When I returned home, I turned on the fire and re-fried the medicine for my grandmother. In two days, it will be the New Year, and Hua'er still has 20 silver coins in her hand, to buy some noodles, and then make the leftover meat into filling, so that she can eat dumplings on the day of the New Year.

Feinu came to look for her, and there were several whistles outside the door, and Grandma coughed and urged her: "Go, Feinu is looking for you." ”

Hua'er was about to go out, turned around and saw Grandma want to speak and stopped, so she sat in front of her bed, and the little one shrank on the wooden bench and looked at Grandma with her cheeks on her cheeks, looking really pitiful.

Grandma sighed: "Feinu, this baby, Grandma watched grow up." It's good anywhere, it's just..."

Hua'er's eyes rolled before she understood what Grandma meant, she was worried about what she had with Fei Nu! sneered and laughed: "Grandma! Fei Nu is my brother! ”

"You..."

"Me? It's hard for me to feed my stomach, where can I think of those useless people! Hua'er stood up and folded the quilt for Grandma: "Go to sleep!" Don't think about that! ”

After saying that, he turned around and went out. Fei Nu motioned for her to stretch out her hand, she obediently stretched out, and he put a copper plate in her palm: one article, two articles...

"What is this?" Hua'er asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

"The wages of the Wang family." Fei Nu said: "This morning, I went to ask for it with Zhaoye and Ah Yu, and the housekeeper of the Wang family gave it happily." The old man didn't know what evil had fallen into, his eyes were blue, and he trembled when he spoke. Fei Nu learned what to do, and the flowers were so amused by him that she covered her mouth and smiled.

The cicada came out of the house, holding a brush and ink cartridge in her hand, and when she saw Hua'er and Feinu, she invited them to accompany her to the ink workshop.

"What are you doing in the Ink Workshop?" Flowers asked her.

"Just the notice you tore for me yesterday."

"Is that the ink?"

"Yes."

"That's a good feeling, let's go, I'll go with you."

The opening of an ink shop in Yanzhuo City is a novelty. Yanzhuo is located in the north, and there is a lack of elegant people. In the first year of Jianhe, the first sentence of the magistrate sent by the imperial court here was: The people are rough and forced. It is the business in this Yanzhuo City, the lackeys cook pigs, the wine shop teahouse, and the martial arts dart game, but there is no paper and ink. Besides, the ink-making, the process is complicated, emphasizing the wind, water, light phase and corresponding, Yanzhuo this place, there is half a year of winter, the wind and snow are heavy, how can you make ink?

Everyone talked about it, and some people said that the shopkeeper of the ink workshop spent a lot of money and invited Master Mo from Huizhou, and Master Mo's ink was used by the imperial court. Some people also said that the shopkeeper was just to scatter money, and he couldn't do anything.

Someone whispered: "Don't say it, the shopkeeper is here." ”

Standing on the stage was the second master Bai.

When I came, there was a humane on the road: the mysterious shopkeeper of this ink shop must not be the second master of the Bai family. The second master of the Bai family is a rough man who shouts and kills, and according to legend, his business is also a "human flesh business". If these people open an ink shop, they are really at the wrong door!

At this moment, I don't dare to come out, I don't know what kind of joke the crazy Bai Second Master is going to make again. The cicada held Hua'er's hand and asked her, "Will I go later?" Second Master Bai's business, I'm afraid..."

"Afraid of what? Just go! We dare to go to other people's business, where does his difference come from? They are as black as crows in the world, and he is no better than other shopkeepers, but he can't go crazy on our heads. Hua'er roughly recalled the few times she had dealt with him, and lowered her voice: "I finally fished out dozens of dollars from him and knew a little about his temperament." This second master Bai likes soft bones. ”

"I don't understand..."

"As long as you pretend to be pitiful in front of him, don't do anything with him, and cry a few times if it's okay, he won't do anything to you." Hua'er was sure that this trick would work, and that day she confronted him, and he was cruel to her, and when she cried, he relented. The next few times he pretended to be a slave in front of him, but he spent it safely.

The cicada hand is more skillful than others, and it is literate, so it is easy to get errands. She is very happy, bookkeeping and ink making, both have the fragrance of ink she likes. Others are here to make ends meet, but she is because she loves them. Master Mo sent a piece of drawing paper, on which were written some regulations, and they had to be read and recited by themselves, and at this time, some people couldn't hold it back, and arranged why Bai Er Ye wanted to open this ink workshop.

This starts with the magistrate of Yanzhuo City in the early years.

