Not too many rules have been abolished, nor too many etiquette have been removed.!
For this courtyard located on Yanhe Lane near Dahuohang Street, the change in atmosphere began after the male owner returned in late autumn.
For the old servants who followed the Su family all the way north, they may not have thought that the family would become so relaxed after going north. The Su family in Jiangning is a big family, although it is not a very rich family. However, the way to run a family has its own reasons. Su Tan'er led her family to the north and after settling here, she maintained the same atmosphere, especially in the absence of her husband. As a woman in her early twenties, she If a woman wants to be in charge of a family, she must have dignity. But after Ning Yi came back, everything changed subtly.
It was not a deliberate change, it was just the atmosphere that existed in the most common words and deeds. Ning Yi has always been kind at home, and sometimes even a little chaotic. After autumn, this winter, Su Tan'er followed her husband's pace with some laughter and laughter, and adapted to such changes. Sometimes, such casualness would even damage her majesty as the hostess, and sometimes, she would feel that she was being tortured. It was as if she was back as a girl, able to laugh and have fun without restraint. But in fact, when she was a girl, she never felt so childish.
From the first time she made it clear that she wanted to do business, she has always maintained her "mature" mentality. In this world, what kind of manners should a woman have, what kind of majesty should she have as a master, and what kind of dignity should she have as a wife and mother. It has always been very clear to her how to behave, and she can indeed do it well.
After getting married with Ning Yi, especially after gaining mutual understanding and being able to communicate, there were many happy days. Of course, starting from going south to Hangzhou, there were always many things to do. Later, Fang La rebelled and the family was separated. , the hatred that destroyed the family, she had never thought that now that she was a mother, she would become even more childish. Sometimes when her husband teased her, she would get so angry that she wanted to chase him. Not long ago, she would She was disguised as a man and let him drag her to a poetry festival to join in the fun. Later, when she went to the lantern market and guessed lantern riddles, she realized that this husband was not omnipotent.
Whether she was happy or feeling bad, she couldn't tell clearly. Facing outsiders, she still tried hard to maintain the majesty of the hostess when it came to running a cloth shop and building a new workshop. In the eyes of the servants at home, she might She was still the hostess who was more terrifying than the male host, but there was always a certain image that was sometimes forced to the point where she couldn't maintain it. She had to slowly adapt to it and experience some feelings that she had never experienced before.
"Wow... don't bite me, Xiao Xi, mother is washing your face. You can put some saliva on it and mother will also wash it for you..."
In the bustling bedroom, Su Tan'er was washing her face, and Ning Xi opened her hands to lean towards her mother. After Xiaochan carried her over, she realized that the child was about to smear her face with saliva, and she quickly used a towel to scare him away with a smile. Ning Yi ventilated the room, closed the window, and took the child with a smile.
"This is to kiss you, not to smear on you. Our Xiaoxi gave you a kiss, but you actually didn't accept it. Come on, give your great father a... uh, don't give it? You have personality. Try your Aunt Xiaochan.
After washing up in the morning, Xiao Chan and Juan'er took the basin out and went to supervise the breakfast in the kitchen. Tan'er took the child and sat by the bed to feed the child breakfast. Although there was a wet nurse at home these days,
But most of the time, Tan'er still nursed the child by herself, while Ning Yi sat by the bed and discussed with her the situation of the child's second deciduous tooth.
"When he grows two more, he will really bite me..."
Su Tan'er had just washed her face. At this time, Su Tan'er had a plain face and her hair was slightly messy. Because she didn't want to be bitten, her tone was a little melancholy, but she was also slightly blushing. When Xiao Xi got her first baby teeth not long ago,
She secretly told Ning Yi about this. A baby would not pity its mother's pain. When she talked about this, the two of them were lying on the quilt. Ning Yi also tried it with her and let her taste the bite.
Feeling. For Su Tan'er, even though she takes it for granted what Ning Yi does to her, she still feels a little ashamed when she thinks about it.
Only when they are alone, the two of them will talk about these kinds of things. Soon after dressing up and going out, Tan'er will be the dignified and calm mistress of the Ning family and a shrewd businesswoman again. In fact, she is now a mother.
, a woman who also has a lot of self-consciousness and has already shouldered many things on her shoulders. She is really only the age of a girl who has just entered college in future generations. At this time, she has no idea about shouldering half a family or even a whole family.
, but it has been taken as a matter of course. On the contrary, the girl-like joy she occasionally discovered by Ning Yi may be what she thinks is an extra gain...
This kind of feeling sometimes makes Ning Yi feel warm.
"... Actually speaking, several workshops outside the city are about to be completed. If we can get the Lu family's first business, I'm afraid there will be something to do during the New Year period. But it has started to snow now.
