After Mu Qingli greeted him, he stood up straight and looked at Li Zheng humbly and politely. "The slave came from the eastern capital, and the family has always held cloth and silk for a living, and carried so many fabrics all the way, which was originally intended to be sold in the west, but now the world is unstable, and it must be inappropriate to speculate privately on the road, so I want to make all these fabrics into clothes, and sell them in bulk nearby, and I have been worried for more than half a month, and I can't find anyone to tailor them.

At this time, Li Zheng had woken up, and her heart turned out to be a businesswoman, and she even showed up to do business, and she was not generous when she wanted to come to the family, and she didn't feel a little contemptuous in her heart. Just because he was in the way of Deputy Lieutenant Su, he didn't dare to change the color, and only hummed a long series of deep groans from his throat.

Mu Qing smiled a little more and said: "The world is difficult nowadays, and it is appropriate for my husband to be cautious, but I am really sincerely begging for clothes here." As she spoke, she paused, turned her eyes to look down, and deliberately raised her hand slightly to reach out to the peasant women gathered under the high platform, "In terms of price, I will never teach the sisters and aunts to lose." ”

Under the high platform, the crowd really moved. It was just a seedling in spring, and it was the time when the green and yellow were not harvested, and who didn't want to earn some foreign money to supplement the family. At that moment, Mu Qing glanced at Deputy Lieutenant Su, he was clever and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "This Gu lady is the most refreshing and righteous, and she has always been generous in business. If there is still something that can't be trusted, she will go down to the sidelines to see those cars, the fabric and money are there, how can you not worry? ”

The villagers were afraid of the officials, and when they saw that Deputy Lieutenant Su's face was slightly dissatisfied, they were bitter and did not dare to doubt it anymore. Mu Qingfu said again: "This can't be cheated, if I deduct money and silver, is it possible that these fabrics are not worth the money?" Hearing this, Li Zheng's face relaxed, and his heart fell, secretly calculating how this fabric was not more expensive than wages, but he was confused, so he said repeatedly: "Exactly, exactly, Gu Niangzi is indeed a loud person, and she is full of words." Then he cleared his throat and explained the price to the peasant women under the high stage, and the women below were overjoyed and made a commotion for a while.

"My family is willing to receive twenty pieces." "I have a lot of family, and I can get fifty pieces." "I'll take ten first." ……

The sound of chirping began to surge again, and Li was hurriedly assigning people to follow the numbers reported by each family. Mu Qing stopped Li Zheng, turned his head sideways and whispered a few words to Deputy Lieutenant Su, Deputy Lieutenant Su raised his voice and said, "Everyone, please be quiet for the time being, we still have a sentence, let's talk about it first." ”

Deputy Lieutenant Su spoke twice in a row before suppressing the noise of the women. Mu Qing slowly took two steps forward and raised his voice: "Qian Yin, I can't lose you, there is only one case, and I do my best." If you are opportunistic and perfunctory, don't look at the officials who don't know. Whoever has a rough needle and thread, who receives the cloth and secretly ignores it, and who cannot be delivered after the time, blames me for not paying a penny. It is necessary to know that these summer clothes have military uniforms, and I don't need to repeat the benefits and disadvantages, everyone can introspect on themselves, which one dares to miss the needs of the army, don't wait for money, just wait for a pair of shackles. ”

Her voice was nowhere near as good as that of the country women, and the grain field was so wide that even if she had raised her voice deliberately, it was still not very loud, and it could barely be heard by the people in the field. But these words are full of strength, straightforward, and quite a bit of non-anger and self-authority. Even Li Zheng, who was on the side, couldn't help but look up at her carefully, wondering in his heart, where did this woman come from, she looked like an ordinary businesswoman, but she didn't look like it at all.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Du Ruhui standing behind him, and saw that he was calm and relaxed, never said a word from beginning to end, and only looked at it with a smile in his mind. Li Zhengyuan is more knowledgeable than other people, and he has no reason to tighten his scalp for a while, the matter has come to this, I am afraid that this errand can not be shirked, if you want to keep it safe, you can only urge yourself, and serve carefully.

