Smuggling Daming

The next morning, Bai Mengwan really did as Zhou Zhong taught her, got up early and opened the door, and then told her elder sister Bai Junwan with the fish that it was brought by Housekeeper Xu. Next, she had no choice but to accept the fish with a nod.

However, just after the Bai sisters had breakfast, Zhuan'er dragged Zhou Zhong to see Bai sisters. Firstly, he hoped that they could move to the inner house to live with him, and secondly, he wanted to introduce Zhou Zhong.But when Bai Junwan saw that Zhou Zhong turned out to be the Young Master Zhou who had rescued them back then, she was also taken aback, and immediately stepped forward to salute.

Zhuan'er didn't expect that the last time her elder brother rescued someone who was injured, it turned out to be the Bai sisters. At that moment, she also felt that everyone was really destined, and then persuaded Bai Junwan to move to the inner house.Bai Junwan also considered that Bracelet's intentions were kind, and it would not be safe for the two weak women to live in the front yard with a child, and her younger sister Bai Mengwan was also very willing, so in the end she also nodded, and finally Zhou Zhong helped At that time, the Bai sisters moved to the yard next to Aunt Wang, which was the yard where Aunt Zhao, Duo'er's mother, lived.

When Zhou Zhong helped the Bai sisters move, he found that they had very little belongings. Except for two bags of clothes and bedding, the only thing left was a little rice and a few cabbages in the kitchen. It is estimated that they did not eat much these days. Not much better than the disaster victims outside the city, no wonder Bai Mengwan went to the back garden to steal fish in the middle of the night?

One of the rooms in Aunt Zhao’s courtyard was opened up by Zhou Zhong to make it a kitchen, and Bai Junwan set up a stove in the other room and started cooking alone. Originally, Aunt Wang and Biao’er saw that the rice grains in their home were almost gone. So I persuaded Bai Junwan to eat with them, anyway, it was a matter of a few more pairs of chopsticks, but the stubborn Bai Junwan insisted on refusing, and finally Zhou Zhong also saw that although Bai Junwan was a weak woman, she was also a very strong person. So I asked Aunt Wang and Bracelet to stop persuading them.

After the Bai sisters moved to the backyard of the Zhou Mansion, the inner house finally regained a lot of popularity. Needless to say, Duo'er and Qingqing, two little girls of similar age, wandered around in various yards every day, sometimes eating Can't find anyone.Bracelet and Bai Mengwan are also compatible in temperament. I often see them chatting and laughing. Occasionally, Bai Mengwan will teach Bracelet to play the piano. Zhou Zhong once heard Bai Mengwan play a piece. Although he doesn't know the rhythm, it really sounds good.

Compared to Bai Mengwan's liveliness, Bai Junwan is very quiet, and she also needs to make money to support her family. Whenever she has free time every day, she will sit there and embroider. When she finishes the embroidery in her hand, Aunt Wang, Su Niang and others They were amazed because they had never seen such exquisite embroidery.

As for Bai Junwan's embroidery level, Zhou Zhong can't tell the difference. After all, he is almost ignorant of this traditional technique of ancient women. He just thinks that Bai Junwan's flower and bird paintings are bright and beautiful, but no matter how beautiful they are, they can't compare with those handicrafts of later generations. Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to the picture at first, but when Steward Xu took this piece of embroidery by Bai Junwan to the embroidery shop and exchanged it for five taels of silver at once, Zhou Zhong was startled. A piece of embroidery is so valuable, you know, five taels of silver is enough for the Bai sisters and the others for a year.

In fact, embroidery is actually similar to Zhou Zhong’s previous writing, it all depends on the individual’s level, some women’s embroidery skills are superb, it’s not uncommon for a piece of embroidery to sell for more than a dozen taels or even tens of taels, but such embroidery is not uncommon. It is rare, and it takes a very long time, and sometimes even several people need to cooperate to complete it, but some women's embroidery skills are not as good, such as Bai Mengwan, if she embroiders the same embroidery, I am afraid that the cost can be reduced. It would be nice to take it back.

What Zhou Zhong didn't know was that Bai Junwan was already very famous in Nanjing. Firstly, she was familiar with hundreds of books, ancient and modern, and secondly, her embroidery skills were extremely superb. Many local rich and noble women had asked her for embroidery techniques. .Bai Junwan had always regarded embroidery as a hobby, but she did not expect to rely on it to support her family, and this time because of time constraints, she did not have the money to buy too expensive silk threads, so the flowers and birds embroidered this time were not very good. Otherwise, it is not uncommon for a piece of embroidery to sell for more than ten taels.

This day, Zhou Zhong was still the same as usual. He got up early to exercise, and then came back after breakfast to write his own Jin Ping Mei. His playmate seldom came to see him, so Zhou Zhong could only use this method to pass the time.

