When Xiao Liu saw that Xiao Guo could no longer pretend, and saw that she was laughing so hard that she almost passed away, he quickly restrained Er Ya and said to the shopkeeper with a smile.
"Shopkeeper Tong, it seems that my mission has been completed."
Shopkeeper Tong smiled awkwardly after listening to Xiao Liu's words. She didn't expect that they had been worried that they had been deceived by Xiao Guo after working all day.
"Thank you, Xiaoliu."
Listening to Shopkeeper Tong's somewhat awkward thanks, Xiao Liu smiled. He also knew that they had to deal with matters in the store next, and it was not appropriate for him to be there, and he also had important things to attend to.
"It's okay, it's just a small matter. But since the matter has been resolved, I won't stay any longer. I still have to send Erya back."
With that said, Xiao Liu raised the dog leash in his hand.
"Okay, then since that's the case, we won't keep you here. Next time you come over to our place, I'll give you a free meal, as a thank you for your help today." The shopkeeper said with a smile.
This is a favor, and there must be due reward, otherwise the relationship, no matter how close it is, will gradually become alienated.
Xiao Liu responded with a smile without any politeness. "Then thank you, shopkeeper Tong, and take my leave."
"Xiao Liu, walk slowly. Come back next time."
Everyone also bid farewell to Xiao Liu.
However, they were very familiar with Xiao Liu, so everyone just talked about it a few times without actually sending it out.
After watching Xiao Liu leave, everyone immediately put away their laughter and looked at Xiao Guo with serious expressions.
Xiao Guo had also recovered at this time. Looking at the interrogating gazes of everyone, Xiao Guo also felt very guilty. She lowered her head in fear.
"Tell me, why are you pretending to be sick?" The shopkeeper looked at Xiao Guo's guilty and frightened look and asked directly.
"I, I, I..." Xiao Guo hesitated and said the reason.
It turned out that Xiao Guo had been working day and night for the past few days and felt too tired, so she wanted to pretend to be sick and rest for a while. She originally didn't want to get such a big one, but the more she pretended, the bigger it got.
When one lie was exposed, she could only use a second lie to continue the lie. As a result, things became out of her control. In the end, she could only break the pot and continue to hold on.
After listening to Xiao Guo's story, the shopkeepers also reflected on Xiao Guo's workload in the past few days. They found that they seemed to have gone a bit too far, especially Lao Bai!
Everyone glanced at Lao Bai inadvertently.
Lao Bai saw that everyone else was looking at him, and he also had a bad feeling. Wasn't he going to be the scapegoat?
However, as a good leader, the most important thing is not to let his employees take the blame, especially if this employee is his confidant.
The shopkeeper said with a concerned look on his face.
"Then why don't you just tell me?"
The shopkeeper said this like a caring big sister, but when they heard this sentence, Lao Bai, Xiucai, Da Zui, and Xiao Bei all felt the same way, that was outrageous!
Especially Big Mouth. He always asked for leave from the shopkeeper, but every time he was killed by the shopkeeper before he finished speaking. No matter how much he cried and begged, it was of no use.
Of course, this is also related to Dazui taking leave too frequently.
But they still want to complain, is it useful to tell you?
But at this time, no one would be stupid enough to refute the shopkeeper's face, unless he didn't want to receive the monthly payment.
Xiao Guo was not familiar with the shopkeeper yet. She saw the shopkeeper's concern and care for her in the past two days. She regarded the shopkeeper as a kind and generous boss, thinking that the reason why she had suffered so much before was , all just because of that abominable Zhou Bapi.
In her imagination, the shopkeeper was deceived by that abominable Zhou Bapi.
It was all because of damn Bai Zhantang who deceived her and pushed his own work to her, which made her suffer so much.
"How did I know you were so reasonable?" Xiao Guo said with some shame.
Lao Bai quickly helped.
"Don't even think about it. Once I heard that you were sick, the shopkeeper would dare to support you for the rest of your life, let alone give you two days off?"
