Chapter 60: Accident
As autumn came, the wind became chilly.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wei Hu almost ran out of mooncakes. It was good that Wei Cheng left him a few boxes and he also spent a month’s wages to buy mooncakes. He liked barbecued pork and egg yolk mooncakes the most, while others eat moon cakes and drink only tea, he eats moon cakes and drinks it with wine.
Wei Hu kept begging in front of Wei Cheng to ask Wei Cheng to continue making mooncakes.
Such a tall and broad man likes to eat moon cakes and pastries.
What expression should Wei Cheng use to say hello to him?
Wei Cheng didn’t want to care about this guy.
Wei Hu shouted, “I didn’t eat those alone! While I drank and ate mooncakes, Mr. Lei also drank and ate mooncakes with me. After eating my mooncakes, he took away two boxes from me. He also picked the egg yolk mooncakes and sweet-scented osmanthus mooncakes. The sweet-scented osmanthus mooncake is extremely loved by gers and girls so Wei Lei took away more than half of what I had, and he even told me not to tell anyone! I was wronged and was not allowed to tell anyone, I am so aggrieved!”
Eating sweet-scented osmanthus mooncakes, and egg yolk mooncakes- when there are no moon cakes left, a rough man like you still keeps seeking pastries.
But-
Wei Cheng pondered, Wei Lei must have met someone on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Wei Lei doesn’t like eating moon cakes and pastries very much, but he often drinks with Wei Hu and others so him eating moon cakes while drinking is abnormal.
Zhou Yuan smiled, “Wei Lei told you not to tell others but you still told us!”
Wei Hu retorted bluntly, “Master Lei said that you can’t tell others but the master and the little master are my masters, so you are not others.”
This logic is quite in line with Wei Hu’s style.
If Wei Lei knew that he had already been exposed by Wei Hu, a big fool, he wondered how colorful his indifferent look would become.
“Were the mooncakes Wei Lei took for himself?” Wei Cheng asked.
“No, it seems that he wanted to give it to someone, and apologize.”
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan looked at each other, a question in their eyes, Wei Cheng continued to ask, “And then?”
Wei Hu stared at him, “What then?! My mooncakes are gone!”
Wei Cheng: “…”
He shouldn’t expect this guy to find out anything.
Zhou Yuan chuckled.
Wei Cheng waved his hand, “Okay, I understand, you go out first.”
“Thank you, master.” Wei Hu was happy, and asked expectantly, “When will there be mooncakes?”
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Wei Cheng was laughed at- he waved it away, ah, forget it, it’s not a big deal. Not only was Wei Hu clamoring to eat some, but the customers who bought it before all turned around and asked if they would continue to make it.
“If you want to eat some then go buy duck eggs.”
“This task would absolutely be completed!”
After Wei Hu went out, Zhou Yuan asked, “The Mid-Autumn Festival is over, can you still sell mooncakes?”
Wei Cheng looked at his wife and said with a smile, “We won’t sell moon cakes. We’ll sell egg yolk cakes. There are differences between egg yolk cakes and moon cakes. We will also sell sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, which you like. However, we’ll still sell them in limited quantities.”
“I don’t want to eat that much.” Zhou Yuan retorted softly.
Wei Cheng smiled and said in a low voice, “Of course, it’s Wei Hu who wants to eat, not my Yuan Yuan.”
Zhou Yuan laughed again, and asked after a while, “Husband, do you think Wei Lei met a girl or ger on the Mid-Autumn Festival?”
Wei Cheng shook his head to show that he didn’t know, and then said, “Wei Hu is not talking about it, he will definitely reveal Lei-zi’s matter if he is too happy.”
Don’t expect Wei Hu to keep these “irrelevant” things a secret!
Wei Cheng guessed it right.
In autumn, the sun sets early so the workshop closes early, and the workers all go back home, leaving only the long-term workers and Wei Cheng’s servants who live in the grocery store.
