"You are a girl, don't always go to Nancang County alone, people outside are very bad, you don't cause trouble, but some people want to harm you, fortunately nothing happened yesterday, otherwise, your father will come back, and he may not blame himself." The Qin clan was both angry and distressed.

"Auntie, don't worry, it's not so scary outside, it was just an accident yesterday." Gu Qingzhu smiled gently.

"People can have a few accidents in their lives, your uncle Qiang went up the mountain to pick stones, an accident, you can't just throw our mother and son, and you can't come back." Qin sighed faintly at the mention of his deceased husband.

"Now the price of tea cakes has fallen sharply, I am calculating, making tea is time-consuming and labor-intensive, from now on, I plan to sell fresh leaves, although the price of fresh leaves is low, but a day can pick ten catties, and I can spare time to take care of Qingying at night." Gu Qingzhu took Qin's hand and soothed him.

"If you don't dislike it, I'll pick it for you for a few days, when I was in my mother's house, I was also an expert in picking tea, so as not to let the tea buds go too fast and become an elder in vain." Qin hesitated and said.

As for widows, especially widows like Qin's widows, the villagers are very taboo, for fear that their life will be punished, pollute the cleanliness of tea, and ruin the beauty of tea, so as to affect the germination and growth of tea trees in the following year, so Qin's family will not grow tea since Gu Shiqiang died.

"It's too late for my Aunt Xie, how can I dislike it!" Gu Qingzhu has always believed in this.

As long as the so-called people are not lazy, as long as they apply fertilizer, weeding, and pruning in a timely manner, the tea tree will not be reduced for no reason because it has been picked by anyone.

"Then it's decided, I'll say hello to Mancang later, and when he sells tea to the village chief's house, I'll take yours to sell by the way." Seeing that she promised so happily, Qin said happily in his heart.

"Wouldn't that be too much trouble?" Gu Qingzhu frowned.

"What's this, I'm fast, I can go back and forth in an hour, Aunt Qin, you just pick, I'll help sell it after noon, and now I'm selling it to Sansheng, those guys are familiar with me." Liang Mancang walked in from the outside and said.

"Thank you so much, Brother Mancang." Gu Qingzhu smiled at him.

"You weren't in good health yesterday, I didn't dare to ask, what happened to you in Nancang County?" Liang Mancang leaned against the door frame, glanced at Gu Qingzhu's pale face and asked.

"What kind of tiger and wolf people are these, look at the people who beat her, she almost lost her life, eighty percent of them were bullied by others when they saw her, greedy for the money from the tea cakes she just sold." Before Gu Qingzhu could speak, the Qin clan couldn't suppress his anger and gushed endlessly.

"For no reason, who would hurt people for a few hundred dollars, wasn't it those people last time? It's really shameless, if you can't beat me, you will bully you, and when I go next time, I will definitely give you anger! Liang Mancang gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and said hatefully.

"Forget it, I'm not okay, it's better to have more than one thing, I'm not going to sell tea in Nancang County for the time being, the strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, don't go and cause trouble in vain." Gu Qingzhu waved his hand and persuaded.

"In the future, this account will always be counted together." Liang Mancang's face was pale.

This incident started because of him, but innocently caused Gu Qingzhu to suffer, he felt uncomfortable, he made up his mind to seek justice for her in the future.

Since then, the Qin family picks tea every day, Liang Mancang helps to carry out and sell, the eldest girl and Zhao Di got the news, and they all came to visit Gu Qingzhu, and the people in the village who have a good relationship with her family, or who have to take care of her livestock, also come to see her, and occasionally have a moment and a half of idle time, and also want to help her pick tea.

In this way, with everyone's help, the tea leaves in the tea garden are not wasted, regardless of the market price, there are always some meager income inputs.

Gu Qingzhu rested at home for five or six days, and when his body finally recovered, he couldn't wait to start picking tea.

After the valley rain, it is late spring on the solar terms, most of the tea leaves grow with big leaves and long stems, this time is made of hard slice tea, the taste is richer than the first stubble lotus heart, and it is more resistant to boiling, it is liked by many old tea customers, the price is affordable, and it also has the name of spring tea, therefore, several tea shops in Cuiping Town are open to buy fresh leaves, and the price is about ten Wen per catty.

Liang Mancang sells two teas, running back and forth between Gujiaao and Cuiping Town at least three times a day, Gu Qingzhu couldn't bear to trouble him, so he decided to pick tea in the morning and sell it on his back in the afternoon, just in time to cook when he went home.

Liang Mancang mistakenly thought that she was afraid of gossip from others, so he didn't say anything, just silently walked with her, and could take care of her somewhat.

In the afternoon of this day, the two rushed to Cuiping Town together, there was a long queue in front of Sanshengmen, waiting for the people who passed the scales and the tea basket, Liang Mancang didn't care about wiping his sweat, and squeezed to the front to ask the price, it was still ten pennies a catty, and he nodded happily to Gu Qingzhu.

Gu Qingzhu lined up patiently, at this time, the sun was already hot, and her thin shadow couldn't stop the bamboo basket.

Fortunately, it was their turn soon, Liang Mancang first sold tea for Gu Shifu, and then it was time for Gu Qingzhu, she lowered her head and lifted the bamboo basket, ready to pour the tea into the basket in the store.

"Hey, why are you?" A sound of surprise.

Gu Qingzhu raised her head and saw the smiling Qiusheng, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Why did you come here?" ”

"Why didn't I see you yesterday, but I only came here today?" Liang Mancang was on the side, frowning.

