husband in another world

The thread used by embroiderers to sew purses is not ordinary embroidery thread, but thread made of deer tail fluff, or gold thread and silver thread for wedging nature.Gold thread and silver thread are unworthy, and you will know that they are expensive when you hear them.But the deer tail is also rare, especially it needs to be twisted into a thread.Even Jiang, a woman who was born as an embroiderer in Suzhou and used to making clothes for nobles, was taken aback by the Zhou family's generosity, let alone other embroiderers.At the beginning, I didn’t dare to take the thread, and when I used it, I had to check the master’s house again and again, for fear that the master’s house would blame them for the waste of use and ask them to pay for it.It's better to get used to it slowly.

It's just two small purses, and the embroiderers have been embroidering for a full month. This is the case that the embroiderers are all good at their craftsmanship. It can be seen that feather embroidery requires skill and time.

The embroiderers took the embroidered purses and showed them to the master one by one. Today is a big day for the first acceptance of the results. Zhou Jing, Shen Mo and Fan Xin have all arrived.

As usual, the purse selects the top three and gives additional rewards. Jiang's first, second and third are two other women in their thirties.

Jiang embroidered a total of two purses, one with a pair of mandarin ducks and one with a peacock spread out. These are not simple embroidery patterns.These two styles are beautiful, especially when they are embroidered on brocade and woven with feathers, they are really lifelike and vivid, like catching two mandarin ducks and sealing a peacock into a purse.

Shen Mo is a layman, even holding it in his hand and looking at it over and over again, he finds it very beautiful.

Zhou Jing asked softly behind him: "Like it? If you like it, we will buy it."

Shen Mo shook his head again and again, "This kind of thing looks beautiful, I don't want it, I should sell it for money, it should be able to sell for a lot of money!"

Zhou Jing chuckled, and Shen Mo realized how rich he was, and was a little embarrassed.

Remedy said: "The main thing is that I can also do it. I can embroider by myself."

"Then trouble Fu Lang to embroider one for Fu Lang when he is doing it."

"Ah?" Zhou Jing always only used a big purse on his body, and he kept it in his arms or sleeves for fear of losing it. He never used a smaller purse.Shen Mo suddenly remembered that as a husband, he had never made a purse for his husband, it was simply too unqualified. "I'll embroider your purse tomorrow."

"Then I'll just wait for my husband." Zhou Jing was in a good mood, and the little husband took the initiative to give him a gift again, which was really flattering.Completely forgetting that he asked for it.

In a good mood, Zhou Dong's family waved his hand, "Everyone's embroidery is good. I know you have worked hard. Each person will be given two taels of money in advance, and you can ask your family to come and pick it up on the day of rest. Of course, there will be rewards for the top three." , No.1 reward gold one or two silver, two feet of cotton cloth, color can be chosen at will, two catties of red taro noodles, two catties of brown rice, two catties of pork. No.2 reward gold of five hundred copper coins, one catty of red taro noodles, one catty of brown rice One catty of pork, one catty of pork. No.3 rewards one hundred copper coins, one catty of red taro noodles, one catty of brown rice, and one catty of pork.”

In fact, Zhou Jing's words sounded like everyone had been rewarded, but in fact only the top three were really rewarded.But for these embroiderers, the standard money that was agreed to be distributed uniformly for half a year is now given in advance. Although it is a drop in the bucket compared to the real standard money, but after all, they have seen the money. The hanging heart is all settling.

Two taels of silver and 50 taels of money are not comparable, but they are quite a lot.As far as the people in the town are concerned, the head of the family can earn this figure every month, which is a capable man, and now they are called a woman who earns it, let alone how straight their waists are.

In particular, some of the embroidered mothers’ families did not agree to come to Zhou’s house to work. They felt that giving 50 taels of money for half a year was such a great job. Maybe a woman made a profit, and everyone said that the Zhou family must be liars, or those embroidered women came here on their own despite all the arguments.There is also this level of concern. Many embroiderers with good craftsmanship were persuaded by their families and did not dare to come.Now that the embroiderers got the money, they just felt that their necks were going to hang up. They asked the men and in-laws at home to take a good look at how correct their decision to come was when they insisted on coming.Also let them know how lucky it is to be able to marry a mother-in-law who can make money like them, and they are not allowed to use their mother-in-law status to torture them anymore.

Just thinking about it, the embroiderers suddenly felt confident, but they secretly struggled to work hard, and strive to be ranked in the top three next time. They couldn't compare to that Suzhou embroiderer, Jiang, or the other two embroiderers. .

