I open a small shop to support my family

The person who came here was the guard who was ordered to give the jade plaque to Yu's house a few days ago. The purpose of coming this time was to send them a letter to tell them the fate of the magistrate of Hua'an County. Of course, he colluded with him to impersonate Yu Jinjiang scholar Punishment of the quota people is inevitable.

Meng Yunshu put a bowl of honey water in front of him, then sat down, and wrapped Yu Zhining in his arms, picked up the fried chestnuts on the table and put them in his hands for him to play with.

The visitor's surname was Shen, and even if he didn't say his name, the members of the Yu family naturally wouldn't ask too much.

Guard Shen picked up the honey water and drank it in one gulp, raised his hand to wipe the water stains on his chin, raised his eyes just to meet Yu Zhining's curious eyes, paused for a moment while wiping his chin, and then put it down embarrassingly.

"I'm sorry." He said, "After riding a horse all the way, I'm so eager when I'm thirsty."

Yu Jinhuai glanced at him, "It's okay."

That's what the master said, and Shen Wei continued.

"County Wu." Seeing their puzzled eyes, he was stunned for a moment, and explained: "The magistrate of Hua'an County is surnamed Wu, and he has more than one burden on him. Many children in Hua'an County were lost in the past few years. It must be Master Yu." Should have known."

Meng Yunshu just came here, so he didn't know about the loss of a child in Hua'an County a few years ago, but Yu Jinhuai, as a native of Cangnan Village, heard about it on the way back even though he had been to the battlefield.

"En." Yu Jinhuai nodded.

Guard Shen said again: "The County Magistrate Wu closed the case at that time, and put the charges on a group of local ruffians, claiming that they colluded with the bandits outside the city for money, and that's why they did the trick. A large amount of silver money of unknown origin has arrived."

"This matter was careless at the time. Many parents who lost their children wrote to hang them. The county magistrate Wu agreed, but within a day, these people died. This time we found out that the people behind the hooligans were County magistrate Wu, it’s not just this one thing, it’s not just once or twice that he took the fame of a peasant family and sold it to the rich.”

Meng Yunshu pursed his lips. He thought it was the first time but he didn't know how many times it was. "How about those people who were replaced by impostors?"

Guard Shen clenched his hands on the table into fists, and replied angrily, "He died of an accident."

But now that I think about it, did they really die in an accident?It was nothing more than a fight for fame and death. If he didn't know Lu Ru'an and didn't have a plane store, the Yu family would have to die, no matter whether they agreed or not.

Thinking of this, Meng Yunshu's face suddenly turned pale. Seeing this, Yu Jinhuai raised his hand to hold his hand, and squeezed it reassuringly, "It's okay, Ayun."

Guard Shen at the side obviously thought of the same thing as Meng Yunshu. He was born in a family of officials and had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child. He had never seen the darkness in those officialdoms. The jealousy between the wives and concubines, being protected by the family since childhood, I have not seen many dirty things, this time I heard my elder brother mention this matter, and when I became interested, I insisted on pestering him to get the name of a guard.

During the trial of the case, from the unbelievable anger at the beginning to the occasional turmoil now, he thought he was hard-hearted, but now he still feels resentful when he thinks about it.

As for the more things that Magistrate Wu did, he didn't explain them to the Yu family one by one, but they probably guessed it.

"Wu was sentenced to five horses to quarter his body. His family members were exiled in the northwest and given the punishment of tattooing. People in the family and their relatives and offspring will never be allowed to participate in the scientific examination.

Meng Yunshu heard that although he felt that the punishment was too light, he also knew that this was the most serious punishment.

Before leaving, Guard Shen told them that the new magistrate of Hua'an County was the nephew of Wang Jun's family, and asked them to go to him if they had anything to do. Lu Ru'an also ordered his nephew, no matter how big or small the matter is, just go to see him with the jade card. Will definitely help them.

After sending away guard Shen, Meng Yunshu sat down silently. Yu Jinhuai, who was at the side, saw that he was in a bad mood, and was about to comfort him when he stood up and said as he walked, "I have to go to town quickly, or it will be too late .”

Looking at Meng Yunshu's leaving figure, he let out a long sigh, a small hand holding a chestnut suddenly appeared in front of him, looked down, and saw Yu Zhining said in a childlike voice: "Little uncle, peel the chestnuts."

