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Chapter 54 Planning
Liang Yimei took out a stack of blueprints and put them in front of Xu Runxin, and pointed them to him: "Look, I plan to dig a pond here and here, and then fill these places up. More than 20 acres and the nearly [-] acres in the middle are used to grow food, and the rest are all planted with mulberry trees. I have found someone to look at the sandy land at the foot of the mountain here. It can be used to lay foundations. I want to build a house here. , except for a small yard reserved for my family, the others are all used as workers’ houses and a place to raise silkworms.”

Xu Runxin raised his eyebrows, "You actually came up with such an idea, but no one here has raised silkworms, and they were raised in places further south before."

Liang Yimei smiled slightly: "Your grandfather has traveled all over the world and has never seen anyone. What's the matter with finding someone for your grandson?"

"Do you know that I will raise silkworms like you?"

"Didn't we discuss it when you said that?" Liang Yimei looked at Xu Runxin and said with a smile: "I have inquired about your piece of land, and it is much better than mine, especially the more than 500 acres on the far side. Not high-grade, but medium-grade is certain. Except for those, it may be very difficult to grow good food. I bought this land because it is close to the water. By then, we will raise food under the water. Crabs are raised on fish, ducks are raised on the water, and there are mulberry trees on the side, I heard that your silk and satin factory has been controlled by others."

Xu Runxin was a little surprised: "Have you even asked about this?"

Liang Yimei rolled her eyes, "Where is the use to inquire? Who doesn't know that last year your grandfather had a fight with the second master of the Liu family in Yangzhou. Wasn't it just to raise the price for the Liu family?"

Xu Runxin rubbed his nose and said nothing, Liang Yimei said: "If it succeeds this time, our three thousand acres will also be a new force, and the pressure on your family can also be reduced."

Xu Runxin looked at her suspiciously, "You will help me like this? What is the picture?"

Liang Yimei said righteously: "Am I that kind of person? At that time, I will directly provide you with raw silk, and you only need to give a fair price."

Xu Runxin looked at her without blinking. It was only strange to believe her. Liang Yimei touched her forehead. When did her reputation get so bad? "Okay, I heard that your restaurant is good. I raise so many fish, ducks and chickens. You have to consume some of it?"

Xu Runxin suddenly realized: "It turns out that you have taken a fancy to my family's Bugui Lou." Xu's family is a small landlord in Quanzhou, mostly involved in the silk and satin industry, but Xu Runxin's grandfather is very rich, and the Yan family has always been the dominant family in neighboring counties. What's more important is that they have shops for everything related to gourmet food. It is true that they are not ranked well in the whole country, but they are quite famous in this area. In recent years, the catering industry has become more and more difficult to do, so Yan Lao will do his best to help The son-in-law was in the silk business, but the Liu family, which had been cooperating with the Xu family last year, suddenly raised the price, which provoked a fight between the hot-tempered Yan Lao and the second master of the Liu family.

Liang Yimei was a little curious: "Buguilou is so famous, why doesn't Quanzhou County not have one? I heard that besides Buguilou, your family also has a lot of dim sum shops. My family has never seen it. I thought you were lying. At the beginning, I wanted to sell the fish from the pond in my backyard to your family, but I couldn’t find it. Now I have to sell it to Meimeizhai at a loss. Fifth Grandpa and Five Grandma loves money so much that she goes out to set up a stall almost every day."

Xu Runxin curled his lips, "Qian Qingshen is still taking advantage of you, that's what he is, so ignore him, but his brother is good, his name is Qian Qinghao, isn't he studying in the county school with Brother Lin now? He and Brother Lin is a scholar who passed the exam this year." Then he murmured, "I really don't understand, they are brothers from the same mother!"

"What did you say?" Liang Yimei didn't hear clearly for a while.

"It's nothing." Xu Runxin took a sip of tea embarrassingly thinking of his question. Seeing that Liang Yimei was still looking at him, he said hesitantly, "I heard... At that time, Mrs. Qian and my grandfather had verbally agreed on a marriage... Later my mother Married to my father...that's it."

Liang Yimei's eyes lit up, she made up her mind, made a good guess, stared at him and said, "Then your father and your mother must love each other very much, right?"

Xu Runxin proudly said: "Of course, my father is only my mother. When my mother gave birth to me, my health was not good, and my father didn't even ask for intercourse."

Liang Yimei nodded, this is indeed a bit rare in ancient times.

The two chatted here and there, forgetting their original intention completely, but the master of the Wu family smashed things in the study and angrily scolded his two sons: "Who told you not to plant, huh? Two thousand acres of land It’s just gone, what else do you think you can do? 500 taels, I bought it for 500 taels. When I was fighting with the Qian family, I spent nearly 7000 taels of silver. It costs more than three taels per mu. What do you do? It's gone."

Wu Huan, the son-in-law, had long since grown impatient, and retorted: "Father, those lands are not good, I really don't understand why you fought with the Qian family for it, and didn't say it didn't make any money after you bought it, and wasted seed money every year. If the first-class field like the one on the other side is not bad, but our family has been planting it for more than 20 years, it is really a second-class field."

