Carpenter's Lady

Chapter 1

When Zhang Mu walked out of the company, it was already dark outside, and the evening wind was blowing so soothingly that he wanted to sleep well, but he was startled, and hurriedly raised his watch, "Not good! It's almost eight o'clock!" Zhang Mu took off his high heels and hurriedly ran to stop the car.

Today is her No.90 eight blind dates.

When she was numb from seeing each other earlier, her best friend Weiwei took a series of photos to her home, all of which were of a boy. It was taken secretly, and the few frontal photos may have been taken in a hurry. They are a bit blurry, so I can only see the general idea.

Zhang Mu didn't want to talk to Weiwei, and lay on the table too lazy to move, Weiwei yelled fiercely: "Could it be that you can still stay unmarried for the rest of your life!"

It was so shocking that Zhang Mu's eardrums almost burst!I was also surprised!
In fact, from the photos just now, she is still somewhat satisfied with this boy, who fits the rules and regulations of her choice of spouse, rib-shaped, hardworking and good at cooking!

But, she really doesn't want to look at it like a commodity for others!Every time I feel like cabbage in the vegetable market, people pick and choose!It really hurts my self-esteem, okay?
"I really can't figure it out, you said you only have these two standards, why are you still single after running around!" Wei Wei saw her head drooping, shrinking her head like a turtle, and stuffing the photo in her hand into her arms, Hit it mercilessly.

Zhang Mu raised his right hand hesitantly, and said, "Let me correct you, I'm only 29 years old, and I'm only [-] years old, and I'm still a year away from my fourth birthday!"

Weiwei looked at her coldly, raised one hand and pinched her face hard, and said mockingly: "Auntie, give me a reason for a 20-year-old girl! Your skin is not much better than that of a yellow-faced woman." Just your messy hair!" Zhang Mu hurriedly snatched the hair back from Weiwei's hands.Weakly said: "I am so busy that I have to rush to eat every day, how can I have time to make a facial mask and do my hair!"

"Then you can only let the company support you for the rest of your life! Just hug your beauty to keep warm!" Weiwei lay down on the bed discouraged!
The beauty cat arched Zhang Mu's feet considerately, "Meow, meow!" My master will marry a stupid human being!
Zhang Mu picked up the beauty, looked at the photos spread out on the table, and ran his fingers across the photo of him standing in the kitchen cooking, and finally made up his mind, "Let's go and have a look!"

Originally, I was determined to go on a blind date today, but I didn’t expect to work overtime and forgot. At about 07:30, Zhang Mu saw a car turning around the corner, and immediately waved his hand and ran over!

Zhang Mu was lying on the bed, heart ashamed, she vaguely remembered that she was bumped into on the way to go on a blind date, and her No.90 eight blind dates still failed in the end!Hey, I really didn't get married until I died!

It has been half a month since she woke up. She was originally married, but when she took over, she had already divorced.It is also called Zhang Mu, but it is just the wood of the tree, so she is Zhang Mu now, a 20-year-old woman, and she lives with her natal family after she divorced. Her natal family lives on ten acres of rice fields.

Zhang Mu stared blankly at the beams above in a daze. She thought that ancient times paid attention to the fate of her parents. According to the matchmaker, if she was born in ancient times, she would definitely not worry about getting married!But from a 30-year-old leftover woman to a 20-year-old Heli little woman, she has never escaped the fate of being unable to get married!
Ever since Zhang Mu woke up, he felt that it would be better to die again.

She thought so, but as soon as she saw the light coming in from the window, she got up to live her life again in a desperate manner.

When she first passed through, the Zhang family carefully served her food and water every day, moving slowly, for fear of irritating her, Zhang Mu saw Mrs. Zhang with white hair and an old face that did not match her age. She couldn't help thinking of her grandma, the old man who wanted to be strong all her life. She knew that no matter when, grandma hoped that she would live a happy life.

No matter where they are, the hearts of parents who love their children are the same!Zhang Mu couldn't help but feel sorry for Mrs. Zhang who looked tired.At that time, she thought, since I'm here, let's replace the original body and live well!

But although Zhang Mu is also a child in the countryside, she has been obsessed with studying since she was a child. She has done nothing except washing dishes and sweeping the floor. She can't even cook. Now her living standard has degraded for at least several centuries. , how is she going to live here?
Zhang Mu has been a useless person in the Zhang family for half a month, but she can't be blamed for being lazy, it's because she dared not move, okay?She doesn't know how to make fire, so she can only pretend to be sad and depressed!
After observing secretly for half a month, Zhang Mu discovered that Zhang's family should be a middle peasant family with some background. The family built a courtyard with yellow mud, facing south from the north. There was a kitchen near the gate of the courtyard. On the west side are the thatched huts and small huts where sundries are piled up, and on the east side are livestock sheds, where chickens, ducks and two lambs are kept.There is a well in the yard, and beside it are wooden buckets for lifting water and wooden basins for washing.

