The next day, Li Wenru went to the dental store to buy the three people he had selected, carefully signed the deed of identity and the attachment deed, and then explained the deed to the three people word for word.
With everything clear and everything arranged, Li Wenru returned to the inn and the group immediately set off for Jiaxing County.
The three little girls who were selected and bought were from Ruifu Fang, Xiangyun Fang and a local small weaving workshop.
The three of them each held a deed and a bunch of copper coins, standing at the door of the dental shop, watching Li Wenru walk away without looking back, you look at me, I look at you.
"He's gone." Dongmei from Xiangyunfang held her breath and said carefully.
"Are we really going back?" Qiao Zhi from Ruifufang clutched the deed and the string of copper coins, folded his hands on his chest, and looked at Dongmei and Mingzhi.
"Second Master said that we can go back and live there if we can." Mingzhi's eyes sparkled.
"Go back first." Dongmei, the oldest, made the decision.
"Then when will you come over tomorrow morning?" Qiao Zhi asked hurriedly.
"Chen Zheng?" Dongmei looked at the two of them.
Qiao Zhi and Ming Zhi nodded together.
The three people looked at each other again, turned around and went home.
Qiao Zhi ran into the alley and rushed into the courtyard.
Qiao Zhi's father was not a son of the weaver's family, but bought into the weaver's shop when he was six or seven years old. He was taciturn and well-known as an honest man in the weaver's shop, even his nickname was Wang Quexi.
Wang Quexi is smart and handy. He has learned carpentry from his master since he was a child. He is very good at adjusting and repairing looms. He can do all kinds of things that can be used in the weaving workshop extremely well. After learning from his master for two or three years, his craftsmanship is perfect.
Better than his master.
But Wang Quexi's fate was really bad. The master he met was thick-hearted and evil-minded. He first took Wang Quexi's job and put it in the name of his eldest son who was studying at the same time as Wang Quexi. When the eldest son left the master, he officially
He became a carpenter, and the master's second son was old enough to enter the weaving workshop. Wang Quexi then acted as a substitute for the second son, and the second son left the apprenticeship. A year later, the third son entered the weaving workshop again.
Fortunately, the master only had three sons, and all three sons had left the master. Wang Quexi's master kept Wang Quexi working for him for two or three years, until Wang Quexi's mother-in-law rushed to his master's house and made a fuss.
After a big fuss, Wang Quexi finally left the division.
The carpentry apprenticeship in the weaving workshop lasted five years, and only six or seven years later, but Wang Quexi served as an apprentice for a full fifteen years.
In the year when he started his apprenticeship, Wang Quexi had the lowest wages among carpenters. Now, more than ten years have passed, and his wages have not increased by a penny.
Wage increases happen every year, but it’s not Wang Quexi’s turn.
The weaving mill stopped working, and the looms needed to be repaired, adjusted, and oiled. The carpenters were all working in the weaving mill, but Wang Quexi was idle at home.
The carpentry work in the weaving workshop can be completed in ten or eight days, and then you have to go home and idle. The extra ten or eight days of wages are not for Wang Quexi.
When Qiao Zhi Aniang was young, she was selected to learn how to make flowers. With her outstanding dexterity among her peers, she was spotted by the second steward of the weaving workshop and got engaged to the second steward's son. p>
Coincidentally, Granny Weaver was also unlucky. One time when she was bolting cloth, her right thumb and index finger were crushed by a heavy warp beam.
After confirming that Qiaozhi's hand was definitely disabled, the second steward quickly arranged for Qiaozhi's wife to be married to the master's family, and pointed Qiaozhi's hand to Wang Quexi.
Less than a year after Qiaozhi Aniang married Wang Quexi, she didn’t feel sad or regretful at all. For slaves like them, when they get married, they just find a companion to endure the hard life together. Being able to be with Wang Quexi,
She felt that it was God's compensation for her two fingers, which was her blessing.
When Qiao Zhi rushed into the courtyard, Wang Quexi was sitting on the threshold, his head lowered, peeling willow wood.
Qiao Zhi wants a balsam box, he should have made it overnight yesterday!
Qiao Zhi Auntie sat on the pony in the threshold with dull eyes, her head leaning against the door frame, motionless.
"...It's not like being dragged out and beheaded. If you can live, you will have hope, and you can look forward to living. Qiao Zhi's life is good!" Grandma Qiao Zhi pounded the rice and kept talking.
Qiao Zhi rushed through the courtyard like a gust of wind and rushed to the door of the house. His eyes were bright and he said, "I'm back!"
The knife and willow block in Wang Quexi's hand fell to the ground with a clatter. Qiaozhi's mother jumped up and hugged Qiaozhi, "They don't want you anymore? You escaped back?"
Neighbors in the courtyard cheered and surrounded me.
"No, let's go into the house to talk." Qiao Zhi hugged the deed and the string of copper coins tightly, and pushed her mother into the house.
"Let Qiaozhi say a few words to her mother-in-law first, let Qiaozhi take a breath." Qiaozhi's grandma came out and waved her hands to chase away the neighbors who had been surrounding her for several times.
The neighbors walked back slowly, looking at Qiao Zhi's house from afar or close.
"Just sit here and watch." Grandma Qiaozhi grabbed Wang Quexi who was about to follow him into the house.
Wang Quexi immediately sat back on the threshold, picked up the knife and the willow wood block, but had no intention of sharpening the knife. He looked outside and listened to the movement in the room with his ears.
