The foundations of houses in the village are generally only three feet deep.

But for Bai Shu's house, the foundation was dug nine feet deep.

The workers complained while digging: "Where does this house have to dig such a deep foundation?"

"That's right. When I was building a house in the county, the three-story house was only dug six feet deep at the corner. Could it be that Brother Bai's house needs to be built five or six floors?"

Bai Shu heard their complaints and smiled without saying a word.

Baitang Village is close to the river, the land is humid, and the groundwater resources are abundant.

It is inevitable that there is some water in the houses of these villagers.But they are used to it, and they don't think there is anything wrong with it.

And Baishu's room is to receive distinguished guests, so there must be no problems of mold or water leakage.

Not only did he want to semi-raise the ground floor to make a storage room, but he also buried the sewer pipes. In this way, the nine-foot foundation was just right.

As the foundation continued to deepen, the villagers were too lazy to go up after going down the pit.

When eating, hang the rice basket with a hemp rope, put it down little by little, and everyone sits in the pit to eat.

Speaking of the meals of Baishubao, it is what the villagers look forward to most every day.

After they finished eating every day, they would talk about it with their family members after returning home.

Therefore, not long after, even the people in the neighboring village knew that there was a brother named Bai in Baitang Village, and the food provided by the workers was excellent.

At noon, Brother Liu and two women came over with their burdens.

Today's main course is dried pork.

The dry seeds were bought early in the morning in the county town, and the meat happened to be slaughtered by someone in the village, so Bai Shu paid for half of them.

Brother Liu just opened the basket, revealing large chunks of oily fat, and bursts of aroma wafted out, instantly causing commotion among the villagers.

"Have meat to eat? This is the taste of braised pork!"

The villagers above put down their burdens and ran straight to Brother Liu to form a group.

The villagers below the foundation couldn't bear it this time, and climbed up one by one with the help of bamboo ladders.

After all, although I also ate meat a few days ago, most of the time it was fish. It is rare to eat this kind of pork once a year.

"Line up, line up! Don't fight! You have to line up before you can eat!" the supervisor hired by Bai Shu commanded.

These days, Bai Shu made them officials, and they naturally felt more responsible.In the past few days, I have been serious and responsible. Although the management is not well-organized, it is also remarkable.

For the villagers of Baitang Village, Baishu felt that the requirements should not be too high.

After all, they are all uneducated, and it is already very good to be able to manage it like this.

Sure enough, the two supervisors commanded for a while, and the villagers finally lined up in a long line, one by one taking turns to go up to cook.

The tableware was brought from their own homes, and they were all big sea bowls.

Brother Liu and the two wives each held a large spoon, and beat them with a spoonful of rice and vegetables.

The villagers squatted aside with their bowls in hand and began to devour them.

Bai Zhu and the three artisans ate separately.After all, he is a distinguished guest from Beijing, so he is more particular about food.

Their food was prepared by the cook of Xie Huaiyu's family.Xie Huaiyu specially assigned a servant to deliver meals to them every day.

Bai Zhu ate well these days, slept soundly, and obviously gained a lot of weight.

Of course, because of his poor foundation and heavy daily activities, he still looks thin.But her complexion became much ruddy, and even the red mole on her forehead became faintly red.

After all the food here has been distributed, Brother Liu will take a small basket and deliver the food to Wang Mutou.

In order to avoid suspicion, Bai Shu no longer contacted Wang Mutou in person, but only told Brother Liu about the needs according to the progress in the field, and then Brother Liu would help him pass the message when delivering meals.

The place where Wang Mumu worked was some distance away from them.

He transplanted rice seedlings in Baishu's paddy fields every day, and he was almost done.

Brother Liu went over and called Wang Mutou to eat, and Wang Mutou wiped his hands and walked out of the paddy field.

Seeing today's food, Wang Mutou was stunned for a moment.

Bai Zhu gave a lot of food, Wang Mutou only ate half of it each time, and the remaining half had to be taken back for his son.

But he couldn't bear to eat a bite of today's meal, he just wanted to take it all back for the child to taste.

"This little brother Bai is really generous." Wang Mutou couldn't help but said.

