my grandmother

Guanshi Ma slanted Qiaozhi's grandmother's back, watched her go out of the courtyard, and spat on the ground.

"This woman is so crazy that she dares to die. If she wants to leave, let her family get out." Ma Guanshi's wife poured a cup of tea and handed it to Ma Guanshi.

"I can decide this matter?" Guanshi Ma said angrily.

"That's true. So what should I do?" Ma Guanshi's daughter-in-law sighed and became worried.

All of them are slaves.

"Let's talk about it, I'll go to the weaving workshop to have a look."

Guanshi Ma was already annoyed, and now he was even more annoyed. He stood up and walked out with his hands behind his back.

After looking back and forth in the weaving workshop, Guanshi Ma was about to go back when the young servant next to Shi Liuye, the owner of the weaving workshop, trotted in, saw Guanshi Ma, and hurriedly waved and shouted: "Master Liu told you to go over quickly! "

"Yes, yes, yes!" Guanshi Ma agreed repeatedly, followed the boy, and rushed to Shi Liuye's house.

Two of the four stewards have arrived, Mr. Shi Liu is sipping tea, looking very unhappy.

Guanshi Ma held his breath and stood with his hands down.

After a while, the last steward came in hurriedly, Shi Liuye threw the cup on the table with a bang, and said calmly, "There are more than 1000 people in our weaving workshop, and you just pick nine of them? There are more than 1000 people, that's all." How many idlers are there?"

"The sixth master taught me the lesson, the younger one was wrong." Steward Ma and the three stewards bowed their heads and bowed their heads to admit their mistake.

Although the selection of nine people was ordered by Shi Liuye, but what Shi Liuye said was right or wrong, he was right, and it must not be disputed.

"It's nothing to look for, you're just making trouble for me!" Shi Liuye slapped the table with a slap.

The four stewards bowed their heads together and held their breath in silence.

"What! You've been yelling and drinking in front of me all day long!" Mr. Shi Liu slapped him again.

Steward Ma remained respectful and relaxed slightly in his heart.

Shi Liuye's temper is not because of them.

Shout five, drink six...Xiangyunfang?

That's why Xiangyunfang dared to yell with their sixth master.

"...Cen's mother, you guys need to pick more people, ten or more, you need to be over 20 years old, you have to be successful and you want to be trash, bah! Ce's mother, he thought that Lao Tzu’s weaving workshop was the same as his family’s. Same, the whole litter is full of trash!"

"Please show me, Liu Ye, when will this head be reported?" the steward standing on the far right asked cautiously.

"When did you say that girl? Right now!
"What? You have two or three hundred people in your hands, and you still can't remember to recognize them all? What's the matter? You have to go back to the booklet and recognize each person's face?" Shi Liuye sprayed on the foreheads of the four people. superior.

"Give them the roster! Right here, tell me one by one! If there is one you can't explain, I'll sell you!"

Shi Liuye was full of evil fire.

The Shi clan is distributing the money that needs to be taken out to each family to offset the tax money and make connections. However, the Silk Association has sent a message to suspend work. This suspension is said to be at least two months.

These two incidents will take half of his net worth, but after these two incidents, who knows what else will happen!
For example, right now, the general committee is forcing them to sell weavers!

Several stewards held the brochures and quickly talked about their respective personnel. When it was Steward Ma's turn, Steward Ma took a half step forward and said with a smile: "The young one happens to have a family of three here. The man's name is Wang Quexi. He is 40 years old this year. , do carpentry."

Master Shi Liu raised his brows.

"The sixth master will know after listening to the little one!" Manager Ma hastily explained.

Mr. Shi Liu snorted, motioning for Guanshi Ma to continue.

"This Wang Quexi was bought from outside, and his mind is not very bright. The sixth master knew him from his name, A Quexi.

"When Wang Quexi was ten years old, he formally learned carpentry from a teacher. Other carpenters graduated in five years, and the stupid ones graduated in six or seven years. But this Wang Quexi barely graduated after 15 years of learning. "

Shi Liuye's expression softened.

Manager Ma felt relieved, and then said with a smile: "Wang Quexi has been working on carpentry for 15 years since he was a teacher, and his monthly payment is the lowest in the whole carpentry. .

"Wang Quexi's daughter-in-law is surnamed Zhang, and she is 34 years old. When she was an apprentice, Wang Quexi's daughter-in-law was considered dexterous, but she was knocked off her right thumb and index finger by a scroll before she was a teacher, and half of her middle finger was broken... "

"The fingers are all smashed, how can this be called dexterity?" Mr. Shi Liu snorted coldly.

"Yes, yes, it's a little better than Wang Quexi. These years, Wang Quexi's daughter-in-law has been working as a handyman in the weaving workshop. Her right hand is disabled and she can't do much work. It can only be used by half of her own.

