as today.
"Dad, what kind of food does the Li family cook? It's so delicious... I can't help it. Dad, can you go to the Li family and buy some from them?" A chubby young man stood in front of the Li family. Under the courtyard wall of his house, he leaned against the courtyard wall and sniffed the strong fragrance in the air with a look of intoxication on his face, while quietly asking his biological father who was leaning against the wall to smell the fragrance in the same posture as him.
Mr. Chen closed his eyes and said, "I want to go too, but your mother said that the woman from the Li family is a slut. We'd better not mess with her. What's more, I'm a handsome man. What if that crazy woman sees her?" What if you fall in love with me?"
Young Master Chen looked at his father's tall and fat body and his fat face that was so dark that his facial features could not be seen. For a moment, he didn't know whether to say that her mother thought highly of his father too much, or that his father was too narcissistic. Is this honor called handsome and unrestrained? Even if he is his biological father, he cannot unconscionably think that he is handsome.
"Then... let mother go?" The young master said as soon as he blinked his eyes.
"Yes! Let your mother go!" Mr. Chen immediately opened his eyes, "Your mother is a woman. No matter how crazy the Li family woman is, she can't look down on her!"
So Master Chen ran home quickly to find his wife.
When Mrs. Chen heard that her husband asked him to go to the Li family to buy food, her eyebrows suddenly stood up: "What did you say? You asked me to go to the Li family to buy food? Are you crazy with greed? Can you deal with that woman from the Li family?"
"Oh, madam, we just buy some food from her, and we don't want to interact with her. Can't we just not offend her? Smell the fragrance from her home...can you bear it? I'm a glutton in my stomach. I'm all aroused. If I don't eat these food, I will definitely not be able to sleep tonight! Madam, just think of it as pity for me and your son!" Mr. Chen begged and begged, but Mrs. Chen was merciless. Reluctantly knocked on Li's door.
Aunt Qian opened the courtyard door and saw Mrs. Chen, and asked, "Mrs. Chen? What do you do for a living?"
Mrs. Chen was so tempted by the strong fragrance that hit her nostrils after opening the door that her saliva almost flowed out of the corner of her mouth. She swallowed the saliva that was rapidly secreted from her mouth in embarrassment, and then she smiled at Aunt Qian and said:
"Aunt Qian, I wonder what delicious food your family has cooked? You can smell the fragrance in my house. My master is greedy for this smell. I wonder if you would sell me some of this food?"
