Mrs. Luo was so frightened that she followed her son to report to the authorities.

Several ladies around were still muttering, "It's been a long time since they reported the case to the police. They must have gone to the orphan's home to check, but they definitely didn't find the orphan."

Another auntie said, "If she had taken the money, how could the Luo family find her? She would definitely not live in the same place. Maybe she is not from that village at all. The Luo family is ridiculous. They wanted to marry a new bride, but didn't they think about whether the bride's identity was fake? She said she was an orphan, so she must be an orphan? They didn't even ask around with people nearby. Now they are in trouble. They were planning to take advantage of her, but now all her belongings have been taken away. Since the orphan lived in the Luo family for two months before taking the money, it must have been planned in advance. They were planning to cheat people out of money. The Luo family deserves it!"

"It really is what she deserves. She didn't want such a good daughter-in-law before. Lin and her two daughters are now helping out in Madam Xu's restaurant. The wages for the two girls are not much, but they definitely make a few hundred coins. Adding up, they make at least one or two taels of silver a month. Lin is diligent and virtuous, but the Luo family is all idiots."

"But Lin is injured and can't give birth to a son..." Some women also murmured.

The other women were speechless.

Xu Qinyu was dumbfounded. No wonder Mrs. Luo didn't even roll her eyes when she saw her today. So that's how it was.

Marriage fraud and money fraud are wrong, but she still feels happy about it. The Luo family deserves it. The truth is that the three members of the Luo family are not good people and it is hard to feel sorry for them.

It seems that the orphan is not an ordinary orphan at all, but a habitual liar.

As for whether she would be investigated by the government, Xu Qinyu had no idea.

After listening to the gossip, Xu Qinyu said something to the ladies, then left with Pei Weixuan and headed towards Laixi Lane.

On the way, Xu Qinyu also told Pei Weixuan about the Luo family and how Lin left the Luo family, which was why she was willing to let Lin work in the restaurant.

Pei Weixuan listened silently. Although Yu Niang was kind-hearted, she would not help with everything. She had her own sense of propriety in doing things.

Xu Qinyu talked all the way, and Pei Weixuan mostly just listened, occasionally replying a few words, and soon they arrived at Laixi Lane.

There were quite a few houses for sale here, with notices posted on their doors. Xu Qinyu picked a house that was relatively clean and went up to knock on the door. The door opened quickly. It was an old man who opened the door and recognized Xu Qinyu. "Is this Mr. Xu from Xu's Restaurant? Does Mr. Xu want to buy a house?"

Xu Qinyu immediately smiled and said, "Uncle, my family wants to move to a house with two entrances. Can I go in and take a look at this house?"

The houses here are all similar. As long as the inside of the house is clean and there is nothing that needs extensive repairs, it's fine.

The old man immediately invited the two men into the house.

It turned out that the old man was the father of this family. His family was also in business. They had bought a house on West Street, and this house was about to be sold. The old man would come over to guard the house during the day.

In fact, the house was also listed with a real estate agent, but the agent wanted to charge a fee for helping to sell the house, and the old man was reluctant to do so, so he said that he could save some money by keeping the house.

Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan entered the house.

The house is very clean. Not only is it clean, it is also well maintained. However, because it has been maintained, it is bare and the furniture has been moved away, so it feels a bit empty.

This is a two-story house with a relatively deep area. It is divided into two levels, front and back. At the back is a row of back rooms, which can be used to store sundries and many other things. Even a donkey cart can be placed in the back rooms, which will be very spacious.

In front is the living yard, which includes the main house, the side room and the kitchen.

The main house has three rooms in a row with a large main hall. On the east side are three side rooms and a smaller ear room next to the side rooms. On the west side are the kitchen and firewood room, with a well next to the firewood room.

The main house and the guest room are connected by a corridor, with a large patio in the middle. However, it is bare now, and you can plant some flowers and plants there in the future.

So this house, including the annex, has a total of seven rooms, enough for a family to live in.

Sister Yan is still young now, so she must sleep with Wen. Sister Ning has a separate room, Fourth Brother has one room, Xu Qinyu has one room, and Feng Ge'er is also young, so he lives with Fourth Brother now, and there is also a room with grandmother Zhu. There are still two rooms left. When Sister Yan and Feng Ge'er grow up, they will also have separate rooms to live in.

