delicious little cook

Chapter 953 How to Repay the Grace of Saving Life
The large and small shareholders had dinner in the factory cafeteria at noon, and in the afternoon they told their relatives and friends about the change of shareholders. Gu Yun sent two groups of people, one to go to the government to go through the formalities, and the other to send money to Shi Tianmin. The discounted amount varies from fraction to fraction, and Gu Yun added a little bit to round it up.

The housekeeper of the Grand Princess' Mansion looked at the guards of Lord Ye's Mansion who came to deliver the money, holding an envelope that was bigger than last time, and thanked him repeatedly with tears in his hands.

After completing the formalities at the government office, the palace knew about it that day. The saint just smiled and asked his granddaughter through the queen if Bai Kou had any new business plans recently. Bai Kou's large bounty that has been accumulated for several years has probably been exhausted, so earning money quickly is her top priority.

Princess Jingyun doesn't know Bai Kou's recent plan, but since she is now the major shareholder of the farm, I believe she will not let herself lose money. It is quite exciting to see how the farm will develop in the future.

The news finally reached Shi Tianqi's ears. She learned that Bai Kou was now the number one shareholder of the farm. She remembered the way Gu Yun looked at Bai Kou, and then looked at the unfinished funeral at home, and how her husband's family treated her now. He wanted to kill all the men in this family, leaving the women in the family to be bullied by the clan every day, robbed of their property, and cry with nothing.

Shi Tianmin liquidated all the assets under his name, and the tens of thousands of taels he collected was still a drop in the bucket, because a lot of money gained from smuggling over the years did not become assets, and a considerable part of it was spent on attracting supporters. In addition, they have to maintain the luxurious life of the children of their heavenly family. It is a daily routine to eat hundreds of taels of silver for a meal. It's not as good as Gu Yun's factory, especially in the current situation, those who are willing to take over are severely lowering the price, even if they want to sell it for money, they can't sell it at a good price, and how can they make money if there is no real thing that can be realized.

Regretting that all the money was spent on eating, drinking and having fun, it is too late now. Seeing that the princess mansion is going to become an empty shelf with no money to maintain a decent appearance, and so many people in the mansion eat, drink and scatter every day. The servants also know that it is meaningless to reduce the population of the mansion. They don't know what will happen to the saint in the end.

Bai Kou took office as a new official, and borrowed the site of the palace to cook a banquet in person, and invited all the shareholders to have a big meal. At the banquet, it was mentioned that she would go to the farm. She wanted to visit it when she was a minority shareholder. Look, but things have been dragging on until now and I haven't been there. Now that she is the number one shareholder, she must go.

As soon as she said this, everyone wanted to go, but everyone had their own business to do, and they couldn't get together during the time a year ago, and the final agreement was that the major shareholders would take this trip, Gu Yun and Gong Changji has never been there, Ning Peilan is also very interested, and Bai Kou, there are two men and two women, two cars are enough.

After the banquet, the four of them made an appointment for a departure date, and first sent people to the farm to make preparations. They each packed their luggage and arranged things.

On the day of departure, Gu Yun borrowed from his grandmother the new carriage that she had just brought back from the craftsman a few days ago. It was exactly the same as Bai Kou's carriage, but she was an old matriarch with a mandate, and the carriage was wider. There are more hidden compartments, and there are even hooks for hanging winter cloaks. A heater is placed under the folding table, which can still allow both parties sitting opposite to straighten their legs.

Gong Changji and his wife still brought their carriage, but it was used to pull luggage. When they met on the street, the couple got into Bai Kou's and Gu Yun's cars respectively, and it took them half a day to walk by land. Don't make yourself uncomfortable.

There is only one safety standard for a new carriage. When there is a heater in the car, the ventilation windows must be opened to prevent smoke poisoning. The windows are all glass inlaid, and the airtightness is very good.

The journey went smoothly. Old Cui drove ahead. He was familiar with all kinds of road conditions. With him leading, the cars behind also drove smoothly.

In fact, this road can go all the way to the Dongshou site, Guanzhuang Balidu. The small hill on the farm is the tail of the remaining veins of the Balidu mountain forest, so the mountain is not high. Walking along the ridge will eventually lead to the lush main mountain range.

After arriving at the farm, the accommodation arranged for everyone was the house on Gu Yun's own land, instead of living in a ready-made village.

