The carriage stopped right in front of the house, Xu Qinyu didn't know who it was, jumped off the donkey cart and looked at the carriage.

When the fourth brother also got out of the carriage, the people in the carriage still didn't come out. Xu Qinyu didn't know if he was looking for her or the Pei family, but seeing no one came out, he planned to move the ham back to the house with the fourth brother.

The person in the carriage was Wen Yunling. She walked half way back, thinking of the scene of Chef Donglaiju supporting the pregnant woman, she felt a little disgusted. After some hesitation, she asked the driver to turn the carriage around.

When she came to Laixi Lane, she stopped in front of Pei's house, hesitating whether to go down and knock on the door, but she still couldn't save face and didn't want to go down, she was hesitant to see a donkey cart driving in the distance, with Xu Qinyu and four sitting on it. Cousin, when the two stopped in front of the door, Xu Qinyu took a few glances at her carriage but didn't come to ask who it was, and planned to go directly into the house.

Wen Yunling was in a hurry, and hurriedly lifted the curtain of the car and shouted: "Xu Qinyu."

Xu Qinyu turned her head and found that it was Wen Yunling. She raised her eyebrows and said, "What are you doing here?"

Ever since Aunt Gui came back, she had completely lost contact with her there.

Now that Aunt Gui has become the Zhu family, except for a few members of the family, outsiders don’t know about it at all. Even the neighbors in the neighborhood think that the old lady of the prefect Zhu came from Yuanbao Town to recuperate, so there is no need to contact there at all. During the holidays, Mrs. Wen would not go there to visit Mr. Wen and Mrs. Wen.

So she hadn't seen Wen Yunling for a long time, and she knew that she opened a restaurant, and that her restaurant business was not doing well, and wondered if Wen Yunling would come to make trouble.

Unexpectedly, Wen Yunling never came to make trouble.

Xu Qinyu knew a little about Wen Yunling. If she came to make trouble, she would probably come to her door directly and would not use some insidious means. Use some cunning means.

She is unreasonable, unreasonable, and has a bad personality, but she dare not do things that are really treacherous and murderous.

At this moment, he didn't expect Wen Yunling to come to her for anything.

Standing beside Yuniang, Pei Weixuan glanced at Wen Yunling lightly.

The ugly words Wen Yunling was about to blurt were stuck in his throat, but when Pei Weixuan glanced at them, he was startled.

In the past, she was clearly a sick child and couldn't say a few words. Now, for some reason, when she glanced at her, she felt a little terrified in her heart. She originally planned to say something ugly, but now she couldn't say it. She just looked at Xu Qinyu and said nothing. Baba said, "Look, I have something to do with you."

Xu Qinyu also looked at her, "Just tell me what's going on."

Wen Yunling glanced at Pei Weixuan, such words were not pleasant, and she was too embarrassed to say them in front of fourth brother.

Xu Qinyu knew it in her heart, turned her head and said to Pei Weixuan, "Fourth brother, you move the ham in first."

Pei Weixuan nodded, and moved the ham on the donkey cart back to the house.

The pomegranate next to Wen Yunling also poked her head, staring at the remaining ham on the donkey cart.

When Xu Qinyu turned her head, she saw the maid staring at Ham.

She didn't recognize Pomegranate, it wasn't Wen's family, it should be the maid bought by Wen's family after her grandmother left.

After Pei Weixuan entered the house and couldn't see him, Wen Yunling waved to Xu Qinyu, "Come here, I have something to tell you."

Xu Qinyu frowned, "If you have anything to say, tell me quickly, I have to move the remaining ham back."

Wen Yunling glared at Xu Qinyu, and finally said, "Whether you want to listen to the matter related to the cook in your restaurant, or not, I will go back."

Something to do with Dongqian?

Xu Qinyu frowned, and then went to Wen Yunling's carriage, "What's the matter? How is it related to Dongqian?"

She really couldn't think of anything related to Dongqian. Dongqian has a good character. Although he is Donglaiju's young master, he didn't give Donglaiju half of what he learned from her.

When Xu Qinyu approached, Wen Yunling leaned out and whispered a few words in her ear.

Hearing this, Xu Qinyu's eyes slowly widened, and finally she looked angrily. She was so angry that she almost died.

