Spring rain is as expensive as oil, but this year's oil price is cheap. After returning from the Duke Ying's Mansion, it took five or six days in a row, and there were no signs of clearing up until this afternoon. I'm getting moldy at home. I don't know what Lanling is doing. It's raining anyway.

She must not be here, and I miss her a little. Ying and the second daughter have been relatively close lately, and I often see them muttering something with strange looks on their faces. But when I walked up to them, I could only hear the parents’ quarrels, mixed with Ying’s teachings to the second daughter.

In other words, the two women were respectful and open-minded to be taught.

I don’t know what stupid ideas these two witches are coming up with. Since they don’t want me to know, they just don’t care about it. We, the gentlemen, have no business interfering with women’s affairs. I would also like to see the two ladies communicate more and face each other.

There is also a way to build rapport. Over time, a deep friendship will naturally develop. This is a rule and a good thing.

The relationship between Ying and the second daughter is very subtle, so subtle that sometimes I can’t see clearly, so I just think that I am blind. Anyway, both of them are smart and can grasp the sense of proportion in these matters and know what to use.

I try to fight for it without violating my taboos. It is a small game. It seems unintentional, but I enjoy it. I play it when I am bored. Once there is an external conflict, the two of them immediately hug together and become allies, and they are unanimous in dealing with the outside world.

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Lan Ling is the strong one, while Ying and the two girls stand on the same front, one in the open and the other in the dark. I think I should change my surname to Liu, what is Liu? Anyway, he is the Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and he has a lot of status.

So I concluded that Ying and the second daughter are planning to deal with someone. Transferring conflicts is a good thing. When the internal conflicts in a country are fierce, politicians will transfer the points of conflict and then start some kind of war to unite the people. Ying and the second daughter

This is the principle of our relationship. As long as my family is harmonious and they have a common goal, I can feel a lot more at peace.

"I don't care what you two are doing. You can't harm the world." First state your position and draw up a rule, so as not to turn into an indiscriminate conflict in the end. It is uneconomical to kill ten thousand enemies and damage yourself eight thousand. Besides, for two women directly

I have always been worried about the incident I was involved in. The smelly girl has a unique way of thinking, and she uses three-way tricks. Yin pinched Yingdi's nose and said with a smile: "You are in charge, don't be confused. If anything happens, I will only look for you.

Don’t look for anyone else.”

"As a common saying, what kind of confusion can I make? My husband is too worried." Ying smiled and pulled me to sit down. "The second daughter is too worried. I am teaching her 'girl training', so I can follow the rules in the future."

As soon as I sat down on the kang, the two girls climbed on my back, and put their hands around me from behind and hugged me tightly. "Okay," I patted the tender hands stretched out by the two girls contemptuously. I didn't want to get entangled with them.

The three of them knew what was going on. "Is everything on the slope ready?"

"Well, it's very tiring." Ying saw that I didn't pursue the matter, so she took advantage of the situation and leaned over to complain. "It took more than a month to arrange the land boundary up and down the slope.

Farmers are far from enough, and they even use handymen at home to avoid missing the time to plant fruit trees." He raised his hand and showed a few small scratches on it, "The wounds were all scratched by jujube.

It hasn’t grown well yet.”

"Thank you for your hard work, ma'am." He turned around and took the children off his back and held them in his arms. "It's been a hard year on the slope. It will be much easier for Shuzai to survive in the future. There is no shortage of labor. It's all planned and managed by the two ladies."

Good job." He kicked off his shoes and moved inside to find a place to lean on. It was already very difficult for the two girls to hold him up.

Ying also sat up. "I was afraid of drought this year, so the trees were planted densely. Unexpectedly, it rained non-stop, and there was too much work to do. I still have to dig, and I will still be busy in the autumn." Seeing how hard I was holding him, I stretched out my hand and thought.

Pulling the two girls off, the second girl pretended not to know and held my waist tightly to resist. Ying smiled and slapped her on the head, "You are so old, you still have to rely on others."

"Forget it, girl, what does she know?" He touched the two girls' heads and said to Ying, "How did you arrange the foreigners in the cave dwelling? I was so busy that I couldn't even remember."

"Where can we place it?" Ying smiled, "It's okay to live in a cave dwelling. It's originally meant for people to live in, but they have to work. The fruit trees on the large slope above our heads have been counted, and there are accounts. But when checking the numbers, there are

What's missing is that we kicked people out without saying a word! Let them forget what I said. Don't blame our family for not having regulations when we kick people out in the future."

"Hey, you." Ying has never been one to suffer losses. She originally said she would spend money to hire a few people to look after the orchard, but now it saves the whole country. There are so many people, so she will definitely do her best to have a place to stay.

, more responsible than hired people. "It doesn't make sense to give people a little bit of salary, but to do it for nothing."

"No. Hiring people is one of the regulations for our family, and renting a cave dwelling is another matter. If you hire someone, you will be responsible for food, housing, and labor. If you rent a cave dwelling, you have to pay our family. If you don't have money, you have to work.

