"Girl, we're here! I can only take you here, haha..." The coachman, who was nearly fifty years old, woke up the drowsy Ling Shiyao.
This is the famous capital city of Qi State, prosperous, lively and rich.
After riding in a carriage for seven days and seven nights, Ling Shiyao finally walked on the streets of the capital. People were coming and going, and there was a sea of ​​people and carriages everywhere.
BMW cars of various colors and shapes lined up in long lines on the road paved with bluestones, gasping, crowded and crawling forward bit by bit.
The road was green and shiny, as flat as a newly paved kang in her house. It was very comfortable to walk on it. But she could always feel the strange looks from passers-by and vendors from time to time.
Humph! I know I'm ugly! You can watch it if you want. I've been disliked and despised by others for eighteen years, and I'm used to it anyway!
On the wide road, there was no dust in the countryside. Ling Shiyao looked up and saw the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, the dense shops, the colorful products in the stores, and the dazzling store banners on the roadside, which made her dizzy.
In short, for a child in a remote village, this is new and curious. Her legs seem to be stuck on something and she is unwilling to move forward. She seems to be looking for good things that she has never seen in the countryside.
, collected them all into her mind, so that when she returns home, she can show them off in front of her grandma and friends in the village like a story.
At noon, Ling Shiyao felt hungry, so she walked into an alley. There were many small restaurants here. She specially chose one called "Baiwei Restaurant" and went in. Maybe it reminded her of the "Baiwei Restaurant" made by her grandma.
"Fairy vegetable".
There were not too many people, and three of the dozen or so tables were empty. Ling Shiyao picked up the innermost table and sat down. She put the small rattan box containing her luggage in the corner, took off the yellow cloth bag she was carrying, and put it on her back.
On top of the small rattan box.
"Are you Miss?" A beautiful female clerk of eighteen or nineteen came over and asked enthusiastically.
Ling Shiyao looked around, thinking she was asking someone else, but the two tables next to her were occupied by three or four men...
"Are you...asking me?" Ling Shiyao asked doubtfully.
"Yes, hello miss, what would you like to eat?" the pretty female waiter asked politely.
"I...I'm not a lady, I'm Ling Shiyao!" Ling Shiyao said loudly and stupidly.
This voice alarmed the other diners in the restaurant. They didn't pay attention to this girl who looked like a country girl at first, but now they heard it...
Oh my god! Where did this ugly guy come from? Not to mention how rustic he is, his appearance, ahem...
Sparse and pale eyebrows, one short and one long, one up and down; one small single-lidded eye, one larger and one smaller, one convex and one concave; a flat nose, a big mouth, dark skin, and a face full of freckles.
The withered and yellow hair is like the tangled grass after autumn. It is really ugly!
Ling Shiyao was very aware of the disdainful looks from the people around her. She had become accustomed to this kind of looks in the eighteen years since she was born!
"Little sister, please give me a bowl of dough soup!" Ling Shiyao said seriously.
"Um... Miss, we don't have this." The pretty female waiter said awkwardly.
"Then... bring me a bowl of 'Baiwei Dinghun Porridge'! Your 'Baiwei Restaurant' must have this, right? I'm very tired and hungry, so I need to calm down first!" Ling Shiyao said with certainty.
"Miss... this... really doesn't exist." The pretty female clerk frowned in confusion.
"Hahahaha... Country girl, are you here to cause trouble?" asked a man in a colorful shirt sitting next to him.
Ling Shiyao looked at him and said nothing.
"Silly girl, if you are here to cause trouble, why don't you play with me first?" The man in the colorful shirt said, stood up and walked towards Ling Shiyao's table.
The beautiful eighteen-year-old female waiter who was standing aside was afraid that something might happen, so she hurriedly stepped forward to stop the man in the colorful shirt and said, "Sir, don't be like this. Please go back and sit down to have a meal."
The man in the colorful shirt waved his hand, pushed the female waiter away, and continued to walk over: "Brother, I just want to see what this silly girl wants to eat today."