After Wen Yunling finished speaking, seeing Xu Qinyu was very angry, she glanced at the ham again, and said to her, "I have helped you so much, do you want to thank me? What is this on your donkey cart?" If you give me two, you will repay the favor." She didn't want Xu Qinyu to owe her a favor, and if the two of them didn't deal with each other, they wouldn't.

Xu Qinyu took a look at Wen Yunling, thinking that she would not lie to herself.

But Wen Yunling's temperament is very bad, don't know whether to believe her words.

Xu Qinyu thought for a while and said, "I'll tell Dongqian about this, if it's true, can I give you two hams?" If it's true, she doesn't want to owe Wen Yunling any favors.

Either she thought that Wen Yunling would trick her into eating two hams for no reason, or she was worried that what she said was false, and she would trick her into doing other things with the ham, and use the ham to cause trouble in her restaurant.

But it is impossible for Wen Yunling to predict that she will bring the ham back from the workshop with the fourth brother today.

So Xu Qinyu couldn't figure out whether what Wen Yunling said was true or not.

Wen Yunling gave Xu Qinyu a blank look. Thinking of Xu Qinyu's familiar appearance with the fourth brother just now, she asked curiously, "Are you and the fourth brother really married?"

It means that the two are really married.

The fourth brother is sick and cold, but she was a little shocked by the way he looked at Xu Qinyu just now. Even she could see that the fourth brother looked at Xu Qinyu differently.

Xu Qinyu was married as a surrogate, and she was not the fiancée of the fourth brother. She thought that the two of them would never become a real couple.

"It's none of your business." Xu Qinyu glared at Wen Yunling, feeling that her words were inexplicable.

Wen Yunling originally wanted to choke, but seeing the fourth brother coming out of the house again, he glanced at her coldly, hurriedly lowered the curtain, and told the coachman to leave Laixi Lane.

It's really strange. On the way to exile, although the fourth brother also looked indifferent, he was not so scary.

To be honest, on the way to exile, although the Wen family targeted the Pei family.

But he didn't really do anything, it was all about words, and the fourth brother didn't care at all.

On the other hand, she had an argument with Xu Qinyu once, because of the big rock, the two of them almost made a move that time, but they didn't make a move in the end.

Now she is just talking to Xu Qinyu, the fourth brother looks like this, it's scary.

When Wen Yunling left, Xu Qinyu also brought a piece of ham, and Pei Weixuan carried the remaining pieces in together.

When entering the room, Xu Qinyu said to Pei Weixuan in a low voice, "Fourth Brother, I just heard that Yunling told me that Dongqian's father kept a concubine in Raozhou City, and that she went to Raozhou City to see it today. Come here specially to tell me, let me talk to Dong's family, but I don't know if what she said is true or not."

The fourth brother is smart, maybe he can tell the truth of Wen Yunling's words.

Pei Weixuan said softly: "She didn't lie to you, she did just return from Raozhou City, and she saw it with her own eyes."

Xu Qinyu said in shock: "Fourth brother, how do you know that what she said is true?"

Pei Weixuan told Yuniang that from Wen Yunling's character and expression, the thick muddy weeds on the wheels of her carriage, and the messy makeup on Wen Yunling's face, it can be seen that she is a child. have only returned after a long trip.

Xu Qinyu really admired it.

But if what Wen Yunling said is true, this matter is really disgusting.

Isn't this the phoenix man's desperation?

It's even more disgusting than the phoenix man's eating out of the house. The phoenix man's eating out of the house, at least the child is still with the woman, and the family business will be left to at least the woman's child in the future, and they are related by blood.

This Yue is good for the people. Not only does he want to eat his family, but he also wants to give the family property to himself and the children born outside.

While eating out of the family, raising the outer room again and again, he must still dislike the child related to Dong's blood.

Even if Dong's second son took his surname, he might still feel aggrieved, feeling that Dong's family let him marry, making the world look down on him.

As for the second son, he probably doesn't have much affection.

Xu Qinyu was very angry, "fourth brother, the chef of Donglaiju is a phoenix man. He eats so much, it's really disgusting. Fourth brother, I'm going to Dong's house in a while."

She has to tell Dong Shi about this matter quickly so that Dong Shi can make preparations early.

"I'll take you there."

It was getting dark, and he wouldn't rest assured that Yuniang would go out alone.

Xu Qinyu nodded.

After the two put the ham back, they planned to go to Dong's house.

