Reborn Wangjia's little koi, reclaiming wasteland and farming to become the richest man

Chapter 75 Wenxiu
When Tan Ji turned around, the black figure disappeared on the opposite side of the slope, and Sheng Jiaojiao turned around with his hands behind his back, and the hair on his cheeks fluttered lightly, and asked:
"Tell me, why is the price of this mule so cheap?"

"The family that sold the mules had been favored by Brother Ji before. They knew that Brother Ji introduced us to buy mules, and they were leaving, and they wanted to sell all the animals in the family, and they didn't ask for any price."

Qi Rong followed behind Sheng Jiaojiao, and the two walked towards the backyard of Qi's house one after the other.

"Gone? Where are you going?"

He only listened to Qi Rong's serious reply,
"The boss is determined to go to the southern county of Daze with the whole family. He is afraid that Zhishou County will not be able to keep it."

The last three words, Qi Rong said with gritted teeth, how could he not be able to keep it?Daze has established the country for hundreds of years, and Jishou Junjiro, when did the subordinate countries invade?

Sheng Jiaojiao was silent for a moment, then said softly:
"People in Zhishou County are fluctuating now. People from the north of the county run to the south of the county, and people from the south of the county run to the south of Daze when the wind is not in the right direction. It is really inconvenient for people to drag their families with them on the road."

Hearing this, Qi Rong, who was walking behind Sheng Jiaojiao, immediately refused to accept it and said:
"Sister, those who can run away are definitely not the sons of our Zhishou County, either they were exiled to us and changed from slave status to good status, or they came to our place to do business. If they were born and raised in Zhishou County My sons are all going to the barracks now."

He said that he would expand the four military camps in Tiaoma Lake to a military system of 2000 soldiers.

Sheng Jiaojiao said "Yes", which means that the luggage sent to the four camps will be doubled again.

Even Qi Rong knew about it, so it was no longer a secret. I am afraid that the rules for selecting new recruits have already begun.

She thought about it with some headaches, the two labors in her hands, and calculated the money in her hands, and ordered Qi Rong:

"Tomorrow, after you send your luggage to the military camp, go to the family where you bought the mules to see if there are any surplus animals to sell. Let's buy them all."

Qi Rong nodded, and followed Aunt Sister through a yard of lush green vegetables and into the kitchen.

Standing at the door of the kitchen, Sheng Jiaojiao said to Qi Rong:

"But we don't need to be too nervous. Even if our luggage is not in place, there is still the official luggage of Zhishou County. Even if there is no luggage from the imperial capital, these official luggage and our luggage are enough for four people in Tiaoma Lake. The barracks have been spent for several days."

Sheng Jiaojiao was not worried about this point. Although Tiaomahu distributed very little luggage to the various military camps, compared with the imperial capital, it was just a drop in the bucket. It was just a subsidy for show, but it was better than nothing.

Qi Rong responded, and Sheng Jiaojiao gave another order:
"After dinner, go and invite Niu Ju's father over."

Qi Rong answered "yes" obediently, and the two of them had already entered the kitchen.

The two of them had come back in time for dinner, and as soon as they sat down in the kitchen, they heard Mrs. Zhou calling the embroiderer who was doing embroidery in the main room to have dinner.

The pregnant embroidered lady entered the door, looking at Sheng Jiaojiao with a pale face.

Sheng Jiaojiao moved the chair to give the embroiderer a spacious seat.

As soon as she sat down, she looked at Sheng Jiaojiao and opened her lips.

"what you want to say?"

Sheng Jiaojiao sat without moving, and Qi Rong, who was beside her, had brought several dishes quickly.

The pale-faced embroiderer cautiously said in a low voice:
"Jiao Niang, do you sell your side dishes?"

She hesitated all morning before she dared to mention this matter to Sheng Jiaojiao.

Before Sheng Jiaojiao could speak, the embroidered lady was afraid that her request would be too abrupt, so she said:
"It's like this, Jiao Niang, I saw that the side dishes in your family grow well, and I heard that the uncle sold them before, so I thought, I thought, I will exchange my wages for a few pockets of side dishes."

As she spoke, tears welled up in Xiu Niang's eyes, she just lowered her head with sobs, and silently ate a few mouthfuls of food.

She grew up in a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters and fertile fields everywhere. Since she was a child, she has never been short of food.

In her hometown, if you throw a seed anywhere, you can grow a bag of green vegetables.

But after being implicated by her family and degraded all the way here, this embroidered lady never had a bite of fresh and crispy side dishes.

