Chapter 76
Li Danian and Cousin Yang An were planing planks in the carpentry room, and when they saw Song Xiaoyue coming in, they both stopped what they were doing and said hello to Song Xiaoyue with a smile.
"Uncle Li, look at what this is?" Song Xiaoyue looked mysterious and handed Li Danian a cowhide bag.
"Oh, I'll take a look!" Li Danian glanced at Song Xiaoyue, saw Song Xiaoyue's upturned mouth, and vaguely felt that something good was coming.
"This is the blueprint of the loom, little master, where did you come from? Wait, this is obviously your handwriting, is it...... You designed it? This is too against the sky! This is a baby! Little master, do you want me to build this loom? Let me tell you, no problem! This design is even clearly drawn in principle and structure, and a fool can do it if he does it, let alone me! Yang An, take the tools, let's go up to the Foggy Mountains to cut wood now!" Li Danian is now completely a fanatical enthusiast who only has the design drawings in his eyes, listening to what he said, he was obviously talking to Song Xiaoyue, but later, he completely ignored Song Xiaoyue, and ordered Yang An to take all the tools of cutting, pull Yang An and go out vigorously, without even saying hello to Song Xiaoyue.
Song Xiaoyue watched the two of them disappear from her sight in disbelief, and couldn't help but sigh a little bit that the master and apprentice were really running a little fast!
Looking at the design drawings on the table that Li Danian hadn't had time to clean up, he shook his head and put the design drawings away in a leather bag, put them in a drawer and locked them, and then turned around and walked out!
When Song Xiaoyue returned to the West Wing again, her cousin and cousin-in-law had already packed up and were standing at the door of the West Wing waiting for Song Xiaoyue.
"Cousin, are you all packed?" Song Xiaoyue asked with a smile.
"It's all packed!" replied in unison.
"Then let's go to the embroidery building!" Song Xiaoyue took them to the embroidery building after speaking!
arranged for two cousins to go to the weaving department, and the two cousins-in-law naturally arranged to the dyeing department.
After arranging them properly, Song Xiaoyue went to the backyard of the embroidery building to find the eldest sister, but saw Min Jie, who was praised by the housekeeper.
When Song Xiaoyue went to the eldest sister's special embroidery room to find the eldest sister, she saw only one stunning beauty in the room, and Song Xiaoyue, who thought she had gone to the wrong room, was slightly stunned, and at this time, the beauty spoke!
"Are you here to find Sister Xingxing? Sister Xingxing has just gone out, you wait here, Sister Xingxing will be back soon!" The beauty's voice was like a yellow warbler out of the valley, and she listened to it gracefully, and Song Xiaoyue, who listened to it, was relaxed and happy, and her reverie was repeated.
"Beautiful sister, are you ......" Song Xiaoyue, who was a little distracted, was a little rude, which made the beauty laugh.
"Little boss, you are really a noble person, I am the embroidery girl you bought back yesterday, my name is Min Jie!" The beauty smiled like a flower, which made Song Xiaoyue can't help but think of the poems that fall in love with the city and then laugh at the country.
"Are you Min Jie?" Song Xiaoyue was a little surprised, Min Daxiuniang, who was praised by the housekeeper, turned out to be such a stunning beauty, could it be that the housekeeper was also fascinated by her, so he looked at her differently! Song Xiaoyue couldn't help but have some doubts, after all, she was a little confused just now.
"The little boss has heard of me?" The beauty was a little surprised, the beautiful eyes like autumn water were slightly enlarged, and the eyelashes appeared longer and denser, which made people want to touch it, Song Xiaoyue did that!
"Little boss, you ......" This move seemed to frighten the beauty, and the beauty took a few steps back, looking at Song Xiaoyue with some vigilance, which made Song Xiaoyue a little embarrassed, and habitually touched her nose.
"I'm sorry, it was a little abrupt just now! It's really that your eyelashes are so beautiful, I and I have a little itchy hands, hehe......" Song Xiaoyue smiled awkwardly, and saw that the beauty seemed to let down her guard, so she breathed a big sigh of relief.
