Mrs. Luo panicked and followed her son to report to the official.

A few aunts around were still muttering, "This reporter has been reporting for a long time. I should have gone to the orphan girl's house to see it, and definitely didn't find the orphan girl."

Another aunt said, "The Luo family can't find the money if they have collected the money. They will definitely not live in the same place. Maybe they are not from that village at all. The Luo family is also funny. If they want to marry a bride, they can't Have you ever wondered if the bride's identity was faked? She said she was an orphan or an orphan? I don't know how to inquire with the people nearby. This is good. I was going to take advantage of it. Now all the belongings have been taken away. Since That orphaned girl lived in the Luo family for two months before taking the money, she must have planned it long ago, even if she planned to cheat the money, the Luo family deserves it!"

"It really deserves it. I don't want such a good daughter-in-law in the past. Lin's family and the two daughters are now helping in Xu Xiaoniangzi's restaurant. The two children's wages are not much, but there must be one or two hundred cents. I have a tael of silver a month, the Lin family is also diligent and virtuous, and the Luo family are all idiots."

"But Lin's body is hurt, so she can't give birth to a son..." Some women whispered.

The other women were speechless.

Xu Qinyu was dumbfounded. No wonder Mrs. Luo didn't roll her eyes when she saw her.

It's not right to cheat marriage and cheat money, but she still feels refreshed. The Luo family deserves it. It's really not a good thing for the three members of the Luo family, which makes people feel distressed.

It seems that the orphan girl should not be an ordinary orphan girl at all, she is a habitual liar.

As for whether it will be traced by the yamen, Xu Qinyu is not clear.

After listening to the gossip, Xu Qinyu spoke to several aunts, and then left with Pei Weixuan, heading towards Laixi Lane.

On the way, Xu Qinyu also told Pei Weixuan about the Luo family, and how the Lin family left the Luo family, so she was willing to let the Lin family work in the restaurant.

Pei Weixuan listened silently. Although Yuniang was kind, she didn't always help with anything. She had her own measure of what she did.

Xu Qinyu talked all the way, and most of Pei Weixuan just listened, occasionally replying a few words, and soon arrived at Laixi Lane.

There are also several houses selling houses here, and there are signs posted on the door. Xu Qinyu picked out a relatively clean house that had been swept in front of the house and knocked on it. The door opened quickly. It was an old man who opened the door. Yu, "Is it the Xu Dong family from the Xu Ji restaurant? Does the Xu Dong family want to buy a house?"

Xu Qinyu immediately smiled and said, "Uncle, my family wants to change to a second-class house. Can I go in and take a look at this house?"

The houses here are similar, as long as the inside of the house is clean and there are no areas that need a lot of repairs.

The old man immediately invited the two of them into the house.

It turns out that the old man is the father of this family, and the family is also engaged in business. He bought a house on the west side of the street again, and the house here is about to be sold, and the father will come over to guard the house during the day.

In fact, the house was also registered with the Yaxing, but the Yaxing charged a fee for helping to sell the house. The old man was reluctant, so he said that by guarding the house, he could save a fortune.

Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan entered the house.

The house is clean, not only clean, but also well-maintained, just because it has been taken care of, it is bare, and the furniture has been moved away, making it somewhat empty.

This is a two-entry house with a relatively deep area. It is divided into two layers, the front and the rear. The back is a row of rear enclosures, which can put debris and many other things. Even the donkey cart can be placed on the side of the rear enclosure. will be very spacious.

The front is the yard for the residents, including the main room and the kitchen of the wing room.

The main house consists of three rooms in a row with a large main room. On the east side are three wing rooms, next to the wing room is a smaller wing room, and on the west side are the kitchen and firewood room. There is a well beside the firewood room.

The main room is connected by a verandah, and there is a large patio in the middle, but it is bare now, and some flowers and plants can be planted in the future.

So this mansion, plus the penthouse, has a total of seven rooms, enough for a family to live in.

Sister Qian is still young, so she must still sleep with Mrs. Wen. Ning Jie has a separate room, fourth brother has a room, Xu Qinyu has a room, and Feng brother is also young. Now the fourth brother lives together, and grandmother Zhu Zhu. There is one room in the family, and there are still two rooms left. When Sister Qian and Brother Feng grow up, they will have separate rooms to live in.

