Chapter 295
Chapter 295
"Then go get it. I will wait right here, and don't try to play any tricks with me." Cheng Qingli adopted a posture that said she wouldn't leave until they returned.
This filled Qin Dong's heart with gratitude.
"Did they take anything else from you?" Cheng Qingli looked at Qin Dong beside her and asked.
"To answer you, Miss, my young son is still in their hands." Qin Dong was overjoyed; he hadn't expected this young woman to be the young lady of the Cheng family.
The Cheng family was the maiden family of the Empress.
The Yue family certainly wouldn't dare provoke them.
Qin Dong had already made up his mind to hand this shop over to Cheng Qingli.
That way, the shop wouldn't be disgraced.
In the future, no matter what Miss Cheng wanted to do, the Yue family wouldn't dare come forward to make trouble.
"Take the silver and send the Qin family's child back," Cheng Qingli said coldly.
"I will go back and get him right away," Wu San said with a nod.
In his heart, however, he was thinking that once he went back, he simply wouldn't return. Eventually, this Miss Cheng would surely have to go home.
"Someone, follow them! If they don't comply, you know what to do." At Cheng Qingli's command, a guard immediately tailed Wu San and his men.
Feeling the oppressive aura from this man, Wu San knew he was a trained martial artist.
He cursed inwardly: just where did this god of plague come from?
"Brother San, what do we do now?" Wang Er asked, still looking back at Cheng Qingli with some reluctance.
"What do we do? We'll talk about it when we get back! You blind fool!" Wu San was extremely irritated. He could already imagine how angry his master would be when he reported back.
Qin Restaurant
"Miss Cheng, this is the deed to the Qin Restaurant." Qin Dong tremblingly held the deed to the Qin Restaurant out to Cheng Qingli.
"I had no intention of taking your deed," Cheng Qingli said, frowning at the document.
She just wanted to help him.
After all, under such circumstances, his first thought had still been to protect her.
She remembered this kindness.
"Miss Cheng, you should accept it. Even if this stays in my hands, it won't be for long. It is better to give it to you," Qin Dong said with a helpless expression.
"Old man, can you tell me what exactly happened here?" Cheng Qingli asked, looking at Qin Dong.
"Sigh, this shop was passed down from my ancestors. When my father handed it to me, it was doing perfectly fine. But my disappointing son somehow got addicted to gambling and lost everything we owned. In the end, they came here to make trouble every day. We originally had some business, but it eventually turned into the scene you see today. Sigh..." Qin Dong thought about how the wealth accumulated by his ancestors had ended up like this just because he hadn't taught his son well.
"If the son is unfilial, it is the father's fault. It is not unjust that you have ended up in this situation today." After hearing this, Cheng Qingli knew that someone must have been jealous of the restaurant's good business and deliberately tripped their family up.
"Miss generously intervened today. Now, this Qin Restaurant is my last bit of family property. I would rather give it to you than let those bastards have it cheap," Qin Dong said with red eyes.
"Don't you want to save your son?" Cheng Qingli asked curiously.
"What Miss said is right. If a son is not taught well, it is the father's fault. I bear a great responsibility for him ending up like this today. Afterwards, I will take him with me and make sure he turns over a new leaf," Qin Dong said, looking dispirited.
However, as he spoke, his entire being seemed to age more than ten years in an instant.
"Since you are going to give this Qin Restaurant to me, then while you're at it, sell your son to me as a slave for three years." Cheng Qingli took the deed from Qin Dong's hands and handed it to Mingyue beside her.
"This... my son is stubborn and unruly..." Qin Dong looked at Cheng Qingli with a troubled expression. Firstly, he was worried his son would bring trouble to Cheng Qingli, and secondly, he was reluctant to have his own son sold into slavery.
"What are you afraid of? Three years from now, I will definitely return a healthy son to you." Cheng Qingli looked at the hesitant Qin Dong, thinking to herself that it was no wonder this man had raised his son to be like that.
"Then I thank you, Miss!" Qin Dong thought to himself that it would be good for his son to suffer a bit of hardship.
"This restaurant is missing a chef. I wonder if the shopkeeper is still willing to continue cooking here?" Cheng Qingli looked at Qin Dong again and asked.
"Miss is willing to employ me?" Qin Dong hadn't learned anything else in his entire life; he only knew how to toss a wok. He had originally been worrying about where he would go, but he never expected Miss Cheng to give him another way out.
"Your cooking skills are quite good. From now on, thirty percent of this restaurant's profits will be your wages. You will be the head chef here for me for three years." After Cheng Qingli finished speaking, she left.
As for the Yue family's side, Cheng Qingli believed that the person who had just left following Wu San would naturally handle it well.
Cheng Qingli and Li Zhiwei stood at the entrance of the Qin Restaurant. Since leaving that day, she had never been back here, but the Qin Restaurant's business had boomed afterwards.
However, her three-year agreement with Qin Dong had expired.
Qin Dong had submitted his resignation to her.
He said that for the sake of their child, he had made his wife suffer her whole life. Now that he was older, he wanted to take his wife to travel around and see the world.
"Miss, you're here." A young man walked out of the restaurant and bowed with clasped hands to Cheng Qingli.
"Let's go. We'll go in and see if this place is suitable." Cheng Qingli nodded to the man and then made a gesture of invitation to Li Zhiwei beside her.
"Then let's take a look." Just now, when Cheng Qingli had been staring blankly at the restaurant, Li Zhiwei hadn't disturbed her; she had merely observed the surroundings of the Qin Restaurant.
She was very satisfied with the prospect of opening her own shop here in the future.
Beside them, Qin Minghao respectfully opened the door for the two women.
Back then, because of his ignorance, he had been schemed against. His father had given their ancestral property to Miss Cheng, and he himself had learned a lot by Miss Cheng's side.
Now, he was no longer that ignorant, reckless boy, but a capable shopkeeper by Miss Cheng's side.
When the three-year term was up, Miss Cheng had given him the choice to either leave or stay by her side.
He chose to stay, grateful for Cheng Qingli's kindness in pulling their family out of despair back then.
"Are you not running this restaurant anymore?" Li Zhiwei looked at all the tables and chairs here, which were still very clean and tidy, looking as if people were still coming in to dine.
"The head chef said he has cooked for others his whole life. For his remaining days, he just wants to accompany his wife and live their little life well," Cheng Qingli said with a smile, recalling Qin Dong's words.
"That's quite nice."
Li Zhiwei looked around downstairs and then went upstairs to look as well. Her intuition told her that this place was like a venue specially prepared for her.
Whether it was the location or the size of the building, it was incredibly suitable.
"How about it, partner? Are you satisfied with my place?" Cheng Qingli looked at Li Zhiwei's expression and knew that she was very pleased with it.
Thinking of this, Cheng Qingli suddenly became expectant too. What could they transform this place into?
Beside them, Qin Minghao smiled at his master, fully prepared to immediately carry out whatever tasks she instructed him to do.