The next morning, Bai Mengwan really got up early to open the door as Zhou Zhong taught her, and then carried the fish and told her sister Bai Junwan that it was sent by Steward Xu, although Bai Junwan felt embarrassed to accept other people's things, but under Qingqing's eager gaze, she had to nod and accept the fish.

However, just after breakfast, the Bai sisters took Zhou Chong to see the Bai sisters, hoping that they could move to the inner house to live with her, and secondly, to introduce Zhou Chong. However, when Bai Junwan saw that Zhou Chong turned out to be Zhou Gongzi who had saved them in the first place, she was also taken aback, and immediately stepped forward to salute.

Bang'er didn't expect that her brother saved someone injured last time, and it was the Bai sisters who saved her, and she also felt that everyone was really fateful, and then persuaded Bai Junwan to move to the inner house. Bai Junwan also took into account that Bang'er was kind-hearted, and it was not safe for the two weak women to live in the front yard with a child, and her sister Bai Mengwan was also very willing, so in the end she also nodded, and with the help of Zhou Chong, the Bai sisters moved to the yard next to Aunt Wang, which was the yard where Duo'er's mother, Aunt Zhao, lived.

When Zhou Zhong helped the Bai sisters move, he found that they really had very few belongings, except for the clothes and bedding of the two burdens, all that was left was a little rice and a few cabbages in the kitchen, it is estimated that what they eat these days is not much better than the victims outside the city, no wonder Bai Mengwan would run to the back garden in the middle of the night to steal fish?

One of the wings in Aunt Zhao's yard was opened by Zhou Zhong to make a kitchen, and Bai Junwan set up a stove in another side room to cook alone, originally Aunt Wang and Bang'er saw that the rice and grain in their house were almost gone, so they persuaded Bai Junwan to eat with them, anyway, it was a matter of a few more pairs of chopsticks, but the stubborn Bai Junwan insisted on refusing, and Zhou Zhong also saw that although Bai Junwan was a weak woman, she was also a strong person, so she asked Aunt Wang and Bang'er not to persuade anymore.

After the Bai sisters moved to the backyard of the Zhou Mansion, the inner house finally regained a lot of popularity, not to mention that Duo'er and Qingqing, two little girls of the same age, drilled around the yards every day, and sometimes couldn't find anyone when eating. Bang'er and Bai Mengwan also have a good temperament, often see the two talking and laughing, occasionally Bai Mengwan will also teach Bang'er to play the piano, Zhou Zhong once listened to Bai Mengwan play a song, although he doesn't understand the rhythm, but it does feel very good.

Compared with Bai Mengwan's liveliness, Bai Junwan is very quiet, and she also has to make money to support her family, as long as she has free time every day, she will sit there and embroider, when she finishes the embroidery in her hand, Aunt Wang and Su Niang and others are amazed, because they have never seen such exquisite embroidery.

For the level of Bai Junwan's embroidery, Zhou Zhong naturally couldn't tell the difference, after all, he almost didn't know anything about this ancient women's traditional skills, but he just felt that Bai Junwan's embroidered flowers and birds were bright and beautiful, but no matter how beautiful they were, they couldn't compare to those handicraft pictures in later generations, so he didn't care at first, but when Steward Xu took Bai Junwan's embroidery and sent it to the embroidery village, and suddenly exchanged it back for five taels of silver, this made Zhou Chong startled, he didn't expect a small piece of embroidery to be so valuable, You must know that five taels of silver are enough for the Bai sisters for a year.

In fact, embroidery is actually similar to Zhou Chong's previous book, it all depends on the level of the individual, some women's embroidery skills are superb, an embroidery may be sold for a dozen taels or even dozens of taels is not uncommon, but such embroidery is also rare, and it takes a long time, and even sometimes it takes several people to work together to complete, but the level of some women's embroidery is a little worse, such as Bai Mengwan, if she embroiders the same embroidery, I am afraid it will be good to be able to recover the cost.

In addition, Zhou Zhong didn't know that Bai Junwan was already very famous in Nanjing, one is that she is familiar with the ancient and modern books, and the other is that her embroidery skills are extremely superb, and many local wealthy ladies have asked her for embroidery techniques. Bai Junwan has always regarded embroidery as a hobby, but she didn't expect that she would have to rely on it to support her family now, and this time because of the tight time, she didn't have the money to buy too expensive silk thread, so the flowers and birds embroidered this time are not very good, otherwise it is not uncommon for an embroidery to sell for more than a dozen taels.

On this day, Zhou Chong was still the same as usual, got up early to exercise, and then came back after breakfast and then wrote his own golden plum, this is mainly because Zhou Chong's days are too boring, Bang Er and Duo Er have their own playmates, and they rarely come to him again, but Zhou Zhong can only use this method to pass the time.