Xian Manju hired a long-term shopkeeper, and the business stabilized. Wei Lei stayed in the grocery store for a long time. After dinner, he, Wei Hu, Wei Yuan, Wei Yi, and the others drank in the grocery store.
Wei Cheng agreed to make moon cakes so Wei Hu was happy, and when he was happy, he drank too much. When he drank too much, he told how he bargained with his master, and said everything he said to his master.
He still could praise himself for his cleverness and ability to bargain, so the master agreed to continue making mooncakes. He didn’t have to save the mooncakes in his hand, and he wouldn’t feel bad about giving the mooncakes to Lord Lei.
Wei Lei: “…”
The originally expressionless face became even more expressionless.
Everyone who heard it suppressed their laughter, but Wei Yuan laughed heartily.
The next day, when he returned to the grocery store after closing the stalls, he went to the living room to look for Wei Cheng who was working. Wei Lei was also there. Wei Cheng and him were discussing the arrangement of the next workshop. Wei Yuan told Wei Cheng what happened yesterday on the spot. Wei Lei couldn’t stop him, since everyone knew about it anyway, he didn’t say anything.
Zhou Yuan stopped looking at the account book, and after listening to it, he thought to himself, his husband is good at predicting things.
Wei Cheng looked at Wei Lei jokingly, Wei Lei felt that he could no longer hide anything, so he talked about what happened that night.
“…I met a ger and knocked down the lantern of that ger. I bought the lantern as an apology but I didn’t know the meaning of buying a lantern… I felt sorry. Wei Hu had mooncakes in his hand and you all said that gers and girls like to eat them so I asked Wei Hu to ask for it, I went to the inner county a few times, but I didn’t see him… you already what happened with Wei Hu!”
Wei Cheng asked, “Were the moon cakes an apology to that ger?”
“Yeah!” Wei Lei nodded sullenly, “I didn’t find him.”
It was a certainty that the ger would be hard to find, Dajing has less strict customs and does not restrict gers and girls from going out, but gers and girls can’t go to the streets every day.
Those raised with strict family education and wealthy family members are even less likely to go out at will. It is difficult to find someone.
Wei Cheng looked at Wei Lei’s expression, it seemed that he had been enlightened, but he didn’t notice it.
He didn’t remind him that some things should go with the flow, after all, no figure of that ger was found!
—
The late nights of autumn were cold and silent.
In the Wei family’s house in the suburbs, a glass lamp was hung in the yard, and the light slightly illuminated the night.
Bang bang—
There was a hasty knock on the door.
The candles in the servant’s room in the front yard were lit, and Wei Hu’s figure had already reached the gate of the yard. The martial arts practitioner was the first to notice someone approaching the yard, so he opened the door without hesitation.
It was Zhou Qiu and her elder brother, Zhou Yongtao. The two siblings looked anxious, and their foreheads were sweating despite the cold autumn night, which showed how anxious they were.
Zhou Qiu looked at Wei Hu, and said eagerly, “Quickly, find Wei Cheng, we need to save someone—”
Zhou Qiu pointed to the ox cart behind him, Wei Hu immediately went to investigate, and let another servant who came after him go into the backyard to find his master.
At night, the backyard is quiet and the people in the house sleep soundly.
A knock on the door woke up the sleeping person. Wei Cheng opened his eyes, his eyes immediately alert as he got up- the sleepiness that was there just a moment before was already gone.
Zhou Yuan sat up and asked anxiously, “Husband, what’s wrong?!”
Wei Cheng turned around, and leaned over to comfort him, “Wei Jin called me, it’s okay, I’ll go out for a while, and you go back to sleep.” After speaking, he turned and opened the door.
Wei Jin knocked urgently, which meant that he was knocking on the door in the middle of the night because of important matters, Wei Cheng walked out of the room without delay.
Zhou Yuan hugged the quilt and did not fall asleep, he pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation outside.
