Chapter 24: Theft

The things that were going to pick people in the yard were let out of the wind, as if cold water was dripping into the hot oil pot, and the courtyard and the courtyard were all blown up, and those who didn't do the errand didn't come with them, then there were many fewer children, and those who had no way to go had hope.

When I go back to the house, I want to enter the house, and I always turn around and ask for a relationship, and the good ones are gone, and the rest can only be picked up in the turn, and there are many shortcomings in vain.

Xiangkou Jiu Liang quietly pulled Shi Gui, and said privately in his ear: "You must have gone in, go and ask your godmother, which yard will you stuff you into?"

Sweeping the girl is the most tiring drudgery, only rainy days throughout the year can also rest, spring sweeping leaves and summer sticky, autumn rain stopped the wet leaves in that place have to be scraped with a broom, in winter it is colder, early in the morning have to get up to sweep the snow, frozen hands and feet are sore.

The errand is so hard, who doesn't want to be a big girl, just like half a master, hot soup in heat, hot tea in cold, and someone to add charcoal to the water, even the jasper daughter of a small family outside, is not so useful.

Mrs. Zheng wanted to say something, but the matter was undecided, Shi Gui didn't show anything, only shook his head: "My sister just went to Aunt Qian's place on an errand, I'm just afraid that it won't work, the small kitchen is also very good, the two girls are generous, and the reward is enough." โ€

Xia Zhi ate Xia Solstice cakes, sent shredded bacon, the two girls frowned, this is something to worship the ancestors, and they must eat it when they divide it, pick two bites, and reward a handful of money.

After watching it for another two days, Shi Gui knew that he was in a hurry, and he paid attention to it, what Mrs. Zheng said was really good, the two girls had a lot of clothes and jewelry, but if you want to say that you have to be pampered, you can talk to the Ye family, there is no more.

Ye's every day to appreciate a dish, are fresh things, the kitchen to call this "appreciative vegetables", send it to the wife is not to eat, specially used to reward people, more than three, less when two, serve it and put it on the table, Ye immediately rewarded it.

The words were also said beautifully, saying that the wife had not moved, and specially rewarded the girls and aunts, only Ye's did not eat meat, and the rewards were also vegetarian dishes, and the things she gave could not be eaten, Aunt Yao and Aunt Wang, not like cardamom who had waited for Ye's all year round, and they were not used to eating, so they closed the door and quietly let the girls share together.

Sending things to the two girls' houses is a beautiful difference, the little girls are scrambling to get it, and you have to come according to the number, you go more, just change her, and get the reward money to go to the corner door to buy some snacks and pollen to eat.

Xiangkou listened to a look at September, the two sighed slightly, they didn't want to go into the yard, they thought that they could make up for the difference of Shi Gui, Xiangkou is the line five, although September is called September, but not born in September, but the family gave birth to four girls, to she is the fifth, and dare not give birth again, it is called September, take a nine-character child, which means that it is complete, and the mother does not want to have children.

For her name, her father also went to the street to find a fortune teller, and it took two eldest sons to calculate it, and he took this name himself, and his belly really didn't bulge anymore.

There are many people in the family, and the parents are errands, the mother is the laundry in the laundry room, and the father is the one who works on the door.

Shi Gui listened to her silently, he was already a house slave, and he had to give birth to so many children, and the family couldn't get out, and he said in September: "If you have a brother, you can go to the outer courtyard." "The little girl goes out, the girl ring goes inside, the outside can compete for a small steward, and the inside can be a big girl, this is a good future.

September sighed, what can the little girl save, she just wants to dredge, and the steward above can't look down on what she has in her hand, and she can see her head for the rest of her life.

Shi Gui was a little apologetic, she didn't tell the truth, Mrs. Zheng told her a thousand times, so that she couldn't talk full of words, and people laughed and didn't say anything, and asked people to dig the corner of the wall to get angry, she was drunk, she closed the door and dared to say anything, and when she mentioned the words of being an aunt and a concubine, Shi Gui leaned her ears to listen, and she didn't say anything again.

