Chi Yuan came to work in the sugar workshop every day.

For convenience, Chi Yue bought a carriage to carry Chi Xin, Aunt Deng and Aunt Liu back and forth between the village and the county every day.

She wanted to carry Chi Yuan, but Chi Yuan refused.

"No, I have my own way to get there."

Chi Yue knew that he was working under his hands, so he was reluctant, and if he took her love and took her car again, he would completely lose his face.

Yes, she didn't force it, and let him figure it out on his own.

The butcher of Chi Yuanzhi village would go to the county seat every day to sell meat, begging him to carry him with him. Butcher Wang is also a calculating, and he collects 20 yuan a month from Chi Yuan before he is willing to help him with this.

Although Chi Yuan is penniless now, he is still ruthless, and when he was doing reselling business, he exchanged a precious porcelain that he treasured at home for silver coins, and took out twenty wen and gave it to him.

In the end, Chi Yuan was still a moment late.

Chi Yue was immediately unhappy, "You were late on the first day, your attitude towards workmanship is too light and unserious, right?" ”

Chi Yuan said angrily: "Aren't I just late for a pillar of incense, it's necessary for you to humiliate me in front of so many people?" Chi Yue, you can't help but be too me! ”

"Do you know how much work you can do in a pillar of incense?" Chi Yue was unmoved by his words, and still reprimanded mercilessly with an iron face, "The workers came early, and a pot of brown sugar is about to be boiled." If they all follow your example, then this workshop doesn't know how much to lose, can you afford this responsibility? ”

"So, you want to punish me and kill the chicken to show the monkey?" Chi Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "I knew that the purpose of asking me to come to work here was to embarrass me and avenge my mother's revenge against you." Chi Yue, I can see through you! ”

Regarding Chi Yuan's stubbornness, Chi Yue became more and more angry, nodded and said, "You are right, in my place, if you do something wrong, you will be punished." Everyone else has a salary, and you can subtract two or three pieces of money as a punishment, as for you, since it is a free work, then let's set a different rule. ”

After a pause, she continued solemnly: "If you are late, leave early, or make a mistake in your work, someone will accuse you of being lazy and slippery, cutting corners, and taking brown sugar privately, in short, all these mistakes, you have to do an extra month of unpaid errands in my workshop, how about it?" ”

Hearing this condition, Chi Yuan raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Chi Yue, are you deliberately embarrassing me?" This is your territory, if you deliberately find fault with me and do not make me feel better, then will I not have to work with you for free for the rest of my life and suffer your humiliation? ”

Chi Yue only felt funny, "Chi Yuan, you are too self-inflicted. I'm just looking at the uncle's face and giving you a chance to repent and reform. If I had the intention of letting you work with me for the rest of my life, and I would have asked you to compensate me three hundred taels of silver at the beginning, how could I have given you only three years? If you work diligently here, you will surely be like everyone else, and you will not make mistakes after a long time, where is the possibility of being punished? ”

Chi Yuan didn't believe Chi Yue's words, staring at her suspiciously, but he couldn't say anything to refute it.

Who called her the boss who said nothing here, who told him that he is now depressed and has become a subordinate who obeys her orders!

"And what kind of work did you arrange for me?" Chi Yuan asked angrily.

Chi Yue pointed to the workshop, "You are responsible for cutting sugar cane, this job is very simple, even fools can do it, and it is rare to make any mistakes." ”

When Chi Yuan heard this, he skimmed over Chi Yue and went straight to work.

Chi Yue arranged for Zhang Daming to supervise Chi Yuan, telling him to treat him equally and strictly control him.

As a result, at the end of the day, Chi Yuan was tired and had a sore back, and his legs and feet were extremely heavy.

"Chi Yue, you arranged the most tiring job for me, didn't you?" Chi Yuan rubbed his legs while looking at Chi Yue resentfully, "This is really not a human job, you arranged this for me, obviously you intended to fix me!" ”

Chi Yue couldn't cry or laugh, looked around at the workers in the workshop and said, "You see how many people are working like you here, why don't you see people complaining to me?" They do the same work of cutting the sugar cane, as do the juice pressers, the separating sap workers, and the porters, and they are paid the same wages, and they don't think they have a word about it? Only you, who have obviously never worked hard before, and your body can't bear it, mistakenly think that I deliberately corrected you and gave you the most tiring work. ”

"That is, as we are used to doing coolies, we can do any work easily, and we don't feel tired." A female worker looked at Chi Yuan and sneered, "You kid is not a big man, but you are not as good as us women, and I don't know how your family can raise you, you are lazy and lazy, and you are full of fat, not like a countryman at all!" ”

Chi Yuan didn't think so, and stiffened his neck and argued: "Do the countrymen deserve to go to the field to be coolies?" My mother was careful about me, only told me to study, and looked at me to take the imperial examination, so that she could give my family a glorious lintel, so that she didn't ask me to work, is this also wrong? ”

The female worker snorted coldly, "I only told you to study, but I didn't expect to raise you into a nerd, not only did you not take the imperial examination, but you couldn't even do the work in the field, you really raised a useless waste!" ”

The sarcasm of the female worker made Chi Yuan angry, and he suddenly got up and said angrily: "Who do you call to be waste? Be careful that I beat you! ”

Seeing the situation, the female worker hurriedly asked Chi Yue for help, "Boss Chi, I just said casually, this newcomer is going to do something to me, and you don't care!" ”

Chi Yue reluctantly came to the middle of the two, separated the two, and said lightly: "You two just shut up, if you don't say a word, you will do one less thing, just do your own work." ”

"Chi Yue, even though you help outsiders deal with me, you treat me like this, I have written it all down!" Chi Yuan said angrily, took his coat and walked out of the workshop.

