"When are you free? I see you've been busy lately. Mu Jincheng fiddled with the teacup and continued to ask.

"It's all up to the arrangement of the ancestors, we can be juniors whenever we want." Tan Zijin said gently.

"Sister Zijin, you can't tell the truth, you can't go away from collecting silkworm cocoons in the East Market, and the weaving workshop is still waiting to open." Mu Jincheng turned his head to look at her and shook his head.

Tan Zijin is too perfect, perfect and almost cannibalistic, but it is also difficult for people to enter her heart and not know what she wants.

"I'm telling the truth!" Tan Zijin frowned slightly, feeling inexplicable.

"When will the silkworm market in Dongshi end? When is the weaving mill going to open? Mu Jincheng knew that he couldn't tell her, so he asked with his cheeks.

"Ming'er is a mangzhong, on the last day, if everything goes well, the weaving workshop will open the day after tomorrow, and Ming'er will send people to send posts everywhere." Tan Zijin was a little puzzled, why did he care about this, but he still said it one by one.

"Okay, I know, I'll tell my ancestor when I go back that Sister Zijin is free at any time. However, I don't think the lotus flowers in the pond are at their peak yet, and the best time to see them is in five or six days. Mu Jincheng clapped his hands and stood up, winked at her slyly, and bit the word "but" extremely hard.

Tan Zijin is such a smart person, as soon as she heard it, she understood Mu Jincheng's kindness, and couldn't help but smile with her eyebrows: "Only you can toss the most." ”

"I'm leaving." Mu Jincheng put his hands behind his back and left slowly.

He went out of the door of the weaving workshop, and did not go home, but went straight to the county office.

Gu Qingzhu drank a bowl of porridge, slept for a while, and woke up in the evening feeling much better, and saw Qingying sleeping next to her, and his heart calmed down.

In the end, it was a newcomer, and it was not good to really sleep until tomorrow, so she turned over, cleaned up and went to the front yard.

"Mama." Gu Qingzhu saw Mama Guo sitting at the table, and hurriedly walked over and shouted.

"What's wrong with you? Are you better? Mama Guo looked her up and down.

"It's okay, I'm ...... I was just scared. "Gu Qingzhu is not good at talking to strangers about yesterday, so he has to shirk it like this.

"Well, it's all those two girls who are lazy, and they are not allowed to eat today!" Mama Guo glared at the two people who were kneeling on the ground and wiping the floor.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Ji didn't dare to reply, they only buried their heads in their work deeper, and they couldn't wait to rub a hole out of the ground.

"Mama, they...... They're also unintentional, you ...... Don't punish them. Gu Qingzhu didn't want to offend people for nothing when she first came, although they almost killed her.

"You are blessed with a great life, it just so happened that the third master of the Mu family came to save your little life, otherwise, they would not only have no food to eat, but I am afraid that they will have no food!" The more Mama Guo thought about it, the more angry she became, and when she saw Gu Qingzhu blindly pleading for them, she slapped the table and scolded.

Gu Qingzhu didn't have time to think about who the third master of the Mu family was, she was choked by Mama Guo's words, so she had to be silenced.

When it was time to eat in the evening, Xiao Yuan and Xiao Ji really did not appear at the table, Gu Qingzhu only said that she had slept too much in the afternoon and couldn't eat for a while, so she put away her two white steamed buns.

After settling Qingying to sleep, Gu Qingzhu quietly came to find Xiao Yuan Xiaoji, she had already asked the other girls, and they happened to live in the same room.

The door was hidden, but Gu Qingzhu knocked politely.

"Who? The door is open. Xiao Yuan said weakly.

"It's me." Gu Qingzhu pushed the door and walked in, there was no light in the room, it was a little obscure, she put two steamed buns on the table, and whispered, "I don't have anything else, only this, so I can be hungry." ”

Xiao Yuan got up from the bed, lit the oil lamp with a fire fold, looked at the white steamed bun on the table and swallowed his saliva, beckoned Gu Qingzhu and said, "You sit." ”

Before Gu Qingzhu's buttocks touched the bench, he heard the door clang, and he was pushed hard as if he was angry, and a person came in.

"What are you doing here with us!" It was Xiao Ji who came in, she probably went to wash, and her hair was wet.

"She saw that we had nothing to eat, so she left steamed buns for us." Xiao Yuan was afraid that she would misunderstand, so he hurriedly went up to pull the corner of her clothes.

"Look at you! We don't have anything to eat, and it's not her fault! Xiao Ji snorted and put the wooden basin on the table.

"How can you say that, if you hadn't let go, the ladder would have fallen!" Gu Qingzhu originally had the attitude that more things are better than less, but she didn't expect her to be so unreasonable, and she couldn't help but be annoyed.

"Then you didn't fall down in the end, pretending to be dead, sleeping in vain all afternoon without saying anything, and causing us to be scolded and punished!" Xiao Ji took out the towel in the basin and shook it, and the water beads splashed Gu Qingzhu's body.

"Xiaoji, don't be like this, Mama heard it in a while, and it was time to punish again!" Seeing her making such a fuss, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but persuade in a low voice.

"Are we being bullied less, and she's not one of them!" Xiao Ji didn't listen to the advice at all, and raised his hand to wave the steamed buns on the table to the ground.

The round white steamed bun rolled on the ground a few times, covered with dust, and turned into two black bumps.

"You!" Gu Qingzhu was angry, and the food he had left for his hungry stomach with good intentions was wasted.

"You're going too far!" Xiao Yuan angrily pushed Xiao Ji and wanted to step forward to pick up the steamed buns.

After all, for people who have only eaten one breakfast, worked for another day, and are hungry, they can still eat the inside of the steamed bun if they tear off a layer of skin on the outside.