Subsidy, is that what your husband said?" Ying pulled a blanket to cover her legs, and put the other side on me and the second daughter, "Besides, they also agreed, and we don't count as bullying. Many of the laborers go to our village.

Helping in the workshop makes money, and based on the wages of a few workshops, if you work hard for three or four years, you will have hope."

"That's right." Ying belongs to the Chang Youli type of people, and her rationality is greater than others. "I remember that they were doing soy sauce garden business before they got their heads. We have a lot of beans at home, so it would be good to open a soy sauce garden for our own family."

"Don't talk about opening a soy sauce garden," Ying smiled and pinched her nose, "Ten toilet water workshops can't suppress the smell," she reached out and poked the two girls, and said with a smile, "The two girls know that I was a concubine earlier.

When I was a girl, I had a soybean garden at home, and the smell of steamed soybean residue could not be blocked even with the doors and windows closed. Finally, the neighbors couldn't stand it anymore, and they had to demolish it due to public outrage."

"Is it so powerful?" I have never been to a sauce factory, so I don't know that there is such a large amount of air pollution. "Forget it, don't harm others. But when it comes to soybeans, after we harvest the wheat, will we plant more acres of beans?

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"We plant a lot every year, but my husband doesn't know." Ying doesn't like me taking care of the farm work. She thinks it degrades her status. She usually only says a few words when I ask. I have to ask Lan for a lot of agricultural knowledge.

Ling. I hung out with Lan Ling all day long in Fenghe Village and learned a lot. I finally learned that where soybeans do not compete for food, they usually start planting beans after harvesting wheat. Ying stopped and turned around.

He took off the abacus and dialed the numbers on the Kang table, "It's cost-effective to plant soybeans, but it can't be all of them. After all, there must be green vegetables."

"Oh, then you can figure it out. I just heard Dr. Zhou say that animals eat some bean dregs or something to gain weight, so I followed him and said nonsense." That's the bad thing about laymen. What they say makes sense immediately, and then

Keep in mind that it would be very embarrassing to show off and pretend to be an expert, and then be exposed by someone who is an expert. Take the initiative to admit your mistakes, "Actually, I don't understand anything, you have experience. Just do what you should do, don't listen to my nonsense."

"It makes sense," Ying leaned over, "I have forgotten this. This year our family has collected the livestock and raised them, and we have a few more acres of land to feed soybeans. The farmers don't think feeding soybeans is wasteful, so they only feed them soybean cakes and dregs.

, Our own cart-pulling horses are fed with hay mixed with soybean meal. They grow much stronger than those fed by farmers." Ying pinched her cheeks and said with a smile: "Actually, buying beans is more cost-effective than planting them, husband.

Don’t worry, I’ll go and discuss this with Dr. Zhou as soon as I have my hands free.”

"Yes. Okay." The blanket and the two girls were covering their bodies to keep them warm. I was sleepy in spring and autumn, and I was a little dazed and my eyelids were twitching. "It's up to you. You don't have to ask me about everything."

"The second daughter and the fourth child said that the wine steaming workshop is big and spacious. They want to build more rooms and get more sets of hot stoves for steaming wine." Ying mentioned this matter casually, relying on me to talk casually.

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"They can do whatever they want. We don't have to worry about it." The two girls seemed to be asleep. They climbed on me and didn't move. I also wanted to take a nap, but Ying kept nagging...

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"I think, if there is too much steamed wine, what should I do if the toilet water workshop can no longer be used? After all, the fourth child is very tight on the production of toilet water, and there is no way to make more." Ying Di's voice became smaller and smaller, and it seemed that she was also covering herself with a blanket.

Once warm, I feel sleepy.

"Save it if you have more, and sell some when it's full..." I muttered casually. My mind had come to a standstill. I didn't want to think about anything at all. "Take a nap. If you doze off, sleep next to me for a while. Don't say anything."

"Well, then it's better to sell some points and make more income." Ying turned over and leaned back comfortably, and said confusedly: "Then my brother has a shop over there, so just take him over and let him sell it. Don't say anything.

Come on, take a nap."

"Well, whatever..."

It was so comfortable. Afternoon was a good time to take a rest. When I woke up, it was already dusk and Ying and the two girls were nowhere to be found. I curled up on the kang and enjoyed a big blanket all to myself. It felt so good.

Before eating, I ran out to get some air and walked along the newly built road in front of the door to the official road. In order to make it easier for farmers to work on the slope in the future, a section of the path on the adjacent slope has been paved firmly under Ying's command. It has been raining for many days.

The rain is just a little bit of floating mud, there are not as many pits as before, and your shoes will fall off if you step in them.

I took a detour and didn't go up. I looked at the watermelon field that I personally arranged from a distance. The melon seedlings had come out, and they were green and stood out among the dry saplings. The wheat seedlings in the farmland in the distance were all gone.

