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161. Moan

Er Niang suppressed the shock and anger in her heart and returned the clothes to the bathhouse owner, telling him not to speak out.

The shop is also a sensible person. He has been running a bathhouse in Liangzhou City for so many years. He has traveled from north to south. He has never seen anyone or anything. He can see what happened today.

At this time, seeing that the young lady in front of her was trying to hide it for those people, she also sighed in her heart that her kindness and righteousness were her. Their Liangzhou City is a western border, and the folk customs are very different from that in the Central Plains. Most of the people here dare to take risks and fight. There are not so many rituals and laws to restrain them. In the words of some people in the Central Plains, it is just barbarism.

But no matter what kind of barbaric land you are in, if the reputation of stealing things is spread, it will be bad in the end. If you don’t do it well, you will be looked down upon for the rest of your life.

"Why do you want to get those cashmeres back for them?" The owner of the bathhouse, Jian Erniang, seemed a little panicked and lost her mind, and reminded her.

"..." Erniang heard this and realized that she didn't know what she was thinking just now. She actually stuffed the cashmere back into the clothes. She bought it for money and asked those people to pick it out. Why did she give it to them for nothing again?

So the second wife Peng Erliang took the clothes from the store, picked out all the cashmere, wrapped it in a cloth towel, and went back to their residence without waiting for the people who were still taking a bath.

When those people finished taking a shower and put on their clothes, someone immediately found something wrong. They thought it was the things that were working in the bathhouse that were obscene to them, but in the end, a few people immediately realized that the food was bad.

Er Niang and the others had already gone back first, and they didn't even call a greeting. The cashmere they hid in their clothes disappeared again. Thinking about the fact that they were going to invite them out for dinner and bathing after work today. As long as they were not stupid, they basically knew it in their hearts now.

When I put on my clothes and went out to the lobby outside, I saw that the shopkeeper looked at them with a very wrong look. The few people didn't dare to ask anything, so they lowered their heads and hurried out of the bathhouse.

"What...what should I do?" Walking on the loess street outside, the women were uneasy.

"I won't go to report to the official, right?" I heard that the people in the Central Plains would always report to the official.

"No, if you want to report to the official, you must take a person and get the stolen goods. She took away all the cashmere we had hidden. Where can I report to the official?" said a brave woman.

"Home, where is the home?" someone asked in a trembling voice.

"Look, it's so big a deal." Someone next to him smiled.

"Just that cashmere, I don't care about it if I report it to the official."

"What else can they do to us when they come from other places?"

"Are you still afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, I look at Luo Erniang, it shouldn't be that kind of person either."

As the few people said this, they all accelerated their pace at the same time. The cashmere at home must be hidden. If those who came from other places really report to the official position, they would not be caught and made public. As long as there is no evidence and they will bite them and refuse to recognize them, there will naturally be nothing wrong.

From beginning to end, those who didn't take cashmere didn't say a few words.

When Erniang and the others started hiring people to pick up wool, they only found three or two people. Later, more and more wool were collected, and more and more people came to their place to work. Not long after, the number of 11 employees had grown.

These eleven people, two meals a day, are actually quite expensive, especially in Liangzhou City, where the price of grain is relatively high, but meat is not expensive. They usually buy more meat. In order to make these people eat better, Luo Erniang spent a lot of effort and spent more money on food. She was willing to bear it. Unexpectedly, the one who rewarded her in the end was like this.

After returning to his residence that night, Ernie tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. While scolding herself for being stupid in her heart, she also annoyed the people and the heartless people. She didn't even tell me how to make a joke about herself privately.

After annoyed, sighed a few times, he began to think about how to deal with the current situation. It would be great if Saburo was here, and he had always had ideas than their sisters.

Speaking of which, when they were in Xipo Village, many people respected Sanlang's kindness and feared his reputation as a coffin board, so things like this never happened.

But when they arrived in Liangzhou City, what did they have? For the local people, Luo Erniang was just an unknown foreigner. She was a young lady in her teens and looked like she was easy to bully.

How can we be as good as Saburo, which is both respectful and fond of people, and fearful.

What would he do today if Saburo changed to here?

I thought about it for the middle of the night, and it was not until the sky was getting brighter that I was in a daze for a while. When it was dawn, my second wife got up again.

After breakfast, two hired workers rushed into the yard. The two men did not get cashmere from them yesterday. They were not close to those who stole cashmere on weekdays, and they looked a little bit rejected.

"Come in quickly, don't pick cashmere today. I will teach you how to spin cashmere thread." Erniang waved to them.

"Oh." At the beginning, the two men felt a little happy when they heard Erniang say they wouldn't ask them to pick cashmere. Later, they heard her say they wanted to teach them to spin cashmere thread, and they immediately became happy.

Although Liangzhou City is an important distribution center for cashmere trading, for some reason, the cashmere processing industry is not developed. At most, cashmere is sorted out from the wool. Almost no one does the spinning and dyeing.

The carpenters here do not know how to make cashmere thread machines. If Erniang and the others want to use it, they have to use a spinning wheel for spinning twine to make a transformation. This transformation is not too difficult. The spinning wheel is just a few simple structures, and they have to use it all day long and can already feel it thoroughly.

Several people set up two spinning wheels in a well-lit room and started spinning cashmere threads. Erniang and Peng Er were demonstrating, while the other two learned.