But by then Xu Qinyu could definitely afford a house with five entrances and could live in a bigger house.

Now that Mo Yu and Bai Yu have moved into this house, they can’t actually escape, so we need a bigger garden.

But this house is very good as a second-floor house. Xu Qinyu liked it at first sight and turned to ask the old man, "Uncle, how much is this house?"

The old man smiled and said, "If Miss Xu wants it, just give her two hundred taels of silver."

The two-story houses here are indeed all priced at this price, but the windows connecting the rooms in this house are still smooth and clean, without any insect infestation, and there is even a veranda. When it rains on weekdays, you can walk from the veranda to the rooms and kitchen without getting wet. Most two-story houses here are reluctant to have verandas, and even this veranda costs a lot of money.

Xu Qinyu was a little embarrassed, "Two hundred taels of silver can't buy such a nice two-story house."

The old man smiled and said, "But if you sell it to Miss Xu, I am willing to do so."

His original intention of staying here was to save some money, but he had a good impression of Miss Xu, and their whole family liked the food cooked by Miss Xu. The old man had a little daughter, who was about eleven or twelve years old this year, and was in a similar situation to Shao'er of the Xia family, very thin. But it was not a problem she was born with, she was just picky about food and didn't like to eat. Since she had eaten at Xu's Restaurant, the little girl ate more and naturally gained weight.

Fortunately, my family runs a business and can make money, so we can afford to let the little girl eat in the restaurant.

That’s it, I only eat more breakfast at Xu Ji.

Breakfast for the whole family cost no more than a hundred coins, which was still affordable at three taels of silver a month. But dinner for the whole family was too expensive, at least five hundred coins, which was more than ten taels of silver a month. So the family did not eat dinner in the restaurant, but bought fish balls, fish heads, braised fish and other foods outside the restaurant.

The little girl said that the fish was not as delicious as the one cooked by Miss Xu, but she was willing to eat it anyway.

As soon as the old man said this, Xu Qinyu remembered.

There was indeed a very thin little girl who liked to have breakfast at Xu Ji with her mother, and she would pack some breakfast to take home after each meal.

The little girl was terribly thin at first, but after eating Xu Ji's medicine for a while, she grew visibly healthier.

The little girl's problem should be caused by her picky eating. She is completely different from Zhizhi. Zhizhi is fat, but the little girl is extremely thin. Both need dietary adjustment, and the results can be seen after a period of adjustment. Xu Qinyu has been making fat-reducing meals for Yang Zhizhi for more than a year. She said that fat-reducing meals actually taste the same, have the same ingredients, but the proportion of oil and salt is slightly less. Yang Zhizhi has been eating them for more than a year, and now weighs about 120 grams.

Later on, Xu Qinyu also told Yang Zhizhi that she needed to do some exercise every other day.

She taught Yang Zhizhi a few moves that she could do after meals on weekdays and each move only took half an hour.

Yang Zhizhi also persisted, so even though she weighs 120 pounds now, she doesn't look fat. She has a very well-proportioned figure, fair skin, and watery eyes. She is indeed cute and adorable, and many more people have come to the Yang family to propose marriage.

Yang Zhizhi was also quite satisfied with her current weight, so she stopped eating the fat-reducing diet. In fact, the diet Xu Qinyu made was not much different. Now she just needed to return to a normal intake of oil and salt and eat less staple food.

And because Yang Zhizhi was used to the food Xu Qinyu made, she couldn't eat any other cakes or anything even if she was hungry in the middle of the night.

Even if she resumed her normal diet, ate less staple food, and continued to exercise every other day, Yang Zhizhi could still lose weight slowly. Of course, she would only lose about one or two pounds a month.

Wei didn't know how to thank Xu Qinyu.

But she asked her daughter to lose weight not because she wanted to find a good husband for her, but for her health. Zhizhi is still young, and she has never thought about getting her engaged and married so early.

After hearing what the old man said, Xu Qinyu no longer insisted and bought the house for two hundred taels of silver.

It was still early, so Xu Qinyu followed her old man directly to the government office to sign the deed. In order to buy the house, she already had five hundred taels of silver in her pocket, so she didn't need to go back to Guihua Lane to get the silver, and went directly to the government office.

Soon, the documents and deeds were written, and with the fingerprints and the government seal on them, the house became Xu Qinyu's.

