Chapter 23 Found
After Huo Zheng washed the dishes once, Chunzhi asked him to take over the dishwashing job.
The man was not very happy at first, but Chunzhi’s cooking was so delicious, and he had nothing to do while recuperating here.
Washing dishes is a simple task. After washing them once, washing them a second time becomes commonplace.
In order to get married, Chunzhi took two days off from her stall. On the third day, she got up before dawn to grind beans to make tofu and set up her stall early in the morning.
Aunt Zhang and the others saw Chunzhi setting up her stall and asked her, "You're newlyweds, why don't you take a few more days off?"
Chunzhi said: "It's the same when I go back to rest after closing the stall. I've been used to working at the stall every day for so many years. I feel bored when I don't work for a day."
All the vendors laughed at Chunzhi for not knowing how to enjoy life.
Chunzhi is not unaware of how to enjoy life, she is clearly obsessed with money. She would feel uncomfortable if she earned less money for a day.
Besides, staying at home all day long, alone with Huo Qi, was quite uncomfortable.
Chunzhi hasn't been here for the past two days, so another tofu seller named Zheng Jie'er is doing very good business. As soon as she sets up her stall, all her old customers come back to Chunzhi to buy.
There was a long line of people buying tofu on her side, but there was not even a ghost on Zheng Jie'er's side.
Zheng Jie'er said sourly, "I thought Chunzhi had married a perfect husband and that she wouldn't have to work with us day and night to set up a stall and run a small business. But I didn't know your husband was also a good-for-nothing. Only two days after your marriage, you're asked to come out and sell tofu to supplement the family income!"
Zheng Jie'er and Chunzhi both sell tofu, and they don't get along with each other. When Chunzhi got married, she didn't go, and didn't know that the groom was so handsome that she was stunned by his beauty.
Now she was so bored that she started to talk about the number one scholar again, "If you had known this would happen, you might as well have been his concubine. After all, you would have been half an official wife..."
"Stop talking!" Aunt Zhang and the others couldn't stand it anymore and kept asking Zheng Jie'er to stop talking.
Zheng Jie'er was deliberately embarrassing Chunzhi. Not only did she not stop, she even spoke louder and louder.
Chunzhi ignored her and continued to greet the guests with a smile, cutting and weighing tofu for them.
As usual, all the tofu was sold out before noon.
In contrast, Zheng Jie'er had hardly touched the tofu on her stall.
Chunzhi specially left a piece of tofu for Aunt Zhang. After packing up her stall and preparing to go home, she replied to Zheng Jie'er, "If you think being a concubine is good, then just go ahead and be a concubine. Why are you telling me so much?"
Zheng Jie'er was almost choked to death by her words.
Aunt Zhang and others nearby couldn't help laughing when they heard it.
Chunzhi has always been kind to others and never argues with others for no reason, but she is not afraid of trouble either.
Zheng Jie'er is a widow. Her husband died of illness a few years ago. While selling tofu, she also had affairs with other people. The tofu she made was not very good, but she had many romantic affairs.
The women who were buying groceries were united in their hatred for the enemy and were unwilling to take care of Zheng Jie'er's business.
A while ago, a wealthy man had taken a fancy to her and wanted to take her as his concubine, but when he heard her reputation as a jinx, he backed off.
Zheng Jie'er was determined to find a husband for a wealthy family, either as a second wife or a concubine, but she kept flirting with many men and had been looking for several years without success.
But Chunzhi, who sells tofu like her, first fell out with the top scholar because she didn't want to be a concubine, and then rejected Zhou Yuanwai, who made her jealous. Even the business was that only Chunzhi was in charge of the stall, and Zheng Jie'er had no chance to make money.
It's so infuriating.
Chunzhi thought that there was a man at home who was recovering from an injury, so he should eat more meat.
After closing her stall, she took care of Brother Zhao's business, bought two pounds of pork and a pigeon, and prepared to take them home to make soup for Huo Qi.
Zhao Da, who sells pork, even joked with Chunzhi, "It's different now that you're married. You buy pork by the pound."
Chunzhi rarely buys meat when she is alone.
But things are different now. Huo Qi's appetite is obvious...
Chunzhi smiled and put the pork and pigeons on the cart, bought a bunch of sunflowers, and then walked slowly back to Taohua Lane in the north of the city.
When she reached the alley entrance, Chunzhi ran into Aunt Li who was running out in a hurry.
"Chunzhi! You're back!" Aunt Li came out to look for Chunzhi. "Your biological parents are here, go back and see them."
"Biological parents?"
Chunzhi was stunned for a moment.
It has been ten years since she was abducted by human traffickers to Linshui Town. At the beginning, Chunzhi also thought about finding her biological parents.
Later, Lu Jingyun took her to ask around in the county offices of nearby prefectures and counties, but he gave up after hearing that no one had lost a daughter of her age.
Now Aunt Li says that her biological parents have been found.
Chunzhi pushed the cart and walked forward quickly.
Aunt Li followed her and said hurriedly, "I see they are dressed quite nicely and look like they have plenty of money. If only they had come here two days earlier, you wouldn't have to marry a man in a wheelchair..."
Chunzhi walked quickly. Aunt Li's words were buzzing in her ears, and she didn't hear much.
When Chunzhi returned to the tofu workshop, she saw a middle-aged couple in their forties and a young man in his twenties standing in front of the door.
Just as Aunt Li said, these three people were all well-dressed and looked well-off.
Chunzhi put down the cart and walked forward. "Who are you?"
"Chunzhi! My daughter!" As soon as the middle-aged woman in her forties saw Chunzhi, she rushed over and hugged her, crying, "My poor daughter!"
Chunzhi paused slightly. She was not used to being held like this.
The middle-aged woman cried loudly, "It's all your brother's fault for insisting on taking you to the Lantern Festival, which is why you were kidnapped by the beggar! These past ten years... our family has been looking for you for ten whole years! Finally, we found you!"
"Ma'am...please let me go first."
Chunzhi tried to pry the middle-aged woman's hands open, but she was holding her hands too tightly and couldn't pry them apart. She could only ask her to let go.
The middle-aged man stepped forward and said, "Don't cry, be careful not to scare your daughter..."
"Chunzhi..." A young man in his twenties stepped forward, "I'm your brother, my name is Chunfu."
Chunzhi once fell seriously ill and forgot everything before the age of nine.
So she doesn't remember who her biological parents are, nor does she remember whether she has an older brother.
As soon as these people arrived, they called her Chunzhi, saying that she was their daughter and sister.
Especially this middle-aged woman, she cried and said how hard it was to find her daughter for the past ten years and how much she missed her daughter.
After a slight pause, Chunzhi forcibly pried the middle-aged woman's hands apart and took a step back.
She looked at the three people in front of her with great caution, "You say you are my family, do you have any proof?"
The middle-aged woman wiped her tears and said, "You have a pink birthmark on your lower back, shaped like a peach blossom. Chunzhi... Mother knows that you've had a hard time these past few years. It's okay to be wary of outsiders. From now on, you'll have your father and mother to protect you. You won't have to suffer through hardship anymore!"
The middle-aged woman said this and wanted to hold Chunzhi's hand.
Harue took another step back.
At this moment, the courtyard door behind him opened from the inside, and Huo Zheng walked out with a cane.
With him standing behind her, Chunzhi felt much more at ease.
Chunzhi looked at the three people in front of her who claimed to be her family, and said in a slightly cold voice: "But my name was not Chunzhi before."
The family of three opposite suddenly changed their expressions when they heard this.
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