When Tan Ji turned around, the black back disappeared on the opposite side of the dirt slope, Sheng Jiaojiao turned around, the hair on the side of her cheeks was lightly raised, and asked:

"Tell me, how is this mule so cheap?"

"The family that sold the mules had received the favor of Brother Halberd before, and knew that we bought mules because Brother Halberd introduced them, and they were leaving, and they wanted to sell all the livestock in the family, so they didn't call for any price."

Qi Huan followed behind Sheng Jiaojiao, and the two walked to the backyard of the Qi family one after the other.

"Gone? Where to go? ”

I only heard Qi Huan reply seriously,

"The boss is determined to go to Nanjun in Daze with his family, and he is afraid that Zhishou County will not be able to defend it."

The last three words, Qi Huan said gritting his teeth, how could he not be able to keep it? Daze has been established for hundreds of years, and when has the son of Zhishou County been allowed to come in?

Sheng Jiaojiao was silent for a moment, and said softly:

"Now the hearts of the people in Zhishou County are floating, the people in the north of the county run to the south of the county, and the people in the south of the county see that the wind is not in the right direction, so they run to the south of Daze, dragging their families with their mouths, and it is really inconvenient to carry livestock on the road."

Hearing this, Qi Huan, who was walking behind Sheng Jiaojiao, was immediately unconvinced:

"Sister, those who can run are definitely not our sons of Zhishou County, either they were exiled to us and changed from slave to good, or they came to us to do business, if they were born and raised in Zhishou County, they are now in the barracks."

As he spoke, he said that the four military camps in Jumping Horse Lake would be expanded to 2,000 soldiers.

Sheng Jiaojiao said "um" in her mouth, which meant that the weight sent to the four camps would be doubled.

Even what Qi Huan knows, it can be seen that it is no secret, but I am afraid that the regulations for selecting new recruits have begun now.

She thought with a little headache, the two laborers in her hands, and after thinking about the money in her hands, she commanded Qi Huan:

"Tomorrow, after you finish sending your baggage to the barracks, you will go to visit the family where you bought the mules, and see if there are any extra animals to sell, and we will buy them all."

Qi Huan nodded, followed Sister A through a courtyard of lush side dishes, and entered the stove room.

Sheng Jiaojiao stood at the door of the stove room, and said to Qi Huan again:

"But we don't have to be too nervous, even if our baggage is not in place, then there is also the official baggage of Zhishou County, even if there is no baggage of the imperial capital, these official baggage plus our baggage are enough for the four military camps in Jumping Horse Lake for several days."

At this point, Sheng Jiaojiao is still not worried, although the baggage issued by Jumping Horse Lake to the various military camps is very small, compared with that of the imperial capital, it is just a drop in the bucket, which is equivalent to a subsidy nature, but it is better than nothing.

Qi Ju responded, and Sheng Jiaojiao commanded again:

"After eating, you go and invite Daddy Niu Ju over."

Qi Huan obediently responded "yes", and the two had already entered the stove room.

The two of them came back from the meal, and as soon as they sat down in the stove room, they heard Zhou beckoning the embroidery girl who was doing embroidery work in the hall to come to dinner.

The embroidery girl with a big belly entered the door and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao with a pale face.

Sheng Jiaojiao moved the chair and gave up a spacious seat for the embroiderer.

As soon as she sat down, she looked at Sheng Jiaojiao and opened her lips.

"What do you want to say?"

Sheng Jiaojiao sat still and didn't move, and Qi Huan next to her had already brought several dishes with his hands and feet.

The white-faced embroidery girl was cautious and said in a low voice:

"Jiao Niang, do you sell your side dishes?"

She hesitated for a morning before she dared to mention this matter to Sheng Jiaojiao.

Before Sheng Jiaojiao could speak, this embroidery girl was afraid that her request would be too abrupt, so she said:

"That's the case, Jiao Niang, I saw that your family's side dishes grew well, and I heard that the uncle had taken them out and sold them before, so I thought, I thought, I will exchange my salary for a few pockets of side dishes."

As she spoke, tears appeared in the eyes of the embroidered girl, and she only choked and lowered her head, and silently ate a few mouthfuls of food.

She grew up in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and fertile fields, and she has never lacked vegetables to eat since she was a child.

In her hometown, a seed can grow a handful of green vegetables wherever she throws a seed.

But after being affected by the family and being degraded here, this embroidery girl has never eaten a bite of crispy side dishes again.

