Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Rui Xin frowned and said, "Mr. Chen, I don't quite understand what you mean."

Chen Lang said: "Really don't understand?"

Rui Xin clenched his hands suddenly in his sleeves.

"I really don't understand. Please explain clearly, Master Chen."

Chen Lang suddenly smiled and said, "I was just talking nonsense, don't take it to heart."

"It's okay, you can go now."

Rui Xin slowly stood up, bowed, and turned to leave.

Walking outside the Guhong Tower, Rui Xin looked around and found a beggar. He walked quickly up to him and put a piece of silver into the beggar's broken bowl.

The beggar was overjoyed and knelt on the ground, kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, sir."

Rui Xin took out a thumb-sized bamboo tube from his sleeve, put it in the beggar's bowl, and whispered a few words of advice.

The beggar said, "Don't worry, sir. I will definitely deliver it."

Rui Xin glanced back at Guhong Tower and saw Chen Lang staring at him from the second-floor window. The uneasiness in his heart grew stronger. He gave the beggar another piece of silver and said, "Go quickly."

The beggar got up and ran away without saying a word.

After the beggar ran away, Rui Xin looked up at the second floor again and found that Chen Lang was gone.

Rui Xin gritted her teeth, turned around and ran into the alley.

I don’t know how long I ran. Only when there was no more voice behind me did Rui Xin stop to catch his breath.

Of course he understood what Chen Lang said to Rui Xin in Guhong Tower, but he just didn't understand how Chen Lang saw through it.

He can no longer stay in Linshui County and must find a way to leave.

And asking beggars for help is just to add an extra layer of insurance.

After resting for a while, Rui Xin was ready to continue escaping, when footsteps were heard in front.

Without thinking too much, Rui Xin jumped up and tried to climb over the wall to leave.

In the blink of an eye, an arrow came flying through the air.

Rui Xin screamed and fell from the wall.

Several guards came forward, and the leader stared at Rui Xin and said, "Manager Rui, why are you running?"

This man's name is Fu Bin, and he is the leader of the guards around Xu Mengru.

Rui Xin stood up, brushed the dust off his trouser legs, and said, "Captain Fu, what do you mean by this?"

Fu Bin said calmly, "I want to take Shopkeeper Rui somewhere."

Rui Xin said, "Can I not go?"

The guards behind Fu Bin all raised their bows and crossbows.

Rui Xin shrugged. "It seems I don't have a choice."

Fu Bin made a gesture of invitation: "Let's go."

Under the protection of the guards, Rui Xin was "invited" to get on a horse and drove all the way out of the city.

An hour later, the carriage slowly stopped.

Rui Xin got off the carriage and looked around.

He originally thought that Fu Bin would be taken to the wilderness or even a mass grave, but this place was actually quite lively at the moment.

This place is called Jinyanggang. There are several shops here. People from nearby Han villages and herdsmen from the Liao Kingdom who are farther away would come here to buy things, and occasionally there would be murders and robberies.

Because it is too far from Linshui, even if a serious incident occurs, the police will hardly come.

Rui Xin felt disheartened. It was obvious what Fu Bin wanted to do by bringing her to this place.

Being pushed into a small courtyard by Fu Bin, Rui Xin sighed, turned to face him, and said, "Can you give me a quick death?"

Fu Bin said calmly, "Shopkeeper Rui, don't be anxious."

"Sit down first."

Cutting flesh with a blunt knife is the most painful. Rui Xin knew that the other party would take his life, but he was powerless to fight back. He sat on a small stool, shaking uncontrollably.

This wait lasted until midnight.

Rui Xin's mood also changed from panic at the beginning to numbness.

"Captain Fu, can I ask you something?"

"What does Shopkeeper Rui want to ask?"

"The Min family... have they given in?"

"I'm just a guard, not the shopkeeper. I wouldn't know about this kind of thing."

"I just can't understand why the Min family would give in. I want to figure this out before I die, so that even if I die, I can rest in peace."

Fu Bin handed Rui Xin a roasted chicken leg and said, "Don't think too much. Eat something."

Rui smiled hard, took the roasted chicken leg, and said, "The last meal of his execution?"

Fu Bin said, "Don't think so."

Rui Xin looked at the greasy chicken drumstick in his hand, sighed, and said, "Captain Fu, do you know? I have been working at Xu's cloth shop since I was fifteen. At that time, Xu Mengru was just a little girl who knew nothing."

"Later, I watched Xu Mengru grow up slowly. Although I wasn't the one who taught her the most skills in the cloth shop, I probably contributed at least 40% to her growth."

"But now, all these achievements are no longer counted."

Fu Bin took a sip of his wine and said, "Manager Rui, you know I haven't been with Miss Xu for long, and I know nothing about what happened in Nanhe County."

"It's no use complaining to me."

"But then again, we are all servants, and the most taboo thing for servants is to be complacent and proud."

Rui Xin shook her head: "You are not right..."

At this moment, a cold voice came from outside: "I think he is right."

After a while, a thin woman wearing a nightgown and a black hood walked in.

Although he couldn't see the face under the hood, Rui Xin was very familiar with this figure.

Who else could it be but Xu Mengru?

The person took off his hood, and it turned out to be Xu Mengru.

Rui Xin's Adam's apple rolled up and down. She wanted to say something but couldn't.

Xu Mengru looked at him coldly and asked, "Why do you do this?"

"How have I, Xu Mengru, wronged you?"

Rui Xin exhaled slowly and said, "Miss Xu, I don't understand what you mean."

Xu Mengru said, "You pretended not to understand in front of Master Chen, and now you pretend not to understand in front of me."

"I gave you a chance, but you didn't even use it."

Rui Xin said: "I really..."

Xu Mengru scolded, "You're so close to the Min family, didn't they tell you that Master Chen has a brand?"

Rui Xin asked, "What brand?"

"The Imperial Prison Department." Xu Mengru said.

Rui Xin's expression suddenly changed: "Is this the reason why he can come and go freely in Lord Ye Wei's mansion?"

Xu Mengru said, "That's why he was able to find out about the dirty things you did."

At this point, Rui Xin knew that it was useless to quibble, but he still wanted to figure out where he had lost.

Xu Mengru said, "There's something wrong with the recipe."

Rui Xin frowned and said, "Impossible. We've been researching that recipe for several years. How could there be a problem?"

Xu Mengru said, "But there was indeed a problem with the recipe. It was also luck. After you stole the recipe and gave it to the Min family, you deliberately went out of town to avoid suspicion. When the recipe had problems, you were not in Linshui. When Master Chen took over, the first thing he did was to block the news of the recipe fading."

"You came back from another place, so naturally you didn't know there was something wrong with the recipe."

After a long silence, Rui Xin laughed out loud towards the sky.

"God's will!"