"Ouch, I'm dripping, it's raining early in the morning?" Gan Pozi stood under the porch with her freshly washed clothes and looked out, the gray and dark sky, the rain continued, and a small pool of water stains rose on the blue brick floor from time to time. She wrinkled her brows and complained to herself www.biquge.info "There were no clouds yesterday night!" Is it supposed to be a clear and sunny day? Why is it raining again? ”

When the daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law who came and went under the eaves saw it, most of them pursed their lips and smiled and hurriedly walked away. Only the person who was familiar with Gan Pozi stood up and comforted her: "The winter day is the face of a child, and the head is looking at it, and it can't be counted." There was a mother-in-law with no job surnamed Wang, and everyone asked Mrs. Wang to simply take out a small handful of melon seeds from her pipa sleeve pocket, and talk to her while snorting: "What is this worth?" Don't you see, when I was young, the blue sky and the white sun were blazing, and there was not even a trace of clouds, and suddenly it rained! She grabbed the melon seeds in her hand and described them vividly: "My mother-in-law and mother were still there for a while, and she shouted in frenzy, hurry up and cover your face back!" I hurriedly ran back, and it rained heavily, but the sky was very bright, and my mother-in-law said that this was a fox marrying a girl, and all mortals must hide it, otherwise they will suffer! ”

A daughter-in-law who was listening to them chattering with a pestle on the side playfully answered: "I have heard this in my mother's house!" said that if there is a fox spirit in the house, something strange will happen, and it will rain on a sunny day, or it will be sunny on a rainy day, which is a sign. When I was a child, the next door lived in a family of two, but the head man bought a concubine back, ouch, the main house lady scourge, fortunately, there was a mage passing by to take a look, said that there was a monster in the house, so he did the law, the first night there was no cloud, the next day it rained a lot, the concubine in the family died and whimpered, and the corpse became a fox! ”

After the daughter-in-law said this, her face changed suddenly, and she laughed with the two mothers-in-law for a while. Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Wang looked at each other, looked left and right at no one, and muttered softly: "The third aunt in the family is also the concubine who brought back......

Mrs. Wang was shocked, and she didn't want to reach out and cover Mrs. Gan's mouth, the orange-peel-like wrinkles on her old face trembled rapidly, and her voice was hoarse and trembling: "You are not afraid of death!" Even this dare to talk nonsense with your mouth open! Are you afraid that the master won't hear it?! ”

Gan Pozi was so frightened that her eyes rolled wildly, and she couldn't stop nodding. Mrs. Wang was still not at ease, and specially told her: "Now in this house, the lady is wholeheartedly taking care of Brother Zhang, and the one in the west wing in front of her is the one who makes the decision!" In the master's place, compared with Brother Zhang, the lady is still in the back row! ”

The Li Mansion is in the east of Fushun City, and it is a large mansion with five entrances before and after. The first entry is the place where the guests are done on weekdays, the second entry is the guest house, and the second entry is the place where the master lives - the fourth entry and the third entry are separated from the middle line, which is the residence of Li Yongbo and Li Yongzhong after adulthood; Wujin is the backyard, called Wushitang, which used to be Li Qi's residence, since he went, Li Yongzhong, the serious head of the family, moved in under the persuasion of Wang Huanzhi, the master of salt, and Li Sanzhong, the chief steward. Li Yongbo sealed his own courtyard and opened a corner door on the wall facing the street for easy access -- this made Li Yongbo extremely dissatisfied.

At that time, Li Qi bought a piece of residential land around the old house, and used the silver to splash the world, invited skillful craftsmen from Yibin and Chengdu, and imitated the pattern of the Jiangnan courtyard in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Li Yongbo lived in the place where Li Mansion sanjin, and after he got married, Li Qi bought several private houses adjacent to Sanjin Courtyard for him, bulldozing Shengsheng Sanjin Courtyard and expanding the east and west wings. Now the third aunt Yihong lives in the west wing, and the second aunt lived in the east wing, but a few years ago, the second aunt was not favored by Li Yongbo, so she asked the housewife Chen to sell it, and now it is vacated for the use of housekeeping on weekdays.

"Third lady, the master came back with a message, saying that he asked the family to support five hundred taels of silver, and he was going to talk to Uncle Liu tonight." Li Yongbo's personal servant Yuan Bao changed into a rat gray muslin crewneck shirt and wore a scarf that unified mountains and rivers, looking really energetic. He lowered his hands and bowed his head, not daring to raise his eyes to look at the people seated, but only looked at his nose and nose and said: "I have something else to say to the third lady, the people who come to support the uncle of the Liu family will spend five taels a month on the counter, and one tael a month for the water porter." ”

Yi Hong had no choice but to pick up the account book and look at it, then took the tea bowl to moisten her mouth, drank it and threw the tea bowl on the small table next to her, and said lightly: "Since it is the meaning of the master, did you hear it?" He looked to the left and right, and commanded, "Tell the account office in the front yard to enter the account." After finishing speaking, it seemed that she suddenly remembered, the third aunt lowered her eyes, and said angrily: "Ah Dong went to give the lady a word, don't say that I, who is a concubine, don't take her as a housewife seriously." ”

