Jiangmen's direct daughter is busy farming

Chapter 73
When Jingyue finished frying the chestnuts and carried them into the study, she saw Xiao Chenyu was still sleeping on the soft couch, with nothing covering her body.She tiptoed in, put the plate of chestnuts on the desk, then found a cloak she usually wears, and gently covered Xiao Chenyu.

However, as soon as she put down the cloak with both hands, Xiao Chenyu grabbed her hand, opened his deep eyes suddenly, and looked affectionately at Jingyue who was a little panicked.

"Yue'er, will you marry me?"

"Yue'er, will you marry me?" This sentence was like a curse, and it circled in Jingyue's mind thousands of times, but she was not dizzy yet, so she calmed herself down quickly, and then lifted her hand from Xiaoyue's head. Chenyu pulled out his big and generous hand, turned around, walked two steps quickly to the desk, fingered the hot chestnuts lightly, and said leisurely: "Xiao Chenyu, although chestnuts are very fragrant and delicious when they are too hot, they are easy to eat. It's burning your mouth, you can eat it later, I have something to do in the kitchen, so I'll go get busy first!"

Looking at Jingyue's fleeing figure, Xiao Chenyu fell into deep thought for a long time.

In the next few days, Jingyue heard that the rumors about the massacre of the Zhang family in the capital had intensified. Xiao Chenyu had no intention of coming out to clarify for himself, and the Ling family was even more clinging to this point. In the end, King Xian came forward to investigate However, every time the key points are found, the clues are always broken, and it can only become an unsolved case.I don't know what King Xian and the Ling family said, and the Ling family didn't pursue the Zhang family's case any further, so they had to let it go.

After this incident, Tongjia Village and Tonghua Village have become more vigilant to the outside world. In order to prevent any more outside thieves from entering or internal thieves from rebelling, the two villages hold village meetings every month. More people patrol the village to see if there are outsiders entering, and even children are much more wary of outsiders.

Jingyue is naturally very happy to see this happening, because her small village is surrounded by mountains and two villages, and only when Tongjia Village and Tonghua Village are relatively safe can she feel more at ease.

Manager Song would write a letter every few days to report on the farming affairs of the farm in the northern suburbs, and sometimes Jingyue would ride a fast horse to the farm in the northern suburbs in the dark, and only after making sure that there was nothing wrong would she go to the farm on the second day. Return to the southern suburbs early in the morning.

On the last day of autumn, Song Qing came to Xiaozhuangzi in the southern suburbs with a ledger from the capital. Although the Yunshanglai pickle shop has not been open for a long time, it is widely favored by rich and wealthy households in Beijing and China because of its complete variety of pickles, fresh and delicious. Ye Yuntian's cooperation with Fumanlou has earned a lot of money.

"Second Miss, in the past few months, we have made a net profit of 3 taels in Yunshanglai by removing the principal. Now there are some vegetables in the greenhouse that can be picked up. It is estimated that the business of Yunshanglai will be better in winter." General Song Qing The ledgers were placed in front of Jingyue, and all the money earned in the past few months was handed over to her.

Jingyue asked Lengshuang to put away the account books and money, and she said to Song Qing: "Yunshanglai is just a small business. The business is good at the beginning because the people in the capital are fresh. After next spring, it is estimated that many people will follow suit and make pickles. If we want to make money, we must develop other markets.”

Song Qing thought that Jingyue's "opening up other markets" should mean doing other businesses. He himself is very business-minded, and he agrees with Jingyue's suggestion very much, but what should he do?
Jingyue saw that Song Qing also had plans in this regard, so she said to him: "I have already asked someone to take down the store next to Yunshanglai, and in a few days, I will open a 'Shuiyuezhai Chestnut Workshop' next to it. When the time comes, you will come to Yunshang to help spread the word. In addition, I will also open up the two houses, and you will be in charge of the accounts of the two stores."

Seeing that Jingyue trusted and valued him so much, Song Qing immediately knelt down and said, "This subordinate will definitely live up to the second lady's trust!"

Afterwards, Jingyue asked Gu Yu to follow Song Qing back to Yunshang, and asked the two of them to be in charge of Shuiyue Zhai together, mainly to build a stove in the backyard of Shuiyue Zhai for frying chestnuts.

On the opening day of Shuiyuezhai Chestnut Workshop, Jingyue didn't go. She heard Liu Zheng, who went to join in the fun, said: "Before the chestnuts come out of the pot, the fragrance has already attracted people from inside to outside. Those who taste it for free The chestnuts were quickly robbed.Afterwards, people who had fried chestnuts with sugar said that the chestnuts were delicious and not very expensive. Everyone rushed to buy them, and there was a long queue in front of Shuiyue Zhai.

Xiaoman and Liqiu who are in charge of frying chestnuts in Shuiyuezhai are the secrets of frying chestnuts taught by Jingyue herself, so the chestnuts fried by their hands are sweet, soft and glutinous, with endless aftertaste. Definitely not as good as Shui Yue Zhai.

Although Jingyue has opened another store in Beijing, she does not need to take care of everything in the store herself. From picking chestnuts, choosing chestnuts, delivering chestnuts, frying chestnuts, and selling chestnuts, she has already trained a group of people to do everything by herself. Became a hands-off shopkeeper, and began to seriously study the fields in the southern suburbs.

Almost all of the dozen or so mountains that the emperor rewarded her last time had chestnut trees, so she wasn't worried that Shuiyue Zhai would have no supply.

Now I don't have the Song family's [-] mu of good land in my hands. She still has thousands of mu of good land in the southern suburbs that Xiao Chenyu gave her. I really don't know how Xiao Chenyu got these fields. It is closer to her Xiaozhuangzi.

In Mengdong season, Jingyue goes out early every morning to inspect the fields. Now she has a lot of land in the southern suburbs, and the fields here are sandy loam soil. According to Jingyue's research, the sandy loam soil in the southern suburbs is the most suitable for planting. The best ones are sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts and watermelons. If you apply more fertilizer, it is also very suitable to grow vegetables.

After surveying the fields, Jingyue began to plan in detail the planting plan for the southern suburbs for the next two years.

First of all, she asked Zhongbao to take the three Zhongda brothers, the Liu brothers, Tong Daniu brothers from Tongjia Village, and several loyal villagers from Tonghua Village to deeply plow part of the good fields belonging to the Song family near Xiaoer Mountain. , and then cover the vegetable greenhouse.

Then, Jingyue asked Guanshi Liu to lead people to build a few seedling houses that were exactly the same as the farms in the northern suburbs. She also wrote in advance and asked Guanshi Song to send people to send all the seeds needed for the fields in the southern suburbs.

Finally, after Jingyue and the four maids raised the seedlings by themselves, she asked Tong to find some reliable women in Tongjia Village and Tonghua Village, and taught them to transplant these vegetable seedlings into the greenhouse.

By the time Jingyue finished most of the work in the field, winter had already passed for a month.During this period, Mrs. Su, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Xia all came to see her, and also sent her some winter padded clothes that she had personally made.

The men in the Song family are very busy. Only Song Jingyun would occasionally come to ask her about farming problems in the farm in the northern suburbs. Jingyue also learned from him that Song Jingrui, Song Jingkuan and Xiao Chenliang in the northern camp had already From a small soldier at the bottom to a small vanguard in the army.

(End of this chapter)