Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

After hearing what Zhong's mother said, Zhong Ruyi felt that her three views were about to be refreshed.

This was the first time that Zhong Ruyi encountered a case where a daughter was sold to someone else as a concubine for the sake of her son. Previously, most of the children in the orphanage were abandoned because they were girls, and a small number of boys were abandoned because of physical defects.

There was not a single healthy boy in the entire orphanage. Even if there was one, he would be adopted after a while. Healthy girls and boys with physical defects like them were rarely adopted.

She had heard from a few aunts who came to the orphanage to do charity work that in the past, people would sell their children if they had too many children and could not afford to raise them. This was the first time she had heard of someone selling a daughter to pay off her son's gambling debts.

"So what is he here for now?"

Mother Zhong glanced at her daughter, who still had a look of bewilderment on her face, and felt even more disgusted with the Zhou siblings. It was a pity that her daughter was targeted by such a bastard for no reason.

She told the truth, "The girl from the Zhou family wants to marry your third brother, and she also wants her gambling brother to marry you."

"What? Marry me?" Zhong Ruyi was shocked. She didn't expect that this girl not only wanted to harm her third brother, but also wanted to harm her.

Zhong Ruyi was puzzled. This Miss Zhou wanted to marry her third brother, probably because she thought her third brother was easy to control and the Zhong family was not a poor family.

So what was her intention in wanting her brother to marry her?

"After the eldest daughter of the Zhou family was sold, she severed ties with their family and has had no contact over the years. The Zhou family members also went to the rich merchant's house to cause trouble several times, but were driven out each time. The eldest daughter of the Zhou family refused to see them at all."

"Everyone in the Zhou family is good-looking. Zhou Yuru's parents have always wanted their son to marry a girl from a wealthy family to help their family."

"Zhou Yuru has reached the right age to get married. Her parents have always wanted to find her a man from a good family so that she can support her parents' family. But they have found several families but none of them are good enough."

The several families they found all had several brothers. Even if such families split up in the future, they would not be able to get much, so the Zhou family would not consider such families.

What they were considering was whether the wife their son would marry or the family their daughter would marry into in the future would be able to help their son and the Zhou family. If they were sold to a wealthy family like the eldest daughter of the Zhou family was, they thought they would be able to benefit from it, but the eldest daughter of the Zhou family would not recognize them.

This kind of thing happening once is enough. If the families that the two daughters marry cannot help the two sons, then what is the point of raising them with so much effort? Isn't it so that they can help their brothers in the future?

Zhong Ruyi was simply amazed. What kind of parents are they who sacrificed their two daughters for the sake of their two useless sons? Thinking of this, Zhou Yuru seemed quite pitiful.

But no matter how pitiful she is, she shouldn't have set her sights on their home. If she wants to suck blood from the Zhong family, she has to see if they have the ability to do so.

The third and second brothers moved a large water tank in there. The one they used before was a bit small, so they replaced it with this big one, which could store more water and they didn’t have to fetch water twice a day.

Zhong Ruyi spoke in a low voice, afraid that her third brother would hear her: "Then Miss Zhou's family is all like this, why does the third brother still think that Miss Zhou is a good person?"

Chen Dongzhi glanced at Zhong's mother and whispered, "Your third brother said that good shoots come out of bad bamboos. Zhou Yuru's reputation was ruined by her family. She is actually a good girl."

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Zhou Yushou had been thinking of finding an opportunity to meet Zhong Ruyi today. He had come here several times and observed for several days, and knew that the mother and daughter would go buy vegetables after finishing their business at noon.

Then, he could pretend to meet them by chance at the market, deepen their impression, and then it would be easy to contact them later, right? He didn't believe that the girl from the Zhong family would not be attracted to him. His face had been praised for being handsome for a long time!

Unfortunately, he actually saw Zhong Laosan, who was shamelessly sticking to his sister, and the dark-faced man he had met before, at the door of Zhong Ji. Before, his sister had hinted in front of Zhong Laosan and the dark-faced man that she wanted to match him up with his sister.

As a result, I don’t know what the black-faced man said to Zhong Laosan when he returned, which made Zhong Laosan run over and complain to his sister, saying something like, “Yuru, I know you are a good person, but your brother is not worthy of my sister. My sister can’t possibly like a scoundrel like your brother.”

When his sister said this to him, he was furious. How could he not be worthy of her? Wasn't Zhong Ruyi a fool before? If it weren't for the fact that her family conditions were not bad, how could he marry such a woman? He wouldn't even want her for free!

Humph! If her second brother hadn't opened a store in town selling stewed food, he wouldn't have even considered marrying her.

I heard that her second brother's store has very good business every day and often still doesn't have enough to sell.

This is a lot of money to make in a month. He has heard that a spoonful of braised pig offal from Zhongji costs ten cents, not to mention other braised goods. How much is pig offal worth? Zhongji can buy a bucket with the price of a spoonful of pig offal.

Excluding the capital, Zhongji made a lot of money from this business. If this store came into his hands, would he still be worried about having no money to spend?

When the time comes, after he marries the girl from the Zhong family, he can coax her into asking the Zhong family's parents to let him open the store. Anyway, the Zhong family's parents love their daughter so much that they will not disagree.

Before that, it is better not to be seen by Zhong Laosan and that black-faced man. My sister said that Zhong Laosan does not agree with his sister and him, so she has to make it a done deal with Zhong Ruyi before Zhong Laosan and the others find out, so that no one can object.

So when he saw Zhong Laosan and the black-faced man saw him and were about to come over, he ran away immediately. He must not be seen, at least not before the girl from the Zhong family fell in love with him.

He hid in a corner and watched Zhong Laosan and the black-faced man walk into the store. No, he had to let his sister coax Zhong Laosan into marrying her as soon as possible. By then, he would marry Zhong Ruyi and Zhong Laosan would marry his sister. Then wouldn't Zhongji Braised Food and the Zhong family belong to their Zhou family?

Zhong Ruyi wanted to continue asking questions about the Zhou family, but her second brother's water tank had been moved, so the two of them came out.

Zhong Laosan wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the teacup handed to him by his younger sister and drank it all. Although it is December now, in Yunzhou where Xinghua Village is located, the four seasons are like spring. Winter is not very cold, and it is only cold in the morning and evening. After the morning, it starts to get hot at noon, and the temperature will drop again at night, with a large temperature difference between day and night.

Zhong Ruyi poured a cup of tea for her second brother. The tea was given by the proprietress of the tea shop next door. It tasted good, with a light flavor and a fragrant smell.

The second brother took the teacup but did not drink it. Instead, he asked, "Mom, I seemed to hear you talking about my younger sister's marriage just now. What happened? Did a matchmaker come to propose marriage?"

Because Chen Dongzhi was here, even though he was busy moving the water tank, he was listening to the conversation of several people in the store. Unfortunately, they spoke too quietly, and he could only catch a few words, and couldn't hear the rest clearly.

Mother Zhong shook her head. As the third son was present, she couldn't tell him what happened. She could only wait until next time to tell the second son and ask him to pay more attention to the strange man peeking at the door.