In this era, there were no clothing stores, and the stores only sold cloth, not clothes. Ordinary people buy a few feet of cloth and go home and tailor their own clothes. A single man who does not have a daughter-in-law is miserable in this regard, and when he wants to make clothes, he can often only ask other people's wives for a favor, and accompany endless good words and smiling faces. The leftover fabric after making the clothes is also given to others as a thank you gift, so that people can make a tablecloth or handkerchief and other things.

Zhu Yuanzhang has never cared about dressing up, so he didn't think about this aspect when he was promoted to steward, but others actually helped him think of it, and it was Miss Ma Jiasan who helped him think of it, which really surprised him. He still remembered last night, when the second young master looked at the corpse of the steward Qi, the indifferent eyes like looking at the dog, for the rich young lady, there is no difference between being a subordinate and a dog, and now the third young lady actually wants to make a set of clothes for such a subordinate as him, it is really very rare.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart softened, and he recalled a person, it was his original wife, Queen Ma, she was also a gentle and kind woman. Once when Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Xu Shouhui, the front-line war was tight, and he couldn't take care of the management of logistics and armaments, but Queen Ma helped him think of it, and she led the army's family members to make shoes and clothes, and sent them to the front line for the soldiers to wear. The past is gone, the beauty is gone, what's the use of thinking about it now? How nice would it be if Queen Ma was also reincarnated like herself......

He couldn't help but make a gesture at the little maid purple heart, and said in a low voice: "Trouble girl to say to the third lady on my behalf, thank you!" ”

Purple Heart Blossom grinned and said, "There are so many people here, what kind of body should I measure on you?" Go to your house and measure it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and the two walked to the house where the steward lived.

Purple Heart Girl obviously came to this room for the first time, she stared left and right with wide eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhu, you are really amazing, you became a steward at a young age, and one person can live in three rooms......"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly and didn't say much. In the previous life, he joined the army at the age of twenty-five, won the world at the age of forty, and his achievements in his life were shocking, and his name went down in history, and it is really not worth showing off to earn three houses in this life! He stretched out his arms and motioned for the purple cabbage to hurry up and measure it.

Purple Heart opened the tape measure with a red little face, and began to measure his height, waist circumference, shoulder width, and arm length...... In short, you must measure it from beginning to end, otherwise the clothes will not be able to be made. As she measured, she grinned and said, "Bugling Zhu is nineteen years old this year?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Why don't you ask for a daughter-in-law at such an old age?" Although Purple Heart is only thirteen or fourteen years old, she understands this aspect.

"No money!" Zhu Yuanzhang replied casually.

"I used to have no money, but now that I'm in charge, I have money, and I have money every month." Zixincai flicked the edge of the tape measure and smiled softly: "Several sisters in our inner courtyard are interesting to you, let me help them talk about it." ”

It turned out that Zhu Ba's business a few days ago not only made him have a good reputation in the side courtyard, but also spread to the inner courtyard for his reputation of daring to fight and being kind, which made a little girl in the inner courtyard move his heart. The maids in the inner courtyard of the Ma family are big and small, the small ones are thirteen or fourteen years old like purple heart, and the big ones are twenty-four or five years old, and they have not been able to get married.

The maids are also a very poor group of people, among them who are beautiful, or can please the master, they will probably be accepted into the room by the male host, as a maid in the room, or supported as a concubine. But this kind of is extremely lucky, most of the maids end up marrying the family's family nursing home, some of them don't even look down on the family's nursing home, and slowly become old girls, after the age of twenty-five, the host family may be kind, and promise them to some Zhang butcher, Li hunchback, Wang Mazi and other sloppy men who can't find women, and they will be gone for a lifetime.

In this kind of life where there is no tomorrow, the maids are also bolder, if there is a young and handsome family in the family who has not yet started a family, they will quickly think of hooking up and marrying their own ideas. The women of the Ming Dynasty were far less conservative than later generations imagined, and many of them were extremely bold and open-minded. For example, Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin", in order to seduce Ximenqing's attention, threw him on the second floor with a bamboo pole...... Although "Water Margin" is written in the Song Dynasty, Pan Jinlian's prototype is a girl in the Ming Dynasty.

This example may not be appropriate here, but it is very indicative of the social climate of the time.

Zixincai came to tailor Zhu Yuanzhang, and the group of older maids in the inner courtyard came to ask her to help build a bridge as if they were celebrating a festival.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that being a steward would actually cause him to do this. He doesn't have a man or woman ** in his heart, he is not interested in women, and he is about to say no, when he suddenly thinks about it again, it seems that there is no need to refuse this matter? Although I am not interested in women, I also need a son to inherit my career, and if I become an emperor again in this life, I will have to make a prince, right?