But at that time, Xu Qinyu would definitely be able to buy a house with Wujin, and could live in a bigger house.

This house, now that Mo Yu and Bai Yu come in, they can't actually run away, and they need a larger garden.

But this house is very good as a second entry. Xu Qinyu liked it at first sight, and turned to ask the old man, "Uncle, how much is this house?"

The old man smiled and said, "If Mrs. Xu wants it, just give it two hundred taels of silver."

The price of the second-entry house here is indeed the same, but the windows and doors of the house connected to the room are still smooth and clean, and have not been moth-eaten. There is even a chasing veranda. On weekdays, you can walk from the chao veranda to each room and follow the instructions. On the kitchen side, there is no rain, and the average second-entry house here is reluctant to use the hand veranda, and even this hand verandah costs a lot of money.

Xu Qinyu was a little embarrassed, "Two hundred taels of silver can't buy such a good second-class house."

The old man smiled and said, "But I will sell it to Mrs. Xu, the old man."

His original intention of staying here was to save some money, but he has a good sense of Mrs. Xu, and their family likes the food made by Mrs. Xu. The old man has a young daughter who is only eleven or twelve years old this year. , The situation is similar to Shao Ge'er of the Xia family. She is very thin, but she is either a problem brought by her mother's womb, or she is picky eater and doesn't like to eat. Since eating at Xuji Restaurant, the little girl has eaten a lot, and naturally she has grown meat.

Fortunately, the family is doing business and can earn money, so that the little girl can afford to eat in the restaurant.

In this way, it's just that Chao Shi eats more in Xu Ji.

Zhao Shi’s family can only eat about a hundred cents, and three taels of silver a month can still afford it, but Mu Shi’s family is too expensive to eat, at least five hundred cents, and ten or so silver a month. didn't eat in the restaurant, but bought some fish balls and fish head braised fish outside the restaurant.

The little girl said that the fish was not as delicious as Xu's cooking, but she was willing to eat it.

As soon as the old man said it, Xu Qinyu remembered it.

There is indeed a very thin little girl who likes to use the morning food in Xuji with her mother, and will pack some morning food back after each meal.

The little girl was frighteningly thin at first, but after eating it for a while in Xu Ji, it was obvious to the naked eye that she had grown better.

The little girl should be a problem caused by picky eaters. It is completely different from Zhizhi. Zhizhi is fat, and the little girl is too thin. They all need dietary conditioning. After a period of conditioning, you can see results. Xu Qinyu worked for Yang Zhizhi for a year. There are many fat-reduced meals, in fact, the taste is the same, the ingredients are the same, but the ratio of oil and salt is slightly less. Yang Zhizhi has eaten for more than a year, and now he weighs about 120.

Later, Xu Qinyu also told Yang Zhizhi that he needed to do some exercise every other day.

She taught Yang Zhizhi a few movements, which she could do after eating on weekdays, and it only took half an hour at a time.

Yang Zhizhi also persevered, so even if she weighs one hundred and two now, she doesn't look fat, and her well-proportioned figure, coupled with her white and tender skin and moist eyes, is indeed charming and cute, and she even went to the Yang family to propose a marriage. A lot more.

Yang Zhizhi is also quite satisfied with her current weight, so she did not continue to eat fat-reducing meals. In fact, Xu Qinyu's diet was not too bad. Now that she has returned to normal oil and salt, it is good to eat two less staple foods.

And because Yang Zhizhi is used to eating food made by Xu Qinyu, even if he is hungry in the middle of the night on weekdays, he can't eat other cakes.

Even if he resumes his normal diet and eats two less of the staple food, and continues to exercise every other day, Yang Zhizhi can still gradually lose weight. Of course, it only looks like one or two pounds a month.

Wei Shi did not know how to thank Xu Qinyu.

But she did not want to choose a good husband for her daughter to lose weight, but just for the sake of her daughter's health. Now that the branches are still young, she never thought of getting married so early.

After Xu Qinyu heard the old man's words, he didn't insist any longer, and bought the house for two hundred taels of silver.

It was still early, and Xu Qinyu followed the old man directly to the yamen to write a deed. In order to buy the house, she had already carried five hundred taels of silver bills on her body, and she didn't need to go back to Guihua Alley to get the silver, and went directly to the yamen.