The yellow and tender fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and fresh grass has grown tall on the slope of the back slope. Several goats are eating happily on it. As they eat, the copper bells under their necks jingle. They are the local goats at home.

, I saw the bloated figure of the housekeeper from a distance, moving a horse and sitting on a flat grass.

"Where's the shepherd?" He shouted at Butler Qian and walked over, "The ground is still wet, why is he out alone?"

When Butler Qian saw me, he stood up and made way for Maza, "Young Master Marquis is here too, sit down quickly. The grass is clean and there is no mud. Come and have a good time in the afternoon."

I pushed him to sit down, but the young man had no reason to let the old man give up his seat, "I'll come over and take a look, too. The cold melons over there are all dry, and they are green and beautiful."

"No." Butler Qian pointed to the sheep on the slope, "The sheepherder sent them back. The old man came over to have a rest and call the sheep back." Seeing me standing, he also stood up and said with emotion: "The old man beat himself up."

When I came to Wang's house, I would look at this slope all day long when I went out, and I would go up this slope when I was passing by. I thought at that time, if I came back from this slope one day, I would have worked at home for decades in vain." The housekeeper was a little excited, and the fat on his face trembled.

"When our family got this slope last year, we were just happy. Now that we have planted trees, melons, and sesame seeds on the slope, we can really feel that it is our family's thing, and our wishes are all."

Already."

"Yes, I feel the same way." After hearing what the old man said, my heart was churning. The Wang family's land is not small, but I earned this big slope by relying on my own skills, although the subsequent benefits are not as good as Fenghe's.

Zhuangzi is big, but it is more important to me. "If you have three peaches and four apricots, you will be able to bear fruit in three or four years. As time goes by, large fruit forests are rare."

"It's not uncommon. Except for our family, there is no such thing within a few hundred miles!" Butler Qian looked proud. "There are many butlers around, but only our old Wang family's butler has this blessing. After Murakami's lime

The kiln was being fired day after day. No matter how much it was fired, it could no longer be used. There were more than five people who came to the old man to pull lime from the ground every day. The eldest son had come back and was able to help with the work, so the old man asked him to go to the lime kiln to practice.

When the old man dies, the young Marquis will have someone he can control, right?"

No wonder Butler Qian was in such a good mood that he even took on the work of the shepherds. It turned out that the employment problem for his descendants had been solved. When he was at ease, he ran to the slope and said with emotion, "Uncle Qian, thank you for your trouble. With your help, I can help you."

Just stop worrying about this, haha..."

"The boss is a fool and has never seen the world. From now on, if the young marquis does anything that is not good enough, don't tolerate the old man's face. Don't be soft when you deserve to be beaten or scolded." Steward Qian stamped his feet and said with a smile: "I saw you a while ago.

The children were all rude. They also had headaches. Seeing that the old man was pitiful, the wife opened her mouth and asked the boss to go to Zhuangzi to help, which solved her problem. If we talk about the kindness of the Wang family, people in the next few lifetimes will never be able to repay it. Yesterday, the wife was talking to the old man.

When we discussed the matter of kindergarten, the old man cried after listening to it, and he didn't sleep well all night. In other places, there are cases where the head of the family mistreats his servants, but in our family, all the people in the village owe us the favor of the Wang family, go to school, and learn to read.

"Serving as a farmer. Generations of people would never dare to think about it."

I admire Ying's little tricks and tricks to win over people's hearts. I didn't suffer any losses, and she held the hearts of the servants tightly in her hands. It was more effective than buying them with money and food. This year, Zhuangzi went to the

None of the students who stayed temporarily had any hope of becoming an official, and most of them went home depressed. Five of them decided to stay in Chang'an to have a try, gain experience, and lay the foundation for future scientific examinations. Ying took advantage of this.

During the free period, conditions were given to a few students, and Zhuangzi was allowed to attend the classroom. They were provided with food, drinks and subsidies. A few students did not agree immediately. They wanted nothing more. They had a place to stand, and they could climb the Wang family tree.

A prosperous little tree, and you can concentrate on repeating readings after teaching to lay the foundation for the next year's exam, so why not do it.

"Uncle Qian is serious. I have some savings at home. Isn't it just to give the children a good life?" I wanted to slap myself twice for saying this. It's shameless to lie. "Just do it with your heart and start a school."

We just have to pay the money from the accountant, and we don’t have to make do with the tables, chairs, and benches. We need to pay as much as we need.” Pointing to the papermaking workshop, he said, “Our paper doesn’t hurt when you use it, and the business is getting more and more prosperous.”

"I don't dare." The housekeeper waved his hand, "Whose school's children use white paper? They can write with a handful of sand, which is a waste. You and your wife are used to doing good deeds, and you don't have to count them. This old man will take care of it, and I guarantee that it will be good again.

I can study and don’t have much money to spend, so I don’t dare to tolerate their problems.”
To be continued...