"Min Jie, you are from Kyoto and a famous embroiderer, how could you be sold to Moxian?" Song Xiaoyue walked to the round table and sat down, turned over the teacup, poured herself a cup of tea, took a sip gently, and asked about Min Jie's life experience.
"Little boss, I'm ......" The beauty cried before she could say anything, and Song Xiaoyue, who had always been pitiful and cherished jade, was a little unbearable, but when she thought of the embroidery of "Luo Shen Futu", she could only be ruthless and unmoved.
"Come over here and sit down, talk slowly!" Song Xiaoyue turned over another teacup, poured a cup of tea, and motioned for Min Jie to come and sit down.
The beauty gently wiped the tears on her cheeks with a handkerchief, moved the lotus step gently, and slowly walked towards Song Xiaoyue.
"I have four brothers and sisters in my family, the eldest brother is the oldest, I am the third, I have an eldest sister above me, and a younger sister below. My father and mother are patriarchal, and since I was a child, I was not willing to let my eldest brother do any work, and I have not suffered the slightest grievance, so that my eldest brother has developed a lazy character of opening his mouth for food and stretching out his hands for clothes.
Later, my eldest brother became addicted to gambling, and the family's savings were slowly exhausted, and he also owed a lot of gambling debts outside. That's it, my father and mother are still reluctant to scold my eldest brother, let alone beat him. Just ordered the three of us sisters to work day and night to pay off the gambling debts for the eldest brother.
When I was 12 years old, I embroidered a pair of "Luo Shen Fu Tu", sold it on the black market for a lot of money, and paid off the gambling debts that my eldest brother owed outside. When my eldest brother saw that my embroidery was so valuable, he went out to gamble even more fearlessly, and later, naturally, he owed a lot of gambling debts. And I was locked in the room by my father and eldest brother to do embroidery, thinking that I could still embroider embroidery like "Luo Shen Futu". However, they didn't know that the composition of this "Luo Shen Futu" was not something I came up with myself, but I happened to meet a scholar and dropped his calligraphy and painting on the ground, and I took a look at it when I helped him pick it up. Later, for several nights in a row, I dreamed of the painting and calligraphy of "Luo Shen Futu", and the characters and scenery in it were vividly engraved in my mind and lingered. Later, I worked hard to embroider for three months before I embroidered the "Luo Shen Futu", although the embroidery was still a little unsatisfactory, but it was still sold for hundreds of dollars. I was locked up by them for a whole month, during which time I could only stay in the house embroidering except for going to the hut and eating.
However, I couldn't think of any big embroidery, so I could only embroider some screens, handkerchiefs, purses, etc., which didn't sell for much at all. My father and my eldest brother thought I was doing it on purpose, so they beat me up and threatened to sell me to the kiln. Min Jie was a little stumped when she said this, her hands holding the teacup trembled a little, and she lowered her head and was silent for a long time before she gradually calmed down.
"I'm scared, I don't think I can sit still, so that they will sell me, I might as well choose a place where I can settle down, and finally choose to rely on my previous fame to find an errand, because "Luo Shen Futu" made me famous, there are many people who want to hire me, and I paid my salary in advance, I still took the money back home, let my father and mother take it to pay off gambling debts! So, I became an embroidery girl in this embroidery shop, which was seven years. In the past eight years, I have learned a lot and tasted the warmth and coldness of people. Originally, I thought that I would stay in Xiuzhuang until I died of old age, but I didn't expect a disciple to change my fate. Min Jie was very angry when she said this, biting her lower lip tightly, and her eyes seemed to be about to breathe fire.
"When the disciple saw that there was no one around, he wanted to insult me, and I resisted desperately, and in a hurry I kicked his ...... Later, in order to calm things down, my owner sold me, and this time I was sold to Mo County. Min Jie sighed after speaking, put down the teacup that was about to be crushed, and glanced at Song Xiaoyue with some resentment.
Min Jie's glance, Song Xiaoyue, who looked at it, felt a little weak, thinking of her behavior just now, she couldn't help but feel a little painful. Later, I thought that I was now eggless, and I felt a little lucky, glad that I was now a daughter, this was the first time that Song Xiaoyue had the weird idea that being a daughter was good.
