Chapter 108 Poor Man
Hua Ping was frightened by her stare, "Why are you, a little girl, staring at a grown man?"
"wrong!"
"What's wrong?"
"Uncle Hua Ping, it seems like you have encountered something happy, or you have resolved some issues and are feeling better and fatter."
Hanahira: ...She was right. He was so happy that the Investigation Department had resumed normal operations.
Hua Ping was in tears. Could it be that the seven-year-old girl had become a spirit?
"Just tell me whether you will do more or not?"
Although Uncle Hua Ping is a little lazy, he is the backbone of the breakfast shop when it comes to big things. With him, everyone in the breakfast shop can work hard and make money.
Even though she knew there was something fishy about the way he drank soup, Su Ruojin was still willing to make it for him. Not only did she make more soup, but in the cold winter, she would either boil it or make a hotpot, just so he could enjoy the soup to his heart's content.
Mr. Shen, who was eating and drinking for free, felt uneasy: "Didn't the young lady ask the truth?"
Hua Ping said proudly, "Don't look down on Su Erniang because she is small, but she knows what to ask and what not to ask, and she never says a word. It's comfortable to get along with her!"
The more he said this, the more Mr. Shen wanted to meet Mrs. Su Er, “How about I go to Su Ji for breakfast?”
"This is your business, not mine."
Mr. Shen: …Why are you passing the buck so quickly?
As Dr. Su's student, the young master can go and eat and drink for free. Hua Ping is not only Su's bodyguard but also the Su family's boxing master. He eats and drinks for free almost every day at the Su family and interacts with delicious food every day. How happy he must be!
The more Mr. Shen thought about it, the sadder he felt. “It would be great if Dr. Su’s family could hire a teacher.”
Hua Ping chuckled, "Dr. Su is a teacher at the Imperial College. Does he still need to recruit teachers?"
"That's right. It's not good for Su Erniang's father to be a doctor of the Five Classics. He has blocked my way to delicious food."
Huaping:......
The two were engaged in a heated argument when Jiang San came over with secret news. Mr. Shen opened the wax-sealed note and his face changed at a glance.
Hua Ping and Jiang San waited for Mr. Shen to speak with serious faces.
"Our people sent news that Liaoxia's spies have already extended their tentacles to Xifu."
The Dayin Dynasty had a system of two ministries and three offices. The two ministries referred to the Zhongshu Menxia, and the place where it handled affairs was called the Zhengshitang, which was the prime minister's office, also known as the East Ministries. The Privy Council, on the other hand, was in charge of administrative and military affairs, also known as the West Ministries.
Harvest in autumn and store in winter. This is relative to the agriculturally developed Dayin Dynasty. For the Liaoxia people, who mainly engaged in animal husbandry, winter was not so easy. So when winter came, there were constant wars of all sizes in the border areas. The main reason was that the Liaoxia people went south to plunder food, salt, cloth, etc. In order to plunder successfully, the Liaoxia Kingdom also sent spies to the Central Plains capital to spy on military intelligence to ensure victory.
Hua Ping raised a question: "The Privy Council is not an ordinary place. How can you get in touch with officials above the third rank without a certain status?"
Jiang San also put forward his own opinion: "Either this spy has been operating in Dayin for a long time and holds a certain official position, or he is using his connections to bribe people, but I think the beauty trap is faster, what do you think?"
Speaking of beauty traps, no matter whether it is a brothel, a music hall or a religious institution, these places are full of good and bad people and are the easiest to succeed.
Mr. Shen looked at the two of them and said, "Let's get together tonight."
Ding's identity documents and birth history were finally completed. After practicing his skills, Hua Ping informed Su Ruojin, "You can 'buy' people now."
"It won't be discovered, will it?"
Hua Ping looked disgusted, "I'm doing things, and you're still not at ease?"
She was just too relieved. Su Ruojin now felt that Hua Ping was not just a hanger-on. "Or are you an investigator sent outside by the Imperial City Administration?" Just like those mysterious Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty, they hid in the crowd to gather information, and then reported the news to the emperor, allowing the emperor to kill people.
"You understand this too?"
"No way, Uncle Hua, you really are..."
Hua Ping glared at her and said, "Have you read too many storybooks? If I were Cha Zi, I could still be a guard in your house and take two taels of silver?"
Su Ruojin raised her eyebrows, she just didn't believe it, but she didn't ask any more questions: "Anyway, my father is just an eighth-rank doctor of the Five Classics. Even if you are an investigator, it doesn't matter. He really has nothing to investigate."
Hua Ping reached out and flicked Su Ruojin's forehead, "You keep daydreaming. Be careful not to grow tall. If you don't grow tall, no one will want you. What will you do if you can't get married?"
Su Ruojin: ...This is her own master. He cursed her that she would never get married when she was only seven years old. She has no grudge against him, right?
Su Dalang defended his sister, "Even if she can't get married, I will support her for the rest of her life."
Hua Ping interrupted mercilessly: "What you eat and drink now is all earned by your sister, right?"
Su Dalang: ...
Su Ruojin reached out to hit Hua Ping: "You stinky master, you want to be beaten, right?"
The stinky master actually tried to sow discord between the siblings. Who else should I beat if not him?
Su Ruojin chased Hua Ping and made a fuss until he promised never to say anything like that again.
"I didn't expect that after only two months of training, your hands and legs are quite fast!"
"Of course." She was not practicing for fun. When she went out to do business in the future, she had to be able to protect herself. If she couldn't even protect herself, what was the point of learning it.
When Cheng Yingzhen heard that she could "buy" her aunt back, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.
The next morning, Su Ruojin took Shu Tongshu to the agreed brokerage shop to "buy people". Unexpectedly, she met the girl who was blocked in front of her house last year.
"Where's your mother?"
The girl seemed to have been tortured to the point of being numb, even more numb than when Xianggui first came to the Su family, as if her brain had stopped working and she had become stupid.
The tooth man asked angrily, "Do you know her?"
"She was caught by her tribe members outside my house last year. I heard that they sent her and her mother to prison."
The broker wanted to get rid of this money-losing item so badly that he quickly told her story. "I heard that her mother was sold to a fool, and she was sold to an old man. Three months later, the old man died. The old man's children sold her to a middle-aged widower, who fell into a pond while doing business and died. The third time, she was sold to a fool just like her mother, and the fool hit his head against a wall and died... Now no one wants her..."
Su Ruojin: ...Boss, you said you were sure to get rid of these people, but why do I feel like you want to keep them?
The broker sneered, "As long as you buy this old woman, I'll give you this as a bonus."
Su Ruojin didn't say anything, and Shu Tong refused, "Just buy the old woman, we don't want anything extra."
Last year, when the Su family was just starting out, their small stall was confiscated because of these two mothers, and they almost couldn't do business. These two mothers are really unlucky.
Li Xiuzhu really lives up to her name, she is as thin as a bamboo. When she stands in front of Su Ruojin and his servant, one can't even feel her breathing, she looks like a living dead.
Last year, Su Ruojin was only thinking about how to break the impasse she was in, and didn't notice this poor mother and daughter. Today, she met them by chance, and the broker didn't want any money.
"I want it."
(End of this chapter)
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