And this is exactly what Zhou Jing wanted.

On the day of rest, the men and children of Xiuniang's family stayed outside Zhou's house early, and when the hour came, bee pupae entered.When they heard that the Zhou family was willing to advance two taels of silver in advance because of their good work, the faces of all the men were as happy as chrysanthemums.

A mother-in-law who disagreed with her son and daughter-in-law said: "Fortunately, I insisted on coming, why don't you say that I missed such a good opportunity." Into the hands of the man.

That man really didn't expect that his wife would earn the wages he paid for two months of exhausting work after only one month, and he was filled with emotion for a moment, but at the same time, it is undeniable that his understanding of his mother-in-law is no longer the same as it used to be. Menbumai only knows the impression of doing laundry, cooking and taking care of children.At this moment, she was regarded as an equally important role.

The man apologized again and again: "You are still right. Fortunately, you insisted on coming this time. Don't worry, I will never dare to decide on our family's affairs alone. I will definitely discuss it with you."

Xiu Niang said: "Then your mother..."

The man patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, I'll show her when I get back. You've earned so much money, I guarantee that you won't dare to pick on you when you go back, and I will give you meat to eat."

Xiu Niang nodded in satisfaction, "Speaking of meat, let me tell you that Zhou's food is really not eaten at the landlord's house. Three meals a day, two meals a day, not to mention, the night meal because there is no need to work , although I eat gruel, but I also prepare cornmeal steamed buns. In addition, every three dishes and one soup must have a meat dish. The meat is not just a few slices, but a big plate, which is better than our Chinese New Year All the meat dishes add up to be more, and the vegetarian dishes have no meat, but they are full of oil and water, and they are equally delicious. You can eat them all, there is no limit, and you can eat whatever you want." Xiu Niang said, her mouth was full of aftertaste, making the men in the family greedy My saliva must flow down.

This is what my mother-in-law told him, Thaksin.For an outsider, he must think that this cowhide is really blowing the sky.

"The Zhou family is really generous this week. You are at the right place."

"No, sometimes I feel that I am not here to work but to enjoy the blessings. You said that at home, I also sew and do some embroidery work every month to supplement the family. I can get a few copper coins. Now it is obviously Doing the same job, you can eat delicious food and drink spicy food, and the dormitory is warmer and more comfortable than our home." Xiu Niang said: "Look if I have gained weight recently."

Because the man was worried about his wife being cheated, he was only worried about it at first and didn't pay much attention at all. Now he took a closer look at his wife, her complexion was rosy, and her figure was a whole size bigger.

The man laughed silly and said, "It's better to be round, I like plump ones."

Xiu Niang lightly beat the chest of the man at home twice, and said angrily: "I hate it."

After a while, the two got closer and closer, forgetting that there were people around, and hugged each other.

The man said: "My children and I miss you."

Xiu Niang's eyes were sour, "But half a year has passed, think about the money, we will have a better life with it in the future. Don't worry, I will try to get the top three next month, and then I will be able to Reward some more money, with this money, our son can also study."

For a while, the man and the embroidered lady were intoxicated by the bright future they outlined, and they remained silent for a long time.

Jiang was supposed to get three taels of silver, but because of the deduction of one tael from the advance payment, there was only two taels of silver left. He took the silver, the meat and rice noodles to find Jiang Wei.

"You and Zhou Fulang will ask for a few hours' leave later, and send the money and food back to your parents, and tell them not to treat themselves too harshly at home. They only drink rice soup, which is not enough to eat. The old couple are in poor health. Weak, still need to eat some oil and water."

Jiang Wei was invited by the Zhou family to work as a long-term worker with a salary of [-] Wen a day. It was a good job at first, but it was not enough compared with Jiang's [-] taels of silver and the food.In the beginning, the charm of Jiang Shi in his heart was gradually hidden by him because of his legs and Jiang Shi's growing ability, especially when he came to Zhou's house and saw that Xiu Niang was valued by the master's family , food, drink and treatment, and I feel that he is not worthy of Jiang Shi, and thinks that it is right for Jiang Shi to look down on him in the past, he is not as capable as her.

Jiang Wei lowered his head and pushed the money back, "I have wages, I will take them back to my parents later, more than 600 Wen plus the ones you gave before are enough for them to eat. You earned this money yourself, You collect it yourself. From now on, I will keep it as a dowry in the future, with such a large amount of money, no one dares to underestimate you even if you marry."

