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Chapter 227 It's Not Funny At All

On the day of the holiday on August [-]th, the big guys in the town were a little late and slept late the next day. It turned out that Xiu Niang also thought of this, so she gave the guys a three-day break from work, so that the big guys can have a good time section.

As soon as the solar terms pass, the big guys start to work, and the town is bustling with activity. Chu Ge and Xiu Niang's wooden workshops are even more busy. Originally, they thought that after completing the big order in the palace, It should be easier in the next few days, but nothing happened at all.

When I was working on the list in the palace, a lot of merchants came to the wooden workshop, all of them came to place orders for washboards. At that time, Xiu Niang and Chu Ge had to tell them that they would not be able to do so until after the festival. Drive out the board, and those merchants agree with it.

But on the third day after the festival, as soon as they opened the door, new customers came to place orders. Now they have to be busy making boards again, at least to drive out the orders they made earlier, The rest had to deal with them, but fortunately, the merchants were easy to talk to, and they all waited.

This time, Xiu Niang saw that the orders received on the cabinet were getting more and more day by day, and it seemed that they had added a lot of new customers than before. She guessed that the Yuanmu Company didn't make boards anymore, and they couldn't get the goods there. All the merchants came to her after inquiring.

It's no wonder that Yuanmuxing is now busy building the furniture needed for the palace every day. Although on August [-]th, they also pulled a batch of cabinets to let Guanshi Huang load them, and Wang Er was on the sidelines at that time. Help, he heard that steward Huang was still urging Erye Yang to make the rest of the objects quickly and send them to the palace. It would take a lot of cabinets.

So Xiuniang thought about it, Yuanmu Xing was overwhelmed with all the orders in the palace, how could he have the time to accept the order for this washboard, that order was only 50 or 80 boards, and it cost [-] taels of silver. , but the Yuanmu Company costs [-] taels to build a cabinet, so of course they all shirked it.

Although Xiu Niang felt a little regretful that Chu Ge did not accept the orders from the palace, but she also heard from Qiang Zi that Chu Ge was right not to accept those orders, because there were some orders in the palace. The furniture in many palace courtyards had to be replaced with new ones, all of which were large cabinets and wooden boxes that were difficult to handle.

However, it’s pretty good in her wood workshop. The bills are collected all day long, and the guys work hard. It will be the end of the year, Xiu Niang thought, and she has been busy recruiting workers and buying houses in the past two days.

Today, Chu Ge asked Wang Er and Mu Zi to work with a few fellows, and let them see how the board was made, and estimated that it would not take long to get started.

Xiuniang came back from the front cabinet this time. She just made an agreement with the old Wang next door to buy the room in their backyard, which is just across the wall from her wooden workshop. After the negotiation is settled, a door will be cut out of the wall. , the two families became one.

Chu Ge turned around and bumped into Xiu Niang. He paused and looked at her, "Xiu Niang, what are you doing?"

Xiu Niang said, "I just went to see the empty room in her house with Aunt Wang, it's next door to us."

Chu Ge replied dumbly, and just as he was thinking about what to say, Xiu Niang swayed and walked into the stove. Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang's back, lowered his hands in frustration, turned around and met the front cabinet. passed.

Wang Er took a wooden knife and cut a groove on the upper and lower sides of the board, leaving a large piece in the middle, and then gave it to a new guy next to him to fill the groove in the middle.

The guy took the wooden knife and bowed his head to work hard. Taking advantage of his idle time, Wang Er moved to the side and called out to Muzi.

Muzi was showing a guy how to make a board, he listened, and handed the board and the wooden knife to the guy, "What's wrong, brother?"

Wang Er first said, "Muzi, do you know where San'er has gone? Why haven't I seen him go to work these two days?"

Muzi thought for a while, "I don't know, I haven't seen him since everyone got their wages, oh, by the way, didn't brother Chu chat with third brother for a while at that time, go ask Brother Chu, maybe he knows where the third brother has gone, what's wrong?"

Wang Er said, "Hey, it's okay, isn't this kid good at speaking, I want him to talk to Brother Chu."

Muzi looked at him, "What can the third brother and Brother Chu say?"

Wang Er smiled, "Didn't San'er run away in anger with his daughter-in-law, but he coaxed her back within two days. I was thinking about letting him teach Brother Chu."

Muzi looked puzzled, and he couldn't understand what he heard, "What, this sister-in-law of Xiuniang is on good terms with the shopkeeper, you let San'er..."

Wang Er interrupted him, looked up into the stove, "Hey, Muzi, look."

Muzi listened and glanced forward, Xiuniang and Wang Er's family were picking vegetables in the stove, "What?"

"Hey, didn't you watch it just now." Wang Er looked at Muzi and shook his head, then said, "Hey, why didn't you watch it, I just looked at it and it didn't feel right."

Muzi frowned, "What's wrong?"

Wang Er clicked his tongue and said, "Hey, isn't it the sister-in-law of Xiuniang and Brother Chu!"

Muzi listened and smiled, "What? Brother Chu and sister-in-law Xiuniang," he waved his hands, "Impossible, impossible, they are doing well."

