"Huh?" Mo An was a little dazed, looking at the silver in Lu Wenping's hand, wasn't this the silver used to buy that bowl of meat and soup? How did you send it back?

"It's normal for people to live next to each other and help each other." Lu Wenping was a little flustered when he saw that Mo An didn't take the money, so he hurriedly added.

"Actually, this silver is ......" Mo An wanted to tell him that this silver was used to buy your family's meat.

Lu Wenping hurriedly interrupted him, "So please take back the silver." ”

Gongxi Chu also heard a knock on the door, thinking that Mo Yan had gone to the county office to get food and came back, and walked out of the house without seeing anyone for a long time, "What's the matter?" I don't want you to cook...... Well? This is? He looked at Lu Wenping curiously.

Mo An turned around and stepped aside and explained: "Back to the master, this is the head of the household who lives next door, and he is here to deliver the silver, saying that I left the silver at his house during the day. ”

Master? Lu Wenping was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Gong Xichu's dress and bearing, he couldn't even compare to the master bookkeeper, and he couldn't help but have a sudden feeling in his heart, this is the person who came from the capital, and he is the henchman of the county order! It turned out that he was careful with his wording just now, and the cost was just a subordinate!

Gongxi Chu glanced at Lu Wenping up and down, turned around and asked Mo An, "Is it because you don't have enough money to reward?" ”

Mo An scratched his head, "Isn't it enough?" A penny of silver is a lot of rewards in the largest restaurant in the capital! ”

Lu Wenping's face turned red suddenly, and the embarrassment and humiliation rushed towards him, making him almost unable to stand, and hurriedly threw the silver into Gongxi Chu's arms, and hurriedly threw down the sentence, "Return your silver!" "Turn around and run.

Mo An looked at Lu Wenping's figure of Huang Canghuang fleeing into the West Courtyard, and then looked at the silver thrown up and down in Gong Xichu's hand, and always felt that the master's mood was not very good, "This silver is ......"

"Add one or two more, and let Steward Li give it to him tomorrow!"

Early the next morning, Lu Wenping and Hua Ronghua went to the door of the shop to receive the key handed over by Anton's family. I don't know how he told Ma's, the shop was indeed vacated, but the things inside were basically empty, not to mention the tables, chairs and benches, and even the iron pot on the back stove was gone.

Anton looked at the shop like a locust transiting, and smiled a little wryly, "Those tables and chairs are still left by the people who rented the shop before, and they are all broken and not good, and it won't take a few more money." ”

"Cheng, that's it, trouble Anton's family." Lu Wenping thanked Anton's family and asked him again, "I wonder where Anton's family can find someone to help clean up the shop?" ”

Anton smiled, "As long as you can pay for it, those people standing opposite can choose from you." ”

Following the direction of Andong's guidance, Lu Wenping also saw a lot of idlers standing opposite the shop.

After sending off Anton's house, Lu Wenping brushed off his robe and walked towards those idlers, and led the two back to the shop after a while.

"Just paint the walls and tidy up the house, and you'll be done in one day, right?"

"This lord, if you go to buy ashes and clean up the house today, I'm afraid you won't be able to clean it up, if you prepare things today, you should be able to do it all day tomorrow." He seemed to be the leader of the two men, with a burly figure and a beard.

"That's fine......"

"Wait, can you get through this wall?" Hua Ronghua interrupted the conversation between the two and asked the beard directly.

"Huh?" The beard was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lu Wenping, who was frowning, and replied cautiously: "That wall is not a load-bearing wall, it can be demolished, but why should it be demolished with a good wall?" Isn't that the kitchen visible as soon as you enter the door? ”

Lu Wenping reprimanded Hua Ronghua, "You just have to watch the store, don't be a moth!" ”

Hua Ronghua glanced at him, didn't talk back, and felt that he was a little angry when he came back from paying back the money last night, and only explained: "But this wall is demolished, the things are transparent, the light in the shop is good, and people can see that our kitchen is clean, and everyone is willing to come to the store to eat." ”

The bearded man couldn't help but nod in thought, "That's it, some shops look at the clean kitchen outside but it's dirty,"

"You go home!" Lu Wenping yelled at Hua Ronghua, and said to the beard: "Just as I said, just paint this house!" ”

"Lu Wenping, don't be angry with me!" Hua Ronghua was angry but also shouted, "Whoever provokes you, you go to whom, don't get up early in the morning and your nose is not a nose and your face is not a face!" Is it wrong for me to tear down the wall? Even the master who worked said okay, what are you shouting nonsense? ”

"You ......" Lu Wen trembled calmly, he didn't expect Hua Ronghua to dare to shout directly with himself in front of outsiders, which made his face as a man be trampled under his feet.

The bearded man saw that the two were arguing, and hurriedly smiled on the side and made peacemakers, "Don't quarrel with the old lady, whether this wall is demolished or not, you two can discuss it, don't hurt the harmony." ”

"I ordered everything from what the shop sells to the custom tables and chairs, why don't I go to the house and I don't count it? If you don't want me to get involved in the shop, just give me the money, I don't care! If you let me take care of the shop, you won't say anything, go to the yamen as soon as possible! Hua Ronghua said these words in one breath.

