Chapter Forty-Five

art of war

Early in the morning, Ji Si practiced martial arts in the yard, Qin Jun had breakfast in the corridor of the wing room, and talked to He Yi by the way, "How are you doing?"

He Yi is not Han, but he is considered an older child at the age of thirteen. During this time, Qin Jun let the thirteen children eat and live with the maids and guards, hoping that they would learn Chinese early so that communication would be smoother.

But when the child grows up, the shadows in his heart are indelible. Mr. Shisan doesn't like to talk, and often stays in a daze in the corridor when he doesn't do anything.

At this moment when Qin Jun asked her, she understood and didn't speak. She just nodded and her amber eyes were immersed in water.

With her chopsticks in her mouth, Qin Jun looked distressed, and Jin Xiu put a piece of shredded meat cake on her, signaling Qin Jun to eat quickly.

"Will Thirteen eat?" Qin Jun asked.

He Shisan knelt on the porch, only shaking his head.

Jin Xiu rapped on the table with her fingers, "Go down."

Shisan got up and was about to leave Qin Jun's luggage, but Qin Jun stopped him suddenly.

"Wait," Qin Jun said, "I was negligent, shouldn't our village hire a teacher?"

He Shisan didn't understand, so he just knelt, Jin Xiu nodded, and said, "Miss, you can't be negligent in your homework, please invite a female gentleman to come."

Qin Jun: "..."

Qin Jun gestured to He Shisan, "I mean, our village should invite a gentleman. With so many brothers and sisters in Shisan, don't children all want to be educated? Please invite a serious gentleman to teach writing.Just like going to school."

"Just right," Qin Jun nodded to Ji Si, who was practicing swordsmanship, "Take her to study in the school too. She's sixteen. Quite a few of the decent ladies and gentlemen in the mansion can make a fuss. How about reading the two military books?"And bored."

Qin Jun was full of air, not very tall, with a cookie in his mouth, but with the look of the head of the family.Last night, he was still holding Ji Si and worrying about this year's land tax, but now he is happy again, and he can't see the slightest worry.

Ji Si put away her sword, looked sideways, pulled her lips and thought for a while, walked over and found a straw grasshopper from her sleeve, and put it on Qin Jun's desk, "I don't want to study."

"Don't study? How can I do that!" Qin Jun yelled exaggeratedly, Ren Jin Xiu wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and looked at Ji Si triumphantly, "Don't you want to be obedient?"

But he teased her last night, and today he was chased and teased.Ji Si pursed her lips, "Naturally."

After Qin Jun finished his meal, He Shisan went down. Xing'er came to report that a cart was parked in front of the door. It seemed that the carpenter and bricklayer who were lacquering wood and tiles had come, and asked Qin Jun if he wanted to take a look.

Qin Jun got up and followed Xing'er: "I have to take a closer look, don't ask them to replace the wood in the villa, these are good wood, just replace parts or something."

As soon as Qin Jun left, Xiao Taozi found her again, and Jin Xiu was the only one left in the yard packing up the dishes. She was suddenly surprised, "Where are you, Miss? Are you still going to Jiangnan?"

In front of the door, the carpenters and bricklayers climbed up the hill, sweating profusely, and asked loudly, "Is the person in charge at home here?"

The dark guard came out to block the door, with a serious expression, "I've gone to communicate, and the rules are waiting."

Xing'er: "Six carpenters and four bricklayers, but wouldn't it take two days for the tiles to be delivered from Jiangnan? Why did the bricklayers come?"

Ji Si followed Qin Jun and tied a veil on her.Qin Jun: "Go and see first."

"Here we come!" The carpenter and bricklayer outside the door looked happy. When he saw Qin Jun clearly, he found out that it was a female family member, and he wondered again, "Why is she a young lady?"

The craftsman poked his head in front of the door, looked in through the heavy door, and saw several maids walking up and down the corridor carrying buckets, except for the gatekeeper, he couldn't see the male servant.

Qin Jun smiled and said, "My family name is He. My elder brother went out early in the morning. Today I am the housekeeper, and I speak the same way."

The carpenter and bricklayer looked at each other, "Miss can make the decision?"

"The mountain road is not easy to walk, why don't you come in first and have a cup of tea," Qin Jun said with a smile, "Can you decide, can this big mountain village be short of your wages?"

Several people chattered away, left the trailer outside the door, and followed Qin Jun into the door with the food tools on their backs.