Mrs. Jiang stared deeply at Jiang Wei. Although Jiang Wei's expression was gloomy, it could be seen that he was sincere.

Jiang suddenly said: "Then I will pay you back. At the beginning you bought me for 20 taels of silver, and you planned to let me be your wife. Now you don't need me to be your wife. I will pay you back. Silver should always be."

Jiang Wei wanted to say no, but when he thought that it would be bad if Jiang Shi misunderstood him as deliberately using this money to control her, Xu silently accepted it.

Jiang said: "You should leave your share of money and food to your parents for this money, and the remaining two taels to pay back the money that was borrowed from others. Although it is still a few dozen taels, you can pay back the two taels first. Two is two taels, and it would be better to have less interest next month."

"I see, I'm going to send it to others." Jiang Wei felt warm in his heart. Even though Mrs. Jiang had nothing to do with him, he was right after all. Mrs. Jiang was a good woman, but he didn't have that kind of blessing. point.

When Jiang Wei went to the door, the family was startled, but when he heard that Jiang Wei was here to pay back the money, his face, which was still dark, immediately beamed with joy. Although it was not much, it was still more.But at the same time, it was even more strange how Jiang Wei could come up with so much money all at once. Jiang Wei kept his eyes open and didn't mention that Mrs. Jiang went to the Zhou family to be a embroiderer.

It turned out that it was borrowed, but the warm words of the family turned cold again.Borrowing, that means he is tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, making up for it, and the money is not his own.

Jiang Wei didn't care, he hurried back to Zhou's house to take some food to send to his own home, he planned to go back as soon as possible, for fear that he would not be there when the master took care of him.

When Jiang's father and Jiang's mother saw that Jiang Wei came back with so many things on his back, they were not happy at first, but blamed him.

Jiang's father said: "You child, why can't you just find a job and can't live? Why buy so many good things? There are so many debts outside our family that have not been repaid. How can you eat and drink so much. You see No one in debt would dare to buy like this.”

Although Jiang's mother was dissatisfied with Jiang's father's tone of reproach, she felt that what Jiang's father said was reasonable, "Son, I know you love your parents. We two old people know it well, but our family doesn't allow it these days. You see See if you can get it back, if you can exchange it for silver, your parents will earn it for you, so you can pay it back when the time comes."

Jiang Wei felt sorry for his parents, and suddenly felt unfilial that he could eat meat at Zhou's house every day, but his parents had to go hungry.He hated himself a little in his heart, if it wasn't for his incompetence, why did he bother his parents so much, and in the end he needed a woman to pay off the debt for him.

But Jiang Wei could only pretend to be happy on the face, "Father and mother, I have some good news for you. This food was not bought by my son, but Xiaomei's embroidery skills, and the owner rewarded me."

"What? The master rewards you, and the master rewards you for doing well. How can there be such a master in this world? Could the son be the master of the master..."

"Father!" Jiang Wei shouted decisively: "Xiaomei and I's master's family is not that kind of people, and the master's husband and a woman are in charge of Xiuniang, Xiaomei usually never even sees Master Zhou's face. A man like Mr. Zhou has captivated many ladies and ladies. Xiaomei is beautiful, but she can’t compare with those ladies. However, Mr. Zhou is not tempted by the kind of rich ladies. How could he look at her? It’s Xiaomei. In the eyes of Mr. Zhou, I think I can only put down his husband. What else can be stuffed in? Their son counts as one, and after that, it’s all silver. I guess apart from his husband, Master Zhou thinks about money the most every day."

Jiang's father was embarrassing for his villainous heart, "It's my father who wanted to go left."

"Don't blame father, after all, in this world, there are few conscientious masters like Master Zhou and Zhou Fulang. We are lucky to meet each other. We can't speak ill of Master Zhou and Zhou Fulang anymore."

Jiang's father hurriedly said: "Don't dare, Master Zhou Zhou Fulang is our family's savior. From now on, I will definitely pray for Master Zhou Zhou Fulang on the first and fifteenth day of the new year. I can't be that ungrateful person."

"Father, let's not talk about that. I haven't finished talking to you yet, Xiaomei not only got these food rewards, but also a reward of one tael of silver. I sent all the money to the Wang family, and I will pay back some first. "Jiang Wei said happily: "Actually, it was three taels in total, but last time I paid an advance of one tael, it became two taels."

Unexpectedly, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother did not show the joy Jiang Wei imagined, but Jiang's mother carefully observed his expression.