The female worker shook her head and reminded Chi Yue: "Boss Chi, I speak a little straight just now, and I may sting your relative, it's me who is wrong." It's just that I don't know whether to say it or not, I don't think your relative is a fuel-efficient lamp, be careful that he has a grudge against you, and when the opportunity comes, he will stumble on you, and you have to guard against it! ”

Chi Yue smiled and said lightly: "I know this in my heart." It's just that he has no money and no power now, and I want to see how he stumbles on me. ”

Seeing that Chi Yue didn't take her reminder to heart, the female worker also kept silent and lowered her head to work.

After doing it for several days, Chi Yuan has been languishing and complaining.

Chi Yue reprimanded him many times for being rough and slow like a snail, delaying the progress of others. This denial of face to him made him even more resentful.

He only felt that his body was bitter, and his heart was even more bitter, and it was better to go back to the prison here, at least he didn't have to sweat every day to work, looking at Chi Yue's girl's face.

After work on this day, Chi Yuan came to a nearby restaurant, ordered a jar of wine, and poured himself cup after glass.

He poured all the sorrow he had been feeling for days into this wine glass, and turned his back to it, but he was only happy for a while.

After a while, the resentment against Chi Yue rose again, and he couldn't help but pour himself another cup, so that he could forget the depression in his chest for a while.

After an hour, two jars of bad wine were in his stomach, and he was drunk and unconscious.

"Brother Tai, why do you drink yourself here and drink to kill your sorrows?"

Suddenly, Chi Yuan noticed that there was a person sitting next to him at some point.

This man has sinister eyebrows, thin cheeks, and looks like a fox, with a calculating cunning.

"I'm drinking in a restaurant, what's your business?" Chi Yuan said impatiently, and picked up the wine glass again.

"Brother, I don't think you want to drink." The man grabbed Chi Yuan's hand and stopped him from continuing to drink, "Even if you get drunk and don't wake up, can you relieve the depression in your heart?" If you want me to say, you might as well take a salary from the bottom of the kettle and cut off the sorrowful thread that firmly binds you in your heart, so that you can't get out of your body and can't let go of your heart, so that it can be called happy! ”

Hearing this, Chi Yuan couldn't help but look at the person in front of him curiously.

Seeing a faint smile in his eyes and the corners of his mouth, as if he knew something, he burped and asked vaguely, "You...... Who is it? ”

"It doesn't matter what the name is on." The man smiled faintly and said unhurriedly, "The important thing is that I can help you." ”

Seeing that the other party was swearing, as if he had seen a savior, Chi Yuan sobered up a little, and said solemnly: "You say, how can you help me?" I worked in the Chiyue workshop for a few days, and my days were like years, and life was better than death! If I were to endure three years of humiliation with her, it would be better to have me struck with a rod on the ground!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry, brother." The man clapped his hands, looked around for a while, and then lowered his voice and said, "My master intends to open a workshop for making sugar, but he still can't figure out how the refreshing sweetness of the brown sugar produced in the Chiyue workshop is condensed and rich and indissolvable, no matter how he can't master the heat of boiling sugar, which is sad for him." ”

Chi Yuan immediately sighed, "In the past, Chi Yue wanted to teach me the art of boiling sugar, but because I couldn't stand the miasma there, I came out too early, and I didn't get the secret recipe in it. Now that I think about it, if I master this secret recipe, I can also open a workshop by myself, make brown sugar and sell it, and I may not be as good as her Chiyue! ”

The meaning of remorse was overflowing, and Chi Yuan couldn't wait to slap himself a few times before he was relieved.

"It's not too late." The man whispered meaningfully, "I have an idea below, I can ask you to take advantage of the situation and steal the secret recipe for boiling sugar." When the deed is accomplished, the master will be grateful. ”

This shocking remark completely sobered Chi Yuan from drunkenness, and he glared at the man in disbelief.

"You, you call me ......"

He was about to repeat the man's words loudly, but the man immediately covered his mouth, "Brother Tai, this is a secret between the two of us, you don't have to tell others." ”

Seeing that Chi Yuan didn't care about it after he was drunk, the man had to immediately charter a private room upstairs and help the stumbling Chi Yuan upstairs to talk secretly.

The two had a long conversation in the private room.

When it came out, the two of them went one after the other.

Chi Yuan's face was full of spring breeze, and when he entered, he was like two people, and threw a tael of silver to Xiao Er, laughing and said, "Don't look for it!" ”

Xiao Er scratched his head in confusion, "What's the good thing about making this drunkard look like a different person?" ”