A ragged cub at the beginning

Another source of income!

After Aunt Wang left, Tang Xu opened a piece of the dessert and ate it. It was from the shop where she often bought food.

The way Qi Qing looked at her was exactly the same as the way some modern star-chasers look at them.

"Eat." Tang Xu pushed the snack over and said jokingly, "Quickly take your eyes off me. If you keep looking at me, my face will turn red."

"Miss Tang! You are amazing!" Qi Qing has been working in the shop for a few days. Although this one only costs 15 cents, it is just the most basic black pen drawing. Those who have some extra money are willing to ask for colored ones, and almost all of them are families. This one is not cheap. She can also draw patterns for cloth shops and embroidery patterns for embroidery shops. It's amazing to be able to draw!

"You can do it too. Your handwriting is much better than mine. Think about what you can do and what you are good at. Pick one that you like the most and work hard for it."

Tang Xu felt that she was not that great, she was just lucky. She was lucky to meet a big client and make a fortune, her embroidery pattern was favored by the embroidery shop, she had Tang Ling to protect her life, and she had a good neighbor like Dong Wanwan. This was all good luck. If it weren't for these people, she might not be able to live as comfortably as she is now.

"Me?" Qi Qing's eyebrows drooped and he said dejectedly, "What can I do?"

"You can think about it first. It doesn't cost any money." Seeing the next guest coming, Tang Xu led them behind the screen.

After an afternoon, Tang Xu's wrist was in so much pain again that she was shaking even when she lay flat. She frowned, asked Qi Qing to close the shop and go back, and she went to the clinic.

"Why is your hand getting worse?" Doctor Bai said sternly, "You didn't listen to what I told you at the beginning!"

Tang Xu laughed dryly twice and shrank his neck like a quail.

"It hurts so much, doesn't it?" Doctor Bai used force, causing Tang Xu to almost jump up. "Go to the backyard for acupuncture. I'll try your medicine and change it."

Acupuncture? Tang Xu was a little scared. Although the needle was thin, it looked very long. One needle could pierce through the wrist. It was too scary!

Most people have a natural fear and obedience towards professions like doctors and teachers. Tang Xu is one of them. She dared not disobey and went to the backyard.

"Do you want an injection?" A child about nine years old came over, with two hairpins on his head swaying, attracting a lot of attention.

"Yes." Tang Xu nodded.

"Wait a moment, Master has a patient now, please sit here." The child moved two small stools and waved like a little adult, asking her to sit down.

"Okay, thank you." Tang Xu sat down and saw the medicine boy twisting and turning as if there was a thorn on the stool. He looked up from time to time, obviously wanting to say something or something. She suppressed her laughter as she watched him hesitate and finally showed her compassion and asked, "What's wrong? What do you want?"

"Where do you feel uncomfortable?" the child asked.

"My wrist hurts." Tang Xu raised his hand.

The child's eyes lit up and he stared at her hand like a puppy seeing a bone, "Is it overworked? Or is it a sprain?"

Tang Xu was overjoyed, but said calmly, "Yeah, I'm overworked."

"I, I can help you massage it!" The child stood up, as if afraid that she would not trust him, and emphasized: "I have been an apprentice for two years! I am very, very good!"

The young Doctor Bai came out of the room and asked with a straight face, "What are you so good at?"

"Master! I...I..." The child shrank his neck, grabbed his clothes with his hands, and stammered, unable to speak.

Doctor Bai said in a very stern tone: "As a doctor, you can't even recognize all the herbs, and you still dare to say you are great!"

Tang Xu felt that Doctor Bai was too strict, and that he was too harsh on such a big child. She was about to speak to smooth things over, when she heard Doctor Bai continue, "The rules of being a doctor are not to talk too much, joke around, talk about right and wrong, discuss people, show off your reputation, criticize other doctors, and cherish your own virtue. If you occasionally treat Xin's illness, you will hold your head high and look proud, saying that you are unparalleled in the world. This is the high standard of a doctor. Remember it!"

The child looked like he was about to cry, and said yes in a hoarse voice.

"Come in." Doctor Bai turned to Tang Xu.

Tang Xu hurriedly followed him in, and after thinking for a while, he said, "He is still young, Doctor Bai, please don't get angry."

"It is time to discipline them now that they are young," Doctor Bai said solemnly.

This is true. If the tree is not pruned, it will not grow straight. She nodded and said nothing more.

Doctor Bai asked her where she felt uncomfortable. When he found out it was her wrist, he apologized and pinched her wrist. "You've overworked it. You need to rest well."

"Yes."

Acupuncture looks scary, but it's not painful, just a little bit of numbness. After the needle was pulled out, her wrist felt much more relaxed. When she came out, she saw the little boy with the knot sitting in the yard carrying herbs, looking very professional.

She paid the consultation fee and got the medicine. The old doctor scolded her in a sarcastic tone, but she was not angry. Instead, she thought it was cute that the old man was showing concern for her in a roundabout way.