After a long while, she tentatively said: "Son, Xiaomei didn't want to live with you... Now that she can make money so much, and has such a great ability, I'm afraid she is even more unwilling to live with you."

Jiang Wei's complexion darkened, and then he forced a smile and said: "Mom, I'm so excited, I want to go through all these things to tell me that after all, Xiaomei and I have nothing to do with each other, and forcing myself will only bring bad luck to myself, so I decided Let Xiaomei off and myself. I made an agreement with Xiaomei. She bought her for 20 taels of silver. She only needs to return the 20 taels to our family. After that, all the extra money will be her own. She I hold it as a dowry, and if I meet someone I like, I will give her a divorce letter, marry her as my younger sister, and our family will be her natal family from now on."

For Jiang Wei's disapproval, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother did not feel joy. If a few months earlier, the family had not been in such a state of poverty, and the son's legs had not been lame, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother would have been so happy to buy and hang firecrackers to set off .But now Jiang Wei has nothing, he is poor and white, and it is no use to say that his mother-in-law is a problem in the future, but it is only to help Xiaomei.

But it's better than Jiang Wei being overwhelmed and forcing Xiaomei, and the two of them will be tortured in the days to come.

Jiang's father said: "Son, if you want to open it, just take it as a catastrophe in your life. If it's not her or someone else, let's live well in the future and work hard to make money. When we buy the house back, we will always find someone who is willing." Someone who lives a good life with you."

"I remembered, Dad." However, Jiang Wei was thinking in his heart, probably in this life, except for Xiaomei, no one will make him so fascinated again. Maybe he will never forget this fruitless marriage. , but it will not be the reason for his depravity.

"Father, take the rest of the money with your mother. Don't be harsh on yourself. Xiaomei and I both have wages and can pay off the family's debts. But if you fall ill again because of poor food, the money will be fined." But it will never be paid. So when you eat, don’t think it’s a waste of money, in fact, it’s saving money for your son.”

Jiang's mother secretly wiped her tears, how could she not know her son's filial piety, the son always thought that it was his selfishness that caused the old couple to suffer.

Father Jiang comforted: "Don't worry, we won't fall ill again. We don't dare to eat and drink if we have money, but we will definitely be full."

Jiang Wei knew that it was impossible to persuade his parents to eat and drink well, so even if he agreed, he would not do that in turn.I thought that next time he came back from buying meat, they would have to eat it.While thinking about it, he hurried back to Zhou's house.

Jiang Wei came in through the back door, and the whole Zhou family was filled with joy. All the embroiderers didn't bury their heads in rushing to work. After seeing off their relatives, they all gathered in the hall, and they were actually making dumplings in their hands.

Mrs. Jiang said with a smile: "Zhou Fulang thought we had worked hard for a month, and everyone did a good job, so he rewarded us with a meal of dumplings in the evening. There are so many of us, and the two wives of the Zhou family couldn't make it, so we made dumplings together."

Someone snatched up: "Zhou Fulang is careful, afraid that some of us don't like meat, so he made two kinds of dumpling, one is pure pork dumpling, and the other is egg and leek dumpling. In fact, who doesn't like meat? Outside the Zhou family, I can eat meat a few times. But I still want to thank Zhou Fulang, which shows that he is thinking about us in his heart, and it is really a blessing to meet such a master."

"That's not it." Another embroiderer also said: "Let's talk about Xiaomei, she won the first place, the reward is too generous, how can other masters be so generous. By the way, we only know that you and Xiaomei are Family, don’t know if she is your mother-in-law or sister?”

Jiang Wei immediately put aside the relationship and said: "It's my sister, it belongs to my sister."

"Oh, that's it." The embroiderer said again: "Have you ever mentioned someone else?"

Jiang Wei was stunned for a while, the depression in his heart was like a mountain, he looked at Jiang Shi, and Jiang Shi was also looking at him.He knew that he couldn't harm her anymore, he was already like this, so he could only let her go free.

"not yet……"

"If not, there is a son in my sister's family. He is an accountant with a monthly schedule of two or two in January. He is a perfect match for your sister." The voices of Xiu Niang and Jiang Wei fell at the same time.

Jiang Wei's voice was a bit low, except for Mrs. Jiang who saw his mouth shape, the others didn't notice when they were making dumplings.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang spoke, jokingly said: "Sister Xu, you are not afraid to beat you if you pry the corner of his wall in front of me!"

"Ah, what?" Sister Xu froze for a moment, "Didn't he say you were his sister?"

