In this era, there was no clothing store, and the store only sold cloth, not clothes. Ordinary families bought a few feet of cloth home and tailored it up. Single men without a wife were very troubled in this regard. When they wanted to make clothes, they could only ask other people's wives to help, and they could not help with all their good words and smiles. After making clothes, the remaining fabrics on the corners were given to others as gifts, so that they could make things like wiping tablecloths or handkerchiefs.

Zhu Yuanzhang never cared about dressing, so he didn't think about this when he was promoted to the manager, but others actually thought about it, and it was the third lady of the Ma family who helped him think about it, which really surprised him. He still remembered the cold look of the second young master looking at the dog when he looked at the body of the manager last night. For the rich young master, being a servant is no different from a dog. Now the third young lady actually wants to make clothes for him like a servant, which is really rare.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt soft in his heart. When he came back to a person, he was his original wife, Empress Ma, and she was also a gentle and kind woman. Once when Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Xu Shouhui, the front line was in a tight battle and he didn't care about the management of logistics and military affairs. Empress Ma helped him think that she led the army's family to make shoes, clothes, and sent them to the front line for the soldiers to wear. The past is gone, and the beauty has passed away. What's the use of thinking about these now? How great would it be if Empress Ma was reincarnated like herself...

He couldn't help but bow to the little maid Zi Xincai and whispered: "Please say to the third lady on my behalf, thank you!"

Zi Xincai smiled and said, "There are so many people here, what kind of delicacy can I measure it on you? Go to your house to measure it."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and the two walked to the house where the manager lived together.

It was obviously the first time Zi Xincai came to this room. She widened her eyes and looked left and right, and smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, you are so amazing. You have become a manager at a young age. There are three rooms to live in by one person..."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly and said nothing more. In his previous life, he joined the army at the age of 25 and won the world at the age of 40. He made a shocking life in his life, and his reputation was kept in history. It was really not worth showing off when he earned three houses in this life! He stretched out his arms and signaled that Zi Ji Cai should be measured quickly.

Zi Xincai opened the tape ruler with her little face and began to measure his height, waist, shoulder width, and arms length... In short, it must be measured from beginning to end, otherwise the clothes would not be made. While measuring, she laughed, "Brother Zhu is nineteen years old this year?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Why haven't you ever asked for a wife at such an old age?" Although Zi Xincai was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she understood this.

"No money!" Zhu Yuanzhang replied casually.

"I used to have no money, but now I've become a manager and I'm rich. Every month, I have silver." Zi Xincai played the edge of the tape ruler and smiled softly: "There are several sisters in our inner courtyard who are interested in you, so let me tell them about it."

It turned out that Zhu Ba's management a few days ago not only made him famous in the side courtyard, but his reputation of fighting and kindness also spread to the inner courtyard, which made the little maids in the inner courtyard moved their hearts. The maids in the inner courtyard of the Ma family were big and small, and the youngest were thirteen or fourteen years old like Zi Xincai, and the older ones were twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and they were still unable to get married.

The maids are also a very pitiful group of people. Among them, those who are beautiful or who can please their masters, will probably be put into the room by the male master, and will be a maid or a concubine. But this is extremely lucky. Most maids end up marrying the housekeepers and guarding the house. Some of them look down on the housekeepers and gradually become old girls. After the age of twenty-five, the master may be kind and promised them to butcher Zhang, Li Tuobo, Wang Mazi and other sloppy men who cannot find women will be gone in their lives.

In this kind of life where you can't see tomorrow, the maids are braver. If there is a young and handsome servant in the family who has not yet married, they will quickly find a way to hook up and marry their own ideas. Women in the Ming Dynasty were far less conservative than those in later generations imagined. Many of them were extremely brave and had an extremely open-minded style. For example, in "Water Margin", in "Water Margin", in order to seduce Ximen Qing's attention, they threw him hard on the second floor... Although "Water Margin" describes events during the Song Dynasty, Pan Jinlian's prototype was a girl in the Ming Dynasty.

This example may not be appropriate here, but it can explain the social atmosphere at that time.

Zi Xincai came to tailor Zhu Yuanzhang his clothes. The older maids in the inner courtyard came to ask her to help build a bridge like a festival.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that when he became a manager, he even caused this to happen to him. He had no desire for men and women, and was not interested in women. He was about to refuse, but suddenly he thought again, there seemed to be no need to refuse this matter? Although I was not interested in women, I also needed my son to inherit my career. If I became emperor again in this life, I would have to be a crown prince, right?