This was the second time they bought a house, not counting the workshop on North Street. Xu Qin Yuyue was not very excited. She took the documents back and told the Pei family that the house had been bought. The house was pretty good, but it was a bit empty, so they just needed to buy some furniture and move in.

All the furniture in Guihua Lane also needed to be moved there, but it was still not enough, at least not enough beds.

Furniture is also available for purchase.

This job will be given to Fourth Brother and Sister Ning. They will be free tomorrow. The restaurant has to be open tomorrow, so Xu Qinyu and Wen will have to be busy.

The evening meal was also eaten in the Zhu family yard.

Wen also sent someone to deliver a letter to her uncle, Governor Zhu, in Raozhou City, saying that Pei Weixuan had returned. The letter did not explicitly state this because she was afraid that the letter would fall into the hands of others.

After receiving the letter, Governor Zhu brought his wife Zhu directly to Guihua Lane in the evening.

We had dinner at Zhu's house.

Governor Zhu felt a little emotional when he looked at Pei Weixuan. This was the Fourth Prince. Even though he was demoted to a commoner and exiled, in his heart, he was still the Fourth Prince.

Zhu Taishou was a little reserved, so Pei Weixuan poured two cups of wine to toast him, "Grandun, this is a toast from your grandson."

After drinking two glasses of wine, Governor Zhu was no longer so reserved and began to talk to his grandson. As the conversation progressed, he found that many of his grandson's ideas coincided with his own.

Even Governor Zhu couldn't help but feel sorry. If the eldest prince was still alive, he would inherit the orthodoxy, the fourth prince would be crowned king, and he would be able to serve the court and let the people live and work in peace. What a pity...

Both of them drank a little too much. Governor Zhu got drunk and slept in Osmanthus Lane at night. He muttered to Zhu while he was sleeping, saying that his niece's family was so miserable. He also said that it was impossible for the eldest prince to poison the late emperor, and he must have been murdered by the new emperor and Empress Dowager Fu.

There were no outsiders here, so Zhu let her husband talk. She knew her limits and would not spread the words to anyone else. In fact, she felt that her niece's family was quite miserable.

Wen stayed here to help clean up the kitchen, letting Xu Qinyu and Xuan Ge'er go back to wash up and rest.

Xu Qinyu held one in each hand, holding Yan Jie'er in her left hand and Feng Ge'er in her right hand, and went home.

Pei Weixuan and Ning Jie'er lagged behind a little.

Xu Qinyu held the two children and smiled slyly, "Sister Yan, Brother Feng, let's see who runs home first."

The two children nodded, and Xu Qinyu led them forward.

The laughter of Xu Qinyu and her two children could be heard all along the way.

Pei Weixuan looked at them with a smile unconsciously on his lips, and so did Sister Ning.

Just as they ran to the door of their house, Xu Qinyu and her two children were exhausted and panting. They were about to push the door open to drink some water when Xu Qinyu heard a miserable howl suddenly coming from the end of the alley.

Hearing the scream, Xu Qinyu recognized it was from Old Lady Luo.

Originally, the alley was not very long, with about ten households living there. The Pei family and the Luo family were only separated by a few households, so shouting in the yard could be heard, not to mention the miserable howling of old lady Luo.

The howl startled both Yan Jie'er and Feng Ge'er. Xu Qinyu patted them on the back and said, "Don't be afraid."

I guess Luo Dagen and his wife went to the yamen to report to the authorities in the afternoon but didn't see Old Man Luo, so Old Man Luo must not be at home.

Now that Old Man Luo has returned home, he learns that all the money in the family has been taken away by the new bride his son is going to marry. Naturally, he can't stand it, so he beats Old Lady Luo.

The situation of the Luo family was indeed as Xu Qinyu had guessed.

Old Man Luo came back a little late today and didn't notice that there was someone missing at home. There was still food left in the kitchen, so he served a bowl of bean rice.

The bean rice was raw and the dishes had no salt at all, making them hard to swallow.

Old Man Luo's brows were furrowed as he ate.

Ever since his son's new bride came home, the orphan girl had been cooking, and the food tasted okay, better than that cooked by Old Man Luo. But he didn't expect that the food today was so bad. Old Man Luo didn't want to call the orphan girl over, so he called Old Man Luo out, but Old Man Luo didn't dare to come out at all. She knew that if the old man knew that the orphan girl had run away with all the money in the family, he would beat her to death.

