Qi Zhao and Qi Yu depend on each other, relying on Qi Zhao's embroidery for many years, the two of them live, and Qi Yu also learns to take care of a piece of land at home.

In a blink of an eye, Qi Yu was already sixteen, and he was well-known, and he was even more famous for his sensibility and ability, and there were already matchmakers in the village who came up to propose marriage.

Today is the death day of Qi's father, and it is another big cold day.

When it came to Qi Yu's worship, Qi's mother stood aside and looked at her daughter.

Since Qi Mian was lost, Qi Yu has been silent, taking over a lot of affairs in the family, Qi's mother knew that Qi Yu blamed herself, and wanted to set up a well-dressed mound for Qi Mian next to Qi's father's tomb, but Qi Yu firmly refused.

Qi's mother had to compromise, she didn't want Qi Mian to live well.

The two walked home with a bamboo basket, and on the way, Qi's mother told Qi Yu that she had a big errand at the employer's house of embroidery, and she wanted to embroider a wedding dress for the employer's family, and received a small handful of gold thread to embroider patterns.

Qi Yu nodded and replied to her: "Mother's work is careful, and the employer can rest assured that you will do it." “

After a few idle sentences, Qi's mother talked about Qi Yu's marriage again.

"A few days ago, the Liu matchmaker came to our house and gave several posts to ask us to read and agree to reply to the door, you are now sixteen, it's time to think about these, don't always think about guarding me, my job is reliable, and I can live alone."

Qi Yu just responded in a low voice and didn't say much. When the two arrived at the door, they saw Aunt Li standing outside their fence with a person, and Mother Qi hurriedly greeted them, and the two exchanged a few words.

Aunt Li quickly explained: "Sister-in-law Qi, this is my nephew." She pulled the young man beside her to her.

The young man looked quite scholarly, with good facial features, a tall figure, and a slight thinness.

The young man bent over and said to Qi's mother: "Senior Li Yongsheng, Aunt Qi is good." Hearing this, Qi Mu and Qi Yu both looked up at him.

Aunt Li smiled and patted Li Yongsheng's shoulder, and said with a smile: "My nephew is teaching in Chicun next door, and when he goes to take the exam next year, people call him a quasi-Xiucai!" Aunt Li looked at Qi Yu with a smile, and said: "It's just that my nephew is so focused on studying that he forgot to add a hostess to his house, this is not Yu'er is also fifteen, I think that our two families have been friends for so many years, and they have long been closer than relatives. “

Qi Yu lowered his eyes and didn't say anything.

Mother Qi looked at Li Yongsheng carefully, and heard that he was a scholar, so she secretly felt a little satisfied in her heart, and made an appointment with Aunt Li for dinner, presumably because she wanted to ask more. Aunt Li was naturally happy, and hurriedly said that she would take her nephew home.

A few days later, Qi's mother got up early in the morning and called Qi Yu to go to Aunt Li's house to change the letter, saying that the employer's family was urging her to get a wedding dress and couldn't leave for a while, and she had to change her meal for another day, but she ran to her employer's house in a hurry.

Qi Yu had no choice but to go and tell Aunt Li that she saw Li Yongsheng in Aunt Li's yard, she didn't enter the yard, she told Li Yongsheng in detail through the fence, and after seeing Li Yongsheng, Qi Yu turned around to leave.

"Miss Qi."

Qi Yu turned around again when she heard this, but saw that Li Yongsheng was bending down again, without looking at her, she asked, "Is there something wrong?" “

Li Yongsheng kept his movements and said to her: "I was abrupt a few days ago, and my aunt was also warm-hearted, but after meeting the girl, I ...... But it's also sincere. ”

Qi Yu frowned and asked, "What is sincere?" ”

Li Yongsheng hurriedly said: "Naturally, I sincerely ask to marry a girl." ”

When Qi Yu heard this, he was silent for a while before he spoke: "I rely on my mother to decide." He didn't stop talking.

Seeing the fence door wide open from a distance, Qi Yu stepped forward quickly, and when he entered the house, he found that the items in the house were all messed up at random, and his mother was standing in the corner crying in a low voice.

Qi Yu's heart was confused, and he hurriedly asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

The mother whimpered, and then said: "The circle of gold thread given by the employer is gone, saying that we have hidden it privately, and someone just came to search our house and we can't find it, if we can't find it, we should lose money, but where did our family get so much money?" ”

Qi Yu was also stunned when she heard this, and then Qi's mother's words made her thunderous.

"They said that if we can't take it out, they will ask you to marry and be a concubine."

Qi Yu's pupils shrank: "They are robbing, let's report to the official." Qi Yu held Qi Mu's hand, but Qi Mu just shook her head after hearing it, and muttered: "It's useless, it's useless." Qi Mu stood up and began to rummage through the room.

"Where the hell is it, where is it......"

Qi Yu didn't go to the field again, and the Qi Zhao family was also depressed in the past few days, and the employer said that he would come back in three days. The days are approaching day by day, Qi Yu's heart is getting more and more anxious, and the family's valuable money plus the borrowed money is about three taels.

Her family was poor, and she didn't know how much the gold thread was worth.

Footsteps outside were chaotic, and seven people, led by their employers, came to their house.

The employer was a boss in Pingzhen Xiufang named Sun Guichuan. Today he came to Qi Yu's house, wearing navy blue satin clothes, a black belt around his stomach, there seemed to be no meat under the empty clothes, obviously weak, the body shape of this person also has a sharpened meniscus face, dark complexion, a few strands of beard on the long chin, a transparent green jade pendant hanging around the neck, one hand is pinching and playing.

"Sister-in-law Qi, I see that you have been working for my family for almost three years, and you are 100% relieved to hand over that embroidery to you," Sun Guichuan said, squinting but turning to Qi Yu who was standing on the side: "I said three days, can you find out the thread?" ”

He leaned to the side and took a few steps towards Qi Yu: "If it weren't for the fact that Aunt Li and I are old acquaintances, I wouldn't have hired you to work, I thought that your husband had pity on you when you died, would you repay me like this?" ”

Qi Yu took a few steps back and said, "Master Sun, it's my mother who lost the gold thread due to improper storage, can I use three taels of money here as compensation?" Qi Yu carried a bag of three thousand wen in her hand, and the three taels were already all her family.

Then Sun Guichuan let out a small sound, clapped his hands, and said to Qi Yu: "Miss Qi is really lovely, but I bought gold thread for these three taels, how can you compensate for my embroidery?" After speaking, the eyes that looked at her were even more explicit.

Qi Yu felt a chill in her heart, how could Sun Guichuan be embarrassed to make such a shameless request at the same age as her father.

Qi Zhao wiped his tears and hurriedly said, "Master Sun, the gold thread is lost, the embroidery is still there, I'll get it right away." After saying that, he walked to the back room.