Chapter 9: The Stranger

It's not the mansion of the prince and general, and it's not too much to pursue how many talents women have, but things like embroidery and female red are more talked-about.

Embroidery is not only seen in silk, but also in sachets, clothing, wedding dresses and so on.

A set of art, handicraft in one of the perfect embroidery collection value is not under the works of a famous painter, exquisite embroidery is common in large family screens, wall hanging, can show the main family heritage, identity and status.

Zhang Jiaben started with reeling (sao) silk, and later set the multi-directional development of cloth and silk such as reeling (ke) silk batik, and a woman like Zhang Huiyun is not under the ordinary experts for the identification level of silk thorns.

Ah Qiao has her own discerning eyesight, how can she let go of the opportunity to show her face in front of the young lady, and at the moment when Aunt Wang was stunned, she stepped forward and said a little embarrassed: "Oops! It was a small loss, which made the young lady smile. ”

Zhang Huiyun stared at her, oh and said: "I didn't think that Ah Qiao's embroidery level is so good, staying in the house is a condescending talent, I will tell my father Ming'er, and transfer Rong's mother to the embroidery workshop as a teacher, and the salary will be increased by five times on the original basis..."

"Thank you, Miss, thank you, Miss... Ah Qiao will definitely not disappoint the cultivation grace of the young lady. ”

As soon as Ah Qiao's bloated body heard that the salary had increased fivefold, he trembled unconsciously, and hurriedly bowed down to thank him, thinking that the five-fold salary should always be more.

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Speaking of money, Qiao Yue is now short of money more than anyone else.

At the beginning of spring, I will send Xiaomeng to school, the official school is not something that ordinary civilian children can go to, the business school is of little significance, and the cost is high, neither of which is within the scope of Qiao Yue's consideration.

With Qiao Yue's family's situation, Qiao Meng could only go to a private school hosted by a tutor, even so, Qiao Yue inquired, and the tuition fee for a year would cost two taels of silver.

What is the concept of two taels of silver, in the direction of Beacon Mountain to the west, two taels of silver can buy half an acre of fertile land, which is equivalent to all the expenses of an average family of five for a year.

This is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for Qiao Yue, which is more than the cost of telling her eldest brother Qiao Shan about family affairs.

In this era, if you want to provide a scholar, you generally have to work together with a family to barely maintain it, and in a situation like Qiao Yue's family, no one will send their children to study at all.

Xiaomeng's registration fee costs two taels of silver, and the dowry for the eldest brother can't be too shabby, at least a donkey, two chickens, and some small things, which also costs one or two silver.

Qiao Yue didn't take care of her grievances when she returned home, she couldn't make herself unhappy because of someone she didn't know, as long as it wasn't Aunt Wang who wronged her, Qiao Yue wouldn't feel so heartbroken.

The eldest brother hasn't taken much money from the family over the years, and she and Qiao Meng have spent it almost the same, Qiao Yue has calculated, plus the work that Aunt Wang has helped with these days, and the money in his hand is less than two taels of silver.

This made Qiao Yue more and more anxious, both of them were major events, and they couldn't be delayed.

The more anxious she was to make money, the more things went wrong, after helping Aunt Wang do a job of grinding tofu a few days ago, ten days had passed, and there was no new work, which made Qiao Yue even more anxious.

Xu is Uncle Wang said something to Aunt Wang, and even Aunt Wang didn't help Qiao Yue with this little embroidery job.