Soon, the documents and deeds were written, and the seal of the yamen was stamped on the handprint, and the house belonged to Xu Qinyu.

This is the second time to buy a house. The workshop on the North Street is not counted. Xu Qinyuyue was not very excited. She went back with the paperwork and told the Pei family that the house had been bought, and the house was quite good, but it was relatively empty and needed to buy some Furniture can live in.

The furniture on Osmanthus Lane also has to be moved, but it is not enough, at least not enough beds.

Furniture is also available ready-made.

This work is left to the fourth brother and Ning Jie'er. Tomorrow they will be free, and the restaurant will open tomorrow, so Xu Qinyu and Wen's will be busy.

The evening meal was also eaten in Zhu's courtyard.

Wen Shi also sent someone to deliver a letter to his uncle Zhu Taishou in Raozhou City, saying that it was Pei Weixuan who came back, but he didn't say it clearly in the letter because he was afraid that the letter would fall into other people's hands.

After Zhu Taishou received the letter, he took his wife Zhu Shi directly to Osmanthus Lane at night.

Evening food is eaten at Zhu's house.

The eunuch Zhu looked at Pei Weixuan with emotion, this is the fourth prince, even if he was demoted to the common people, he was still the fourth prince in his heart.

The prefect Zhu was a bit cautious, Pei Weixuan poured two cups of wine to respect the prefect, "Uncle and grandpa, this is for you from my grandson."

After drinking two glasses of wine, Zhu Taishou was not so restrained. He started to talk to his grandson, and gradually chatted, and found that many of his grandson's thoughts coincided with his own.

Even Zhu Taishou couldn't help it, it's a pity, if the first prince is still there, the first prince inherits the orthodoxy, and the fourth prince can serve for the court, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, what a pity...

Both of them drank a little too much, Zhu Taishou got drunk and slept in Osmanthus Lane at night, and whispered to Zhu when he was sleeping, saying that the niece's family was too miserable, and said that the eldest prince would poison the first emperor, he must be followed by the new emperor. Empress Dowager Fu planned to murder.

There are no outsiders here, and Mrs. Zhu let the master talk. She knows how to speak these words and will not spread them to the outside world. In fact, she also feels that her niece's family is miserable.

Wen stayed here to help clean up the kitchen, and asked Xu Qinyu and Brother Xuan to go back to wash and rest first.

Xu Qinyu led one in each hand, sister Xian with his left hand, and brother Feng with his right hand to go home.

Pei Weixuan and Sister Ning were a little behind.

Xu Qinyu took the two children by the hand and smiled slyly, "Sister Xian, Brother Feng, let's see who will run home first."

Both children nodded, and Xu Qinyu ran forward leading them.

The whole journey was filled with the laughter of Xu Qinyu and the two children.

Pei Weixuan looked at them with a smile on his lips unconsciously, even sister Ning did the same.

As soon as they ran to the door of their house, Xu Qinyu and the two children were panting with exhaustion, and were about to open the door and go in for a drink of water, when Xu Qinyu heard a miserable howl suddenly from the end of the alley.

Hearing the scream, Xu Qinyu recognized that it was Mrs. Luo's.

Originally, the alley was not very long, and there lived about a dozen families. There were only a few families between the Pei family and the Luo family, and they could hear everyone shouting in the yard, let alone the miserable howling of Mrs. Luo.

This howling startled both Sister Xian and Brother Feng, Xu Qinyu patted their backs, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Thinking about it, Luo Dagen and Mrs. Luo went to the Yamen to report to the officials in the afternoon, but they did not see Old Man Luo, so Old Man Luo must not be at home.

Now that the old man Luo came home, knowing that all the money in the family was taken away by the bride his son was going to marry, he couldn't bear it, so he beat Mrs. Luo.

The situation of the Luo family is indeed as Xu Qinyu guessed.

Old man Luo came back a little late today, and he didn't notice that there was no one in the house. There was still food left in the kitchen, and he put a bowl of beans and rice.

The bean and rice are raw, and the boiled vegetables have no salty taste, which is difficult to swallow.

Old man Luo frowned.