The boy Tian Chonghu went out again after breakfast. Recently, he always wandered around in Liangzhou City. Er Niang didn't say anything about him. It would be no harm to let him go out to be familiar with it. Luo Yong also told her that Tian Chonghu was smart, and after he got here, he could ask him to do something that he needed to run errands outside.

Tian Xiang'er was probably still in the kitchen. That girl really likes food. She is willing to work with others in the kitchen all day long to burn fire. As long as she can get some food, she will be happy to watch her if she doesn't have to eat.

There was not much cashmere thread here just spinning, and the other two people who didn't steal cashmere came one after another. Ernie still called them to come here to learn to spin cashmere thread.

The morning was peaceful, and in the afternoon, the problem arose. Those people had somehow heard about the four people who were the Orthodox Luo Erniang spinning cashmere threads, and some of them came over with shame. There were also four people coming in total, and three of them didn't come.

The four people were clamoring in the yard, saying that their lives were not easy, and they were also confused for a while, saying that they were coming to apologize. Judging from the situation, they clearly wanted to force Luo Erniang to teach them to spin cashmere thread.

Currently, there are almost no one in Liangzhou City. If you can learn this craft, why don’t you worry about not being able to earn money or food?

"Hey, it's really a silly thing to do." At this time, a neighbor spoke: "But I think they are doing well. If you don't want them now, you may not be better than them when you go out to find others."

The person who talked about this person lived close to Erniang and the others' yard, and she also had some contacts on weekdays. One of the four people in the yard was introduced by her.

According to her opinion, such things are inevitable. Next time, they will pay attention to it and pay more attention to it. There is no need to make things so bad. After all, it is not beneficial for outsiders like them to provoke locals.

"If there is really no one in Liangzhou City that is better than them, then I won't do the cashmere deal." Er Niang had no intention of compromise at all.

"I did some calculations last night. The cashmere has been much worse recently. It is about twenty kilograms less than before." Compared to Erniang, Peng Er's attitude is even tougher: "Don't say anything confused before returning these twenty kilograms of cashmere."

Er Niang's attitude was not clear enough before, so she couldn't stand up and say more. At this time, Er Niang's attitude was already very clear, so she naturally was not polite.

"Twenty kilograms? Are you trying to eat people!" As soon as Peng Er said, the few people in the yard immediately jumped up.

"I didn't take that much. I just took a little bit in the past two days." Someone defended.

"I don't know who you take more and who get less." Peng Er sneered: "What's more than twenty pounds? There are seven of you in total, one pound, and one person has less than three pounds."

"I, I didn't get that much." My psychological quality was not strong enough, so I felt a little panicked at this time. How expensive cashmere is, even in their Liangzhou City, it was sold for two. Three pounds of cashmere, and even if they peeled their skin, they wouldn't get that much.

"If you didn't get three pounds, then someone must have got more than three pounds." Ernie also spoke at this time.

No one can tell how much cashmere was lost now, but it is not an exaggeration to say that twenty pounds are not an exaggeration. It can hire more than ten people to work. Erniang and his friends are also relatively large in this stall. If they lose twenty pounds of cashmere in more than ten days, they may not be able to see it very much.

There were seven people who stole cashmere, and each person had less than three pounds of pounds of cashmere, which was not enough. They stuffed some into their arms every day, and it took more than three pounds in more than ten days. However, Er Niang guessed that there should be a big thief among them. Others might not have taken much, after all, not everyone took it from the beginning. Some people may have just started these two days.

"It's really twenty kilograms?" At this time, the neighbor who was still there and muddy also asked.

"Yes." Erniang nodded.

"Oh..." The man sighed and stopped saying anything more. Twenty kilograms of cashmere were not rich enough. Just this loss might go bankrupt. It is no longer a matter of being confused or not for a moment.

"You guys go back now. If you figure it out, you can return the cashmere yourself." Er Niang said at last.

When those women left the yard, they were mixed feelings. Why did they have so much twenty kilograms? Who took so much? Judging from the appearance of Luo Erniang, it should not be a false statement. Even if they don’t have twenty kilograms, they would have to have more than ten kilograms.

But they didn't realize that they had agreed to "beg" Na Luo Erniang to teach them how to spin cashmere thread, but in the end it turned out to be like this.

Erniang stood under the eaves of the yard, looking at the people leaving behind, a faint smile flashed in her eyes.

When she was at home, she had ruined fermented bean curd and had charged the wrong money when she was looking at the store. Every time she made a mistake, she would be secretly annoyed in her heart.

At that time, Sanlang always told her, don’t bother, don’t bother, it’s just that little thing. It’s not that their family can’t afford it. If they are so annoyed, they will pay attention to it next time.

She is not unable to afford the cashmere that she lost this time.

When she went out, Luo Yong asked her to bring a lot of money. In addition to cash, she also had silver hairpins and rubber-soled leather boots, and even brought several pairs of soles. Just selling those pairs of Eucommia rubber soles can get a lot of money, not to mention that they have done a few cashmere transactions recently and made a lot of money.

After she figured it out, Er Niang was no longer so annoyed, but she was still worried that the women would come and get involved. Even if she wanted to let these cashmere stealers go and no longer pursue this matter, the other party might not be willing to let her fat piece of meat go.

As long as there is a place to take advantage of it, someone will naturally get involved. She originally understood these principles, but her life at home has become more and more comfortable in the past two years, so she has been thinking less.

Sanlang said that she should think more about countermeasures in everything. She thought about it for the middle of the night last night, but she finally found a little bit of it.
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