Chapter 263 Kidnapped
Because the two sides are relatives, there is a bit of competitive psychology between them and no one is willing to give in to each other. Not only does no one dare to point fingers at Xia Daohua in front of their opponent, but they have reached a slightly weird dynamic balance.
Even if there were some short-sighted people, with Erlang and the aunt in the lead, they would not be able to find Xia Daohua.
Apart from occasionally taking over some first and second order orders from the pickle workshop, Xia Daohua spends most of her time in the "Daohuaxiang" store, compiling statistics on her customers' consumption tendencies.
Or they would quietly change into men's clothes, wear a lotus flower, and walk around the streets trying all kinds of delicious food.
Life is very carefree and comfortable.
As refugees poured in, County Magistrate Yang handled the situation appropriately, and with the full support of the Wang family, the entire Jixiang County seemed to be thriving.
The city walls were becoming taller and stronger, the moats were becoming deeper, and even the criss-crossing water ditches and sewage networks were becoming much deeper and wider than before.
In order to allow the refugees to continue to have jobs, County Magistrate Yang not only replaced all the local people who were doing labor, but also began to lead the people to build roads.
He first repaired the official road, widened it between counties, rebuilt the roadbed, covered it with loess, and used fine sand and gravel mixed with glutinous rice flour to repair the road surface like he was repairing a city wall.
Xia Daohua watched it twice. Seeing them working so hard to build the road bit by bit like ants moving house, she felt a little sorry for them and couldn't help wanting to get some cement.
She carefully recalled the formula of cement and found that it didn't work.
Without supporting industrial products, the kind of cement that would be produced in later generations would not be possible.
However, you can give the traditional method of making cement a try.
However, if cement were available, the construction speed would certainly be accelerated. But where would County Magistrate Yang find so much work to accommodate so many refugees?
Xia Daohua thought about it and decided that she could buy a kiln and conduct experiments in secret, but there was no need to rush to launch the finished product.
Cement has many uses. If it is really developed, there will be no problem with sales.
As for County Magistrate Yang, it would be better to let him do what he wants instead of helping out with good intentions and causing more trouble.
Thinking about these things, Xia Daohua's attention was not on the surrounding environment, and Linghua was concentrating on eating. Neither of them noticed that they had unknowingly walked into a quiet street.
To be precise, this is a very wide alley with several small restaurants and stalls on the roadside.
But this place should be very lively on weekdays, but it is quiet at this time.
When Xia Daohua and Linghua came to their senses, they only felt that the surroundings were too quiet, as if business was not very good. Apart from that, they did not notice anything wrong.
The two walked to a small stall and sat on the bench serving customers. After sitting down, they realized that their legs and feet were a little sore because they had walked for too long without realizing it.
Linghua wrinkled her face pitifully and rubbed her stomach: "I'm so hungry!"
Xia Daohua instructed: "Hurry up and serve something first!"
"Okay!"
The middle-aged woman at the stall smiled brightly and responded promptly. She quickly picked up a strand of noodles from the chopping board next to her with chopsticks and put it into the boiling water pot.
After adding two drops of cold water, he scooped out the noodles and put them into a bowl. Then he used a big spoon to scoop out a big spoonful of mutton soup with meat from another pot next to it, poured it on the noodles, and sprinkled a handful of tender coriander on the top.
Two bowls of noodles were quickly placed in front of Xia Daohua and Linghua, and they started eating with chopsticks.
Linghua's face lit up immediately: "Delicious! Really delicious!"
Xia Daohua tasted it and felt that Linghua was right.
The mutton soup at this noodle stall is exceptionally fresh and delicious. I don’t know if it’s because of the quality of the ingredients or some special seasoning, but it doesn’t even have the slightest smell of mutton.
Such authentic noodles only cost three cents a bowl.
However, the bowl of noodles was only as big as Xia Daohua's fist, and an average adult would definitely not be full after eating one bowl of noodles.
This small bowl is so tiny compared to the big bowls that can fit a person's face in most noodle stalls nowadays!
This small and exquisite bowl is only suitable to be placed in high-end restaurants with luxurious decoration.
If it is put on a roadside stall, the business may not be very good.
After all, ordinary people who value practicality will be discouraged when they see the size of this bowl!
Linghua ate three bowls in a row before she was satisfied, but Xia Daohua only ate one bowl.
She ordered an extra large portion of roast lamb and gave herself a meal.
Linghua also hurriedly took two chopsticks and commented on it. She thought the mutton was cooked to perfection, tender and fragrant, but it was still more palatable to eat noodles with mutton soup.
Xia Daohua watched Linghua eating happily with a smile on her face, and couldn't help thinking that maybe she could open a restaurant.
It would be nice to put it next to the teahouse I had thought of before, facing each other.
An inn can be arranged next to the restaurant.
Unfortunately, there are not enough people on hand, so no matter how many good ideas we have, we can only think about them first.
Linghua's belly was round from eating so much that she pulled Xia Daohua to get up and walk around to help digest the food. Xia Daohua smiled and stood up, following her strength and walked forward. But after walking a few steps, she felt her vision getting blurry and her head felt dizzy.
Immediately afterwards, Linghua's legs went weak and she fell to the ground with a thump. Xia Daohua reached out to help her up, but when she bent over, she couldn't hold on and fell down.
Xia Daohua wanted to stand up, but found that her whole body was limp and she had no strength at all.
A thought flashed through her mind: "Damn it, I'm in trouble! There's something wrong with that stall just now!"
The thought had just flashed through his mind and had not yet completely disappeared when his eyes went dark and he passed out.
The lady boss, who was smiling happily just now, laughed even louder now:
"Brothers, come out to work!"
Following this shout, several waves of people rushed out from the surrounding shops, all wearing the same clothes as the group of big men I met in Jingweiju last time, and all of them had happy faces:
"This arrogant little girl has finally fallen into the hands of our brothers!"
The middle-aged woman's face suddenly became serious:
"Jia Liu, this little girl was specifically requested by the master with many instructions!
You must serve carefully and remember to keep the people under your command under control!
If anything goes wrong and the master's business is affected, you can forget about keeping the thing on your neck! Even if Madam Huo is willing to come forward, she can't save you!"
The big man Jialiu was originally laughing very happily, but after hearing this, his face suddenly turned ugly.
He silently took out a roll of rope and tied up Xia Daohua's hands and feet, and then tied up Linghua as well.
He stuffed two walnuts into the mouths of the two unconscious little girls, blindfolded them, and then stuffed the two into the carriage of a carriage on the side of the road.
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(End of this chapter)
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