After dressing as a widow

For Lin Xiaoyao's return so soon was beyond Lin Zhen's expectation, without thinking, he must be worried about his injury, and Gu Shuanzi is a boy, it is inconvenient to serve him.

The next day, the yamen servants brought back the silver that Cai Jinzhu should pay for, a total of 30 taels. According to the two yamen servants, Cai Jinzhu, Qian Jingyuan and Mrs. Qian had such a quarrel that they completely tore their faces and turned their heads into pieces. The mighty old lady Qian was dizzy with anger.

Qian Jingyuan asked someone to take the silver, but Cai Jinzhu refused to admit it.

Lin Zhen didn't care who took the money, anyway, the outsiders now know that Cai Jinzhu compensated him, and they will accept all the money.

The days passed day by day, Lin Zhen had finished drinking the medicine for half a month, but he still could barely walk around while holding on to the wall, and he piled up a lot of plasters that had to be changed every day.

After another month, my walking posture was similar to before, but I couldn't bend over for a long time, and I couldn't carry things on my back, so as to prevent my bones from being squeezed again.

And Zhenyouwei Snacks also reopened two months later. Before the opening, Lin Zhen specially asked Lin Xiaoyao to pick up Lin Shitou and Lin Zhuzi from the village. He didn't know what that guy Lin Zhuzi did, and he kept asking him to come to the town. Mrs. Lin, the worker, let him go to Carpenter Ma to learn the craft.

So Lin Xiaoyao only brought Lin Shitou back, but the manpower in the shop would not be enough. After thinking about it, Lin Zhen went down to find Zhong Yan's mother, Mrs. Chen, and asked her if she would like to work in the shop. Like Xiaoyao, fifteen pennies a day.

Mrs. Chen was worried about Zhong Yan’s travel expenses and money for the imperial examination in Fucheng. She said that her mother was worried about her son traveling thousands of miles. Without money, it would be difficult to move a single step when she was away from home. With her little money for washing clothes and mending clothes, she could barely support her family. Zhong Yan used some of the money he had in copying the books.

Knowing that Lin Zhenlai wanted her to work in the shop, he was both surprised and happy.

As a widow, she will inevitably be criticized for working outside, but Lin Zhen and Lin Xiaoyao are both brothers in Zhenwei Snacks, and Gu Shuanzi and Lin Shitou are still half-grown children, so it is a perfect fit.

Mrs. Chen agreed immediately, and went to the shop to help out the next day.

The small food restaurant that was smashed once reopened just like that. Malatang, cold noodles, sour plum soup, milk tea, etc. began to be sold as before.

Although the matter between Lin Zhen and Qian Jingyuan was decided by the county lord, it was Cai Jinzhu who deliberately framed it, but Cai Jinzhu is not a vegetarian. Although he did not come to find fault in the open, he did not miss the circle of husbands and wives in the town. Li said Lin really bad things.

Twenty cents a cup of milk tea was originally following the path of the rich people in the town, so it was inevitably affected. Today, the amount sold in a day is less than one-third of the previous day.

Malatang and cold noodle business is not as good as before, but the sum of these items is not bad. The net profit in a month is more than 90 taels, and sometimes it is more than a hundred.

In a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed.

As the weather gets colder, cold noodles and sour plum soup have been removed from the menu, and they will be sold when the weather is hot next year. Malatang and hot milk tea have become the mainstays of Xiaoshi Zhai.

Here in autumn, Liyu Village and several surrounding villages have a gratifying bumper harvest. Brother Lin, who came to deliver spicy vegetables, told Lin Zhen the good news, and told him that several villages came to see them , want to learn composting.

Naturally, Lin Zhen didn't refuse to agree, and left the matter to them.

And Gu Shuanzi also studied in Xu Youda's school for half a year. According to the information he revealed on weekdays, Lin Zhen probably knew that he studied well in the school, and Xu Youda praised him several times.

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A gust of cold wind blew in, which made Lin Zhen behind the counter tremble. He looked at the sky outside, and said to Lin Xiaoyao and Mrs. Chen in the backyard: "Auntie Xiaoyao, come here today, close the door and clean up. gone."

After Mrs. Chen came to the shop, Lin Zhen arranged her to work for Lin Xiaoyao in the backyard, chopping vegetables and putting on skewers. Mrs. Chen was used to doing these tasks at home, and she started to do them in a few days, and she never made a mistake.

As soon as he yelled, the two of them came out with the cloth curtain, and without a word began to sweep the floor and wipe the table, and then arranged the table and chairs neatly.

Lin Zhen calculated the accounts at the counter, and after taking a clear inventory, he said: "It's the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and our shop has been open until today, and we will come back when we go home for the New Year."

"Ms. Chen, your salary for this month is four qian and 65 renminbi in total, plus the originally agreed year-end bonus, the total is one, two, six renminbi and 65 renminbi. You come and get it."

Mrs. Chen has been working here for half a year, earning more than 400 renminbi a month, and she has saved almost three taels of silver. Compared with the remuneration she got for washing clothes that were almost ruined by hand, it is already excellent.

When Lin Zhen said that there was still a bonus of more than one tael, he was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaoyao quickly pushed her: "Auntie, hurry up and get your wages."

Only then did Madam Chen wake up like a dream, wiped her hands and walked forward to take the money from Lin Zhen: "Brother Zhen, this, this is too much."

"My aunt earns every penny by herself, and I don't feel guilty about holding it." Lin Zhen turned to Lin Xiaoyao with a smile, "I packed the things last night, you go and bring them to auntie, just in time." On the top of the kitchen cabinet, there is a red cloth tied to it."

