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It was not a big deal to say that a child had a whim and tried to get into the cashmere workshop by dressing up as a woman.

I'm afraid that someone will follow suit. Some older, handsome young men, if they wear women's clothes and cover them up carefully, the stewards may not be able to notice every time. Once such a thing happens, it will be different from the cashmere workshop. The reputation of those unmarried girls will definitely be hindered.

So the steward didn't let the boy from the Nan family go directly, but took him to meet Luo Erniang.

When Luo Erniang heard about such a thing, she also found it a bit funny, and even asked her to go to the kitchen to get some food to eat with him. In this cold day, it was frightening and frightening, so don't make trouble Come.

On the other side, she sent someone to find Luo Yong again, and told him about this matter. After all, it is not advisable to be overly tolerant about this matter. What should be investigated should still be investigated. As for how to deal with it in the end, she I have to ask Luo Yong for his opinion.

Luo Yong was at the bacon workshop at this time, not far from the cashmere workshop, both of which were in this newly built workshop area.

Luo Yong also knew about this boy from the Nan family. The two women at the pastry shop often told him that this boy often took home the mixed-faced pancakes from their place. I said it, so I told them to turn a blind eye and forget it, and coaxed the five couples to help him carry tofu. Luo Yong also thought that this kid was very smart and could endure hardships, which was not bad, but today's matter, he couldn't be forgiven lightly. he.

Although the boy from the Nan family is still young, he is quite good at reading people's faces. When he saw Luo Yong coming in with a straight face, not smiling like he usually does, he knew something was wrong, so he stood there obediently and waited. Lost, did not dare to say anything.

"Why are you here dressed like this?" Luo Yong asked him.

"I, I want to work in the cashmere workshop." The boy muttered.

"You just thought that you would come to work here, but have you ever thought about the hundreds of unmarried women in this workshop?" Luo Yong reprimanded.

"..." The kid blushed and stopped talking.

"I thought you were still young, and I punished you to work at the bakery for three months. Do you accept it?"

"……Clothes."

After the manager of the cashmere workshop took the child out, Luo Yong also slowed down his expression. He was not really angry, but he was just pretending to be angry to scare the boy.

"Later, I will ask someone to write an official document and post it. If this happens again, he will be punished severely."

"This kid is really clever, but he's a bit bold." Luo Erniang laughed.

"His Aye doesn't stay at home all day, and Auntie is a softie. Weng Pogu has passed away, and no one in the family cares about him. It's a bit wild." Luo Yong explained.

I heard that the Nan family used to be a big family in Changle County, and the son of the Nan family, Na Niang, was also from a good family.

A few years ago, their family fell into ruins, and his Aye relied on his good looks to find a woman from a well-to-do family in Dunhuang, and relied on her for support.His mother looked for some laundry work by herself, because she was good-looking and had no one to rely on at home, so it was inevitable that people would be frivolous, and now she doesn't like to go out anymore, she would rather eat bran and swallow vegetables at home than go to the one in the county Go to the cake distribution place to eat Zamian pancakes.

"Children should be taken care of. Let him learn some lessons this time, so that he can think more before doing things next time." Erniang said so.

"Let's not talk about him, how are those outsiders doing now?" Luo Yong asked her.

"Except for one who is still young, who cried and said yesterday that he wants to go back, the rest are pretty good." Er Niang laughed.

"Why do you want to go back?" Luo Yongqi asked.

"I just saw that our workshop is strictly controlled, and I'm afraid that this cashmere workshop will force me to pick cashmere for the rest of my life, and I won't be able to go back home in the future, and I won't see Ye Niang." Speaking of this, Er Niang felt very funny.

"Then you want to let her go back?" Luo asked with a smile.

"I asked her if she wanted to go back, and she hesitated again, so I told her, come and tell me when you want to go back, and let her go back whenever you want to go back."

It's not that Luo Erniang can't recruit people here, there is no reason to force them to stay, it's just that this girl is not doing very well in their tribe, so use this method to suppress people first and stay with her , among other things, after a few years, at least I can learn a craft.

"Those from outside the pass, most of them can't speak Chinese well, so you should be more careful, don't tell them to be bullied by those little ladies in the city?"

If Luo Yong wants to attract people from outside the customs, he must first spread a good reputation out, no, don't spread the news that the girl from a herdsman's family was bullied in the city, which is not conducive to the great unity of the nation.

"Don't worry, the workshop over there in Liangzhou city also has that woman from outside the pass, I know how to arrange it." Er Niang said.

……

"Ulan, what do you think we are having for dinner tonight?"

In a large room of this cashmere workshop, many young women sat side by side on the long low kangs sorting cashmere.

In a corner quite far from the door, there was a tall, dark-skinned, thin girl who was sorting the cashmere in her hand while chatting with another girl beside her with a smile.

"You should call me Alan." The girl of medium height here didn't seem to want to chat with her very much.

"Okay, I call you Alan, and you call me Aya, why do I keep forgetting." The thin and tall girl was obviously a little short-sighted, and she was still having fun by herself at this moment.

"Jia, you should also be more serious. Don't always think about the food in the cafeteria." Ulan frowned and persuaded.

"I have done so much today, it should be enough." Ji Ya didn't take it seriously.

"If you can't do more and better than others, they won't choose you when they pick someone out to learn spinning later." Ulan said in a blunt tone.

