Chapter 153

153. Chapter 153: Letters from First Young Master Shen

Noticing Jiang Xiaoxiao's scrutinizing gaze, Shopkeeper Zhou also felt embarrassed on his face. He coughed lightly and said: "Second Young Master Shen has no hobbies, he just likes this sweet taste. Your family's ice cream is his favorite. Usually, when he handles cases in the County Yamen, we have to send him a portion every day."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Twenty-something years old, how can he still like sweets like a child...

"Oh, by the way, Second Young Master Shen ordered me to prepare some food for you before going upstairs." Shopkeeper Zhou said, raising his hand to call someone to the kitchen, "What do you want to eat, take a look first, and I will order the kitchen to prepare it for you."

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt relieved in her heart when she heard this. It was not eating together, which was good. After all, officials and people are different. He is a dignified County Lieutenant, and they are just commoners. Eating together is really stressful.

She scanned the lobby on the first floor twice. The meal time had passed, and there were still many scattered seats. They could just find a place to sit.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, no trouble, we are not eating here." Jiang Wei suddenly opened her mouth, "I came to Yuelai Restaurant this time because I have something to ask Shopkeeper Zhou."

Shopkeeper Zhou's raised hand paused: "What's the matter?"

"Do you know which shop in Yong'an Town is vacant and for sale?"

"Dian Pu..." Shopkeeper Zhou thought about it and said: "You don't say, I just heard two days ago that the shopkeeper of a teahouse on the street opposite our restaurant is planning to sell the shop and take his wife and children back to his ancestral land. Although the teahouse business is cold, the location is still good. You can go and see if it is to your liking."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was overjoyed when she heard this. They really ran into it!

She hurriedly said: "Mom, let's go and see it quickly."

Jiang Wei nodded and said goodbye to Shopkeeper Zhou.

Out of Yuelai Restaurant, Jiang Wei didn't rush to the street opposite to find the teahouse, but led Jiang Xiaoxiao to sit at a food stall on the side of the street and ordered two bowls of wontons and two pancakes.

"Eat your fill before going to see."

"Okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded, but her heart was sweet.

Now she was sure that her mother had no interest in that Shen Que.

Meanwhile.

Shen Que sat by the window of the private room on the second floor, looking far away at the mother and daughter eating wontons happily at the food stall, his pitch-black eyes showing no ripples.

Shopkeeper Zhou stood beside him, looking at his face and the untouched food and ice cream on the table, and asked cautiously: "Is it, is it that sending the letter today didn't go well?"

Shen Que didn't speak.

He slowly retracted his gaze from outside the window and took a letter from his bosom.

There was no name on the envelope, but the seal had been broken, obviously the letter inside had been read.

Although carrier pigeons are timely and fast, the pigeons flying in the air will always be shot down by people peeking in the dark, catching the handle.

Since coming to Yong'an Town to take office, he had become accustomed to the way of communication by postal relay station. Although it was slower, it was safe and secret.

Today, in addition to sending a letter to Jiang Yu, he also went to the post station to receive this letter.

The letter was sent by First Young Master Shen.

Thinking of this, Shen Que frowned, his fingers gripping the letter paper tightened, and the paper he had been looking at for half a day was crumpled into a ball by him.

Shopkeeper Zhou looked at it, seeing Shen Que's increasingly bad face, probably guessed who sent the letter, and there was a bit of worry on his face: "Could it be that the capital side..."

"Those old guys probably guessed that Big Brother is not in the capital." Shen Que sneered, "The tiger tally is still in Big Brother's hands. They are guarding against the two of us meeting in secret everywhere, and now they can't help but advise the Holy Emperor to exempt me from the mistakes of the past and let me return to the capital as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Zhou was silent.

Since it was the decree issued by that one, there was really no way.

Shen Que's eyebrows were heavy.

On the surface, he was impeached by a censor who wanted to curry favor with the Crown Prince and was demoted to this small place to be a County Lieutenant for a lifetime, but he didn't know that he was counting on the plan and deliberately came to Yong'an County to find that thing.

But now... there is not much time left for him.

The Shen brothers are not under the eyes of those guys, and some people have begun to panic. Even if Jiang Yu goes back, he cannot eliminate the doubts of those guys.

While thinking, Shen Que looked outside the window again, his gaze falling on the mother and daughter of the Jiang family sitting at the food stall, and he narrowed his eyes slightly: "You said before... her husband's family had dealings with the Huang family?"

Shopkeeper Zhou nodded: "It is the daughter of the eldest of the Li family in Yuhe Village who has a marriage with the Huang family. Not long ago, she was pulled into the Huang family residence from the back door by a carriage."

"Marriage, heh, really can't change the nature of death." Shen Que pulled the corner of his mouth coldly, "Is that woman still alive?"

Shopkeeper Zhou shook his head.

This thing is not sure, it depends on whether the belly of the Li family woman is competitive. If it is the same as those innocent women before, I think she can't escape...

He thought about it and finally opened his mouth: "Young Master, if it is determined that the thing is in the Huang family, even if you surround the Huang family with troops now..."

"You underestimate that old guy in the Huang family." Shen Que interrupted, "That thing is the life-saving talisman of the Huang family. If you rashly startle the snake, he will definitely destroy that thing. Isn't this what those old guys in the court want?"

After saying that, he sighed again: "Forget it, let's take one step at a time."

If he still can't find that thing before returning to the capital, it won't be too late to send troops to the Huang family.

Thinking of this, Shen Que spread out the crumpled letter paper in his hand and placed it on the candle flame on the table. Until the fire tongue swallowed the paper, he suddenly remembered something, looked at the Jiang family mother and daughter in the distance outside the window, and opened his mouth again: "You watch over her family buying a shop. If there is anything you can help, try to help."

Perhaps, the opportunity to enter the Huang family to find that thing lies with them.

"Okay." Shopkeeper Zhou nodded and withdrew from the private room.

Jiang Xiaoxiao ate a large bowl of wontons and burped contentedly.

"Mom, let's go see that teahouse shop after we are full." It would be bad if such a good location was taken by someone else.

While speaking, she looked at Jiang Wei sitting opposite, but found that she had only eaten half of the wontons in her bowl.

"Mom, why did you only eat so little, is your appetite bad?"

"... No." Jiang Wei slowly put down the chopsticks in her hand, and the gaze looking in a certain direction in the distance retracted without a trace, "Mom is not very hungry, just eat a little, if you are full, let's go see the shop."

"Okay, let's go." Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled and put down twenty copper coins, stood up, but her gaze secretly glanced at the direction her mother had just looked.

It was the private room on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant.

However, the moment she looked over, the window of the private room had already been closed, and she only had time to see a corner of the casual clothes.

That was Shen Que's casual clothes.

Could it be that Shen Que had been peeking at them in the private room on the second floor while they were eating? (End of chapter)