, I plan to visit the new workers who were recruited before, one by one. Sir, please tell me, should we bring some cotton cloth or some charcoal..."
Gently patting the child on her chest, and after chatting for a while, she entered the mind of a strong woman again. Ning Yi did not approve of her running around in the snow, and just said to let the steward go. Su Tan
The son thought that his family had just arrived in Bianliang, and the stewards were not yet well-known among the workers. The master's family only paid more attention to it in the past. The two discussed for a while, and there was a relatively noisy sound outside, which meant that the young people in the family were practicing martial arts in the morning.
When I came back later, it was almost time for breakfast.
After coming from Jiangning, in addition to some accountants, housekeepers, nurses, cooks, handymen, and cousins such as Wen Ding and Wen Fang, plus the newly recruited servants, the family lived in four courtyards.
About fifty people gathered, and it was quite a hot draw. In order to avoid the situation where a group of young people were not good at handling knives when the family encountered something like the Su family again, Ning Yi asked the brothers in the family to do some exercise as much as possible, and invited
Lu Junyi took action and tried his best to teach them something in the past few months. Most of the time, it was Yan Qing who urged them to exercise.
After returning from Shandong, some of the Liangshan generals who had surrendered were determined to be available, such as Qin Ming, Guan Sheng and others. After being cleared by Qin Siyuan, they were included in some military formations that had a good relationship with the Youxiang Mansion. Yan Qing was very
If he has the ability, Ning Yi has suggested that he join the Secret Investigation Department, but this kind of thing is not important to Yan Qing. He has to wait for Lu Yuanwai to clear his name before considering other things.!
Although Ning Yi promised to clear Lu Junyi's name, some subsequent matters were actually more troublesome. Liang Taishu, who participated in the frame-up of Lu Junyi, was Cai Jing's son-in-law. In order to clear his name, Qin Siyuan had several negotiations with Cai Jing.
Both parties have taken a step back. It is easy to clear Lu Junyi's identity, but it is very troublesome to take back the family property. On the other hand, Lu Junyi is suitable for military formation, and Yan Qing is suitable for intelligence. Qin Siyuan seems to be quite fond of Lu Junyi during this period.
I had a good impression and wanted to wait until a more suitable location was available before making arrangements for him, so I put it on hold for a while.
Ning Yi felt somewhat guilty about this, and visited Lu Junyi and Yan Qing several times when he had nothing to do. In fact, according to Lu and Yan's ideas, they probably kept a distance from Ning Yi, because once this guy uses tricks, he will be too ruthless.
Too poisonous. But after a few contacts, he may have thought that he might as well make friends. Soon after, Ning Yi asked Lu Junyi to teach Wen Ding, Wen Fang and others in his family martial arts, and the other party agreed.
In this way, these days, every morning before dawn, a group of young people from the Su family go out to exercise, mainly to strengthen their bodies.
Soon after, the side hall where the Su family ate became lively. This side hall was not small and was also heated with a honeycomb stove. When Ning Yi and Tan'er came over, most of the relatives, stewards and others in the side hall had already arrived, and Wen Ding Wenfang
After everyone had washed their faces and changed clothes, Su Yanping took an egg and applied it on his face. He probably got hit by someone in the previous fight. But at this time, he was still laughing and joking with others while applying it. Only Ning
When Mr. and Mrs. Yi came in, everyone calmed down and greeted them.
"Second sister."
"Second brother-in-law, good morning."
"Second brother-in-law, where is Ning Xi..."
For others, they may not know the details of this family, and they may think that the female owner is far more majestic than the male owner, and sometimes they may even find it difficult to get along with them. But in the eyes of people like Wen Ding and Wen Fang, what is the true meaning of this family?
On the contrary, the backbone of the army was Ning Yi. When he was in Jiangning, he drove back the Liangshan bandits with one man's strength, and then annihilated Liangshan Po within three months.
No matter how kind he behaves from now on, some people may think he is close to him, but no one will think he is good and can be bullied. As long as he is around, at least for the moment, this small family will maintain a compelling momentum and move forward.
"Ning Xi, Ning Xi, Su Wending, you are a bastard. You were the one who went to tease him yesterday and made him cry. I had to coax him for a long time."
Amidst Ning Yi's laughter and scolding, Xing'er pushed the wooden stroller and opened the curtain and came in. Wen Ding and others rushed forward with smiles and ran to tease the children. Su Tan'er pursed her lips, dumbfounded, such teasing
It usually doesn't end well. Although the child is laughing and joking at first, he will soon start crying in unbearable humiliation. And because of his previous experience, Myolie has already turned around the stroller and started to run away. The several stewards in the room are a little older.
