At lunch time, Minghualou was almost full, with people drinking, chatting and discussing everything.
Grandma Wuxu brought her three children in and went straight to the affordable private room on the third floor without staying on the first or second floor.
The waiter came in and greeted them politely: "What would you like to eat, my dear guests? Here is the menu, you can take a closer look."
"Eat, signature dish."
As soon as Milk Ball was carried by Grandma Wuxu and sat on a chair, she didn't even look at the menu. She just swung her little feet, clapped her hands on the table, and uttered something in a baby voice.
The waiter looked at her without saying anything, with a smile on his face, and turned his gaze to Grandma Wuxu.
She was the only adult here, and the other three were children. Usually, adults ordered food, and the children's words didn't count. The girl was too young, so her words could be ignored.
"Do as she says."
Grandma Wuxu didn't even look at the menu. Xiaoxiao asked for the signature dishes, so she served them. The children liked them, so they couldn't be wronged. Besides, they didn't come here to eat, but to see the Fifth Master of the Ming Family.
The waiter was incredulous. He took a closer look at the cute girl with delicate features, fair skin, big eyes, and two dimples when she smiled. He nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I'll serve it to you right away."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Granny Wuxu stopped him and said, "Don't worry, call your Fifth Master first and tell him that an old friend is waiting for him here with news about his missing wife and daughter."
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then he was ecstatic: "Really? The old lady really has news about our fifth lady and young lady?"
"Yes!" Granny Wuxu nodded calmly, "Go and call your Fifth Master. When the meal is over and he is gone, we will leave. We will not wait for you later."
"Yes, I will inform Master Wu right away."
The waiter left happily, and was so excited that he almost tripped over the threshold and fell.
In the capital, everyone knew that three women from the Ming family were missing. One was the fifth wife, one was her daughter, and the other was the daughter of the second wife.
The Fifth Master was a concubine's son, and he had been managing the Ming family's business. The Fifth Lady was a beautiful woman, and their daughter was even more beautiful. No one knew who had kidnapped her, and she had never been found.
Master Wu was extremely anxious. He became thinner and thinner, and he looked more than ten years older than before.
The waiter was really surprised to hear the news suddenly, and he wanted to tell the Fifth Master about it immediately.
Ming Juanjuan's father, Ming Wuye Ming Zhaoyuan, was inspecting the restaurant at the moment. This was the day he came here every month.
He was the illegitimate son of his aunt and had been good at business since childhood. Minghualou was not so prosperous before. It was just an ordinary restaurant that he built up.
His wife Jiang Liumei's ancestors were from Dongsheng. They came to the capital from the three states and six prefectures allocated to Nanyun State and settled down here. Her family was also engaged in business, the umbrella business.
The Jiang family's business is good, and Jiang Liumei is pretty. They met at a Water-Splashing Festival, and they fell in love with each other and decided to spend their lives together.
His family opposed it, but he insisted on getting married, and his father put forward a condition to him.
"It's not impossible to marry the daughter of the Jiang family. It depends on your ability. If you can quadruple the net profit of the Ming family's industry within a year, your father will agree to let you marry that girl."
"No problem, son, I will do it."
He spent a year making corresponding adjustments to all the Ming family's businesses. Not only did the net profit quadruple, some even tripled or quadrupled.
The father was speechless and let Jiang in with a sullen face.
When he first got married, he always had a happy smile on his face.
His wife was not only beautiful, but also gentle and virtuous. She was very considerate to him and never fought or competed with him.
After marrying him, she devoted herself to taking care of her husband and children at home, rarely got involved in the fights between her sisters-in-law, and lived her own life behind closed doors.
When his aunt was ill, she took care of her personally. At that time, she had just given birth to a daughter and was at her weakest. In order to fulfill his filial piety, he served his terminally ill aunt without taking off his clothes.
He was busy with business in various places and was often away from home. His father's demands became more and more stringent, so he had to keep moving and looking for business opportunities everywhere.
He was unable to stay by his aunt's bedside when she passed away. It was Jiang and her daughter who took care of his funeral.
Even if life is hard and they are together less than often, the relationship between husband and wife is still sweet and happy.
He was very grateful for his wife's help. He had never taken a concubine for so many years. His father had proposed it several times but he had refused. He was a bastard and lived a humble life. He didn't want his children to live like that.
In Nanyun, children born to illegitimate children will always be illegitimate children and must make various sacrifices for the prosperity of the family.
It was enough for him to be the only sacrifice of the Fifth House, and he didn't want more people to get involved.
His wife went out to burn incense and was suddenly kidnapped. He felt like the sky was falling. He asked around but could not find any clues.
Then his daughter was kidnapped, and he could not find any clues. The mother and daughter seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. He once suspected his father and asked him about it.
"Father! Did you send someone to do this to Jiang and Juan'er?"
His father threw a brush washer at him, hitting him on the forehead, leaving a long cut and causing a lot of blood to flow.
He didn't even bother to wipe it, but stared at his father, hoping he could give him an answer.
"What do you think? Don't you know that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs? In your eyes, is your father such a cold-blooded and heartless person? The missing women in the Ming family are not only your wife and daughter, but also your niece Junjun."
The blood was flowing down and blocked his vision. He raised his sleeve to wipe it off. "Three women from the Ming family are missing. With our family's strength, it is impossible that we can't find them. Has father sent anyone to look for them?"
My father is the head of the Ming family, and the guards of the mansion cannot be mobilized without my father's orders.
When Junjun disappeared, the second brother didn't seem to be very sad. Instead, the second sister-in-law looked like she had lost her soul.
Did the second brother know something? Or was he just too careless? Did he not care about losing a daughter?
That’s right, my second brother has three wives and concubines, four sons, and eight daughters. If one is missing, it’s indeed not that important.
Unlike him, he only had one daughter, Juanjuan, and when he suddenly lost her, he felt like his heart had been ripped out. Since the mother and daughter disappeared, only his son and he were left at home.
My son was only twelve years old, still a child. When he came back from school, he often sat alone in the room and cried silently.
He watched and started crying too.
His wife and daughter have been missing for so long, and no one in the Ming family has really cared about them except him.
"Sixth sister! Juan'er! Where are you? Why can't I find you?"
Ming Zhaoyuan sat alone in his own room, feeling sad. Someone knocked on the door, with a surprise in his voice.
"Fifth Master! There is good news, good news. There is an old lady on the third floor who claims to be an old friend of Fifth Master. She knows the whereabouts of Fifth Madam and Miss."
When the people in the room heard this, they stood up excitedly, and because they moved too quickly, they knocked over the chair and made a loud noise. He didn't care at all.
He opened the door and asked anxiously, "What did you say? My old friend? Does she really know the whereabouts of the lady and the young lady?"
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