When the stone went back, Yao Mingzhu was looking at the door of the Splendid Pavilion. When I saw him, I immediately pulled people in and said, "You really don't have a moment of restlessness, you don't see anyone in the morning, and you don't want to think about what kind of place this is?"

Shi blushed and said with a smile: "Senior sister, senior sister, you start lightly, everyone is watching, you can save me some face." ”

In fact, Zhang Xing was the only one in the shop of Jinxiu Pavilion, and Xiao Deyu and the other embroidery girls went to work in the backyard. Yao Mingzhu glanced at Zhang Xing's smiling face, her pretty face turned red, she let go of the stone, snorted, and whispered, "Do you remember that you have a face?"

Shi also knew that his senior sister was a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted, and she said it fiercely, but she was worried about him in everything. I wasn't annoyed or irritated at the moment, I went over, and said with a hippie smile: "Senior sister, I went out so early, wasn't it for you?" took out the box in his arms and stretched it out in front of Yao Mingzhu, "Senior sister, look, what good things did I buy you?"

Yao Mingzhu glanced at him, stretched out his hand to take the box and opened it, and saw the gold silk inlaid ruby double luan dotted cuichai inside, and was stunned.

Shi looked at Yao Mingzhu's face and asked, "Senior sister, how is it?" This is the treasure of Jinji's town store! I bought it for you! Do you like it?"

Yao Mingzhu's eyes and face were full of joy that could not be hidden, and after looking at it for a while, she turned her head to see the stone looking at her, and immediately closed the box, reached out and grabbed the stone ear, curled the corners of her mouth, and asked, "Honestly, where did your money come from?"

Shi suddenly cried and lost his face, "Senior sister, I naturally earned this money." I'm going to do some bad tricks. Didn't you get beaten up earlier?"

Zhang Xing couldn't help but bow her head and smile. The stone did not tell Yao Mingzhu what happened in the northwest. It's for fear that she's worried. These two happy enemies are estimated to have something to deal with. After a while, the loom of the shopkeeper Hong was about to be transported, so she still went in to clean up.

Zhang Xing quietly went in.

Yao Mingzhu still didn't believe the stone's words, and said suspiciously: "Really?"

The stone raised his big hand and swore, "It's true!"

Yao Mingzhu let him go, opened the box, and looked at it a few more times before he was reluctant to put it in his arms. Pointing at the stone's forehead, he said, "Also, you say, I didn't let you rest at home last night, did I? Why did you still run to Xing'er here?" She cleaned up her father's house, but when it came out, the stone people were gone, and she was so angry that she choked.

"Senior sister, Xing'er's family is big. I'm going to rest in my father's room, and when he comes back, I'll make a mess of his things. Stone said with a smile.

"Be honest, will Dad talk about you?" said Yao Mingzhu, tilting his chin.

Yao Mingzhu was talking to Shi Shi in the shop, and Zhang Xing took Xiao Deyu to clear the backyard and come out. It was almost noon when the loom of the shopkeeper Hong arrived. The masters carried the loom into the room and installed it. Zhang Xing watched carefully from the side. It was the first time she'd seen it disassembled. She has dabbled a lot in the past, and has seen weaving cloth operated by modern machines. The principle of the handloom now has a lot in common with what she had seen before. She was amazed. The question was very detailed.

The master carpenter who loaded the loom was surnamed Liu, and he was also a capable person. Listening to the question of the owner of the Splendid Pavilion, he didn't look like a layman, and he also answered in detail.

Zhang Xing gradually had an idea in his heart, but it was not the most important thing at the moment. Shopkeeper Hong delivered the things and left, but Master Liu was busy until the evening before leaving the Splendid Pavilion.

Zhang Xing stood at the door of the Splendid Pavilion and watched Master Liu go away, Xu was just squatting for too long, Xu was because it was dark, she felt that something flashed in the corner of her eye, and when she turned her head to look again, there were few pedestrians on Jingkou Street in the evening, but there was nothing unusual. She shook her head, turned and went into the shop. The stone was sitting idle, with hot tea in hand, and was throwing peanuts into his mouth one by one to eat. She didn't see Yao Mingzhu, so she asked, "Where is your senior sister?"

While chewing, the stone replied: "Just now, the guy on the other side of your shop passed on the words of my stepfather, and he brought his set of plum blossom needles with him, and asked my senior sister to send it over." ”

Zhang Xing looked at the sky outside and said in surprise, "Will this be sent over?"

The relatives of the shopkeeper of Darentang, Zhang Shuhan, were sick, and when he went with Yao Qingshan, he said that it would take two or three days to return. Although Zhang Xing didn't know where Zhang Shuhan's hometown was, when she heard this, she felt that Zhang's hometown was not close.

And right now, it's getting dark.

"For a while, when you were learning carpentry work in the back, my sister went, and they drove a carriage to pick you up. Stone said.

"Then you don't need Sister Yao to send it personally, right?" Zhang Xing said with a frown.

Shi laughed, "Xing'er, you don't know my father-in-law, he treats his needles and jars as treasures, and even I am not allowed to touch them in ordinary times, except for my senior sister occasionally." ”

Zhang Xing looked at the stone, "Why didn't you go with you?"

"They can't sit in the car, and the kid who came with the car is weird, and my sister is afraid that I will make trouble with him, so I won't be allowed to go. Stone said nonchalantly.

