"Qingzhu, how are you doing? I was so worried that I couldn't do it, so I had to invite Mama Guo to come, don't blame me. Zheng Zhaodi squeezed through the crowd, ran to her, took her hand, and looked up and down.

"I'm fine, you're just in time." Gu Qingzhu smiled and patted her shoulder.

"Then I'll be at ease, Qingying is still asleep, I'll go back to accompany her." Zheng Zhaodi stroked her chest, took a deep breath, and turned to leave.

"Mama, there are two accomplices here!" Gu Daya and the three dragged the other two in front of everyone and pulled out the sermon from their mouths.

"Let me take a good look at what kind of cheap hooves are raised in our weaving workshop!" Mama Guo snorted coldly.

Xiao Lai pressed the lantern, and saw Jia Min and Peng Pearl lying on the ground in disheveled clothes and unkempt sideburns.

"You two are really dead, the first day to make trouble to change the house, to this day gang up through the window to break into the workshop, in the end I am too merciful and forgiving, or you have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, now, the whole weaving workshop is made by you to make a miasma, people are panicked, if I don't clean up and punish you, I can't explain to the eldest lady!" Mama Guo stomped her feet hatefully.

"Mama, we didn't do anything, it's none of my business, I was forcibly brought here by them!" Peng Pearl cried and chirped, spoke incoherently, and writhed on the ground like a big bug.

"The surname is Peng, you are a worthless thing, can you not be so cowardly!" Jia Min gritted his teeth and scolded.

At this moment, the stout woman who was guarding the door trotted over from the workshop, and said a few words in Mama Guo's ear, and Mama Guo's face suddenly became very ugly, and she said sharply: "Hmph, I advise you to weigh carefully before speaking, and then squeak after thinking about it, so as not to know if the evidence of the crime is conclusive, and you don't know if you have a broken face!"

Jia Min and Gu Erni were silent for a while, only Peng Pearl cried and denied: "It's not me, I don't, I didn't do anything." ”

Mama Guo thought she was noisy, took half a step back, and instructed the mother-in-law beside her: "Come on, put them in the firewood room, watch them well, Ming'er will interrogate them in front of others, and let the girls see what the soul-eating demon cat is!" ”

The mother-in-law who guarded the door received the order, and with a wave of her hand, several stout women pounced on her, and at this time on weekdays, they had already drunk a little wine, slept and snored, but at this time not only disturbed their sleep, but also had to be guarded all night long, and naturally their hearts were full of resentment.

Several women started very hard, pinching and twisting, picking up the cloth on the ground, whether it was dirty or not, whether there was sand, gravel and soil, and blocked the mouths of the three people at once, in order to stare at it for a while in the second half of the night, they were afraid that Gu Daya and they would not tie it tightly enough, so they used a rope to strangle the three of them fiercely.

After some tossing, the three of them were all over the body, except for their necks, their hands and feet were all tied by several ropes, and the women stepped forward in twos and twos, neatly left and right, dragged and dragged them, and threw them on the floor of the firewood room without pity, so that the mosquitoes buzzed.

The door slammed, the lock clicked, and the three of them couldn't speak, their hands couldn't move, only their eyes stared at the boss in the dark, and they were tied up and couldn't move at all, let alone escape, and it was very difficult to even turn over.

The three of them are teenage girls, although they are not as delicate as the young lady, but they are also fine-skinned and tender-skinned, the mosquitoes are raging in the summer, and the mosquitoes that flew just now surrounded them in an instant, but all the exposed skin has become a mosquito delicacy, and there are many hungry mosquitoes following the taste, from the cracks in the broken windows and doors to fly in a steady stream to feast.

At first, they rolled to avoid it, but then they couldn't even roll over, so they had to be bitten by mosquitoes like dried up on the riverbed, dying, and dying.

The two mothers-in-law guarding outside the door were smacking mosquitoes and cursing in a low voice, and the three of them inside didn't even have the strength to be angry.

At the door of the workshop, Mama Guo disposed of Gu Erni and the others, turned her head to look at Gu Qingzhu, and reproached worriedly: "You are a little bolder, why didn't you call me when you found such a major matter?" What if they see something and slash you with a knife? ”

Gu Qingzhu smoothed the broken hair on his sideburns, and said with a smile in his eyes like water: "My grievances with them are not overnight, they fought openly, we fought last time, they lost, this time, they are in the light, we are in the dark, they have successfully spread rumors, so scared that others dare not go out, they will not suspect that I actually stole the beams and change the pillars, and that white cloak is really good, once they cheat, they are even more destined to win."

As for why I didn't tell you earlier, first, because I wasn't sure when they would start, if I let the aunts guard here every day, not only are people tired, but also easy to be discovered, not as few as us, it is convenient to come and go, and secondly, they deliberately climbed over the wall to destroy the double silk machine, not only let the weaving mill suffer losses, but also to me can't get by, just by this, I also have to catch them with my own hands to ask for an understanding. ”

"In this case, I will fulfill you, Ming'er, you will interrogate in front of the big guys, and help me share my worries, saving me from wasting my tongue with these fools." Mama Guo patted her on the shoulder and said.

Gu Qingzhu nodded in response, Mama Guo sent the rest of the people away, and they rested in peace, this incident happened suddenly, and it was dealt with decisively, and it was the third watch in the middle of the night, except for a few of them, no one in the backyard knew.

