After settling the matter of rice and grain, Hua Rujin began to think about the little girl in the west wing.
This girl has been here for many days and still refuses to say a word. I don't know why.
It's just that we can't keep her in the house all the time.
She was also worried that while she was out, Cai Baiwei and her son had entered the inner courtyard. She first pretended to be calm and picked up Hua Muyang, then asked with a smile: "Muyang, have the little guys from our backyard come to the courtyard?
Pass?"
Xiao Tuantuan is the name she gave to the little cat.
"Grandma is not happy. My sister and I have been staying here with grandma and we didn't see Xiao Tuantuan."
Hua Muyang blinked her little eyes and replied in a soft voice.
"That should still be in there."
Hua Rujin smiled and felt much more at ease immediately.
"What little group?"
Shu Jinxuan looked at her in confusion.
Cai Baiwei replied casually: "It's a little tabby cat that your cousin bought in Huangliu Lane a few days ago. Her younger siblings are still young. I was worried that the two little ones would get itchy after getting caught in the cat hair, so I just let your cousin do it."
The cat is kept in the backyard."
"I see."
Shu Jinxuan felt suspicious in his heart: "I remember that my cousin never liked raising cats before. If you know that my cousin does, I will buy you a better breed. The cats in this alley are just raised by ordinary people and lose their hair."
"I think it's pretty good."
Hua Rujin interrupted him: "We are just ordinary people, we are not that particular."
"I"
Shu Jinxuan felt that her words had a special meaning, but he just wanted to give her a better cat, without any reference.
Hua Rujin saw the embarrassment on his face, and then realized that her unintentional words seemed to be deliberately aimed at him. She quickly changed her tone and said with a smile: "I earned money today, so I don't have to cook anymore."
Let’s go out for a walk later and eat at Jinhu Restaurant in the evening.”
After saying that, he glanced at Shu Jinxuan lightly: "This time, my cousin has troubled me by taking care of our family. Let's take it as our family to thank my cousin."
"I can't do much to help."
Shu Jinxuan smiled sarcastically.
Thinking that his uncle had returned the two hundred taels of silver, he felt even more ashamed.
"Don't say that, Jinxuan, I've been busy with you these days. Without you Rujin, this kid wouldn't have been able to go as smoothly as he did."
Cai Baiwei didn't know that it was her cousin who arranged the transportation of grain to Yuezhou, but the things he did for her daughter and family were enough to move her.
Unfortunately.
Thinking of this, she sighed silently, raised her head and said with a smile on her face: "I'll go pack it up, and we'll set off after it's done."
"I'll go."
Hua Rujin picked up a beggar's chicken and a pack of pear blossom cakes she bought, and gestured: "Just in time, I fed Xiao Tuantuan first."
She was also afraid that the two little beans would follow and cause trouble, so she warned again: "You two should eat some pear cakes first, but don't eat too much, lest you end up in a restaurant where you can't hold it in your stomach."
After saying that, he went straight to the inner courtyard.
After closing the courtyard door tightly, she pretended to call "Xiao Tuantuan" and unlocked the west wing inside.
Seeing Cheng Nini sitting by the bed and crying quietly, Hua Rujin couldn't help but tremble in her heart.
She hesitantly closed the door gently, walked over to the little girl and sat down next to her. She put down the food and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
Cheng Nini hugged her and sobbed silently for a while, then suddenly said: "Sister, I miss my father and my mother."
Seeing the little girl who was not much older than the two little cubs outside crying like pear blossoms in her arms, and thinking about the female corpse still lying underneath that could not be buried, she felt sad in her heart.
The old beggar disappeared for many days, and I don't know where he went.
Hua Rujin's mind was filled with confusion at this time.
I remember that day in the tunnel, this little girl said she wanted to wait for her father to come back, but she refused to say anything, and she couldn't turn her into a father out of thin air.
Thinking that her family was still waiting outside, she patted Cheng Nini on the shoulder and comforted in a low voice: "You eat something first. Our family will go out in the afternoon. You can go to the yard to get some fresh air. Don't hold yourself back."