“Master, Miss Zhou Qiu, and his eldest brother are here, it seems that someone has been injured.”
“Wei Hu is in the front yard. I’m here to report. I apologize for disturbing the two masters, please find a suitable punishment for doing so.”
Wei Cheng said in a deep voice, “I’ll go and have a look.”
“Husband—what’s wrong with Xiao Qiu?” Zhou Yuan came out wearing a coat.
Wei Cheng saw him coming out, he must have heard what he and Wei Jin said, and he would definitely not want to go back to his room.
It was cold at night so he reached out to help people put on their coats, so as not to be chilled by the cold wind at night, and then took his hand as they went to the front yard.
In the front yard, the ox cart was pulled directly into the yard.
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan went over and saw Zhou Qiu who kept comforting Zhou Muzi. Zhou Muzi’s eyes were swollen from crying. He was sitting on the ox cart with a flustered look on his face, and there were quilts and quilts on the ox cart. A person was lying on it.
It was Li Hu who was unconscious.
Seeing his master, Wei Hu took a step forward, and said in a deep voice, “The injury is serious, and his fever is still high. The wound is severely inflamed. It is very bad. It is urgent so we should go to the county immediately to see a doctor. The situation is quickly deteriorating, and I may not be able to preserve his life until dawn.”
It was the middle of the night, and the county gate of Nanshan County had been closed, it was difficult to enter the county at night, but it was not difficult to get out of the county.
Everyone present knew it, and their expressions became even more grave.
Zhou Yuan had already gone to Zhou Muzi’s side to comfort him. Upon hearing Wei Hu’s words, Zhou Muzi was so afraid that his body trembled and his face turned paler. It was Zhou Yuan and Zhou Qiu who held his hands tightly and supported him, giving him courage so that he would not go limp.
Wei Cheng looked serious, and asked in a deep voice, “Wei Hu, find a way to go into the county and bring the doctor out!”
Wei Hu nodded, he could enter and leave the county, the problem was, “Master, this subordinate doesn’t know the doctor!”
“…”
If it wasn’t for the wrong timing, Wei Cheng wouldn’t be angry. After thinking about it, he ordered in a deep voice, “You go to Doctor Ge who is treating Uncle Mao, and ask him to come.”
He could only go to the inner county.
Luckily, Wei Hu knows this doctor.
Wei Hu nodded, turned, and left, his figure quickly disappeared into the night.
Wei Cheng asked someone to find a wooden plank and carried him to the guest room. After Li Hu was settled, he could only wait for the doctor to come.
Zhou Muzi refused to leave Li Hu who was in a coma, and Zhou Qiu, who knew what happened, was explaining to Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan.
It turned out that Zhou Muzi’s husband Li Hu didn’t go to work, but went hunting secretly with the village hunters.
Hunting is dangerous, and one can make a lot of money by hunting wild animals. Li Hu wanted to use this method to make money, so he went hunting secretly. Zhou Muzi didn’t know what happened until he was brought back.
Li Hu was injured to save a half-grown little man. He pushed the others and faced the danger directly. He was scratched by a wild animal and to survive, he jumped off a low cliff and broke his leg.
Li Hu was carried back, with injuries on his body, broken legs, and bleeding from the scratch. The barefoot doctor in the village used mountain herbs to stop the bleeding.
It was the first time Zhou Muzi encountered this kind of thing, and he was very flustered. Apart from taking care of Li Hu, he didn’t know what to do.
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Thanks for the chapter!
Who are these people? Sorry, my memory is cr*p for stories I don’t read daily which make it so I can almost remember the CN names… I’ve been reading CN web novels for over 2 years now & the names still kill me. Since I’m not reading the names with their meaning (which would make them more memorable), I only have the phonetic translation, with way too many similar sounding names… Way too used to western names…
This couple has really bad luck! First their thieving relatives, then the bad timing that kept them from working with Zhou Yuan, and now a serious injury. I hope Zhou Yuan can help them.