It's a pity that he couldn't wait for Xiao Yuan to bend down to pick it up, Xiao Ji kicked one by one, stepped on the two steamed buns under his feet, and crushed them hard, so he didn't have to eat at all.

"You're crazy! You have a kind, if you don't eat it, why do you lose my share! Xiao Yuan grabbed Xiao Ji's shirt and shook it vigorously.

Seeing this, Gu Qingzhu didn't say anything, turned around and opened the door and went out, such a crazy person, it would be better to stay away from her in the future.

On the second day, Gu Qingzhu got up very early according to the habit in the mountains, and when she washed and dried her clothes, the people in the side room next to her yawned one after another and opened the door.

"You're early." Mama Guo looked at the dripping clothes on the shelf and was very satisfied.

People are old and feel less, she gets up early, and she can't tolerate those little girls who are sleepy, seeing Gu Qingzhu so diligent, she naturally looks at her differently.

"Mama, do you have any clothes to wash?" Gu Qingzhu wiped the water stains on his hands and asked.

"I have a little to serve, I don't need you, I ate for a while, moved the table, and followed me to the front to register." Mama Guo said and stepped into the kitchen.

Xiaolai is a girl with a round face and a thick plate, fifteen or sixteen years old, seeing Gu Qingzhu smiling innocently, Gu Qingzhu smiled back.

Mama Guo and Xiaolai ate in the kitchen, and the little girls and Gu Qingzhu sisters ate around the two round tables outside, and Gu Qingzhu didn't know what was eating inside, and he didn't care too much.

In front of her was a bowl of thick japonica rice porridge, two white-flour steamed buns, and some side dishes for dinner, such a breakfast was commonplace for the little girls of the Tan family, and they were tired of eating, but in Gu Qingzhu's eyes, this was better than what they made at home, and the two sisters looked at each other and smiled, bowing their heads to eat.

"I think some people do less, eat more, and bring someone who eats for nothing and doesn't work, which is obviously cheating us." Xiao Ji grabbed the steamed bun in a weird way and threw it in his own bowl little by little.

"Say less, you didn't make enough trouble yesterday!" Xiao Yuan glanced around and tugged at her sleeve.

The people next to her didn't pay attention to her, but they didn't hear it, and a few of them moved the porridge bowl, for fear that the fire at the city gate would affect the fish in the pond.

"Spineless things, what are you afraid of, she is a stinky foreigner, and she can't go to heaven!" Seeing this, Xiao Ji couldn't help but be even more angry, stood up and scolded.

"You're right, I'm just a part-time worker to earn money, you are not a child of a poor family, you can't get by, so you went to a big family to be a girl, our well water does not interfere with river water, why do you have to do this!" Gu Qingzhu had already finished eating, put down his chopsticks, and twisted his eyebrows.

What's wrong with the little girl in the big family, there is no Miss Life, there is a Miss illness, I really see myself as half a master!

"Hmph, you'd better not mess with me!" Xiao Ji snorted coldly.

"Are they too full to eat? With this nonsense, wipe the ground in the front yard three more times! Mama Guo came out of the room, her eyes were like ice, and she glanced at everyone.

"We don't!" Hearing this, everyone else shouted injustice.

Mama Guo ignored it and went out with her head up.

The rest of the people looked at Xiao Ji complainingly, the latter pretended not to see, bowed his head to eat porridge, at this time, the mother-in-law in the kitchen had come out to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and before he had time to eat, all of them were poured into the swill bucket, and a few people jumped to their feet, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they had to go out with steamed buns.

Gu Qingzhu was very full, put Xiao Ji's words behind, and took Qingying to the front to register busily.

The notice of the weaving workshop recruitment has been posted for a few days, and today is the day of official registration, which is still early, even if the people from ten miles and eight towns get up early, let alone get the right time.

Even though no one came, Gu Qingzhu was not idle, moved the tables and chairs, prepared pen and ink, and turned around to sweep the pomegranate flowers that had fallen in the yard.

"Okay, you can rest for a while, those little girls of their own will clean up." Seeing that she didn't stop for a while, Mama Guo beckoned.

Hearing this, Gu Qingzhu sat down at the table, pressed the porcelain paperweight with pine needles on the paper, and studied the original polished ink more carefully.

"Since you're the first to come, write your name first." Mama Guo has the heart to consider her writing, this roster will be reported to the eldest lady at that time, if the writing is sloppy, or not good-looking, it will make her very faceless in her life.

"Hmm." Gu Qingzhu bowed his head and responded.

She hasn't held a pen much for five years, and even her brother's pen and ink are carefully bought, and how can she have spare money to buy paper and pens for her to write and play.

Dipping the small block pen in ink, Gu Qingzhu licked the tip of the pen by the inkstone, calmed down, and wrote his name, age and hometown on the yellowish rice paper.

Mama Guo turned her head to see her write stroke by stroke, although it was not as smart and elegant as the eldest lady's hairpin flower, but it was also beautiful and lovely, she nodded with satisfaction.

"Auntie, is Dexing Weaving Workshop here to sign up?" A woman's voice, crisp and sweet as an autumn pear.

Gu Qingzhu raised his eyes, and saw that the woman in front of him was about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a thin cotton skirt with lake blue, with thin eyebrows and round eyes, and she was extremely smart and sharp at first glance.

"What's your name, where is your home, how old are you this year, why are you here?" Mama Guo saw a lot of people, so she only glanced at her, put on a face of a thousand-year-old well, and asked quietly.

"My name is Peng Zhuzhu, a native of Cuiping Town, I am eighteen years old this year, I heard that there is food and housing here, and the salary is high, so I came." The woman spoke like a jumping bean, and said in a hurry.

Peng ...... Pearl? Gu Qingzhu's pen paused.