The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 736

Although the weather is not early, when you come to the hot spring villa, you have to soak in the hot springs to get tired.

Baitao, who was waiting by Su Yunduo's side, listened to Zisu's advice before she came out, and prepared a traditional Chinese medicine bath for the two masters early on.

Lu Jinkang never thought that he would have to soak in soup at such a late hour, but since the warm soup with traditional Chinese medicine has been prepared, it can't be wasted.

Although Leyou Villa is open to the outside world, it includes the main courtyard, the small courtyard where Su Yunduo and his wife lived, and a three-entry courtyard specially reserved for Su Yunduo's family, even if Leyou Villa is overcrowded, it is not open to the public.

Every time Su Yunduo comes to Leyou Villa, he always lives in this small courtyard. Although this small courtyard is small, the sparrow has all kinds of internal organs. It just fits the couple and the person they bring to serve. down.

After Su Yunduo settled down on this small courtyard, he customized it and carried out renovations. Three spring pools were built inside, two of which were divided into men and women in the east and west rooms. Naturally, it was specially prepared for the convenience of the attendants.

The other one is naturally the Tangquan Pool dedicated to the couple, which is located next to the couple's living room.

This soup spring pool is not big, but it is enough for the couple to soak in the soup.

At this moment, the room is exuding a strong medicinal fragrance, which was specially prepared by the genius doctor Guzhu, and the smell is not unpleasant.

Although it is a hot spring bath, it doesn't feel stuffy at all when you walk in. Lu Jinkang was a little surprised. After looking around, he finally found the reason. It turned out that there was a special copper tripod placed in each corner of this hot spring bathroom. There were one or two in the rooms of the masters of the Duke of Zhenguo, and Lu Jinkang naturally knew what they were. At this moment, the copper tripod was slowly emitting cool air.

That's right, there are ice cubes inside this copper tripod.

Ice cubes in midsummer may be a luxury item for others, but they are nothing to Su Yunduo, because Su Yunduo has saltpeter in his hands, and can use saltpeter to make ice anytime, anywhere.

Speaking of which, Su Yunduo was lucky enough. A few days ago, Ning Zhongping sent Su Yunduo a letter, as well as the saltpeter he found in the "bottomless pit" in Yangjiaji.

Ever since he saw the "bottomless pit", Ning Zhongping planned to find out, but not many people were willing to accompany him on the adventure.

Naturally, Su Yunduo also hoped that someone would go down to take a look, but Lin Zhuangtou and others strongly opposed it. After all, many people had been recruited to explore the cave.

Naturally, Su Yunduo is not the kind of person who disregards human life, not to mention that it is her most trusted and respected little uncle who wants to go on an adventure, so this matter has been delayed again and again, but since Ning Zhongping has already started to explore, naturally he will not give up so easily .

Every month when I go back to the capital to visit relatives, I have to enter the Zhen Guogong Mansion to have an in-depth discussion with Su Yunduo. Under Su Yunduo's intentional or unintentional guidance, I made a series of adequate preparations, including a strong enough safety rope and lighting. Torches, self-defense weapons, and various life-saving pills such as Jinchuang medicine, hemostatic powder, and detoxification pills were specially asked from Su Yunduo.

At the beginning of February this year, he began to explore the "Bottomless Pit". Jiang Haizi and Chun Lin also accompanied Ning Zhongping to explore the "Bottomless Pit". Watch the safety rope outside the cave, pay attention to the dynamics of the safety rope at any time, and rescue at any time if the situation is found.

In order to ensure the safety of the explorers in the cave, Ning Zhongping prepared a safety rope for everyone. One end of the safety rope was tied to the waist of the person going down the cave, and the other end was tied to the big tree outside the cave.

The person guarding the hole can also keep a certain connection with the people in the hole through this root safety rope.

In this way, the exploration work progresses from near to far, and gradually develops into the depth of the cave.

From the beginning of February to the present, Ning Zhongping, Jiang Haizi and Chunlin have explored the "Bottomless Cave" several times, going farther and farther each time.

During the expedition, it is inevitable to encounter various dangers and setbacks, but the few people become more and more courageous.

Although they haven't found out how far the "bottomless pit" is, they have also discovered many benefits of the "bottomless pit".

Although the cave does not have an absolute constant temperature, it is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is the best place for storage. Now several storage rooms have been opened near the entrance of the cave, which have become the natural warehouses of Yujiefang.

A few days ago, Ning Zhongping, Jiang Haizi and Chunlin explored the depths of the "Bottomless Cave" again, and they discovered a saltpeter mine with better quality than the saltpeter in Yanshan Mansion.

Although it is more difficult to transport saltpeter from the "bottomless pit" than the saltpeter mine deep in the mountains of Yanshan Prefecture, it is not difficult to transport some to make ice.