The stewards and deacons on the farm came early and waited to meet the three big housekeepers, especially the current number one shareholder, the head shopkeeper Bai Kou. They all heard that she was going to buy a deputy for herself. The right to recommend candidates is in the hands of their own masters. These stewards and deacons who have been working on the farm for a long time are all worried. They don’t know how their masters will arrange them. The monthly salary of the deputy general manager is 30 taels of silver. How many people are jealous, a year's salary and New Year's rewards add up, enough to buy a one-acre civilian house in Shangfang, who wouldn't want to grab such a good job.

Bai Kou finished talking with them skillfully, recognized their achievements in work, calmed their anxiety, and left them to have dinner together, and then dismissed each of them to rest. Looking in the direction of the mountains, my heart is ready to move, and I have a new plan.

Where there are mountains and forests, there are mountain delicacies, but the yield and quality of the wild are not stable. For your own appetite, let's cultivate a fungus artificially.

But this hill alone is not enough, why not... lease the forest from the sage?
Bai Kou glanced at the mountain, turned around, and found Gu Yun and Ning Peilan, squinting her eyes and smiling silently.

Two imperial merchants, ready-made lobbyists.

Ok, deal.

Whether the saint rents or not is his business, but he has to try to mention it to him once. If he tries, he may still have a chance. If he doesn't try, he will have no chance at all.

After a night's rest, the next day, the four of Bai Kou ran around every corner of the farm in a carriage, and even met Carpenter Song's family who had come to work on the farm earlier. Under the careful treatment of the government doctor, Their injuries are almost healed, and they can work with their hands, so they don't want to stay in the palace for free, and ask to come to the workshop to make preparations and make new prototypes.

The villagers in those five villages respect Gu Yun and others very much. The incident provoked by Hedong Village at the beginning of the year gave them a profound lesson and memory that they will never forget in this life. For the money, the man farms the land and the woman breeds. Although food and oil are now expensive to buy, the whole family earns more money than before, which offsets the increased living expenses. The villagers have a stable and good life. I wish to annoy these nobles again and return to the poor days before.

And so many disaster victims from Dacheng Mansion were scattered into these five villages. Their population is about the same as that of Hedong Village, so they are not allowed to live together, they must be separated, and there is no extra space for them. Build your own village.

Bai Kou took a special look at the construction of the factory area. Grandpa’s Zhangji Iron Shop will be moved here to open a big semicolon. Smelting requires a lot of water, so they occupy a piece of land near the water, and do it in places that do not rely on water. storage and other uses.

The latest textile machine of Carpenter Song's family is also driven by water power. If the prototype is successful, Bai Kou promises to build a large factory that can use hundreds of new textile machines, and strongly intervene in this traditional industry to grab business, and the Song family will also get rich rewards.

Bai Kou spent several days walking around the farm. Outside the border of the land, the villagers of other villages knew that there was a big man who could make decisions here. Under the leadership of a prestigious old man, a group of people came to ask for help in the severe winter. Seeing the person in charge, he begged Gu Yun and Gong Changji to lease their village's land and give the villagers a better way of life.

Naturally, Gu Yun and Gong Changji didn't agree to them hastily, they just invited them to drink tea and have a rest while asking Bai Kou to come back and talk to them.

Seeing that a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was the real person in power, these elders were dumbfounded, and felt that they had been humiliated by coming here, even if the people around them said that Bai Kou was the number one shareholder and The chief shopkeeper, she really has the final say, and the villagers still don't believe that such a big business is actually decided by a little girl.

Since they didn't listen, everyone didn't explain any more, and saw off the guests after the refreshments were invited.

Those villagers left indignantly, thinking that the trip was useless, Bai Kou didn't bother to talk to them, it was a waste of her time.

After this little episode was laughed at by everyone, it was thrown to the back of my mind. After seeing all the land, Bai Kou walked along the border, and had a clear impression of the field in his heart. .

On the day of the return trip, at noon, everyone got out of the car and lit the stove to cook some noodle soup for lunch. Gu Yun's nose was stuffy, and he wondered if he had caught a cold. He put down his job and went back to the car for a nap. When he lay down on the bed, the stove under the table was burning, but he forgot, in order to keep the cabin warm, he and the palace chief closed the ventilation window before getting out of the car.

Gong Zhangji ate hot noodle soup, talked with his wife for a while, and waited for the servants to fill a thermos of boiling water and make a new pot of tea. The group returned to the car and opened the door to get on the car.

Seeing that Gu Yun was sleeping soundly, everyone even said a few jokes, but after putting down the hot water bottle and tea tray, the servants got out of the car with the heater and prepared to replace it with new charcoal before putting it back. Gong Zhangji raised his eyes inadvertently and saw Guan With the ventilation window closed, he took another look at Gu Yun who was sleeping soundly, and his face turned pale with shock.