"No, the steward in charge of our house likes me very much. She was laughing at me just now. She will let me learn to spin." Ji Ya said optimistically.

Ulan was helpless: "The manager is kind to others and laughs at everyone. She won't let everyone in this room learn to spin. There will always be people who can't be selected. Since you like the food here, you should Work hard, do you know how many people outside want to work here?"

"Didn't we come earlier than them..." Jiya said weakly.

"If you don't do well, they will naturally not want you at that time, and a better person will come in." Ulan said rather viciously.

If it weren't for the fact that she took him in a while ago and gave him half of the bedding, Ulan would not want to tell her so much.

Ji Ya is a lucky girl. She has many brothers above her. She is the only daughter in the family, and her parents and brothers love her very much.

Ulan has had a hard time since she was a child, and she doesn't really like these lucky girls very much.

The two of them had met a few times in the market as children, and they would sometimes play together when their family lived around the market.

A while ago, Ulan came over the Great Wall alone, and walked all the way to Changle County along the post road. She has no relatives in Changle County, and she has no money. Before she started working at the cashmere workshop, it was Jiya who took her in. Ulan didn't bring any bedding, and Jiya gave her a blanket of her own.

Ulan was grateful in her heart, so when she saw that Jiya was a little confused these days, she took the trouble to tell her many times, hoping that she would also be selected as a thread spinner and eventually learn to knit sweaters.

Although Ji Ya is lucky, her parents and brothers love her very much, but what about after she gets married?Can you still have such a good life after getting married?Instead of pinning hope on illusory fate, it is better to work hard to earn money and learn a craft.

Seeing that Ulan looked a little angry, Ji Ya stopped talking. Ulan has always been like this since she was a child. She always has a straight face and is serious in everything she does.

After bowing her head to pick up some cashmere, Ji Ya looked up at the room she was in, and her mood became a little high again.

This room is so big, the low kang in the house is like the ridges of those Han people, one ridge after another, the little ladies put their shoes on the steps, and the people sat on the ridges to work.

There are aisles between the ridges. From time to time, the stewards pass through these aisles to check their work, and some women receiving and distributing materials also come and go in this aisle.

The roof of this room is a bit high, and it is spacious everywhere, and the light is quite good. The rows of low kangs are also warmed by people...

There are quite a few houses like this in this cashmere workshop, several of which are currently in use, and several of which are said to be used by women workers spinning and weaving in the future.

Ji Ya also really wants to learn spinning and weaving, but what she likes the most is the canteen in this workshop. The canteen is very big, and there will be a lot of food for them for three meals a day. There are many varieties in every meal. Here The working ladies took a small card of their own to go there, and they could choose their favorite food from those meals. Now Ji Ya is looking forward to eating every day, and it is only a few days before she can eat The cheeks bulged a little after eating.

"What are you thinking about again? Work faster." Ulan urged her there again.

"Oh." Jiya responded, and she lowered her head to sort the cashmere again. She wanted to stay in this cashmere workshop. If she didn't want to be replaced, she had to work hard.

……

"Axiu, that boy Nan Wenchuan got into trouble again, did you know?"

That afternoon, Lv Sanlang and others came back from patrolling. When they passed by the county well, they saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl walking on the street carrying a load of water, so he went over to talk to her.

"I just heard about it." The woman named Axiu said.

"Give me the burden, and I'll help you. I just want to go back." Lu Sanlang said, and went to pick up the burden on her shoulders.

"It's nothing, I'll take care of it myself." Axiu declined.

"I'll come, I'll come." Lu Sanlang couldn't help saying, and took the load of water.

"Your aunt doesn't care about him anyway, he's an older child, and he runs around the city all day long." Lu Sanlang said as he walked.

"I don't know." Although Axiu and Nan Wenchuan are cousins, they are not close on weekdays. When they were young, their relationship was better. Later, Axiu Yeniang kept telling her not to cling to her. As the days went by, the relationship gradually faded away.

"Oh, I heard people say that the cashmere workshop is very good, with good food and housing, why don't you go?" Lu Sanlang asked again carelessly.

"I can't go, I can't live without people at home." Axiu replied.

"Don't tell your mother to go out and sell wine." Lu Sanlang said.

"..." Axiu stopped talking.

Axiu Yeniang used to do some casual labor with others, and sometimes she also worked as a porter. The younger brothers and sisters in the family were brought up by Axiu since childhood.

Recently, Ye Niang started selling wine tails together, earning more money than before, and her family is more well-off. This time about the cashmere workshop, her mother said that the seventy cents is not a big deal, and she After selling two more wines, she earned her money back, and told Axiu to stay at home well, and don't think about what she has or what she doesn't have.

Not long after, when they arrived in front of Axiu's house, Lu Sanlang put down the burden, Axiu took it, and walked into his yard with his head down.

Lu Sanlang stood at the door of her house, but finally turned around and left without saying anything.

The two of them live close to each other. Lu Sanlang has been a rambunctious person since he was a child, running around in Changle County all day long. Axiu is quiet. Her family Yeniang works outside all day. , doing housework at home every day.

After so many years, Axiu has grown to such a big size that a cashmere workshop has opened in the city, and the ladies from other families have happily gone to work in the cashmere workshop, but Axiu still does housework at home.

Lu Sanlang felt a little uncomfortable, depressed and panicked.