Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 356

"Madam, madam!" The old woman ran in hurriedly with obvious joy on her face.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" The wife of the prefect was checking the account book, and she felt a little unhappy when she was interrupted by the old woman.

The old woman didn't notice the mistress' dissatisfaction with her, and said happily, "I just heard from the maid serving in the front yard that the master asked someone around to call Aunt Mei over early this morning, and the people outside the door heard the master scolding Aunt Mei."

Mrs. Feng looked coldly at the old woman as she gesticulated and described the scene, as if she was there watching it happen in person.

After the old woman finished speaking, she said coldly, "Mother Liu, you have overstepped the boundaries! Slap yourself in the face twenty times, and go to the backyard to work from now on. Yudie, you stay and watch, and after you are slapped, go to the front yard to answer."

Mrs. Feng ignored the crying and pleading of the old woman behind her and went straight to the front yard with the other maids.

The door of the study was closed tightly. Two servants were guarding the door. When they saw her coming, they hurriedly saluted and said, "Madam, the master is talking to Aunt Mei inside. Madam, please wait a moment."

Mrs. Feng didn't force her way in, she just came over to take a look.

After waiting at the door for a while, I could faintly hear a woman crying from inside, but the sound soon faded away.

After standing there for a while, the person inside showed no signs of coming out, so she didn't wait any longer. When Yudie, who was monitoring the old woman, came over and gave her a look, she turned around and went to her eldest daughter's yard.

Feng Bao was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a brightly colored wedding dress in her hand. Her face was flushed, and she was stroking the dress gently and slowly.

"Mom, why are you here?" When she raised her eyes, she saw her mother standing in front of the door looking at her with a smile. Her face suddenly turned red and she lowered her head shyly.

Mrs. Feng loved her eldest daughter very much. At this moment, she pulled her daughter aside reluctantly and talked about some things that she should know after becoming a wife.

The mother and daughter were talking affectionately and privately. After Yudie, who was left in the front yard, found out the information she wanted, she hurried to Feng Bao's yard.

"Madam." Yudie walked in and indicated that she had found out.

Mrs. Feng then stopped talking and asked Yudie to tell her what she had heard.

"Ten days ago, a Mr. Zhao came to look for you, saying that he was a distant cousin of Aunt Mei, but that day, Madam took Aunt Mei and others out to burn incense, so they missed him."

"It was the eldest young master who received him. Later, when he sent him away, the eldest young master asked someone to inquire about the details of Mr. Zhao. After the inquiry, he told the master about it. This morning, the master asked his servant to come and invite Aunt Mei to come over. She hasn't come out yet."

Yudie told everything she knew without missing a word, and then went downstairs.

The mother and daughter in the room were a little puzzled. Feng Bao asked her mother, "Mother, I remember that Aunt Mei only has one brother? And he came to see Aunt Mei the day before you went to burn incense. Where did this distant cousin come from?"

Mrs. Feng was also puzzled. "Maybe he really is a distant cousin who we just haven't seen for a long time."

The two of them ended the topic and Aunt Mei was not seen again until dinner time.

At the dining table in the hall, Mrs. Feng glanced at her expressionless husband and spoke carefully, "The weather has been getting hotter recently. The shopkeepers in the mansion bought some watermelons. Would you like to have a piece after dinner, Master?"

Mr. Feng didn't understand what his wife meant, so he just said "OK". But when the watermelon was served, he frowned and asked, "Why is the flesh of this watermelon white?"

"We ate this kind of food in previous years, and this year's is sweeter than in previous years." Mrs. Feng pretended not to understand the expression on his face and said casually.

Lord Feng immediately retorted, "Why is it that the red flesh that Aunt Mei's brother sent some time ago was sweet and crispy, while the white flesh that the mansion bought was tasteless and expensive?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the expression on his face froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal.

Madam Feng was waiting for him to mention Aunt Mei himself. She spoke slowly, "Aunt Mei's brother loves his sister so the things he sent were naturally thoughtful. Since ancient times, only brothers love their sisters. I have never seen a random person like me who came from nowhere love others."

"You know everything?" Lord Feng asked with a serious face.

"Know? What do I know?" Madam Feng asked. "I only know that Aunt Mei has been married for eight years and has always been polite and courteous to others. She loves the young masters and young ladies in the mansion very much, takes good care of the master, and respects me as his wife. Although she has not given birth to a child for the master, she has done nothing wrong, right?"

"What do you know?" Master Feng's eyes widened, and he was obviously very angry. "How many evil things has her distant cousin done in my name? If people find out, not only will I lose my reputation, but you will also be implicated!"

Feng Ning, the eldest son of the Feng family, couldn't help but speak up, "Mother, you don't know how cruel that distant cousin of Aunt Mei is. He has killed many people. The people I sent out found out that just last month he had three people around him kill him and throw him into the pigsty to feed the pigs!"

When the other people at the table heard this, their expressions, which had originally shown discontent for Aunt Mei, immediately froze.

It was the first time for a little girl like Feng Bao to hear such a thing, and fear was obviously revealed on her face, as was Feng You beside her.

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When I was counting the water melons delivered with Boss Wang, I heard him complain that the last time the melons were delivered by his own fleet, all of them cracked on the way.

Chen Dongzhi, "Did it rain when it was delivered? The sun came out soon and the melons would burst easily due to the alternation between cold and heat."

Boss Wang was stunned. "Is that so? No one told me! Is there any way to prevent it from exploding?"

"is it a lot?"

Boss Wang thought back to the last shipment, "There were about a dozen or so. It's not a lot, but I still feel bad for them."

"There's nothing we can do." Chen Dongzhi shook his head, took the cracked melon and broke it into two halves, giving each of them half.

"There's no other way. Why are you asking too much?" Boss Wang blew his beard and glared.

The goods were delivered and Chen Dongzhi was ready to go back. On the way, he had to find a fruit farmer to buy a few lychee saplings.

On the way back, I had to go to Yu’s herbal medicine shop to help deliver a truckload of Chinese herbal medicines, so it barely wasn’t an empty truck.

On the way back, he accidentally saw Yu Da. The two met on a main road in Nanzhou. At that time, Yu Da was on his way, obviously in a hurry to go home, and did not notice him. It was only after he took the initiative to call Yu Da that he stopped.

"Are you taking this road back to Wuzhou?" Chen Dongzhi asked.

Yu Da wiped the sweat from his head, his face showing some fatigue after running around, "No, my parents are not in Wuzhou now. I have to go there to find them now." But he was cautious and didn't say where exactly they were.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries and then parted ways.

Chen Dongzhi looked at the direction he was going, which was Jinzhou, next to Wuzhou.