"Oops! Gu Yun!"

The servants outside the car door turned their heads in a panic, "My lord! What happened?"

Gong Changji didn't have time to pay attention, he threw himself in front of Gu Yun and even slapped him a few times, seeing that he couldn't wake up, and the car door was open, the cold wind was blowing in, Gu Yun didn't wake up from the cold, obviously something happened.

"Gu Yun's smoke is poisoned, come and carry him down!"

There was a series of exclamations around the carriage, Gu Yun's guards rushed into the carriage, two people carried him to the field, the other took his cloak and spread it on the dry weeds first, then carefully put him down.

Bai Kou broke through the crowd and squeezed in. First, he felt Gu Yun's neck vein and found that it was still beating. He immediately lifted his chin to open the airway, untied his collar to observe the rise and fall of his chest, then lowered his head and pinched his nose to give He does artificial respiration.

Under the entourage of onlookers, people didn't dare to show their breath, they all watched quietly, Ning Peilan even leaned on her husband with limp legs, praying for Gu Yun nervously.

Gu Yun got into the car to sleep first, Gong Changji was delayed for a while, but in general the interval was not long, and he found it in time, Gu Yun did not fall into a deep coma, Bai Kou only performed artificial respiration for a short while before he woke up Turning around, but deliberately lying still with eyes closed, trying to make this indescribable moment last for a while longer.

But how can this kind of cleverness deceive Bai Kou? He can deceive others by pretending to be dead and lying down, but breathing on his own is enough to expose his small plans.

Bai Kou found out that he was actually pretending to be dead when he woke up, and instead of making a scene, he straightened up, pulled his collar wider, and began to perform chest compressions.

The chest was pressed hard enough to cause rib injuries, Bai Kou sincerely gave him a little pain, concentrated all his strength on his hands, and pressed hard.

"Oh!" Gu Yun screamed and sat up, clutching his chest and panting in pain, "Bone is broken!"

Seeing that Gu Yun came back to life, they didn't care if his bones were broken or not. They cheered excitedly together. The guards of Lord Ye's mansion even thanked all the gods in the sky. If something happened to the son, they would not be able to eat them all. go around.

"Gu Yun! Do you know that you scared us to death?! You don't open the ventilation window when you sleep? Do you want to die?!" Gong Changji knelt down, hugged Gu Yun for a while, and then slapped him on the head , and cursed.

"Still beating? My bones are all injured, and you still beat me so hard?!"

"It deserves it!" Gong Zhangji raised his hand as if to slap him again, Gu Yun hurriedly hugged his head and curled up into a ball.

"My lord, he's already stupid enough. If he beats him up again, it won't be easy to explain to the Duke and Madam when he goes back. Let them beat him." Bai Koo suggested in a low tone.

"It makes sense, I'll listen to you." The palace chief Ji put his hands back and got up, "Let your parents teach you."

"Hey, hey, are you going to be so ruthless?! I just narrowly escaped death?!"

"You asked for it, no one sympathizes with you."

Gong Changji made a grimace, and led his wife to send her back to Bai Kou's carriage, but Bai Kou ignored Gu Yun, only Gu Yun's bodyguard helped him up and sent him back to the carriage, remembering to open the carriage this time. transom.

After the heart-stopping accident, everyone calmed down, cleaned up the venue in an orderly manner, and hurried back to the capital.

During the second half of the journey, Gu Yun smirked all the way, Gong Zhangji rolled his eyes and told him not to do that.

"Can you stop laughing like that? I thought there was an extra idiot in the car. Let's have a good rest and think about something."

"Bai Kou saved me!"

"You don't need to say it, everyone has seen it."

"There is no way to repay the grace of saving my life. I think I should express my gratitude with a promise of my body."

Gong Changji's shock was no small matter, and he almost slipped from his seat to the floor of the carriage.

"Can you say that again?!"

"What did you say? A promise with your body?"

"I suddenly felt that you should have deliberately courted death just now."

"No, if you don't come back in time, then I'm doomed? How could I do such a stupid thing?!" Gu Yun lifted his chin, triumphantly.

Gong Changji rolled his eyes, resisted the urge to beat him up, called the driver, got out of the car and went back to his own carriage, he would rather endure the bumps on the road than Gu Yun's foolish look.

I have never seen such a stupid boy.

(End of this chapter)