With a few rooster crows, when the sun rises from the horizon, Longquan Town, which is gradually waking up from its deep sleep, ushered in a new morning, the milky white morning fog has not yet dissipated, and in a small alley in the west of the town, the low voice of people gradually sounded.

"Sister-in-law, let's go again later, I'm afraid that people haven't woken up yet." A woman dressed as a peasant woman in her early twenties tugged at the figure walking in front of her.

Pulled by her like this, the man stopped, and when he turned around, he saw a slightly shrewd oval face, "What early!" I said I was going to go over when I got the news last night, but you said it was too late to stop you, and now we get up early, and you're afraid of disturbing people. ”

"But, but after all, we're going to beg someone, and it's not good to disturb their rest—forget it, listen to me, let's go back first." The young woman then dragged her sister-in-law back.

"Who said we were going to ask for her? Anyway, I also helped them do the work for more than half a year, and said that if we broke our bare claws, how could we make money?" The shrewd-looking woman's face became more and more ugly the more she spoke, and she grabbed the young woman's arm with her backhand, "Go, even if you don't sell it, you can't cheapen them, we can't make it without the red claws and sugar gourds, they are already rich, and now they have such a large amount of silver, so they have to share our severance pay!" ”

The young woman did not have the strength of her own sister-in-law, so she could only let herself go all the way, crossed the main street of the town, entered the opposite path, turned south into a wide alley, and walked a few more steps, before stopping at a gate with black and red couplets on a red background.

Only then did the shrewd-looking woman let go of the young woman's arm, stepped up the steps, took a deep breath, and clapped the black wooden door in front of her, shouting, "Open the door!" Open the door! ”

After shouting like this four or five times, Fang vaguely heard the footsteps of people, and before she could put down her slap again, the door was opened from the inside.

A little girl with a round face and a maid looked like she was yawning and asking the visitor, "What are you doing, you come so early to disturb the quiet?" ”

"I'm looking for Lu Erniang! Go get her out of here! ”

The maid looked carefully at the person talking in front of the door a few times, and then frowned and said, "Our lady is still sleeping, you can come back later." After saying that, he was about to close the door, but the woman flashed into the door quickly, and the young woman behind her gritted her teeth and squeezed in.

"Alas, alas! What are you doing here? Get out! The little maid's sleepy worm suddenly disappeared, and hurriedly went up and grabbed the uninvited woman who was walking in front.

But after all, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, how could she be stronger than an adult woman, she was thrown aside on the ground in just two strokes, and was about to get up and continue to stop, but suddenly heard a crisp and pleasant call:

"Xiaoman?"

The three of them turned around together, but saw a white and tender little hand open the curtain of the opposite room, and out of it came a slender girl, this girl was wearing a white middle coat, and only a pink and lotus gown was draped outside, and when she looked up, she saw Shangsheng Xue's skin, and her long black hair was scattered over her shoulders, which made the white little face extremely delicate, her left hand half-covered her pink lips and yawned gently, and a pair of half-squinted black eyes like Magatama were sweeping over them one by one.

"Miss!" The maid named Xiaoman screamed and ran to the delicate girl who looked like she was twelve or thirteen years old, turned around and pointed to the two at the door and said angrily, "Miss, these two people came to knock on the door early in the morning, saying that they were looking for Mrs., and I said that Mrs. had not gotten up yet, and they broke in!" ”

Yi Yu rubbed her numb temples, it was not a happy thing to be woken up from a dream in the morning, she had calculated a large sum of money last night, and she didn't fall asleep until late at night, this is the time of lack of sleep, and it is not so easy to suppress the breath of getting up.

"Are you going to raid the house, or are you going to rob the house, you don't even bring a guy with you, but it doesn't look like it anymore - Xiaoman, go to the kitchen and get a kitchen knife for them." Yi Yu recognized this pair of sisters-in-law who "trespassed into private houses" at a glance, and had a bad impression of them, neither asking them for their origins, but also speaking very politely.

The hawthorn forest planted in the first year of the Lu family moved to Longquan Town, and it bore fruit in less than the second year, at first it was just that the three of them made the rock sugar gourd to sell, who knew that the business was surprisingly good, because they only had three people, they could only make fifty or sixty sticks a day, and they were taken to Chang'an City to sell with a donkey, and they were robbed in less than half an hour, and the price rose from a string of twenty wen to ten strings of one or two taels of silver two months later, which was five times more than enough, and it was still in short supply.

After discussing with the Lu family, he ruthlessly replaced some fruit trees in the forest, planted hawthorn, and hired a few peasant women in the village who were poor and idle at home, and went to the small courtyard of the Lu family every afternoon to process rock sugar gourds, and took them to Chang'an City to sell them everywhere on the second day, and counted their commission of ten cents for each one sold.

Because the hawthorn forest is firmly in the hands of the Lu family, although those women are a little thoughtful, but they have not turned over any waves, and gradually the Lu mother and daughter only take the raw materials, no longer participate in the sale, so half a year, not only bought a two-entry yard to live, but also left a lot of savings.

Just a month ago, in the West Market, one of the two major cities in Chang'an City, the owner of a dried fruit store called Daxing approached them, and after several negotiations, the other party bought out the exclusive source of hawthorn at a price of 5,000 taels of silver, and signed a contract to pay them silver money every quarter according to the output of hawthorn.

A few days ago, Lu also stopped supplying hawthorn to the peasant women who sold sugar gourds, and gave each of them five taels of silver as a pension.

The two women in front of Yi Yu were the second batch of female workers they hired later, the one who looked like Qiao Shi, and the woman with a shrewd look, known as Sangu, had gone to her own forest to steal hawthorn, and was later discovered by the forest guard and sent to Lu's side, and she was only taught a verbal lesson.

Besides, Yi Yu's command with a strong irony came out, and the maid Xiaoman was only slightly stunned, then she responded vigorously and ran towards the kitchen in the backyard, and when the pair of sisters-in-law were stunned, the little girl ran out with a heavy kitchen knife again.

Yi Yu stretched out a white and tender finger and gestured towards the pair of sisters-in-law, "Hand it to them." ”

Xiao Man obediently stepped forward, held the kitchen knife that was five or six inches long in front of the third aunt, and grinned, "Here, my young lady will let you hold it." ”

The third aunt only then reflected that Yi Yu was playing tricks on herself, turned sideways to avoid Xiao Man, sneered at Yu Yu, and said, "What a girl with a sharp mouth, what do you mean by this?" ”

Yi Yu stroked the broken hair around her ears and said lightly, "Didn't I find you a physical evidence, when the street patrol came, they happened to arrest you as a robber......" Speaking of this, she lowered her head and covered her lips and chuckled.

At this time, the faces of the two sisters-in-law changed color, but one was afraid and the other was angry. The third aunt gritted her teeth and looked at the smiling Yu Yu, took a few deep breaths, her face was distorted, she sat down on the ground, slapped her thighs with both hands, and cried out:

"That's bullying! The Lu family is bullying! Forcing those of us who do the work to death, we will be sent if we say that we will be sent, and I will get a few thousand taels of silver, and I don't care if we live or die! We have diligently followed your family for so long and hard work, day and night, and now that you have done a good thing, you are going to cut off our way of life! Woohoo......"

Looking at the third aunt who was sitting on the ground and rolling around, Yi Yu's face instantly became strange, and after a while, the door of the Lu family was already full of people watching the excitement.

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