After everything was settled, Mu Qing asked Lu Ah Liuyi and others to rush all the cars to the venue, open the wooden box, and let the fabric be fully displayed in front of people. The last box was smaller than the previous ones, but it looked more solid, Mu Qing stepped forward and opened it himself, please take a look. "There is a hundred taels of money here, which will be used as a fixed amount, please count it."

Li Zheng called someone to count the money, and locked the cloth into the warehouse together, and Deputy Lieutenant Su arranged for two personal soldiers and eight Lu Ah Liu to bring manpower, and took turns guarding them in a group of several examples.

On this day, it was only late in the afternoon, and the peasant women in the grain field reported one by one which family, the fabrics they had received, the number of pieces of garments to be delivered, the time limit, and other specific matters. According to Mu Qing's instructions in advance, the three of them were in charge of writing and making a book, and after the record was completed, according to the number recorded in the book, one person reported the number, and one person distributed the cloth to everyone one by one.

When everyone on the grain field dispersed, half of the fabric on the cart was gone, and Mu Qingfang breathed a sigh of relief. After chattering for most of the day, he didn't even have time to eat a sip of tea, nor did he go to his house to rest at Lizheng's invitation, so he left the guards and soldiers, boarded the carriage, and went back to the city. Before leaving, Mu Qing told Deputy Lieutenant Su again, "Treat each other politely in everything, restrain the soldiers not to disturb the villagers, but be strict when accepting and accepting." No matter how big or small, if there is any change, send someone into the city quickly to pass it on to me. Ten days later, I brought the remaining four hundred. ”

"Mr. Du, Mrs. Gu, and don't worry. There's someone here to take care of. Deputy Lieutenant Su hugged his hands and said goodbye to them.

On the way back to the city, Mu Qing was already extremely tired, and he had only been swaying in the car for less than a moment, and he was already drowsy. Ah Liu pushed and shook her a few times, every time she woke up and fell asleep, helpless, she had to lift the curtain of the car, and said to Du Ruhui: "Qi Niang is so sleepy like something, I have been taking medicine for the past two days, and I have seen that I am much better, and I can sleep peacefully at night, but now when I sleep, I can't sleep at night." Ah Lang and call her to talk to her, so that she can get over the fatigue. ”

Du Ruhui raised his hand and ordered Ada to stop the car, dismounted and looked into the car, and saw her half leaning on the brocade leaning on the brocade leaning, frowning slightly, her face was originally pale, because of the proper conditioning in the past two days, there was a faint powder, a few strands of hair that slipped from the bun fluttered on the side of the face, one hand supported under the other side of the cheek, and the other hand was placed on the side at will, scattering the silk skirt, which was a picture of a delicate spring sleep, he couldn't appreciate it enough, and he couldn't bear to wake her up.

After looking at it for a while, he leaned in and patted her forehead, "Don't sleep anymore, the scenery outside is excellent, if you don't look at it more, you will be disappointed." Mu Qing opened her eyes blankly, she hadn't woken up yet, she felt that she was pulled out of the carriage, and she was lifted on the horse in a daze, and then there was an extremely familiar breath in her arms, and she was wrapped in it, and just woke up, she couldn't help but be intoxicated again.

"On the way here in the morning, as soon as I left the city, someone followed and posted it, and I don't know who it was, did you see it?" Just after being drunk for a while, Du Ruhui said this in her ear, and immediately pulled her out of the warmth.

"I didn't notice when I came." She tried to remember the scene of this day, and suddenly her mind moved, and she remembered something. "When I preached on the grain field, I seemed to have seen a shadow sneaking in the distance, I thought it was a curious and timid villager, hiding in the dark to watch the excitement, isn't it ......"

Du Ruhui nodded and said, "It should be the one who came out of the city." As I was distributing the ingredients, I watched carefully, and the man wandered around the grain yard and disappeared. ”

"Who is spying on it? But what matters? Mu Qing's heart twitched.

Du Ruhui smiled softly, and stretched out his hand to bring her closer to him, "It doesn't matter who he is, just wait for him to show his tricks, and he can only dismantle the tricks when he sees them." As he spoke, the smile on the corners of his eyebrows deepened, and he lowered his voice and said, "The spring is intoxicating right now, so why bother with that worry." ”