The next morning, Bai Mengwan did as Zhou Zhong taught her, got up early, opened the door, and then took the fish and told her sister Bai Junwan that it was sent by Butler Xu. Although Bai Junwan felt embarrassed to accept other people's things, under Qingqing's eager eyes,

Next, she had no choice but to nod and accept the fish.

But when the Bai sisters had just finished breakfast, Zhuo'er dragged Zhou Zhong to see the Bai sisters. Firstly, he hoped that they could move to the inner house to live with him, and secondly, he also wanted to introduce Zhou Zhong. But when Bai Junwan saw

When Zhou Chong turned out to be Mr. Zhou who had rescued them in the first place, he was also shocked and immediately came forward to greet them.

Zhuo'er also didn't expect that the last time her brother rescued someone who was injured, the ones he saved turned out to be the Bai sisters. At that moment, she felt that we were really destined, and then persuaded Bai Junwan to move to the inner house. Bai Junwan also considered that Zhuo'er had good intentions, and the two of them were weak.

It was not safe for the woman to live in the front yard with a child, and her sister Bai Mengwan was also very willing, so she finally nodded. Finally, with the help of Zhou Zhong, the Bai sisters moved to the yard next to Aunt Wang, that is,

It turned out to be the courtyard where Duo'er's mother, Aunt Zhao, lived.

When Zhou Zhong helped the Bai sisters move, he found that they had very little belongings. Except for two bags of clothes and bedding, the only thing left was a little rice and a few cabbages in the kitchen. It is estimated that they have not eaten much these days.

Not much better than the victims outside the city, no wonder Bai Mengwan would go to the back garden to steal fish in the middle of the night?

One of the side rooms in Aunt Zhao's yard was opened up by Zhou Zhong and turned into a kitchen. Bai Junwan set up a stove in another side room and started cooking alone. Originally, Aunt Wang and Zhuo'er saw that the rice in their house was almost gone.

So he persuaded Bai Junwan to eat with them. Anyway, it was just a matter of having a few more pairs of chopsticks. However, the stubborn Bai Junwan refused. In the end, Zhou Zhong also saw that although Bai Junwan was a weak woman, she was also a strong person.

Therefore, I asked Aunt Wang and Zhuo'er to stop trying to persuade them.

After the Bai sisters moved to the backyard of Zhou Mansion, the inner house finally regained a lot of popularity. Needless to say, two little girls, Duoer and Qingqing, who were about the same age, wandered around in various courtyards every day, sometimes during meals.

They couldn't find anyone. Zhuo'er and Bai Mengwan also had the same temperament. They were often seen chatting and laughing. Occasionally, Bai Mengwan would teach Zhuo'er how to play the piano. Zhou Zhong once heard Bai Mengwan play a piece of music. Although he didn't understand the music, he still couldn't find anyone.

It does sound good.

Compared with Bai Mengwan's liveliness, Bai Junwan is very quiet, and she also has to make money to support her family. Whenever she has free time every day, she will sit there and embroider. When she finishes the embroidery in her hands, Aunt Wang, Su Niang and others are all

They were amazed because they had never seen such exquisite embroidery.

Of course, Zhou Zhong couldn't tell Bai Junwan's embroidery skills. After all, he had almost no understanding of this ancient women's traditional skill. He just felt that the flowers and birds embroidered by Bai Junwan were bright and beautiful, but no matter how beautiful they were, they couldn't compare to those handicrafts of later generations.

Therefore, he didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but when Butler Xu brought Bai Junwan’s embroidery to the embroidery shop and exchanged it for five taels of silver, Zhou Chong was shocked. He didn’t expect that Xiao Xiao

A piece of embroidery is so valuable. You must know that five taels of silver is enough to support the Bai sisters for a year.

In fact, embroidery is almost the same as when Zhou Zhong wrote books before. It all depends on the level of the individual. Some women are highly skilled in embroidery. It is not uncommon for an embroidery to be sold for more than ten taels or even dozens of taels. However, such embroidery is also

It is rare, and it takes a long time. Sometimes it even requires the cooperation of several people to complete it. However, some women's embroidery skills are worse. For example, like Bai Mengwan, if she embroidered the same piece of embroidery, she would probably be able to save the cost.

It would be nice to take it back.

In addition, what Zhou Zhong didn't know was that Bai Junwan was already very famous in Nanjing. Firstly, she was familiar with hundreds of schools of thought, and secondly, her embroidery skills were extremely superb. Many local wealthy ladies had asked her for advice on embroidery techniques.

Bai Junwan had always regarded embroidery as a hobby, but she didn't expect that she would now have to rely on it to support her family. Moreover, because of time constraints this time, she did not have money to buy expensive silk threads, so the flower and bird pictures embroidered this time were not very good.

, otherwise it would not be unusual for a piece of embroidery to sell for more than a dozen taels.

On this day, Zhou Zhong was still the same as usual. He got up early and exercised, then came back after breakfast and continued writing his Jin Ping Mei. This was mainly because Zhou Zhong had been so boring these days, and Zhuo'er and Duo'er had their own problems.

As a playmate, Zhou Zhong seldom came to see him again. As a result, Zhou Zhong could only use this method to pass the time.