Zhixian has a little daughter named Ye Huashang. Born beautiful, the county took him to teach when he was young, and taught him what he had learned all his life. The youngest daughter was already familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics when she was a teenager, and she was also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. At that time, because Baifu was a giant, he spent a lot of money to send the two little sons to the school, and followed the county daughter, Ye Huasheng, to study together. Bai Qiling, the second son of the Bai family, gradually developed feelings for Ye Huasheng.

But Bai Qiling is a bastard when he is a child, he likes a girl, and he doesn't know much about Xu Xu Tuzhi, but he blocks people at the mouth of the alley of the school and asks other girls: Do you want to marry or not?

Ye Huashang was still young, where did he know how to love men and women, he was scared and cried, and turned around to go to his father to complain. said that the second child of the Bai family was a disciple. Ye Zhixian asked her if she had suffered a loss? Ye Huashang said: After eating, he took one more look.

Bai Qiling was beaten by his father, saying that he had no ink on his chest, and he still wanted to climb high branches.

I thought that this board would make people understand, but he thought that Bai Qiling was completely worried about Ye Huasheng. That Ye Huashang gradually understood some things through Bai Qiling's fierce eyes, and then looked at Bai Qiling, he was afraid and worried, but he always had a piece empty. If you can't see Baiqiling for a few days, you will lose your soul. She secretly talked to her mother, and her mother reminded her: You, eighty percent of you have someone else in your heart. But there is one point, your father is an official, the Bai family is in business, and there is a difference of 108,000 miles between an official and a businessman. In other words: marry you, he is not worthy. If the two of you want to get together in one place, then Bai Qiling must at least gain a reputation.

But Bai Qiling didn't care about fame and fortune, but pondered donating officials. This ink shop is said to be opened by him, but it is actually to be given to Xinzhi County to seek a small official position. Now that the Ye family is down, a small official position can marry Ye Huashang.

The above are all rumors, there are noses and eyes, and the cicadas listen to them with relish, and when they get home, they say that they listen to the flowers.

Hua'er, raised her eyebrows: "That immoral thing is still an infatuated species!" At that time, she was decocting medicine, and the smoke was burning, choking her tears and snot. sneered at Bai Qiling's delusional delusions, just his plague face, how could Miss Ye look at it? Before you open your mouth to speak, your eyes will kill you three points first. Acting fiercely, he is violent, from the inside out, and he can't turn out a little bright place.

She was really tired of Bai Qiling, so she degraded him fiercely, listened to the cicada on the side, and waited for her to finish scolding: "Today, Second Master Bai came to the ink shop and gave me a few pieces of ink." Seeing that the men's clothes were patched, they also gave each of them two sets of clothes. Seeing that I had chilblains on my hands, I was given a box of hand fat. Do you know how much money is paid by the ink mill? ”

"How much?"

"It's not ten or fifteen a day, it's twenty." The cicada is very grateful for this: "My brother is too young, he can't eat enough and cries all day." With the dock bookkeeping and the work of the ink mill, I can finally let my younger brother drink some rice soup. He cries less, my mother sleeps more, and slowly recovers, so that her spirit can be better. ”

The cicada has the hardship of the cicada, she can't do heavy work, and she can't come and go in the wind and rain like flowers. Her physical foundation is really poor, and she will have a fever and cough when she is tired. In the past, I wanted to find a job, but people thought she was a girl, so they always had to pick her up. But the ink shop didn't pick her, and Master Mo also praised her for her ingenuity, saying that this ink making is not the same as that of the illiterate and the illiterate.

"Although Second Master Bai looks fierce, I don't look like a bad person." The cicada said: "It's not that we haven't done the work of other masters, we can't afford to peel off people's skins, and we are reluctant to work." It's good that the second master Bai is willing to do it. ”

Hua'er felt that the cicada was reasonable, but when she thought that Bai Qiling knew that there were tigers in the mountains, but she wanted her to die, she felt that no matter how generous this person was, he was a beast. She didn't like him.

"You are tired of him, and you have to beg for a living from him." The cicada helped the flowers fan the wind and make the fire hot: "The most difficult thing is you." ”

"What's so embarrassing about that, who wouldn't lose a smile!"

"Today, I also heard others say: Second Master Bai took advantage of the darkness of the night to throw Uncle Bai's body into the mass grave. The crying and mourning job that Fei Nu helped us ask for before is gone! ”

"Throwing graves? Not afraid of laughter? Hua'er opened her eyes wide and thought for a while: "If you're afraid of people laughing, it's not Bai Erye!" ”