Sometimes people just can't go to extremes. When they go to extremes, even a touch of green vegetables growing in the ground can trigger her overflowing homesickness.

Inside the kitchen, the Qi family was silent for a moment, seeing Xiu Niang's sentimental appearance, they didn't know how to react.

Sheng Jiaojiao gave a soft "hmm" and said:
"Okay, I will calculate your wages later."

Then he glanced at the people at home and smiled again:
"Let's all eat."

Such a large family, as if this is the only reaction, began to move their chopsticks.

After a lively meal, Sheng Jiaojiao went back to the house and took the wages for the embroiderer, gave them to the embroiderer, and asked Qi Rong to pack a few pockets of side dishes in the embroiderer's back basket.

The pregnant Wenxiu stood under the eaves in front of the main room, looked down at the copper coins in her palm, and then at the vegetables in the basket that Qi Rong gave her.

There was some panic on Wenxiu's face, she looked at Sheng Jiaojiao in front of her,
"Jiao Niang, this is too much."

She said that she would use her wages to pay for a few pockets of side dishes, and Sheng Jiaojiao agreed, but the wages she gave her were still the same as before.

And the side dishes were returned to the half basket.

"Take it."

Sheng Jiaojiao turned around and sat in the main room dignifiedly, looking at Wenxiu with a gentle smile on her face,
"You do things for my family well, I'm not a stingy one."

The smile on her face inexplicably reminded Wenxiu of the Guanshiyin Bodhisattva sitting in the temple with compassion on her face. At that moment, Wenxiu's legs softened and she almost knelt down by Sheng Jiaojiao.

Wenxiu couldn't tell what kind of feeling this was. She was grateful, but she didn't dare to do anything wrong in front of Sheng Jiaojiao. With tears in her eyes, Fushen thanked her, picked up her backpack and went out.

As soon as she stepped out of Qi's house, Wenxiu breathed a sigh of relief.

I always feel that Jiao Niang's majesty puts her under a lot of pressure, but she is really grateful to Sheng Jiaojiao from the bottom of her heart. She tightly holds the handful of coins in her hand, and she can only cheer up and take care of everyone. When you do embroidery work at home, you must not be perfunctory.

Thinking of the half-basket of side dishes behind her back, Wenxiu became happy again. This half-basket of side dishes was enough for her family to eat several times.

In the Qi family, after Wenxiu left, Sheng Jiaojiao propped her forehead with one hand, leaned gracefully on the side of the chair, closed her eyes and rested her mind for a while.

Then I folded it to the small shed next to the medicine field, and looked at the straw paper newly made by Er Niang Qi over there.

It has to be said that Mrs. Qi's mind is still extremely delicate. Most of the fruits that grew on the apple tree recently were sold by Mrs. Qi. Not only has she started selling apples outside the village, she has not forgotten In order to make straw paper for the children in the Enlightenment School.

The latest batch of papyrus has been made and is drying in the shed.

Sheng Jiaojiao looked at the second aunt's craftsmanship, not to mention that the straw paper was made very delicately, but she also saw that she made it with all her heart.

Just as she was watching the dryness of the toilet paper, Sheng Jiaojiao heard outside the courtyard that Er Niang Qi came back with her mule.

She happily tied the mule to the shed, and waved to Sheng Jiaojiao who was standing with her hands behind her back.

"Quick, Jiao Jiaoer, come and see how much I have earned today."

The second lady Qi, who had always had a bitter face and a gloomy complexion, was standing in the shed now, her face was full of excitement, and she was quite excited, which can be described as beaming with joy.

She didn't wait for Sheng Jiaoman to walk over slowly, she took two quick steps, took Sheng Jiaojiao's arm, and quickly went to Sheng Jiaojiao's room.

After she entered Sheng Jiaojiao's room first, she hurriedly took out a handful of copper coins from her sleeve, another handful of copper coins, another handful of copper coins, and another handful of copper coins.
"It's all earned today. Here, it's embroidery money. Wenxiu's craftsmanship is excellent. Those noble people are used to using good things. When we come here, we are about to be roughed to death by us. When I saw that I took it like this Good-looking embroidery to sell, and I bought it without saying anything."

While talking, Mrs. Qi was still taking out copper coins, and each handful of copper coins seemed to occupy Sheng Jiaojiao's small pocket.

Sheng Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows, straightened her wide sleeves and sat next to the couple, while counting the copper coins, while Qi Er Niangzi excitedly talked about how she went to Jishang today, how she took Wenxiu's embroidery, Family by family, how did they meet the servants of the abolished prince, and how did those servants of the abolished prince take away all Wenxiu's embroidery
"Jiaoniang, you said that these noble people can eat or drink well, but they are so particular about these extraneous things. I was so scared when I asked for a few pieces of silk handkerchief, but I didn't expect them to agree to it immediately. , these nobles are really strange."