In the middle, Qiao Yue came to the door to ask Aunt Wang twice, and Aunt Wang still replied with that kind and gentle look: "Yue'er, other people's families don't have to grind tofu every day, this tofu can't be made once before people think about it again, don't worry, it's the New Year in a few days, and you will have too much work to do." ”

However, when Qiao Yue said that she wanted to help people do embroidery work, Aunt Wang's expression became very strict, and she said with an unusually straight face: "Yue'er, remember what Aunt Wang told you, no matter who asks you in the future, don't tell others that you can do embroidery." ”

Qiao Yue was puzzled: "Why, Aunt Wang, I'm still waiting to earn money for my eldest brother to marry a daughter-in-law!" ”

"Just remember, don't forget, Aunt Wang won't harm you..."Aunt Wang's expression was extremely strict, and there was a sneer behind her, "Hmph, the fat man is playing tricks for the old lady, can she do such a fine job with her big thick hands?" As a teacher, he dared to snatch my opportunity to show his face in front of Miss in front of me! Haha, fat man, look at how you come to beg me in a few days..."

Aunt Wang didn't understand what Qiao Yue said, but her cold appearance scared Qiao Yue a lot, and she hurriedly touched Aunt Wang's forehead, and hurriedly called Wang San over, and said worriedly: "Uncle Wang, is my aunt suffering from any disease, please ask Mao Langzhong outside the village to take a look." ”

Unexpectedly, Wang San waved his hand, directly pushed Qiao Yue outside, and said with a hearty smile: "It's okay, your aunt is fine, better than anyone else, it's normal, it's normal, it's normal, I'll let your aunt come to you..."

Qiao Yue returned home inexplicably, anxiously waiting for Aunt Wang to come back and call herself when she had a job, but after so many days, there was still no news.

In the middle, Qiao Yue went to Zhao Qi five more times, and Qiao Meng clamored to go home, but Qiao Yue stayed with Zhao Qi to study with him on the grounds that there were robbers coming.

Coming out of the wooden house where Zhao Qi lived, the road was very familiar, Qiao Yue didn't remember how many times she had walked it, she crossed a small hill, and then passed through a forest to the official road, and walked along the official road for about three miles, close to Qizhou City, turn right into a small village, and then go straight for about two hundred meters, passing by a big locust tree with a crooked neck, which is Qiao Yue's house.

Today, Qiao Yue happened to turn over the small mountain bag that came out of Zhao Qi's house and walked into the woods, thinking that she heard Uncle Wang say that she could change a few eldest sons by cutting some firewood to the city.

Making money is Qiao Yue's top priority, so she will do it when she thinks of it, so Qiao Yue took advantage of the situation and turned into the woods.

The snow had melted, and the forest was still very slippery, picking up some dead branches and piling them together, Qiao Yue's face gradually smiled after ten days of suffering.

Walking a few steps further, suddenly, Qiao Yue saw a very strangely dressed person squatting in the forest and knocking on something, and a clanging sound came.

Qiao Yue stepped forward, looked at the strange man squatting not far away, and asked vigilantly, "What are you doing?" ”

The squatting and beating man did not look up, and replied casually: "Picking rocks, soil, humus, plant specimens..."

Qiao Yue didn't understand at all, but judging from the voice, the person who answered didn't have any malicious intent, and she asked curiously, "Can you sell it for money?" ”

Qiao Yue has completely penetrated into the eyes of money at this moment, and everything can be linked to money.

The man carefully put the knocked out dirt and stones into a transparent bag like gold, glanced at Qiao Yue, and smiled: "Yes, it's worth more than gold, I took a spaceship, passed through more than thirty wormholes, flew faster than light, and it took more than a thousand years to go back in time to find such a planet with the same human civilization as the earth..."

The man seemed to be used to talking to himself, and as if no one had spoken to him for a long, long time, he chattered endlessly to Qiao Yue.

Spacecraft? Earth? Wormholes? Faster-than-light? More than a thousand years? Can stone and earth be more expensive than gold?

Qiao Yue looked at him stunned, feeling that this was simply a weirdo, the clothes were short-tied, and on closer inspection, they were more harmonious and good-looking than all the people who wore short-ties, and they were even very beautiful, and they didn't have braids, but they looked very spiritual.

Standard Beijing accent, but the words he said were all novel words, and Qiao Yue had never heard them.

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