"That, I didn't mean to insult you just now, that was purely accidental, do you believe it?" Song Xiaoyue was a little at a loss, and her defense sounded pale and weak.
"I believe in you, after all, you are still a child, I misunderstood! Don't worry about this!" Min Jie's empathy made Song Xiaoyue sigh, it is really a beautiful person!
"What's going on?" the eldest sister arrived before she arrived, and Song Xiaoyue, who asked this, was really hard to say.
"That eldest sister, I suddenly remembered that there was a very important thing to be busy with, so I will go first!" Song Xiaoyue said as she walked out, almost not tripping over the threshold, Min Jie looked at it and covered her mouth and snickered, but the eldest sister didn't know what to do.
"Oh, if you have something to do, go get busy first!Walk and look at it, don't fall again!Go ahead!" Long Xing frowned and admonished, waving his hand to signal Song Xiaoyue to go out.
"Hehe......" Song Xiaoyue smiled awkwardly, turned around and fled!
In the west wing, Song Xiaoyue, Long Ying and Long Bai's master and servants were drinking tea and chatting with melon seeds, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. At this time, the housekeeper came to report and said that Song Yi asked to see him.
"Brother Lobby?" Song Xiaoyue was stunned for a moment, thinking of the somewhat honest Song Yi, and couldn't help but smile. If you say that the people in the uncle's house that are still pleasing to her eyes are Song Yi and Long Si!
"Let him in!" Song Xiaoyue smiled and looked at the butler who was still waiting on the side.
"I'll go out and invite him in!" said the butler, and withdrew.
Soon, Song Yi came in with some trepidation.
"Brother Lobby, do you have something to look for me?" Song Xiaoyue asked lukewarmly, she didn't immediately ask Song Yi to sit down, but still drank tea and munched melon seeds, looking like she didn't take Song Yi in her eyes.
Song Xiaoyue's high posture made Song Yi even more uneasy and uncomfortable. He hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke: "Yue'er, I really have something to do with you today." After speaking, he swallowed his saliva, glanced at Song Xiaoyue nervously, and saw that Song Xiaoyue was still unfazed, and felt a little relieved.
"Then let's talk about something!" Song Xiaoyue said tepidly again, then threw a melon seed into her mouth, swallowed it, and spit out the melon seed shell.
"Yue'er, I want to get an errand in your house, I can do any kind of work, I want to save some money, and send Jun'er to school next year. Song Yi stumbled and finished talking about the purpose of his trip, and the stammering appearance made Song Xiaoyue feel anxious when she heard it, and she couldn't help but reflect on whether she was a little too unkind.
"Brother Lobby, don't be so nervous, I'm not a tiger, I can't eat you. You come over for a cup of tea first, and let me think about it before I get back to you, okay?" Song Xiaoyue tried to ease her face and make herself look kinder and gentler. Alas, I did smell the tiger a little bit, and I was harmed by the best uncles and aunts, Long San and those two superb cousins for a long time, and I have formed a conditioned reflex!
"That, forget it if it doesn't work, I'll go back first!" Song Yi thought that Song Xiaoyue was politely rejecting him, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, a little sad, and a little ...... Grievance.
"Brother Lobby, don't worry, I'm thinking about what errands my family can do for you, so let's do it, you first manage my family's orchard with my Uncle Pan Jiangpan, and if you think it's okay, go to work today." If you are paid, you will be given thirty yuan a month, what do you think?" Song Xiaoyue didn't expect that Song Yi was still an impatient, and he was really an honest man, so he had to arrange an errand for him immediately, thinking that he was also doing farm work at home, and he should be able to serve those fruit trees well, as for the salary, he was still given a better treatment, after all, Song Yi was also a good young man who came out of the mud and was not stained.
"Yue'er, I heard you right, right? Thirty yuan a month, this salary is too high! Thank you, Yue'er, I'll go to work now, I promise to serve those fruit trees well. Song Yi was so excited that even his ears turned red, and he looked at Song Xiaoyue gratefully, but Song Xiaoyue was a little embarrassed.
"It's good if you don't dislike it, you go out to the housekeeper to register later, let him take you to Pan Jiang, he will teach you, go first!" Song Xiaoyue smiled after speaking, and asked Song Yi to find the housekeeper!