"Nier, what's going on?" Qiaozhi's grandma pulled Qiaozhi over, looked up and down, and shed tears.
"They bought three people in total, one for me, one from Xiangyunfang named Dongmei, and one from Jinxiafang named Mingzhi. There were just three of us!" Qiaozhi pressed her mother-in-law closely, keeping her head down.
There was tension and excitement in his low voice.
Grandma Qiao Zhi sat down next to Qiao Zhi on the other side.
"Auntie, look at this! Look! It's been stamped by the government." Qiaozhi thrust the deed into her hands.
"Second Master Li didn't know I could read, so he pointed at the deed and read it to the three of us word by word. I knew the words, and he didn't lie to anyone!
"Second Master Li said that he didn't buy us to let us weave, but to teach others how to weave. As long as we can teach others how to weave four heddles, he said that they already have several weavers outside Pingjiang City.
It’s said that the school in Guoxiang Town accepts ten people per class, so there are many people who want to learn weaving!”
Qiao Zhi was excited and incoherent.
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"What's written on it?" Grandma Qiaozhi asked, clicking on the deed.
"And more! There are sixty-four techniques for weaving plain silk. I only know eleven of them now. Mr. Li said that he should first find a place to learn by myself. If I can't find a place, he will send me to Pingjiang City.
Go to the school to study. If I go to the school to study, my salary will be deducted. Mom, please teach me!" Qiao Zhi hugged her grandma.
"I told you that if you can make sixty-four simple silk fabrics, you will be paid ten copper coins per month. If you teach someone how to do it, you will be given an additional ten copper coins." Qiao Zhi's voice trembled slightly.
"That's right, I'm willing to redeem myself! The original price. They bought me for five taels of silver. If I learn all the sixty-four Taoisms, my mother-in-law..."
"Keep your voice down!" Qiao Zhi's grandma gave Qiao Zhi a slap in the face.
"And more! I heard the second master tell Yahang that there are too few people, and asked them to find more useful weavers. The second master said that if they are fast, they will come back the day after tomorrow, and if they are slow, they will come back the day after tomorrow to see if they can do it again.
Pick some people and tell them that when we come over again, let’s see if we stay here to learn the craft, or if we are taken to Pingjiang City.”
Cleverly woven eyes sparkle.
"Auntie, can Fangli sell our whole family?"
"Where is this master from? Did they tell you?" Qiao Zhi asked with her eyebrows raised.
"I told you that their surname was Li and they were from the Li family in Kunshan County. The second master said that he was in charge and the head of the family was their fourth wife. Dongmei asked if the fourth wife was the young lady who gave us the exam yesterday.
Really? The second master said no, he said that the young lady who spoke to us is the fourth lady.
"The little lady who spoke to us yesterday is so nice, so very nice!"
Qiao Zhi didn't know how to describe the little lady. She felt that the lady of the house was like their little sister, the kind who talked about everything.
"What is this?" Qiao Zhi's grandma touched the string of copper coins that Qiao Zhi had been pressing on her chest.
"I almost forgot! This is the meal money given by the second master. Today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, a total of three days of food money. The second master said that they will be back the day after tomorrow at the latest.
"The second master also said that if the Zhifang didn't let me come back and stay, he would let me stay at the Tongfu Inn next to Yaxing. He said he had made an agreement with the shopkeeper.
"Grandma, grandma, the second master is so good! The fourth wife is so good! The new master's family is so good!" Qiao Zhi bit the word "good" with force.
"You didn't sleep well last night. Go get some sleep and I'll discuss it with your grandma." Qiao Zhi Auntie patted Qiao Zhi.
"Okay." Qiao Zhi knew that her mother-in-law was going to discuss business with her grandmother, so she stood up reluctantly, handed the string of copper coins to her grandmother, lay down on the bed, opened her eyes, and tried hard to hear the discussion between her mother-in-law and her grandmother.
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"One piece of work costs ten copper coins, which is a lot of copper coins." Grandma Qiaozhi looked at the deed.
"Yes, it has the official seal." Qiao Zhi Aniang clicked on the square red seal in the middle of the document.
"If you're teaching people, your hands won't get in the way." Grandma Qiaozhi gently stroked her daughter's mutilated hand.
"I'm afraid that others will look down on me." Qiao Zhi's expression was dark.
"I'm not worried that they won't look down on me. I'm worried about whether we can let you out, and Qiao Zhi's father." Qiao Zhi's grandma said in a low voice.
"Can we pick and let go again?" Qiaozhi Auntie looked at her Auntie.
"We can't wait. By the time we know we have to pick someone, it will be too late. But whether this is a fire pit or not, I can't tell." Grandma Qiaozhi pointed to the deed.
"Qiaozhi is already in the pit." Qiaozhi's mother lowered her eyes and said.
"I'm confused." Qiao Zhi's grandma sighed, "We follow Qiao Zhi, and we have to jump through knives and fire pits, no matter what kind of pit it is! I will go to Steward Ma's house now and talk to him.
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"Does that make sense?" Qiao Zhi's mother looked at her mother who had already stood up.
"If it doesn't make sense, I will die in his room. All three of our family will die in his room!" Grandma Qiaozhi patted the skirt of her clothes hard.
Qiao Zhi Auntie gave a low hum, stood up, held on to the door frame, and watched her Auntie leave the courtyard with a cane, as if on an expedition.