Wang Er pursed his lips, "I don't believe it, I just said you didn't watch it. Brother Chu talked to Xiuniang's sister-in-law just now, but she didn't even smile, and it's not just today, it's been like this for the past two days!"

Muzi listened to what Wang Er said, and thought about it for a while, Brother Chu brought two new guys to the workshop yesterday, and chatted with Xiuniang's sister-in-law, she also seemed to be cold.

"Hey, second brother, what do you say, it seems that there is such a thing. I haven't seen Xiuniang's sister-in-law laughing since the [-]th of August..."

"It's not a big deal, I just said it, the two of them..."

"Hey, hey, what are you two brats doing!" Mrs. Liu was carrying a copper pot to deliver water to the guys, and heard the two of them talking as soon as they came here.

Wang Er looked up and saw Mrs. Liu, and smiled, "Hey, Sixth Sister-in-law, it's you."

With a straight face, Mrs. Liu poured tea into the bowls in front of the two of them, and said, "You two young men, you still gossip like your mother-in-law."

But Muzi didn't speak, went to work, it was Wang Er who laughed and said a few words, he knew that Xiuniang had an unusual relationship with Mrs. Liu, and had a better relationship than his own sister-in-law.

"Hey, Sister-in-law Six, I am also concerned about Brother Chu and sister-in-law Xiuniang. They seem to be arguing."

Mrs. Liu gave him a look, "What is it like for your wife to quarrel with you?"

"It's fine if you don't quarrel, it's fine if you don't quarrel," Wang Er laughed after hearing this, took a sip of tea from the bowl, and began to teach those guys how to work. If his wife quarrels with him , Stop joking, how can I still talk to him.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Mrs. Liu walked around the yard, poured water for the guys, and went back to the stove.

This time, Xiuniang was picking vegetables with the Wang Er's family, and neither of them said much, basically it was the Wang Er's family who were talking, and Xiu Niang responded casually.

Mrs. Liu looked at it, and told Wang Er's family to let her go out to help Wen Shi with other things. The Wang Er's family looked at Xiuniang, smiled and talked, and went out.

"Hey, Sixth Sister-in-Law, you and Sister Xiu Niang have a good chat, I'll go out first." Liu Shi looked at Wang Er's family, thinking that this woman probably saw it.

Mrs. Liu put the skirts together and sat across from Xiuniang. Xiuniang looked at her, and they both smiled. Mrs. Liu picked up the vegetables next to the wooden basin and picked them up. She didn't look up, but asked lightly. One sentence.

"Sister, what happened to you and Chu Ge on the day of the festival? Why did you two get upset the next day?"

Xiu Niang paused, and looked up at Mrs. Liu, "Sister-in-law Six..."

Mrs. Liu smiled, "Sister, don't ask me how I figured it out, you and Chu Ge have only been married for a few years, and your sixth brother and I have been married for more than ten years. You can still see it."

Xiu Niang looked at Mrs. Liu, thought about it and sighed, "It's nothing, Sister-in-law Six, we, we are doing well."

Mrs. Liu looked at Xiu Niang, and put the vegetables she picked in her hand into the basket. The woman probably didn't want to talk about it. If the two of them were on good terms, the girl Xiu Niang would speak up. Alas, she didn't say anything. Come on, what about my husband and wife, why tell outsiders.

She smiled, and didn't say much, "It's done, it's fine, you two are the pillars of this wooden workshop, if you two have something, it won't fall down today."

Listening to what Mrs. Liu said, Xiu Niang knew that she was reminding her that there was another shop in front of her and Chu Ge, and there were about twenty other people pointing at them to eat. She didn't speak, but ordered with a smile. nod.

Mrs. Liu also smiled when she looked at it, and said after thinking about it, "Hey, sister, let me tell you something, it's really funny."

Xiuniang looked at Mrs. Liu and wanted to tell her a joke, to make her smile, "Okay, Sixth Sister-in-Law."

Mrs. Liu grabbed a handful of vegetables with a smile, pulled off the tender poles and threw them into the basket, "Sister, those little devils in our wood workshop are Wang Er and Muzi... They were just worried about that, thinking What's wrong with you and Chu Ge, the two of you are talking, ouch, it's okay to put this whispering on my mother-in-law, but if it's on that old man, it looks weird... Hehehe... ..."

Xiu Niang paused, feeling that this was not funny at all, and she didn't know what to say this time.

Seeing Xiuniang like this, not smiling and talking like before, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but secretly sighed, Chu Ge, this stupid boy, why did he get so mad at Xiuniang? Look at this girl, she doesn't want to say anything now up.

She finally had to say, "Hey, sister, what's the matter between you and Chu Ge, you'd better settle it quickly, don't worry the guys in the shop."

After hearing this, Xiuniang nodded and said nothing. Mrs. Liu looked at it and said that she wanted to wash the vegetables she had picked, and then she came out. She was thinking about asking her sixth son to ask Chu Ge for help. Ask, looking at this stupid boy, why did Xiuniang's sister get so angry!
(End of this chapter)