"It's okay." Brother Liu said with a bit of disdain: "It depends on the person. It's pretty good for you men, but it's just like that for us brothers."

Brother Liu's words made Wang Mumu feel a little uncomfortable, but he didn't say anything more.

After Wang Mutou took the rice, Brother Liu informed Wang Mutou that when the seedlings in the field were planted, he would be responsible for feeding the fish.

The fish in the river don't need to eat anything good, they only need to go to the river to cut grass every day, and then chop up the grass and throw it in.

The fish that Bai Zhu threw in were fed by himself every night before.

They eat less and move more in the river. Originally, they were only half a foot long, but he kept them in this fish pond for a few days, and each of them grew to a foot long.

Wang Mutou was a little excited, feeding the fish was a long-term job.Even if the money is less, it will greatly improve the life of my family.

After finishing all this work, Brother Liu returned to Baishu's house with an empty basket.

The few of them cook, every time they make a meal, they put it on the stove to warm it up, and eat it when they go back.

But today when he went back, he found that his bowl of dried pork was gone from the stove.

My meal disappeared out of thin air, and it was still rare to eat roast pork, brother Liu erupted immediately.

He first suspected the two women who were cooking with him, so he called the two women from home to confront each other.

But the two insisted that they didn't see it, saying that after they came back first, they each took their own bowls of rice, and took them back to feed their children.

Brother Liu didn't believe it, so he quarreled with the two of them, but to no avail, he called Chen Dongqing and asked him to decide for himself.

But Chen Dongqing was not there, so he didn't know who took Brother Liu's lunch.Those two women spoke scorchingly and sincerely, and it didn't look like they took something from Brother Liu.

"Brother Chen, tell me." One of the women said, "We made this meal. If we want to eat more, we will secretly keep an extra bowl. No one will know. We have to go get Brother Liu." something?"

"Okay, do you still want to steal food in the kitchen?" Brother Liu bit her tongue and said reluctantly: "I think you are the one who stole the things! Come on, you and I will go find Bai Xiao Brother, let him come and see how you stole his things."

At this time, Baishu was busy with the waterproofing of the house and the waterproofing effect of the lime layer of the craftsmen.

From a distance, Liu Ge'er was seen wrestling with a woman and rushing towards him.

"Brother Bai, you have to criticize me! She stole my lunch and said that she would secretly take the food back from the kitchen." Brother Liu complained with indignation.

And the woman also said with a grievance on her face: "It's absolutely nothing! Brother Liu's own food is missing, so it's wrong that I stole it. I really don't have it."

Bai Shu was a little irritable, he was so busy now that he didn't have the time to deal with these nonsense things.

So he took out two pieces of money and put them in Brother Liu's hands: "I'm not free right now, so go get some food yourself. No matter who is involved in today's incident, if it happens again, he will be fired immediately and never Hiring. You also know that there are queues for brothers and mothers-in-law in the village who want to cook."

When the woman heard it, she immediately assured her that she had never done anything sneaky, and they must be careful in everything in the future and take care of the kitchen.

Brother Liu felt very aggrieved, clutching the two coins tightly, and swallowed the anger in his stomach.

Although the incident this time made him gain an extra two pennies, he still couldn't afford a catty of pork. He had wanted to eat that roasted pork for a long time.

What's more, he was introduced by Brother Chen anyway, and he worked with Baishu for a long time.Bai Shu gave everyone else a salary increase, but left him alone.

The more Brother Liu thought about it, the angrier he became, and he decided in his heart that Bai Shu was prejudiced against him.

He thought about it, and felt that Baishu was the best for those men, and it was okay for married women, but it was the worst for brothers like them.

On the way back, Brother Liu whispered to Chen Dongqing: "Look at you, I've been with Brother Bai for so long. This time he didn't recruit someone from your family, and he didn't hire you when he made roasted pork." call."

"What's the matter?" Chen Dongqing smiled, somewhat disapproving.Now he can earn dozens of coins every other day, and he has saved hundreds of coins. If he wants to eat pork, can't he buy it himself?

"But you have been with him for so long, and the fish and vegetables are delivered to the county, and they only get ten yuan every two days. Do you know that the old man who dug the fish pond before and that man are now working every day?" How much is it?" Brother Liu said.

