Of course, Qin Hanzhen needs to make up for people around him, but he doesn't need to buy them from outside.

Now that I am away from home, it is enough to have three or four people around to serve, anyway, there is a mother-in-law in the six-room old house who can do it for me. The close work, plus the errands in the inner house, is enough for Qingxing, Baiqiao, Lianshi, and Lianrui. Even if there is one less green apricot, it will not be busy. Qin Hanzhen asked herself that she was a very good talker, and she was not squeamish in life, and she had three girls for her to call, which was more than enough. When she returned to the capital, there was still a big girl in her yard, Xia Qing, as well as two little girls in Lotus Leaf and Lotus Yi, and there were no rough mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. When you move into your new home, you're sure to add more. Where does she have to worry about no one filling Qingxing's place?

Speaking of which, maybe it's because she has been in Jiangnan for a long time, and Qingxing has long known that she is leaving, after such a half-year reprisal, the parting feelings between Qin Hanzhen and her have become much weaker, and they are not as sad as they were at the beginning. That's not bad either. Qingxing's age, it was almost time to get married, and she wouldn't stay by Qin Hanzhen's side for long, but now it's just a good time to get together and disperse. Qin Hanzhen didn't plan to choose another newcomer to take her place before she left. Qingxing also stepped up the training of the little girl candidate she was optimistic about, looking forward to leaving in the future, and Qin Hanzhen still had a reliable and caring girl by her side.

Zhao Mo saw that Qin Hanzhen had no intention of making up for people, so he didn't say much. Another day, he went to the government to visit Wu Shaoying, and inquired about those prisoners or rich slaves who had been sold by the government in the near future.

When Wu Shaoying learned of his intention, he said: "The person who commands the envoy family, the grandson had better not make up his mind." However, the two Yangzhou salt merchants who colluded with his family were also raided at the end of last year. These two salt merchants had a big business, and there were countless industries and slaves under their names, and they didn't have time to settle it properly for a while, and the Yangzhou Mansion and the government delayed until the year before sending the list of accounts to the governor's yamen. I have taken a few looks, and found that the slaves of the family who had been sold, but all those who were young and strong, or who were good-looking, and who could speak well, had in fact been bought almost all the time in the year. I don't know how much of it is here. The rest of them have not been bought so far, most of them are honest, lonely, old, weak, sick and disabled, or have bad popularity, and there are also talented little stewards and the like, but they will not come to the problem, so they are not looked down upon. In addition, there are also field slaves on the grange, or craftsmen who are kept by salt merchants. If the grandson is interested, send two people to Yangzhou to have a look, maybe there will be someone who can make you look at it. ”

Zhao Mo thought for a while: "It's okay." "Yangzhou is not Jinling, and it is relatively easy to alarm others by sending people to buy people. Besides, it was not a slave of an official eunuch, but a low-level slave in the salt merchant, and the possibility of being involved behind him was very low. He needed a man of skill who could be used as soon as he bought it, and if the servant of the salt merchant could satisfy his needs, what if he was old, weak, sick and disabled?

When he buys someone, he won't directly place him in Huaiqingqiao's house. Zhang Gongzi is still recuperating there, and there are guards sent by Huang Jincheng to guard them, at most they can only squeeze out a few rooms for their own master, where can they still arrange the newly bought slaves? Zhao Mo is ready to send all the newcomers to the small village in Hangzhou, which is transferred to the tea business, and let them rest for a while, so that they can teach the rules of the Pope's mansion, lest they still follow the rules of the salt merchants in their minds. When the people are transferred, the will of the knighthood on his side must have come down, and he just loaded the people directly onto the ship, shipped them directly to Cangzhou, and transferred them to Suning. They don't have to enter Beijing, they can pick up the matter of the county king's mansion first.

Zhao Mo got the letter, thanked Wu Shaoying, and went to Huang Jincheng, and got a few words of internal information, and he was more sure in his heart. He didn't go back to Huaiqingqiao's house, thinking that the days he could live there would not be long, but he didn't know how to settle it in the future? But since it was Qin Bai's house that gave him, he had no reason to take it out, I am afraid that he would have to keep it first, Huang Jincheng could borrow it when necessary, anyway, with the help of the other party, he was not afraid that this house would be decayed if no one took care of it. If he returns to Jiangnan one day in the future, this house will naturally come in handy.

Zhao Mo rode back to Qinzhuang. On the road, he saw a rider and a car not far ahead, and the back of the man riding the horse looked familiar, and when he got closer, it turned out to be Zhou Xiangnian, the chief butler of the Qin Bai family! Zhou Xiangnian and the coachman walked left and right, chatting and hurrying, looking very harmonious, they were going to Qinzhuang together?

As soon as Zhou Xiangnian saw Zhao Mo sideways, he stopped the carriage and horse, turned over and dismounted to greet him: "Why is the grandson here?

Zhao Mo greeted him with a smile, and then asked, "Is Uncle Zhou going out to run errands today?"

