As soon as the two of them were about to enter the courtyard gate, they heard a sound of cars, and everyone turned their heads to look, and saw two mule carts coming one after the other, and the mule cart stopped, and a middle-aged man got out of the car. When the man saw Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu, he was stunned for a moment, then straightened his clothes and trotted over to salute the two: "Lord Qi, Mr. Yuan, why are you two here?" ”

Qi Bokun looked at him twice, he didn't know him, so he set his eyes on Yuan Xiuzhu.

Yuan Xiuzhu recognized this person as a steward of the Yan family, surnamed Shi. An unclear smile appeared on his face, and he asked, "What's the matter, your old lady, master, and young master are busy, so I sent you over today?" ”

Steward Shi showed embarrassment on his face: "The old lady of our family has always cared about mundane things, and the third master has gone to arrange the spring ploughing, the young masters ......" He looked at Guan Jiaze, Qi Muyuan and Liang Xiankuan, and smiled bitterly, "The young masters all said that they wanted to study, so they could only send the old slaves over." ”

Although Yuan Xiuzhu is like an old naughty boy, planting flowers and grass all day long, drinking wine and eating tea, he is still very clear about the big and small things in the county.

He glanced at Steward Shi deeply, shook his head and said, "If you old lady continue to cultivate your mind like this, your Yan family's backyard, hehe......" He stepped into the courtyard door with his hands behind his back.

Steward Shi bent over and stood aside, until Qi Bokun and Guan Jiaze, the young masters, had entered, and then he raised his head and sighed.

He is a subordinate, so naturally the third master tells him how to do it. And when the third master wanted to come with him, today at most Liang Xiankuan, the young master of the Liang family, came over, and he came over because he was Du Jinning's classmate. Although he is a manager, he also has a certain status in the Yan family, even in front of Liang Xiankuan, not to mention Du Jinning, who is still white. He personally brought someone over, which was not rude to Du Jinning, not to mention that the Yan family also paid Du Jinning 700 taels of silver.

But I didn't want two great gods to come here. In this way, it seems that their Yan family is particularly rude.

Steward Shi was thinking about whether to send someone back to report to Yan Xu and ask him to come over in person, or let the old lady Yan Songtao come, when he heard a call in front of him: "Steward Shi." ”

When he raised his eyes, he saw Du Jinning standing in front of him.

Seeing that he came back to his senses, Du Jinning made a gesture of please: "Steward Shi, please come in." ”

Steward Shi had to put down his plan to go back and invite someone, and followed Du Jinning in.

At this time, Yuan Xiuzhu and the others were all welcomed into the hall by the Chen family to sit, two long tables were placed in the courtyard, and several wooden shelves were placed at the door of the stove room, and wide and large bamboo dustpans were placed on the wooden shelves. Yuan Xiuzhu's coachman, Wang Bozheng, came in with a man carrying a bamboo basket of fresh leaves, and poured all the fresh leaves onto the dustpan under the command of Lu Xiaobei to dry; The descendants of the Liang family have already taken the first step to dry their fresh leaves in the dustpan, and are putting the dustpans on the shelves one by one.

Du Jinning turned his head to look at Steward Shi: "Did you bring fresh leaves?" If you take it, take it out and dry it quickly, don't get bored. ”

Steward Shi became more and more embarrassed: "No, I didn't take it." He hesitated for a moment, "Why don't I call someone back now?" ”

Du Jinning shook his head: "No need." It's too late to pick it now. ”

Lu Xiaobei glanced at Steward Shi with disdain.

The tea master has just learned to fry tea, and the tea that is fried must not be drunk, and can only be invalidated. The Yan family not only sent a steward over, but looked down on his young master from the roots, but also planned to take advantage of the Du family? Do they know what price such tea sold in the capital last year? The tea master wasted two catties of tea, and their Du family had to lose more than a dozen taels of silver.

How can this Yan family be so annoying?

Steward Shi naturally understood this, thinking that when Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu saw this scene for a while, the mocking faces of those two people, he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

He also asked Yan Xu yesterday, but Yan Xu said that the Yan family wanted to pay Du Jinning 700 taels of silver, and the fresh leaves for practicing should naturally belong to the Du family. So he only brought the tea master over, and he didn't think about asking someone to pick fresh leaves.

He was thinking about how to explain for a while, so as to save some of the Yan family's face, when he saw a young man walking in with a bamboo basket on his back, and with him entered, there were six or seven women with bamboo baskets on their backs.

Du Jinning hurriedly said to Steward Shi: "Please sit in the house, I'll be busy first." Excuse me. As he spoke, he arched his hand, stepped forward and stood in front of the table, and asked Qin Lao Liu, "Is it going well?" How much was picked? ”

Qin Lao Liu wiped a handful of sweat, took the bamboo basket off his back, and said, "You won't know until you weigh it." ”

As he spoke, he instructed the women: "Line up one by one, weigh them and pay them according to their weight." ”

When the women heard that they could receive the money immediately, they were very happy, and immediately lined up under the command of Qin Laoliu.

Qi Bokun and the others in the house heard the movement outside and walked out of the house.

"Sixth brother, take a break, let's just do this." Du Jinning said, and called loudly, "Third sister, you pour a glass of water for the sixth brother, and fourth sister, you come over to help distribute the money." ”

Du Fangling and Du Fanghui both moved.

Chen and Du Fangfei also walked over and asked Du Jinning, "What can we do?" ”

"Bring the empty dustpan, and when they have weighed the fresh leaves, they pour them into the dustpan. When the dustpan is almost full, you spread them out and lay them on a wooden shelf. Du Jinning said, she pointed to the three wooden shelves that were specially set aside, "Our fresh leaves are placed in these three wooden shelves, don't be confused with them." ”

"Okay, got it." Chen replied.

Du Jinning turned his head to Yuan Xiuzhu and smiled: "Mr. Yuan, Grandpa Qi, either you will drink tea in the house, or you can only stand here and watch the excitement." I have work to do, and I can't greet you. ”

"Alright, get busy, nonsense." Yuan Xiuzhu waved his hand, "We are not outsiders, what do we want to greet?" Just take care of yourself. As he spoke, he also gave Steward Shi a special look.

Steward Shi smiled wryly.

This is full of masters of the family, he is a subordinate, does he dare to compose here? What does Mr. Yuan mean by looking at him like this?

This tea is racing against time, one ring after another, and Du Jinning is not allowed to delay time.

She didn't say anything more, and when she saw that Lu Xiaobei had already taken out the scale, she asked him to stand between herself and Du Fanghui, and raised her voice to the women in line: "Before you weigh, come to me to assess the grade." After grading, come to me and weigh the Lu steward, and then go to the fourth girl to get the money. Do you understand everything? ”

"Understood."

"Understood."

The women were a little nervous when they saw the old men and young masters in the courtyard, but the anticipation of getting the money soon made them very excited. Hearing Du Jinning's words, they all agreed.