However, the discovery of saltpeter mines in the "Bottomless Pit" naturally cannot be hidden from the Holy Majesty. After learning the news of the saltpeter mines in the "Bottomless Pit", Lu Jinkang went to explore the underground cave, and then wrote a memorial to the Holy Majesty himself. before.

The saltpeter mine in Dongling Country is mainly used by the Ministry of War to develop gunpowder. Although the development of gunpowder in the past few years is not considered a success in the eyes of the well-informed Su Yunduo, it has greatly improved in this era that mainly relies on cold weapons. The strength of Dongling's army has been strengthened.

Of course, Su Yunduo's so-called "well-informed" is only superficially well-informed. In fact, she knows nothing about gunpowder making.

Of course, even if she really understood, she wouldn't dare to make such a move when her life was not at stake, let alone if she really didn't understand!

Lu Jinkang's memorial not only detailed the exploration of the "Bottomless Pit", but also the current utilization of the "Bottomless Pit" by Yujiefang, and the approximate location of the saltpeter mine. Whether the saltpeter mine in the cave is worth mining, and how to mine it is up to Sheng Zai.

The discovery of saltpeter mines in the outskirts of Beijing made Shengshang naturally happy, so he selectively ignored the difficulty of mining, and immediately gave mining instructions to the Ministry of Industry.

Lu Jinkang endured it for a long time and finally couldn't hold it back. Pointing to the road map he drew himself, he explained to the Holy Master the danger along the way from Dongshan to the saltpeter mine, and reminded the Holy Master to send mining experts to go to the field to find out. make a decision.

The Holy Majesty was silent for a long time, and finally accepted Lu Jinkang's suggestion, and asked his hidden guards to follow Lu Jinkang down to the cave for a field inspection.

After the dark guard went back, he naturally told the truth, not only lamenting the quality of the saltpeter in the cave, but also lamenting the thrill and difficulty along the way.

Even though there was a report from the hidden guards, the Holy One still did not give up lightly, and he specially called for the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to personally take people down to the cave under the guard of Lu Jinkang and the dark guards for investigation.

Minister of the Ministry of Industry had never suffered such a crime even when he was released when he was young. A trip to the bottom of the cave almost cost him half his life.

Although Su Yunduo has never been in a cave, according to Lu Jinkang's description, it is not impossible to mine. It is not difficult to transport out the saltpeter as long as a small railway track is laid from the entrance of the cave to the depth. In the end, she still suppressed her, one thing more is worse than one thing less!
Since the imperial court has no ability to exploit the saltpeter mines in the cave, and the cave is in Su Yunduo's village, the Holy One turned a blind eye to Su Yunduo's asking someone to carry saltpeter out of it to make ice. It doesn't take much saltpeter, not to mention that Su Yunduo wrapped the palace with ice, and the Holy One even rewarded Su Yunduo with a lot of good things for it.

This is why Su Yunduo can use ice so extravagantly.

With ice in hand, naturally it can't be wasted. Su Yunduo also opened an ice house in the capital to sell ice cubes to the outside world. All the investment came from the private houses of the big house brothers and sisters.

Although Su Yunduo and Lu Jinhua, Lu Yujiao, and Lu Yuya signed a private money management agreement under Lu Mingyang's request and supervision, but she didn't want to make a small amount of money.

After deliberating over and over again, they decided to withdraw their private money from the north-south goods business, and added a part of their own funds to specially open this igloo, and the income of the igloo will be distributed according to the amount of investment.

Although there are not many small private houses, the two north-south goods business has already doubled their private houses, and the investment in the igloo is not much, so Su Yunduo's additional funds are not too large, but because the saltpeter comes from Su Yunduo Zhuangzi, the recipe for making ice was also made by Su Yunduo, so most of the income from the igloo still belongs to Su Yunduo, but even so, the few small ones who rely on the income from the igloo, put it in the hands of Su Yunduo Money is also expanding exponentially.

Of course, the few small ones don't know at present, what they know is that no matter whether they lose or win, their money in Su Yunduo's hands will increase by 20 taels every year.

Making money without doing anything, although it is not a lot, but in the eyes of a few little ones, it is already a lot, and I am naturally grateful to Su Yunduo.

This year's weather is hot, and the business of Su Yunduo's igloo is booming, so the town government's government has more ice for each house than in previous years.

All the shops under Su Yunduo's name are so cool that people are reluctant to leave, and the business is naturally booming.

The aunts of the few rooms are envious of Su Yunduo, but they also know that they can't be unpopular, and they can't bear the consequences of offending Su Yunduo.

After soaking in the warm soup, Su Yunduo went back to the house to rest, and never asked Lu Da's personal guard why he returned to Beijing.