Mrs. Qi's spit was flying all over the place, since she entered the door, her mouth hasn't stopped.

To do business, you still have to be bold and cautious. Mrs. Qi Er is very courageous. Seeing that the servants of the deposed prince seem to want to buy the embroidery in her hands, they set a high price. It was worth half a month's wages for Wenxiu.

Who would have known that she was so courageous, and those servants of the deposed prince were extravagant enough, so she just paid for it.

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, quietly listened to the words of Second Lady Qi. When she said she was tired and took a breath, she raised her hand and poured her a glass of water, and said softly:

"Sometimes the glamorous external things are not for their own food and clothing. It is a fact that the prince was abolished, but they are still people who live in the clouds after all. Since they were young, they have been used to using good things. The prince is like this, Those servants who have been carefully selected to be with the prince are actually the same, and people of this level are actually living with dignity."

Not everyone can serve the prince, even eunuchs are the best eunuchs who have passed five trials and killed six generals before being selected to serve the master.

It is said that Buddha needs gold clothes, and people need clothes. No matter how poor they are, these people's aesthetics will not change. In such a huge mansion as the Abandoned Prince's Mansion, there are many facades that need to be decorated.

If people have comparisons, they need to reflect their differences through these external objects.

The second lady of Qi had a comprehension look on her face. She sat opposite Sheng Jiaojiao, put her hand on Xiaoji, and said:
"It seems that this is really a business opportunity. I heard that Wenxiu's family still has a lot of embroidery in stock. I'll collect them all and sell them a few more times. If the business is really good, let's ask her to embroider more. Simply treat this as a serious business."

"I'm afraid Wenxiu doesn't have so much time."

Sheng Jiaojiao and Qi Er Niangzi planned, and said:
"Her belly has been six months now. The first is that she can't afford to be tired, and the second is that embroidery work should not be rushed. Only by embroidering a pair of embroidery slowly can the embroidery skills be reflected. Embroidery work Especially those who are children should be calm and steady, as soon as you urge her, she will not be able to do well."

Hearing what Sheng Jiaojiao said, Second Lady Qi asked anxiously:

"How about that?"

In the room, Sheng Jiaojiao was playing with the copper coins in his hands, the sound of the copper coins colliding casually sounded, Sheng Jiaojiao was thinking,

"There is no rush for this matter. If there is a business opportunity, we can go to the north of the county to capture a few slave embroiderers and bring them home to raise. We don't need them to do anything, just let them make embroidery."

"How many embroidered women who are slaves?"

Second Lady Qi was startled by Sheng Jiaojiao's words, she jumped up, knelt on the kang, stretched out her hand to push open the window, and took a careful look out of the window.

No one, Second Lady Qi felt relieved, sat cross-legged on the kang again, and lowered her voice to Sheng Jiaojiao:

"The slave women in the north of the county are not engaged in business. I told you earlier that Wenxiu is a special case. Two of the three older sisters in her family went to the army to work as prostitutes. The third one is because Her father really didn't want to lose the family like this, and the family was too poor, so he married Wenxiu to a widower, otherwise, Wenxiu would be afraid."

It is said to be married, but it is actually given away. Huangguo Village is so poor, how much money does the widower have to beg for a wife?
So he can only find a slave woman to make do with.

In fact, it wasn't that Wenxiu gave in to the widower, nor was it that the widower took advantage of it. Both of them came from very different backgrounds, so they just made do with it.

But how many widowers can there be in Zhishou County?

And it's not that there are no good girls in Zhishou County.

Although Zhishou County is so poor, Hao Erlang only seeks girls of good nationality in Zhishou County when looking for wives, and slave girls either marry widowers or work as prostitutes.

The prostitutes who worked as prostitutes in the military dormitory all put their slave registration and household book in the hands of the mother in the military dormitory.

If a man wants to take them home as wives, he has to spend money to redeem their slave registration and household registration from their mother.

But who wants such a woman?
If you spend money to buy a decent lady to go home, why not spend money to marry a down-to-earth girl of good nationality?
"You, you, although there are slave women everywhere in the north of the county, how many of them can you really catch and bring home? If you really take a few home, do you want your family's reputation?"

The second lady Qi looked at Sheng Jiaojiao with disapproval on her face, she just wished she could get rid of this idea immediately.

(End of this chapter)