Early in the morning, Zhao Qiqi told Gu Yansui to buy some things while shopping to entertain Master Qu.

Gu Yanyan went to Mr. Qu's house early for morning reading. Gu Yantang grabbed Gu Dazhu who was trying to escape.

He laughed and said, "Dazhu, where are you in such a hurry to go?"

"Oh, oh, second cousin, please put me down quickly. It would be embarrassing if others saw us like this." Gu Dazhu's eyes were darting around, not caring about the pain in his neck, and he kept checking the people coming to work.

I kept repeating to myself: Sister Narcissus must not appear, Sister Narcissus must not appear.

Ye Shuixian did not come. Yesterday, she learned embroidery from Bai Shi at Zhao Qiqi's house for an entire afternoon. She even kept embroidering after returning home. She wanted to be the first person to hand in her embroidery, so she got up a little late today.

But it’s no big deal, these embroiderers don’t punch in and out at work, but get paid according to the finished embroidery products, so it makes almost the same whether they come or not.

Not seeing Ye Shuixian, Gu Dazhu breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother Yan Tang, please, put me down, I want to go to the toilet, ah ah, my stomach really hurts."

"Really? Then I'll go with you."

Gu Dazhu looked at him with a sad face: "Brother Yan Tang, I treat you well on weekdays, why do you help them bully me?"

In the past, Gu Dazhu often shared some food with the hungry and skinny Gu Yantang. He was right about that.

Gu Yantang said with a face that showed no mercy: "Dazhu, I'm not trying to harm you. I'm doing this for your own good, don't you understand? Besides, do you dare to disobey my mother?"

Gu Dazhu recalled that in the past, his aunt-in-law and his grandmother and mother were just as fierce as each other in quarrels. Although they have become more gentle now, he still doesn't dare to offend them!

He shrank his neck and buried himself like a quail.

"I...I really want to go to the toilet, please let me go first."

Seeing that he was really anxious, Gu Yantang let him go, but he just followed him to the door and waited.

Gu Dazhui was dawdling in the toilet, and Gu Yantang was getting impatient. It was his mother's task to take Gu Dazhui with him to work, but he was so uncooperative.

"Gu Dazhu, if you don't come out I'll go in and grab you!"

"Don't!" Gu Dazhu screamed to stop him. He believed that his cousin could really do such a thing. His voice was choked with sobs: "Don't worry, I'll be out soon."

As soon as he saw Gu Dazhu opening the toilet door, Gu Yantang stopped talking nonsense with him. He held the back of his collar with one hand, held two knives in the other hand, and carried a bamboo basket on his back. They were going up the mountain to chop firewood today.

Now the workshop needs to refine lard, and the consumption of firewood is relatively high. Gu Yantang felt panicked when he saw the pile of firewood gradually getting smaller. It was all because of this brat. If he had honestly followed him to the mountain to chop firewood, the basket would have been full by now.

Gu Yantang let go of his hand and kicked him on the butt: "Look at what you look like. A man should act like a man. You do nothing all day and rely on your mother. Who will support her when you get old?"

He had to work hard and not be like Gu Dazhu, who had to live with his mother when she got old! He wanted to provide for his mother in her old age.

Gu Dazhu said nonchalantly, "I am still so young. Besides, I have brothers and sisters who have to take care of my mother in her old age."

Gu Yantang looked at him and wanted to kick him again, but he didn't expect his footsteps to be weak and he slipped into empty air and rolled down, with dust flying all over his face, looking very embarrassed.

Watching him stand up tremblingly, he rubbed his waist and said, "Brother Yan Tang, why don't you come and help me up."

Gu Yantang walked towards him and gave him a look of disdain. He was all mud and dust, but she was still helping him and she didn't even want to touch him.

"I'm not going, I'm not going, my feet hurt, my waist hurts, my head hurts, I want to go home, I want to go home!"

Gu Dazhui's temper flared up all of a sudden. He had been able to hold on before, but now he couldn't hold on at all.

"Don't go!"

Gu Yantang's serious voice startled Gu Dazhu. He stared at Gu Yantang blankly: "Brother Yan...Brother Yantang, I really fell and got hurt."

"Gu Dazhu, do you really have no idea what's going on? Go and see how many people are starving to death outside? Your house was burned down, and your father and uncle were busy rebuilding it all day long. Your mother and grandmother also went to work every day. Your brothers and sisters are helping my mother make molds, and Xiaocao went directly to the workshop. As the eldest son, you feel no pain because your mother has been indulging you. You also have relatives who have shouldered your share of hard work before you."

Gu Yantang really sighed. It was because he knew that Gu Dazhui was not a bad person, but just lacked discipline, that he wanted to scold him to wake him up.

Putting down the knife, Gu Yantang began to chop wood. From the corner of his eye he saw Gu Dazhui slowly picking up the knife. He didn't know if he really realized his mistake, but it was good as long as he started to correct it.

Gu Yantang's voice softened as he taught him how to chop a tree: "First, make a cut diagonally, and then chop hard into the cut."

After all, he had never done any work and had no strength, so Gu Yantang had to let him pick up small branches on the ground.

The two of them didn't return home until almost noon. Of course, they had gone back several times before to carry the firewood back. Gu Dazhui made rapid progress and could even learn how to chop wood. He started chopping wood diligently when he got home.

Xiang looked at her son and didn't dare to say anything, for fear that he would change back again after just changing his gender.

"Mother! I brought Master Qu here."

Near noon, Gu Yanyan finished school and went home with Master Qu.

"Hello, Master Qu."

"Madam Zhao, Yan Yan has already told me about it. I've written it and brought it to you. Why don't you take a look at it now?"

Zhao Qiqi quickly wiped his hands, took the paper and opened it.

The two words "Wei Yin" are written in a grand and majestic manner, jumping off the paper with vivid charm, which is both elegant and artistic.

"Thank you for your calligraphy, Master Qu. It can be used as the sign of our workshop from now on. If you don't mind, I will give you ten taels of silver as a reward."

Seeing him shaking his head, Zhao Qiqi said quickly, "Master, don't rush to refuse. This word is not only used here, but will be used on the packaging. It will be a great help to us. Talking about money is vulgar, but I will feel uneasy if you don't give it to me. Master, you might as well accept the money so that I can use it with peace of mind. I also hope that you can draw some flowers and birds on it and use it for our packaging."

Mr. Qu couldn't persuade Zhao Qiqi, and he couldn't keep refusing to Zhao Qiqi here, which would not look good. He promised Zhao Qiqi that he would give some of his previous paintings to Gu Yanyan to send over.

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