It was lunch time, and there was an endless stream of customers in the store.
Occasionally, a few diners looked curiously at the masked woman in brown linen who was busy serving food in the store, but seeing that she was busy doing her own thing, they only glanced at her for a few times and then looked away.
However, there were still a few curious regular customers who grabbed Sun Lei and said, "Boy, why didn't Yun Yi come today? Who is that girl?"
Sun Lei was busy greeting the guests and said with a smile: "Hey, Li Guanren, a distant relative from my hometown, please call her Xiaoyun. Yun Yi is not feeling well, so she didn't come today. Others, Xiaoyun, helped out in the kitchen.
It’s been a while, so I came to the front hall today to help.”
"Hey! Xiaoyun, Yunyi, you kid, can't you be..." The regular customer glanced at Deng Yun who was busy, with a slightly malicious smile.
"No way, Xiaoyun has a husband-in-law. Mr. Li, please stop making such jokes and let other girls hear carefully." Although Sun Lei felt uncomfortable, he still said with a smile.
"Oh, it's just a joke, but why does Xiaoyun cover her face with a veil because she is too beautiful to be seen?" Li Guanren raised his fat hand and touched his chin. When he said this, his lustful eyes went up and down.
He glanced at Deng Yun.
"No, Xiaoyun accidentally rolled down the hillside when she was working in the village, leaving a big scar. This is not because she is afraid of scaring the guests, so she wears a veil."
Hearing Sun Lei's words, Li Guanren's face instantly showed an unlucky look, and he looked away without interest, "I see, waiter, go and get busy, you are so good at taking care of Yun Yi. She is not here, and we are all
I have no appetite anymore.”
Several people at the same table also echoed.
The smile on Sun Lei's face froze a bit, and he couldn't help but cursed in his heart, 'Old pervert!', and left.
The guests at Wangjiang Tower are almost the same every day, and not everyone has money to eat in the restaurant every day.
After being busy for a while, Sun Lei and Deng Yun went to the kitchen to eat.
Deng Yun took off the veil on his face. Although the scars on his face were much better than when he first saw them, they still looked scary.
"Xiaoyun, this is the salary that Wangjiang Tower paid you in advance." Sun Lei glanced at the people working in the kitchen, carefully took out the silver in his arms and handed it to Deng Yun.
"Yun Yi knows that you are in urgent need of money, and we will lend it to you, but you definitely don't want it, so you begged the shopkeeper to advance your salary. You can count it and see if it's right."
Deng Yun stopped eating and his eyes immediately turned red, "Brother Sun..."
"Okay, just keep it. If you don't count correctly, tell the shopkeeper immediately." Sun Lei stuffed the money into Deng Yun's hand.
Deng Yun squeezed the bag of silver tightly, put down the bowl and chopsticks and wanted to kneel down to Sun Lei.
Sun Lei was startled and stopped him quickly.
"Xiaoyun, what are you doing?"
"Brother Sun, I, Deng Yun, will never forget your great kindness to you and Sister Yun. When I find my fiancé and resolve those matters, I will definitely repay you even if I work hard for the rest of my life."
Deng Yun pulled Sun Lei's hand away and kowtowed firmly to Sun Lei.
Sun Lei sighed lightly and had no choice but to accept it.
"Xiaoyun, your sister Yun didn't ask for anything in return when she saved you..."
Deng Yun stood up and said, "I know it's Sister Yun who is kind-hearted."
Sun Lei glanced at the scars on Deng Yun's face, hesitated for a few times, and finally asked: "Xiaoyun, I was worried that you would be sad a few days ago, so it was not easy for us to ask. Now can you tell us?
, how did you get the scar on your face?"
The scars on Deng Yun's face were not so obvious even if they were scratched by branches. The most terrifying thing was the marks that looked like they had been scratched by knives.
They are criss-crossed and appear dark red because they are scabbed.
When Deng Yun heard this, he shuddered subconsciously and his body shook slightly.
Seeing this, Sun Lei hurriedly said: "If it's inconvenient, there's no need to say anything."
"It's not inconvenient..." Deng Yun showed a sad smile, "Brother Sun, you also know that when I came to Beijing this time, I came to see my husband-in-law."
Their Dengjia Village is located at the junction of the Northern Yan Kingdom and the Western Jin Kingdom. The folk customs are simple and honest. Almost all the people in the village are family members named Deng. They live in the company of farmland. Although their life is hard, they still live a relatively happy life.
However, occasionally people fleeing the famine pass by, and the kind people in the village occasionally come to help.
Deng Yun met Zhou Shui when he was seven years old.
At that time, Zhou Shui was only twelve years old. He was taken by Zhou's mother to flee to Dengjia Village, where he was taken in by Deng Yun's family.
Zhou Shuichang has beautiful features and can read. I heard that he was a young man from a good family before. Unfortunately, he encountered a bandit on the road. Except Zhou Shui and her mother, no one in the family was spared.
Deng Yun fell in love with Zhou Shui when he first met him. At that time, Zhou Shui's mother also fell in love with her and often joked that she wanted her to be a child bride for the Zhou family.
The news that Deng Yun's family had picked up two people, and that Zhou Shui could read, spread all over the village.
There was a lot of discussion in the village. It happened that the village was still short of a teacher, so Zhou Shui took over.
All the money Zhou Shui earned was given to Deng Yun, and their marriage was settled.
As the days passed, both of them reached the age of marriage. They held a simple wedding and lived a relatively happy life.
But the good times did not last long, and Zhou Shui suddenly proposed to go to Beijing to take the exam.
Seeing that Zhou Shui really wanted to go, Deng Yun gritted his teeth and sold his family's cows. In addition, he often went to the mountains to pick mushrooms and sell them. Finally, he scraped together enough money for Zhou Shui to take the exam in Beijing.
Later, Zhou Shui suddenly wrote to him, saying that he fell ill on the road and settled in a village for a while. From then on, Deng Yun never received a letter from Zhou Shui again.
Zhou's mother didn't seem to be too worried about Zhou Shui. Instead, the longer Zhou Shui came to Beijing, the more unfavorable she became to Deng Yun. She often found fault with Deng Yun, and she and Zhou Shui were completely different from before they got married.
Although Deng Yun was puzzled, he didn't think much about it. He just assumed that Zhou's mother was worried about Zhou Shui and was in a bad mood.
Until the days were counted and the time for releasing the rankings had passed, there was no news at all from Dengjiacun. Deng Yun became a little anxious and got up early that night, preparing to go to the city to inquire.
But just halfway along the way, she suddenly encountered several masked gangsters. Without saying a word, they knocked her unconscious and threw her off the cliff. If she hadn't been lucky and lucky, her body would have been gone by now.
"...So, you don't know who targeted you? Did the injuries on your face appear after you woke up?"
After listening to Deng Yun's story, Sun Lei asked with some emotion.