She is not a person who likes to ask a lot. Lu Jinkang doesn't ask if he doesn't mention her. She can't pay attention to other people's things if she has to care about them.

On the second day, Su Yunduo planned to go to the winery to discuss matters with Zhang Pingan and others after breakfast.

Although we had already discussed some things yesterday, after all, time was tight and we couldn't arrange everything properly, and there are still some things that need to be discussed again.

Although this is the third year of brewing wine and the second year of brewing kiwifruit wine, practice makes perfect, and nothing will go wrong, but Su Yunduo still plans to go to the grape and kiwifruit brewing site.

The master craftsman who brews grain and wine is also on duty today, just to introduce both sides, and adjust the personnel of the winery by the way.

These things take time, and she only has one day, and she has to go back to the city with Lu Jinkang in the evening.

It's just that as soon as she put down the bowl and rinsed her mouth, she was invited to the study by Lu Mingyang, and Lu Jinkang was also invited to the study.

The climate in Leyou Villa is pleasant, and there are still two ice basins in the study, which looks very cool.

Apart from Lu Mingyang and Su Yunduo, Lu Da's personal guards were on the list.

Su Yunduo frowned slightly, if she didn't understand that the guard's return to Beijing had something to do with her, then she would be really stupid.

Although he had some guesses in his heart, before Lu Mingyang spoke, Su Yunduo sat quietly beside Lu Jinkang as usual, waiting for Lu Mingyang to speak.

"Our mansion has two shops in Yongcheng, the northern city. One is a restaurant and the other is a pharmacy. The business is pretty good, and it can guarantee all the expenses of the Marshal's mansion in the border city. Since your father returned to Beijing the year before last, the business of the shop has gone from bad to worse. , your father specially asked Ming Hai to come here, except for some defense matters, it is for these two shops." When Lu Mingyang said this, he paused for a moment and glanced at Su Yunduo.

Since Su Yunduo knew what Lu Mingyang said, he would not react too much to Lu Mingyang's words, and just listened to Lu Mingyang calmly.

Lu Mingyang coughed lightly and continued: "Your father wants to cooperate with Leyou Winery. Brother Kang's daughter-in-law, do you think it will work?"

So it turned out that Su Yunduo finally understood the purpose of the guard's return to Beijing.

Lu Mingyang has come forward in person, if he can't do it, he has to do it, but isn't everyone selling wine in the wine shop? !

She is the largest shareholder of the wine shop, that's right, the government of Zhen Guo is also one of the shareholders, and the restaurant under the name of the government of the country needs to use the wine from the wine shop, can she say no?Of course not!

Since I can't accept it generously, lest the news spread and I will be accused of unfilial piety.

This year happened to be a bumper harvest, and several new wines were developed. Not to mention just one more restaurant in Yongcheng, even a few more restaurants, the winery can also supply it!

Su Yunduo smiled and said, "Okay! I just don't know what kind of wine father wants, and how much does he need every month?"

Lu Mingyang handed the list to Su Yunduo. Su Yunduo read it carefully and was slightly surprised.

This list includes not only fruit wine, but also moderate liquor, and even products from Yujiefang. The required quantity is not small.

Su Yunduo silently stared at the list in his hand for a while, raised his head and asked seriously: "What is the population of Yongcheng?"

Lu Mingyang was slightly stunned at first, he is a martial artist and does not understand business, but it does not mean that he is a barbarian, at this moment when Su Yunduo asked him this question, he turned around in his heart, and roughly understood the meaning of Su Yunduo's question, with sharp eyes Straight to Minghai.

Ming Hai sighed inwardly. He knew that Su Yunduo was not easy to deceive, but his master's ears were soft. Aunt Bei would forget everything after a few words. The only good thing is that Lu Da is very clear-headed in terms of military affairs and border city defense.

After some discussions, the quantity of fruit wine was reduced by [-]%, and two cars were sent to Beibian City with medical liquor every month.

Moderate liquor is not discussed until the grain wine in the distillery is brewed.

Su Yunduo did not deduct the quantity of Yujiefang’s laundry products on the list, but did not deliver the goods from Yujiefang in the capital, but wrote a letter to Ming Hai, asking him to go to the Ge Take a trip to the mountain village, and all the toiletries, anti-icing cream, Jinchuang medicine, etc. from the Yongcheng Pharmacy will be shipped from the Pharmacy in Geshan Village to reduce freight costs and losses.

In addition to the variety and quantity of wine, Su Yunduo's arrangement can be said to be comprehensive. Ming Hai objected but couldn't say it out loud, so he had to accept Su Yunduo's letter and go to the Yujiefang branch in Geshan Village to transfer toiletries and medicinal materials.

Thinking of Lu Mingyang's words yesterday and the letter he handed to him, Ming Hai vowed to remind Lu Damo from time to time in the future.

(End of this chapter)