bookrebus Chapter 168 Dismissed
Chapter 168 Dismissed
As a result, two doctors were invited, and their diagnosis results were the same: Old Mrs. Li looked as pale as death, and then she started wailing loudly.
While she was crying sadly, she heard Zhao Lanlan and little Niuniu playing happily in the yard outside. Their laughter reached Old Lady Li's ears from time to time, and it was extremely harsh.
It was her, it was all because of her. When they were in Chengyang County, her brother kicked her, and on the way back, she kicked him off the carriage. That's why she is like this now. A tremendous hatred arose in her, and she cursed at Zhao Lanlan.
She cursed her ancestors for hundreds of generations, but still not feeling satisfied, so she cursed her again. Outside the yard, Zhao Lanlan was still having fun with Niu Niu and was not affected by her at all.
The story of Old Lady Li soon spread in the village. People said all kinds of things, some were gloating over her misfortune, and some said she deserved it. Li Xiaoxiao also heard about it. Although she knew medical skills, she didn't want to get involved.
You can survive the misfortunes sent by heaven, but you cannot survive the misfortunes brought upon yourself. This can be considered her retribution.
The business in the restaurant continued to be busy, and Li Dahai's accountant was doing his job more and more smoothly. Daya and Erya came to the restaurant to help every day. Since leaving the Li family, their personalities became more cheerful, they ate well, slept well, and their faces began to gain weight.
Su was deft with her hands, so Li Xiaoxiao found some embroidery work for her. She embroidered at home every day and did a pretty good job.
Li Laosan has not worked as a farmhand since the family split up. He only found some odd jobs. Every day he soaked soybeans and drove Li Xiaoxiao's family's carriage to deliver them to the tofu shop early the next morning. He also picked up his two daughters from the restaurant and took Su's embroidered items to the cloth shop every few days. His life was plain but fulfilling.
It has been a month since Si Chengxu said he found clues about her aunt, and he hasn't come back yet. Li Xiaoxiao fiddled with the abacus in her hand, and she made mistakes several times.
At this time, the store was doing a booming business and was full of people. Li Xiaoxiao perked up and began to concentrate on calculating last month's profits. After deducting all expenses, the net profit was actually 1,400 taels of silver. When she first opened the restaurant, she and Si Chengxu agreed on a 50-50 split, so she still had 700 taels a month, which was not a small amount.
When he left, he said he would only be gone for a few days, but it's been a month and there's no news. Is he never coming back? He is not from here, so it's normal for him not to come. Thinking of this, Li Xiaoxiao looked out the door out of boredom.
She saw a figure outside the door, walking straight towards her. The man was wearing a black satin robe and a white jade crown on his head. He looked familiar. When he came closer, Li Xiaoxiao came to her senses and realized it was Si Chengxu.
Looking at Li Xiaoxiao's dazed eyes, Si Chengxu found it a little funny. After not seeing her for a month, she seemed to have become more beautiful again, with a pair of black eyes sparkling with spirit.
"I am back."
"Cousin, do you know that I am calculating last month's profits? Are you afraid that I will run away? Come on time." With just his words, Li Xiaoxiao's mood inexplicably improved.
"Well, I own half of the restaurant, so I have to take good care of it." Si Chengxu's unique voice is still as pleasant as ever, making people intoxicated.
"That's right. I'm the major shareholder and I'm treating you to dinner today. Would you please do me the honor?" Li Xiaoxiao smiled.
"I happen to be free." Si Chengxu's tone was as cold as usual. If you listen carefully, you can hear the slightly rising tone at the end of the tone, indicating that he is in a good mood.
This time he made a wasted trip because it was quite far and it took him ten days to go back and forth. On the way back, he suddenly received news that his grandmother was sick, so he went back to the capital again, which is why he was delayed for so long.
Knowing that he hadn't found the child again, Li Xiaoxiao could only comfort him, saying that he would find it if he kept looking. But she didn't hold out much hope. DNA testing had become common in the 21st century, and there were still so many children who hadn't been found. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack and it would be difficult to find the child.
Old Mrs. Li stopped scolding after a few days because she found that no matter how harshly she scolded, it had no effect on Zhao Lanlan.
Others continued to do their jobs as usual. After lying in bed for several days, Old Mrs. Li felt uncomfortable everywhere.
Since knowing that she could not get out of bed and walk, Old Man Li had only come once, and Mrs. Jiang came once every two days, but she came and left in a hurry. No matter how Old Lady Li called her, she was unwilling to stay here any longer.
Fortunately, the maid we bought was very dedicated and took care of me in bed every day including my eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.
Although life is not very good, it is still ordinary.
Not long after, several yamen runners suddenly broke into the Li family. Old Man Li was horrified: "What are you doing? My son is the magistrate of Chengyang County."
The leading yamen runner smiled coldly and took out a search warrant from his pocket: "Look, this is a search warrant approved by the higher-ups. Your son has been dismissed for corruption, and all the embezzled silver has been confiscated."
"What? Impossible." Old man Li looked incredulous. How could his son embezzle money? Then he thought about a few days ago when he and Old Lady Li came back and each of them gave him one hundred taels of silver. In addition, there was one hundred taels that was brought home at the beginning, which added up to three hundred taels.
He had only been the county magistrate for more than two months, and his salary could not have been that much. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat at the thought of this.
Zhao Lanlan heard the voices outside the house, and quickly hid the silver bills close to her body. Then she thought quickly and threw all the silver in the house into the grass outside the window. The dense grass completely covered the silver.
I relaxed, closed the window gently, calmed myself and walked out of the door.
At this time, the bailiffs outside just came over. Zhao Lanlan pretended to be surprised and asked them what they were doing.
The bailiffs ignored her and went straight into the house to search, but found nothing. After Old Lady Li was injured, Old Man Li took all of her hundred silver coins and gave them to Zhao Lanlan for safekeeping.
Naturally, there was no silver in Old Lady Li's room. Finally, because Jiang was not at home, they found thirty-eight taels of silver in her room, which could be said to be all her belongings.
She had secretly hidden more than ten taels of silver over the years and had never been willing to spend it. In addition, life had been good recently and she was responsible for the household purchases, and she earned a lot from it. Also, when she went to Chengyang County, Li Laosi gave her ten taels of silver.
There was only this much money saved, and it was all taken away by the yamen runners at once.
Old Mrs. Li couldn't get out of bed. She looked at them like bandits, making a mess of her room and cursing at them, saying that her son was a good person and that someone must have wronged him, which was why the yamen runners were too lazy to pay attention to her.
Seeing that only more than thirty taels were found in total, the leading yamen runner looked displeased. He thought this was a lucrative job, but he didn't expect it was just this little.
"Chunsheng, what's going on? Could it be that Dajiang really..." Zhao Lanlan didn't say the rest of the words, but her intuition told her that this was correct.
Old man Li had a sullen face, which was unusually serious. He thought for a long time before speaking: "It should be true."
"Then Dajiang won't go to jail, right?" Zhao Lanlan asked tentatively, while at the same time making her own plans in mind.