After hesitating for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "You ask these girls who are interested in me to come to me another day. If anyone looks at me, I will marry someone."

Zi Xincai got his approval and helped the sisters fulfill a wish. She became happy immediately. She smiled and measured her body, put away the cassette and ran away. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't take this matter in his heart, and turned around and forgot about it.

At noon that day, news came back from the yamen that Yang Chao's case had been decided. The county magistrate had had friction with the Ma family because of the Zhang family in Chengcheng. However, there was no need for him to do anything in this obvious murder case. He directly put Yang Chao in prison and sentenced him to death, wrote Yang Chao's list into the memorial of death row prisoners, and sent him to the capital to wait for the emperor's instructions.

Some people think that in ancient times, prisoners who were sentenced to death were just taken to the vegetable market and cut it with a knife. This idea was wrong. In fact, all the death row prisoners in the Ming Dynasty must be handed over to the emperor for execution. Every autumn, officials will present a list of people who committed death row crimes across the country. The emperor uses a red pen to tick the name on it, and those who win the hook will die. The autumn asked for the beheading. If those who did not win the hook, please wait in prison for winning the next time. This is called "goujue". As for which hooks and which hooks fail, it depends on the mood of His Majesty the Emperor. If you give silver to the high officials and deliberately miss your name when writing the death row memorial, then congratulations, the emperor will never win your name, and you don't have to die. Wait for a change of dynasty and amnesty, and you can come out of the prison without any harm.

In short, Yang Chao was finished and Qi was finished. Zhu Yuanzhang now steadily occupied the position of the side courtyard manager.

In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the cooking woman to add extra meals to the workers and workers. In fact, the food allocated by the Ma family to the side courtyard could make them eat better. However, the general manager intercepted a large portion of his personal pockets, which made everyone unable to eat enough. Now that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not greedy and did not take it, the food level of the side courtyard suddenly increased by one level. The long-term workers who originally had only one steamed bun can now be divided into two, and the short-term workers who originally had only one bowl of porridge could also be divided into one bowl.

The belly problem of the long-term workers was solved, and their attitude towards Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more respectful. The simple peasant production only hoped that such good days would continue. They would spend their whole lives here and Zhu Ba was the manager of their whole life. That would be enough to be happy.

But Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this good life would not last long... Next year, there will be a severe drought! The year after year, it will be a severe drought, and the year after year after year... it will be a severe drought! What is more terrible than the severe drought is the upcoming peasant uprising, the White Water King Er rose up, and then the heroes in the world echoed each other, not far away!

What method should be used to save the Ming Dynasty? He has no idea yet.

A few days later, Zhu Yuanzhang got up every morning to do boxing, then called on the long-term workers to work, arrange food, and then went to bed with another punch at night. Zi Xincai helped him prepare clothes, a long blue cloth gown, which fits very well on his body. It seems that the little maid's needlework is good. After changing his clothes, Zhu Yuanzhang looked good and more outstanding.

These days, occasionally, the maids in the inner courtyard would find an inexplicable excuse to come to the side courtyard, chatting around, and chatting with Zhu Yuanzhang for a few words. He also knew what these maids were here for, and he had the intention of marrying one to give birth to a child for him, but none of them would be satisfied with the faces of the coming and going. Perhaps it was because of the experience of the previous life that he had seen all the beauty of the world, and these ordinary girls obviously could not catch his eye.

The maids also felt his coldness and retreated. Two days later, some unfavorable remarks came from the inner courtyard. It is said that the maids cried sadly after returning, which alarmed the third lady, making her furious. So many good girls took the initiative to send Zhu Ba's door, but he didn't want him... Who is Zhu Ba? Is it great to be a manager in a side courtyard? He doesn't want our maid, and our maid doesn't want him!

The third lady issued a strict order: All maids are not allowed to look for Zhu Ba, and see where he, like a rude man, went to find his wife.

After hearing the orders of the third lady, Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry but happy. This was fine, but he was quiet. Anyway, he was also an older young man when he married Empress Ma in his last life. He was only nineteen years old in this life, so why bother to worry about this?

At noon on February 8th, Zhu Yuanzhang was chatting with several workers who were plowing the fields while talking to each other. Suddenly, he saw Li Chujiu running over from the far end of the fields. He rubbed his eyes and felt that this scene seemed familiar. Just over ten days ago, Yang Chao also hurried over, and then shouted, which led to the series of events that happened later.

Li Chujiu shouted loudly: "What happened, something happened in Xigu Village... All the villagers were taken away by the county magistrate."
Chapter completed!