Although he saw that Chen Dongqing often went to the county with baskets of medicinal herbs, he didn't know that they were medicinal herbs, he only thought that he was selling wild vegetables.

"They are them, so there is nothing to be envious of." Chen Dongqing said with a smile: "Besides, it has only been a few months to build a house, but the business of sending fish and medicinal herbs can last for a long time."

"Hearing the medicinal herbs, Brother Liu was taken aback, his eyes lit up and he said: "It turns out that what you send every time is not wild vegetables, but medicinal herbs. "

Seeing Chen Dongqing nodding his head, Brother Liu asked again: "How much money do those herbs make? I don't think they are wild vegetables, but someone wants them?"

"Yes." Chen Dongqing said, "The more you dig, the more money you can make from wild vegetables. The money you can make from making medicinal herbs and selling them in pharmacies is much more than that from wild vegetables."

"No wonder I see that you have been digging up the mountain every day recently." Brother Liu smiled brightly, and said again: "Brother Chen, why don't you go and talk to Bai Zhu and let me help you dig wild vegetables? I will help you dig wild vegetables." But you don’t need to meet those two wives anymore. Today’s matter, I have a knot in my heart, and I will feel uncomfortable when I work with them again in the future.”

Seeing that Chen Dongqing was hesitant, Brother Liu said again: "Let's dig more. If we dig more, can't you earn more?"

These words completely moved Chen Dongqing's heart.

Although he has been busy digging herbs every day recently, one person's strength is limited, and he can only earn so much. If he adds Brother Liu, can he earn more?

So he agreed to Brother Liu, and he would talk to Bai Shu later.

In the next hour, the villagers returned home from work, and Bai Shu, who had been busy all day, finally returned home.

He fished out two pre-caught grass carp, went into the kitchen, and prepared to stew a fish soup.

As soon as he entered, Bai Shu bumped into Bai Zoushi.

Bai Zoushi stepped back two steps with a cry, looked up and saw Bai Shu, immediately lowered his head in a evasive manner, and hurried outside.

"Wait!" Bai Shu suddenly remembered what Brother Liu said at noon today, and suddenly had a decision in his mind.

"What... what do you want?" Bai Zou said with some fear.

"Have you eaten meat?" Bai Shu asked suddenly.

"No!" Bai Zou immediately retorted.

"Then why do you have oily lips?" Bai Shu asked.

When Bai Zou heard it, he immediately reached out to wipe it reflexively.

Bai Shu sneered and said, "Sure enough!"

After speaking, he strode towards Bai Laosan's main house.

The door was pushed open with a bang, and Bai Laosan's main room was filled with the smell of meat.

As soon as they saw Bai Zhu, they hurriedly hid the bowls under the table.

Bai Zhu walked straight over, and saw a big sea bowl under the table, filled with less than half a bowl of Ganzi Roasted Pork, which was oily.I guess I didn't finish my meal at noon, and I saved it for dinner.

He kicked over the bowl on the ground, spilling lard all over the floor.

Bai Shu thought for a while, and then said to Bai Laosan: "Since you have eaten my meat, you should pay me according to the price in the restaurant. Such a bowl of Ganzi Shaorou would cost at least ten yuan in the county, right? "

After finishing speaking, he sat down at the table, knocked on the table and said: "For the sake of you being my uncle, I won't charge you so much, just give me eight cents."

"You...you you!" Bai Zou rushed over at this moment, and almost vomited blood angrily when he heard Bai Shu's words.

But now they are very afraid of Bai Shao, and they dare not really do anything.Hearing what Bai Zhu said, Bai Laosan could only cough a few times.Bai Dao turned back to the back room, touched eight Wen coins and came out.

Bai Shu let out a sneer from his nasal cavity, and walked out the door with eight coins.

With his current net worth, he really doesn't care about the eight cents, but if he doesn't teach Bai Laosan and the others a lesson, they will definitely make a fool of themselves in the future.This time I just ate a little something, and I don’t know what to make in the meal next time...