Lin Xiaoyao ran very fast, and quickly brought the things. In his hand was a strip of pork weighing three to five catties, a bag of pastries with the names of the pastries written on them tightly, and a bag of dried meat. Bamboo shoots, a pack of dried fungus, a pack of dried mushrooms, and a chicken that has been plucked and shaved.

It was a heavy lift, thanks to Lin Xiaoyao's strength and effortless lifting.

Lin Zhen took the things and handed them to Mrs. Chen: "It's almost Chinese New Year, these things should be given to my aunt's family as New Year's greetings. When the shop opens after the new year, my aunt will come to help me."

There were so many things, including chicken, pork, and sugar cakes, Madam Chen shook her head and refused to accept them: "I've already won your bonus, so how can I ask for more of these, my brother, take them back quickly."

"Auntie, you don't need to be polite to me. Don't say it's my auntie who works quickly and seriously at my place. The love we do together is the kindness that Mr. Zhong wrote to me. I still remember it in my heart. If my auntie doesn't accept it, I will Deliver it to your home in person."

Lin Zhen has a temper, so he can do what he can say, so don't mention it in Mrs. Chen's heart.

Since coming to Zhenyouwei Snacks, not only food is included, but also a salary of more than 400 Wen a month, Lin Zhen has helped her several times, not to mention, just said that Zhong Yan’s grandma fell at home a few days ago, Zhong Yan He was not there, Lin Zhen just happened to come to him when he was in a state of confusion, and without a word, he carried Grandma Zhong Yan back to the medical clinic, and even paid in advance for the consultation fee and medicine.

Even if there is Zhong Yan's kindness in writing the petition, it has been paid off long ago.

Looking at Lin Zhen, Mrs. Chen nodded: "Then thank you, Brother Zhen. I will come whenever the snack room opens, and I will never delay your business."

"Okay, then auntie, walk slowly."

With silver in her bosom and the New Year gift from Lin Zhen in her hand, Mrs. Chen returned home like a wind. , In just half a year, I have grown taller and become thinner.

Madam Chen walked away with a flushed face, entered the room and said, "Your Uncle Lin's snack shop will be closed from today, and you won't be back until the Chinese New Year. This is a New Year gift from him."

Pork, chicken and other things made Mrs. Chen's hands turn white, Zhong Yan quickly took some, but he didn't say anything.

He knew that Lin Zhen was not someone who came here with money or his own brothers and daughters, and wanted to get benefits from him, and he also heard about Gu Shuanzi and Gu Lin in the school, Gu Lin learned very well , is already Xu Youda's most important person besides himself.

There were a lot of things on the table, and Mrs. Chen took out the money wrapped in a handkerchief from her bosom, and said with a smile on her face: "Including what you have at home, it is enough for you to go to Fucheng to catch the exam."

"Why is there so much more?" Zhong Yan knew how much Mrs. Chen's monthly salary was, and it was already much higher here.

Mrs. Chen sighed and said: "Mother has never seen such a person as Brother Zhen. He made money by himself and distributed some to us workers. I heard from Xiaoyao and Shitou that when the shop first opened There are also bonuses."

Zhong Yan looked at the more than one or two taels of silver, said a few words to Mrs. Chen, then suddenly turned and walked towards the snack room.

When he arrived, Lin Xiaoyao was holding a door panel and was about to close it. When she saw him, she paused for some reason, and her heart trembled: "Xiao Yan, do you need something?"

Lin Xiaoyao and Lin Zhen are brothers, Zhong Yan is naturally a generation shorter than him.

Lin Xiaoyao always felt that he was too thin, so thin that it made people feel distressed, and wanted to make him fatter.

But this is just thinking about it, the age difference between the two is not too big, although it is the relationship between the elder and the younger, we still have to avoid suspicion.

Zhong Yan cupped his hands to Lin Xiaoyao: "Little Uncle Yao, I'm here to find Uncle Lin."

"Your Uncle Lin is in the backyard. I'll take you in to meet him." Lin Xiaoyao put down the door and led the way. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhong Yan's body as thin as a bamboo pole, and pursed his lips, " I heard from my aunt that you will not be in town after the Chinese New Year, and you are going to Fucheng to take part in the government examination?"

"Well," the government examination is held every three years. If you go well, you will have to participate in the next general examination, college examination, palace examination. Zhong Yan has confidence in his own talents and learning, but the students in the world don't know how many people are there. One, he didn't boast too much, "After the second and third day of the Lunar New Year, we will be on the road, and it's just right to go to Fucheng for half a month to recuperate."

"It's just you going on the road alone? It's too dangerous." I heard that it is a long way from the town to Fucheng, and it will take more than half a month to get there. It is a road that Lin Xiaoyao has never traveled before.

Zhong solemnly said: "Master Xu has contacted me with a caravan passing through Fucheng. It is much safer to follow them, and it is not dangerous."

"Then... I wish you the title on the gold list." During those days when Lin Zhen was recovering from his injuries, he picked up the homework that he had left behind and made up for Lin Shitou. Lin Xiaoyao now knows quite a few words, and she will go to the bookstore Buy some interesting text books to read.

This title on the gold list is what he saw in the story book, and the scholar in the story book not only got the title on the gold list but also married the princess, and his life was complete.

Lin Xiaoyao felt that Zhong Yan would definitely be named on the gold list, and would marry a high official or a princess, just like the scholar in the storybook.