Ever since the bride my son was going to marry came home, it was the orphan who cooked the food, and the taste was alright, better than Mrs. Luo's cooking. I didn't expect it to be so unpalatable today. Old man Luo didn't want to call the orphan over, so he He called Mrs. Luo to come out, but Mrs. Luo didn't dare to come out at all. She knew that if the old man knew that the orphan had taken all the money in the family and ran away, he would beat her to death.

Old man Luo yelled for a long time and didn't see anyone. He was so angry that he couldn't swallow the food, so he left the bowl and chopsticks and went into the room.

The room was dim, and he couldn't see Mrs. Luo's face clearly for a while, so he frowned and asked, "Where is Tanniang? What happened to the rice that Danniang cooked today? Beans and rice are still stuffed with raw vegetables, and there is no salt added to the dishes. You don't eat them at all." No."

Mrs. Luo faltered and dared not speak.

The old man Luo frowned even tighter, "Ask you, how did Dan Niang cook today?"

"Today, today is my meal."

"Then why didn't Dan Niang do it? Could it be that she is ill?" Old Man Luo thought that if he was ill, he would give up.

Mrs. Luo didn't dare to answer, but Luo Dagen, who was next door, couldn't take it anymore, and came over and said, "Dad, Dan Niang ran away with our family's money."

"What, what did you say?" Luo old man couldn't believe what he heard for a while.

Luo Dagen repeated it again, panting and said, "Dan Niang took all the money from our family, my father and your boxes were opened, and all the money inside was gone."

The old man Luo's eyes darkened, he forced himself to the box and found that it was indeed open, and he searched again, but he didn't leave any money.

The old man Luo only felt that the sky was falling, and the money he had saved all his life was gone.

Over the years, he had saved twenty taels of silver apart from his family, and now he has nothing left. He thought that if the old woman had not instigated her son to coax the orphan girl home and become pregnant, he would have saved even the dowry gift. As a result, the wolf was brought into the room.

"Are you reporting to the officer?" Old man Luo asked his son, holding back the hatred in his heart.

But at the moment, he still holds a glimmer of hope in his heart, maybe he can find Daniang and get the money back.

Luo Dagen's face was full of despair, "I reported to the official, and I went to the village where Daniang lived, but Daniang didn't go back, and I asked the nearby villagers, and they didn't see Daniang go back, and also said that Daniang originally They didn't belong to their village, they moved here last year, and they said that the family suffered and all died, and she was the only one left, living in a dilapidated house at the end of the village."

That is to say, Dan Niang is not a local, and she will definitely not stay here after taking the money. She ran away early, and no one knows where she went. Anyway, she will not stay in the original village, nor will she stay in Yuanbao Town. , the yamen can't even chase after him.

The old man Luo also understood. Without saying a word, he turned around and dragged Mrs. Luo out.

Mrs. Luo was dragged to the ground and asked in a panic, "Old man, what are you doing?"

The old man Luo dragged the man into the yard, picked up the wooden stick next to him and hammered it on Mrs. Luo's head. Mrs. Luo was smashed and screamed, and her head was bleeding.

Just like this, the old man Luo couldn't fully vent the anger in his heart, and scolded: "If you hadn't given your son a bad idea, you wouldn't have brought this liar to our house, it's more than forty taels of silver, our family is now There's nothing left." After speaking, he swiped another stick at Mrs. Luo's body, still not relieved, and kicked Mrs. Luo's leg, only to hear a click, and Mrs. Luo's legs were in a weird way. The posture was twisted, and Mrs. Luo was already lying there motionless.

The old man Luo has not stopped his hand, and is still fighting.

Still Luo Dagen hesitated, "Dad, don't fight, mother doesn't seem to move."

Only then did the old man stop, he was already too tired, he threw the stick aside and prepared to enter the house.

Luo Dagen said: "Father, mother seems to be moving, the head is bleeding, and the legs, legs seem to be broken, do you want to invite the husband?"

"What kind of husband do you want?" The old man turned back and scolded, "I still have a penny left in the family? What to ask for? I blame her for being an idiot. They all say that marrying a wife wants to marry a virtuous person. It's true. Look at marrying her. What is it like to ruin our family? Your former daughter-in-law is so good, docile and docile, but you can't have a son, and you can't have a concubine. The Lin family is so capable, she even instigated you to coax a liar to go home, our family is over now."

After speaking, the old man wiped his tears and entered the room.

