Chapter Ninety-Seven: An Occasional Early Warning
"I don't know!" Xiao Ji glanced at them, spread his hands out, like a proud peacock, and walked away, leaving only the three of them standing stupidly.
"What does she mean, playing tricks!" Jia Min stomped his foot angrily.
"She definitely can't stand the ambition of a villain like Gu Qingzhu, so she kindly told us what happened before, but she was afraid of being affected like this, so we might as well ...... like this" Gu Erni beckoned the three of them to approach, almost whispering.
"No, no, isn't this ruining people's reputations?" Yang Daniu stared at those deep sunken eyes and refused to speak.
"Forget it, I can't tell you for a while, you just clean the toilet honestly, and wait for us to find a replacement for the dead ghost to replace you." Peng Pearl waved her hand impatiently.
"You can't do that, it's not virtuous!" Yang Dayu tried desperately to convince them.
However, the three of them were eager for revenge, and they had already gone mad, and they couldn't listen to her at all, so they all lost their brooms and hid to the side to discuss, Yang Daniu looked at them, and then looked at the toilet, so she had to pick up the broom and clean it alone.
The dust of the game has settled, the weaving workshop has been born for two or three days, Gu Qingzhu's silk reeling skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and at the end of the day, he can wind four or five catties of silk thread, so that there are forty or fifty wen in a day, which is more profitable than selling summer tea fresh leaves, which I don't know how many people have been envied, Gu Daya and their hands and feet are slower, and more than thirty wen still earns.
On this day, Gu Qingzhu had dinner, and planned to take Qingying to play in the courtyard with the eldest girl, now that the summer days are long, Qingying is a child in the end, she has been trapped in this courtyard for a long time, she is really bored, and she has no time during the day, so she has to be free for a while in the evening.
"Miss Gu, can you come and do me a favor?" The fat housekeeper in the kitchen stopped her with a smile on her face.
"Auntie, what's the matter?" Gu Qingzhu stood up and asked.
"Hey, it's not that master, it's not easy to eat every day, look at my hair is gray!" The fat woman picked up a few hairs and showed them to Gu Qingzhu.
"What can I do for you?" Gu Qingzhu said briskly.
"Oh, I'll just wait for your words, I know you're busy during the day, and nothing else is good to trouble you, today, you can make me a pot of sauce." The fat woman grabbed Gu Qingzhu's sleeve and said affectionately.
Gu Qingzhu couldn't shirk it, so he had to say, "Big girl, you take Qingying to play, I'll help my aunt." ”
The four of them nodded and took Qingying away, Gu Qingzhu rolled up her sleeves and entered the kitchen, the ingredients on the board were complete, the sauce in the kitchen was bought in the market, and it was not as dry as the farmer's sun, Gu Qingzhu dipped her fingers and tasted it, the noodles were salty and salty, not fresh enough, the last time she bought shrimp, it was purely accidental, and there was only some meat in the kitchen at this time.
Seeing her so old-fashioned, the fat woman rubbed her hands and said: "Old woman, I went to the vegetable market a few days in a row to look for it, but I didn't meet a shrimp seller. ”
"Use seven points of tenderloin, three points of pork belly, the tenderloin is tender, and the pork belly has oil." Gu Qingzhu said, and he was about to take the knife in his hand.
"Don't, don't, you just say it, cut the meat and let them come." The fat steward stopped Gu Qingzhu and beckoned the other mothers-in-law.
"Soak some fungus and mushrooms or something, oh, are there peanuts? Cook first. Gu Qingzhu thought about it and said again.
A few mothers-in-law have probably been embarrassed by Mu Jincheng these days, and they are doing things very hard today, and they are doing everything according to what Gu Qingzhu said.
A pot of peanut meat sauce was enough for more than an hour, and when Gu Qingzhu came out of the kitchen, it was dark, and the fat steward couldn't help it, so he took a small can and filled it with a little sauce, saying that it was for Qingying to eat, but Gu Qingzhu couldn't let it go, so he accepted it.
One night after three or five days, Gu Daya suddenly said to Gu Qingzhu: "Qingzhu, recently, have you felt that something is wrong?" ”
"No, I see you're doing well now." Gu Qingzhu lowered his head and sewed Qingying's clothes under the lamp, and said nonchalantly.
"That's not what I'm talking about, a few days ago, a few people always came to talk to us, do you remember? But lately, they have been ignoring people. Gu Daya rolled her eyes and said.
"What's so strange about this, people didn't know how to reel silk before, so they inevitably asked you for more advice, and now, who is willing to put their wages and don't earn them, and waste their tongues with you." Gu Qingzhu shook his head with a smile.
"Ah, that's not the case, I can't tell you!" Gu Daya didn't know what to say for a while, so she was so anxious that she stomped her feet.
"Okay, okay, aren't we here just to make money? Others ignore us, what's the big deal. Gu Qingzhu put down her clothes and patted her arm.
After a few more days, even Gu Qingzhu felt the unfriendly eyes of the others, these people gathered in groups of three or five to chatter, and when they saw them coming, they immediately scattered as birds and beasts, pretending to do their own things.
Gu Daya also blocked one or two people to ask, but they refused to say, Gu Daya was not good at beating people for nothing, so she had to hold her breath.
After the summer solstice, the weather became hotter and hotter, and the rain became more, making people sticky and wet all day long, Qingying just took a shower in the morning, and by noon she was sweaty, Gu Qingzhu took a wooden basin and went to the kitchen to fetch water.
Because of the last time she boiled the sauce, Gu Qingzhu told the mother-in-law in the kitchen without reservation, and reciprocated the favor, they were very polite to her, no matter when, they could go to the kitchen to use hot water, and others would not have such benefits, at most wipe them with cold water at noon.