Sometimes people just can't go to extremes, and even the touch of green vegetables growing in the ground can trigger her overflowing homesickness.

In the stove house, the Qi family was silent for a moment, looking at the sentimental appearance of the embroidery girl, and they didn't know how to react.

Sheng Jiaojiao said softly "um" and said:

"Okay, I'll pay you later."

Then he glanced at the people at home and said with a smile:

"Let's all eat."

Such a large family, as if this was the reaction, began to move the chopsticks.

After eating a lively meal, Sheng Jiaojiao went back to the house to get the salary for the embroidery girl, gave it to the embroidery girl, and asked Qi Hua to fill the embroidery girl's back basket with a few pockets of side dishes.

Wen Xiu, who had a big belly, stood under the eaves in front of the hall, looked down at the copper coin in the palm of her hand, and then glanced at the green vegetables in the basket that Qi Hua gave her.

Wenxiu's face was a little flustered, she looked at Sheng Jiaojiao in front of her,

"Jiao Niang, this, give a lot."

She said that she would use her own salary to cover a few pockets of side dishes, and Sheng Jiaojiao responded, but the salary she gave her was still as much as before.

And the side dishes were returned to the half-back basket.

"Take it."

Sheng Jiaojiao turned around and sat in the hall with a dignified body, looking at Wen Xiu with a gentle smile on her face,

"You do things for my family, I'm not a stingy."

The smile on her face inexplicably reminded Wenxiu of Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting in the temple with compassion on her face, and at that moment, Wenxiu's legs were weak, and she almost knelt down for Sheng Jiaojiao.

Wenxiu couldn't tell what it was like, she was grateful, but she didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Sheng Jiaojiao, with tears in her eyes, she thanked her and went out with the basket on her back.

As soon as he left the gate of the Qi family, Wenxiu breathed a deep sigh of relief.

I always feel. The majesty of this beautiful lady made her very stressed, but she was really sincerely grateful to Sheng Jiaojiao, she squeezed a handful of copper coins in her hand, and could only cheer up in the future, and do embroidery work for the Qi family, and never be perfunctory.

Thinking of the small dishes in the half-basket behind her, Wenxiu was happy again, this half-basket of small dishes was enough for her family to eat several meals.

Qi family, after Wenxiu left, Sheng Jiaojiao supported her forehead with one hand, leaned on the side of the chair gracefully, closed her eyes and recuperated for a while.

Fold it into the small shed on the edge of the medicine field again, and look at the newly made straw paper made by Qi Erniang over there.

I have to say that Qi Erniang's mind is still extremely delicate, most of the fruits on the apple tree have been sold by Qi Erniang, she has not only begun to sell apples outside the village, but also has not forgotten to make straw paper for the children in the Enlightenment School.

The latest batch of straw paper is ready and is being placed in a small shed to dry.

Sheng Jiaojiao looked at the second uncle's craftsmanship, not to mention that the straw paper was very finely made, but she also saw that she was doing it with her heart.

Looking at the degree of drying of the straw paper, Sheng Jiaojiao heard that outside the courtyard, Qi Erniang came back with the mule.

She happily tied the mule to the shed and beckoned to Sheng Jiaojiao, who was standing with her hands in her hands.

"Quick, Jiaojiao'er, come and see how much I've earned today."

Qi Erniang, who has always had a bitter gourd face and a gloomy face, is now standing in the shed, with a flying expression on her face, and a rather excited look, which can be described as a flying eyebrow dance.

She didn't wait for Sheng Jiaojiao to slowly pacing over, so she took two quick steps, took Sheng Jiaojiao's arm, and quickly went to Sheng Jiaojiao's room.

When she took the lead into Sheng Jiaojiao's house, she hurriedly took out a handful of copper coins, another copper coin, another copper coin, and another copper coin from her sleeve.

"It's all earned today, oh, this is the money for embroidery, Wenxiu's craftsmanship is excellent, those nobles are used to good things, when they come to us, they are about to be rough to death by us, when I saw that I took such a beautiful embroidery to sell, I bought it without saying a word."

While speaking, Qi Erniang was still taking out copper coins, and one handful of copper coins after another seemed to occupy half of Sheng Jiaojiao's small handful.

Sheng Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows, sat on the side of a few sons with wide sleeves, counted the copper coins, and said excitedly how she went to the set today, how she took Wenxiu's embroidery, and asked one by one, how she met the descendants of the waste prince, and how the subordinates of the waste prince received all the embroideries of Wenxiu

"Jiao Niang, you said that these nobles can eat and drink badly, but they are so particular about these external objects, but a few pieces of silk handkerchief, I was terrified when I offered the price, I didn't expect them to take a bite, these nobles are really strange."

