27 Someone is making trouble
◎I didn’t expect that she actually knew that person!◎
Song Jinyi immediately stood up and went over.
Xu Ruolan covered her wrist and looked at Xie Wuyang with surprise. Xie Wuyang's right hand stopped in mid-air. When he saw Song Jinyi coming over, he withdrew his hand helplessly.
Between the two of them, a kettle filled with hot water was lying on the ground, with steam rising from it. The faint mist in the slightly cool air was a bit dazzling.
Song Jinyi immediately went forward to check Xu Ruolan's wrist. It was covered with a large red area and had more than a dozen small blisters. She immediately concluded that Xie Wuyang was throwing a tantrum because he couldn't go to Shengjing with her.
She turned around and scolded sternly: "Xie Wuyang, what are you doing?!"
Xie Wuyang shrank back when he heard Song Jinyi's harsh reprimand. He took two steps back and shook his head. He wanted to explain, but seeing Song Jinyi's impatient look, he could only whisper out repeated denials, "No, I didn't, no, I didn't..."
Song Jinyi lifted Xu Ruolan's arm. The burned area had turned scarlet, forming a sharp contrast with the fair wrist.
The bright, bloody color looked like the skin had been scalded and melted, and the blood was about to burst through the fragile blood vessels. It was a terrifying sight. She hurriedly said, "Rinse it with cold water quickly. We'll go to the pharmacy soon!"
She pulled Xu Ruolan to the water tank and poured water on the burns one scoop at a time.
After a while, the burning sensation on Xu Ruolan's skin subsided. She raised her hand to indicate that everything was fine. She then looked at Xie Wuyang who was following behind them. He was hanging his head and didn't dare to speak.
She said, "It's much better now. It doesn't hurt that much anymore. I'll just apply some ointment and it will be fine. He didn't do it on purpose. Don't scare him."
Song Jinyi was already upset because Xie Wuyang had been acting up for the past two days, and now she was even more unhappy. She asked in an unhappy tone, "Why did you do this?"
Xu Ruolan heard the unfriendly tone in Song Jinyi's voice, and saw Xie Wuyang shrinking timidly, obviously frightened by Song Jinyi. His lips trembled slightly, and he looked like he was trying to express something, but couldn't say it.
She patted Song Jinyi, motioning her to come over and ask, and said softly: "I know you have no ill intentions, and it was just an accident just now. But what happened when you suddenly came in and grabbed the tea kettle just now?"
Xie Wuyang looked up at Song Jinyi, then at Xu Ruolan, said sorry, lowered his head and explained softly: "The taste is not right."
Xu Ruolan had only been with Xie Wuyang for a few days, and based on the fragmentary words she heard, she couldn't tell what he wanted to say. However, Song Jinyi reacted immediately and asked, "What tastes wrong?" Then she turned around and looked at the food residue on the ground.
Xu Ruolan understood what he was talking about and said, "This is the grapefruit tea I brewed. The grapefruits were indeed newly delivered in the past two days, but I carefully inspected them when I received them, and there's nothing wrong with them."
Song Jinyi came to the stove and looked at the remaining grapefruit tea ingredients. She reached out and pinched some and sniffed them. There was nothing wrong with the grapefruit ingredients. She tasted some more and found that they were no different from what she usually made.
She asked Xie Wuyang, "Do you feel something is wrong?"
Xie Wuyang subconsciously glanced at the water tank and said, "The water is wrong."
There is a large water tank in the corner of the kitchen. Every morning, the tank is filled with water from the well in the yard. Because we closed early yesterday due to something, half of the water was left in the tank.
Song Jinyi scooped up a little and tasted it carefully. She licked her tongue. The taste... Her expression became solemn. She called Xu Ruolan over, handed her the ladle, and said, "Try it."
Xu Ruolan took it and drank two sips, frowned, and said, "The water tastes a bit strange."
Song Jinyi continued, "It's a little more bitter than usual. Someone must have added something to the water!" She looked down at the water. Who had drugged it? Why?
As the breeze blew, tiny ripples appeared on the water surface. Song Jinyi's exposed neck shivered, and the coldness extended upward from her spine inch by inch, and every hair on her body stood up.
She suddenly felt like a bird pecking at its prey in the open, with a tabby cat gazing at it from behind.
Song Jinyi stood up, let out a breath, and asked Xie Wuyang how he discovered that the water tasted wrong?
Xie Wuyang said that when he washed his face this morning, he felt the water was slippery and the smell was different from usual.
Xu Ruolan approached, met Song Jinyi's gaze, and asked, "I wonder who secretly framed me. Should I report this to the police?"
Song Jinyi thought for a moment, then stroked the outer circle of the water tank with her fingertips. The tank wall vibrated slightly, and gentle water circles appeared on the calm water surface. However, it returned to calm in just a few seconds.
"No, let's not report it yet. Nothing has happened yet, and there's no evidence. It won't cause any trouble, and it will only alert the enemy. Now we are prepared, we can wait and see. When that person causes trouble again, it won't be too late for us to take action."
Song Jinyi warned: "When he sees that we haven't reported it to the police, he will think that we haven't noticed it. After a couple of days, when he sees that the store's business has not been affected, he will guess that we have discovered it and will not dare to act rashly again.
But this person will definitely not give up and will definitely look for another opportunity to strike, so Sister Ruolan must be careful and wait for me to come back."