Xu Qinyu hesitated for a while, and finally took two hams, went to Wen's house first, knocked on the door and gave the two hams to the concierge, and asked the concierge to give the hams to Wen Yunling, saying it was a thank you gift for her.

The concierge was still a little dazed, and finally saw Xu Qinyu leaving, so he sent the ham to Wen Yunling.

Wen Yunling looked at Ham and pursed her lips.

She doesn't know how to eat this food, why not ask the chef of Xiangrui Restaurant to cook it tomorrow.

In fact, she had eaten the food made by Qinyu once, when she went to Xu Ji to find Xu Qinyu's partner to open a restaurant more than a year ago.

Just once, when she saw that Xu Ji's business was doing well, she felt annoyed, so she stopped eating. Later, when she saw that Xu Ji's business was getting better and better, she also felt annoyed, and she didn't want to take care of Xu Qinyu's business, so she didn't have been.

She knew how delicious Xu Qinyu's food was.

In fact, almost everyone in Yuanbao Town has eaten Xu Ji's food.

In Yuanbao Town, no matter whether they are officials, wealthy gentry, or ordinary people, they all have eaten it, because although Xu Ji's morning food and evening food are a bit more expensive, there are also cheap fish balls, fish heads, braised fish and so on.

Pomegranate looked at the ham eagerly, feeling hungry.

Even if it is still raw, you can smell the strong aroma, which is completely different from the taste of ordinary bacon and cured meat, with a bit of salty aroma.

...

After leaving Wen's house, Xu Qinyu went to Dong's house.

Dong's house is a five-entry house, and they also live in the Dong's side, not far from Wen's house.

Knocking on the door, the porter also recognized Xu Qinyu, and immediately went in to report, Dong naturally asked the porter to invite him in quickly.

After inviting people in, Dong Shi asked people to serve tea and fruit and said with a smile: "Xu Dong's family, why did you come here? But you are looking for brother Qian? He is at the west courtyard, do you want me to ask the maid to call him over?" ?”

The Dong family knew that Xu Qinyu was teaching Brother Qian wholeheartedly.

She has the same idea as Brother Qian. The recipe she learned from Xu Qinyu will not be added to Donglaiju's recipes, unless Donglaiju will go to other towns in the future, as long as Donglaiju and Xu Ji are in the same place. She will avoid any place.

And in the future, Dong's menu will also write where these dishes are learned from.

Xu Qinyu shook her head, "Madam Dong, I'm looking for you."

Dong Shi was a little surprised, "Xu Dong's family is looking for me?"

"Yeah." Xu Qinyu nodded, told Dong Shi what Wen Yunling told her, and also told Mrs. Dong that she didn't discover it, but Wen Yunling of the Wen family, and Shiliu followed him to the house. I saw the picture of the eleven- or twelve-year-old boy calling Yue Weimin's father.

Before she could finish speaking, Dong's face was already pale and frightening. When she finally said it, after the child called her husband's father, Dong's body began to shake.

Xu Qinyu hurriedly stepped forward to support the Dong family, worried: "Mrs. Dong, are you alright?"

Although the truth hurts people's hearts, it is impossible to hide this matter. If you hide it, the damage to the Dong family will be even greater. Otherwise, after Yue Weimin has dealt with everything in Donglaiju and the property has been transferred, he will talk to the Dong family. After leaving, Dong Shi suffered even more damage.

At that time, not only homes were broken, but people might even die.

Dongshi's body was trembling all the time, and she couldn't speak at all. Xu Qinyu was a little anxious and wanted to go out and call the old maidservant who was guarding outside to call Langzhong.

Pei Weixuan, who was standing on one side, said, "I'll come."

He stepped forward and tapped on several meridian points on Dong Shi's body. Dong Shi's trembling body finally calmed down, but his eyes were so red that he kept crying.

The two of them could only watch or cry, but they couldn't keep it all in their hearts. She believed that the Dong family was not a sentimental person and would investigate this matter.

As long as it is confirmed to be true, she will not let Yue Weimin continue.

Because she has children of her own, she has to plan for her own children.

Xu Qinyu knew that with regard to raising people outside, the laws of the Dasheng Dynasty were similar to those of later generations. Even if Yue Weimin was a son-in-law and raised a child outside the house, the law could not do anything with him. It was a family matter, and the government could not interfere .