Zhou Xiangnian said with a smile: "Master Hou instructed me to ask every day when the canal will be reopened and when the boat will be able to go north." No, I've got another boat trip today. That is the boat company that our Hou Ye hired when he traveled to Jiangnan before, and it is the most credible. According to his family, the canal in Yangzhou has been opened, but further north, to the Huai River, it is temporarily impassable. At this time, even the boat company didn't dare to boast easily that Haikou took over the business of our Hou Mansion, and I had no choice but to come back and report to the Hou Ye first. I'm afraid it won't be until late February. ”

I see. Zhao Mo said with a smile: "Uncle Zhou is hard. His eyes had turned to the coachman.

The coachman shrank his head. He was still sitting on the wheel, did not get out of the car, stunned, and did not look like he knew the etiquette of a wealthy family.

Zhou Xiangnian caught a glimpse and hurriedly explained to Zhao Mo: "This is a person and a car hired from the city's carriage and horse shop, and I asked him to help pull some goods back to the village." He was still a little embarrassed when he said, "Although I don't know when Mrs. Hou will leave to return to Beijing, I can't wait long." At the moment, I am still quite idle, so I want to go into the city to go shopping, see what new clothes, fat powder, and jewelry are available, and I can bring a few back to the old lady, wife and children at home. I've been out for more than a year, and when I finally get back to my family, I naturally want to bring some gifts to make my family happy. ”

Zhao Mo knew that he needed to hire a big car to pull things, of course, it couldn't be just a souvenir to his family, maybe Zhou Xiangnian also did some extra money to bring goods into Beijing for resale. In fact, this is nothing, even Qin Bai has instructed the people below to bring some high-quality goods from Jiangnan into Beijing to make a little difference. Zhou Xiangnian is a big housekeeper, what's wrong with earning some private money for himself? Zhao Mo himself also instructed his subordinates to bring more sought-after and light goods back, rouge gouache and silk muslin are all big heads, and stationery supplies are also essential, even if they are not taken out, they can be used to give them away, which is both decent and expensive.

Zhou Xiangnian was the housekeeper of the Qin family, and he was given by the emperor from the Internal Affairs Office, Zhao Mo had no intention of pursuing his private affairs, so he only laughed it off. On the way back to Qinzhuang, he had Zhou Xiangnian with him, and he could chat a few words, but he didn't feel lonely.

Zhou Xiangnian may know his own business, and he also knows that Zhao Mo is smart, I am afraid that he has already guessed the secret on the big car behind him, but he is silent, very interesting. He was grateful in his heart, and he was willing to repay the favor: "I heard that Shisun is planning to buy a farm property recently, so I have asked people everywhere about farming? I don't dare to say anything else, but when it comes to farming, my brother is definitely a good hand! If Shisun is really interested, why don't I let my brother tell you about it? What do you want to know, just ask him." ”

Zhou Xiangnian's younger brother, Zhou Changnian, is indeed an expert in farming. After coming to Jiangnan for more than a year, he basically soaked in several industries under Qin Bai's name, specializing in how to increase the output of grain crops in the field, and it is said that the effect is not bad. If it weren't for the fact that he had been away for a long time and hadn't even come to Qinzhuang for the New Year, Qin Hanzhen and Zhao Mo would have found him a long time ago. Now that Zhou Xiangnian said that he was willing to send his brother to the door, how could Zhao Mo let it go?

He immediately thanked Zhou Xiangnian, and then said: "If Uncle Tuesday is busy with affairs and it is inconvenient, I will ask him for advice by letter, and it is the same, I don't have to bother Uncle Tuesday to come back specially for a trip." ”

Zhou Xiangnian smiled and waved his hand: "Don't worry, it's almost time for him to come back." On the day when the second dragon raised its head in February, my brother was bound to return to Qinzhuang. Zongfang has already told our Hou Ye that I must let my brother participate in this year's spring festival. How to cultivate the fields of the Qin family's houses, and my brother needs to help guide them. ”

In fact, this is all caused by the grain output that rose by nearly 20% last year. With such a capable master here, how could the Qin clan let it go?

Zhao Mo understood in his heart, and only laughed at it.

They soon returned to Qinzhuang, so they all slowed down their horses and slowly rode towards the Liufang Ancestral House.

Who knew that when they passed in front of the Zongfang mansion, they saw a sedan chair stopped at the side door, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who looked a little pretty, was reasoning with the mother-in-law guarding the side door in a sharp voice: "Our girl is the maiden niece and nephew of your Zongfang wife." The girl is about to go back to Songjiang, and she came to say goodbye to her aunt, why don't you let us in?!"

The woman only sneered: "You girl is going to bluff people here." When who doesn't know? Our wife has already spoken, and we don't see Miss Shen. Second Miss Shen had better go back earlier. How can there be a reason in the world that a girl from a big family only goes out with a girl? Don't let outsiders see the joke!"

The girl kept making trouble, although the sedan chair did not move, but the sedan curtain was shaking endlessly, obviously, the people in the sedan chair were also a little anxious. The people who came to carry the sedan chair, I was afraid that they were all hired by the nearby town, and they all avoided the side, waiting to see the gossip with each other.

Zhao Mo glanced at it from a distance and ignored it. Zhou Xiangnian raised his eyebrows: "What is this messing about?"