Yu Xiaotao learned from Qi Qing that she had gone to the clinic, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with Xiaoxu?"

"It just hurts my wrist, but it's nothing serious." She didn't take it to heart and instead asked about Zhao Sanping.

Yu Xiaotao's eyes were red and swollen. She forced a smile and said, "My eldest brother drove him and his mother out, and also took back my dowry and a lot of money."

Tang Xu nodded, praising Yu Zhao in her heart. But Yu Xiaotao looked sad, so she couldn't show too much happiness. She consoled her with a few words and said a famous saying: "There are thousands of men in the world. If this one doesn't work, we can find another one."

Yu Xiaotao burst out laughing. She was not surprised to hear such words coming from Tang Xu, but it was a little... She advised softly, "Miss, don't say this in front of others, or you might get criticized."

Tang Xu knew that she couldn't accept this, so he waved his hand. When he found that the children were not there, he asked.

"In the classroom. They say they are teaching about weaknesses or something, but I don't understand." Yu Xiaotao pointed inside the room.

Seeing Qi Qing standing at the door in astonishment, Tang Xu walked over and listened to a few words. He discovered that Tang Ling was using a human body diagram that he got from somewhere to introduce the weaknesses of the human body to the children.

Oh, it's getting more and more rigorous. Are they really training killers? She wanted to learn a few tricks, and then she found that she had them all in her memory. It's good for children to learn some self-protection skills. She poured a glass of water and sat at the table to rest.

An An's cradle was next to her. She bent over and found the little guy lying in the cradle, sucking his toes, making a smacking sound.

I heard that children's toes are sweet. Is it true? However, there is no way to verify whether it is true or not. She doesn't have the hobby of chewing other people's toes.

Qi Qing also came over and sat down. She could see that Miss Tang really liked to watch the fun. Yu Xiaotao happened to be cooking in the kitchen. She talked about what she saw at the door of the shop in the afternoon. "It was very lively in the afternoon. Half of the street went to see the Zhao family mother and son."

Tang Xu perked up and motioned for her to continue, asking her to talk more and he would listen.

"Mrs. Zhao had hidden a lot of silver in her clothes. The two of them were carrying quilts on their backs and holding clothes. As a result, Mrs. Zhao had just walked to the entrance of the alley when she fell down and a brand new silver ingot fell out of her clothes. Curious passers-by surrounded her and said that it might have been stolen. The eldest brother of the Yu family heard the noise and came out to see, and took all the silver back. Mrs. Zhao cried and cursed, but the eldest brother of the Yu family ignored her. She tried to pull him away, but was grabbed by the collar and thrown far away." Qi Qing said with some sighs, "That Zhao Sanping only opened his mouth to say stop, and didn't dare to go up to stop him. Looking at the tall and strong man, he was like this..."

What a shame! Tang Xu smiled, "Maybe he hates it too, because his good family has been broken up."

Qi Qing suddenly realized and thought about it carefully, thinking that it was very likely.

Tang Xu sighed: Although Zhao Sanping is a coward, he still protects Yu Xiaotao and Zhao Yunniang. He just can't figure it out. He wants to take care of both sides, but in the end he doesn't take care of either one.

The Zhao family's matter was over. Yu Xiaotao said her new house was not far away, in the alley of the next street. She could come to help during the day. Tang Xu paid her twenty cents a day and provided two meals for the three of them. With the dowry she got back, her life was not difficult.

Tang Xu got a new yard and asked Fang Yuanqin to find someone to help with the renovation. Then she would let the girls move in and pay less rent. The braised meat business was good these days, so she told Dong Wanwan to find a shop nearby. Fang Yuanqin was capable of this job, so he found a shop himself, still on Guixiang Street, but the shop was very small.

Tang Xu suggested that a row of tables be nailed against the wall to save space. The store could then steam some steamed buns and rice and sell them with braised meat to earn more revenue.

Dong Wanwan gladly accepted, and the couple got busy. Fang Zijun stayed at Tang's house almost all day. Du Jiarui was almost the same, but the children were more and more afraid of Tang Ling. They would go weak in the knees when they saw her, mainly because they did horse stance.

Tang Xu was very happy to see it, and watched the children being trained happily every day. However, she did not stop her cultural classes. Several children looked sad, but no one was lazy during class.

Yu Xiaotao originally thought that it was unnecessary for girls to learn this, but she did not dare to mention it to Tang Ling. Zhao Yunniang was a little excited and even said that she wanted to be a female knight in the future. Yu Xiaotao was very worried, but Yu Zhao praised Zhao Yunniang for her ambition.

Mrs. Du is a very Buddhist person. As long as the child is happy and not in danger of life, she doesn't care.

Today, two neighbors came to Yu Xiaotao and asked her to help test Tang Xu's attitude and take in more children. Tang Xu naturally refused. She was busy recently and received fewer and fewer reservations, mainly because of wrist pain.

