Nongmen Shenjue

After a few days, there was no news from Mu Wan.

It stands to reason that Mrs. Wang went to Yu's house to discuss the amount of the bride price, and there should be a reply soon.Once the Yu family lets go, Mu Wan will definitely not wait until the day is settled.Seeing that there is no news for a long time, I am afraid that things will change.

From Mu Qingyan's point of view, this family is not suitable and it is enough to find another family. Mu Lin has not been in love with Ms. Yu for three years, maybe the marriage is elsewhere.However, Mu Wan must not think so. The ancients married early, Mu Lin was the eldest son, and his parents died early. A girl who is not yet married has to worry about her brother's life.

Then again, if this is Mu Lin's marriage, you should ask Mu Lin.

In the past few days, Mu Lin didn't come to the shop, not even He Chuan and Chen Shiliu.

After thinking about it, Mu Qingyan planned to go back to the village.

The shop is busy in the morning, and there is no time to spare. At noon, he has to cook for the workers next to him, so he will leave after noon.

One dish, one soup and one meal are prepared for the workers, and the rice is steamed in a three-layer large steamer. It takes two times to steam the rice.

The dish is stir-fried meat with vegetables.

Right now, there are a lot of small vegetables in the season, and every household grows them. The vegetable field behind the shop is also scattered.This dish is cheap, and you can buy a basket for two or three Wen.A catty of pork is more fat and less thin, sliced ​​to make lard, and a large pot of vegetables is fried.

After finishing all this work, Mu Qingyan simply scrubbed and changed his clothes.

Mu Wen remembered something: "Second Brother, are you coming back before dark?"

"Well, what's the matter?"

Mu Wen said: "Second Brother, did you forget that old customer of yours? If you don't come back in time, who will entertain him when he comes?"

What Mu Wen mentioned was the man in red whose identity was a mystery. Every night when the lanterns in the shop were lit, that man would come to eat. Usually there were no customers in the shop at that time.The other party wasn't picky about what he ate, so Mu Qingyan would watch over him and leave after eating. He would give him a tael of silver for each meal.

Mu Wenmu Wu was very impressed with such a distinguished-looking and generous guest, and welcomed him very much.

In comparison, Mu Qingyan was more concerned about where the other party lived.

Thinking about it, I shouldn't be wronged to live in the ferry, if I live in the county... just to have a meal, it's really hard enough.

"Don't worry, I will definitely be back before dark." Mu Qingyan looked at the clothes on the two of them, secretly thinking that he was careless.

The level of food has increased sharply in the past half month. Mu Wen and Mu Wu are taller, but they have changed a little bit, and their jackets and pants are a bit shorter.Mu Wan didn't notice when she came, so it can be seen that she has been focusing on proposing to Mu Lin recently.

I happened to go into the city by the way, buy some cloth, and cut two clothes for everyone in the family.

I found a donkey cart at the ferry, took my ten-cent wallet, and went straight to the county seat.

I didn't wander around either, and went directly into a big cloth shop.

At the beginning of summer, when it was time to make summer clothes, the business of cloth village was very good.There are all kinds of fabrics on the cabinet, and guests come in from time to time.

Mu Qingyan was also impatient to ask the prices one by one, compare them one by one, and just choose the color of the summer clothes with the middle-to-higher fabrics.The reason why she didn't choose the best one was not because she was reluctant to pay money, but because Mu Wan was absolutely unwilling to wear the clothes because the material was too expensive for the peasant family. Besides, she had to work in the fields on weekdays, so wearing clothes that were too good made her look ostentatious and unreasonable. Uncomfortable with bound hands and feet.

"Half a horse with yellow and broken flowers, half with peach red, half with blue green, and one with pine flower, snow green, and moon white." Thinking that these colors are all light, they are cool and beautiful to wear in summer, but I just can't bear them. Wear it, especially when going to the ground.So I picked two more colors: "Take half a horse each of indigo and dark green."

This is a big business, the shopkeeper came early to treat him personally, and after he finished selecting, he immediately reported the account: "My guest, these are new cloths that arrived only two days ago. They are delicate and clean, evenly dyed, and the quality is absolutely unquestionable. Yinghuang, Xueqing Slightly more expensive, 48 ren per foot, [-] ren per foot for pink, blue, and moon white, [-] renminbi for pine flower, [-] renminbi for indigo and dark green. These fabrics are all [-] ft [-] ft per piece, totaling [-] feet, if the customer is willing, we can also measure it again."

"No need, settle the accounts." Mu Qingyan said on his lips, and quickly calculated in his heart.

These fine cloths are not only of good quality, bright and well-proportioned in color, but also come from "famous factories". In addition, they are selling well in the season, so the price is naturally not cheap.

The shopkeeper took the abacus, and the clerk reported the number, and the beads of the abacus rolled up: "A snow-green horse, 960 wen a foot, 480 ren; One white horse, half a peach red horse, and half a green green horse horse, one foot eighteen coins, totaling 720 eight coins; one pine flower, one foot seventeen coins, totaling 810 six coins; half indigo horse, dark green half horse, Fifteen wen per foot, 720 wen in total.”

