Chapter 82: Disaster Strikes Pink 210+

  "Siyan, can't you just show your face? Isn't that okay? Everyone in the capital knows we're close friends. How could my family's porridge shop be without yours? You say so, right?" Niu Xiaoye was not one to give up easily, she continued to persuade, trying to get Sheng Siyan to change his mind. Moreover, she knew that Sheng Siyan was a soft-hearted and easy-going person.

  Sheng Siyan just smiled softly and shook her head: "It's not possible."

  The voice is soft and hesitant, not very decisive, but keeps repeating back and forth.

  No no no...

  Niu Xiaoye's heart began to ache.

  "Really can't?"

  Sheng Siyan thought for a moment and said tactfully: "Setting up a porridge shed is a good deed to accumulate virtues, I haven't done anything, so I don't dare take credit."

  "Aren't you worried that your mother won't give out the money for the rice shed? Don't worry, I'll talk to my older brother and we'll cover your share!" Niuxiaoye said hastily, thinking of this reason after some thought.

  Sheng Siyan said that Wang's family was ill, and Niu Xiaoye didn't believe it at all.

  She clearly heard Big Brother say that Dalisi Temple was seriously ill, and even Madame Shengguo came to diagnose in person...

  It was just yesterday.

  How could it be possible for Wan Siu Yan to take care of everything overnight?

  Sheng Siyan's expression was a mix of laughter and tears, and he put his hand on Niu Xiaoye's shoulder, saying: "Of course it's not about the money. How much would setting up a rice stall cost? My own private house is enough, I don't need to ask my mother for help. I just feel that I shouldn't take advantage of your family. You've helped me with many things, I don't want to cause you trouble."

  Xiao Ye's face turned red at his words, but thinking about going back home to those disdainful faces made him even more unhappy.

  Her family, apart from her elder brother, also had other younger brothers and sisters, including those from her uncle's household as well as illegitimate ones. Seeing that she became extremely close to the eldest daughter of Duke Sheng Guo, they all envied her deeply, and naturally, there were not a few who felt jealous due to their envy.

  With Sheng Siyan around, Niu Xiaoye's status in the family also rose significantly.

  This time, she came to invite Sheng Siyan, but it was her elder brother who personally entrusted her with the task. If she couldn't bring her along, even her elder brother might blame her.

  Niu Xiaoye bit her lower lip, softened her voice, and pleaded: "Good Siyan, dear good Siyan, just this once, just help me this once, okay? My family is all waiting for you! I've already promised them, I've already said it out loud..."

  Sheng Siyan smiled faintly and said: "In the future, if there's something like this, you should discuss it with me first." Even the best of friends can't make decisions for each other.

  The first principle of getting along with friends should be mutual respect.

  However, Sheng Siyan still felt a bit uneasy because earlier she had been too accommodating to Niu Xiaoye, and her own sense of boundaries hadn't been well grasped, so she couldn't blame Niu Xiaoye for making decisions on her behalf now.

  It was she who had handed the knife to Niu Xiaoye with her own hands before, so even if she was cut by her, it was what she deserved.

  Sheng Siyan let out a sigh and shouted: "Haitang! Come in for a moment!"

  Her senior maid Haitang entered at her call, "Young Mistress, what orders do you have?"

  Sheng Siyan said: "You wear a big woolen coat, go out with Niu Dagu for a trip, and apologize to Niu Dagong on my behalf. Say that I have something at home and need to serve my mother at home, so I won't be able to leave for the time being."

  Haitang nodded and said, "The day before yesterday, the eldest sister gave me a lotus green pipa patterned fur coat with a reversed sleeve, I'll wear that one out, is it okay?"

  "Uh-huh, it's just that it's been too cold lately, so I gave you and Mugun each a piece. If you go out, be sure to wear a thick sweater, or you won't be able to withstand the cold. And don't forget to wear those thick-soled deerskin boots with fur lining either. It's so cold that it could freeze your feet off in those embroidered shoes." Sheng Siyan reminded Haitang.

  Niú Xiǎo Yè looked at this momentum, Shèng Sī Yán really wouldn't go, her heart was heavily struck.

  This was the first time she found out that Sheng Sihai actually had a moment when he said "no" to her.

  Silently, he took Haitang out, Niu Xiaoye got on the carriage first, sat down and looked up at Haitang climbing onto the carriage with his paws on the carriage shaft, wearing a Lychee-green crested fur coat, with a braid on his head, and his figure was surprisingly similar to Sheng Siyan's!

  Niu Xiaoye's mind suddenly turned around.

  All the way to the rice shed, Niu Xiaoye kept staring at Haitang, looking more and more delighted. She thought that if she put an Guanyin hat on her and wrapped a long strip of fox fur around her face, it would be similar to Sheng Siyan's outfit when she went out last time.