Even though he said that, Lao Bai knew in his heart that if he really told him, he would probably not let go of the lie, and he would probably lie to you for a while, telling you that you were confused and asking you to go back to work on your own initiative.
"Good intentions are treated as a donkey's liver and lungs!"
Xiucai also said that everyone had been worried about this matter for the past two days, but it turned out to be a scam.
Big Mouth remained silent and did not comment on the matter of asking for leave.
Listening to everyone's accusations, Xiao Guo also felt aggrieved.
"I didn't know. If I had known this earlier, why would I have wasted my time? I haven't had a day's rest in the past two days, and I'm even more tired than when I was working."
"Damn it, let you make up lies and deceive people!" Xiaobei did not forget to follow the lesson. It felt so good to teach an adult a lesson.
When the shopkeeper saw that everyone was blaming him, Xiao Guo already knew that he was wrong, and she also knew that it was time for her to come out and put an end to it.
"Okay, okay! Since you already know that you were wrong, and you were lazy this time because of too much work pressure, it is excusable, and I will forgive you."
"But your lie this time has made us all fearful and even delayed the business of the store. I can't not punish you."
"Ah!" When Xiao Guo Chuyi heard the first half of the shopkeeper's words, he thought he had escaped, but he didn't expect that he would still be punished.
But she also admitted that punishment should be punishment, it would be nice to end this matter anyway. She had been on tenterhooks these past two days and couldn't even sleep well for fear of being seen through.
As she said this, she looked at the shopkeeper, wanting to see how the shopkeeper planned to punish her. It would be best to deduct wages. Anyway, she had too many debts to bear. At worst, she could just let Xiaoqing get more money.
However, the shopkeeper was not satisfied with what she expected. She raised her head and asked Lao Bai.
"Zhantang, the tanzhong and ring jump you mentioned before, one point is for upper body soreness and numbness, and the other point is for lower body soreness and numbness. Is it okay to do the two together?"
"Ah?" Xiao Guo was shocked when she heard this, and immediately wanted to get up and run away, but at this time her feet were still tied, so naturally she couldn't escape.
Xiao Guo looked at Lao Bai with a pleading look, hoping that he would be noble and let her go.
However, Lao Bai didn't pay any attention to her pleading eyes, which made him worried and scared for a whole day and night, thinking that this was it, it wouldn't be that easy.
"Of course!" Lao Bai responded with a smile.
"Then let's do it!" the shopkeeper waved his hand and said.
When Xiao Guo heard this, he felt like crying without tears, and he quickly waved his hands to resist.
But Lao Bai's fingering skills were so exquisite and so fast that Xiao Guo's hand couldn't touch Lao Bai at all. Lao Bai quickly pointed two fingers at her body, and Xiao Guo's waving hand was instantly frozen in mid-air.
Xiao Guotan opened his mouth softly, as if he wanted to say something, but he was speechless.
'Bai Zhantang, I hate you! ’ Her eyes were fixed on Lao Bai.
I have to say that this sunflower acupuncture hand is indeed very sophisticated. It can tap on several large acupoints on a person's body at an extremely fast speed, making the person unable to speak while still frozen.
Moreover, its acupuncture method is also very special, and ordinary acupuncture methods cannot unblock this sunflower acupuncture hand at all.
Lao Bai closed his fingers and looked at Xiao Guo with a chuckle.
"Little girl, please feel the itching and numbness all over your body without scratching or scratching."
"Okay, okay, let's all go to work." Seeing that Lao Bai's words were so strange, the shopkeeper quickly dismissed everyone to go to work.
Since Xiao Guo is not sick, the store can reopen.
After the shopkeeper drove Lao Bai and others out of the house, he personally untied Xiao Guo, and worked with Xiao Bei to lay Xiao Guo on the bed, intending to let her rest first, but she had not been ordered, so she I don't know how uncomfortable Xiao Guo felt at this time. It felt like there were countless ants crawling on his body.