Already."
Cheng Nini choked and nodded.
Hua Rujin stood up and saw that she was still downcast, and warned softly: "You must remember what your grandpa and your mother said before they died. You must live well. Only by living can you find your father and help your mother."
Revenge."
"Um."
Cheng Nini lowered her head and responded softly.
Only then did Hua Rujin go out with confidence.
Seeing the little furry ball running up to her to make love and act coquettishly, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have forgotten to prepare food for the little guy.
Picking up Xiao Tuantuan, she stroked the little guy's smooth and supple cat hair while comforting her with guilt: "I'll bring you a big and long fish when I come back later."
Little Tuantuan meowed a few times in her arms, and seemed to smell the fragrant smell of beggar's chicken. He jumped down from her in a hurry and went straight to the west wing.
Hua Rujin shook her head helplessly, looked around in the courtyard, and then casually went out and closed the door to the inner courtyard again.
When he arrived at the pergola, he saw several people waiting for him, so he smiled as if nothing had happened and said, "Let's go."
Cai Baiwei learned from her cousin that the money her daughter earned was supposed to be given to He Shiyin. As she followed him out, she asked worriedly: "Rujin, do you think Miss He will be unhappy if she knows that you have earned her money?"
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"My aunt is too worried."
Mentioning He Shiyin, Shu Jinxuan had an angry look on his face: "This is where the capable people live, but Miss He took advantage of others' danger to sit down and raise prices to deliberately embarrass everyone. If my cousin hadn't come forward today, I don't know what the fate of those rice merchants would have been.
.”
As he said that, he glanced at Hua Rujin secretly, with admiration in his eyes: "My cousin is so generous. She helped everyone but didn't take it for granted. It was because everyone forced her to take three hundred taels of silver."
"I just want my father to come out as soon as possible."
Hua Rujin smiled.
Thinking that she would have to compete with others for business in the future, she said to Cai Baiwei: "Don't worry, Auntie, litigating for others is the same as doing business. Jingzhou Prefecture is so big, Miss He is not the only one who can litigate for others. She
Now that I have been there, I understand why.”
And taking only three hundred taels of silver for yourself is not malicious competition.
After all, given her reputation, she couldn't be as open-mouthed as she was.
After listening to her daughter's words, Cai Baiwei, who had always been cautious, felt at ease. The family got into the Shu family's carriage and headed towards the Jinhu Tower on the riverside.
Jianglingcheng County Government Office
It was noon, and Ye Chengguan was sitting in the courtroom with a cold face, while everyone in the hall was already crying to death:
"Sir, you must make decisions for the common people. Uncle Cao Min died unjustly. Han Chun killed my uncle that day but deceived me by saying that my uncle had been traveling for three years. I never thought that he had already been brutally murdered.
, now that a young and weak man is left helpless, please judge publicly and let the Han family compensate my Zhang family, so that my cousin, Caomin, can have money to live."
"Bold Zhang Xiu, you don't submit a complaint to the Yamen in accordance with the law, but you beat drums and disturb the people in the busy city. You must have royal laws in your eyes."
The county magistrate Tang Haoran was so angry that he waved directly to the guards in the hall and said: "Here we come, drag down this unruly man who is contemptuous of the court and give him a fifty-pound beating, and then question him again."
"Forget it."
Ye Chengkuan's eyes have been staring at the person who complained of grievances calmly: "There are laws in our court. If you encounter great corruption, great evil, strange injustices and tragic injustices, you can directly hit the road to complain, even if you file a complaint beyond the level, it will be forgiven.
crime."
"grown ups."
Tang Haoran showed an anxious look on his face and muttered in a low voice: "If everyone is like this, how can this county government still have a happy life in the future?"
Ye Chengguan waved his hand to stop him: "He has lost a loved one and is understandable."
But what puzzled him was that Zhang Xiu came all the way to beat drums and complain. He was neither in a hurry to identify the body of his uncle Zhang Yuan nor to ask for burial, but only asked for compensation.
This is not something that a close relative can do.