Before she entered the kitchen, she heard the man's angry scolding and the girl's crying from the front yard, it was the time for the lunch break, most of the people were in their own room, Guo Mama felt shallow, this louder, it should wake her up.
Gu Qingzhu walked to the front yard with the basin and looked at the back, sure enough, it was a girl in the weaving workshop, she stood at the gate of the courtyard with her head bowed, and across the courtyard gate, there was a man standing outside, waving his arms and speaking openly.
Because of the dazzling sunlight, Gu Qingzhu couldn't see the man's face clearly, and when he walked up, he found that it was actually Yang Dafa from Yangjia Village, and it was Yang Daniu who was standing and crying inside!
"After eating the bear's heart and leopard gall, you dare to come to the weaving workshop to bully people, believe it or not, I called someone to beat you up!" Gu Qingzhu put down the basin and stood next to Yang Daniu.
"Stinky girl, why are you here?" Yang Dafa didn't expect Gu Qingzhu to suddenly appear.
The last time he was beaten by Fang Kui and the others, he had been lying at home for several days, and he had only been walking around for a few days, and his legs were still lame.
"Where I am, I don't need you to care, you'd better leave quickly, or I'll go and tell the housekeeper and let the county government arrest you!" Gu Qingzhu threatened.
"I'm looking for my own sister-in-law, even if the county master comes, I can't care about it!" Yang Dafa said proudly.
"Phew, who's your sister!" Gu Qingzhu only thought he was lying, and scolded angrily.
"Miss Gu, he is really my brother." Yang Daniu, whose eyes were red from crying, tugged at the corner of Gu Qingzhu's clothes.
"Huh?" Gu Qingzhu's eyes widened in surprise.
How could these two be brother and sister? One is a scoundrel who is hated by everyone, and the other is a poor person who is weak and can be bullied.
"Really." Yang Dayu lowered her head in shame.
"This kind of brother, don't do it, a man who can only bully his own sister is a bad breed, he has the ability, you go to earn money to feed your relatives, what kind of ability is it to be drunk here!" Gu Qingzhu straightened his waist and scolded angrily.
She can be regarded as having encountered a strange thing today, but Yang Daniu cried so pitifully that she had to take care of it.
"I'm just a fool, just a coward, didn't your uncle almost marry you to me?" Yang Dafa became more and more scoundrel, and he smiled with an iodine face.
"Call you nonsense!" Gu Qingzhu, who was extremely angry, picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it on his nose at once.
Two lines of blood flowed down drippingly, and Yang Dafa wiped it while shouting: "Girl, look, she beat me to blood, I'm my own brother!" ”
"Well deserved!" Yang Daniu's face was flushed, and she finally scolded.
"Lose money, you turn your elbow out! I have so much blood from my nose, no, no, no more, without a hundred wen, I won't go! Yang Dafa wiped his nosebleed all over his face and squatted on the ground to play tricks.
"Hurry up, or I'll make your head bloom!" Gu Qingzhu held up a larger stone and said intimidatingly.
"You...... You madman, I didn't ask you for money! Yang Dafa moved back aggrievedly.
"The people we work together are sisters, you bully my sisters, you can't do it!" Gu Qingzhu said angrily.
"Why are you such a scoundrel, if you didn't say that you were the girl's brother, I wouldn't have bothered to pass on the message to you, what kind of trouble is going on here? After a while, the housekeeper and mother quarreled, do I still want my job? Slippery, get out of here! The doorway of the porter opened, and a stout woman came out, disgusted.
"I ...... I'm really her brother, dear! Yang Dafa blinked his eyes, pointed at Yang Daniu, and then pointed at himself.
"What are you, don't come back in the future, no one will pass you a word when you come!" The mother-in-law crossed her waist and pestle in front of him, which was to force him to go.
"Okay, good, eat things inside and outside, you have a long ability, there is a kind, don't go home!" Yang Dafa limped away, and did not forget to turn around and say hatefully.
Seeing him leaving, the mother-in-law who guarded the door waved at Gu Qingzhu and Yang Daniu, closed the door and went back to the house.
"Thank you, Miss Gu." Yang Daniu bowed her head and was about to salute.
"What is this for? When we work together, we want to help each other. Gu Qingzhu held her up.
Hearing this, Yang Dayu choked up for a while: "My brother ...... him"
"He's coming to ask you for money, isn't he? You must be given to him, or it will drain your bottomless pit! Gu Qingzhu stroked her back and persuaded.
"I know, besides, I've been here for almost a month, and I haven't made any money!" Yang Dayu lowered her head, sniffed and said.
"Silk reeling is not difficult to learn, you can get started in three or five days, if you don't know, you can come and ask me, besides, Mama didn't say, you can't work in the afternoon." Gu Qingzhu comforted her.
"But they said......" Yang Dayu twisted the corners of her clothes, suddenly raised her head, and mustered up the courage to say: "Miss Gu, you are a good person, you have to be careful recently!" ”
"Me? What am I watching out for? "The second monk Gu Qingzhu was puzzled.
"Anyway, you just have to pay attention to yourself." After Yang Daniu finished speaking, she ran quickly.
Gu Qingzhu didn't want to call her loudly, he just looked at her back and was stunned for a while, then turned around and picked up the wooden basin and went to the kitchen.
In the evening, Gu Qingzhu and Gu Daya talked about it, and everyone unanimously felt that the recent abnormalities must be Gu Erni and others playing ghosts, but just let others isolate them, what benefits can Gu Erni get from it?
Besides, this kind of isolation can't hurt them anything, and what is Yang Daniu's caution?