When Bai Shu was far away, Bai Zou cried out, squatted on the ground and put the spilled vegetables into a bowl, after all, it was meat, and it could be eaten after washing.

"Tell you to be smart!" Bai Laosan gave her a hard look, pointed at her nose and cursed: "You prodigal woman."

·

The next day, a gorgeous carriage finally came to Baitang Village.

"Master, we seem to be almost there." The little maid in the car said sharply.

Lin Shuyu slowly opened her eyes, her face was a bit haggard.

The carriage traveled very quickly, and there was no rest along the way.Halfway through the journey, he vomited twice, and before reaching Baitang Village, he became groggy and sick.

"What a broken place, there's nothing there." The little girl looked out the window and said aggrievedly, "Are we going to stay here for three years?"

Lin Shuyu propped himself up and took a look through the curtain. Outside the window were large tracts of farmland.

There are sparse private houses on both sides, all of which are from the loess, and occasionally there are a few better ones, with white walls and black tiles, which are also for the poorest poor in Beijing, even the rooms of the servants of rich families are not as good.

Even if she had been mentally prepared for a long time, Lin Shuyu couldn't help but sink in her heart.Then he comforted himself, fortunately, he was going to the old house of Bo's family this time.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, the Xie family's house will never be this bad.

The carriage drove on the village road, attracting curious eyes from the villagers along the way.

Needless to say, Lin Shuyu, the little maid beside her is also beautiful.

Seeing her looking out the window all the way, the villagers followed behind, pointing curiously.

There were even children chasing the carriage all the way, shouting as they ran: "There are fairies, look at the fairies."

The little servant girl blushed, closed the window curtain and said, "Vulgar villagers, they really don't know how to be polite."

Lin Shuyu glanced at her with a half-smile, and said lightly, "They are right. You are getting older, Luluo, and you are becoming more and more charming."

After another quarter of an hour, the carriage stopped at the gate of Xie's house.

The coachman came down and knocked on the door: "This is from Xie's family in the capital, open the door quickly."

The porter inside slowly opened the door and put the carriage in.

It wasn't until entering Xie's house that Lin Shuyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this Xie family's old house is not comparable to the capital city, it has obviously been renovated recently, and it is still comfortable and livable.

After getting out of the car, Luluo looked around curiously, and said to Lin Shuyu, "Master, this place is better than expected. I don't know what kind of person that Young Master Xie is."

As soon as the words were finished, a servant in autumn clothes came out from the inside, young but with a very haughty expression.

"Xiaoshu." The guard saw the other party calling, bowed and said to him, "This is the person sent by Jingli."

"Oh——" Xiaoshu responded coldly, raised his chin, looked up and down at Lin Shuyu and Luluo beside him, and said impatiently, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"Little brother, please wait a moment." Lin Shuyu guessed that this was probably Mr. Xie's personal servant, and quickly returned a salute to him, and then gave Lu Luo a wink.

Luluo took out a letter from her body and handed it to Xiaoshu, "Madam asked us to come, this is a letter written by her."

Xiaoshu opened the letter on the spot, read it at a glance, sneered from his nose and said: "So he came to serve people in the mansion."

After that, he looked at Lin Shuyu and Lin Shuyu again, frowned and said: "Since you are here to serve the young master, you must act like you are serving others. Look at you, all of you are dressed in fancy clothes. If you don't know, you may think Which family's young master is it, we don't have such rules in Xie's mansion."

It is unjustifiable for a stepmother to personally give a concubine to an unmarried stepson.

Therefore, although Lin Shuyu was sent by Mrs. Lou to be a concubine, she couldn't say so on paper. Instead, in the name of caring for the children, she said that she was afraid that he would have to work hard in the countryside, so she specially chose two concubines for him to serve.

After being stabbed by the little tree, Luluo turned pale, but Lin Shuyu blessed Fushen with a calm face and said: "What this little brother said is that we are not thoughtful enough. I am grateful that this dress is given by Mrs. Xie , and passed through all the way. If there are any irregularities, please remind the little brother."

"Open your mouth and shut up, little brother, how can I be as old as you?" Xiao Shu rolled his eyes and said, "You can just call me Xiao Shu, you follow me to the room and change your clothes before we talk."

