Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 116

The next day, the news spread throughout Yangliu Village: some members of the Zhou family were missing, some were sick, and now Zhou Yuming was the only healthy person left in the entire Zhou family.

Zhou's father was almost paralyzed due to anger, Zhou Yushou was beaten and couldn't get out of bed, and Zhou's mother just cried and her eyes were almost blinded.

The daughter of the Zhou family went missing, and the village chief sent people out to look for her but couldn't find her for several days.

The head of Yangliu Village had a gloomy face. He didn't like this family in the first place, but he was the head of the village and he would help the villagers in any way he could if they had any difficulties.

The Zhou family is in chaos now, he can't just turn a blind eye, it's so upsetting!

Aunt Zhao's daughter-in-law Zhou Xiaohua happened to return to her parents' home today and saw the village chief and a few others talking loudly.

She couldn't help but ask her mother curiously, "Mom, what's wrong with the village chief? I noticed that many people in the village seemed to be looking for someone today. What's going on?"

Xiao Hua's mother curled her lips and said, "It's because something happened to Zhou Daping's family."

Zhou Xiaohua's gossip radar was immediately triggered, "Something happened? What happened?"

Could it be that his son was visited by the gambling house? She couldn't help but listen to this gossip. She could talk about it as a topic of conversation after dinner when she got home.

Xiaohua looked around and seeing that there was no one around, she told him everything.

"I heard that the eldest son of the Zhou family got into trouble first and was beaten. He came back injured and sick. His mother gave money to her daughter, Zhou Yuru."

"I gave her money to go to town to get some medicine, but she didn't come back until dark. These two old guys are really careless and didn't even think of going to look for her."

"When he didn't come back the next morning, her son was in so much pain that she went to get money to buy medicine for him. Guess what happened?"

Xiaohua's mother was so happy. No one in the village looked down on this family. Now that they were in trouble, everyone was extremely happy.

"How's it going?" Zhou Xiaohua urged her mother. She hated people who left words unsaid.

Xiaohua's mother rolled her eyes at her daughter. Listening to gossip requires patience. How can you be patient without some patience?

"It turned out that all the silver she had hidden was gone! I heard there were more than twenty taels!"

!

More than twenty taels!

"Who took it?" Zhou Xiaohua asked quickly. Listening to gossip was an exciting thing in itself, and the more she listened, the more excited she became.

"They said it was their youngest daughter who took it. The two old guys fainted at the time. It was their eldest son who woke up and found it. Otherwise, they would have been dead by the time they found it!"

Zhou Xiaohua smacked her lips in amazement. She really didn't expect that the Zhou family would suddenly become like this.

When Xiaohua's mother heard her sigh, she snorted coldly, "This is retribution! Their eldest daughter was so sensible and lovable, but she was still sold out by them."

Zhou Xiaohua felt complicated when she thought of Zhou Yuyan who was sold. They were all from the same village. Zhou Yuyan looked very sensible and well-behaved. The families in the village who had daughters compared them with her.

Zhou's parents also loved her. They thought she was beautiful and hoped to marry her to an official.

Alas! It was a pity that she was sold to a rich man as a concubine.

They squandered the money from selling Zhou Yuyan for a while without feeling any guilt at all.

Oh! I don't want to think about it anymore. It makes me sad just thinking about it. It would be hard for anyone to feel good to think about such a good person being sold out like this.

"Then Zhou Yuru was never found?" Zhou Xiaohua asked.

Little Flower Lady nodded at the backs of the village chief and his companions as they walked away, "We've been looking for them for a few days, but I guess we can't find them anymore."

"If you ask me, the Zhou family is a cannibalistic place, especially for girls! It's better that she ran away!" Xiaohua's mother said so. They watched this girl grow up, and no matter how bad she was, they didn't want to see her become like her sister.

Zhou Xiaohua heard every word clearly, and she would tell her mother-in-law about it when she got home.

My mother-in-law has a good relationship with Aunt Zhong. Isn't the third child of Aunt Zhong's family on good terms with Zhou Yuru? It is said that they will come to propose marriage after the New Year.

Now that the girl has run away, I don’t know what the Zhong family will do.

Zhou Xiaohua didn't even have the appetite to eat lunch. She went back to Xinghua Village early to tell her mother-in-law about this.

Aunt Zhao frowned, "ran away?"

Zhou Xiaohua nodded rapidly, "Yes, mother, my mother told me that everyone in their village is looking for her now!"

Aunt Zhao had no idea what the Zhou family had done to force her daughter away and take away all the money in the house.

She shook her head. "Let him run away. It's better than being sold! But your Aunt Zhong will probably show her third son some other girls."

Zhou Xiaohua nodded, thinking that Aunt Zhong was a sensible person and did not follow her youngest son's wishes.

Otherwise, if they really wanted to do things according to their youngest son's wishes, Zhou Yuru would have already married in by then, and the Zhou family's bunch of blood-sucking bugs would follow them and cling to the Zhong family, the kind that they couldn't get rid of.

Zhong Ruyi and the others came back to rest for two days and have already gone to the town to do business. I can only tell them about this next time they come back.

Zhong Ruyi and the others didn't know what happened in Yangliu Village, because just two days after they returned, Aunt Chen next door told them that in addition to Manxianglou and Lao Wu Tavern, there were other people in the town who made braised food.

Zhong Ruyi was quite calm when he heard the news. After all, it was not something that required much brainpower. As long as one was willing, one could send someone to follow them regularly, and over time one would naturally be able to discover the ingredients of the braised food.

However, Zhong's mother and second brother looked anxious.

"What can we do? Will our business be affected in the future?"

Zhong Ruyi looked at her anxious mother and her frowning second brother, and consoled them, "Mom, didn't Aunt Chen say that? The newly opened braised food shop is far away from us, so it won't affect us. Don't worry."

After hearing this, Zhong Laoer stopped pouring water and slowly calmed down. He was also shocked by the previous poor business. His wonton business almost went bankrupt before he started selling braised goods. Now that this happened, how could he not be shocked?

"Yes, yes, yes!" Mother Zhong stroked her chest and calmed down after listening to her daughter's words.

Anyway, the newly opened braised food store is so far away from them, so they don't interfere with each other and have their own customer base. Most of the people who come to her house to buy are residents nearby.

Who would go to a newly opened store to buy braised food?

Thinking of this, Zhong's mother became calmer.

After dinner and resting in the evening, Zhong's mother asked Zhong Ruyi, "Do you still have the sunshine flower you gave me last time? I want to eat it."

Zhong Ruyi laughed, "Mom, it's Sunshine Rose."

Mother Zhong smiled embarrassedly, "How can I remember it? Anyway, I just remember the sunshine and the fruit with the fragrance of flowers."

She took the bunch of green fruits handed to her by her daughter and started eating them.

The two talked about Zhong Laosan's marriage.

Zhong Ruyi asked her mother, "Mom, do you feel that my third brother has become less talkative recently? Sometimes he even looks dazed."