The carpenter inspected the villa, and saw traces of weeding just outside the gate, many wooden doors and windows were loose, eaves tiles were also missing, and some parts picked up by the maids did not know where to put them.They are all placed in the open space of the patio.

The worker was surprised and said: "Miss, this house hasn't been lived in for a long time? Why is such a magnificent house empty?"

Qin Jun ordered people to serve tea, and the maids were all maids of honor. They had to be well-behaved before they could serve in the palace.

"My family has moved out of town, and now I'm going to go home with my elder brother to stay for two months." Qin Jun smiled, seeing that the workers had rested, she took them around in person.

"The wood of these tables, chairs, chairs, and stools cannot be replaced," Qin Jun told the carpenter in the same way, with her sleeves in her hands.

"There are more than a dozen in the other courtyard alone?" After walking half a circle, the carpenter was surprised, "Miss, this is a big project! Just the six of us, we can't do this job in a month."

Qin Jun: "There's no rush to talk about this."

Outside the water pavilion in the backyard, the marble-carved bridge corridor is magnificent and grand, and under the bridge is a dried-up pond.

The bricklayer exclaimed: "It's really rich. There are water pavilions built on the mountainside. Didn't the water diversion have to be filled by manpower?"

The workers suddenly looked at me and I looked at you. The workers had a general idea of their work.

Tired from shopping, Qin Jun sat down on a corridor at random, looked at one of the carpenters, and asked, "What did you say earlier?"

The man immediately said that he should be the head of the six carpenters, "Miss Hui, the small thing is that the courtyard is too big, it will take at least a month to do it."

Qin Jun: "Then just do it for one month, half of the wages will be paid as a deposit, and the rest will be completed and accepted, and then settled."

The bricklayer took advantage of the situation and said: "Yes, miss, I see that it is very troublesome to clean up the broken tiles on the eaves of your house. It can't be done for more than ten pennies a day."

This is to take advantage of the opportunity to raise wages. After hearing this, Qin Jun smiled slightly and beckoned to Xing'er: "Go and ask Mammy..."

Xing'er nodded and left, talking back and forth from time to time, asking in Qin Jun's ear, "Mammy, do you want her to come forward?"

Qin Jun shook her head, and after listening to what Xing'er brought back, she thought that sure enough, these craftsmen came from other places to make her look tender, and because she was a woman, they started to look down on her and asked her for a lot of money.

The carpenter and the bricklayer looked at the courtyard in the courtyard, stretched their necks to see Xing'er and Qin Jun talking quietly, their hearts were pounding, and they shouted loudly: "Miss, but I can't make up my mind? It's time to have lunch, and if it's delayed, it's a big deal."daily wages."

Ji Si tucked her lips with a silk handkerchief, wore a veil, and stood beside Qin Jun with a strong sense of presence, and said, "What are you urging?"

After Xing'er and Qin Jun finished whispering, they asked the craftsmen about their wages.

Carpenter: "Twenty Wen a day."

Xing'er was immediately displeased, "You're a carpenter, don't you understand how you lied to us? Carpenters and bricklayers in the market earn only ten cash a day, why do you want twenty cash from my house?"

The carpenter's expression remained unchanged, and he dealt with Xing'er: "Girl, ten Wen was already the asking price last year, why don't you go and ask, the entire Jiang Prefecture, no matter it is Jiangnan Jiangbei, is fifteen Wen, and your home is on the mountain.Everyone goes up and down the mountain every day for a penny or two as money for tea and wine."

"This Zhuangzi is so imposing. Carved windows and doors have to be filled with wood, and the wood also costs money. This style is also more refined than ordinary people. It is reasonable to add three yuan to the wood and labor. How can it become a sky-high price?"

The bricklayer kept echoing: "Yes, girl, the wages have been raised long ago, and even we who pick and choose tiles also ask for this price."

"Stop doing this," Xiao Taozi came to look for Qin Jun, and after hearing the argument, she realized that it was the workers who wanted to raise their wages, so she couldn't help arguing on Xing'er's side, "Since wages are settled on a daily basis, you can do this work on a daily basis.", why do you need to raise wages?"

There were six carpenters and four bricklayers, and Xiao Taozi immediately became entangled with each other.

Qin Jun and Ji Si were playing with the flower rope on the porch, watching Tao Xing fight more than ten people by the way.