Suddenly, the silly girl Ling Shiyao pointed behind the man in the colorful shirt and shouted: "Thief! Catch the thief!"
It was too late, but it was too late, but Ling Shiyao jumped up, flew over the man in the flower shirt, and chased him straight to the door of the restaurant...
Suddenly, the thirty or so diners in the restaurant, as well as the female waiters and men in colorful shirts, were all stunned by Ling Shiyao's shout!
What's going on? What happened?
What's wrong with this silly girl? Is she really crazy? She can actually fly?!
"Wha—!" Silly girl flew back to the restaurant in front of everyone's astonished eyes...
She quickly walked up to the man in the floral shirt, took out a black leather handbag from behind, and stuffed it into the stunned man's hand: "Is it your bag? It was stolen just now! Now I've snatched it back."
!for you!"
The man in the colorful shirt looked at the black cowhide handbag in his hand, and then at the seat where he was just now, and then he understood what was going on: "Silly... little girl! Thank you! In this bag, in addition to the boss of my business,
I still have a lot of silver coins! Thank you, thank you!"
When everyone heard this, they all applauded Ling Shiyao!
The man in the colorful shirt opened his handbag, took out a piece of silver and said to Ling Shiyao: "Little girl, I'm sorry! I was so offended just now! Take this piece of silver, consider it a little bit of gratitude from my brother!"
"Haha... no need! This is what I should do! Draw your sword to help when there is an injustice!" Ling Shiyao laughed and pushed the money handed over by the man in the flower shirt and walked back to her seat. Suddenly, she found the small vine she had placed in the corner.
The box and yellow cloth bag are missing!
That was all Ling Shiyao's belongings - thirty taels of silver that her grandmother had accumulated over the years, three sets of clothes, and the little fluffy duck with a red ribbon around her neck that she had carried with her since she was a child.
It was a baby gift given to her by her father on her third birthday! Then she never saw her father again...
Huh? There’s more than one thief?
The rivers and lakes are really dangerous, and they are still trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain?!
Thinking of this, Ling Shiyao jumped out of the restaurant door again...
After returning in vain, Ling Shiyao walked back to "Baiwei Restaurant" in frustration. After everyone figured out what happened, they all came to comfort her.
Ling Shiyao, who was alone and empty-handed, looked at the fragrant, hot, fresh food served to her enthusiastically by the table full of people, and had no appetite at all...
Now you are in a foreign land, without any friends, and penniless. What should you do next?
Go back to your hometown? You don’t have travel expenses, and you won’t be willing to do it! You finally came out, and you’re going to turn back? You won’t eat it!
"Girl, are you here to visit relatives or to play?" Ling Shiyao looked up and saw that the beautiful female clerk, who was 18 or 19 years old, had found a very kind middle-aged man: "Haha... My name is Huang Wannian.
He is the owner of this restaurant. Haha..."
Ling Shiyao stood up quickly and said: "I...my name is Ling Shiyao, and I came to the capital...to find work!"
"Oh, good! Has Miss Ling found a job?" Boss Huang Wannian asked with great concern.
"I... just got off the carriage and haven't found a job yet. Now all the money and luggage I brought were stolen. I don't even know where to live..." Ling Shiyao said with tears in her eyes.
"Miss Ling, don't cry. Otherwise, if you don't mind, how about working in my small restaurant first? I happen to be short of manpower!" Boss Huang laughed.
Ling Shiyao was overjoyed when she heard this, she burst into tears and said with a smile: "Okay, okay! I do!"
The beautiful female clerk who was eighteen or nineteen years old happily stepped forward, took Ling Shiyao's hands and said, "Sister Yaoyao, welcome!"
"Haha... her name is Huang Lingling, she is my biological niece! She is just nineteen years old this year, so please call her Sister Lingling. You two sisters will live together from now on!"
"Okay, okay! Sister Yaoyao, we will work and live together together from now on! It's so fun!" Huang Lingling said happily, shaking Ling Shiyao's hands.
Ling Shiyao looked at the enthusiastic uncle and nephew and nodded gratefully...

Chapter completed!