So what Dong Shi will do next is actually quite simple.

Dong Shi finally had enough crying, and wiped her eyes, her eyes were swollen, "Thank you Xu Dongjia, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't know how long this matter would be hidden until he really gave the family's business to him. If you turn away and leave with me again, that's what really happened."

She actually had a vague feeling in her heart.

In fact, when her father asked her to recruit a son-in-law, she had no feelings for Yue Youwei, and she had no feelings for her father's apprentices, but just treated her as a teacher.

But then only Yue Weimin was willing to stay in the Dong family as a door-to-door son-in-law.

After marrying Yue Weimin, she was worried that he would have a pimple in his heart, and she has always treated him well.

Later, gradually developed feelings, and with the birth of three children, feelings for Yue Weimin became deeper and deeper.

But recently, she always felt that her husband was a little anxious, and she didn't know what he was anxious about. She always urged her to ask her what the recipes that Brother Qian learned from Xu Ji, and asked Brother Qian to write it down for him. He wanted to study it in private. Next, it is also guaranteed that it will never be used in the recipes of Donglaiju.

But she didn't agree, and neither did Brother Qian. Her husband didn't say anything on the surface, but he always sighed in front of her, saying that he had been obsessed with cooking all his life and had no other ideas at all.

She and Brother Qian were still not soft-hearted.

My husband also goes out a lot. He goes out for two days a month, saying that he is going to a nearby town to make an appointment with someone to cook dishes.

And every time the New Year is coming, he always talks about going back to his hometown to pay respects to his deceased family members. Who would have thought that he didn’t go to eat dishes with others or pay his respects to his parents, but went to the outer room, and even There are children.

Xu Qinyu sighed, "Mrs. Dong, take care of the housework first, we'll go back first."

"Thank you Xu Dongjia." Dongshi thanked Xu Qinyu again.

After the two left, Dong Shi sat there for a long time, and finally got up and went to the yard of the eldest son Dong Qian.

Dong Qian is accompanying her daughter and pregnant wife.

Seeing the eldest daughter-in-law's protruding belly, and thinking of the outer room raised by her husband, Dong's heart was extremely disgusting.

Dong Shi secretly said in his heart: 'Since you are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous. ’

Dong Shi smiled and said a few words to the eldest daughter-in-law, and asked the maid to take care of the eldest daughter-in-law and granddaughter to play in the courtyard. She had something to say to Dong Qian.

Wait for the eldest daughter-in-law and granddaughter to leave.

Seeing that her mother's eyes were a little red, Dongqian said worriedly, "Mother, have you cried? But what happened?"

Dong Shi didn't hide it, and told her son what Xu Qinyu told her.

Dong Qian's face suddenly turned ashen.

He thought for a moment and said, "Mother, don't worry too much, I'll let someone go to Raozhou City to see."

He definitely couldn't go to Raozhou City to inquire about anything in person, he was afraid that he would startle the snake.

It is not against the law for a man to keep an outer chamber, and some people even think that the wife at home is fierce and does not dare to take a concubine, so they keep the outer chamber outside.

But his father was in the winter family, and the situation was different.

However, he raised the outer room and gave birth to a child, and his thoughts were self-evident.

Dongshi said: "Okay, let me have a look first, in case it's just a misunderstanding..."

In fact, she already knew in her heart that even Dong Xu's family came here in person, so it couldn't be a misunderstanding.

"Mother." Dong Qian hesitated and asked, "If my father really raised the outer room outside and had a child..."

Dongshi said coldly: "Then he can take his outer room and fly away with the child, but he doesn't even want to take a penny of the Dong family's family business and money."

...

Dong Qian did not delay, and immediately found his servant to go to Raozhou City to see if his father really raised the outer room outside.

This little servant is his own and has grown up with him since he was a child.

The little servant was shocked when he got the letter, but he didn't say anything, and immediately drove the carriage to Raozhou City.

The next day, the servant didn't come back until evening and told Dong Qian and Dong Shi, "Madam, eldest young master, the master really has an outer room outside, and he lives in Shijing Lane, Raozhou City. The outer room is called Liu Niang, I I also inquired with the neighbors nearby, Liu Niang said that her man was running a business outside to make money, and he could not come back twice a year, and Liu Niang moved a little boy to Shijing Lane seven or eight years ago. I heard that they had previously I don’t live in Shijing Lane, I live in other places, or rent a small yard, and later I bought a second-class house in Shijing Lane and moved in.”

