Song Shen arrived at the doorstep of the house in the tavern carriage, quickly got off the carriage and hurried inside.
Grandma Song was carrying a clay pot of water outside and almost collided with him, Grandma Song hastily carried the pot to one side, “So panicky, what happened?”
“Grandma ……”
Song Shen grabbed Nana Song’s arm with one hand, while the other hand still covered his chest, “I have something to tell you.”
Seeing this nervous look on his face, Grandma Song thought something big had happened, and hurriedly put the clay pot down and followed him into the house.
The latter foot had just stepped inside when Song Shen turned around and shut the door behind him, then quickly stepped inside again, climbed onto the bed, put down the stick that supported the window, grinned and took out the silver cheque and put it on the bed, his face flushed with excitement, “Nine thousand five hundred taels, all for our family.”
“That much?”
Song Shen nodded his head in excitement, “Put it up quickly, Grandma, don’t let anyone see it.”
“You go out first!”
“Huh?”
“Ah what ah, you go out first!”
Song Shen got off the bed and went outside.
Grandma Song went under the bed, carried out the box hidden in the hole underneath, opened it, put the silver tickets in, covered it carefully and re-hid it.
Getting up and patting the dirt on her body, she walked out with a self-effacing expression, “Where is Yue’er, why didn’t she come back with you?”
“Oh, she said something came up and she might have to stay at the tavern for two days.”
“What?”
Grandma Song paused in her tracks, “A two-day stay? ”
“Hmm.”
Snap!
Grandma Song slapped him on the back of the head, “Why didn’t you stay with her for two days? How are you being a brother?”
Song Shen, ……
Just a little confused.
He had so many silver tickets on him, how could he stay at the restaurant,? What if he loses the silver tickets?
“When are you going to be as stable and reliable as your big brother? Go, don’t be an eyesore in front of me, bring the water from the pottery jar to the people who are working.”
Song Shen’s excitement turned into depression, and he carried the pot with him to the foundation.
Even the women were not shy, each one working harder than the other. In just a day and a half, more than half of the foundation had been cleared out, and at this rate it would all be finished before nightfall, and tomorrow it would be ready for tamping and foundation work.
The village chief sat with the old man, Song, drinking tea and smoking a cigarette, his eyes narrowed.
In all his years as village chief, he was most comfortable now.
In the past, Elder Song could not sit still, but last night Song Wangyue said to him, “There are so many people, grandpa should not follow the work, you just drink tea, smoke a cigarette and keep an eye on them.”
Of course he had to listen to his granddaughter’s words.
……
After Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi had eaten their fill, they took Xiao Si to buy the ingredients for the hot pot base and went to the Gu family in a horse-drawn carriage.
The Song family had a lot of people coming in and out these days, so it was inconvenient to make the base.
The carriage drove straight to the entrance of Dr. Yao’s courtyard and stopped, Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi got off the carriage and just walked into the courtyard, Dr. Yao arrived in front of the two of them like a gust of wind and held out his hand towards Song Wan Yue, “Silver ticket.”
Song Wangyue pointed her finger towards Gu Yi, “It’s on your young master.”
Doctor Yao did not dare to ask Gu Yi for it, but still held out his hand towards Song Wangyue, “You should give me what you promised me.”
Song Wangyue raised her eyebrows, but didn’t say anything and looked towards Gu Yi.
Gu Yi obediently took out the silver ticket and counted 3,500 taels and placed it in Dr. Yao’s hand.
The folds on Dr. Yao’s face became flowers as he smiled and carefully put the silver ticket away, coughed, put his hands behind his back and said seriously, “I’ve thought about it, you can’t take up my courtyard for nothing by making pills, every time you make pills in the future, no matter how many, give me 500 taels.”
Song Wangyue,……
Gu Yi, ……
The two men looked at the ingredients Xiao Si was carrying in his hand.
Yao Dafu also saw it and thought Song Wangyue was going to cook something delicious, his eyes lit up, “Miss Song, what kind of delicious food are you going to cook?”
“Hotpot base.”
“Hot ……”
Doctor Yao reacted and coughed again, “What originally, Miss Song makes the food, I let her use it here for free, but she is making it for that old thing, Old Wei, so that’s a different story, I don’t want much, just give ten taels. The young master can advance it first, and when the time comes to pay for the work you can deduct it from his wages.”
Song Wan Yue, ……
took a step back, “I don’t have any money.”
After saying that, she looked at Gu Yi.
Gu Yi very dryly took out his silver ticket again and took one and handed it to Doctor Yao, “This is one thousand taels, find me nine hundred and ninety taels.”
Dr. Yao, ……
……
It was almost dark when Song Wangyue made a two-day supply and hung it aside, telling Gu Yi to have it put away when it was dry.
Gu Yi obliged and asked Xiao Si to send her back.
When the carriage was far away, he collected his smile and went to the study in the main courtyard, sitting down opposite Master Gu, looking at him with a serious face, “It’s time for the Zhang family to clean up.”
……
At night, the cries of the Zhang House stopped, and the house fell into dead silence.
A black shadow silently ascended the backyard wall of the Zhang House, and after identifying the direction, went straight to the study of the Zhang Family.
The study was dark and the courtyard was unguarded.
After listening to the door for a while and hearing no movement, he gently pushed the door open and went inside.
A quarter of an hour passed, but nothing was found.
The dark shadow was in no hurry, and blew out the torch, while then quietly messing up the furnishings in the study, turned around and came out and brought one of the doors down hard.
“Bam!”
“Who!”
The shout of a question rang out.
The dark figure quickly leapt onto the roof and slumped into the shadows.
The Zhang family’s household servants rushed into the courtyard and were shocked to see the study door open, one of them turned and darted to the main courtyard, “Master, it’s not good, the study is infested with thieves.”
“What?”
Master Zhang’s face changed dramatically and he hurried over, seeing through the light of the torch that the study was in a mess, he was furious, “A bunch of rice buckets, why don’t you go after the thieves, what are you all doing standing here?”
The servants scattered to search for them.
Only the butler remained in the courtyard.
“You guard the outside.”
Without waiting for the butler to answer, Master Zhang had already entered the study, closed the door behind him and leaned against it, waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness before groping his way to the bookcase, opening the mechanism, reaching his hand inside and feeling the porcelain vase inside with a sigh of relief, withdrawing his hand and closing the mechanism carefully.
“Old fox!”
The black shadow lurking on the roof cursed, he deliberately made the door loud, just to lure Master Zhang over, so as to know where he had hidden the beauty smile, but he did not expect the old fellow to be so alert, and did not light the lamp at all, he did not see anything.