Qi Erniang's spittle flew everywhere, and since she entered the door, her mouth has not stopped.

Seeing that the subordinates of the waste prince seemed to have the intention of buying the embroidery in her hand, they opened a high price, which can be worth half a month's salary for Wenxiu.

Who knows, she is bold, and those descendants of the abolished prince are also extravagant enough, so they paid for it directly.

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, listened to Qi Erniangzi quietly, and when she said that she was tired and took a breath, she raised her hand and poured her a glass of water, and said softly:

"Sometimes the glamorous things outside the body are not for their own food and clothing, it is a fact that the prince was abolished, but after all, they are still characters who live in the clouds, since they were young, they are used to using good things, the prince is like this, those carefully selected slaves to the prince's side, in fact, are the same, people in this realm, living is actually a face."

Not everyone can serve the prince, even if it is a eunuch, it is the best of the eunuchs who have passed five levels and killed six generals before they can be picked to serve by the master's side.

It is said that the Buddha wants gold, and people want clothes, no matter how down, the aesthetics of these people will not change, and there are many facades that need to be decorated in such a huge mansion as the Prince's Mansion.

If people have comparisons, they need to reflect their differences through these external objects.

Qi Erniang had a look of understanding, she sat opposite Sheng Jiaojiao, pressed the small table with her hand, and said:

"It seems that this is really a business opportunity, I heard that Wenxiu still has a lot of embroidery inventory at home, I collected them all, and then went to sell them a few times, if the business is really good, let's let her embroider more, simply treat this as a serious business to do."

"Even if Wenxiu doesn't have so much time."

Sheng Jiaojiao and Qi Erniang were planning, and said:

"She is now in the belly for six months, the first is tired, the second, embroidery work, can not be in a hurry, a pair of embroidery slowly embroidered, in order to reflect the embroidery work, do embroidery work especially to be calm and steady, you urge her, she can't do it well."

As soon as she heard Sheng Jiaojiao say this, Qi Erniang asked anxiously:

"How's that to be?"

In the room, Sheng Jiaojiao was playing with copper coins in her hands, and the sound of copper coins colliding sounded carelessly, Sheng Jiaojiao thought,

"This matter is not urgent, if there is really a business opportunity, we can go to the north of the county to catch a few slave embroidery girls and raise them home, so they don't need to do anything, just let them make embroidery."

"Catch a few slave embroiderers?"

Qi Erniang was startled by Sheng Jiaojiao's words, she jumped up, knelt on the kang with both knees, stretched out her hand to push open the window, and took a closer look out of the window.

There was no one, Qi Erniang was relieved, sat cross-legged back on the kang again, and lowered her voice to Sheng Jiaojiao and said:

"The women of the slave nationality in the north of the county are not doing business for a living, I told you a long time ago, Wenxiu is a special case, her three sisters in the family, two of them went to the military liao to work as prostitutes, and the third one is because her father really doesn't want to lose the lintel so much, and the family is too poor, so he married Wenxiu to a widower, otherwise, Wenxiu is only afraid."

said that it was married, but in fact it was sent, Huangguo Village was poor like this, so how much money did the widower have to beg for a lady?

Therefore, I can only find a slave lady to make do with my life.

In fact, it wasn't Wen Xiu who gave in to the widower, nor did the widower pick up a bargain, both of them had a half-catty family background, and they just got by.

But how many widowers can there be in Jishou County?

And Zhishou County is not without good girls.

Although Zhishou County is so poor, good sons and women beg for their sons, but they only ask for good girls from Zhishou County, and slave women either marry widowers or can only go to prostitution.

The prostitutes in the military dormitory all pressed their slave household capital into the hands of the mother of the military dormitory.

If a man wants to take them home as ladies, he has to pay to redeem their slave capital from his mother.

But who wants such a woman?

Spend money to buy a lady who can do her best to go home, so why not spend money to marry a good girl who is down-to-earth and does her duty?

"You, you, although there are slave women everywhere in the north of the county, how many can really let you catch them home? If you really get a few home, will the family's reputation be gone? ”

Qi Erniang looked at Sheng Jiaojiao with a disapproving expression, and she just wanted Sheng Jiaojiao to immediately dispel this idea.

(End of chapter)