Old Man Luo shouted for a long time but didn't see anyone. He was so angry that he couldn't swallow the food, so he dropped his bowl and chopsticks and went into the room.

The room was dim, and he could not see Mrs. Luo's expression for a moment. He only frowned and asked, "Where is Dan Niang? What happened to the rice she cooked today? The bean rice was still raw, and there was no salt at all in the dishes. It was inedible."

Old Mrs. Luo hesitated and dared not speak.

Mr. Luo frowned even more tightly. "Let me ask you a question. How did Dan Niang cook the meal today?"

"Today, I cooked the meal today."

"Why doesn't Dan Niang do it? Is she sick?" Old Man Luo thought that if she was sick, he would just give up.

Mrs. Luo didn't dare to reply, but Luo Dagen next door couldn't stand it anymore and came over and said, "Dad, Dan Niang took our money and ran away."

"What, what did you say?" Mr. Luo couldn't believe what he heard for a moment.

Luo Dagen repeated it again, panting, "Dan Niang took away all our money. Your box and yours were opened, and all the money inside was gone."

Old Man Luo's eyes went dark as he forced himself to walk to the box. He found that it was indeed open. After searching again, he found not a single penny was left.

Old Man Luo felt like the sky had fallen. All the money he had saved his entire life was gone just like that.

Over the years, he had saved twenty taels of silver, excluding household expenses. Now he had nothing. He thought that if the old woman had not instigated her son to coax the orphan girl home and get her pregnant, he could have saved even the betrothal gift. But he ended up letting a wolf into the house.

"Have you reported it to the police?" Old Man Luo asked his son, suppressing the hatred in his heart.

But at present, he still holds a glimmer of hope in his heart, that maybe he can find Dan Niang and get the money back.

Luo Dagen's face was filled with despair. "I reported the matter to the authorities and went to the village where Dan Niang lived. She didn't go back. I asked the villagers nearby, but they didn't see her go back either. They also said that Dan Niang was not originally from their village, but moved here last year. They said that her family had met with disaster and everyone died, leaving only her. She now lives in a dilapidated house at the end of the village."

In other words, Dan Niang is not a local, and she would definitely not stay here after taking the money. She would have run away long ago, and no one knows where she went. In any case, she would not stay in her original village, nor would she stay in Yuanbao Town. The government would not be able to catch her even if they wanted to.

Old Man Luo also understood. Without saying a word, he turned around and dragged Old Lady Luo out.

Old Mrs. Luo was dragged to the ground and asked in panic, "Old man, what are you doing?"

Old Man Luo dragged the man into the yard, picked up a wooden stick beside him and hammered it on the head of Old Lady Luo. Old Lady Luo screamed in pain and her head was bleeding.

Just this alone was not enough to vent the anger in his heart, and he cursed, "If you hadn't given my son bad advice, you wouldn't have brought this liar to our house. That's more than forty taels of silver, and now our family has nothing." As he said that, he swung another stick at Old Lady Luo. Not satisfied yet, he kicked Old Lady Luo on the leg. There was a click, and Old Lady Luo's legs were twisted in a strange posture. Old Lady Luo was already lying there motionless.

Old Man Luo hasn't stopped yet and is still beating.

Luo Dagen hesitated, "Dad, stop hitting me. Mom doesn't seem to be moving."

Only then did Old Man Luo stop. He was already very tired. He threw the stick aside and prepared to go into the house.

Luo Dagen said, "Dad, Mom seems to be unable to move, her head is bleeding, and her legs seem to be broken. Do you want to call a doctor?"

"What kind of doctor do you want to hire?" Old Man Luo turned around and scolded, "Do you have a penny left in the family? What do you want to hire? It's all her fault, this idiot. They say you should marry a virtuous wife, and it's really true. Look at what our family has become after marrying her. Your original wife was so nice, gentle and obedient, but she couldn't give birth to a son. If she couldn't, you could have taken a concubine. But you insisted on listening to this idiot and divorced Lin. Now look at you, Lin is so capable, but she instigated you to lure a liar home. Our family is finished now."

After saying this, Old Man Luo wiped his tears and went into the house.

Luo Dagen looked at his mother lying on the ground, her life or death unknown, and he didn't dare to carry her back to his father's room, so he took her to the room where Dan Niang used to live. He had no money on him, so he really couldn't hire a doctor for his mother, so he could only do this for now.

