Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Aunt Wu and Li Xiangyun were pure country women. Normally, when they saw someone carrying a knife on the road, they would unconsciously stay away from him. But when they saw more than a dozen people carrying knives, they were so scared that their faces turned pale.

Although Han Xiaomei had seen these people before, she was still afraid when she saw them again and subconsciously pulled Li Yu's clothes.

Looking around, Li Yu and Han Sheng were the only ones who remained calm in the entire yard.

"Who...are you looking for?" As the only man in the yard, Han Sheng took the initiative to ask.

"We are looking for a seven-year-old child." The man with the missing finger whom Li Yu had seen in the store in the morning looked at everyone and asked in a deep voice, "Is there anyone else in your family?"

Han Sheng: "There is one more, he is twelve years old and goes to school in town. There are no more...no more."

The fingerless man stared at him for a while, then turned his gaze to Li Yu's face, "Are you the owner of the butcher shop in town?"

"It's me." Li Yu smiled. "I didn't expect to see you again. We are preparing the dishes to sell tomorrow. We have already cooked some and they have just come out of the pot. Would you like to have some?"

The fingerless man: “No need.”

The yard was empty, and everything could be seen at a glance, but the man looked around and said to the people behind him, "There's nothing here, let's go."

At this moment, there was a sound of something falling to the ground outside the door.

The fingerless man's expression changed, and he called out to his brother standing behind him, "Go and have a look."

Just as he finished speaking, a dog jumped over the threshold into the yard with a piece of wood in its mouth.

Fingerless man: “…”

The younger brother being commanded: “…”

Li Yu laughed dryly: "Excuse me, everyone, this is my family's dog."

Afraid that these people would not believe him, Li Yu waved to Ah Fu, "Ah Fu, come here."

Ah Fu dropped the wooden board and walked around Li Yu, wagging his tail.

"Boss." The man with the notched ear said, "Let's go."

The man with the missing finger looked at Li Yu deeply and called to the others: "Let's go."

*

The group came in a hurry and left in a hurry, as if they were robbing someone. As she watched them walk away, Aunt Wu let out a long sigh, "I was almost scared to death."

"Yes, it's really scary." Li Xiangyun said and suddenly realized something, "They won't go to my house, I have to go back and check."

There are children and elderly people at home, and we can't let those people scare them.

Aunt Wu and Han Sheng thought of the same thing, said hello to Li Yu and left in a hurry.

The yard became quiet in an instant. Li Yu put away the prepared skewers and meat paste, and called Han Xiaomei to light a fire and make meatballs.

Neither of them mentioned Qi Yue's name, as if he was not in this family.

This was what Li Yu had told Han Xiaomei in advance. If those people came to their house, they just had to act scared. They didn't have to go back to the house on purpose, and they also didn't have to sneak back to the house after those people left. They had to pretend that this person didn't exist in the house.

The main purpose of doing this is to prevent those people from making a counterattack.

Li Yu was chatting with Han Xiaomei. Han Xiaomei expressed her fear of those people and was curious about who the seven-year-old boy was and why those people were looking for him. Li Yu comforted her in a low voice and also showed confusion.

The two of them asked and answered questions, and their performance was no different from that of other people.

*

Outside, at the base of the kitchen wall, the man with the missing finger raised his hand. The man behind him understood and led everyone to the main road.

Li Yu acted too calm, and they felt something was wrong, so they went out, walked a short distance away, and then ran back to secretly listen to what they were doing.

At this point, they were relieved to be sure that the two were unaware of the situation and decided to go to the next one.

These people were well-trained and walked silently, so Li Yu had no idea they had left.

In the evening, when she heard Han Zheng, who had just returned from school, say that he had run into those people on his way home, she pretended to go out to find twigs for a fire, and discovered their eavesdropping through the trampled grass behind the kitchen.

"It should be fine for now." Han Zheng said in a low voice in the main room.

Li Yu waved his hand, "Not necessarily. As long as they don't leave, the matter will not be over. You'd better be careful these days."

Fearing that those people would return, Li Yu did not let Qi Yue eat dinner in the main hall. And not just today, he would not go out until those people left.

She would rather let Qi Yue suffer than have him discovered. After all, being discovered would mean losing his life.

*

After a few days of worrying like this, Li Yu didn't wait for the people from Duke Dingguo's Mansion. Instead, he waited for them to go to other towns first.

In the past few days, those people checked every house in the town, but couldn't find Qi Yue, so they guessed that he had run away to other towns.

"He may be young, but he's not a fool. He might have guessed we would come from the beginning, so he ran away somewhere else."

Inside Li Ji Food Store, a man chattered non-stop. Because Li Yu's braised pork is unique in town, they come here almost every day these days.

At first they thought it would be easy to find a child, but after searching for so many days, there was still no clue, so the boy was most likely not here.

"Maybe he's dead." Another person said, "There are many beggars in the countryside, maybe he was cheated by them."

The man with the missing finger, as the leader, hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's go to the next town this afternoon."

*

Those people left Huangmei Town that afternoon. Everyone in the town felt relieved when they heard they were gone.

Their town has always been peaceful and stable. This was the first time they saw someone breaking into their home without saying a word. Although no one said anything, they were all scared in their hearts.

Li Yu listened to the discussion of passers-by on the street, and felt relieved. She held the custom-made rice cake template in her hand. The carpenter had good craftsmanship, and the template was the right size. The inside was smooth and had no small thorns. She would smear oil on it at home, and it would be very useful in the future.

Li Yu made plans. Today was February 17th, and the county exam was February 22nd. She would go to the county with Han Zheng on February 20th. The county exams in the Dayu Dynasty were somewhat different from those in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There were only three exams, which lasted for two days. So when they came back from the county, it would be at least February 24th. At this time, she could not start selling braised meat, but had to tidy up the new house. Uncle Wu said that her house would be completed in the next few days.

If you count carefully, she couldn't do anything for at least eight days.

Thinking about this, Li Yu decided to sell braised meat for one more day tomorrow, and at the same time inform everyone of the news of the closure in the next few days to avoid empty shops.

As for the rice cakes, she would make them after she was done with her work. She could take advantage of this free time to think about recruiting a partner.

Unlike braised meat, which she had to make by herself, Li Yu planned to find someone to help make the rice cake.

Her energy is limited. If she has to take care of rice cakes at the same time, she will be extremely exhausted. She wants to make money, but she doesn't want to ruin her body.

So this time she wanted to find someone, someone trustworthy, to do this together.

Li Yu was busy with his work as planned, and in the blink of an eye, it was February 20th.