So Xiaoshu led the way, leading the two of them towards the back of the yard.

That is where the servants of the mansion live, most of them are already full, only the two rooms on the dark side are still empty and uninhabited.

Xiaoshu pointed to those two rooms and said: "These two rooms are unoccupied, you two can choose one to live in."

Luluo pushed open the door of a room, and there was a musty smell from inside, she quickly covered her nose and coughed a few times.

When Xiaoshu saw it, he frowned again, and sneered: "Who is this coquettish appearance for? If you dislike our old house, go back to the capital as soon as possible and stay in Xie's mansion to enjoy the happiness."

"Xiaoshu, you misunderstood." Lin Shuyu said quickly: "We are just a little tired on the road, and our throat is not comfortable, and we don't mean to dislike the house."

"Then hurry up and change your clothes, and I will arrange work for you later." Xiaoshu said impatiently, then turned and left.

When Xiaoshu was far away, Luluo quickly and quietly approached Lin Shuyu's ear and said, "Young master, this young master of the Xie family is definitely not something you want to have. Every kind of master has a kind of slave, he One of my servants is so arrogant and makes things difficult for us, I don’t want to stay here anymore, why don’t we hurry back and report to Mrs. Xie?”

"Then what? Was Madam Xie sent to sell you? To a brothel?" Lin Shuyu said coldly: "If you don't want to stay, you can go back by yourself. Does Madam Xie want to keep you or sell you? I don't care."

"Master, I didn't mean that." Hearing Lin Shuyu's words, Luluo was stunned for a moment, then bowed her head obediently and stopped talking.

"If that's the case, stop talking." Lin Shuyu said, "Go, we have to change quickly, and help me take out the orchid blue material."

"Yes." Lu Luo said as she opened her luggage and took out a dress with a simple orchid pattern printed on it.The clothes are elegant and light, and Lin Shuyu wears them very elegantly, and they also look very good-looking.

As soon as he handed the clothes to Lin Shuyu, Xiao Shu pushed the door and walked in with two blue clothes in his arms. When he saw the orchid material, he said, "The young master has stipulated that, except for the management, all the servants here The prescribed uniform must be worn."

As he spoke, he threw two blue cloth clothes on the bed and said, "One is men's clothing and the other is women's clothing. Come out as soon as you are finished. I don't have any extra clothes yet. I will buy more for you when I go shopping next time."

After speaking, Xiaoshu left again.

Lin Shuyu looked at the very ordinary blue cloth clothes in front of her, and finally her face darkened.

After Xiaoshu left this time, he went directly to Xie Huaiyu's study.

"Is the arrangement ready?" Xie Huaiyu asked unhurriedly when he saw him come in.

"That's right." Xiaoshu nodded and said, "The maid named Luluo's face turned blue, but the brother named Lin Shuyu held his breath. He spoke in a hypocritical manner, like Qiu from Beijing. The young master looks the same."

"Pfft." Xie Huaiyu smiled, shook his head and said, "You are getting more and more courageous, even Young Master Qiu dares to tease you."

"Who told him to covet you, young master, and flirt with young master Qi when he saw that you had lost power?" Xiaoshu said angrily.

"It's just... madam, she sent this brother, if little brother Bai sees it..." Xiaoshu glanced at Xie Huaiyu, touched his nose and said.

Xie Huaiyu gave Xiaoshu a hard look and said: "It's just two servants who are sent to do some chores, and here in the backyard, they must not be allowed to get close, and they have nothing to do with Baishu."

"Yes—" Xiaoshu replied, and walked out of the house with concern, thinking that it seems that the young master is not afraid of being known by little brother Bai.

"Little tree!" Before he had gone far, he heard his young master's voice in the study again, turned around and walked back.

Xie Huaiyu stood up, covered her mouth and coughed, "You must order this matter, let everyone keep their mouths shut and don't talk nonsense."

After that, he looked at Xiaoshu several times, raised his eyebrows and said, "Especially you, if I find you talking nonsense in front of Baishu, the moon silver for the second half of the year will also be confiscated."

Xiaoshu: "..."

He was wrong, it seems that my young master is still afraid that little brother Bai will find out.

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