Chapter 38

As the saying goes, you can't have the heart to hurt people, and you can't have the heart to prevent people, just because that day I bumped into Gu Sanniang who was entangled by the Song family for no reason, so Shen Zhuo secretly kept an eye on it, every evening, he would go out for a stroll, or go to the study to talk to the shopkeeper, or eat coarse tea at the tea stall at the intersection, every day he must wait for Gu Sanniang to return to the Qin family compound.

Within a few days, Gu Sanniang found that she could meet Shen Zhuo every day, and she was a little puzzled, she had just come back less than half an hour ago, and she saw Shen Zhuo carrying an oil pot into the door, and the two met in the yard, Gu Sanniang couldn't help asking: "The soybean oil you made not long ago, and you finished it so quickly?" ”

Shen Zhuo was already weak-hearted, and after listening to her question, he couldn't help but touch his nose and said, "The oil at home is used up quickly." ”

Gu Sanniang didn't believe it, he and Brother Yu lived in the East Chamber, and a pot of soybean oil just made at the beginning of the month was not so fast to eat as tea.

"Shen Juren, haven't you encountered something difficult?" Gu Sanniang didn't know why, but when he had something on his mind, he kindly asked.

Shen Zhuo only smiled and said nothing, Gu Sanniang saw this, and thought that he was not good at opening his mouth, so she didn't ask any more, only secretly thought that she wanted to go back and ask Xiao Yezi to see if Shen Zhuo was a little abnormal these days.

The two didn't know what to say after a few words, so Shen Zhuo said to her, "If it's okay, I'll go back to the house first." ”

Seeing that he was going in, Gu Sanniang called out to him: "You wait." ”

Saying that, she went into the house and took a baggage, and said: "In two days it will be Brother Yu'er's birthday, he will call me an aunt, and Xiao Yezi and I will be taken care of by you, this set of clothes, shoes and socks is made for Brother Yu to wear." ”

Shen Zhuo didn't refuse, he took it directly and said, "Thank you Gu Niangzi, I have accepted it." ”

Gu Sanniang smiled slightly, she turned around and went to the house, but she only took two steps and stopped, looked back at Shen Zhuo, thought for a moment, Gu Sanniang said softly: "Shen Juren, if there is really something, you might as well tell us, maybe we can help." ”

Shen Zhuo smiled dumbly, he was stunned for a moment, and had to say to Gu Sanniang: "Gu Niangzi, please rest assured, I have no difficulty." ”

Gu Sanniang nodded when she saw this, and raised her feet and entered the house.

A few days, Gu Sanniang sent the Yang family's grandmother's Luo skirt embroidery, I heard that because of the unique and novel pattern of this new embroidery, Grandma Yang was very popular among the women in the house, and many people deliberately inquired about whose hand this work was, and even Gu Sanniang's Long embroidery village also had a lot of business.

After a period of time, Gu Sanniang relied on her own craftsmanship, and the source of customers gradually increased, and the Yang family's grandmother's companion Luo often went in and out of her shop, and also introduced her to a lot of business, a month passed in a blink of an eye, Gu Sanniang settled the account book, in addition to the daily expenses in the shop, she actually made a net profit of more than one or two silver, at first she was afraid that she had miscalculated, and she was a little unbelievable for a while, and then counted a few times with it, and counted the silver money on the table, and sure enough, it was more than she had earned in the embroidery village before.

"Mother, we've made so much money." Xiao Yezi knew that when her mother was an embroidery girl before, the monthly money for a month was only two dollars of silver, and at this time, when she saw this small pile of broken silver horns on the table under the lamp, even Xiao Yezi showed an excited look on her face.

Gu Sanniang suppressed the joy in her heart, she said to Xiao Yezi with a straight face: "The money for doing business is not so easy to earn, every month's taxes and monthly rent are a lot of expenses. ”

Xiao Yezi sighed, her mother is the only one in the shop, and the daily work is very limited, these days her mother has accumulated several large embroidery jobs on hand and has not done it, and a new guest heard that the work could not be completed in the short term, so he turned around and went to another house, which made her mother heartbroken.

"It's a pity that I'm not smart, otherwise I can help my mother." Xiao Yezi said annoyedly.

Gu Sanniang shook her head, she also felt very strange, this little leaf was her biological daughter, and she personally guided her, but on this needle, she knew six out of seven - she didn't know anything, seeing that she had studied for more than half a year, and she couldn't even embroider a handkerchief so far, thinking that her skills might not be passed on to Xiao Yezi, Gu Sanniang felt a faint regret in her heart.

"Mother, why don't you ask Aunt Xiaoyue and Aunt Xiaohong for help, they also sell some needlework in their spare time, why don't we get the work and then hand it over to them to do, wouldn't it be convenient?"

