Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Perhaps because he could see that he was eager to return home, when the convoy arrived at Liuyun Town and had not yet entered, Master Duan waved his hand and let him go home first.

"Thank you, Brother Duan!" Chen Dongzhi clasped his fists to express his gratitude and quickly rode his horse back to Xinghua Village.

Zhong Ruyi was taking people to the mountain to pick apples. It was Manager Ding who requested them. The owner of Manxianglou was going to hold a birthday party for his old mother and needed some fresh fruits.

Now her orchard came in handy. Although not much was needed, only 200 kilograms, the two families had been cooperating for a long time, so Zhong Ruyi simply picked the fruits and delivered them to the town herself.

As a result, she met Chen Dongzhi who was riding back on horseback halfway. She was a little surprised, "Didn't you say you would be gone for half a month? How come you're back so soon?"

Chen Dongzhi's face was full of smiles, as if he had encountered something happy. "I came back early. Brother Duan asked me to go home first. Where are you going?"

Since her man was back, Zhong Ruyi decided not to go to town. She asked Jiang Qin to deliver a few baskets of apples to Manxianglou, and she went home with Chen Dongzhi.

As soon as I sat down, I heard explosive news -

"He was really arrested? Why?" Zhong Ruyi was shocked and asked repeatedly.

Chen Dongzhi poured himself a cup of tea, drank it all and then told him everything he knew.

When Zhong Ruyi heard that Mr. Meng was the benefactor who helped Zhao Cunliang to rise to prominence in his early years, but was eventually ruined by Zhao Cunliang and his family was destroyed, his throat seemed to be choked and he couldn't utter a word.

After a long while, he finally uttered the word "bastard"!

Chen Dongzhi sighed, "No one knows what Zhao Cunliang is thinking. He used to be just a herbal farmer. If it weren't for Boss Meng's help, he wouldn't be where he is today. But he turned his back on his kindness and had someone pretend to be a bandit to kill Boss Meng on his way home. He also colluded with Boss Meng's servants to seize the Meng family's property, forcibly seized Boss Meng's three daughters, and forced Mrs. Meng, two sons, and two concubines to death."

The more Zhong Ruyi listened, the tighter her heart tightened. Thinking of the fact that Zhao Cunliang had the support of the prefect behind him, she asked again, "Then how did Miss Meng get out?"

"Zhao Cunliang's first wife secretly let her out. Now she is the only one left in the Meng family. It is said that her two younger sisters were beaten to death because they protected the eldest daughter of the Meng family from being insulted by Zhao Cunliang."

How can such a beast exist in the world? ? ! !

Zhong Ruyi's eyes were a little red. Fortunately, Zhao Cunliang's wife still had some conscience and was willing to secretly release Miss Meng.

"The young master and young lady of the prefect's family took her away. Nothing will happen, right? Didn't his family say that there is a concubine who is a distant relative of Zhao Cunliang?"

Speaking of this, Chen Dongzhi couldn't help but let out a sarcastic smile, "Him?"

"He had the guts to think that! He relied on such a fake distant relative to deceive the county magistrate of Dingxiang County, and even committed crimes in the local area. Do you know that three of the four people who came to set fire to the workshop that day died? The remaining one, Yu Da, was detained by us and survived!"

Zhong Ruyi's eyes gradually widened. After all, she had lived in peacetime for nearly twenty years, and this was the first time she had encountered such a thing as killing at will.

Thinking of something, she became anxious, "What about Yu Da? He's been gone for so long, he won't be found and killed, right?"

Chen Dongzhi thought of the person she met on the road before, and gave her a reassurance, "It shouldn't be. I met him on the way to Jinzhou last month. He shouldn't have returned to Wuzhou."

It’s good that he didn’t go back, Zhong Ruyi thought, Zhao Cunliang would never extend his hand to Jinzhou, right?

"You just said that Zhao Cunliang and the aunt of the prefect's mansion actually have nothing to do with each other?"

Chen Dongzhi sneered, thinking that this man used chicken feathers as a token of authority and killed so many people, he hated it. "It can't be said that there is no relationship, but it is definitely not like he said that the two families are close relatives."

"He just lived next door to that aunt's house for a while in his early years, and later he became her mother's godparent. When his business grew, he moved out, and the two families lost contact. I don't know where he heard that the daughter of his godmother married the prefect. Since then, he has often sent gifts to the Feng family's house, and claimed outside that his cousin married the prefect as his aunt's aunt, and he was very proud of it."

"......" Zhong Ruyi couldn't believe it. "This is actually a one-sided scam on his part?"

But what's even more ridiculous is that this lie of his has lasted for so many years that the magistrate of Dingxiang County believed it to be true, and always begged Zhao Cunliang to say a few good words for him in front of Prefect Feng so that he could be promoted as soon as possible.

Even helped him conceal the fact that more than a dozen people in the Meng family had died? This kind of person is also a disaster if he is an official.

Fortunately, Miss Meng came out to expose this matter, otherwise, with Zhao Cunliang's temper, who knows how many people would have been harmed?

She was a little dazed and sat there blankly, feeling a little confused for some reason.

I really can't understand why people can be so evil. They can kill their benefactors, killing their entire family and taking their property. It is simply outrageous.

Chen Dongzhi saw that her face did not show the happiness that she had after Zhao Cunliang was arrested, but rather a bit of melancholy. After thinking for a moment, he understood what she was thinking at the moment.

"There are many good people in the world, and naturally there are also evil people like him. Now that he has been brought to justice, the souls of those who were murdered have also received an explanation in heaven."

Zhong Ruyi was silent for a moment and said, "It's a pity for Mr. Meng's family."

The evil of human nature really frightened her.

Late at night, rustling footsteps were heard outside the village, and soon the dogs in the village began to bark.

The man came with a frail old lady, followed by a few young boys and girls.

"We're here. This is it. Let's settle down here from now on!" said the visitor.

Xiao Huang yelled at the top of his voice from the door of Chen's house all the way to the entrance of the village. During the time, dogs from other houses also followed behind him and barked.

But the smell of the person coming seemed a little familiar to it, and it stopped after barking twice.

Yu Da squatted down, slowly touched Xiao Huang's head, and said with a smile, "Xiao Huang! You still remember me! Are you still holding a grudge against me for stealing your food?"

Now every household in the village was sleeping with their doors closed, so he didn't want to knock on the door and disturb anyone's sleep. So he took his old mother and his younger brothers and sisters to spend the night under a pine tree in the center of the village.

The next morning, a villager who woke up early found Yu Da and his family sleeping under a pine tree and immediately called out, "Yu Da? Why are you back? Didn't you say you were going back to Wuzhou?"

Yu Da smiled embarrassedly, touched his head naively, and started talking to the villagers around him.

The sick woman and his brothers and sisters around him were obviously not as optimistic as he was. Their faces were tense and they dared not look around but only stared at the chicken manure on the ground.

"Yu Da? What are you doing?" Zhong Ruyi was standing a few steps away, looking at this side with a bamboo basket in her hand. Chen Dongzhi was also standing next to her. The couple looked equally confused.