The maid standing at the bottom of Ah Chun obediently slapped her body and responded: "Yes." ”

The steward and others who were waiting for the incident all retreated, and Yihong's personal maid Ah Chun personally brought her a cup of tea, and rubbed her shoulders and pinched her back, which was very careless and intimate. Yihong's face did not see the arrogant look in front of Li Yongbo in the past, only showed a shrewdness that no one had ever seen, and she was silent for a while, and she suddenly spoke: "Is there any news from outside?" ”

"Not yet." Ah Chun replied in a low voice, still gently beating Yihong's shoulder and back with a soft hand, and after a pause, she said: "The day before yesterday, the slave maid went out by buying some snacks for her aunt, and there was not a word in the place where the news was usually delivered. ”

"Hmph." Yi Hong sneered, her eyes didn't know where to look out the window, her mouth was soft and soft, but her words were mean and sour: "Men are unreliable." That old man wanted to be a good guy and became a. Son, still thinking about setting up a memorial arch, but I can't call him wishful, let's not think about ourselves now, do we really have to wait until the last day, to this house as a funeral? That's really stupid, once in power, I will do the order, and I will roll out of a fireworks. Son, real money is loved, who is impatient with others! ”

There are people in the Li Mansion who avoid people and make their own little calculations; Outside the Li Mansion, in the well field belonging to Li Yongbo, there are also people who want to repay, and they have a hot charcoal-like mind in their chests.

Guan Lao Er is now not what it used to be, in the past he was in tattered clothes, wearing a pair of rotten straw shoes on his feet in the summer, and a pair of stinky cotton shoes in the winter, but today he walked out of the well field with his head held high, with a straight body of Hangzhou silk, a wool felt face six-fold hat, and a pair of nailed wood-soled double-beam soap-faced shoes, with a ruddy complexion and a look in his eyes.

The leader of the water porter is called Mr. General Sign, the surname of the well field is Cao, everyone calls Cao General Sign, he came from the well field of the Liu family, and he seems to be loyal on weekdays, but he is the most treacherous person. He saw Guan Lao Er coming in, his old face was smiling, and he hurriedly greeted him, bowed his hands, and said to Guan Lao Er affectionately: "The steward is tired today, you can take care of yourself, up and down the well site, and you have to rely on the steward to take care of it." ”

Guan Lao Er picked up a bench with square steps, lifted his back coat and sat down with his legs crossed, and a small worker next to him respectfully brought a cup of tea up, he took a sip and sighed comfortably, so he had the heart to speak to Mr. Cao: "Our well site has to be eight or nine adults in the ordinary well field, but the daily salt production is the first!" Our lord is a clear reward and punishment, and he discussed with the steward of the week, and said that the person who will be present next month, the water picker will add a hanging money, and the steward will add five coins of silver! ”

Mr. Cao suddenly smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, rubbed his hands straight away from the dirt, and said busily: "This is the person in charge for the sake of the people below, and he is also the master and the big manager is kind!" We subordinates can't help but know kindness, I have discussed with the subordinates once, and they all said that they should give the steward a bag of tea money, and from this month, the water porter will pay half a hanging, and the steward will pay three coins of silver! He slapped his chest loudly, and said with a mouth: "If you don't manage things, how can you have a good life for these poor laborers?" This is a trivial meaning, and the steward must laugh at it! ”

Handing the tea bowl back to the little worker, Guan Lao Er glanced at him obliquely, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cao's kindness, if I can't say it, it will chill everyone's hearts, or the filial piety of the people below, I will be ashamed." It's just that this daily salt can only be high from today onwards, not low! ”

As soon as he said this, Mr. Cao felt a little embarrassed, and his face brought some meaning. Although he is cunning, he also climbed up step by step from the water porter, and he is a capable man. He thought about it for a while, and still told Guan Lao Er the truth: "Guan Guan, what you said is good, but this amount of salt is really not something that I can raise when I say it." Our well site originally had a few fewer people than other well sites, and there was a shortage of manpower, so this food was ...... There are also some shortcomings...... "He glanced at Guan Er's expression, and continued in a hesitant manner: "If you really want to be more prolific, it's not that you can't ......"

Guan Lao Er's eyes looked at him coldly, and a few words came out of his mouth: "How do you say it?" ”

"Add more manpower, eat more...... Mr. Cao swallowed his saliva, seeing that Guan Laoer's face was getting more and more ugly, his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he closed his mouth and didn't dare to say anything more.

"I'll rob and steal whatever you want!" Guan Lao Er sat upright and stared at Mr. Cao, and said word by word in a suppressed voice: "You are using those laborers to death and death, as long as the salt production is sufficient, I don't care about the things under your hands." ”

Mr. Cao shuddered, couldn't help but tremble, pursed his lips and said, "But, but there is no such rule......"

"Rules?" Guan Lao Er sneered, then raised his head and said lazily: "The master is my sky, it is my rules, now the master is your sky, it is your rules!" ”

"In this world, money and power are heaven and rules!"