Xu Ruolan nodded, looking at the tea she had worked so hard to make early in the morning, and sighed softly, "What a pity, a lot of ingredients were wasted."
Song Jinyi comforted Xu Ruolan, and also comforted herself: "Now we can only be thankful that the guests didn't drink it, otherwise the consequences would be unpredictable."
Song Jinyi applied ointment to Xu Ruolan. Xu Ruolan said, "You're leaving tomorrow, so don't worry about me. I can take care of myself, but..."
"Just what?"
Xu Ruolan raised her chin and motioned Song Jinyi to look behind her. The door was wide open. Xie Wuyang was standing at the door, his eyes red as if he had suffered a great injustice. "What are you going to do with that person?"
Song Jinyi raised her eyes and met Xie Wuyang's gaze. Her wet emerald green eyes had lost their former brightness, and the mist was like dust covering the beautiful green gem.
Her heart tightened, and she turned her head away in an instant, quickly avoiding Xie Wuyang's gaze.
This morning, Song Jinyi blamed Xie Wuyang without any reason. In the end, when the truth was revealed, she didn't even say sorry. It's not that she didn't want to, but she really didn't know how to say it. She always felt that an apology was too light.
She looked at Xu Ruolan with a hint of pleading in her eyes, but saw Xu Ruolan shaking her head slightly, giving her a hint with her eyes, indicating that she should solve it herself.
She pondered over her words and didn't speak for a long time.
Xie Wuyang suddenly said, "Sister, I'll follow you. Will you go?"
Xie Wuyang tilted his head back, his eyes full of anticipation, like a big golden retriever squatting by the door waiting for his owner to take him out to play.
Song Jinyi's hard heart softened a little, and coupled with what had just happened, Song Jinyi really couldn't say no this time.
She looked at Xu Ruolan for help, but she didn't expect Xu Ruolan to change sides at this moment and said, "This time, thanks to his keenness, he discovered the problem with the water.
You're going to Shengjing, you're unfamiliar with the place, and you'll need someone to help you keep an eye on your surroundings, so you can take him with you."
Under pressure from both sides, Song Jinyi had to agree to take Xie Wuyang to Shengjing. When Xie Wuyang heard this, he wagged his tail and packed his luggage.
Song Jinyi watched him leave and said to Xu Ruolan, "You can't handle it alone. Let's close the shop today. I'll go with you to find a suitable assistant."
The two discussed finding a clerk.
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Song Jinyi rode in a carriage that swayed for several days before finally arriving at Shengjing City. She was dizzy and had no interest in looking around the city after entering. On the contrary, Xie Wuyang was very interested and lifted the curtain to look at this and that along the way.
When he came, he said that he was afraid that she would be alone and wanted to help her. He said it very nicely, but now his true colors were revealed. It was obvious that he was just playing around. Song Jinyi was not angry, but just thought it was his childish nature.
The carriage circled around the city and arrived at Xinlinfang. After walking for another half an incense stick of time, it went straight to the end of a street and stopped.
Song Jinyi was standing on a horse stool, but she felt her steps were unsteady and she almost fell down. Fortunately, Xie Wuyang was quick to support her.
She heaved a long sigh, covered her chest, and was frightened out of her wits. Xie Wuyang supported her as she walked to the west door. As she stepped into the mansion, she came to her senses and looked around at this new world.
It looked like the backyard of an ordinary wealthy family, with dense foliage and lush greenery, and pines growing in the hollow valley. But upon closer inspection, it was even inferior to the Gu Mansion in Yunzhou. Song Jinyi figured it out in a flash: this courtyard was reserved for outsiders, not the owner.
She followed the steward into the house, walked through circles of corridors, crossed rocks, and finally arrived at a spacious garden.
There were two rows of maids in the same clothes, surrounded by some people. Song Jinyi moved over silently and listened for a long time before she realized that these people came from gourmet food places all over the world.
Song Jinyi enjoyed listening to their business boasts, as if she were listening to a crosstalk. "Isn't this Madam Li from Lizhou? I heard your crab stuffed with orange is a real specialty..."
"I heard that the beggar's chicken made by the beggar man in Bincheng is also very special..."
"How can she be as amazing as Madam Cheng? She owns her own teahouse at such a young age. I heard..."
Perhaps they had nothing more to praise, or were tired of talking, so their eyes kept turning to Song Jinyi who was standing beside them, asking her where she was from.
Song Jinyi only said that she opened a sweet water shop. Seeing that Song Jinyi was a little-known person, the other party looked at her with disdain and said disdainfully: "Aren't they said that only skilled chefs come here? Why are all the little guys here?"
Song Jinyi didn't indulge them at all. "There are cats and dogs here, which only means that this is a place where animals are raised. Look, I just heard a dog barking."
She looked at the other person's anxious face and added, "Whoever is anxious will be criticized." After that, she left alone and found a secluded and quiet place.
After waiting for a while, the steward explained the precautions and introduced each other, and then let everyone disperse.
On the way back, Song Jinyi saw a woman in yellow committing violence. The slap was so loud that Song Jinyi could hear it clearly from across a row of bamboo trees.
She glanced at the maid who led the way, and the maid said calmly, "This is the guest's own business, it's not for us to interfere."
The implication is that they won't care.
Song Jinyi paused. The maid was right. It was not the host's turn to take care of other people's family affairs, let alone her as an outsider.
When Song Jinyi turned around to leave, she glanced at him unintentionally, then stood there in a daze, without moving.
I didn’t expect that she actually knew that person!
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