After a few days of such a busy journey, after calming down a little, Hajlan felt so tired that he refused to move. With the dream of the novel www.suimeng.lā and the ninth elder brother has no errands, nor does he have any mundane things, so he stays at home every day, so after the young couple discussed, they decided to go to the suburbs of Zhuangzi for a few days, and then come back before the Lantern Festival, as for the people who may come to visit, they have already seen what they should have seen anyway, and they have no time to pay attention to the rest.

They went to the Zhuangzi where the flowers and trees were planted, but in fact, the two Zhuangzi were only seven or eight miles away, and they were both within the range of a mountain. They went to one of them, and they were able to eat melons and vegetables sent by the other Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi is not big, and the place where he lives is newly built by Brother Jiu in advance. The small courtyard of the three entrances, but the main courtyard occupies the largest area, the layout of the inside is not according to the traditional courtyard style, the houses seem to be scattered randomly, in fact, they are all built on the hot springs, and even the waiting people live in the house has a small spring. The houses are connected by verandahs, which are made of ordinary materials without much decoration, but they are full of ingenuity. Brother Jiu also said that when it was first built, a literati with expertise in gardens was invited.

The main house where the husband and wife lived was divided into front and back rooms, and the hot spring was in the middle, covered by a small hugging building, forming a pool six or seven feet square. The room near the spring has a hot spring underneath, so the floor is warm. There was no bed in the room, only a special wooden couch, on which he slept on it, which was as warm as on the kang and less fire.

Hajlan lived here for a few days, and his life passed like a fairy. The couple didn't have to wait for anyone, only the two of them lived in the main room, and Brother Jiu and Hajlan were almost inseparable, which added to the intimacy between the two. The two of them lived happily, and they didn't have to worry about trivial matters. It's a pity that a few days later, the young couple reluctantly went out of the village and returned home before the Lantern Festival. After enjoying the dazzling lanterns of the Lantern Festival, this New Year is also coming to an end.

After the New Year, Brother Jiu didn't get tired of being with Hajilan all day, and Hajilan took advantage of the time to enter the fairyland garden from time to time, chatting with the shape-shifting tree, Mu Cang, and fire spirit, and taking care of the fairyland garden. And the affairs of the house, with the assistance of Mama Wuya, Mama Ge Fohe and Manager Wu, and the help of Manager Xu outside, were quickly sorted out. Then, according to the news from various industries in the prefecture, Hajlan first took care of the grain cultivation work in the Zhuangzi and the work of flowers, trees, melons and fruits that he was currently busy with. In addition to instructing the people in Zhuangzi to renovate water conservancy facilities during the slack time, Hajlan also asked people with rich experience in Zhuangzi to communicate more and learn from each other's strengths. She adjusted the accounts of Zhuangzi in previous years, and found that in spring and summer, flowers and melons and vegetables were sold in general, and only in autumn and winter they sold better, probably because other Zhuangzi also had these products when the weather was warm. Therefore, she specially asked someone to interrupt the work of Zhuangzi and invited Zhuangtou to readjust the industrial layout. In spring and summer, in addition to leaving two or three acres of land to plant some seasonal flowers and plants, most of the flower fields are replanted with flowers with higher economic value, such as those that can be used in medicine, tea, and varieties that can be made into spices and perfumes. Ornamental flowers can also be planted some, but peony flowers, planted according to the flowering season, no longer cultivated in autumn and winter, so as not to be difficult to bloom, not to mention, but also to spend a lot of effort to cook, other hot spring Zhuangzi has, it is better to spend on its head of the manpower and material resources on other flowers. In the cold season, it is good to produce more festive and popular flowers, which can be sold to large families in Beijing to decorate the bottles. Some flowers with average sales and low practical value are no longer planted at all.

In that restaurant, most of the people used in it were people under Brother Jiu, and Hajilan saw that they were doing well and doing a prosperous business, so she didn't care about it and let them go by themselves. The two shops, one is a silk shop, and the other is a seller of the four treasures of the study, and the business is okay, but after careful investigation, it is found that there are many problems.

She inquired about the silk shop, and was told that it sold everything from low-quality coarse silk to expensive brocade, but the expensive and high-priced goods were difficult to sell, and they were all accumulated in the shop. When she learned the location of the shop, she understood the reason. It was in the outer city, where ordinary wealthy families and Han officials lived, and the location was excellent, but not everyone could afford the expensive clothes. However, those who can afford it often have shops that buy clothes regularly. The shopkeeper of this shop originally wanted to catch all the customers from all walks of life, but he ignored the fact that how could people who could afford to buy brocade go to shops that sold inferior coarse silk? However, the cost of those expensive clothes is extremely high, and the money is pressed there. Therefore, she called the shopkeeper and asked him to think clearly about what kind of customer's business he wanted to do, and he said that according to the sales situation all along, it was best to only do business for middle- and lower-class customers, and he could sell some high-quality materials, but those goods that were tens of taels and horses should not be entered. The shopkeeper was troubled for two days, but finally agreed, and all the expensive clothes were bought by Hajlan at a 20% discount, and used for favors or personal use. From now on, the silk shop will only do the business of ordinary wealthy families or official eunuchs, and no longer hope that any royal palace will suddenly take a fancy to their materials.

The other one that sells the four treasures of the study has always made a meager profit, just because there are often people who want to befriend Brother Jiu, so it seems to be maintaining well on the surface. Hajlan asked the shopkeeper, and looked at the goods he had brought, and found that it was probably because the shop did not have its own workshop, so he could only buy the goods from other people's workshops and sell them. And some workshops with cooperative relations, each with its own background, the quality of the pen, ink, paper and inkstone produced is not the best, and it cannot be compared with Runzhuzhai on the side of the glaze factory. Hajilan heard Nalan say that pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are the best in Jiangnan, and Runzhuzhai is also a paper shop in the south. So he asked his mother's family for help, inquired about good workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and asked Mr. Xu to find two reliable family members to accompany the shopkeeper to the south to find a good source of goods. As for the original workshops, after inquiring about the relationship behind them and inspecting the quality of their products, only one paper-making workshop and one pen-making were left, and everything else was dismissed.

After cooking like this, she felt that all the industries in Beizi Mansion were smoother, and she was relieved. And the Zhuangzi in Hajran's dowry and the rented shop are easy to cook.