The following day, Xu followed her to the market. When the cold skins were sold, Song Shu stayed behind to clean up, while Song Shen and Song Wan Yue accompanied her to the embroidery workshop.
The embroidery workshop was two blocks away from the market, on another busy street, and was run by a female shopkeeper, about Xu’s age, who greeted her warmly when she saw her, “You haven’t come these days, my eyes are red with anticipation.”
Xu’s embroidery work was so good that all the handkerchiefs and pillowcases she showed not only sold faster than others, but also sold at a high price, and some customers even ordered her embroidered handkerchiefs specifically, which must have been dozens of them.
“Sister Liu.”
Xu called out with a smile, “Something happened at home recently and I didn’t bother to come over.”
“I told you, how come you haven’t come for so long, it’s not ……”
The words paused when she saw Song Wan Yue beside her, “Aigoo, isn’t this your daughter? You are really handsome.”
“Exactly my daughter.”
“Aigoo ……”
Boss Liu came out from the counter, “Let me take a good look, your mother is not bad looking, I didn’t expect your little girl to be better than blue, if this grows up, I don’t know how many people can be charmed?”
“Peachy, go and bring two plates of pastries. ”
The woman at the side answered and went to the back
The more he looked at her, the more he liked her, “Big sister, how do you think you are so good at giving birth? Unlike me, a maid is just like me. It’s obvious that they all have the same nose and eyes, but they just don’t look good.”
“Sister Liu is joking, Yue’er is still young, how can she tell what’s going on.”
“You, don’t say such ungrateful things. When I see your daughter, I want to put my daughter back into my belly and give birth again.”
Tao’er brought the pastries over, and Boss Liu told Song Wan Yue and Song Shen to go and sit and eat, while she went back behind the counter and took out a pile of embroidered cloth and two patterns, placing them on the counter for Xu to see, “These are twenty handkerchiefs, all made of good silk, ten for each pattern, and each handkerchief will cost one hundred wens.”
“I’ll take it, how soon do you want it?”
Shopkeeper Liu was suddenly full of smiles, “A month, a few days later is fine, this is what the customer specified for you to embroider, originally if you don’t come again, I will go to the Yue Hak Lai restaurant to inquire where your family lives.”
Liu knew little about Xu, only that her man’s surname was Song and he was a hunter who sent some hunting products to Yue Hak Loi every now and then.
She had also met Song Lin and had a hunch that it was a pity Xu was matched with someone like him.
Song Wan Yue was casually looking around the embroidery workshop when she noticed eyes falling on her, she looked outside and saw the thief from that day standing outside, looking at her with hatred.
Seeing Song Wan Yue looking at him, he glared fiercely back a few times, then turned and ran away.
Song Wan Yue withdrew her gaze without a care in the world, and when Shopkeeper Liu and Xu had finished talking, she asked playfully, “Aunt Liu, is the Weiyuan Dart Office far from here?”
Auntie Liu was so delighted by this “Auntie Liu” that he stretched out his hand and pointed to the left, “Not far, it’s on the left side of the street.”
“Thank you, Auntie Liu.”
“Aigoo, this little mouth is so sweet, how come I couldn’t give birth to such a good daughter.”
The pastries, Song Wan Yue and Song Shen didn’t move.
But Boss Liu told them to take them, and Xu couldn’t push her luck, so she had to accept them with embarra*sment.
The three of them left the embroidery workshop.
Xu stopped smiling, “Yue’er, why are you asking about the Weiyuan Dart Board?”
“Oh, I was …… the day before yesterday.”
Song Wan Yue told her exactly what happened that day, “I was curious about what the dart board was like. Wanted to go over and take a look.”
At this age, Xu didn’t stop her daughter from being curious, “Mother and Shen’er will go with you, remember not to touch people’s things when you get there.”
“I know.”
The three of them walked towards the left, entered the street and saw the Wei Yuan Dart Station at a glance.
The dart board was very imposing, taking up almost half of the street. In front of the door, two imposing stone lions, a black gate more than two metres wide, and the plaque above the door of the Wei Yuan Dart Board shining in the sunlight.
“Mother and Shen’er will not follow you in, we will wait for you here, go over and ask, if that lady is there, you will go in, if not, we will go back.”
“The sun is shining and I can’t bear to leave Mother and Second Brother outside. If I go in, Mother and Second Brother will go back first, and tell Second Uncle that they will have some dinner at the market and come to pick me up in half an hour, and we will go straight back.”
“That’s fine, and remember, no coming out early.”
Song Wangyue answered and went to the entrance of the dartboard, but in a few words she went in with the dartboard people.
Xu and Song Shen also turned their heads and went back.
When they were out of the street, Song Wan Yue came out of the dartboard again and thanked the man who had just led her in, “Thank you for giving me water to drink, Uncle.”
“It’s just a bowl of water, why thank you? It’s so hot, you’d better go home now.”
After thanking her again, Song Wan Yue walked out of the street and came not far from the embroidery workshop.
There were a few people dressed in rags milling around, one of whom was the thief from that day.
Seeing her, he immediately said to the others, “It was that dead girl who spoiled my good deed that day, and nothing can be said to spare her today.”
After running two streets away, Song Wan Yue ran into a dead end alley in a panic.
A few thieves knew the road well and knew it was a dead end alley, so they didn’t rush to chase her, slowing down and forcing their way into the alley.
The thief of that day walked in the front and viciously said, “Damn girl, dare to spoil my good deed, see how I will clean you up today!”
“This girl is not bad looking, why don’t you catch her, she’ll sell for a good price.”
One of the men following behind spoke up, and another echoed, “Yes, if we sell her for a dozen or twenty taels of silver, you and I will have money to pay for several months’ expenses.”
The three of them walked closer and closer together without a care in the world.
Not only did Song Wangyue not feel the slightest bit of panic, but a smile rose to the corners of her mouth.
“Stinky girl!”
The man in the lead pounced with one hand outstretched, the two behind stood unmoved, a little girl is just a little girl, no need for them to ……
Before the thought could fall, the man in the lead let out a miserable cry and fell to the ground covering his lower body, rolling around in pain.
The two men froze for a moment, and then reacted, lunging towards Song Wangyue in unison, poof! Poof! With two cries, the two men also fell to the ground.
Song Wangyue clapped her hands, quite satisfied with her hand. With a bemused expression, she lifted her feet and crossed them, walking towards the entrance of the alley.
“Stinky girl, I’ll fight you!”
One of them got up from the ground, drew out his dagger and stabbed towards her back.
Song Wangyue twisted around to dodge it and kicked him hard in the vitals, the man let out a scream and his body landed heavily on the ground, his head lolling and he pa*sed out.
Song Wan Yue looked at the other two men, whose bodies were already shaking like sieve chaff.
The corners of Song Wangyue’s mouth curled up slightly and she turned around and left the alley.
A sharp whistle came out of the alleyway. Song Wan Yue cried out and ran, but it was too late as a dozen people dressed in rags surrounded her from all sides.
Song Wangyue turned in a different direction and ran wildly forward.
Those men were in hot pursuit, seeing the distance getting closer and closer, and they were about to catch up when a carriage drove by and Xiao Si from the carriage saw her and hurriedly reported to Gu Yi, “Young master, it’s Miss Song.”
The carriage curtain was swished open, Gu Yi poked his head out, seeing that it was really Song Wan Yue, he hurriedly ordered the carriage driver to stop, he jumped down from the carriage and ran to Song Wan Yue’s side, “Little girl, so you like to run, I’ll accompany you.”
Song Wan Yue, ……