The chestnut shell was pitted by him, and his saliva was still stained on it, Yu Jinhuai slightly disliked it, took it and threw it into the stove, picked up another one, peeled it and handed it to him.

Yu Zhining took it and stuffed it into his mouth, looked at him with an aggrieved face, and said sadly: "Little uncle despises me."

Yu Jinhuai was silent, he really couldn't utter the words "don't dislike it" against his conscience, but he couldn't honestly say he disliked it, so he could only face each other in silence, then grabbed a handful of chestnuts, peeled them and put them in Yu Zhining's palm.

"Eat."

One chestnut at a time, Yu Zhining's cheeks puffed up, facing the chestnuts, he graciously forgave his little uncle.

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Yu Jinyue drove the carriage to the door of the iron shop. Even though there was still a certain distance from the place where the iron was forged, he could still feel the strong heat coming towards him. It was a good place to keep warm in this winter.

Meng Yunshu jumped out of the car, touched the silver in his cuff, and walked in calmly.

After paying the rest of the money, Yu Jinyue, who was following behind him, hurried forward with each pot. There was only one or two taels of silver left at home for emergencies, and he brought the rest. Counting the 650 coins in his purse, Meng Yunshu fell into a trap. mused.

I went to the grain store to buy coarse and fine noodles, and went to buy spices and big bones for another two hundred cash. I didn't have much money left.

Meng Yunshu couldn't help worrying. Before the business started, he had thrown out a lot of costs, and he didn't know when he could earn them back.

They didn't stay in the town too long, and went home after finishing their work. On the way, they could still hear passers-by discussing fiercely about the outrageous things that Magistrate Wu did.

For a while, he only felt depressed. Meng Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief and sat up straight. He planned in his heart to boil the big bone soup when he went back today. He would go to set up a stall in the morning. He originally thought that he would make the noodles at night. I was also afraid that it would not be fresh when I got up in the morning, so after thinking about it, I should get up early the next day to make noodles.

Back home, a lot of winter vegetables and winter bamboo shoots had already been placed in the yard of the Yu family. Tomorrow they would set up a stall, and today they were still busy with work. Except for Yu Zhining, who was still young, everyone started to move.

The bamboo sticks and bamboo cups were ready at home, the water in the cauldron was kept hot, Yu Jinhuai and Yu Jinyue washed the vegetables, Meng Yunshu took Yu Jinlan to skewer the vegetables, and they kept busy until evening.

After simply eating dinner, Yu Jinhuai drove people to bed so that he could get up early the next day.

Before getting on the kang, Meng Yunshu took a special look at the two kinds of soups boiled on the stove. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Daqing and Dahei who were lying at the door with salivating eyes. Close the stove door.

"Daqing and Dahei are not allowed to steal."

Daqing rubbed against his trouser legs, whining, Dahei also ran over and kept rubbing against his trouser legs, two mighty wolfdogs acted coquettishly, Meng Yunshu couldn't resist for a while, it was Yu Jinhuai who scolded them, and they were wronged leave.

Turning around and looking at Yu Jinhuai standing under the eaves, his whole body seemed to be wrapped in darkness, only a silhouette could be seen, Meng Yunshu's heart moved, she walked over to stand on the ground and looked up at him, looking into his calm eyes , Meng Yunshu suddenly laughed.

Said: "Daqing and the others are all hungry, fortunately you are here, otherwise I would not be able to stand it."

Yu Jinhuai responded, noticing his cold and red hands, "Go in, it's cold outside."

After saying that, he opened the curtain first and entered the main room. Meng Yunshu followed closely behind him. Seeing that he was about to enter the bedroom, he called to stop him.

"Brother Huai."

Hearing the sound, Yu Jinhuai turned his head to look at him, with doubts in his eyes, Meng Yunshu lowered his head and stared at his feet, hesitated for a while, and said hesitantly, "Aren't you afraid that I won't make money?"

The family's money was almost exhausted by him, and Yu Jinhuai still indulged him, and even supported him.

"Will you?" Yu Jinhuai asked.

Meng Yunshu raised her head and said firmly, "Of course not."

He still has confidence in his craft.

"Ayun." Yu Jinhuai looked at him deeply, "I believe in you."

With his words, Meng Yunshu's high-pitched heart calmed down, and suddenly remembered that he entered the canteen, and came out after a while, walked up to Yu Jinhuai, took his hand, and put the things in his hand. Palm, blushing, glanced at him and left.