Zhang Xing's heart relaxed. The embroidery girls in the shop had already left, and Xiao Deyu also cleaned up the backyard.

"Okay, don't eat this, let's go home. She said to the stone.

The three closed their shops and returned to South Street. After eating, Shi took out a box, handed it to Zhang Xing, and said with a smile: "Xing'er, this is the one I picked for you, see if you like it?"

Zhang Xing saw that the stone took something to Yao Mingzhu before, and it was expected that she might have a share, but now that she saw it, although she was not surprised, she also felt warm. The box was opened, and there were two magnolia hairpins carved from ebony inside, which were exquisitely carved and lifelike. Her eyes lit up and she took one out.

Stone triumphantly said, "I knew you would like it." The other one is for Peach, you can give it to her for me. ”

Zhang Xing really likes this magnolia hairpin, it is simple and easy to use, and it is the most suitable for her at the moment.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Xing woke up from freezing, and heard the crackling sound outside, knowing that it was raining. On a rainy night in the cold winter of the Jiangnan water town, there is no beautiful artistic conception to taste. The clammy cold was more unbearable than the northern one, and it came quietly and penetrated into the bones.

She didn't want to move before, and she couldn't stand the cold for a while, so she had to get up, open the cabinet and take a quilt and cover it, so that she felt better.

The next morning, the rain had not stopped, and it was dripping endlessly. It's still cold. Zhang Xing instructed Sun Baozhu to build a grass shed in the corner of the courtyard and lead the stone horse in.

When the loom arrives, you have to invite an embroiderer, and you have to go to the countryside to collect silk and linen. Although there are many embroiderers here in Jingkou, they are uneven. Zhang Xing didn't want to settle, so she inquired in many ways, and finally settled on a forty-year-old Huang Li and her daughter-in-law Huang Wu. The matter of collecting silk and hemp is even more troublesome, and the interlacing is like a mountain. If it weren't for Huang Li's guidance, she probably wouldn't even know where to start.

She was busy until it was dark, and she returned home. Shi was waiting for her in the courtyard, and when he saw her, he immediately rushed over and said, "Xing'er, do you know where the hometown of the pharmacy shopkeeper is? ”

Zhang Xing was also shocked when she heard this, if Yao Mingzhu didn't return last night, she didn't think there was anything. First, the shopkeeper Zhang's hometown is far away, and second, Yao Qingshan is over there. It's so late, Yao Qingshan doesn't worry about her daughter's night walk and stay overnight. This is normal. But if people haven't come back yet, it's not normal. If Yao Mingzhu was the only one here, she went to deliver something, and then disappeared. It's also a good idea. After all, Yao Qingshan's father and daughter are people who are always ready to run. But now, they knew that the stone was coming, so there was no reason to leave without saying a word.

"Have you ever inquired about Darentang?" Zhang Xing asked Shishi.

Stone nodded, "I asked, and the guy in the shop doesn't know." ”

Zhang Xing looked at the sky, the rain had stopped for some time, but it was still wet everywhere, and it was still very cold. In winter, it gets darker than usual, and it's hard to see your fingers. She called Xiao Deyu over and asked, "Deyu, do you know where the shopkeeper Zhang on the opposite side of our shop is?" Since the shop opened, Xiao Deyu has been devoted to the Splendid Pavilion, and she has stayed in the shop longer than Zhang Xing.

"Miss is asking the shopkeeper of Da Ren Tang?" Xiao Deyu shook his head, "I've only seen him three or four times, I really don't know where he is from?"

"What about the little taro, are you familiar with him?" Zhang Xing asked again. The little taro is the guy who grabbed the medicine from Darentang.

"I spoke to him a few words. Miss, do you want me to inquire about Shopkeeper Zhang?" asked Xiao Deyu.

Zhang Xing nodded, asked Sun Baozhu to find out the prescription she took medicine some time ago, looked through it for a while, took out one from it, took out a few taels of silver and handed it to Xiao Deyu, and said: "It's a little taro vigil tonight in Darentang, you go to him to grab a few flavors of medicine, just follow this recipe, just say that I have an old illness, by the way, ask him where they went? What happened to the sick clansman? When will Mr. Yao come back? Remember, don't let him find out that you are here to ask about things." ”

"Don't worry, Miss, I know how to ask. After Xiao Deyu finished speaking, he took an umbrella and ran out.

The day's meal was still hearty, but Zhang Xing and Shi didn't move much. About the time he arrived, Xiao Deyu finally came back. Because of the rain and the strong wind, half of her body was wet, and her lips were bruised when she entered the door, and she said with a shudder: "Miss, I asked clearly, Zhang's hometown is Zhangjiabao under Jingkou, and most of their village is surnamed Zhang." The clan relative he said was the old patriarch of their Zhang family, his own grandfather. I heard that he was very sick, so he took Mr. Yao with him. As for what Mr. Yao can reply, he doesn't know. ”

"Then did you ask him about Miss Yao?" Zhang Xing asked.

"Asked. Xiao Deyu replied, "The person who came to pick up Miss Yao yesterday was the nephew of the shopkeeper Zhang, and he didn't know where to pick up the person, he just handed over a word." ”

Zhang Xing and Shi glanced at each other. Zhang Xing calmed down and said to Xiao Deyu: "Okay, you go and change your clothes, don't get cold." He turned his head to look at Sun Baozhu again, "You go and burn a bowl of ginger water." (To be continued......)