Luo Shuyu became even more angry and jealous when they talked about it, but she didn't have the courage to ask any more questions and ran away crying.
Widow Qu said: "Shuyan is such a nice kid. We have to guard her marriage to Lin Mo and not let anyone ruin it."
Aunt Li Shiyi nodded: "No, to be honest, in my heart, I treat Shuyan as my own daughter, so of course I have to protect her!"
"Exactly!"
On the other side, Lin Mo listened to Zhao Liya's suggestion and planned to go to Zaihu Village to find Uncle Ruan Gui today to talk to them about building a house.
Zhao Liya's house was built by Uncle Ruan Gui and the others, which was fast and good. Uncle Ruan Gui and the others also knew people, and they were able to help find reliable sellers with raw materials such as wood, bricks and stones to get the best price.
You don’t need to worry about anything, you just need to tell them what kind of house you want to build.
Lin Mo is a person who doesn't like trouble, so saving trouble like this is exactly what he wants.
As for what kind of building it will be like, he doesn't care, just ask Luo Shuyan. As long as Luo Shuyan says it's okay, he can do it.
As for Yu Xiaofang, he is not qualified to speak, and his opinions can be completely ignored.
They spent half a day in the sugar pressing workshop. They had agreed in advance to go to Uncle Ruan Gui's house for lunch at noon, and took the opportunity to talk about building a house.
Uncle Ruan Gui was very happy and agreed with a smile.
Lin Mo was not short of money, so he asked Uncle Ruan Gui to just make things better. The rooms didn't need to be too many, and the yard didn't need to be too big, but the place had to be comfortable and the things should be good.
Lin Mo put down fifty taels of silver on the spot.
Uncle Ruan Gui was shocked when he saw it, and said with a smile: "Oh, you are very cheerful, but this is against the rules. I have so much silver in my hand now and I am not sure. In this case, you can leave only ten taels."
I'll ask you for the rest when you need me. We are acquaintances with Mr. Zhao's family, and we can naturally be considered friends with you. Leave this matter to me, so you can just rest assured and don't have to ask anything."
Lin Mo nodded and said with a smile: "This is the best, it saves trouble! If you need someone to make up your mind about something, you can also ask Luo Shuyan. I may not be there every day."
Uncle Ruan Gui said yes with a smile.
Uncle Ruan Gui just went ahead and found the nearest good day to survey the place, lay the foundation, and start construction.
The area next to Zhao's house was extremely lively.
In a few days, it will be time to start delivering food to General Zhong Jing's military camp.
After the family discussed it, Hu Ling and Yu Xiaofang went to the garrison base camp in Suixi County.
Now everything in the sugar pressing workshop is on track and going very smoothly. Zhao Liya is also very worry-free. With the help of Qu Yutao and the others, it will be okay if Hu Ling is away for two or three days.
Fortunately, it was agreed at the beginning that the military camp would send people and trucks to transport the food, which saved them a lot of trouble.
Zhao Liya planned to wait for Hu Ling to come back and put him in charge of the sugar pressing workshop, and then she would start making white sugar. She would ask her cousin, Sister Shuyan, and Lin Mo to help.
She didn't plan to tell anyone about this. But Lin Mo and the others were trustworthy.
When Hu Ling arrived at the military camp in Suixi County, he originally thought he would see Zhou Hansheng there, but he didn't expect that not only Zhou Hansheng was not there, but Zhong Jing was not there either, and only Zhao Nan was there.
Zhao Nan arranged everything with a smile, and sent several cars to follow them back to transport vegetables. Then the money for the vegetables would be settled one by one.
The sergeants were dressed in casual clothes and did not reveal their identities. Zhao Liya did not tell the villagers who the vegetables were sold to at first.
But even though the sergeants were wearing civilian clothes, their stature, temperament, and gestures were different from ordinary people. The villagers were all intimidated, and couldn't help but feel awe, and even more towards the Zhao family.
A bit of awe.
What Zhao Liya and the others didn't know was that the Gu family was doing a lot of tricks behind their backs. They originally encouraged many vegetable growers to join forces to demand a price increase, find trouble, and start a fight. However, now they saw that all of these sergeants were very angry.
He seemed not to be trifled with. Those who were provoked by the Gu family were all cowed, and no one dared to make trouble.
Think about it, if all the servants in this family are so scary and powerful, how can the master respond? Do they still dare to clamor for a price increase? Who can they ask to reason with if they are beaten to death?
The government will ignore them at all.
Some people realized it belatedly. Isn't the Gu family considered powerful? Wasn't it that they were dealt with by the Zhao family? Now it's better. They are secretly instigating them to make trouble. Why don't they make trouble themselves if they have the ability?
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Bah, it’s really not a thing!
The first batch of vegetables was shipped out quickly, and we made an appointment to come every three days.
The villagers who sold vegetables first got the full amount of money, and they were all happy. Those who had not yet had their turn were also happy, because they could finally wait.
For a time, the Zhao family's reputation soared.
After making arrangements for selling vegetables, Zhao Liya started refining sugar according to the original plan.
This is not difficult.
Zhao Liya had prepared a lot of charcoal a long time ago, smashed the charcoal into powder, poured the yellow sugar into a large water tank, dissolved it in water, added charcoal and stirred, absorbing various impurities in the sugar water. After all the impurities were absorbed, she poured them into a large water tank.
Strain it through several layers of fine cotton cloth, and you will get clean white sugar water.
This sugar water is then boiled, and finally white sugar can be extracted.
This method is very simple and easy to learn, but it takes time.
When Zhao Liya started doing this, Qu Yutao and others who were helping were shocked: Can this black toner be put into sugar water? That's not bad! Isn't it just adding good sugar water?
They were all ruined and must have turned black.
After reading it for a while, everyone was stunned when they finally saw the crystal white sugar obtained from this!
"This, is this also sugar squeezed from sugar cane? It's amazing! So beautiful!"
"Yes, yes, I have never seen such white sugar. This is so beautiful!"
"This candy snow is as white as snow, and it really makes people fall in love with it at the first sight."
Zhao Liya naturally knows that the ingredients and sweetness of white sugar and yellow sugar are actually the same, but their appearance is quite different.
What’s more important is that things are rare and valuable!
It's rare and looks good. It would be unreasonable if it couldn't be sold at a good price.
But Zhao Liya and Hu Ling couldn't do this on their own, as they had no channels.
With their capabilities, they are currently unable to develop such a channel.
The most important but also the most difficult thing is to keep it secret. Now that Zhong Jing, Brother Zhou and the others are here, it saves them a lot of trouble.
Zhao Liya felt that they would be willing to help. She would take 70% of the net profit and give them 30%.