At this moment, Xiao Guo hated Lao Bai so much that she was already thinking about how to fight to the death with Lao Bai.
Xiao Guo blinked at the shopkeeper frequently, trying to get her to let him go, but the shopkeeper couldn't understand Xiao Guo's thoughts, so she comforted her gently.
"Just take a good rest first!"
The shopkeeper helped Xiao Guo cover the quilt, and then she no longer cared about Xiao Guo, but looked at Xiao Bei, with relief and expectation in her eyes.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Xiaobei looked at his sister-in-law's eyes that were a little different from usual, and felt a little strange in his heart.
The shopkeeper hugged Xiao Bei affectionately. "Xiao Bei, you must be twelve years old this year."
"Yes, sister-in-law." Xiaobei was also very happy when she heard this. She had been looking forward to growing up quickly so that she could help her sister-in-law.
"It's time to go to school. My sister-in-law wants to send you to study. What do you think?" The shopkeeper patted Xiao Bei on the back and said with expectation and longing.
Xiaobei was a little confused.
"Going to school, what is schooling? Studying? Aren't I studying now? Where else can I go to study?" Xiaobei asked curiously.
Hearing this, shopkeeper Tong smiled and explained. "Of course you will go to the academy to study. My sister-in-law plans to send you to the best White Horse Academy in town."
"Why? Didn't Brother Xiucai teach well?" Xiaobei asked in confusion.
Shopkeeper Tong smiled.
"Xiucai is not good at it. He can teach you how to read and write. He has not learned other things well yet. I plan to let a professional teacher teach you."
Fortunately, the scholar was not here at this time, but he was of no use even here. The most he could do was shake his head and leave angrily. After all, he really failed to pass the exam.
"So, is going to school fun?" Seeing that his sister-in-law had made up her mind, Xiaobei directly asked her the question she was most concerned about.
"It's fun. There are many friends the same age as you in the academy. You can..." As he said this, the shopkeeper began to describe to Xiao Bei various scenes that he often dreamed of when he was a child.
Such as kicking shuttlecock, box jumping, playing dodge ball, etc.!
Xiaobei, who was still confused, was stunned by the beautiful picture painted by the shopkeeper. Finally, under the strong suggestion of the shopkeeper, she decided to apply for White Horse Academy.
This White Horse Academy is not simple. As the best academy within a radius of 500 miles, the threshold is extremely high.
The registration fee alone costs three cents, and there is also a pre-school exam. If you can't pass the pre-school exam, then I'm sorry, keep the money and go back.
On the other side, after Xiaoliu left the inn, he sent Erya back first, and then he rushed to the painting shop without stopping.
After asking, he learned that the old man still hadn't been here, so Xiao Liu started to patrol the streets again with the painting shop as the center. However, since Lao Xing was on leave today, Xiao Liu wanted to patrol the entire Qixia Town today.
But fortunately, Xiaoliu's physical fitness was excellent, and after these few days of martial arts training, he was able to cope with the long journey.
While patrolling the streets, Xiao Liu also heard something very important from the vendors traveling from north to south, that is, there seemed to be a group of bandits in Cuiwei Mountain to the southwest of Qixia Town.
A bandit is a type of thief who establishes his stronghold in the mountains and haunts the mountains and forests. They are different from ordinary thieves. They make a living by robbing, specializing in robbing passing business travelers.
The Qixia Town has been peaceful for a long time, and it has been a long time since I heard of bandits operating nearby.
But I heard from those merchants that the bandits seemed to come from somewhere else.
It is said that there is a severe drought in Guandong this year, and the court is busy with party disputes due to the death of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao's loss of power.
A large number of Zhang Feng's old parties were liquidated, and they had no time to take care of the victims. This resulted in many provinces having refugees who had fallen into poverty due to famine.
I don’t know if this new group of bandits are refugees from elsewhere or bandits who have fled here.
But no matter what the situation is, this matter must be investigated clearly and then reported to his master and Lou Zhixian. After all, this banditry is not a trivial matter.