When it was almost noon, Zhou Zhong put down the pen and turned his stiff neck, then walked out of the door to look, and found that it was still a sunny day, and there was no wind, at this time Zhou Zhong did not want to write anymore, so he walked out of the yard and went into the garden to take a walk.

Today is already the twenty-seventh month of the lunar month, and in three days it will be the Chinese New Year's Eve, and then the arrival of the new year, but the closer to the New Year, the weather will become warmer, and at noon wear cotton clothes to move a little, and even feel very hot.

Zhou Zhong walked along the gravel path of the garden to the pond in the middle of the garden, only to find that the ice on the surface of the pond had also melted, and the big hole that he and Bai Mengwan had smashed open before had also disappeared without a trace, the fallen leaves on the water surface floated slightly, and from time to time small fish floated up and gently spit out a string of blisters.

"Hee-hee, brother, come over quickly, we're fishing!" At this moment, Zhou Zhong heard someone shouting in the corridor on the pond, and followed the sound, only to find Bang'er and Bai Mengwan sitting at the end of the corridor, holding a fishing rod and waving to him, and behind them, Bai Junwan was sitting on a chair in the corridor, holding a scroll and smiling at him.

The beauty invited, Zhou Zhong naturally couldn't help but go, I saw him greet the bracelet, smiled and walked to the corridor and said: "You are leisurely, you actually came here to fish, how was the harvest, did you catch a fish?" ”

When Zhou Zhong talked about fish, he also deliberately looked at Bai Mengwan, but the other party was also slightly embarrassed, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him.

"Of course, brother, look at the fish I caught, and we'll make fish soup to drink later!" I saw the bracelet proudly raise the bucket in his hand, Zhou re-looked at it, but found that there were only two or three small fish in it, which made him laugh.

Seeing that his brother was so faceless, this made Bang'er very angry, Zhou Chong saw that the situation was not right, and immediately retreated very wisely on the grounds of not disturbing them fishing, so he didn't let Bang'er spread his anger on him.

Zhou Zhong didn't bother Bang'er and Bai Mengwan fishing, so naturally he could only disturb Bai Junwan reading, only to see him sit down opposite Bai Junwan and say, "What book does Miss Bai read?" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, Bai Junwan also closed the book and said with a smile: "Gongzi Zhou is talented, the little girl really didn't expect that the Journey to the West, which caused a huge sensation in Shilin, was actually written by Gongzi!" ”

Zhou Zhong only found out at this time that what Bai Junwan was holding in his hand was a Journey to the West that had just been printed, this was a sample book sent by the Xie family yesterday, and before he could read it, he was snatched away by the bracelet, but he didn't expect it to be borrowed by Bai Junwan now.

"Ha Luha, I didn't expect Miss Bai to like the books written by Zhou, but for me, writing books is just a means to make a living, and I really can't talk about any talent." Zhou Zhong told the truth, but his truthful words became modest words in Bai Junwan's ears.

"Zhou Gongzi is polite, although Journey to the West is a novel, but the content is rich and the characters are vivid, what is even more rare is that the content of the novel seems absurd, but it is a fictional reality, and all kinds of things in the book can be found from our side. I saw Bai Junwan say with great admiration again.

She only had two hobbies when she was in Nanjing, one was to read, and the other was embroidery, when the name of Journey to the West had been spread to Nanjing, but unfortunately she had never had the opportunity to see it, and she didn't expect to meet the original author of Journey to the West on the way to escape, which made her sigh that the world was unpredictable.

"Thank you Miss Bai for your compliment, in fact, my situation was similar to you at that time, and I was also in embarrassment, in order to keep my family fed and clothed, I naturally had to try my best to make money, Miss Bai's embroidery skills are unparalleled, and Zhou can only write with a pen, so we can only choose the only thing we can take in exchange for money, so in essence, there is not much difference between Zhou and Miss Bai!" Zhou Zhong said with a smile again.

Bai Junwan heard Zhou Chong compare herself, and she also respected herself very much in her words, which made her blush, and she couldn't help but have a good impression of Zhou Chong again.

Next, Bai Junwan asked Zhou Zhong some questions about Journey to the West, and Zhou Zhong also answered them one by one. But just when the two were chatting happily, suddenly Steward Xu hurriedly broke into the garden, wiped his sweat and handed a letter to Zhou Chongdao: "Young master, I don't know who is stuffed under our gate today, a letter is written for you to open in person, the old slave didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly sent it to you." ”

"Oh?" Zhou Chong couldn't help but feel a little strange after hearing this, and immediately took the letter and opened it to look at it, but his face immediately changed, and he hurriedly stood up and said, "Steward Xu, I have something to do, maybe I won't come back for dinner tonight, you don't have to wait for me!" ”

After Zhou Chong finished speaking, he immediately left quickly, leaving only Steward Xu and Bai Junwan with puzzled faces, and at the same time guessing the content of the letter in Zhou Chong's hand, what could make him leave in such a hurry?