People have to live, and they have to live well, she knows that this road is not easy, but she can't help but go, she went out and heard whispers behind her, knowing that the few behind her were talking about her, her words, don't believe it, the first two bought one can be heard across the wall: "She has such a good godmother, and if she can stay any longer, she must enter the garden." โ€

Shi Gui turned a deaf ear, hugged the clothes and washed them for Zheng Pozi, washed them and dried them in the sun, looked at the cuffs and brushed them, went back to the house and turned over the small basket, the clothes were dark camel, compared to the back, only the dark cloth had to be used, cut off the cuffs, and sat under the shade to roll the edge for her.

A few girls saw it from the house, and their flat mouths were half sour: "Even if you go, we won't occupy her, so we hide it and refuse to say it." "Mrs. Zheng is not a good face, but she was on an errand in the upper room, and she flattered her up and down well, but in their eyes, Shi Gui could fly on the branches immediately.

The trimmed clothes still had to be hot, so Shi Gui poured water into the copper bucket, flattened the sleeves, and folded them neatly and sent them to Mrs. Zheng's room.

These girls didn't get the letter from her, it turned out that a meal in a house, and when they carried water at night, they all left Shi Gui, and the five of them went together, Shi Gui brought a wooden basin to receive water and came back, they were talking in one place, and when they saw her, they dispersed, and no one spoke.

Shi Gui then realized that he was isolated, he couldn't help laughing, he ignored them, scalded his feet and poured water, and the lights in the house had been extinguished, Shi Gui frowned, when they were little girls, each of them was only โ–กโ–ก years old, and they could do such a thing together.

She twisted the wick and wiped the fire, this time it was far from the time to turn off the lights, she had to do work under the lamp every day, put a bamboo basket under the bed, which was stored with a knotted rope, and entrusted her grandmother to sell it to the goods, and saved for two or three days, there were seven or eight of all colors, and when the thirty were full, she took them to exchange for money.

"You don't sleep, why don't you ask someone else to sleep?" In September, Shi Gui refused to give her this son, lived in the same house for half a month, and didn't talk about any face, so it was difficult.

Shi Gui raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "I made the lamp oil." "The lamp oil is indeed from her, she is in the kitchen, it is very convenient to pour some vegetable oil, she uses it as lamp oil, and someone steals it to sell.

In September, there was nothing to say, and there were five sisters in her family, who were afraid of tongues, and they were unhappy, so they turned over the quilt: "You don't live alone, and you haven't entered the garden yet, so you treat yourself as a first-class person." โ€

Quarreling with a little girl, there is no glory if she wins, Shi Gui glanced at her, her hand moved quickly, she played a lot, naturally her hand was fast, her eyes were not fixed, her hand was strung over first, and a pair of mandarin ducks were knotted, and this thing could only be sold if she had a good intention.

She played a pair again, and when the gong rang outside, she stuffed the rope into the basket, blew the lamp and touched it back, and then didn't think that this thing was over, and the second day was a day errand, and rushed to prepare the things to be used for the Tongxian Guan Jiao, and only when she came back did she sit down, and she couldn't touch the basket when she reached in.

Looking down, the basket was pushed inside, and she knew what she had put in it, and she pulled it out to see, and the things inside were really picked up.

There was nothing in the basket, but some scraps of cloth, which were used to mend the trim of her clothes, but she was just as angry when her things were moved.

There are only two cabinets in the house, the cabinet is separated by three layers, one person and one floor, she saw that the basket has passed, and went to see the cabinet, and the clothes have been turned over, she came not for a long time, there are not many things, the most important thing is the bracelet given by Chunyan and the amber pendant rewarded by Ye.

The two things are put in the purse, layer by layer under the clothes, these two things are still there, but the monthly money pressed at the bottom is counted, and there is less than fifty yuan.

Shi Gui was a fiery person in his last life, and he had Yu Pozi on top of his life in this life, and he didn't know how many times he pinched Qiu Niang openly and secretly, otherwise where would Shi Dad be so towards Qiu Niang, only as soon as Yu Ma-in-law said that the widow was hard, he softened himself first.