"Wang Quexi's daughter-in-law has an old lady who is neither stupid nor disabled, but she will be sixty this year."

Manager Ma raised his head slightly, and looked at Liuye Shi carefully.

Sixth Master Shi squinted his eyes, and for a moment, hummed, "Change Wang Quexi's name to Wang Dagui, change the 60-year-old to [-], and ask Wang Quexi's daughter-in-law to wrap her hands."

"Yes, yes! Sixth Master, don't worry."

Manager Ma felt relieved and agreed repeatedly.

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Qiaozhi followed Chang Sui into the inn, her nervous heart was beating wildly, her head was dazed one after another, she blinked vigorously from time to time, and eagerly looked for Li Xiaonan's figure.

Li Xiaonan was standing on the porch watching Wan Qing write the report letter for the day, subconsciously raised her head, met Qiao Zhi's extremely eager eyes, and hurriedly raised her hand to signal her to come over.

As soon as Li Xiaonan raised her hand, Qiaozhi rushed towards it like an arrow off the string.

Li Xiaonan pulled Qiaozhi, and walked a few steps to the side, "What happened?"

"No, yes, girl..." Qiaozhi's nervous cheeks were flushed, and the tip of her nose was covered with thin sweat.

"Don't worry, talk slowly, eat a candy first, I brought it from Jiaxing, it's delicious." Li Xiaonan touched a piece of lion candy, peeled off the oiled paper and handed it to Qiaozhi.

"Girl, I..."

"Eat candy first." Li Xiaonan laughed.

Qiaozhi took the sugar and put it in his mouth, a burst of sweetness flowed from the tip of his tongue into his throat, and Qiaozhi's beating heart eased.

Li Xiaonan turned her head and glanced at the other two, Yuting had already asked them to sit down for tea and snacks.

"Girl, my mother, father, and grandma are all among the people who will be sold this time, can you buy them all back?

"My father is a carpenter, and his hands are skillful. He can't do woodwork in the weaving workshop without him. His hands are skillful. Look, this is the ointment box that my father made for me.

"Although my mother is handicapped, but my mother is smart. She knows all the work in the weaving workshop. When my mother was my age, she was originally going to choose to be a flower tie worker, but she was overwhelmed. Broken hand, no no! Either the hand was broken, the hand was not broken, or the two fingers were gone.

"My aunt can read, there is no word she doesn't know. No one taught her, she learned it by herself, and I can also read, my aunt taught me.

"And my grandmother, my grandmother is old, but when she was young, she was the best flower tie worker in the weaving workshop.

"Girl!" Qiaozhi looked at Li Xiaonan expectantly and nervously.

"Your family of four? Is there anyone else?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile after listening intently.

"Nothing."

"Okay, let's make an appointment with the dentist tomorrow morning to see someone, and we will go together tomorrow, so that the second cousin doesn't pick the wrong person." Li Xiaonan laughed.

Qiaozhi kept blinking, the girl agreed too easily and too quickly, she thought she heard it wrong, or, girl, is this a joke?

"What's the matter?" Li Xiaonan raised her hand and waved it in front of Qiaozhi's eyes.

"The girl didn't lie to me, did you? What if the second master is not selected?" Qiaozhi lowered his voice and expressed his worries.

"Let me ask you, your father's handicraft is so good, your mother and grandma are both flower tie workers, why is the weaving workshop willing to let them out?

"Last time, the people they released from Ruifufang and Xiangyunfang were all selected from among the apprentices. This time it's different?" Li Xiaonan approached Qiaozhi and asked in a low voice.

"My grandma said that this time, it's useless." Qiao Zhi also lowered her voice, "My grandma went to Steward Ma's house to make a fuss, saying that if we don't let our family out, our family will die in Steward Ma's house." Family.

"Just let it out!

"By the way, they changed my father's name to Wang Dagui. They said it was given by the sixth master, and they even called my grandma..."

Qiaozhi's words stopped abruptly, she looked at Li Xiaonan, blinked, and sighed.

"Let's talk about it, my grandma is sixty this year, they changed it to fifty, and asked my mother to wrap her hands so that you don't see it."

"Really, I don't care about these things. How many people will be released this trip? How about the others?" Li Xiaonan took out two more pieces of lion candy, gave one to Qiaozhi, and ate one for herself.

"There are ten in total. Guess how I know?" Qiaozhi bit the candy and narrowed his eyes with a smile.

"Did they ask you?" Li Xiaonan laughed.

"No! They all hide and pick people up, and they are not allowed to speak out.

"It was Manager Ma who came to my house and said that there were only ten people in total, and he managed to stuff the three of us into it." Qiaozhi pouted, "I don't know who it is."

"I'll find out tomorrow." Li Xiaonan smiled.