"This eldest brother must have come to sell tea often, what you said is not bad at all, I only came here with our master today." Qiusheng took the bamboo basket, shook it vigorously, and even carefully bent down to take off a tea leaf stuck on the bamboo strip.

"Sansheng has changed bosses?" Liang Mancang asked suspiciously.

"How can it, there is no thing, our third master personally came down to supervise the collection of tea." Qiusheng spoke, he had already weighed the weight, and the account report was clear and clear, "Eighteen catties and seven taels, one hundred and eighty-seven wen." ”

The bookkeeper next to him was counting the copper coins at 1510, Gu Qingzhu was staring at it, and he was also counting silently in his heart, but he didn't know that a man came out of the room.

I saw that his face was like a full moon, his hair was like splashing ink, his starry eyes were high and his nose was high, and he was dressed in a rain-soaked robe, which made him look tall, straight, clean and refreshing.

"Third Master!" Qiusheng's eyes were sharp, and he immediately called out respectfully.

Distracted by his voice, Gu Qingzhu glanced at it, and was stunned for a moment, Nancang County is so big, why do you always meet it?

"Huh?" Seeing Gu Qingzhu again, Mu Jincheng was also very surprised.

But when he saw the burly and sturdy Liang Mancang beside Gu Qingzhu, his heart was inexplicably sour, as if he had picked up the cats and dogs half-picked, and he had been raising them, but in the end, it turned out to be the owner.

Gu Qingzhu didn't want to meet him, let alone talk to him more, she was ready to settle the money and leave, every time she saw him, there was nothing good, but she seemed to have forgotten that it was Mu Jincheng who helped her every time, whether it was Qian Man or not, or the man in black tied her.

"Hey, hey, I just found out that there is a problem with this scale, and today's tea is not accepted, it is not accepted, let's go back, let's go back." The more Gu Qingzhu ignored him, the more unhappy Mu Jincheng was in his heart, and he found an excuse to speak.

"What kind of fame is this, why did I wait so long in vain!"

"No, my tea is shriveled and has less weight!"

The tea sellers outside muttered, but they didn't dare to delay, it was not early at this time, they couldn't wait, and they resold other people's houses one after another.

"Third master, this scale is good, I checked it this morning." Qiusheng didn't know what to do, looked at the crowd of people leaving outside, and said anxiously.

"In that case, give me back the tea." Gu Qingzhu said to Qiusheng.

"No, it's a good scale." Qiusheng scratched his head and turned his head to look at Mu Jincheng helplessly.

"You cook me dinner, and I'll give you the money for tea." Mu Jincheng smiled slyly.

"You ......" Gu Qingzhu couldn't laugh or cry.

He saved her that day, Gu Qingzhu remembered this favor, thinking that a rich and noble person like him, money or something, probably didn't care anymore, if cooking a meal could be regarded as a reward, she would still be willing to do it.

"We are selling tea, but we are not the fire girls that your family supports at will." Liang Mancang said dissatisfiedly.

"Who are you, I didn't let you cook!" Mu Jincheng had an inexplicable natural hostility towards him, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly and squint.

"Brother Mancang, forget it, it's just a meal, it takes half an hour, why bother with him." Gu Qingzhu grabbed Liang Mancang and said in a low voice.

"But ......" just can't get used to his face! Liang Mancang held back his words and only glared back angrily.

"What's in the kitchen?" Gu Qingzhu rolled up his sleeves and asked.

Mu Jincheng didn't expect Gu Qingzhu to agree so easily, and hurriedly led her to the kitchen, while Liang Mancang was left outside and was in a hurry.

In the kitchen, the rice, noodles, meat and vegetables are well prepared, the varieties are complete, and the pots and bowls are also clean, which are specially sent by the two women of the Mu family.

"What do you want to eat?" Gu Qingzhu looked around for a week and asked.

"I don't know!" Mu Jincheng shook his head.

Last time, the case was like a farce, tossed for a few days, and then it was over, this matter was originally passed peacefully, but I don't know who stabbed Mu Shaotang, and the Mu family blew up all of a sudden.

Mu Mingcheng has been helping to persuade, and repeatedly stated that Mu Jincheng had no choice but to act in order to save people, but Mu Shaotang complained that he didn't know the severity and would cause trouble.

Mu Shaotang didn't often go to the shop to take care of daily things on the surface, as if he had handed over everything to Mu Mingcheng, but in private, he paid more attention to the development of the four major families in Nancang. The Tan family is bent on stability, while the Song family is still like a pool of stagnant water.

The most terrifying thing is the Qian family, they are like a vulture with gradually plump wings in Nancang County, staring at the Mu family sharply, if they appear in the slightest difference, the Qian family will be fast and ruthless, and put them to death with one move, and then replace them.

Now, such a big mistake is in front of him, if Mu Mingcheng hadn't come up with a way to mix up the money, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been so simple.

Therefore, the angry Mu Shaotang ignored the opposition of his ancestors, and begged his wife Lu Shi bitterly, but still sent him to Cuiping Town.

Compared with Nancang County, Cuiping Town is too small, Mu Jincheng visited the whole town three times on the first day, the food cooked in the two restaurants is too unpalatable, a hotel, the cockroaches in the room come out in groups to see people, and another ready-to-wear store, the fabric is poor, and the workmanship is not particular at all, in his eyes, he can't wear it at all.