…

When Xu Qinyu heard Mrs. Luo's screams, she just shook her head and went into the house.

She knew that Mrs. Luo would be beaten badly this time, after all, all the family’s savings were gone.

Fortunately, Lin left such a family early.

Xu Qinyu no longer cared about the Luo family and led Yan Jie'er and Feng Ge'er back to the house. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw Mo Yu lying at the kitchen door. Hearing footsteps, he turned around to look at them, and was stunned when he saw Pei Weixuan behind Xu Qinyu.

Moyu took over the shift from Baiyu last night, but it did not return to Guihua Lane. Instead, it went to the mountains to hunt and returned only after filling its stomach.

It hadn't seen Pei Weixuan for more than a year, but it obviously remembered this male owner. After hesitating, it walked around Pei Weixuan. When it smelled a familiar scent, it rubbed against him and meowed at Pei Weixuan.

Pei Weixuan raised his lip, leaned forward slightly, touched the black jade, and shouted: "Black Jade."

Mo Yu began to rub the palm of his hand and meowed.

Xu Qinyu watched and laughed.

Ning Jie'er couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Mo Yu was indifferent to the family except for the fourth sister-in-law who he was closest to. But now that he hadn't seen his fourth brother for more than a year, Mo Yu was still so clingy.

But it’s not surprising, as Fourth Brother seems to be very much liked by these pets.

Xu Qinyu went into the kitchen to boil water. After a while, Pei Weixuan also came into the kitchen to help. Ning Jie'er was taking care of the two children in the main room. Mo Yu also went into the kitchen and lay down beside her, looking at Xu Qinyu and then at Pei Weixuan.

After boiling some hot water and washing up, the whole family went to bed early.

The next day, Xu Qinyu and Wen went to the restaurant.

Pei Weixuan and Ning Jie'er went to take a look at the new house in Laixi Lane, and sent Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er to Zhu's house and asked Zhu to help take care of them, while the two went to pick out furniture.

I didn't choose furniture that was too expensive.

But Pei Weixuan and Ning Jie'er both chose a step-up bed for Xu Qinyu's room. Even though it was made of ordinary wood, the price of a step-up bed was more than thirty taels of silver, because the craftsmanship of a step-up bed was the most complicated. It was a relatively large bed. Not to mention the carvings on the bedframe, the whole bed was more like a small room. There was a corridor around the bed, and some small items such as boxes and cabinets could be placed on both sides of the corridor. There was also a footboard under the corridor. Girls from wealthy families basically slept on a step-up bed, and a little maid would sleep on the footboard to keep watch at night.

The step-out bed is equipped with a large gauze tent, which provides good privacy and sealing.

This is just ordinary pear wood, and the price is already very expensive.

In addition to the step-out bed in Xu Qinyu's room, Pei Weixuan also equipped Ning Jie'er's room with a step-out bed. The other rooms were all equipped with ordinary bunk beds. In addition, Xu Qinyu's room was also equipped with a cabinet, washbasin, dressing table, and dressing table.

The two girls can use better ones, but he doesn't need them.

In just two days, all the furniture in the new house was arranged and the house was swept and cleaned.

While Xu Qinyu was busy with the restaurant, Pei Weixuan moved all the remaining things in Guihua Lane to the new house so that he could stay there at night.

The new house needed to be warmed up, but Xu Qinyu was busy, so Wen, Lin and the eldest girl came back and cooked two tables of food in the new house. The guests invited were Cheng'er, the third branch of the Pei family, and his family, as well as old lady Zhu, and the waiters Yuan and Chen, and the four brothers Fengtiaoyushun.

Xu Qinyu also closed the restaurant half an hour earlier in the evening and led everyone to the Laixi Lane warm room.

The greenhouse is also very warm and lively, and everyone can just eat and drink together.

After the house warming was over and everyone went home, Xu Qinyu was pushed by Ning Jie'er to her room, and the whole family gave Xu Qinyu the largest room in the main house.

Entering into the room, there is a four-panel screen at the entrance. Beyond the screen is the step-out bed. A gauze curtain is hung above it, an ordinary white gauze curtain that has been hooked up to reveal the step-out bed inside.

Some of her small cabinets and money boxes were moved to the corridor inside the bed.