The rich and noble peasant daughter

Chapter 48
Du Zhou's eldest daughter, Du Yunxia, ​​came back on the night of NO.20, and brought her husband Lin De back.The young couple were shocked when they saw the Du family's new house.Although they knew about building a new house, they thought it was just a house with three or four rooms, but they never expected it to be such a good house.

Mrs. Du Zhou moved all the things from the old house here, and chose an auspicious day, and invited all the tablets of the ancestors of the Du family, and she even opened a ancestral hall at home to put them.Maybe it was because she had some spare money on hand, so she was very generous and bought some new furniture. Even Yun Xi and Yun Yao had a dressing table, although there was no bronze mirror on the dressing table, after all, bronze mirrors were still a bit expensive. But the two girls are already very satisfied.

Du Zhou placed her daughter and son-in-law in the east wing, talked to her a lot, and secretly gave Du Yunxia two taels of silver.At that time Yunxia got married, and because of her family background, the dowry was rather thin, but she treated her eldest daughter badly, and Du Zhou wanted to make up for her.

Only then did Du Yunxia realize that in this short month, the Du family had earned a lot of money.She was both happy and melancholy.The happy thing is that her mother's family finally came to the end of the hardships, but the sad thing is that these things have nothing to do with her.

The reason why Du Yunxia came back early was to tell her mother something.Her father-in-law had a few cronies in the city who worked in the yamen, and they revealed something when they were drunk.That is, Da Chu intends to allocate funds to strengthen the embankment of the Chu River to prevent floods.It is said that this project will take at least half a year to build.This construction work is not a small project. If there are not enough people, it will become a joke.Except for some people who used their labor to fight against the corvee, the emperor of Dachu planned to recruit long-term laborers to repair the river with [-] Wen a day.

Fifty coins a day, one or two and a half a month, I'm afraid there will be many people rushing to go there.Her father-in-law's cronies and friends came in handy this time, saying that if they want to enter the team, they can help fill in three of them.

Du Yunxia's husband, Lin De, wanted to go to work.Du Yunxia thought, if her father planned to go too, then she would ask her father-in-law for help, even if it was about the meat and rice delivered to and from the Du family, there would be no second thoughts at home.

She was indeed kind, but she didn't expect such a big change in the Du family. Instead of building the embankment, Du Yifu might as well make a few more buckets of grass jelly and jelly at home.

After Yun Xi knew about this, she directly asked Du Yunxia, ​​"Sister, is this project really big?"

Du Yunxia nodded, "I heard that the construction team will have at least 1 people. About 3000 people will be recruited, all of whom will be recruited from the counties near the Chu River." The Yang River is a small tributary of the lower reaches of the Chu River.

Du Zhou was stunned, "Ten thousand, our entire Fenghuang County may not have 1."

Yun Xi continued to ask: "In the case of repairing the river, do you provide the three meals by yourself or by the government?"

Yun Xia smiled and said, "Of course I brought it there by myself. The yamen is just providing some tea at most. What are you asking for?"

Naturally, Yun Xi didn't aim for nothing, she also wanted to support the Lin family.The Lin family is doing well, and only her cousin has a good life.She asked: "Sister, there will be so many people over there, I'm afraid there will be many shops selling food nearby?"

Du Yunxia nodded, "It's natural."

Yun Xi smiled and said, "Sister, I think it's better for you and your brother-in-law to sell boxed lunches than to let brother-in-law go to repair the river. There will be so many people at that time, so you won't have to worry about business."

She analyzed with Du Yunxia, ​​"One lunch box of yours sells for about ten yuan, and one serving contains two dishes, which is cheaper than the ones sold in shops outside. The rice should be filled more, and the fried dishes should be saltier. If you order more than two Ten copies, you can still deliver the goods to your door. If this is the case, the business must be good.”

(End of this chapter)