It was impossible for Zhou Yanqing not to go to the workshop when he came over. As the head of the family, he couldn't come all the way and not get in.
It is impossible not to visit and express condolences to the workshop masters and craftsmen who worked hard to earn money for him.
Zhou Yanqing has always been a smart man, otherwise he would not be in charge of most of the Zhou family's business. If he didn't even inspect his own property when he came all the way, and just went to Qiao's house, he wouldn't know how many people there would be.
Spraying water on Qiao Mingjin.
He might not have cared before, but not now.
Zhou Yanqing entered the workshop with great fanfare, and of course he inevitably met Yue Zhongyao, who had been working hard in the workshop early in the morning.
Naturally, it was impossible for Yue Zhongyao to pretend not to see such a big living person.
Zhou Yanqing's arrival was so loud that he couldn't avoid it if he wanted to.
He felt bitter in his heart when he saw Zhou Yanqing being greeted, surrounded, and flattered by everyone.
The more outstanding that person is, the more hesitant and uneasy he feels inside.
He tossed and turned last night, and kept recalling the man's calm and insistent voice in his ears, who asked him to let go in a cold voice.
He gritted his teeth with hatred, why should he? Who was he to himself? He actually persuaded himself to let go.
Jin Niang is the wife of his Yue Zhongyao, who was married by his matchmaker. Is she the kind of woman who can be called around at will and dismissed if she doesn't want her?
How could he be willing to wrong her? How could he be willing to starve his own flesh and blood?
Yue Zhongyao looked coldly at Zhou Yanqing in the crowd. When he saw him walking towards him, he subconsciously hid aside and turned around to leave.
Zhou Yanqing looked at Yue Zhongyao who had his back turned, raised the corners of his mouth, and asked in a loud voice: "Master He, has there been another addition to the workshop?"
Master He glanced at Yue Zhongyao, not knowing the connection between the two. He replied: "That's not true. That's Wan'er's father, who came to the workshop to help."
Zhou Yanqing nodded pretentiously and said: "Even if you come to the workshop to help, we can't treat you harshly. The wages still have to be calculated. We can't let people say that our workshop takes advantage of the villagers."
Master He was stunned for a moment. He looked at the two of them back and forth, then nodded in agreement.
After Yue Zhongyao heard what Zhou Yanqing said, he turned around and looked at him with squinted eyes.
Yue Zhongyao could be regarded as someone who crawled out from among the dead. Faced with Zhou Yanqing, who was dressed in brocade and rich clothes and was raised in a wealthy family with a formidable bearing, he did not lose his momentum at all.
His eyes were very sharp. There was a bloodthirsty light in his eyes.
Fortunately, Zhou Yanqing has also been immersed in the business world for a long time. Who hasn't seen him?
The two of them were staring at each other face to face, and it was hard to tell the winner.
On the other hand, everyone in the workshop looked at it in confusion.
They are obviously unrelated people, but it seems like they have a grudge?
Master He and others rarely saw Zhou Yanqing like this, and they just stared blankly without daring to step forward.
Zhou Yanqing didn't want others to misunderstand anything, so she came to her senses. She laughed first and said, "Brother Yue came to help in my workshop. The Zhou family is really grateful. If Brother Yue has any difficulties, just ask.
I will do my best to help you on Saturday. I still have some connections in Qingchuan County, just for Wan'er's sake. I really like that girl."
After hearing this, Yue Zhongyao narrowed his eyes, pursed his lips tightly, and had a cold and scary look on his face.
Zhou Yanqing didn't take it seriously and turned to the kitchen and shouted: "It's hot today, Aunt Xia, have you cooked the mung bean soup? Bring a bowl to my brother-in-law and me. It's hot today, so there's no need for tea."
Impatient to drink."
Then he smiled and said to Yue Zhongyao: "Brother Yue, can you sit with me when you have time?"
Yue Zhongyao didn't want others to notice. It was true that he was a rough man, but he also didn't allow others to make irresponsible remarks about Jin Niang.
The two of them turned around and went to the craftsmen's houses behind the workshop in a tacit understanding.
The rattan chairs and tables were all ready-made. They each chose a chair and sat down. They thanked Xia for the mung bean soup and drank it without anyone speaking first.
I don't know if it was because of the hot weather, but when Yue Zhongyao looked at Zhou Yanqing's calm and composed expression, he felt a stream of evil fire coming out. He felt that the heat was getting more and more unbearable.
The mung bean soup didn't taste like anything at all.
He placed the bowl heavily on the coffee table, looked at Zhou Yanqing coldly, and said, "Don't forget that Jin Niang is still my wife!"
"It won't be anymore soon." Zhou Yanqing didn't even raise his head.
Unlike Yue Zhongyao, who was holding a bowl and pouring it into his mouth, Zhou Yanqing held a wooden spoon and slowly spooned the mung bean soup one spoon at a time, then slowly brought it to his mouth, serving it with incomparable grace.
This kind of aura throughout the body is something that someone can develop in three to five years.
Zhou Yanqing seemed to be very willing to see Yue Zhongyao's chest tightness and breathlessness. The mung bean soup in the coarse porcelain bowl was so elegant that it seemed to be a supreme delicacy.
Yue Zhongyao stared at him for a while. Seeing that he looked calm, he felt bitter and stood up.
Zhou Yanqing didn't expect him to be so out of control. He was about to leave before he said anything?