After hesitating for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "You let these girls who are interested in me come to me another day, if there is one who looks right, I will marry one." ”

Purple heart got his approval, and it can be regarded as helping the sisters fulfill a wish, and she suddenly became happy, smiled and helped him finish measuring himself, put away the tape measure and ran. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't take this matter to heart, and as soon as he turned around, he forgot about it.

At noon that day, the news came back from the yamen that Yang Chao's case had been decided, and the county magistrate had friction with the Ma family because of the Zhang family in Chengcheng, but there was no need for him to do anything in this obvious murder case, so he directly put Yang Chao in prison, sentenced him to death, wrote Yang Chao's list into the death row prisoner's fold, and sent it to the capital to wait for the emperor's instructions.

Some people think that in ancient times, prisoners who were sentenced to death could just be taken to the vegetable market and slashed, but this is wrong. In fact, all the condemned prisoners in the Ming Dynasty must be handed over to the emperor for approval before they can be executed, and every year in the autumn, the officials will present a list of people who have committed capital crimes from all over the country, and the emperor will tick the names on it with a red pen, and the one who is ticked will be killed. If you don't tick, please wait in jail for the next time you win the lottery, this is called "ticking". As for which hooks are in the right and which are not, it all depends on the mood of His Majesty the Emperor. If you give money to the officials, and deliberately omit your name when writing the capital crime, then congratulations, the emperor will never be able to tick your name, and you don't have to die. Wait for the change of dynasty and amnesty, and you will be able to come out of prison unscathed.

In short, Yang Chao is finished, and Qi is also over, and Zhu Yuanzhang now firmly occupies the position of the manager of the partial hospital.

In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang instructed the cook-in-law to add meals to the long-term and short-term workers, in fact, the food allocated by the Ma family to the side courtyard can make them eat better, but the Qi steward intercepted a large part of the private pockets, so that everyone could not eat enough, and now Zhu Yuanzhang, who is not greedy and does not take it, the food level of the side hospital has suddenly risen to a level, and the long-term workers who originally had only one nest can now get two, and the short-term workers who originally only had one bowl of gruel can also get one more bowl.

The stomach problem of the long-term workers has been solved, and the attitude towards Zhu Yuanzhang has become more and more respectful, the simple peasant production only hopes that such a good life can be continued, they will mix here for a lifetime, and Zhu Ba will be a lifelong steward for them, which is enough to be happy.

But Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this good day would not be long...... Next year, it's going to be a big drought! The year after that, there was still a great drought, and then the year after then, and the year after then, and the year after tomorrow...... It's all a big drought! What is more terrible than the drought is the upcoming peasant uprising, the second king of Baishui rises up, and then the heroes of the world echo the words, not far away!

What should be done to save Da Ming? He doesn't have a clue yet.

After a few days of peace, Zhu Yuanzhang got up every morning to box, and then beckoned the long-term and short-term workers to work, arrange food, and sleep with a punch at night. Zixincai helped him make clothes, a set of green cloth gowns, which fit very well on the body, it seems that the little girl's needlework is good, and Zhu Yuanzhang's spirit after changing clothes looks good, and he is more and more outstanding.

In these days, occasionally the maid in the inner courtyard will find an inexplicable excuse to come to the courtyard, talk around, and chat with Zhu Yuanzhang without words. He also knew what these maids were here for, and he also had a plan to marry a random one to give birth to a child for himself, but none of the faces who came and went were agreeable, maybe it was the experience of the previous life that made him read all the beauties in the world, and these ordinary girls obviously couldn't get into his eyes.

The maids also felt his coldness and retreated. Two days later, there were some unfavorable remarks in the inner courtyard, it is said that the maids cried sadly after they went back, which alarmed the third lady and made her angry...... Who is he? Isn't it great to be a hospital manager? He doesn't want our maid, our maid doesn't want him!

The third lady gave a strict order: all the maids are not allowed to go to Zhu Ba, to see where he is looking for a daughter-in-law.

After hearing the order of the third young lady, Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry but happy, this is fine, he ended up quiet, anyway, he was also an older young man when he married Queen Ma in the previous life, and he was only nineteen years old in this life, so why rush this?

At noon on the eighth day of February, Zhu Yuanzhang was pulling his family routine with a few long-term workers plowing the field stalk, and suddenly saw Li Chujiu running over from the far end of the field stalk, he rubbed his eyes, and felt that this scene was familiar, just ten days ago, Yang Chao also ran in a hurry like this, and then yelled, so that there was this series of events that happened later.

I only heard Li Chujiu shouting loudly: "Something's wrong, there's an accident in Xigu Village...... All the villagers were taken away by the county magistrate. ”