Mrs. Zhang and Mr. Shen went out to pick fruits again early in the morning. The wild fruits at home piled up all over the yard. Jiang Miao sold sugar snowballs for three days in a row, and the guests were not used to it.
"Mrs. Jiang, we won't be selling sugar snowballs tomorrow." It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. The guests are used to having new tricks every day. No matter how delicious the sugar snowballs are, they can't eat them for three days in a row. I'm also a little tired of it.
"I'll change it to something else tomorrow." Jiang Miao touched her nose sheepishly. Sugar snowballs were easy to make, so she took the opportunity to be lazy for a few days.
"That's good."
Thinking of having a new meal tomorrow, the guests happily left with their snacks. Jiang Miao closed the shop and went home after finishing the sale.
Shen Yingxue was squatting in the yard washing fruits. After washing the red hawthorns and green green plums, she put them in two basins, which were filled in a short time.
"The shop closed very early today?" she said with a smile after washing the last few pills and wiping her hands with her apron.
"Well, come back early to make snacks." Jiang Miao gave her the salary, and Shen Yingxue accepted it without any hesitation. At first, she was embarrassed to accept it, but later Jiang Miao said she wouldn't let her work if she didn't accept it.
In the past few days, she had been helping Jiang Miao with her work. Jiang Miao said she would be paid according to the quantity of the goods she made.
Making money from cakes, she was very active and wanted to make more money, so she became more diligent with her hands. In the past few days, she had saved almost a tael of silver.
Shen Yingxue was in a complicated mood. All the Zhou family's money was in Zhou's mother's hands, and the money earned in Zhou Shui'an's shop would not be given to her. She had been married to the Zhou family for many years, and this was actually the first money she had saved besides the dowry.
She felt much more at ease with the money in her hand, especially working for Jiang Miao these past few days. Although she was tired, she was happy in her heart. It was as if those sad things that had been deliberately forgotten no longer existed. Shen Yingxue clenched the hand in her hand. Yin Zi, holding back the tears from the corners of his eyes, pulled out a smile from the corners of his mouth.
"Are you still making sugar snowballs today?"
"If you don't do it anymore, the customers will be annoyed." Jiang Miao told her what happened in the shop. Shen Yingxue couldn't help laughing when she thought of Jiang Miao being complained by the customers.
"Why is it annoying? I won't get tired of eating it every day."
"Then let me tell them next time, I can't handle it." Jiang Miao joked casually. Shen Yingxue's palms trembled and she forced a smile.
"I won't go." Her current situation is not suitable for public appearances. No one has come from the Zhou family for so many days. She is allowed to stay at her parents' house. Shen Yingxue feels sad when she thinks of Zhou Shui'an and Ayuan at home. A dull pain.
Jiang Miao later realized that she had said the wrong thing, and she patted Shen Yingxue's hand.
"Sister, Zhou Shui'an is not worth your sadness for him."
Jiang Miao said that such a scumbag should be divorced as soon as possible. As soon as his wife returned to her parents' home, she couldn't wait to consummate the marriage with her concubine. She felt sick just thinking about it. Moreover, that concubine was so cruel that Shen Yingxue would be dead if she returned.
Shen Yingxue lowered her head and said nothing. She had been married for many years, but she still harbored fantasies in her heart.
Seeing that Jiang Miao couldn't persuade her, she stopped trying. Anyway, she was staying at her parents' house, far away from the scumbag and the bitch, so she wouldn't be harmed. As time went by, she would naturally think things through.
A pot of hawthorn was divided into four portions. Jiang Miao decided to make jam, hawthorn pot helmets, candied haws and hawthorn slices. Except for the candied haws, the other three items were relatively durable. After they were made, they could be sent to Shen Yanqing. Her last letter No reply yet.
Most of the green plums are made into salted green plums and candied fruits, and the rest is used to make green plum wine. It took her a long time to finish picking the two green plum trees on the mountain.
The two of them were busy in the kitchen. Jiang Miao was teaching Shen Yingxue while cooking. Suddenly, there was a loud banging sound from the front yard. The two of them stopped for a moment, with worry in their eyes. Jiang Miao took off her apron and said, "I'll go to the front." have a look."
"Be careful." Shen Yingxue was worried, but she had to stay in the kitchen to watch the fire and could only watch Jiang Miao go out.
"Um."
A group of strong servants crowded the Shen family's shop fiercely, and the guests tremblingly slipped out through the cracks in the side and ran very fast.
"You haven't paid me yet!" Dalang anxiously tried to catch up, but was pushed back by a servant. He hit the table and grimaced in pain.
"What are you doing?" Boss Shen helped him up and asked the beating servant angrily. This group of inexplicable people suddenly broke into the shop, smashed and looted, and disturbed their guests.
"What are you doing? I will take over your shop today. If you are wise, please hand over the money!" He said hello to the person behind him, and the servant went straight to the counter and took out the money bag.
"Brother, there are only five taels of silver in it." The second brother counted the coins and looked at the pile of copper coins with disgust in his eyes.
"Only five taels? Didn't Wang Erzhu say that this shop earns a fortune every month?" The man was so angry that he grabbed the money bag.
"Zhuzhu?" Wang felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave and asked in disbelief with trembling lips, "Did Zhuzhu ask you to come?"
"He owed our gambling house a hundred taels of silver and refused to pay it back. His hands and feet were chopped off by his master. If you don't pay back the money, you will end up like him!"
The man sneered in his heart, Wang Erzhu still wanted to make a deal with his master, without even looking at how much he weighed.
Wang was so frightened that her face turned pale, her legs and feet went weak and she fell to the ground.
"Where am I going to get so much money..." She broke down and cried, wondering why her parents would cause trouble for her just after the day was over and not let her go.
"If you don't have money, keep your hands and feet!" The man looked sinister and took out a dagger to stab Wang's hand. She was so frightened that her mind went blank and she screamed.
"Stop!" Boss Shen was also frightened, "Your gambling house is killing innocent people, do you have any laws?"
"The king's law?" The man laughed loudly, "It is natural to pay back debts. How did I break the law?"
"Why should she, a daughter who is married outside, help Wang Erzhu pay off her debts? You want money from the Wang family?" Mr. Shen's face turned red with anger. Wang Erzhu stole the Shen family's prescriptions, but now he even killed them.
"Her father...I'm sorry for you..." Mrs. Wang cried so hard that it was all because of her that the Shen family was in trouble. She felt her heart pounding and pointed her neck at the tip of a knife.
"We have no money, so just kill me and let my man and son go."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Boss Shen hurriedly ran over to pull her, but was kicked to the ground by the servant behind him.
"Don't worry, you can't run away. If you don't pay back the money, each of you will have his hand cut off!"
He gestured with the knife, and the blade was pressed against his arm. Boss Shen trembled.
"Are you afraid? It's okay to be afraid. Take out the money quickly, otherwise not only you, but also your son will have to keep your hands."
"No! I'm going to...don't hurt Dalang..." Wang kneeled over and stopped beside Dalang, asking Boss Shen to take out the money and give it to the servant. Boss Shen looked at the knife in front of Dalang and closed his eyes. He took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and gave it to him.
He took it in disgust, "Only ten liang? Where's the rest?"
"That's all we have. There's really nothing else left. Please spare us..."
"Tsk! Ten taels of silver buys a hand. You don't have to take your son's, but you and your man can keep both!"
After he said the cruel words, the tip of the knife fell. Wang closed her eyes tightly and felt despair. It would be better for her to die immediately. How could she still have the dignity to live after causing Boss Shen so much trouble?