"When will you give Jin Niang and Li Shu?" Zhou Yanqing straightened up and asked.
Yue Zhongyao felt chest tightness again.
"Let's wait until you convince your family and ask a matchmaker to arrange a match." After saying that, he strode away without looking back.
Zhou Yanqing put the bowl on the coffee table casually, and there was nothing left to eat.
Since that day, Zhou Yanqing came to Xiahe Village early every morning to report.
It was always the workshop that I went to first. The uninformed people thought that the workshop had received many more orders or had some new work.
Those who had extra labor in Xiahe Village would go to the workshop to wait. I hope Mr. Saturday can open the door and invite a group of workers to work in the workshop.
There is no better job than working in a workshop. Not only is it convenient to take care of the family at home, the wages are high, and sometimes there is afternoon tea. It is a hot day, and I heard that mung bean soup is always available every day.
Not to mention refreshments, mung beans are considered a cheap thing in the countryside, and farmers are reluctant to cook them in handfuls. They save them so that they can be exchanged for money in the market to supplement the household income, not to mention putting sugar in them.
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Zhou Yanqing was in a very good mood during this period, and kept moving tea, fruit, snacks, and fine rice and white noodles to the workshop. The mung bean soup was also ordered to the kitchen every day.
Although the workshop did not recruit any more people, he still selected several honest people and introduced them to work in Zhou's shop in Qingchuan City. This attracted more people in the village to surround him.
He was not upset and continued to drive his big carriage back and forth every day.
As for Qiao Mingjin, he no longer gives away expensive things, but he does provide food every day.
Dried seafood, fresh beef and mutton, fish balls and vegetables, seasonal fresh fruits, cakes and snacks, the more you move, the thicker and thicker they are.
The children playing near the workshop also received a lot of benefits, and they could get a few candies every day. They were so happy that every day before dawn, all the children would wait at the entrance of the workshop early. Donggen was not left behind even once. He was even beaten.
Wu didn't even bother to drag her away.
Wu was so angry that she stood at Qiao Mingjin's door and cursed her for a long time.
She also said that she wanted Qiao Mingjin to pay her back her silver. She said that among those piles of broken pots and bowls, where was the value of twenty taels of silver?
Qiao Mingjin didn't step on him, but Yun Jin and He Shi came over and stabbed her several times.
He also showed her the shopping list that day, saying that he spent hundreds of taels of silver that day, and her twenty taels of silver were not even enough!
He also lied to her and told her that he had already given her an IOU. When would the money be replenished and when would the IOU be torn up? It took a long time, but he would have to come and ask for it.
Wu was so frightened that her heart and liver trembled.
To ask her to pay back the money would be no less than cutting her flesh and bleeding her. After a few words of defiance, I left in dejection. I didn't dare to come back again.
And Yue Zhongyao also went in every day as soon as the workshop opened.
He couldn't tell what he wanted to do, but he just thought that maybe he could be closer to his wife and daughter here.
He originally came back with money to buy a field, hoping to live a happy life with his wife, who would farm and weave. But now that the money was gone, he couldn't buy the land, and Jin Niang didn't welcome him. He suddenly felt that he had become useless.
My daughter is also a little less affectionate towards him than before. Every time she sees him in the workshop, she just looks at him from a distance, or calls him in a low voice and then runs away.
He didn't know what to do to win back the hearts of Jin Niang and his daughter.
He had never been to a private school, and he only recognized a few characters in general, so he was not blind. Even though he had thousands of words in his heart, he always didn't know how to express them when facing Jin Niang.
He didn't understand poetry and songs, and he couldn't even express sweet words.
In the past, you could hunt pheasants and hares in the woods to please your wife, but now you can't even see pheasant feathers in the woods.
He knew that the man came here every day. He even had lunch at Jin Niang's place every day and ate the food Jin Niang cooked for him.
It wasn't that he wasn't angry. Several times he raised his legs and rushed in. When he heard Jin Niang telling him to wait for him and Li Shu, he ran away again.
He didn't dare to face her.
He hated himself, and he was afraid that if he was more forceful, he would push Jinniang away.
How to do it? Grind slowly over low heat?
As long as he doesn't sign and fingerprint the letter of separation, Jinniang will still be his wife, right?
Yue Zhongyao seemed to have found a way he thought he could cope with it. He came to the workshop early every day to help for free, regardless of Wu's scolding, and worked hard every day regardless of rain or shine.
After a few days like this, Yun Jin went back to Yunjia Village. After staying one night, he brought Father Qiao and Mother Qiao with him when he came back the next day.
After Qiao Mingjin was surprised, she felt a burst of joy.
"Mom, Dad, why are you here? How is your family? How is your grandmother?"
Father Qiao glared at her and said nothing, but Mother Qiao held her hand tightly, her eyes red.
"Everything is fine. Your grandmother is in good health. Don't worry. Your father and I just want to come and see you. Why don't we send news to our family when something like this happens? It's not like there is no one in our family. How can we let you know?
Are you going to bully people casually?"
Qiao Mingjin felt a lump in her throat, so she took Mother Qiao's hand and led them into the courtyard. She then asked Mingqi to bring Mung Bean soup to Father Qiao and Mother Qiao, which was refreshing and thirst-quenching.
The two men were not busy drinking, and started walking around in the courtyard.
Only when I saw that everything at home was as usual, and that there were many more things than when I came here before, did I feel relieved.
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