Chapter Seventy-Nine: Labor
Medicine Knot Tongxin 79_Chapter 79 Labor from Bayi Chinese Network (.) "What are you doing standing on the cusp?" Song Sanniang shouted, "Plug in the door and come in." β
Liu Meibao sighed, so she had to come in according to her words, and she couldn't sleep all night.
"Girls don't have to come to work every day." Seeing her step into the medicine store on time, the steward smiled.
"I'm idle." Liu Meibao said with a smile.
The steward smiled, and said no more, took out a piece of tea from a teapot on the table, broke a small piece, and took up the kettle himself to flush, and the smell of medicine spread with the heat.
"What kind of tea did Uncle make?" Liu Meibao sniffed and asked subconsciously.
"Come, sister, come and have a taste." The steward said, beckoning her to sit while taking the teacup and rushing it for her.
Liu Meibao said thank you, and went over to take a taste.
"This is mugwort leaf tea." She said.
The steward smiled and nodded at her.
"Yes, this is a special medicinal tea made by our medicine store to dispel cold in the warmth." He said.
Medicinal tea is also a part of traditional Chinese medicine, which has many uses for treating diseases and nourishing the body, which is also a must-do in the medicine industry.
Liu Meibao nodded, her eyes falling on the tea can on the table.
This is a wooden tea pot with exquisite workmanship, delicate carving, and small shape.
She couldn't help but reach for it.
"But it doesn't sell very well," the steward continued, shaking his head.
"Why not?" Liu Meibao asked, turning the teapot in her hand.
"Who knows, I said that it was okay to drink at the beginning, but then it was not good, so I didn't buy it" The steward replied, and remembered something and said, "It's not because our family's medicinal tea is not good, the entire Hezhong Mansion, and even Taiyuan Mansion are not easy to sell..."
Liu Meibao sighed, feeling that something seemed to flash in her mind, but she couldn't grasp it, she still turned the wooden jar in her hand, and listened to the steward continue to gossip on the side.
βοΌοΌ In the final analysis, it is because of our poverty, that in the capital of the south of the Yangtze River, rich people are very particular, drink a medicinal wine, and medicinal tea is even more eager to eat as a meal.... Look, my tea can," the steward said, pointing to the wooden pot in Liu Meibao's hand, "How is it?" β
"Yes, it's beautiful." Liu Meibao replied.
"It's good-looking," said the steward with a smile, "it's rosewood, and I bought it for me from Jiangnan, and the items for the tea there's are so precious... It's like we have here..."
As he spoke, he leaned back in his chair and took another long sip of tea.
"People are poor," he said, elongating his voice.
"Jiangnan, is it prosperous?" Liu Meibao asked.
"Prosperous? Then it's not called prosperity, it's called luxury! The steward shook his head and said with a bit of yearning, "Money, water, food, and drink, all of which we people here can't think of..."
"That's also rich talent." Liu Meibao pouted and said, as a poor person who can't even eat meat often, he is very indignant about this kind of life.
The steward still shook his head and sighed.
Liu Meibao also no longer paid attention to his luxurious life that was completely unrealistic for her, and was not interested at all, she just looked at the wooden jar in her hand.
"You mean, people like to use wooden cans for medicinal tea?" A sentence suddenly blurted out, and after these words came out, Liu Meibao only felt a bright light flash in her mind.
She got it! Liu Meibao stood up abruptly and almost shouted.
The steward was taken aback.
"What's wrong?" He asked, looking at Liu Meibao puzzled, seeing that she was still holding her own tea can in her hand, just as this little girl liked this, "I like it, I like it, but this thing is expensive, not everyone can use it..."
While thinking that this girl is a sensible person, she shouldn't suddenly open her mouth to ask for her own tea can, right? The steward's heart is very entangled.
"Great!" Liu Meibao smiled, put down the wooden jar in his hand, and smiled.
Although the steward didn't know what she meant by saying too good, he was relieved to see her put down her teapot.
"Uncle, I think of one thing," Liu Meibao said to him.
He stopped halfway through his words.
"What's the matter?" The steward asked.
"I'd better think about it again, and I'll talk about it later." Liu Meibao frowned, smiled again, and said goodbye and walked in.
Seeing her brisk steps and a sense of joy, the steward couldn't help but shake his head.
"I looked at what I was just doing yesterday, and I'm happy again in a blink of an eye, I'm still a child." He sighed, carrying the kettle to refill the water, and slowly sipping his medicinal tea.
Except for a temporary abnormality in the morning, the person in charge did not find any bigger abnormalities in Liu Meibao, she inspected the medicine warehouse as always, gathered in the pile, and did not speak but listened, but in the afternoon, she retired early for the first time, and said that she would not come tomorrow.
"I said that you don't have to come every day, this medicine warehouse is almost all placed, and you can check it every few days." The steward laughed.
Liu Meibao smiled and thanked her, turned around to sneer, and the steward called her again.
"Sister also likes to eat tea, this is a pack of tonic tea, in winter, take it back to the family to eat." The steward said, handing over a piece of paper-wrapped tea cake.
"That's embarrassing." Liu Meibao hurriedly excused herself.