Gu Sanniang listened to Xiao Yezi's words and suddenly opened her mouth, she was still an adult, she didn't even think of this, Zhu Xiaoyue was originally an embroidery girl, and she only quit her job to go home after getting married, she gave her the embroidery work, and did not delay her to take care of the family, and Zhu Xiaoyue's weekday embroidery work was also placed in her shop, and the left and right were all to earn money, which one was not earning. It's just that Mo Xiaohong's side is not good now, after all, she is still working as an errand in Jin's Embroidery Village, if people know that she sells her embroidery work elsewhere, it is difficult to ensure that she will not be provoked by someone with a heart, and it will not be cost-effective to delay her serious errand at that time.

Gu Sanniang thought about it carefully, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this method was feasible, she received the silver money and hid it under the bed, and said to Xiao Yezi: "I'll go to talk to your Aunt Xiaoyue, you stay in the house for a long time." ”

Xiao Yezi agreed, and Gu Sanniang went to the main house.

At this time, the four members of the Qin family had just finished dinner, Qin Lin was teasing his son in the yard, Zhu Xiaoyue was sewing Qin Lin's official clothes by candlelight, she saw Gu Sanniang coming in, looked up at her, and said, "You are here." ”

Gu Sanniang leaned over and took a look, Qin Lin's front shirt had a cut on it, Zhu Xiaoyue picked the embroidery thread of the same color, and the stitches she sewed were so fine and dense that she couldn't see it if she didn't look carefully.

"Can the business in the shop be smooth these days?" Zhu Xiaoyue asked casually while sewing clothes.

"It's a lot stronger than when I started." Gu Sanniang sat down, she looked at Zhu Xiaoyue and said, "Xiaoyue, I came here at this hour because I have something to discuss with you." ”

Zhu Xiaoyue heard her solemnly, so she put down the work in her hand and said, "What else do we have to talk about, just say something about it." ”

Gu Sanniang then told Zhu Xiaoyue about her intentions, and after Zhu Xiaoyue heard it, she hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It's good, but I haven't embroidered a big job for a long time, can I do what I embroider?" ”

"What is this worth, if you are afraid that you are not skilled, you will be familiar with it if you practice more, I haven't told you yet, a few days ago, your handkerchiefs were bought back by a little maid in Yang Mansion."

"Really?" Zhu Xiaoyue looked at Gu Sanniang with two eyes, she heard Gu Sanniang say that the handkerchiefs and sachets she put in the shop were very popular, and she still wanted to do more these days, but these are small things, and when they fall into their hands, they are just the money to buy a bead hairpin.

For a while, Zhu Xiaoyue couldn't help but feel a little moved, but she was still afraid of her own craftsmanship, afraid of smashing Gu Sanniang's signboard at that time, just when she was hesitating, Aunt Qin came in from outside, just now she listened to a few words outside the window, and when she saw her daughter-in-law undecided, she said: "I don't know what you're afraid of, Sanniang believes in you, you still can't believe yourself?" If you are really afraid of not doing well, first pick up those belts, pillowcases, shoe uppers and the like, wait until Sanniang has said the pass, and then slowly pick up large pieces to do, who will not force you, do it, if you can't do it, don't do it, is it difficult to bite the money? ”

was told so by her mother-in-law, then Zhu Xiaoyue gritted her teeth, she thought to herself, she has also been an embroiderer for a few years, but she hasn't done it in the past two or three years, even if the craftsmanship is sparse, where can it be worse? Now such a good time to send to the eyes, there is no reason to miss in vain, and her mother-in-law is a reasonable person, in the past, she sold embroidery work to save private money has never asked, if she can receive a large amount of work, it is not only a matter of a few copper plates, and the money saved in the future is not her own.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaoyue looked at Gu Sanniang and said, "Okay, since that's the case, you can take a few jobs and try them on me." ”

Gu Sanniang laughed twice, she saw Zhu Xiaoyue's determined look, and said: "Don't be too happy, if you really can't do it well, I won't care about the friendship between sisters, I should ask you to go back to work, I won't blink at all." ”

Zhu Xiaoyue rolled her eyes at her, snorted lightly, and said, "Just now you said that you believed me, and you poured cold water on me, you are such a sister?" ”

Gu Sanniang pursed her lips and smiled, and seriously mentioned the matter of sharing to her, she said: "As the old saying goes, brothers settle accounts, and we sisters can't share for a few dollars, so how to divide the money needs to be said in advance." ”

Zhu Xiaoyue nodded yes, Gu Sanniang thought for a while, and she said: "A transaction, no matter how big or small, will be divided into three or seven, more work and more rewards, and take the account once a month, do you think this method is feasible?" ”

is divided into three or seven, Zhu Xiaoyue is also a net profit, not to mention that she does not take risks, all the needles and threads are from Gu Sanniang, so she said: "It depends on what you say." ”

The two agreed, Gu Sanniang immediately went back to the house and brought a few jobs for Zhu Xiaoyue, and since then Zhu Xiaoyue has been Gu Sanniang's helper.