After three years of drought, many things have changed.
Erguotou no longer cared about the fact that He Xiaowan had cheated him out of a few taels of silver. After seeing her, he felt only endless relief.
"How did you take off all your clothes?" Song Yuehua asked.
Erguotou's expression changed, and he pointed at the door and said, "Mind your own business, you don't need to mind my business."
"Okay, okay, go ahead and talk. I won't interrupt." Song Yuehua quickly comforted him.
Erguotou then sighed and continued, "Xiaowan is still as beautiful as before. No, she is even prettier than I remembered."
After the two met again, they tacitly agreed not to mention the money again.
After He Xiaowan left here, she went to Wutong Prefecture. As soon as the drought ended, she returned here on a caravan.
"Tsk..." Song Yuehua couldn't help but click her tongue when she heard this.
Erguotou turned around and walked into the house, refusing to say another word.
“Don’t be like this!”
Song Yuehua stood at the door and asked, "Besides your clothes, did anyone take anything else from you?"
After hearing this, Erguotou opened the door and said helplessly, "All the valuable things in the shop are gone. I have to work as a blacksmith here for the rest of my life to pay off my debts."
"You're not going to report it?"
"No."
"Will Uncle Zhao agree?"
"I wrote an IOU. Please pay it back slowly."
Song Yuehua knew that he would not speak again, but she really couldn't say anything to comfort him. This was entirely her own fault.
"Why……"
Erguotou shouted from behind, "Don't report it to the police on your own initiative!"
"I don't have the time for that!" Song Yuehua yelled.
Erguotou, “…” Why are you still being mean to him?
After returning to the chess hall, Song Yuehua asked Xiang Xiaoyu to take all the teapots, cups and bowls to the backyard to wash them, while she checked the account book at the counter.
"Hey, Mr. Song is here!" Liu San Tiao leaned on the counter, raised his chin and said, "Give me a pot of tea."
Song Yuehua stood up and stared at him, and asked, "If you want to win the game, win it cleanly. If you use such tricks again, I will not be able to entertain you in my chess hall anymore."
"Boss Song, please don't blame others," Liu San Tiao leaned back and said in a pretentious manner, "Don't put all the blame on me."
"I know whether you have blamed others or not, and you know it too." Song Yuehua sneered.
Liu San Tiao stopped laughing and snorted, "Boss Song, it's not a good thing to be too nosy."
"Why," Song Yuehua came forward, breaking the brush in her hand, and asked, "are you threatening me?"
Liu San Tiao chuckled and waved his hands quickly, "I dare not, I dare not."
Without even asking for tea, Liu Sandiao left laughing. When Xiang Xiaoyu came out, she just happened to see his back.
"Why are you leaving after coming here?" Xiang Xiaoyu murmured.
Song Yuehua said to her, "Liu Santiao is not a good person. It's best to stay away from him."
"If he comes later, should we entertain him or not?" Xiang Xiaoyu asked.
Song Yuehua sighed, "Let's leave it at that for now. Be more careful and don't ask him to do anything out of line."
Xiang Xiaoyu hummed and said, "The servant of the Qi family named Awang came to the chess hall several times to ask when Xiaobao would be back."
"Qi family..." Song Yuehua's expression suddenly became serious.
Blacksmith shop.
People often say that illness comes like a mountain falling on you. Zhao the blacksmith took several doses of medicine and was sick for several days.
"Dad has been ill for several days and hasn't gotten better." Zhao Tieniang spoke to Zhao Xiaofu while boiling medicine.
Zhao Xiaofu said softly, "Doctor Gu said that if the evil wind enters the body, it can be cured by taking a few medicines, but Dad has never been sick before. This time, his vitality was lost all at once, so it's difficult to recover from the illness."
Zhao Tieniang poured the medicine into the bowl, picked up the tray and said, "I'll take care of it. You can go to the chess hall tomorrow. Sister Song is a good person. She allowed you to take a leave. It would be unreasonable if you didn't go back."
Zhao Xiaofu also nodded and followed her to deliver the medicine.
Zhao the blacksmith, who was lying on the hospital bed, had lost a lot of weight. When he saw Tie Niang coming in to bring him medicine, he propped himself up and sat up.
Zhao Tieniang put the medicine aside and quickly helped the man up.
"Bring the medicine here and I'll drink it myself." said Blacksmith Zhao.
"This is freshly boiled medicine. If you drink it now, your intestines and throat will be burned and bubbles will form." Zhao Xiaofu said.
Blacksmith Zhao: "..."
"Let it cool down before drinking." Zhao Tieniang said.
Zhao the Blacksmith sighed and said, "I have been thinking these days, what will you two do if I die?"
"As long as Tianyuan Chess Hall doesn't go bankrupt, I can keep working there. With the salary, I will support my sister. What do you have to worry about?" Zhao Xiaofu said.
Blacksmith Zhao was too lazy to even look at Zhao Xiaofu, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Don't you want my blacksmith shop anymore?"
"How about selling it to Senior Brother?" Zhao Tieniang asked, "Father, I see that your health is not very good now. Don't try to be stubborn anymore. It would be good to sell the shop to Senior Brother."
"He has no money," said Zhao the blacksmith, "and he still owes me a lot of debt."
Blacksmith Zhao felt that his illness this time was related to Erguotou. He only went out to deliver one batch of goods, and when he came back, the shop was almost empty.
In a fit of anger, he developed a fever that night.
Zhao Tieniang said helplessly, "Are we going to sell the shop and our senior brother to someone else?"
Blacksmith Zhao looked at Tie Niang and sighed heavily, "If you were a few years older, I wouldn't be so worried."
"Father, you don't want me to marry Senior Brother, right?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Tieniang made it clear right away, and Zhao the blacksmith turned his head away without saying a word.
"Dad, take the medicine." Zhao Xiaofu brought the bowl of medicine over.
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