"Take it, what's polite, it's not worth a few dollars." The steward said, pretending to be displeased, "Or maybe I'm afraid that I'm not qualified to give away things from the store."
Liu Meibao smiled, no longer shirked, and reached out to take it.
"Thank you, uncle." She said, sincerely thanking, "My brother has been feeling a little unwell recently, and he needs to nourish his qi, so I'm welcome." β
"Whoever made you polite, take it." The steward was also very happy with her cheerfulness, and felt that he could finally put down the wooden tea pot, and smiled.
Liu Meibao thanked her again and left with tea.
She didn't go home directly, but inquired about the site where the city wall was repaired, and searched all the way.
Because stone and soil are required to repair the city wall, and the main projects are outside the city, Liu Meibao walked out of the city gate and went around a large circle to see the busy crowd.
As Zhou Liangyu said, the people who work are really women, children, old and weak, all dressed in tatters like beggars, their faces are like vegetables, their expressions are numb as if they have no soul, and they are working mechanically under the eyes of the overseers.
Liu Meibao glanced over and couldn't see Zhou Liangyu's figure, remembering that he said that he was digging the soil, so he looked for a place to dig and inquired.
Digging is also hard work, and the basket of soil seems to have never been interrupted.
More than a dozen people digging the soil seemed to be deaf and couldn't hear Liu Meibao's questioning.
"What the hell!" Several overseers who were laughing saw it and immediately shouted, and walked over with whips, "Dare to be lazy, I don't want the salary yet!" β
Liu Meibao hurriedly smiled and asked Zhou Liangyu.
"So many people who know what to call it!" The overseer said impatiently.
While he was talking, he heard another overseer shout: "The timber carrier has returned!" β
"These slackers! So long to come back! The overseer who spoke ignored Liu Meibao, rolled up his sleeves, and rushed over with a whip, swearing in his mouth.
Liu Meibao followed and looked, and saw a group of people walking in the distance, all of them carrying a log on their backs, they walked very slowly, and there were three or four people who fell down while walking, but it didn't take long for them to struggle to get up again, carry the wood and continue walking.
"Where did you get the timber from?" Liu Meibao couldn't help but ask. Is it far away? β
"Leishou Mountain, not far, fifteen miles." Mu Mu, an old man digging on the side, said.
"Fifteen miles!" Liu Meibao couldn't help but be surprised, this is not far away, walking, and they have to carry a log, and looking at their appearance, it should not be only one a day.
As the group got closer, they could be seen clearly, each pale, poorly dressed, blinded, as if they would fall to the ground in the next moment and never get up again.
Liu Meibao couldn't help but reach out to cover her mouth and stop her exclamation, Zhou Liangyu was among them, and she looked even thinner against the backdrop of the log.
When it finally arrived at its destination, a group of people fell to the ground, gasping for breath, and the overseer scolded and ignored it, and there was nothing to see in their eyes at this time.
Liu Meibao didn't step forward in the end, she reached out to wipe her tears, turned around and walked away quickly, the young man was too tired to let him show this embarrassment in front of the people he least wanted to see.
Liu Meibao knows that the workmanship must be hard, but if he doesn't see it with his own eyes, it's really hard to imagine how hard it is.
Such a high-intensity labor is really not something that a teenager can bear, no wonder Zhou Liangyu is getting weaker and weaker.
Liu Meibao raised her sleeves and wiped her tears fiercely, and stopped to stop a passerby.
"This aunt, where is the meat to sell?" She asked.
When Zhou Liangyu walked into the alley, he smelled the strong smell of meat, and then saw that there were many children with snot dragging on the stone lying on the horse stone, drooling ice in the alley.
When he saw a pot full of pork stew on the table, Zhou Liangyu was speechless in surprise.
His reaction was even more exaggerated than when Song Sanniang saw her carrying a large piece of pork home.
"I want to eat meat." Liu Meibao sat down with a little indignation, picked up a piece of chopsticks and ate it fiercely, and said vaguely, "I earn two thousand dollars a month, can't I even eat meat?" β
Her indignation with a child's temper made Zhou Liangyu smile, and there was no longer any doubt, she glanced at Song Sanniang, Song Sanniang pouted, but didn't say anything.
"You can eat if you want, and no one will say anything about you." Zhou Liangyu said, sat down, and picked up the chopsticks with some hesitation.
"Brother, eat quickly." Liu Meibao said, picked up a piece and put it in his bowl, and continued to eat it herself, as if her resentment had not disappeared, and then said indignantly, "I will eat once a day in the future... Μ"
Song Sanniang glanced at her, but before she could speak, Liu Meibao herself may have noticed that this goal was set a little ambitious, chewing the meat and said vaguely, "... What should I do if I am so tired of eating and hurting... Then Μ then eat once every three days! β
Song Sanniang laughed.
"Auntie, what are you laughing at?" Liu Meibao snorted.
"I didn't laugh at anything." Song Sanniang spoke with a smile for the first time, looked at Liu Meibao, and naturally raised her hand to take off the handkerchief in her waist and copied her placket, "I have no enmity with rice, eat more gentle." β
After saying this, Liu Meibao and Zhou Liangyu both laughed, and the fragrance and laughter spread out in the small courtyard covered by the high wall, to be continued.
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