On the morning of No.13, when Zhang Mu tidied up and went to the kitchen, Tao Zi, the original owner’s sister-in-law, had already steamed the steamed buns. Although the emerald green skirt had been patched in several places, it was washed very clean. Seeing my sister-in-law coming over, she couldn't help showing a smile on her face, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Amu, I've already steamed the steamed buns. You can eat after calling Mom and Dad, just wait a moment!"

It's the spring plowing season now, and Father Zhang and Aunt Zhang both went to plow the land early in the morning.

Zhang Mu stared at the kitchen with a rickety old wooden table except for a stove, and felt the taste of despair again. She quickly suppressed this feeling of inappropriateness, uncovered the cauldron, and filled five large bowls of rare rice. I picked up a small wooden bowl and filled a bowl of thicker rice porridge for my nephew. From the past few days, I found that my nephew and my porridge are both thick. I don’t do anything at home, and I don’t feel that much Hungry, but my little nephew, Zhang Xiaoshui, is only five years old this year. He has been by Zhang Mu's side for half a month. Maybe the Zhang family is afraid that Zhang Mu won't think about it for a while, so they tell Zhang Xiaoshui to follow Zhang Mu. On weekdays, they come to Zhang Mu's house with porridge in the morning. Zhang Mu now realizes that only she and Xiao Shui are eating better, and he is not only slightly moved in his heart.

When Zhang Mu had just filled the rice porridge, Xiao Shui had already woken up. He was washing his face by the well in the yard, gurgling his mouth with his neck raised, his little cheeks bulging, and seeing his aunt looking at him, Xiao Shui's eyes widened. Immediately glistening, spit out the water, and shouted: "Auntie, I'll help you serve the bowl!" Taozi and Zhang Daddy came back and saw the millet porridge already on the table, with a slightly reassuring expression on their faces .

After breakfast was finished, Tao Zi cleaned up the dishes, and Zhang Mu also stood up quickly, and Brother Zhang held her back, "Muzi, let your sister-in-law take it!" Zhang Mu saw that Brother Zhang had something to say, He lowered his eyes and sat down again, now that he didn't understand how the original owner got along with his family, it would be better to speak less.

Seeing that his sister started to work actively but still looked unhappy, Brother Zhang sighed softly in his heart, "Muzi, since you have reconciled with Zhao Wen, don't think too much about the past, and the reconciliation now is not the same No, you can still live a good life, you can live at home with peace of mind, and if you find someone you like in the future, you can remarry, if there is no suitable one, my brother is willing to support you for the rest of your life."

Zhang Mu looked at Big Brother Zhang whose eye sockets were a little red, and couldn't help but have red eyes. Although she came here out of nowhere, fortunately, the family sent to her by the heavens treated her sincerely. "Father, mother, brother and sister-in-law, don't worry, I've already thought it through, and I will live a good life in the future, you don't have to worry."

Hearing what Zhang Mu said, Father Zhang and Aunt Zhang looked at each other, both showing relaxed smiles, the daughter finally figured it out, Aunt Zhang remembered that there were still some things she hadn't told her daughter, so she said: "Amu, you I picked up all the dowry for you when you married into the Zhao family in my room, I was afraid that you would not be happy if you saw it, but now you want to open it, I will ask your sister-in-law to move it to your house for you later."

Before Zhang Mu saw that there was only a set of clothes in his house, he thought that the original owner only had this little private property, but he didn't expect that there was a dowry.Immediately responded: "Then I will trouble my sister-in-law."

Zhang Mu looked at the things brought by the sister-in-law in the house, and couldn't help being a little surprised. She thought that there were only a few boxes and a few clothes at most, but she didn't expect there to be a box of books, inkstones and brushes. She couldn't help looking at Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law Zhang was helping my sister-in-law to pack things while saying: "Amu, I didn't expect you to buy so many pens, ink, paper and inkstones for them in the past few years. How many purses do you have to make? Fortunately, you will come back in the end Otherwise, it would be really cheap for their Zhao family. His family is too shameless, so I bullied you to be soft-faced. This time, Zhao Wen and you and Li Xiucai's widowed sister who left to marry Li Xiucai's widowed sister are not good. , you stayed in his house for five years without complaint, and he actually reconciled with you in the end just to climb up to Li Xiucai, but let me say, it’s better for such a person to leave as soon as possible, so as to save a lifetime of delay.”

Zhang Mu looked at Aunt Zhang's indignant expression, and felt warm in his heart, "Sister-in-law, you are right, I will live a good life again in the future."

Sister-in-law Zhang looked at her sister-in-law's calm face, and couldn't help but sigh slightly, "Amu, you used to be too good-tempered and too soft-tempered, you wouldn't say anything when you bullied me, and you have to stand up in the future."

Only then did Zhang Mu realize that the original owner had such a temper, and smiled slightly, "Sister-in-law, you have to give me more advice in the future."

Aunt Zhang nodded hurriedly, "Of course, your brother is only your sister, can I help you?"

After Mrs. Zhang left, Zhang Mu looked through the box of books, all of which were the Four Books and Five Classics. He went to the bottom of the box and found a copy of the county's "Local Chronicles" and a copy of "The Legacy of the Former Dynasty", and read them carefully. Although it is traditional and vertical, but as a Chinese major, I can still roughly understand it.Knowing that the dynasty I am currently in is the Wu Dynasty, the Taizu Emperor of this dynasty was originally the general who ruled the country of the Mu Dynasty, the last emperor of the Mu Dynasty did not care about political affairs all day long, only cared about looking for immortals and medicines, but in the end he was still The Taizu Emperor of Zhenguo General replaced him, and changed the name of the country to Wu. After the Emperor Taizu succeeded to the throne, he abolished many stereotypes, among which the rule of divorce was abolished. The pre-marital property and intra-marital financial status of the two parties are reasonably distributed. Generally, the pre-marital property is owned by themselves, and the marital property is distributed in a certain proportion according to the contribution of both husband and wife to the family.Because Zhang Mu was diligent and thrifty in his marriage, he was filial to his parents-in-law and treated his sister-in-law well, so compared to the man who abandoned the family, Zhang Mu could not only get back his dowry after divorce, but also bring back the books he bought for his ex-husband. There are 15 taels of silver and 20 strings of copper coins.

The village Zhang Mu lives in is Shuiyang Village in Tongtai County. Tongtai County belongs to Shuntai Prefecture. Since Emperor Taizu, there have been three generations of emperors, and there have been many precedents of remarrying with divorced women.Seeing this, Zhang Mu couldn't help but be moved. She was born again. Now that she has just divorced, her family members think that she is depressed and can understand her abnormal behavior. I don't know what kind of situation I will be in, so the best thing to do now is to find another way out or marry out quickly. As a modern person, I still don't want to marry myself out at will. I don't know how long I will stay in ancient times. It's all here, so I have to find a good person to live a good life.So, right now, I have to find a way to be self-reliant, otherwise I will really starve to death in this place where food depends on physical strength.

So in the next few days, Zhang Mu learned how to cook with his sister-in-law in the name of helping, while thinking hard about ways to earn money. She had thought about embroidery, and she had seen many deeds in time-traveling novels in which a pair of embroidery embroidered a beautiful life , I also thought about selling special food, such as salted duck eggs, stinky tofu, sour cabbage, etc., but she doesn't even know how to put oil and salt, she's just a foodie, if you want to do it, turn off the fire!If I can't be a maid, will my straightforward nature be beaten to death?Zhang Mu felt that he might not be able to figure it out next year if he was alone at home, so he might as well go to the town to see the market first.

After making up his mind, Zhang Mu proposed to visit the town tomorrow when everyone was having dinner together at the table. Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang were worried, as their daughter had just reconciled, so it was inevitable that they would meet in the town. If a person who doesn't open his eyes says something unpleasant, his daughter will definitely feel unhappy, but seeing her daughter's expectant face, the old couple can't just refuse.

Seeing his father-in-law's embarrassment, Taozi guessed what they were worried about, "Sister-in-law, please take Xiaoshui too, he has always wanted to visit the town! Xiaoshui has been very airy recently, and just happened to give my sister-in-law a helping hand!" "At least they can be an eyeliner. If my sister-in-law suffers any grievances, they can at least know, unlike in the Zhao family, who have been bored for five years!"

After being reminded by the daughter-in-law, the old couple realized that they had forgotten about their precious grandson, and the expressions on their faces relaxed a little: "Xiao Shui, you are a little man now, look after your aunt tomorrow!"

"Grandpa and grandma, don't worry, I'm amazing!" After that, the little guy blinked playfully, with a look of "you understand", which made the old couple laugh.

(End of this chapter)