"Not only that, but the servant stayed in a hidden place in Shijing Lane for a day and a night. When he saw Liu Niang and the young man going out to buy something, the master sent them to the door and said that he would not go with them. He was too tired and wanted to rest. , The young man also said, 'Daddy is out running business all year round, so he should take a good rest. Then daddy goes back to the house to rest, and my mother and I go to buy New Year's goods."

Yue Weimin really did not dare to go out to buy things with Liu Niang and Ji Geer, for fear of being caught by someone he knew.

He also had a cook in Raozhou City, so he was more cautious.

After the little servant finished speaking, he didn't dare to take a breath. He didn't expect that the master was a son-in-law and gave birth to a child outside the nursery.

Dong Qian nodded and let the servant go down first.

When the servant left, Dong Qian asked, "Mother, what are you going to do?"

In fact, he was also very confused. After all, this was his father and he had feelings.

But this relationship is a little more complicated. Since his younger brother was born and his surname took his father's surname, he could gradually feel that his father treated him a little differently and was a little cold. Even when he worked as a helper in Donglaiju, his father himself combined with Donglaiju. Xincai, who was created by the family recipe, did not teach him.

"Do you want to tell my brother about this?" Dong Qian asked again.

Dongshi's face turned pale and shook his head, "I won't tell your brother first, I'll check the account first."

Although Donglaiju has always been in charge of her husband, she will check the monthly accounts.

But Donglaiju's account book was also given to her by her husband, so she could do anything. In the account book, Donglaiju's monthly profit was about 1,000 liang at the highest time. Ever since I knew that the restaurant with only one floor or two stores in Xu Dong's house was There is a profit of five or six hundred taels a month. When Mr. Dong thinks about it now, the thousand taels must have been faked. At that time, Xu Ji had not yet opened, and most of the richer diners in Yuanbao Town came from Donglai. live to eat.

Donglaiju is still a three-storey and three-storey restaurant, and it must be more than a thousand taels of silver.

Even after Xu Ji opened, Donglaiju made even less profit on its accounts.

Every summer, there are only five or six hundred taels of monthly profit left on the ledger.

Dong Shi felt that her husband must have stolen more than half of Donglaiju's profits.

But she doesn't really care about the profits that her husband pocketed, because apart from the profits he brought to Donglaiju over the years of marriage with her husband, as well as a lot of family business and money left by her father, these are the real big head.

In fact, she didn't expect to protect her husband at first, or her father told her before he died, "Child, even if you have a good relationship with Weimin in the future, you have to be careful. Dad is a man. Dad knows the nature of a man. Don't let Youwei know about the things you gave, and you have to manage the restaurant's account on weekdays, and you have to manage the money, but have you remembered it?"

So over the years, she never told her husband about the family business her father left her.

And the husband did ask if Daddy had left her any money and family business, and she said no.

But the Dong family is a century-old culinary family, how could it not have accumulated any wealth.

Since he is not benevolent, even if she is not short of money, she will let him spit out all the money, otherwise he will never want to see the outer room and children of Raozhou City again in his life.

Dongshi said, "Brother Qian, don't worry, just wait for him to come back."

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And Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan returned to Laixi Lane. The next two days were busy with the Chinese New Year. This year, the fourth brother was also there, and Mrs. Zhu was also there, but the time that Mrs. Zhu was in a coma was getting longer recently. So this year, she plans to live a good life so that no one has any regrets.

As for the Dong family's affairs, it has nothing to do with her.

She could see that the Dong family was not that kind of weak woman, just because she taught the eldest son well, she was able to handle this kind of thing well.

Fortunately, these few days are Chinese New Year, and Dongqian doesn't have to make notes every day, otherwise he must be absent-minded.

Xu Qinyu has been busy handling ingredients at home for the past two days. For this year's New Year's Eve dinner, she plans to be a Taoist Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.

Buddha Jumps over the Wall, also known as Fu Shouquan, was specially prepared for Mrs. Zhu, because Mrs. Zhu said that after the new year, Mrs. Zhu should prepare for the funeral.

However, wish the old lady that this is free from disasters and diseases, and the natural lifespan is up, which is considered a happy death.

Before the old lady left, she wanted to prepare this blessing and longevity for the old lady.