Xiao Taozi's face turned red, thinking of the sky-high debts, the empty coffers, and the problem of eating and sleeping, she was suffocating, "If you want to do it or not, if you don't do it, someone else will do it! Take it!"Get out of the villa with your stuff!"

Xing'er looked at Xiaotao with a look of surprise, and realized that speaking like this was too impolite, so she tugged at Xiaotao's sleeve, signaling her to calm down.

Xiaotao snatched back her sleeve, and let out a bad breath, feeling happy, "Whether you want to do it or not, just say it!"

More than a dozen gentlemen looked at each other in blank dismay, no, no, no.

After a long while, Qin Jun finally had enough fun, and asked Ji Si to put away the flower rope and pass the steps loudly, "Everyone, calm down, this peach girl is the top accountant in my village, and she has money in her hand to control the expenses of the house, so she is naturally cautious."some."

Everyone saw that Xiaotao was too young to manage accounts for such a big Zhuangzi, so they didn't dare to underestimate her, they just smiled, fearing that Xiaotao would find it difficult to deduct her wages if she took the job.

Qin Jun said: "There is still an old steward in my village. She has lived in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for sixty years. She said that you earn ten cents a day. She must not be talking casually. If you really go to the market to ask, it will make everyone feel embarrassed."Isn't it light?"

The carpenter and bricklayer hesitated to speak, but he was still not very affectionate.

Qin Jun: "It's still ten cents a day, plus two cents for the hard-earned money. You don't need to look for wood. Go to the mountain to see it. It's what you like. What do you think?"

It's not bad to add two essays. After one month of writing, there will be an extra sixty essays.

The worker was already loose, and asked, "Is the lady in charge of the meal?"

Qin Jun smiled: "Come on, you eat with the servants in the mansion. There are fifty soldiers in my village who live in the north. If you don't want to climb the mountain, you can bring your own bedding to live with them. Some rooms are vacant."

"In this way, you don't have to go up and down the mountain every day, and you need to pay a penny to take a boat, and you don't have to travel!" The carpenter was very satisfied, and they all looked at the leader, "Foreman?"

The foreman could only nod his head when he heard the words, "It's up to the owner."

Qin Jun smiled with satisfaction, and Ji Si took the repairs registered by the servants and distributed them to the six carpenters, "Each of them got a man to do it, and did it according to the work in the booklet, and reported the omissions before doing it. There are many women in the village.Don’t look around and run around.”

The carpenter went to work together, and the bricklayer remained at the same place. Seeing the carpenter walking away, the head bricklayer immediately said, "Miss—"

"I know," Qin Jun waved his hand, "Your bricklayers and carpenters are treated the same, but the tiles haven't been delivered yet, what are you doing here?"

The bricklayer said: "Yesterday, the mother in the village came to choose the tiles. She only said that she wanted the tiles, but didn't say how much she wanted. Let's take a look first, so as not to be unlucky."

I guess it was after spring plowing, a group of young men had nothing to do, and wanted to come to a rich family to get some wages or something.

Qin Jun smiled and said, "Everyone, it's better to go back. It's not too late to come to the door when Wa arrives. It saves one trip and two trips, and wastes time."

bricklayer:"……"

"Seeing off the guests." Qin Jun had just finished speaking, when a hidden guard appeared at some point, and invited several bricklayers out with an imposing manner.

An eagle howled, and Qin Jun took a book and flipped it in Ji Si's arms. The two rode a horse and headed to Jiangnan.

The land of the villa circle is between two mountains, and in the middle is a big river running from northwest to southeast. The river is surging, the water surface is wide and clear, and only when the wind is strong will there be big waves.

Although Yanyun Villa is next to Jiangnan, it still belongs to the boundary of Jiangbei in the final analysis. It is sandwiched between Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

Jiangnan is a truly prosperous place, and it is still a hundred miles away from Yanyu Mountain Villa. It takes two or three hours for a fast horse to cross the river in the lower reaches of the river.Many people have drowned.

With the spring breeze blowing, Qin Jun said casually: "Spring is coming soon, let's make some kites and let the children fly kites in the backyard."

Ji Si hummed amusedly, "I made a kite for the princess to play with."

"What do I play? I can't finish my day." Qin Jun put the book into the bundle on the horse, leaned in Ji Si's arms, and said, "How do you read Sun Wu's Art of War? Recite it and listen."

Ji Si said casually: "Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival..."

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