At this time, it was also not polite at all, there was no one in the house, I was afraid that I was waiting for her to come in first, so I simply put the basket back in its place, closed the cabinet door, and went outside, and walked around the small bamboo forest in the corridor, all the way to Aunt Qian's house, and asked someone to call the grapes out and sit under the porch with her to talk.

The courtyard wants to pick a girl, and the grapes also know about it, so he pulled Shi Gui and said: "Although you are not as old as me, but you are also better than those who can handle it, this time you can't shrink it anymore, I have got a lot of things this ten days, but my aunt has no vacancy here, otherwise I can say a few words for you." โ€

Shi Gui brought pickled honey plums and told her about the summer solstice festival: "Godmother said, you are very busy here, and your aunt still wants to enjoy the food during the festival, so I won't call you out." โ€

This is another trivial affair of grapes: "No, Aunt Qian rewarded a gold and silver hoof, she was pregnant but couldn't eat, and everyone else said that if the pregnancy is not good, it is a brother, if the girl's family is not tossed at all." โ€

The more she talked, the more light there was on her face, Aunt Qian was only three months in her belly, and her wife had already opened up the nurse and mother-in-law, counting the days, she was afraid that she would be born in another garden: "If you can give birth to a little master this time, don't suppress those two." โ€

Shi Gui sat down with her and talked a lot about nothing, and Grape slipped into the house and wrapped a bag of snacks and came out to her: "You take it back to your godmother, I don't have anything to do here, and I will share some of it with oil and rouge when I send it again." โ€

Shi Gui came to see her, she was always happy, she babbled a lot, and finally snorted: "You don't know, I followed my aunt to the wife's room to ask for peace a while ago, and the second wife was also there, and there was a golden finch next to her, and she stood at the bottom of the steps, like a quail with a shrunken head." โ€

She still hated the golden finch, and slapped her, she had to think about repaying it, Shi Gui saw her gritted her teeth, and reached out to pull her: "Don't show it, Aunt Qian is not a troublemaker." โ€

When she got off the sedan chair and changed her name and didn't pick vegetables to eat, she could know that she was cautious and refused to offend more people.

"I know, that's why I'm looking forward to my aunt giving birth to a brother and stepping them all down. She said this, and put her hands together and chanted a Buddha, Shi Gui laughed, it was not too early for the two of them to say goodbye, took a bag of dim sum and went back, and looked at it from a distance, and those who were on errands came back.

Shi Gui entered the house and put down the dim sum, revealing a corner, Aunt Qian was pregnant, there were six meals a day, there were three kinds of sweet and salty soup for dim sum alone, according to the hour, where could she eat so much, and the rest was left in the house, and the girls of all sizes took it by themselves.

A few girls looked at it and bit their lipes, and Shi Gui didn't say that they were divided, so they put it on the bed, pretended to turn it over and frowned, and said, "Which of you saw my red cloth, I promised my sister to make a shoe upper for her." โ€

Xiangkou said first: "We haven't touched it, you don't have a red cloth here!"

Shi Gui glanced at her: "You haven't seen it, how do you know that there is no red cloth?"

Shi Gui turned around and looked around: "Let me know who is not clean and turn over my things, I will go back to the housekeeper Liu's mother, and if you steal something, you have to give 30 bamboo whips." โ€

In this way, it can be regarded as a falling out, but Mrs. Zheng's affairs have not been done, many people want to enter the yard, and the money she can give is limited, and the work of sprinkling and sweeping in the Ye family's yard, Gao Sheng's family wants to leave it to his niece, and Shi Gui has nothing to do with it.

Now the few people in the room sneered in front of her: "What else should it be, it is the same fate as us, and it is worse than us." โ€

Shi Gui frowned, it seems that she wants to go up, Zheng Pozi's path will not work, and she has to change another way, it is natural to be plain and natural, but she is mediocre, she can't come out for a lifetime, and she will only get farther and farther away from the goal she wants to redeem.