The concubine Wu Yuan just stood obediently without saying a word, but Master Wu was a little timid. Back then, he was young and had always been at odds with Qian. He heard that he wanted to buy this land, but he saw that the land opposite him was just for raising a child. After a few years, it became a fertile and high-end land. I thought it should be the same on both sides of the strait, and it was a disaster year, so it should be cheap. Who knows that he kept fighting with him, and finally became a high price...

Seeing his father's face turning blue, Wu Yuan persuaded: "Father, it's really nothing. Anyway, we don't make any money from this land. Why don't we give it to Xu's family? We can still sell Xu's and Yan's face. The second brother recently Don't you just want to open a silk and satin shop, the Xu family and the Yan family have always loved Xu Runxin, maybe..."

"Yes, yes," Wu Huan said with a smile, "Father, we will bring some presents to Mr. Yan tomorrow. We have sold such a great face of his grandson, so he must introduce me."

Master Wu's complexion is better.

In Xu's mansion, the old butler found a richly carved box, "Master, what do you think of this?"

Yan Lao took a look, "Not simple enough."

The old housekeeper looked at the boxes scattered around and said: "I think this one is good, the material is good, and the carving is not bad. If you like it, you can put it in the bedroom to watch it. You can know the young master's filial piety to you without seeing it." , maybe in a few days, because of your good mood and better health, the purpose of the young master's gift will be achieved."

Yan Lao laughed, and responded cheerfully: "Okay, I will pack it in this box as you said, and put it next to my bed every night."

The old butler breathed a sigh of relief. He had been looking for boxes since he got up in the morning, and now it was time.

The old housekeeper handed the box to Yan Lao, and Yan Lao took out the ginseng from the inconspicuous box, put it gently into the richly carved box, smelled it and said, "This is the best thousand-year-old ginseng," and then Looking at the box, he said: "This person doesn't know how to cherish it too much, he just used any box to put it in."

The old housekeeper smiled and said: "If it wasn't like this, who would be willing to sell it? I think the family is really struggling, and the young master is filial. I heard that the old lady of Qian's mansion got a 500-year-old ginseng by accident. I kept paying attention to it, but I didn’t expect that the young master actually ran into it.”

Yan Lao snorted coldly, "I heard it was sent up by brothers from the Liang family?"

The old butler couldn't see through the master's thoughts, so he just replied truthfully: "Yes, I heard that it was for asylum."

Yan Lao smiled sarcastically: "Asylum? But last time I heard Xin'er come back and said that their Delicious Vegetarian only buys fish for twelve yuan a catty a day..."

The old housekeeper was a little anxious, and said: "No one dares to bully them in this county now."

Yan Lao looked at him angrily: "That kid goes there every day, even the two boys from the Shang family and the Zheng family visit them from time to time, who dares to be so short-eyed? Oh, no, there really are So short-sighted."

The old butler knew that he was talking about Qian Qingshen, but the grievances between the master and the Qian family could not be cleared up for a while, so he covered his head and remained silent.

Yan Lao said: "Don't worry, I won't do anything. If I really bring this fish over, those two little babies will suffer in the end. However, the Qian family may not have used so much."

What's not enough for a fish in a small pond?
Old Yan smiled inscrutablely, and said, "Send someone to Liang's house and tell him that I want to eat fish at night, old man, and ask Xin'er to bring two fish back when he comes back."

The old housekeeper responded, and called a servant to go to Liuzixiang, "...if there is no one in Liuzixiang, go to the west of the city."

The boy seemed to be used to this, so he responded and ran away.

Liang Yimei and the others were still at home. Xu Runxin waved him away after hearing what the boy said, and ran to the kitchen door and said, "Little Meizi, you can cook more. I'll take it back and eat it with my grandpa later. I want to go back and discuss it with grandpa soon."

Liang Yimei didn't stop her subordinates, and said in her mouth, "Understood."

At noon, the two of them were still in the field and only ate some snacks. Now they are about to have dinner. After discussing things, they felt very hungry. Liang Yimei went to the pond in the backyard to catch a few fish. He caught two chickens out, thinking that the two of them would eat one, and save one for the fifth grandpa and fifth grandma at night. Now that he said that, he had to take out the one that had just been processed.

Xu Runxin just stayed at the door of the kitchen, smelling the aroma, his stomach was rumbling with hunger, and he couldn't take it anymore, so he shouted, "Why is it taking so long?"

Liang Yimei put a chopstick of food into her mouth and said, "You said you wanted to take it back to eat with your grandfather. Of course you can't finish all these dishes all at once."

"You steal it!" Xu Runxin accused, regardless of what the sages said about "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen", he went straight into the kitchen, took a pair of chopsticks, picked up a plate of hot and sour sausage on the stove, and ate it. Fifth Grandma bought it at noon. It was originally for them to eat, but they didn't come back. Liang Yimei reheated it just now.

Liang Yimei pouted, she thought he would rather starve to death than go into the kitchen?
When Xu Runxin left, he carried two baskets, one containing a pickled fish and one braised in soy sauce, and the other a whole chicken.Xu Runxin's stomach was already two points full, and he didn't feel as uncomfortable as at the beginning, but smelling the fragrance, he still hurried back.

　Novice Xu Run held pickled cabbage fish, "Want to eat it? Here's the pink ticket!"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)