When she was free, she started to think about children's entertainment facilities, such as slides, seesaws, and swings. She went to the carpenter's shop she often visited, and the owner was amazed.

It was a windy day, and the temperature dropped precipitously. Tang Xu was so cold that she took out her cotton-padded jacket. Qi Qing didn't have any warm clothes, so she bought some cloth and cotton and asked Qi Qing to make some at home, and not go to the shop for the time being.

The children were wearing more clothes, so it was more difficult for them to do horse stance. The wind was cold, but they were sweating.

As soon as he opened the door of the shop, he ran into Zhao Youling and another yamen runner walking in. "Boss Tang, I have something to tell you."

"You say." Tang Xu poured tea for the two of them. The teapot was still hot because she had just brought it from home.

Zhao Youling raised his hand to refuse, saying, "An important person will come in the next two days. Please keep the front of the shop clean and dress neatly. If a motorcade passes by, please kowtow at the door."

Tang Xu ran a portrait shop and didn't have much trash to throw away, so it didn't affect her. But what on earth was this about bowing at the door? She frowned and said nothing.

"Did you hear that?" another yamen runner shouted when he saw that she seemed unwilling.

Tang Xu almost couldn't control her mouth at this attitude. But after all, he was a public official, and she couldn't afford to offend him. She suppressed her annoyance and replied, "I heard it, I heard it."

Zhao Youling had met her before, so they could barely be considered acquaintances. He comforted her, "The big shot won't stay here, so you don't have to worry too much."

"Okay, thank you." After seeing them off, Tang Xu flipped through the reservation book and decided to take a few days off since her hands were hurting. But the downside of the reservation business is that you can't just shut it down whenever you want. She sighed and slumped over the counter in frustration.

Du Yun passed by and happened to see her sighing. He hesitated for a moment and walked in. "Miss Tang, what's bothering you?"

Tang Xu sat up straight and complained, "I heard that a big shot is coming and asked us to kowtow and pay respects. I don't know what big shot it is that will make such a big scene."

Du Yun heard the headmaster talk about this. He knew who it was, but he couldn't say it. He could only persuade him, "If you don't want to welcome him, just close the shop for a few days and rest."

Tang Xu pouted and said helplessly: "I want to, but my guests are all booked, so I can't just close it. I have several guests coming in the next few days."

No one can replace her business. Du Yun thought for a moment and said, "You now have a new Miss Qi, so let her take care of it. I have an old servant at home. I'll ask him to come over these days. If there are guests, ask him to lead them to the alley. I heard that you bought the Zhao family's yard. You can move your painting supplies over there and paint in the yard over there."

Tang Xu's eyebrows relaxed instantly, and he said gratefully, "What a good idea! Thank you so much! Will it cause any trouble if your servant comes over?"

Seeing her happy smile, Du Yun couldn't help but raise the corner of his lips and said, "It's only a few days, it won't be a problem."

His smile was so gentle! Tang Xu's face began to heat up again. She rubbed her cheeks with the back of her hand to cover it up, and then she felt that her heartbeat was too loud. She cleared her throat, "Then I'll pay your old man a few days' wages?"

Looking at her flushed cheeks, Du Yun thought of the morning glow he saw when he got up in the morning. His eyebrows became more gentle, "No need to be like this. I have to go to the academy for class. I'll leave first."

Being here, I feel shy, afraid that he can hear my beating heartbeat. After he left, Tang Xu was reluctant to let him go, and stood at the door eagerly watching. No, I have to think of a way to get this man!

The yamen runner said it would be in the next few days, and Tang Xu thought it would be tomorrow at the earliest. Unexpectedly, the man came in the afternoon, and he heard the sound of gongs outside. The noisy streets seemed to have pressed the mute button, and only the sound of horse hooves hitting the road could be heard.

The customers in the shop hid in the store and hugged the child tightly. Tang Xu was hesitating whether to kowtow at the door, after all, this was an imperial society.

"There is an assassin! Protect the prince!" someone suddenly shouted.

Then there was chaos outside, screams, the sound of metal colliding, the sound of horse hooves, shouts, all kinds of sounds intertwined. Tang Xu squatted behind the counter, afraid that someone would come in later, and wanted to close the door. But he thought, it won’t be so unlucky, right?

The child brought by the guest was only three years old, but at this time he was giggling, probably thinking he was playing a game.

Let's do it! Tang Xu stood up and encouraged herself, picked up the wooden board and put it into the slot at the door. She didn't know whether it was because she was anxious or nervous, or maybe both, but she couldn't get it in for a long time, and she was so anxious that she broke out in sweat.

The man among the guests came over to help. He was stronger and his hands were steadier than Tang Xu's. The two of them quickly put the last piece in. At this moment, two people suddenly rushed in from outside the door.

A young man in fancy clothes came in with a man holding a sword behind him. The guard with the sword saw the two people in the shop and pointed the tip of the sword at the man, "Close the door quickly!"

How unlucky! ! ! !