Chapter 77 is missing
When Jiang Tangtang was selling space fruits, she thought there might be trouble, but she didn't expect the trouble to come so soon!
But running at this time would make her look guilty.
She sighed inwardly and was about to say that she could go by herself. Unexpectedly, Manager Xia spoke first, "I don't have anything to do anyway, so I'll go to the teahouse with you!"
"Then I'll trouble you!" Jiang Tangtang said.
The man asked for a private room facing the street, asked Jiang Tangtang and Manager Xia to sit down, and asked the waiter to bring up good tea and pastries.
Jiang Tangtang had only eaten porridge in the morning and was feeling a little hungry at the moment, so she didn't hesitate and sat down to eat with big mouthfuls.
However, the pastries that cost one or two taels of silver per plate in this teahouse were not as delicious as those made in her farm house.
Jiang Tangtang only regretted that it was too far from the county town. Otherwise, she could open a small shop on the street and sell cakes to make money!
While eating pastries, Song Muci walked in waving a folding fan.
Fanning himself in the middle of winter, Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes in her heart and cursed him as a pretentious person.
His face instantly showed a look of panic, "I wonder what Master Song wants to talk to me about?"
Song Muci put away his folding fan and bowed to Jiang Tangtang, saying, "I'm sorry to bother you, young lady. I stopped you today because I wanted to ask you something. I heard that you sold an old donkey cart a while ago. Is that true?"
"That's true. My donkey cart was old, so I bought another one." Jiang Tangtang said, a puzzled look on his face, "But what happened to the donkey cart I sold?"
Song Muci frowned, "You said that donkey cart is yours?"
He stared at Jiang Tangtang without blinking, "Is that old woman selling fruit your relative?"
Jiang Tangtang shook her head and said, "No! I just lent her the donkey cart for a while."
Song Muci was very disappointed, but still smiled and said, "If you meet her again, can you tell her that if she still has fruit to sell, she can send it to the Song Mansion and the price will be doubled compared to last time."
Jiang Tangtang readily agreed, but she couldn't help but feel regretful. For safety reasons, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to earn this money for the time being.
While Jiang Tangtang and Song Muci were talking, Manager Xia also asked the servant beside Song Muci about what had happened.
When he learned that a basket of oranges would be sold for ten taels of silver, and even that Young Master Song went to great lengths to find someone and raise the price on his own initiative just to buy those fruits, he was greatly shocked, but also became more and more enthusiastic.
If the wild berries are grown, are you still worried that you can't sell them at a high price?
After leaving the teahouse, Manager Xia couldn't help but ask, "Could the oranges you gave my family last time be the ones Young Master Song is looking for?"
Jiang Tangtang smiled and said, "That should be the case. The oranges were given to me by the old lady last time."
"That orange is sweeter than honey, it's really rare."
It took his family twenty taels of silver to buy a basket of oranges, which made Manager Xia feel a little elated. But then he remembered that his third daughter-in-law had come to ask for oranges, and his face darkened again.
The third son's wife needs to be disciplined properly, otherwise she will become more and more unruly.
Gu had no idea what her father-in-law was thinking. She was secretly eating oranges in her room. However, the oranges were so delicious that she couldn't stop eating them. The more she ate, the more she wanted to eat.
It’s a pity that oranges can’t be eaten for a long time. She wanted to save a few for tomorrow, but she accidentally lost control and ate the remaining fruits.
Looking at the basket with only orange peels left, Gu felt depressed and resentful towards her in-laws and Jiang Tangtang.
She went back to her parents' home with a pout.
"Yunqin, you're so pregnant, why did you come back alone?" Mother Gu scolded her repeatedly, "Where's your husband? It's winter, and there's nothing to do. Why didn't he send you back? Did someone bully you?"
Gu Yunqin pursed her lips and sniffed as if she was about to cry.
Brother Gu immediately picked up his hoe and said angrily, "What? Did Third Xia bully you? I'm going to settle the score with her."
"Brother!" Gu held him back and said, "It has nothing to do with him."
"Who bullied you?" Mother Gu and Brother Gu asked in unison.
"It's the new criminal..." Gu seemed to have suffered a great injustice and recounted the events of the past two days with exaggeration.
Brother Gu said angrily, "Just wait, I'll teach her a lesson. She's been exiled as a criminal, and she's still bullying my sister. You think our Gu family is empty, right?"
"Brother, what are you going to do?" Gu asked.
"Don't worry about it. Just give that Jiang a good lesson so she won't dare mess with you again. Go to your room and rest. I'll ask your sister-in-law to kill a chicken for you. Don't go back today. Wait until Third Xia comes to pick you up."
After Brother Gu instructed Sister-in-law Gu to kill the chicken, he picked up his hoe and went out.
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After leaving the teahouse, Jiang Tangtang wanted to find a way to make money quickly, so she made an appointment with Manager Xia to go about their business separately, meet at the city gate at noon, and then go back to the village together.
After Jiang Tangtang and Manager Xia parted ways, she slowly strolled down the street. After much thought, she decided to start with food.
Firstly, she put a lot of effort into the food in order to open a farm stay. Besides jewelry design, her most impressive skill is her cooking.
Secondly, the farmhouse has all kinds of modern kitchen utensils, which is more convenient than doing other things.
Jiang Tangtang bought various raw materials such as flour, pork, sesame seeds, lime, pumpkin seeds, etc., then drove the donkey cart to meet up with Manager Xia and others and returned to the farm.
As the donkey cart reached the intersection of the village, they saw Su with disheveled hair, crying like a madman and running around in the fields.
Jiang Tangtang was startled by her appearance and quickly stopped the donkey carriage: "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Tangtang, you're finally back." Su Shi lost all her noble ladylike demeanor and kept wailing, "What should I do? Wuuwuwu... Tiantian is gone, I lost Tiantian..."
Jiang Tangtang was completely stunned. She barely managed to calm herself down and asked, "How could the child suddenly disappear? Have you looked for her? Where are her two brothers?"
Su sobbed, "I heard they were planting vegetables in the fields today... I wanted to help, so I went along. A few kids brought slingshots and wanted to go shoot doves in the wasteland. I thought it wouldn't be a good idea to keep the kids locked up at home all the time, so I took them along. But in the blink of an eye, Tiantian disappeared."
"Missing in the wasteland? Does Shi Yan know?" Jiang Tangtang forced herself to remain calm and asked, "Where did you search?"
"His father and his men have searched the entire village for you, but they can't find you. Now they're looking for you in the woods."
Su kept pounding her chest. "Tiantian was always obedient and never ran around. How could she be missing? Was she kidnapped?"
Jiang Tangtang didn't know why she thought of Jiang Caiwei. Could it be that woman who did it?
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