The Su family accountant was still watching the whole development of the situation with a smile.
Soon after, various breakfasts were served. During this period of commotion, it was also a time for individuals to decide what to do today. At this time in the Ning family, Su Wending and several shopkeepers basically helped Su Taner run the cloth shop.
Many things have been prepared recently. Su Wenfang, Su Yanping and the rest of the family were arranged by Ning Yi in the large courtyard outside the city to take charge of various messy things, such as some juggling ideas and the production of briquettes in the iron smelting department.
The making of utensils, meal management, reward records, etc. for many workers in the compound at this time.
The large courtyard that Ning Yi organized was still in a mess at this time, and the entire system was not fully formed. Although the salary and rewards were generous, in fact, the recruited workers were not completely clear about what they needed to do.
To smelt a piece of iron, I just hired some blacksmiths and made things according to the instructions. In the paper-making workshop, Su Yanping was responsible for supervising the workers to test various paper-making materials and processes. Many ideas were put forward by Ning Yi, and everyone implemented them step by step.
On the one hand, in the kiln, in fact, in the past few days, several types of refractory bricks that are not easy to break have been fired. Since the materials are those that Ning Yi has dabbled in before, the results have been achieved within a few months. The most important thing is
To be used as the liner of a coal stove.
At this time, if you want to make a movable briquette stove, it is actually difficult to wrap it with iron sheets. The cost of making iron sheets is too high. If you use a bamboo or wooden shell and wrap a few turns of iron wire around the outside, you have to consider the heat insulation effect.
·So it took more than two months to put this simple thing into sale, and the wire still accounted for part of the cost.
In addition to these things, the juggling team in the eyes of outsiders is experimenting with all kinds of weird magic ideas. According to Ning Yi's expectation, it should be a brainstorming group to do systematic creative and creative work for various things.
plan, but it is difficult to gather a group of smart people to do this kind of thing at the moment. When Jiang Ning was running Bamboo Records, Ning Yi had already begun to pay attention to craftsmen such as juggling. At this time, he gathered some barely available craftsmen.
Let them help with magic and juggling creativity first.
It can be said that things in the entire compound are not on the right track at all, because at present, the workers inside do not have much subjective initiative. Ning Yi can only mess up a reward and punishment mechanism at this time.
They are slowly being made, such as briquettes. When the basic processes are completed, some people will be moved out to build workshops, leaving behind a few skilled craftsmen who are capable of innovation.
When the paper-making party can produce some practical results, Ning Yi will also move some people away, leaving the craftsmen who can innovate, and the rest will follow the same step-by-step process. Such a system, rewards, and guidance must not be accomplished in a day or two.
Yes, but the good thing is that for Ning Yi, the whole system is not very troublesome.
On the contrary, in the entire compound, the one with the most subjective initiative at the moment may be the aspect of gunpowder, because the person currently working in it is Liangshan's "Ruyunlong" Gongsun Sheng. He was caught when Liangshan was destroyed and chose to surrender.
After Ning Yi investigated him, he found that this leader of Liangshan, who was said to be able to control the wind and rain, was actually best at alchemy. Although he was quite skilled in martial arts, he was actually obsessed with all kinds of weird research.
After asking Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Qin Ming and many other people for their opinions, Ning Yi probably chatted with Mr. Gongsun about physical chemistry for a few days, showed him black gunpowder and other things, and finally decided to support his elixir.
Technical research, to win over a technical nerd. Although everyone's current cognitive systems are very different, at least many of Ning Yi's ideas are capable of research. Things like sulfuric acid and nitric acid were played around with for a long time. For these alchemy methods
As far as humans are concerned, they have enough ability to prepare it, which is a good start for the entire chemical research.
"But... Second brother-in-law, you really shouldn't have given him that gunpowder formula. Recently, Mr. Gongsun has been doing explosions in the yard all day long. Sooner or later, he will kill himself..."
·Second brother-in-law, you know that those Taoist priests have a trick to throw gunpowder out and light it up. Yesterday, Mr. Gongsun threw a fire and burned his sleeves. We were nearby to get something to beat him. Fortunately, he was fine..."
While eating steamed buns, Su Wenfang mentioned this matter, and everyone was talking about it. Ning Yi was laughing while drinking soy milk.
"Ahem, it's okay. Just keep an eye on him and do some experiments and leave him alone... But today I'm going to take a look at the refractory bricks. As long as there are no problems with the process, I'm going to sell them for money...
··Yan Ping, get ready to get busy. I will tell you how to do it today. We can only do it for the first one or two years at most, fast in and fast out. This kind of thing is not very technical. Once it is done, it will be done by others in a short time.
