Chapter 311 Curiosity
Old Zhaotou took a dry cigarette and squatted in front of the counter.
The dry cigarette was not much different from the kind Zhou Bingde smoked before.
He took a deep breath and exhaled a circle of gray smoke.
"As long as there is some way, I don't want to sell it. She is my daughter."
As soon as this sound came out, his tears fell down and fell on the ground in front of him.
Zhao Dacheng didn't know whether he thought of something or was infected by the voice, and tears fell.
Wang Jin glanced at Zhao Dacheng suspiciously, then touched Zhou Huaishan with his foot and motioned for him to look at Zhao Dacheng.
Zhou Huaishan nodded to express his understanding and only looked towards Old Zhao.
Old Zhaotou took another puff of cigarette.
“My small restaurant may not make a lot of money, but it can ensure that the whole family can eat and drink.
But now, this restaurant is going to be taken back.
My mother-in-law is ill, and my eldest son has a broken leg and is still being nursed. You just met my younger son, who is only so old and can’t do anything yet.
This family needs to take medicine and eat.”
He was a little unable to speak. He paused several times, his voice was trembling and choked, and it was almost hard to hear what he was saying.
After taking a puff of cigarette and rubbing his eyebrows with his thumb, Lao Zhaotou exhaled.
"It doesn't matter if you think I'm cold-blooded, or if you think I'm worse than a beast, anyway, I did want to sell my newborn daughter before.
I am not a patriarchal person.
I just thought, my little son, he understands everything now. If I sell him, although I can get a good price, he...
He knew that he was betrayed by his father, and it must be very painful.
I couldn't bear to let him go out to work as a small worker. He was still young, so it was hard work to do a small job outside.
Why!
My daughter has just been born, and she doesn’t know who her father and mother are yet. Maybe she can get into a good family. "
Zhou Huaishan interrupted him directly.
"impossible."
Old Zhao was stunned and looked at Zhou Huaishan in astonishment, with tears in his eyes.
Zhou Huaishan glanced at Lao Zhao and said, "I think your son is born with a delicate face and beautiful features. When your daughter grows up, it can't be wrong. This man is willing to pay three taels of silver, and I'm afraid he will be sold to Yangzhou."
Wang Jin understood immediately.
There are people in Yangzhou who specialize in raising thin horses.
Raised since childhood.
They are all beautiful girls and boys.
Wang Jin glanced at Zhou Huaishan, who stared at Old Zhaotou with a serious expression. "Do you know what will happen if you sell her to Yangzhou? That is, she will be trained as a prostitute from an early age."
Zhou Huaishan used the most direct and impactful words to describe this profession.
Old Zhaotou obviously didn't expect that, he sat down on the ground with a bang.
Zhou Huaishan looked at him coldly, "If she is a thin horse, it would be better. At least she would not have to endure hardships when she was a child. But if she is not talented, the place she will go to when she grows up is brothels of various levels."
Wang Jin immediately gave Zhou Huaishan a tug, trying to remind him not to speak so directly.
Old Zhaotou was obviously frightened.
Zhou Huaishan ignored Wang Jin, "Did that person tell you that the child was sold to a family elsewhere. That family has no daughters and cannot have children. They want to buy a daughter?"
Old Zhaotou was so frightened that he nodded in confusion.
Zhou Huaishan said: "You believe this too!"
Snap!
The cigarette rod in Lao Zhaotou's hand slipped and fell to the ground.
Zhou Huaishan looked at him and sighed, "You just said that your restaurant was going to be taken back. Why, this is not your own restaurant?"
Zhou Huaishan suddenly changed the topic, and Old Zhaotou had not yet reacted.
He was stunned for a while, then suddenly stood up and knelt down, and kowtowed three times to Zhou Huaishan.
"I was confused, thank you sir."
He cried so hard that he had a lot of tears and snot, and you could tell that he was really scared.
Zhou Huaishan said nothing.
After the three kowtows, Lao Zhao stood up with tears in his eyes and continued to squat in front of the counter.
"This shop belongs to me, but a while ago, I put this shop in Zhou Yuan's name. You should know Zhou Yuan. You just said that your daughter is going to marry the Shadow Commander, you, you."
Zhou Huaishan nodded, "I know."
Wang Jin said: "No, why is your store registered under Zhou Yuan's name?"
Old Zhaotou smiled bitterly.
"Zhou Yuan is a frequent visitor to my place. People used to come to my place to collect protection money. Since Zhou Yuan came, those people have never collected it again.
Not only does he come here to eat, but sometimes he also teaches my little son how to read.
My eldest son’s job was also introduced by Zhou Yuan.
From time to time he would bring some nutritional supplements or ginseng or something.
Sometimes, when he is on duty late, he comes to my place for dinner and we also drink together.
We usually walk very close.
Once, he said that he was in some trouble. He couldn't tell me directly what the trouble was, so he said he needed to use my store.
Due to my normal feelings, I couldn't refuse him.
This store is in his name.
Less than half a month after I remembered it, something happened to his family. Later, someone came to his door and said that Zhou Yuan had sold the store to him and he was here to take over the house.
He has a property deed stamped by the government, and it doesn't matter whether I explain it or not. "
Unlike the previous talk about buying a child and mentioning this house, Old Zhaotou almost said it in one breath.
After he finished speaking, he picked up the dry cigarette on the ground and took two puffs.
Zhou Huaishan looked at him without saying anything, turned his head and grabbed chopsticks to eat.
Wang Jin wanted to say something, but Zhou Huaishan said nothing. He glanced at Old Zhao and didn't say anything. He just lowered his head to eat.
The three of them, as if they had made an appointment, did not touch the newly served spicy chicken on the plate.
After finishing the meal, the three left.
Walking a little further away, Wang Jin said, "Brother Shan, what should we do about this?"
Zhou Huaishan said, "What's the matter?"
"It's this house. Isn't it obvious that Zhou Yuan cheated him."
"Why should I clean up Zhou Yuan's ass!"
"You just..."
"It's different. I can't bear to see them sell their children, but other things are none of my business, and I don't care."
"Aren't you curious about why Zhou Yuan occupied someone else's house? Who took the house from Zhou Yuan?"
"Not curious."
Wang Jin looked at Zhao Dacheng.
Zhao Dacheng shook his head, "I'm not curious either."
Wang Jin yelled, "But I am curious! I feel that if I don't understand, I won't be able to eat or sleep."
Here, the three playboys were full of food and wine and began their day of wandering.
There, in the imperial palace, the imperial study.
It was getting dark, and there was no light in the imperial study.
The emperor sat expressionlessly on a large chair, his eyes falling on the empress dowager who was lying on the ground.
Yes.
After Zhou Huaishan and the chief wine master left, the emperor did not ask anyone to help the empress dowager up, nor did he call the imperial physician.
He just let the empress dowager stay unconscious here.
It's a coma.
It's not a serious illness, she can always wake up by herself. After all, the ground in early summer is still very cold.