Jiang Shi said: "He is not serious. He always likes to tell others that I am his sister. After saying a few times, he is not allowed to say that. He always says that this is some kind of husband and wife. Oh, I don't want to say it, I am so ashamed."

However, the embroidered ladies sitting together laughed. They were all young, and they came from the time when they first got married. They all understand the deep affection between young couples.

Jiang Wei's heart suddenly warmed up, and he was tossed and turned like an ant on a hot pot by Jiang's words. He didn't find a chance to ask Jiang what he meant until the dumplings were cooking.

For the first time, Jiang blushed at Jiang Wei, "It's not interesting, I just want to be your wife, why, don't you want to?"

"Yes, yes, of course." Those who are willing simply don't know what their last name is, Jiang Weile can't wait to climb on the roof and shout, Jiang is finally willing to be his wife.At the same time, he became more determined in his heart, and must work hard for the Zhou family. Only when he is appreciated can he become more and more worthy of Xiaomei.

The Zhou family had eaten dumplings made by the embroiderers, and all three of them sat in the hall.Shen Mo sat under the oil lamp with a purse and sewed, while Zhou Jing instructed Zhou Yu to look at the account book.

If Mr. Gu knew that his most proud student didn’t read his Zhiye stereotyped essay when he returned home, but followed a merchant who smelled of copper to read the account book full of copper smell, he would probably jump up angrily and say Zhou Yu took him back to his family and kept Zhou Jing away.

Now Zhou Jing only let Zhou Yu see the account book of the sausage shop that Wang Ren sent over. As for the account book of the cloth village, he didn't show it to him. After all, the profit was huge, and it was not appropriate for an eight-year-old child to know so early.

But even the ledger sent by Wang Ren, the amount of money is very huge for ordinary people, and the monthly gross profit of more than 1000 taels is not a problem.Wang Ren is indeed very capable, not to mention that he opened a sausage shop in another town, and there are a lot of orders for sausage and duck products in several nearby towns.

Zhou Yu's brain is very easy to use, and his abacus clinks with such trivial accounts, and he hardly makes mistakes.Zhou Jing lamented that he is really a business genius. It's a pity to follow Mr. Gu's imperial examinations, and he should learn to make money from him.It's a pity, it's a pity, imperial examinations are more valuable than businessmen, and this Xiaoyu himself is more interested in imperial examinations than making money. In future generations, he will definitely be a business tycoon again.

Zhou Jing shook his head in his heart and before he finished sighing, Jiang Wei ran in in a panic and almost lost a shoe.

"What are you panicking, the sky is falling?"

Jiang Wei panicked and said: "Master, don't say the sky is falling, but the sky is at the door."

"What's going on, please tell me."

"It's the county magistrate, he sent someone to our house to invite you to the yamen."

"Go to the yamen?" Zhou Jing was also surprised at this time. He didn't remember what he had done, and he hadn't seen anyone making trouble in the shop recently. How could the magistrate of the county ask him to come to the mansion? There is no intersection.

"Master, I gave the yamen servant several hundred copper coins, only to find out that this incident is not a bad thing for the master, but I'm afraid it's not a good thing either. What should I do?"

"Brother Jing, the magistrate of this county wants to see you suddenly, does he want to trouble you?" Shen Mo stopped the needle and thread in his hand, and looked at Zhou Jing worriedly from behind the oil lamp.Zhou Yu also stopped his calculations, and the young man seemed to be thinking a little bit.

"I think it should be fine." Zhou Jing reassured: "If it was to trouble me or I committed a crime, the yamen servant should have broken in and taken me away. Now that the yamen servant dared to collect money, he also said that he was not good at me. It's not a bad thing or a good thing, but it shouldn't be a big deal if you think about it, and it can be settled with money."

Zhou Jing gave Jiang Weisai the large amount of money he gave to the yamen servants, so that he didn't have to worry about going down, and then without Zhou Yu's back, he said to Shen Mo: "Little Mo, bring me a 1000 tael bank note, and give me a few more. It’s 200 taels. I’m carrying it with me, so I’m sure it’ll come in handy.”

"Okay, I'll get it now."

The Zhou family's money is kept by Shen Mo. Although Shen Mo's knowledge comes from Zhou Jing, Shen Mo knows very well when he does the accounting. Every money spent and the family's expenses are clearly recorded by him. on the ledger.The account book and the money box are put together, and there is a hidden compartment in the closet, which is usually hidden there, and the money box outside has only a small amount of silver.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine." Zhou Jing comforted Shen Mo and Zhou Yu a few more words, then got up and rushed to the county office.