After the shopkeeper finished counting, the guy had already moved all the fabrics and placed them on the counter beside him.

The shopkeeper pointed to the abacus and said, "Please look, you have ordered eight items in total, totaling [-]. Our shop will charge you four, two or five taels of silver. What do you think?"

The accounts were correct, and Mu Qingyan didn't negotiate the price, he just said, "Add some money."

The shopkeeper has been in business for many years, and he has developed a good eye. He can see that Mu Qingyan is a quick spender, but also a firm mind.This business has basically been completed, there is no need to upset the customer in the end.Besides, a little extra is not worth anything.

"It's easy to say. Our shop sells high-quality silk yarn, and we have saved a lot of scraps. I will pick two good pieces for you." When the shopkeeper saw the fabric he bought, he guessed that there was a female relative in the family, so he picked three pieces of silk yarn, white , cyan, yellow.

The leftover materials also have different sizes. These three pieces are all about half a foot long, and they are sold in shops. This kind of fine silk is about thirty or forty wen a foot.This kind of leftover material is very popular, and it is cheaper than buying a caliper. I can't afford to cut silk clothes, but I can buy two pieces of leftover material to embroider a round fan and silk handkerchief or something.

"Help me find a car, a carriage." Mu Qingyan didn't mean to talk about ostentation, the main reason was that there were too many fabrics, and the villagers gossiped when they saw it.

After paying the bill, the clerk helped move the fabric to the carriage, Mu Qingyan reported the name of the place, and drove out of the city.

"Second brother of the Mu family!" Just as he was about to get in the car, someone called him.

According to the prestige, it turns out that there are a few policemen, whose faces are familiar, but they don't know their names.

The person who called him was thin and dark, and Mu Qingyan remembered that his nickname was "Black Monkey".Hei Houer came to the store on the opening day, and was impressed because of his eye-catching appearance.

"You guys are patrolling the streets?" Mu Qingyan noticed that the black monkey was very enthusiastic towards him.

The black monkey wiped off his sweat and complained with a bitter face: "Oh, there are a lot of things in the yamen recently, and we are busy from top to bottom. A few days ago, a businessman came to report to the government, saying that a batch of his goods had been cheated." Let’s go, the county magistrate attaches great importance to it, your elder brother went to investigate this case with Cai Touer and the others. A while ago, someone was reported missing again, and we searched all over the city, and our legs lost their legs.”

As the black monkey spoke, he raised the portrait in his hand.

At the end, the black monkey lowered his voice somewhat mysteriously: "Second brother of the Mu family, have you been to the Ge family before?"

"Why, what's the news about the Ge family?" Mu Qingyan became curious.

The black monkey smiled ambiguously, making his face extraordinarily wretched: "Master Ge's cousin injured his leg and is lying on the bed for treatment. I heard that the injury is not serious, so I don't know if there will be any problems. Guess he How did you get hurt? Hey, it was a hero who saved the beauty! Ms. Ge went to the temple to offer incense, and when she was looking at the scenery on the back mountain, she almost fell down the mountain. It was Li Liangji who saved her. Think about it, this rolled down the mountain, Lonely men and widows rolled into a ball... Hey, Young Master Li hurt his leg because of it. Tsk, I think the Ge family is going to have a wedding soon!"

Just looking at Hei Hou'er's expression, he could tell that about Miss Ge and Li Liangji's matter, there were so many gaudy jokes secretly made up.This has a great impact on Miss Ge's reputation, and the most common way is for the two to get married.

In the eyes of outsiders, Li Liangji was Miss Ge's marriage partner, and he rescued her from injury. If the Ge family dragged on and failed to fulfill the marriage contract, they would definitely be stabbed in the back, and Miss Ge would not be able to find a good marriage in the future.

Not to mention what Ge Dafu would do, Miss Ge would definitely go crazy.

However, just listening to a few words, one can guess that there is a lot of inside information about saving lives.

Mu Qingyan only thought about it in his heart, after all, it was someone else's family's internal affairs, and it was not his turn to worry about it.

"Then you are busy, I will rush out of the city." Mu Qingyan had already seen that the black monkey stopped him to ask for something, and seeing that he did not open his mouth, he made an excuse to leave.

As expected, the black monkey thought of the business, and hurriedly apologized: "Second brother of the Mu family, wait a minute, um, I heard that you are very powerful and good at investigating cases, please help me. Oh, we have been looking for it for several days, he is a foreigner People, it's as if the world has evaporated."

"Look for someone. Another day, I'm not free today." He doesn't take the errands of the yamen casually, otherwise there will be no rest.

"Farewell, the second brother of the Mu family, there is a reward, and his servant set a reward." The black monkey repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay.

"Another day." Mu Qingyan was firm.

"Then tomorrow, tomorrow I will find you."

Mu Qingyan shook his head, the black monkey put in so much effort not to complete the errands of the yamen, but to reward money.The people in the yamen are generally like this. As the saying goes: the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit.