Chapter 34 Lingling
Qin Wuji smiled and said, "Of course this is meat! I went to find Qin Zhao today. Brother Zhao was very good at talking and asked me to work at his house. After entering his house, guess what Brother Zhao did to me? Three meals a day! There are three or two of meat in each meal."
"We ordinary families have two meals a day, and Brother Zhao asked us to eat three meals a day! There was another meal at noon!"
Ming people have a relatively low living standard and still retain the habit of two meals a day. They probably eat one at 10 in the morning and one at 5 in the evening. Of course, wealthy families also eat lunch, but it is not common.
Qin Zhao asked the hired workers to have three meals a day, which of course surprised Qin Wuji and felt that he had become a member of a wealthy family.
"I ate the meat balls at noon, and I feel very energetic when working in the afternoon. The meat pieces at night, no, Brother Zhao said this is called braised pork, and I don't want to eat them. I asked Brother Zhao for a piece of oil paper to eat for you!"
Qin He was lying on the bed, staring his eyes round.
"So powerful Zhao Ge'er is such a good boss?"
Qin Zhao killed more than 50 robbers in Chiyun Peak. In the eyes of the villagers of Qinjia Village, he was a person like a god of killing, with endless means. Qin He thought that if Qin Zhao was his boss, he would be extremely mean and serious. Who knew that this god of killing was so good to hire workers that Qin Wuji had meat every meal.
Qin He said embarrassedly: "This is the Buddha Tathagata who entered the Golden Palace and has changed the world."
Qin Wuji smiled and said, "What are you talking nonsense about? What has changed! Be careful when you are told that you are taken to sue the official! You should eat these seven pieces of fat meat and replenish your body!"
Qin He said in vain: "You are supporting your family, you are doing things for Brother Zhao. You are tired! You eat!"
Qin Wuji cursed: "You chaotic guy, you can eat it. I'll go to Zhao Ge'er's house to do things. In the future, the things in the fields will depend on you. If you don't keep your health well, who will plant the two acres of paddy fields in our family?"
Qin He looked at the seven pieces of pork belly and was silent for a few seconds.
Then she suddenly started to act, grabbed the braised pork and stuffed it into her mouth. She swallowed three or four pieces of meat at a time, but she was reluctant to swallow it and kept chewing it.
After tasting the taste of the meat, she suddenly raised her head and swallowed three or four pieces of braised pork in one breath.
After swallowing it for a long time, she said with endless aftertaste: "The meat is so delicious!"
"The last time I ate meat, it was the New Year's Day before yesterday!"
Seeing that Qin Wuji had no intention of sharing with her, she put the remaining three pieces of meat in her mouth and chewed it in big mouth.
Qin Wuji smiled and said, "From the future, I will bring you a meal of meat every day. This meat is a big tonic, and it is incomparable to chaff, and even white rice is not as good as white rice. As long as you have meat to eat every day, I see your body gradually gets better."
Qin He suddenly swallowed the remaining three pieces of meat in one mouthful, and stuck out his tongue and licked the oil on his mouth.
After eating meat, Qin He felt that he had some strength and sat up from the bed.
"I support my family, will Brother Zhao give you monthly money?"
"Give it to me, Brother Zhao said it again and again. He will give him a trial for half a month and pay 750 cents a lot of money in half a month. Later, he will be a skilled worker. He will pay two cents a lot of money in a month and settle it at the end of each month."
"Really or fake? I'll give so much money if I have meat?"
Hearing that he had so much money, Qin He's eyes lit up.
Qin Wuji sat on the edge of the bed, took off the straw sandals from his feet, and wrapped his own package onto the bed.
"Look! What is this?"
Qin He took the cloth handed over by Qin Wuji, looking confused?
"Whose linen is this?"
Qin Wuji smiled and said, "Woman Chaos, who belongs to me, of course, is my family. Brother Zhao saw that I worked hard on my first day at work today. He also thought about my poverty. He went to the house to cut more than ten feet of linen cloth for me. You took this cloth and made a set of long folds for yourself, and made a set of straight embellishments for me. We have new clothes to wear."
Hearing this, Qin He opened his mouth wide in surprise.
Brother Qin Zhaozhao was so generous that he gave Qin Wuji more than ten feet of linen.
It costs 200 yuan to buy so much linen at the market. I will give Qin Wuji a reward?
The money must be real in two or two months.
Have you really survived it? This good day is coming?
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Wei Zhanchen stood in the room of the top "Zhao Lingling" on the top floor of the Zuoxiang Building, and looked around the brown sofa in the room, not daring to sit down.
The furnishings in the room were extremely gorgeous, with black painted doors and gold beds, big red ribbons and golden curtains, and incense from Southeast Asia burned in a bronze tripod inlaid with gems, making the room full of fragrance. Lilies were inserted in the golden vase. An antique sold from Xiangzhou was placed on a coffee table, and curtains were opened on both sides of the room were hung on one wall of the room. The big pearls from Hepu were placed on the coffee table under the curtains. The treasure flowers were picked and made of makeup, and the tables, chairs and brocades were all available.
However, these furnishings are common to wealthy people, and the main hall at Wei Zhanchen's house is also magnificent. What really surprised and curious about Wei Zhanchen was the two sofa chairs placed under one wall of the room.
The brown sofa chair is more than two feet long and wide, the seat cushion is less than two feet high, and the backrest behind it is four feet high. The whole sofa is covered with brown cloth covers, which is matched with other furniture colors in the room.
Wei Zhanchen looked around the sofa for a long time before asking, "Lingling, what is this thing called?"
Zhao Lingling sat on the bed and saw Wei Zhanchen's timid appearance, laughed and said, "Grandpa Wei, what's the matter?"
Wei Zhanchen was also a student, a scholar. After being ridiculed by Zhao Lingling, his face turned red and said, "Lingling, I have never seen such a chair." He pinched the back of the chair with his hands and said in surprise: "Lingling, the back of this chair is soft! So soft, what is filled in it? It seems that it is not cotton, right?"
In the Ming Dynasty, no one used sponges to make furniture on a large scale, and most people used cotton to make soft shops. The only soft materials that Wei Zhanchen had seen were cotton.
Zhao Lingling smiled and said, "The ones that are not used in it are cotton, but I don't know what it is. Some sisters say it is water mulberry."
Wei Zhanchen touched the seat cushion of the chair again, but as soon as his fingers were pressed up, he fell into the seat cushion. Wei Zhanchen was so scared that he jumped in his heart and quickly took his finger back.
“This cushion…this cushion…”
Zhao Lingling asked angrily: "What's wrong with this cushion?"
Wei Zhanchen said embarrassedly: "Lingling, this cushion will sink down."
Zhao Lingling said: "Mr. Wei, this chair is called a spring soft chair. Of course, the seat cushion will sink down. What are you doing with such a fuss? "
Chapter completed!