He kept writing until almost noon. Zhou Zhong put down his pen and turned his stiff neck. Then he walked out and took a look. He found that it was still a sunny day and there was no wind. At this time, Zhou Zhong didn't want to write anymore, so he walked out.

In the yard, go into the garden and go for a vegetable walk.

Today is the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and in three days it will be the New Year's Eve, and then the arrival of the new year. However, the closer to the New Year, the weather becomes warmer. Wear cotton-padded clothes at noon to do some exercise, or even

It will also feel very hot.

Zhou Zhong walked along the gravel path of the garden to the pond in the middle of the garden. He found that the ice on the surface of the pond had also melted. The big hole he and Bai Mengwan had smashed before had also disappeared without a trace. The fallen leaves on the water were floating slightly.

From time to time, a small fish floats up and spits out a string of bubbles.

"Hehe, brother, come here quickly, we are fishing!" At this moment, Zhou Zhong heard someone shouting from the corridor above the pond. He followed the sound and found Zhuo'er and Bai Mengwan sitting on the corridor.

At the end, someone holding a fishing rod was waving to him, and behind them, Bai Junwan was sitting on a chair in the corridor, holding a book in her hand and smiling at him.

The beauty invited Zhou Zhong, so naturally he had to go. He greeted Zhuo'er, walked to the corridor with a smile and said: "You are so leisurely that you came here to fish. How was the harvest? Did you catch any fish?"

"

When Zhou Zhong talked about fish, he specifically looked at Bai Mengwan. As a result, Bai Mengwan also looked slightly embarrassed and lowered his head, not daring to look at him.

"Of course. Brother, look at the fish I caught. We will make fish soup later!" Zhuo'er proudly raised the small bucket in his hand. Zhou Zhong looked at it, but found that there were only two or three small fish in it.

, which made him laugh out loud.

Seeing that his brother was so disrespectful, Zhuo'er was very angry. When Zhou Zhong saw that something was wrong, he immediately wisely backed away on the grounds that he would not disturb their fishing, so that Zhuo'er would not vent his anger on him.

Zhou Zhong did not disturb Zhuo'er and Bai Mengwan while they were fishing, so naturally he could only disturb Bai Junwan from studying. He sat down opposite Bai Junwan and said, "What book did Miss Bai read?"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's question, Bai Junwan also closed the book and said with a smile: "Young master Zhou is so talented. I really didn't expect that the little girl would have thought that Journey to the West, which caused a huge sensation among scholars, was actually written by him!"

Only then did Zhou Zhong realize that what Bai Junwan was holding was actually a copy of Journey to the West that had just been printed. This was a sample book sent by someone from the Xie family yesterday. Before he could read it, Zhuo'er snatched it away.

I didn't expect it to be borrowed by Bai Junwan again.

"Haha, I didn't expect Miss Bai to also like the books written by Zhou. But for me, writing books is just a means of making ends meet. It's really not a talent." Zhou Zhong said honestly, it's just these things he has.

In Bai Junwan's ears, the truth became words of modesty.

"You're welcome, Mr. Zhou. Although Journey to the West is a novel, it has rich content and vivid characters. What's even more rare is that the content of the novel may seem absurd, but it is realistic. Everything in the book can be related to us.

The corresponding thing, the young master is so young, I really don’t know how the young master wrote it?" Bai Junwan said again with great admiration.

When she was in Nanjing, she only had two hobbies, one was reading and the other was embroidery. At that time, the name of Journey to the West had already spread to Nanjing, but unfortunately she never had the opportunity to see it. She never expected to meet the original author of Journey to the West on the way to escape.

This made her sigh that things in the world are unpredictable.

"Thank you Miss Bai for the compliment. In fact, I was in a similar situation to you at that time. I was also living in embarrassment. In order to feed and clothe my family, I naturally had to find ways to make money. Miss Bai's embroidery skills were unparalleled, and Zhou could only mention

We can only use the pen to write, so we can only choose the only thing we can use to exchange money, so in essence, there is not much difference between Zhou and Miss Bai!" Zhou Zhong said with a smile again.

Bai Junwan couldn't help but blush when she heard that Zhou Zhong compared herself with herself and expressed great respect for her in his words, and she couldn't help but feel a little fond of Zhou Zhong again.

Next, Bai Junwan asked Zhou Zhong some questions about Journey to the West, and Zhou Zhong also answered them one by one. But just when the two were chatting happily, Butler Xu suddenly rushed into the garden, wiping his sweat while

He handed a letter to Zhou Zhong and said: "Master, I don't know who slipped a letter under our gate today. It says that you should open it personally. I didn't dare to delay, so I hurriedly sent it to you."

"Oh?" Zhou Chong couldn't help but feel a little strange after hearing this. He took the letter and opened it, but his expression immediately changed and he stood up in a hurry and said, "Butler Xu, I have something to go out for. I may not come back for dinner tonight.

You don’t have to wait for me!”

After Zhou Zhong finished speaking, he immediately left quickly, leaving only Butler Xu and Bai Junwan with puzzled faces. At the same time, they were also guessing about the content of the letter in Zhou Zhong's hand and what could have caused him to leave in such a hurry.
Chapter completed!