You will imitate it, and then sell it at a reasonable price. This is just for you to try, but don’t take it lightly.
Everyone was chatting and laughing, while Tan'er was eating quietly, smiling at Ning Yi chatting with a group of her cousins. In the cloth shop business, her style is relatively tough, and she has no idea how to cultivate those around her.
, but they are not good at it. Only in front of their husbands can these young people who were originally idle and a bit lazy in the Su family show such vitality.
After talking for a while, Su Yanping said: "I heard that Wen Yu will be coming back in the next few days, and that Wang Shanyue."
He went north with Su Wenyu before, and Su Wenyu stayed in Shandong to work. Now he can finally manage some things with Ning Yi, so he misses this brother a little. Ning Yi smiled and said: "It's probably delayed because of the heavy snow.
, but these two days are about to arrive. After the Chinese New Year, Zhu Biao from Zhujiazhuang will also come over, and he will be here to train you in martial arts. He is very powerful, so don’t take it lightly."
Su Wending spread his hands and smiled: "We are very powerful now!" Everyone laughed and agreed. Ning Yi smiled and shook his head: "You guys are a bunch of bastards, waiting to be beaten."
After returning to Bianliang, Ning Yi actually had a lot of contact with the Wang family. The Wang family used to be famous for making ink, but after coming to the capital, due to the deaths of Wang Qisong and other Wang family men, a lot of their ink-making skills were lost.
Most of them are trivial things like selling ancient books.
Ning Yi contacted the other party for a while, and Su Tan'er also visited them several times. He hoped that they could run some printing, publishing and other businesses. Ning Yi could make plans for them and help manage them, so that the two parties could join forces.
After all, this is the world of scholars, not the world of businessmen. Publishing books by the Wang family and publishing books by the Ning family are two different concepts. Even if some messy things happen in the future, with the reputation of the Wang family in front, which official will
Dare to take care of it, but these matters cannot be officially determined until Wang Shanyue comes back.
The family had a lively breakfast and went back to their rooms. Tan'er changed into the clothes she went out with and put on a fox fur. She held the child in her arms and sat in Ning Yi's arms and talked for a while. The fox fur was fluffy.
Occasionally, a girlish smile appeared on her little face. Soon after, the carriage was ready outside. When Xing'er came over, Su Yanping had also come over to look for Ning Yi. When Su Yanping held the child and waved her little hands to send her out, Su Yanping
Tan'er also smiled and turned around and waved, but when she stepped out of the courtyard gate, the sun shone down, and on her fair side face, she had returned from a young girl to the calmness that once belonged to Su Tan'er...
Suburbs of Bianliang City.
For half the morning, Zuo Houwen stayed in the carriage and watched the figure of the woman walking in and out of the courtyard opposite. Over there was a new cloth workshop. In recent times, things have been shipped one after another.
Move in. Although it was snowing today, it was still the same. A batch of looms was delivered and the workers moved in. A woman in fox fur looked like the owner of the house, looking back and forth.
Conductor. The woman wears a woman's bun, but her face is pure and beautiful. From the appearance alone, she looks very young, but her temperament cannot be underestimated. She smiles, and although she doesn't talk much, she has her own momentum.
Often a few neat words can make people do as they are told.
The youthful and soft temperament and the mature and clean temperament are mixed together like a proudly blooming narcissus in the heavy snow.
He was over forty years old, and the cloth shop under his name was just a small business. He just came over casually to take a look. Unexpectedly, he saw such a strange woman and couldn't help but stop the carriage. He also once
I have seen some women from merchant families, or those who have raised a family after the death of their husbands, but they are a little different from the woman in front of me. In the heavy snow, she looked too young and elegant, and too calm, and she was different from ordinary merchant women.
The ease with which you hold up is different.
"Who is that?" He put down the Book of Songs in his hand and asked the steward of the workshop.
"The new one seems to be named Su, but the host family heard that her surname is Ning, and the woman calls herself Mrs. Ning."
"Su family? Ning family? So weird? Her husband's family is dead? Let a woman come out and show her face?"
"I don't think so. I've been here a few times. He's a scholar..."
"That's it." Zuo Houwen frowned, and he probably understood that it is not uncommon for a scholar to marry the daughter of a merchant family, but the scholar who is willing to do such a thing has limited backbone, "I'll ask him next time.
Name... Manager Liu, go back and see if there is... this post from the Ning family."
At the same time, in a large courtyard outside the city, Ning Yi and Su Yanping were squatting on the ground looking at the fired refractory bricks. Not long after, someone handed over a post saying that they were invited to the prime minister's house for something - yes
Wang Shanyue and Su Wenyu are back.
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