After writing until almost noon, Zhou Zhong put down his pen and turned his stiff neck, then went out to look, and found that it was still sunny today, and there was no wind. At this time, Zhou Zhong didn't want to write anymore, so he walked out. Yard, walk into the garden for a vegetable walk.

Today is the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, and in three days it will be New Year’s Eve, and then the new year will come, but the closer the New Year is, the weather becomes warmer. It feels hot.

Zhou Zhong walked along the gravel path in the garden to the pond in the middle of the garden, only to find that the ice layer on the surface of the pond had also melted, and the big hole he and Bai Mengwan opened before had disappeared without a trace, and the fallen leaves on the water surface were slightly floating, From time to time, small fish floated up and spit out a string of blisters gently.

"Hee hee, brother, come here quickly, we're fishing!" At this moment, Zhou Zhong heard someone shouting from the corridor above the pond, he followed the voice, and found that Zhuo'er and Bai Mengwan were sitting on the side of the corridor. At the end, she was waving at him with a fishing rod in her hand, and behind them, Bai Junwan was sitting on a chair in the corridor, holding a scroll in her hand and smiling at him.

Invited by a beautiful woman, Zhou Zhong naturally had to go, he greeted Zhuaner, walked to the corridor with a smile and said: "You guys are so leisurely, you even came here to fish, how is the harvest, did you catch any fish? "

When Zhou Zhong talked about fish, he even took a special look at Bai Mengwan, but the other party was also slightly embarrassed, and lowered his head, not daring to meet his gaze.

"Of course, brother, look at the fish I caught. We will make fish soup later!" Zhuaner proudly raised the small bucket in his hand. Zhou Zhong looked at it, but found that there were only two or three small fish in it. , It made him laugh out loud.

Seeing that her brother was so disrespectful, Zhuan'er was very annoyed. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Zhou Zhong immediately retreated with the excuse of not disturbing their fishing, so Zhuan'er didn't let Zhuan'er vent her anger on him.

Zhou Zhong didn't want to disturb Zhuan'er and Bai Mengwan's fishing, so he could only disturb Bai Junwan's study. He sat down opposite Bai Junwan and asked, "What book did Miss Bai read?"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's question, Bai Junwan also closed the book and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou is so talented, I really never thought that Journey to the West, which caused a huge sensation among scholars, was written by you!"

Only then did Zhou Zhong discover that Bai Junwan was holding a Journey to the West that had just been printed. This was a sample booklet sent by Xie's family yesterday. Before he could read it, it was snatched away I didn't expect to be borrowed by Bai Junwan again now.

"Haha, I didn't expect Miss Bai to also like the books written by Zhou, but writing books is just a means of living for me, and it's really not a talent." Zhou Zhong said truthfully, but his In Bai Junwan's ears, the truth became a word of humility.

"Young Master Zhou, you are welcome. Although Journey to the West is a novel, it has rich content and vivid characters. What is even more rare is that the content of the novel may seem absurd, but it is based on fiction. Everything in the book can be found from around us. The corresponding thing, you are so young, I really don't know how you wrote it?" Bai Junwan said again with great admiration.

When she was in Nanjing, she only had two hobbies, one was reading, and the other was embroidery. At that time, the name of Journey to the West had already spread to Nanjing. Unfortunately, she never had the chance to watch it. She never expected to meet the original author of Journey to the West on the way to escape. This made her lament that the world is unpredictable.

"Thank you, Ms. Bai, for your compliment. In fact, my situation was similar to yours at that time. I was also living in distress. In order to feed and clothe my family, I naturally tried my best to make money. Ms. Bai's embroidery skills are unparalleled, and Zhou will only mention it. pen to write, so we can only choose the only thing we can sell for money, so in essence, there is not much difference between Zhou and Miss Bai!" Zhou Zhong said with a smile again.

When Bai Junwan heard that Zhou Zhong was comparing herself, and she respected her very much in words, she couldn't help but blush, and she couldn't help but feel good about Zhou Zhong again.

Next, Bai Junwan asked Zhou Zhong some questions about Journey to the West, and Zhou Zhong answered them one by one.But when the two were happily chatting, Steward Xu rushed into the garden in a hurry, wiped his sweat and handed a letter to Zhou Zhong and said, "Master, I don't know who slipped a letter under our gate today." The letter said to be opened by you personally, and this old slave didn't dare to delay, so I hurriedly sent it to you."

"Oh?" Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little strange after hearing it. He took the letter and opened it for a look, but his face immediately changed, and he stood up in a hurry and said, "Housekeeper Xu, I have something to go out, maybe I won't come back for dinner tonight, You don't have to wait for me!"

After Zhou Zhong finished speaking, he walked away quickly, leaving only Steward Xu and Bai Junwan with puzzled faces. At the same time, they were also guessing about the contents of the letter in Zhou Zhong's hand, and what made him leave in such a hurry. ?

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