It was completely dark. Chen Jinjun held his chin and looked at the bright moon in the sky.
The second wife of the Huo family said that her mother was very free back then, doing business in various places with her father every day, like a free and beautiful flower.
"My boss, it's almost midnight, go to bed early." When Shen Xiaoxiao returned to her room, she saw Chen Jinjun still sitting in the yard, lost in thought, so she went over to remind Chen Jinjun.
Chen Jinjun did not move, continued to look up at the moon, and asked Shen Xiaoxiao thoughtfully: "Shopkeeper Shen, what kind of person do you think my mother is?"
Shen Xiaoxiao came over and coaxed her back into the house: "It's too cold outside. Let's go back inside. I'll tell you."
Chen Jinjun nodded and followed Shen Xiaoxiao back to the room.
Shen Xiaoxiao asked the maid to fetch hot water while he helped Chen Jinjun change out of his loose coat.
"Madam, madam is very beautiful and matches her old employer very well." Shen Xiaoxiao said with some nostalgia.
Chen Jinjun sat on the bed and listened to her carefully.
"It was my first time in Beijing. I thought everything in Beijing was good and prosperous like I had never seen before. But I was wrong." Shen Xiaoxiao smiled bitterly and shook her head. "I never thought about being able to get engaged freely." A man tricked me into coming to Beijing to get married, saying he wanted to live a good life with me."
Chen Jinjun knew this, and she reached out to pat Shen Xiaoxiao in distress.
Shen Xiaoxiao looked at the oil lamp on the side with unfocused eyes, and then recalled: "Later, he took me around the capital for a day. It was the Lantern Festival, and the lanterns were like day, so I was taken around by him. He visited the entire capital, and that night he sold me to Yuchun Tower, the place that changed my life."
"I still remember that when I was just sold to Yuchun Tower, I didn't speak or eat every day."
"It's so stupid to keep blaming yourself. How can you believe a man's words?"
At this point, Shen Xiaoxiao rolled up her sleeves, and the deep and shallow scars on her forearms all told her despair when she was sold to Yuchun Tower.
Chen Jinjun looked at Shen Xiaoxiao's little arms with dim eyes.
"Fortunately, after a while, the original owner of Yuchun Tower was raided and executed. Anyone with a little savings could run away. I was penniless at the time, so I watched Yuchun Tower being looted by the Chen family. Acquired."
"That was the beginning of a change in destiny. I was in the building with a few poor girls. They cried and bandaged my arms every day, which made me upset." A nostalgic smile gradually appeared on Shen Xiaoxiao's face.
"I took them to clean up the inside and outside of my Yuchun Building and found some broken silver."
Shen Xiaoxiao tilted her head and said with a sad tone: "That was the first full meal we have had in so many days."
"After a few days of just making do, Madam brought someone to Yuchun Tower for the first time."
"At that time, I was bandaging the wounds on my arms that were not fully healed." Shen Xiaoxiao brushed the scars on his arms. "The madam asked what was going on. I told her one by one, and the madam asked if anyone wanted to leave. If so, If you want to leave, the Chen family can provide you with a decent job. Many people have left, but I didn't leave. I always felt that if I left, it would be better to stay. Later, my wife made me the foreman of Yuchun House."
"That was the first time I saw the sunshine in the future." A look of yearning appeared on Shen Xiaoxiao's face.
Chen Jinjun nodded: "That's because Shopkeeper Shen is so good. Ordinary people wouldn't have the courage to stay, nor would they be able to support Yuchun Tower from scratch."
"Not everyone can win the favor of Madam." Shen Xiaoxiao believed that it was Chen Jinjun's mother who gave him a chance to be reborn.
"My mother has always been very gentle." Chen Jinjun smiled sweetly, remembering the time when she and her mother went south to do business together when she was a child.
"It's getting late, my boss needs to go to bed quickly." Shen Xiaoxiao asked the maid to bring Chen Jinjun's foot bath water out, and began to urge Chen Jinjun to go to bed early.
Chen Jinjun refused to sleep: "Tell me more about my mother."
Shen Xiaoxiao was looked at by Chen Jinjun expectantly, and she couldn't bear it, so she still sat down.
"Lie down first." Shen Xiaoxiao pressed Chen Jinjun under the quilt and stuffed a Tangbaozi into it.
Chen Jinjun lay down obediently, and Shen Xiaoxiao tucked her in.
Shen Xiaoxiao looked at Chen Jinjun and suddenly couldn't help but feel a sore nose.
After all, the boss is just a little girl. The fierceness of working hard in the mall over the years has made many people ignore this.
She suppressed the tightness in her throat and began to tell Chen Jinjun stories about the past.
Shen Xiaoxiao tried her best to slow down her tone and speaking speed, and Chen Jinjun slowly fell asleep in those pleasant and warm past events.
Seeing Chen Jinjun closing his eyes tightly and breathing evenly, Shen Xiaoxiao stopped talking.
She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Chen Jinjun's sleeping face which was very similar to his wife's.
Madam was kind to me in the past, but now that she is gone, I can only return this kindness to you, my little boss.
Shen Xiaoxiao blew out the oil lamp and walked out of the door quietly.
Chen Jinjun slept deeply. In her dream, she saw her mother and father standing together and smiling at her.
It was almost noon the next day when he woke up. Chen Jinjun rubbed his eyes and stretched out of the bedroom.
The sky was a little dark today. If it weren't for the Western clock he placed there that was still running, Chen Jinjun wouldn't have known that he had slept for so long.
Since her parents left, she has never slept for such a long time.
She yawned and walked around the yard to stretch her muscles, only to hear the hurried footsteps getting closer and closer.
Chen Jinjun squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound. It was Shen Xiaoxiao who ran over.
Shen Xiaoxiao looked very ugly. The first thing he said when he saw Chen Jinjun was: "My boss, it's bad, something big has happened."
At this time, Chen Jinjun's mind was still in chaos. He just stood there and looked at Shen Xiaoxiao with a confused expression.
Seeing her dull look, Shen Xiaoxiao guessed that his boss had just woken up.
But the current situation no longer allows Chen Jinjun to be sluggish.
Shen Xiaoxiao took out a handkerchief, wetted it with water and wiped Chen Jinjun's face.
Seeing that Chen Jinjun was a little awake, Shen Xiaoxiao quickly told her: "Something happened."
Chen Jinjun rubbed his face vigorously, and the strength of his hands made Shen Xiaoxiao feel distressed.
"Boss Zheng of the teahouse was beaten yesterday!"
Shen Xiaoxiao was very anxious. According to Xu Sheng's description, Zheng Wen was seriously injured.
Hearing what Shen Xiaoxiao said, Chen Jinjun immediately exploded.
"What did you say? Shopkeeper Zheng had someone beat him up?" Chen Jinjun's voice was loud at first, and even the guards outside the courtyard heard this concern.
"Boss Xu sent someone to send word that shopkeeper Zheng had broken a leg." Shen Xiaoxiao was also in a hurry. She ran all the way from the back door of Huo Mansion to Chen Jinjun's courtyard.
Chen Jinjun immediately turned around and ran to the bedroom.
"My boss?" Shen Xiaoxiao didn't know what Chen Jinjun was going to do.
"I have to find a way to go out and take a look!" Chen Jinjun shouted as he ran, and in the blink of an eye he was out of sight.
Shen Xiaoxiao froze on the spot. Did his boss forget that he couldn't get out of Huo Mansion?
Or is it that the boss has already figured out how to escape?