  Only exposing a pair of eyes, Haitang, if you don't look carefully, is indeed similar in figure to Sheng Siyan. If someone says she's Sheng Siyan, probably no one would disbelieve it.

  Niu Xiaoye smiled and leaned in close to Haitang, chatting idly with her.

  "Where are you from? How did you end up becoming a servant in the Sheng household?" After asking around, they got to know each other.

  Haitang is a honest person, he answers whatever you ask him, except for things that shouldn't be said.

  "Are all your family members at Shengguo Gongfu?"

  "Yes. Our whole family was bought by the mistress, and from now on we will be the servants of the Sheng family. Actually, the Sheng family had servants before too. Unfortunately, the master of the Sheng family was killed, and none of their servants escaped alive." Haitang said with some regret.

  In other people's homes, even if they committed a crime, at most their family members and servants would be sold off. But in the case of the Sheng family, even their slaves and servants were all killed.

  Moreover, the master of the Sheng family died and had only a thin coffin. The servants and slaves directly buried him in a ditch.

  Niu Xiaoye's eyes rolled around and she said, "Being a servant in the Sheng household is indeed quite frightening. Haitang, I have a request for you, if you agree to it, I can help your family redeem themselves."

  "Can't be helped, can't be helped. Our family is of slave origin, even if we were to get rid of our slave status, I don't know how we would make a living."

  Niú Xiǎo Yè is furious. How can there be someone born with such a fate of being a slave?!

  She thought for a moment, seeing that they were almost at the location of the rice shed, so she spoke directly to Haitang: "Haitang, you resemble your family's eldest daughter in appearance, help me out and pretend to be her, go stand in front of our family's rice shed, okay? Just stand there, no need to speak or greet anyone, I'll take care of everything else." Niu Xiaoye paused for a moment, then pulled out an embroidered pouch from her sleeve and handed it to Haitang, "You agree, this bag of gold coins is yours."

  Haitang grasped the embroidered gold purse in her hand, pursed her lips and hesitated: "......Really don't need to say anything? Don't need to do anything? Just stand in front of the porridge shed?"

  "Of course. If there's anything else, just expose me directly and say you're not a Shengda girl, but her maid, okay?" Niu Xiaoye gives Haitang a "calming pill".

  Haitang bit her lip and said in a low voice: "...But I didn't ask the eldest miss. What if she gets angry?"

  "It won't work, Siyan wouldn't get angry with me. Besides, she sent you here, it's all part of her plan. I know her." Niu Xiaoye patted his chest to guarantee it.

  The peony lowered its head and took a look at the embroidered gold purse, stretched out its hand to untie the strap of the purse, poured out the golden ingots inside and took a look, indeed it was enough for 17 or 18 ingots, should be around 5 or 6 taels in weight, really not bad.

  Haitang had grown up so big, but he had only seen real gold and silver at Sheng Siyan's place.

  However, Sheng Siyan's gold and silver jewelry, monthly expenses and storage rooms were all made of wooden pipes, while the Hai Tang pipe was for clothing and decorations.

  "...then I'll go back and tell our eldest sister, if our eldest sister is not happy, you have to help me explain." Haitang shrank her neck, planning to try once.

  Niu Xiaoye said, "Just once, go back and you won't say it, I won't say it, and your elder sister will never know."

  "But isn't it bad to deceive Big Sister?" Haitang hesitated, unlike Niu Xiaoye who was bold.

  Niu Xiaoye didn't want to let Sheng Siyan know, and chuckled: "What's wrong with that? If she asks, you'll say it. She doesn't ask, you won't say, and it's not considered cheating her either?" - Come on, I'll give this Japanese sword scarf to you.

  Japanese sword is just the leftover material of sable fur, not the most expensive one, but for ordinary wealthy families, using Japanese sword is already very impressive.

  Niu Xiaoye thought that since Haitang's family had been servants for generations, they probably hadn't seen such good leather before.

  Haitang smiled and took it over, wrapped it around her neck, and thanked Niu Xiaoye.

  Niu Xiaoye flipped open the large cape draped over Haitang's body with one hand, and chuckled as she said: "This cape was something your girls didn't want anymore and gave to you, right? I think this wind-blown thing is no match for my scarf."

  Although Haitang's family was a servant, her father was best at selecting leather goods and had a good craftsmanship in nitro skin. She hadn't seen much gold and silver, but all kinds of fur, she had been seeing since childhood.

  "Niu Dagu, the clothes you gave me are also of high quality. It's just that as a slave, I shouldn't be wearing such thick and warm clothing, but today I wore it out anyway, which is already an exception. However, you also said before that this winter is too cold, and we can't get through it without wearing thick fur coats, so don't worry about it, if we can wear them, then we should. This coat is made of Tianma leather, which is the skin from under the belly of a sand fox, very valuable indeed."

