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Chapter 12 - Poor Hu Niu
From the looks of it, Hu Niu and A Chou had done quite a few things like flipping over walls. His physique was as strong as a gymnast's, and before Hu Niu could even make a sound, she landed safely on the ground.
”A Chou, throw the package down first …” Hu Niu lowered her voice and said, ”Don't worry and jump, it's not even three feet lower than the wall in the backyard of our old home.”
A Chou was much more timid than Hu Niu, he bashfully touched the wall and said, ”Miss, I'm afraid!” She didn't dare to jump for a long time. However, in the end, she was unable to seduce the little miss. As a result, he clenched his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped down.
This is bad, when the little girl jumped down from the wall, her left foot slipped and her posture changed. Now, not only her two feet hit the ground first, but definitely her buttocks.
With a whoosh, A Chou felt that he had fallen into a soft place, and there was someone puffing in front of him. When A Chou opened his eyes and looked at the dim light, he was stunned.
”Xiao... Shaw... ”Xiao …” After calling the girl three times without finishing her sentence, she actually lost consciousness in the end. She wasn't hurt, she suddenly remembered that she was hugged by a man and fainted out of embarrassment.
The one who caught A Chou was Xiao Letian. He looked at this thirteen and fourteen year old yellow haired little girl with an embarrassed face, sighing and shaking his head. He thought to himself, 'Am I the bane of this girl?' Every time you see me, you faint?
At this time, Hu Niu was covering her mouth with her hands, her eyes were glistening. Seems like if she did not cover her mouth, she would cry out, and would cry out loud. The Mr. Xiao that she had been thinking about appeared in front of her like a magic trick.
He didn't know what had happened, but after half a month of suffering, at that moment, Hu Niu felt like jumping into Xiao Letian's embrace and crying.
Seeing that there was no one on the street, the fat storekeeper and the serving staff quickly took the maidservants from the Military Advisor's hands and brought them through the side door of the kitchen to the hotpot restaurant. Xiao Letian smirked as he looked at Hu Niu, ”Sure, but the young miss of Fan family actually learnt to flip over a wall. This isn't a good girl, have you forgotten about it? ”Later on, I will punish you to copy the ten times …”
Xiao Letian was originally just joking, but he didn't think that Hu Niu's eyes would suddenly stand on end, and her entire body started to emit the aura of a tigress.
”I didn't expect you to be such a person. I was blind, and misjudged you. You gave A Chou back to me, and from then on, neither of us will know the other … ” Good heavens, Hu Niu actually held back her tears, her gaze cold to the extreme.
Aiya, this is exactly like her name suggested. Indeed, she's a little tigress. Why did she suddenly turn hostile? Xiao Letian was startled, I, who ran around the Hundred Miles Mountain Road, ended up complaining about it?
”This is not a good place to talk, let's talk inside the store first …”
”No, I'm just a girl, what's wrong with coming to your room? Did it say that in the Female Commandment? ”Three from four?”
When Wuchang heard it, he immediately understood that it was all because of that joke of his. He really did not expect Hu Niu's rebellious thoughts to be this serious. Xiao Letian quickly coaxed, and even apologized as he brought Hu Niu in through the side door.
However, no one noticed that when Wuchang coaxed Hu Niu into the wok store, a pair of thief like eyes were staring at him from inside the courtyard wall.
Inside the private room of the hotpot store, Hu Niu told Yue Yang everything that had happened during the past half month of separation with tears in her eyes. Xiao Letian's nose was almost crooked from anger, his previous impression of the feudal school was instilled into him through books and movies.
The origin of the entire matter was still in the 110 thousand silver that had been stolen away. Manager Fan, who was also Hu Niu's father, was the actual Second Boss of Shanxi's Fan family, while his brother, Fan Ru, was the Patriarch.
The Shanxi Fan family had a deep history, and was once the strongest of the eight great families in the Jin Shang. In the past, the ancestor of the Fan family, Fan Yong Dou, had put in a lot of effort when the Qing dynasty entered. As a result, during her reign of power, the emperor personally received him in the Beijing and bestowed him with the status of a Royal Merchant. She even bestowed all of the Zhang Family's non-verbal businesses to him.
Later on, the descendants of the Fan clan were very promising as well. They interfered in the salt merchant's business and conducted copper trading with the Japan. However, after being in dryad for forty-eight years, Lady Fan had completely declined. Because of the large amount of losses she had suffered, Qing Government had taken away her title as Royal Merchant, and had sealed off all her possessions.
However, after more than a hundred years, when the Fan family's expenses had fallen, many of the descendants hoped to restore the clan's glory. From the early Daoguang's first year, with the support of countless other people, the clan's business slowly expanded, and they even established the current Guangde.
Hu Niu's father, Fan Lian, was the current Patriarch of the Fan family, Fan Ru's blood brother. Fan Lian was a very pure merchant. In his dreams, she did not want to restore her clan's Royal Merchant, because in his eyes, working with the imperial family was the most dangerous business transaction.