After Song Yi left, Song Xiaoyue felt a little bored, so she took Long Ying and Long Bai into the space to help her work!
The grain seeds soaked yesterday have sprouted, Song Xiaoyue smiled with satisfaction, and threw a wink at Long Ying and Long Bai, which caused the two of them to have a chill, and they all made a vomiting expression, and finally resigned themselves to carrying the grain seeds to the field to sow seeds.
The work in the fields has already been done for her, and Song Xiaoyue has become an old man who has nothing to do. During this period, he ate several fruits, and drove all the ducks and geese that were staying in the peach grove to the fish pond.
Looking at the 50 acres of empty dry land, Song Xiaoyue pondered when to buy some mulberry seedlings and cotton seeds to come back and try to plant one, and when the planting was successful, she would buy some dry land outside and plant it in large quantities. In this way, the embroidery building at home does not need to buy raw materials outside, and can basically be produced and sold by itself, which is perfect!
Just when Song Xiaoyue was whimsical and daydreaming, Long Ying and Long Bai had already come back from work, and when they saw Song Xiaoyue closing her eyes there, they couldn't help but make a grimace at Song Xiaoyue.
"All the work is done?" Song Xiaoyue suddenly spoke, scaring the two who were obsessed with grimacing almost lost their souls and went into cardiac arrest.
"Master, people are scared to death!" Long Bai's face turned pale and looked at Song Xiaoyue with resentment.
"But you're not human, are you? You're not so scared! Besides, you've all lived for 1,800 years, and even if you're scared to death by me, you won't lose money! Anyway, you two old monsters, and you're still afraid of death? Even if you die, I'll die before you, are you afraid of a bird?" Song Xiaoyue said lightly, as if death was like eating a common meal for her, no big deal!
"Bah, baba, childish words, the wind blows! Master, are you crazy? The sky is blue, you open and close your mouth to death, how unlucky!" Long Ying changed his indifferent and ruthless appearance in the past, crossed his hands on his waist, and learned the appearance of the ignorant village woman to go on endlessly, which made Song Xiaoyue feel a little funny and a little inexplicably moved.
"Who has not died in life since ancient times, leave Dan to take care of the sweat!" Song Xiaoyue suddenly recited a famous poem very stinky, self-hypnotizing herself that she was a generation of great people, and she deserved to be worshiped by all the people!
"Master, you are so talented! Xiaobai admires you so much!" Song Xiaoyue's pretentiousness was to capture a fan brother, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say! Xiaobai is free of courtesy!" Song Xiaoyue smiled proudly, and the dragon image next to her was like seeing through it, she secretly rolled her eyes and muttered in a low voice: It's so naïve, I can't stand it!
"Long Ying, Long Bai, shall we go to Nan'an City again in a few days? I will invite you to go to the first floor to have a good rub and have a good meal when the roast chicken is full, how about it?" Song Xiaoyue raised her eyebrows after speaking, and smiled a little chicken thief.
"Okay, okay, when are we going?" Long Bai seemed a little impatient when he heard that the roast chicken was enough, where did he have the extra mind to ponder the true intention behind Song Xiaoyue's treacherous smile.
"Master, what are you having? You can't sell the two of us!" Long Ying was not as easy to fool as Long Bai, and asked Song Xiaoyue to the point.
"Long Ying, what are you talking about?Do I look like that kind of person?" Song Xiaoyue was a little weak-hearted, and her words were a little lacking in confidence.
Dragon Shadow Long Bai glanced at each other, smiled, and said in unison, "You are that kind of person!"
"Hehe, I swear, I will never do that to you, you just put your heart back in your stomach, don't doubt my supreme character like this, okay?" Song Xiaoyue smiled sincerely, looking like a child.
"Long Ying, I believe that the master will not be like that to us!" Long Bai was really Xiaobai, and he believed Song Xiaoyue unconditionally in one sentence.
"Why do I still have an ominous premonition, this feeling is getting stronger and stronger!" Long Ying muttered quietly, seeing Long Bai's stupid appearance, he couldn't help but have a small emotion of hating iron but not steel.
No matter how powerful the two of them are, they can't fight Song Xiaoyue.