The next morning, there was a rare failure to start work in the workshop, and there was a circle of girls who didn't know what to do in the open space, and where Mu Jincheng used to sit, Mama Guo was sitting on it, Gu Qingzhu was standing next to the desk, and there was a bright knife and a huge white cloak on her side.

"Yesterday, the big white cat you are afraid of was skinned by us at night, today, let Gu Qingzhu take us to see what kind of thing this demon is!" When Mama Guo saw that all the girls below had arrived, they all looked at her in confusion, so she waved her hand.

Soon, the mother-in-law outside dragged Gu Erni and the others in, and after one night, the three of them were full of red envelopes, and their wrists and ankles were all strangled with bruises.

The mother-in-law on the side pulled out the cloth from their mouths under the signal of Mama Guo, and looked at the dust and grass clippings on their three light begonia-colored skirts, and the front and back were full of white salt frost formed after sweat soaking, and the girls below exclaimed: "They are pretending!?" ”

"Tell me, what were you doing through the window last night?" Gu Qingzhu asked with a cold face.

"If you want to kill or chop, whatever, why ask disgusting people knowingly?" Gu Erni spat on the mud and sand.

"After being locked up overnight, it's still so horizontal, with twenty palms!" Mama Guo said majestically.

"I ...... I'm not Xiaoji, the Tan family's house slave, you have no right to beat me! Gu Erni retreated again and again, and said without showing weakness.

"Don't worry, I'll send you to see the official, but I'm fighting the thief who stole into the workshop and destroyed the machine, and no one can control it!" Mama Guo slapped the case suddenly, and the girls below were startled.

A rough woman stepped forward and pinched Gu Erni's chin, she didn't have the heart to pity the jade, I saw her pick up her thick palm without hesitation, and opened the bow left and right according to her face, and after a while, Gu Erni's cheeks were red and swollen, and the corners of her mouth were even more bloody.

"Now you should be honest." Mama Guo leaned over and forced her to look at her.

Her gaze was cold, as cold as ten thousand years of ice, creepy, and shuddering.

Gu Erni spit out a mouthful of blood, and said in a hoarse voice: "We have been here for two months, we want to make more money, and we have limited things to do during the day, so we want to do more at night." ”

"I think you're a dead duck with a hard mouth, and you still need to carry such a long knife when you go to reel? There are still people outside pretending to be demon cats to let off steam, and this way of making money is unheard of and unseen! Gu Qingzhu snorted coldly.

Gu Erni saw that she couldn't hide it anymore, so she shouted hysterically: "Yes, we just can't see your villain's ambition, and you are forced to do this!" ”

She only sweated all night, didn't drink water, and as soon as she exerted herself, her dry throat hurt like a tear.

"I'm forcing you? How do I force you? Now you are spreading rumors about demon cats sucking souls in the weaving workshop, and several times sneaking into the weaving workshop in the middle of the night to cut the silk reeling machine with a knife, you are not only against me, but also against everyone in the weaving workshop, such a vicious and ruthless heart, I can't force it out! Gu Qingzhu tightened his eyebrows and asked loudly.

"You are talking nonsense, your machine was broken by yourself, how can you rely on my head!" Gu Erni was unwilling to be defeated like this, and quibbled.

Gu Qingzhu leaned over, stared at Gu Erni's eyes and said, "Gu Erni, you are smart but you are clever and mistaken, you probably only know that the single wire machine was broken, but you don't know, I thoroughly checked with the master of the carpentry shop yesterday before you came, and he clearly said that my machine was cut by a knife."

As for the one I am using, it must have been cut by you last night, if I hadn't struck the wall with a stone to lure you out, I'm afraid that this would have happened, and that machine would have broken as long as I stepped on it.

At that time, you will bewitch others to say that I am possessed by a demon cat, specializing in destroying the machine, and then isolating and harming me, and finally driving me out of the weaving workshop, or beating me to death with a stick! ”

Gu Erni was stared at by her wolf-like deep gaze, she was right, they calculated so much that they wanted to completely defeat Gu Qingzhu, however, I don't know if they were unlucky, or Gu Qingzhu was too smart, overnight, the development of things had completely deviated from the direction they envisioned, and they were being brought to a suffocating whirlpool of despair.

When the two sides were fighting each other, a mother-in-law invited the carpentry master who had come yesterday, and the middle-aged man was shocked when he saw the tense posture in the workshop, and he hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted Mama Guo.

"Yesterday, you repaired the machine early, and I didn't have time to ask, where did the double-wire machine in the workshop break?" Mama Guo asked in a deep voice.

"This ......" The man glanced at Gu Qingzhu, he promised to keep it secret for her for the time being.

"Master, please give me a testimony today, in addition, there is a machine here, please take a look at it again." Gu Qingzhu bowed and saluted, and said loudly.

"Mama Guo, yesterday, I did check the machine with this girl, and found that the pedal was not broken, but the coupling was cut with a knife a few times, which caused it to break when I stepped on it." The middle-aged man didn't dare to hide it, and said 1510.

"In that case, let's go check out the other one." Mama Guo stood up from behind the case.

The girls at the bottom automatically parted a road, hugged Mama Guo and walked to Gu Erni's workstation.

The middle-aged man didn't dare to slack off, so he found a strong mother-in-law to help, turned the machine on its side, and found the knife marks on the shaft again, but it was not as deep as Gu Qingzhu's original machine.

"Master, take a look, is it cut by this knife?" Gu Qingzhu handed the long knife to the middle-aged man.