"Ah, it turns out that the master is a yamen worker?" The bearded man was surprised.

"I won't tell you, vixen!" Lu Wenping is really not used to arguing with others, not to mention that he is still in front of outsiders, and in the end he can only hate and say the most serious shrew and leave.

"Madam, look at this ......" Seeing that the old man who had called him was gone, the bearded man looked at Hua Ronghua in embarrassment, feeling nervous and a little disdainful.

He was afraid that Hua Ronghua would directly tell him to leave, wouldn't he be able to make money like that? looked down on Lu Wenping in his heart, if his mother-in-law dared to make such a loud noise, she would have slapped it earlier.

"According to what I said, this wall will be demolished ......" Hua Ronghua didn't know what Beard thought, if he knew that he would be fired, he paid half of the silver to him after saying the decoration requirements, and then handed the key to Beard, who claimed to be Hong Laosan, and turned around and left.

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Besides, Lu Wenping, who left angrily, felt that his colleagues looked at him incorrectly as soon as he entered the second hall, with envy and jealousy, and more inquiries.

Just as he was wondering, the master bookkeeper came in, and when he saw Lu Wenping's footsteps, he greeted him with a smile, "Xiao Lu, come with me." ”

Lu Wenping felt as if he had been struck by lightning, the master had never been so kind to him before! He walked behind the master with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

"Your Excellency, you called me?" Coming outside the house, Lu Wenping bowed slightly and asked.

"Young man, it's good to live a little more mindfully, don't forget me if you have anything to do in the future!" The master bookkeeper patted Lu Wenping's shoulder.

"Huh?" Lu Wenping was even more foggy, with a worried face.

"Steward Li in the backyard came to you and said that he wanted to give this to you, but you weren't there, so let me hand it over." As he spoke, the master took out from his sleeve pocket two pieces of silver, one large and one small, the larger one weighing one or two, and the smaller one having a penny.

"This is ......" Lu Wenping was completely confused, he had only seen Steward Li from afar, and he didn't know him at all, how could he give himself silver?

"Steward Li said that this was handed over to him by the Gongxi guards." Lord Bookkeeper looked at Lu Wenping inquiringly, "Xiao Lu, are you very familiar with the new Gongxi guard?" ”

Lu Wenping's face turned red, the feeling of being self-conscious last night appeared again, and what was even more unbearable than last night was that this matter was known to the master who took care of himself very much on weekdays!

"No, I'm not familiar, the Gongxi guards only moved here yesterday, there is a misunderstanding, I can't ask for this silver......" Lu Wenping was a little incoherent.

The master bookkeeper patted him on the shoulder and put the silver in Lu Wenping's hand, "Since you are neighbors with the Gongxi guards, you can get along well, Gongxi is not only the guard of the county commander, there is news that he is the son of a big family in the capital, and he followed the adults to our Anping County because he made a mistake." ”

"The Prime Minister's Seventh Rank Official, those powerful people are not something that people like us can provoke, and we must be respectful when we meet the Gongxi guards in the future, and we must not offend! Since this silver is given to you, you can take it, and the right should be the silver rewarded by the noble master! ”

The main book also saw that Lu Wenping was more pleasing to the eye, and wanted to cultivate him as his confidant, so he deliberately said a few more words.

Tipping? What are you being treated for? For a while, Lu Wenping almost roared angrily, but he couldn't, he was indeed not a subordinate, but he really couldn't provoke the Gongxi guards, this was the gap brought by power.

At this moment, he actually blamed his father-in-law a little, or he found a job as a scribe for himself, and he was promoted all the way, maybe he could also be an important minister of the court, where would he still be so idle at that time!

"Yes, my subordinates know." Lu Wenping thanked the master bookkeeper and returned to the house with the two hot pieces of silver.

A group of scriveners in the second hall suddenly gathered around Lu Wenping's table, and Scrivener Zhao's temper was the most anxious, and he asked directly: "Tell me, tell me quickly, when did you meet Steward Li?" ”

"Have you seen the prefectural commander?" Scribe Sun was also curious.

"That's it, don't forget us if you have a good way!" Zhou Shu's speech was also a little sour.

Lu Wenping felt uncomfortable to death, but he had to squeeze out a smiling face to deal with these colleagues, which made him feel very tired for a while, and he left early without waiting for the next office.

On the way home, remembering the quarrel with Hua Ronghua in the morning, Lu Wenping was a little excited, and suddenly felt that there was no place for me in the size of the world.

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After Hua Ronghua left the shop, he went to the carpenter's shop to see how the table and stool were doing, and customized four wooden barrels, two large and two small, the big one can put the small one in, and also customized a two-layer wooden frame and a number of wooden tubs and bamboo tubes. When she went home, she deliberately went around from the back alley to East Street, and then went home.

After walking for a while, she was sweating all over her body and almost wet her underwear.