  The skin under the belly of the sand fox is called "Tianma skin". The skin under the jaw of the sand fox is called "Wuyun leopard", which is the best and most valuable skin on the sand fox.

  Tianma leather is second only to Wuyun leopard, much better than the edge corner material skin given by Niu Xiao Ye to her Japanese sword scabbard.

  Unfortunately, Niu Xiaoye didn't quite understand and asked in confusion: "Tianma skin? Isn't that just horse hide? How is it related to sand fox skin? I don't get it, I don't get it..."

  Haitang smiled and stopped talking, following her to the porridge shed.

  Niu Xiaoye jumped down first and said to her family who were waiting there: "Big brother, Siyan is here! However, she's not feeling well and can only stay for a little while before leaving."

  Niu Datong was overjoyed and hastily said: "Quickly invite Sheng Dagu to come over, it's cold outside." He also ordered someone to quickly open the pot lid, so they could start serving the porridge.

  She had a Japanese sword around her waist, Guanyin helmet on her head, and wore a lotus green pipa patterned fur coat, walking over with some embarrassment.

  She met Niu Dapeng and still gave him a slight bow.

  Niu Xiaoye smiled and pulled her inside, saying: "It's warm in here. Don't stand in the draft."

  The people outside asking for porridge saw that the porridge was being served and rushed over.

  Niu Dapeng was busy leading people outside to maintain order and went to instruct others to bring more rice over.

  Someone outside the crowd stared at their hut, and was somewhat suspicious of the chubby little girl who followed Niu Xiaoye in, so they sent someone to squeeze in and ask who that person was.

  Niu Xiaoye introduced herself to her family as Sheng Siyan, the eldest daughter of the Sheng Guo Gong Fu, without intentionally concealing anything.

  So he heard it and hurried back to report to his master.

  "Huh? So even the Sheng family is here to muddy the waters?" The man chuckled and instructed from behind the screen, "Is it just her alone?"

  "Yes. It is said that the eldest daughter of the Sheng Guo Gong Fu and the eldest daughter of the Niu family are close friends, often going out together."

  The person behind the screen remembered that day in Dongshi's people market, Sheng Siyan indeed only brought a servant girl and followed Niu Xiaoye to run away, so he believed eight points.

  After a while, the person behind the screen stood up and said faintly: "What is the Niu family? They also come to learn from others to distribute porridge? --- Give them some color to see, let their hands not stretch too long..."

  The person who just reported will understand and go to make arrangements.

  Before long, more and more people came to Niu's porridge shed to beg for porridge.

  At first, everyone was able to maintain order and line up neatly.

  Later on, someone said that there was not much porridge left inside, and it was first come, first served. Those who came later would have none.

  The people asking for porridge are anxious and crazily pushing forward, they must be the first to arrive in order to guarantee getting the porridge.

  Niu Datong did not expect that there would be so many people coming, more than two or three times the number of people from the Wu family!

  And their house's rice shed is not as big as Wu's.

  Niu Dapeng's face turned gloomy, he realized that there must be a trick in this...

  "Hurry up and tell everyone that there's still a lot of porridge left, so they don't have to squeeze."

  But they don't have enough manpower, and what they say is unbelievable.

  Those people still squeezed in like crazy.

  Everyone in Niu's family came out to help, but they still couldn't keep up with so many people asking for porridge.

  Haitang saw the surging crowd outside from inside the rice shed, felt a little scared and said: "There are too many people, I'd better leave."

  Niu Xiaoye nodded and was about to send her out, when the temporarily built porridge shed suddenly made a creaking sound, and the roof began to shake and sway.

  "The roof is going to collapse! Run quickly!"

  Someone in the crowd shouted out suddenly.

  The scene was quiet for a moment, then countless people started rushing around in all directions.

  Some people were still squeezing towards the porridge shed, trying to grab the last bowl of porridge, while others started running out, escaping with their lives.

  Niu Xiaoye and Haitang hadn't reacted yet when they saw the four pillars of the rice shed start to tilt.

  A large pillar near the door of the ceiling slowly fell down.

  "Aiya! Run quickly!" Niu Xiaoye said as she ran quickly, but in her panic, she didn't choose a path and unconsciously ran into the rice shed.

  The sea peach wants to run outward.

  The two of them crashed into each other with a loud bang.

  Niu Xiaoye was fatter than Haitang and had more momentum, so she knocked Haitang to the ground with one push. She herself also tripped and fell on top of Haitang.

  At this time, the big beam had already fallen down completely and heavily hit Niu Xiaoye's back.

  Niú Xiǎo Yè spat a mouthful of blood all over Hǎi Táng's face, and the Japanese sword was splattered with starry bloodstains!

  "Xiao Ye! Sheng Da Gu Niang!"

  Translation: "Little Leaf! Great Big Girl!"

  The peony was pressed down by the double weight and fainted with a white eye, before passing out, vaguely heard someone's loud roar...

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