Luo Dagen looked at the old lady whose life and death were unknown on the ground, and didn't dare to take her back to his father's house, so he took her to the house where Daniang lived before. .

...

Xu Qinyu heard the screams of Mrs. Luo, and she just shook her head and entered the room.

She knew that Mrs. Luo was going to be beaten badly this time. After all, the family's savings were all gone.

Fortunately, the Lin family had long since left such a family.

Xu Qinyu no longer cared about the Luo family, and led Sister Qian and Brother Feng back to the house. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw Mo Yu lying at the door of the kitchen. He heard footsteps, looked back at them, and saw Pei behind Xu Qinyu. Wei Xuan was stunned.

Mo Yu was on duty with Bai Yu last night, but instead of returning to Guihua Lane, he went hunting in the mountains and returned after filling his stomach.

It has not seen Pei Weixuan for more than a year, but it obviously remembers the male master, hesitated, walked around Pei Weixuan, smelled a familiar smell, rubbed against him, and rushed towards Pei Weixuan Meowed.

Pei Weixuan raised his lower lip, leaned over slightly, touched Moyu, and shouted: "Moyu."

Mo Yu began to rub his palms, meowing.

Xu Qinyu looked at it and smiled.

Sister Ning couldn't help feeling a little emotional. Mo Yu treated the whole family, except for the closest sister-in-law who circled around the fourth sister-in-law all day long. Jade is so sticky too.

But it's not surprising, the fourth brother seems to be very popular with these pets.

Xu Qinyu went into the kitchen to boil water, after a while Pei Weixuan also came into the kitchen to help, Sister Ning took her two children in the main room, Moyu also went into the kitchen and lay beside her, looking at Xu Qinyu for a while, and for a while Look at Pei Weixuan.

After boiling hot water and washing, the whole family went to bed early.

The next day, Xu Qinyu and Wen Shi went to the restaurant.

Pei Weixuan and Sister Ning went to have a look at the new house in Laixi Lane, and sent Brother Feng and Sister Xian to Zhu's house for Zhu's help to take, while the two went to choose furniture.

The furniture is not too expensive.

But both Pei Weixuan and Sister Ning chose a babu bed for Xu Qinyu's room, even if it was only made of ordinary wood, the price of the babu bed was more than thirty taels of silver, because The craftsmanship of Babu bed is the most complicated. It is a relatively large bed. Regardless of the carvings on the bed frame, the whole bed is more like a small room. There is a corridor around the bed, and some cages and cabinets can be placed on both sides of the corridor. In my small house, there is a footboard under the porch. Girls from wealthy families basically sleep on Babu beds, and on the footboard is a little maid who sleeps at night.

The babu bed is equipped with a large gauze curtain, which is very private and airtight.

This is just ordinary pear wood, the price is already very expensive.

In addition to the babu bed in Xu Qinyu's room, Pei Weixuan also equipped a babu bed in Ning's room. The other rooms are ordinary canopy beds. Table, dowry, everything is fully set up.

The two girls' families can use better ones, but he doesn't need them.

In just two days, the furniture in the new house was fully furnished, and the cleaning was done again.

While Xu Qinyu was busy with the restaurant, Pei Weixuan moved all the remaining things from the Osmanthus Alley to the new house, so that he could go directly to live there at night.

The new house needs to be warmed up, but Xu Qinyu is busy, so Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Lin and Da Niu came back and cooked two tables of meals at the new house. The people invited were also Cheng Geer, the third roommate of the Pei family, and Mrs. Zhu. Madam, in addition, there are the Yuan family and the Chen family who are the waiters, and the four elder brothers of Feng Tiao Yu Shun.

Xu Qinyu also closed the restaurant half an hour earlier at night, and led everyone to Xixiang to warm the house.

The greenhouse is also lively, and everyone eats and drinks together.

When everyone went home after warming up the room, Xu Qinyu was pushed to her room by Sister Ning, and the whole family gave Xu Qinyu the largest room on the other side of the main room.

Entering the room, there is a four-panel screen at the entrance, and the Babu bed is around the screen. There is already a gauze curtain hanging on it, which is an ordinary white gauze curtain, which has been hooked up, revealing the appearance of the Babu bed inside.

Some of her small cabinets and money boxes were moved to the porch behind Ba Bu's bed.