CHAPTER XXXIX
Yan Xiaoyue has always been served by Hui Xiu Lingqiao's four maids, but now Yuehuazhuang has a lot of affairs, and Jin Hui and Jin Xiu were sent by her to manage the affairs of Zhuangzi, so that some people around them are short of manpower, and Yu is to let people buy four little maids one after another.
Among the maids bought this time was a girl named Yinhua, who was only eight years old but extremely stable, and her family had been in the fat powder business in the north for generations, but for some reason the whole family was arrested and imprisoned, and she became an official slave.
Yan Xiaoyue bought a silver bottle from the official servant, and there was a very conspicuous sentence marked on the household register: If you are a slave for life, you cannot change your registration. At this time, Xiao Yue knew that there were two kinds of slaves and maids in the death contract, some of them could go to the yamen to improve their nationality as long as the master was willing to release them, like Jin Hui and a few of them, and like the silver bottle, who was convicted by the government yamen, not only could not change their nationality but also their descendants could not change it, unless you could find evidence to rehabilitate your crimes.
Since she had a silver bottle, Yan Xiaoyue built two separate houses for her in the kitchen, planted pear blossoms in Dongshan, which used to be planted with mulberry trees, and planted all kinds of flowers and plants on the top of the mountain, and gave her a recipe to study with peace of mind. These things are Xiaoyue's bargaining chips, and the focus of the future plan to operate in the imperial city, once successful, the silver will be rolling in and can't be stopped, so I have repeatedly told the silver bottle to be cautious and try repeatedly.
This year's Yuehuazhuang is busier, the silkworm room has increased to six, every day can collect 1,000 catties of silkworm cocoons, weave dozens of silk, this year's spring tea in the tea garden to make 158 catties of bud tea, more than 600 catties of leaf tea.
The tea leaves of this era are far less than the modern varieties and have no names, such as the tea in Chiba Town, which is also called Chiba Bud Tea, Chiba Tea and Chiba Tea Cake. Xiaoyue was named Yuehua Maojian, Yuehua Biluochun, and Yuehua Yunwu Tea. The tea trees in the Zhuangzi are often irrigated with the water of the spiritual spring, and the quality of the tea is getting better and better.
Ye Qingdu quipped: "Grandpa is much better for the tea tree than for his own grandson." provoked the old man to laugh and scold the "rabbit cub".
In June, Yan Xiaoyue transported the 100 catties of Yuehua Maojian produced in the tea garden, the 600 catties of Yuehua Biluochun and the 500 catties of fermented tea cakes made last year, as well as the 1,000 horses of silk produced in the weaving workshop to the imperial city and handed them over to Zigui. And sent a letter to him that he was going to go out to study for a period of time, and the future business would let Jin Hui contact him, and after explaining clearly, he also began to prepare the luggage for the trip.
There has been no change in the space this year, the propagation of white jade bamboo is extremely slow, and the branches of the ancient tea of Qianye can only be raised in the spiritual spring, and it seems that it cannot be planted in batches.
Yan Xiaoyue looked at the space, since the second upgrade of the space, the extra place has been empty, Xiaoyue feels that there should be some different varieties, and the most abundant species is in the tropical rainforest, although I don't know if there is here, but if you go to the tropics, there will definitely be more species,
So, Yan Xiaoyue hit the idea to the southernmost country, Nanyi Kingdom, and learned from the travelogue and Yang Thorn History that Nanyi Country was a vassal country of the Zhou Dynasty, there was no autumn and winter, the weather was hot for most of the year, the precipitation was abundant, and the products were naturally extremely rich.
In July, Yan Xiaoyue took Jin Ling and Jin Qiao to the south under the scorching sun, first to the west of Lingnan County, and then took a boat along the Dadu River to the south, which lasted more than a month to reach Nanyi Kingdom, Nanyi Country is a peninsula country, the land area is only the size of a county in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but there are many people, and there are many more people walking on the streets than Lingnan County.
At this time, it was already the beginning of September, and it was time to wear a jacket in the imperial city, but in Nanyi Kingdom, Xiaoyue actually saw a short-sleeved or even sleeveless dress, with bright colors, soft texture, and clothes fluttering in the wind, feeling like she had arrived in Xishuangbanna, China.
When Jin Ling and Jin Qiao were dumbfounded, Yan Xiaoyue pulled them into the ready-to-wear store, chose a few sets, and changed them on the spot, but Jin Ling and Jin Qiao didn't agree to change it, so Xiaoyue had no choice but to do it.
Wearing a red half-sleeved top with a purple straight skirt, a series of silver hand rings on her arms, a belt made of shells around her waist, and rattan shoes with open toes, Satsuki's mood is infinitely high, and she hasn't been so brisk for a long time. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, fortunately, Jin Hui was in Yuehuazhuang, otherwise it would be strange if she hadn't nagged her to death in this dress.
Since this day, Yan Xiaoyue has traveled to every scenic spot in Nanyi Country, collected a large number of fruit trees, and now her space has gathered various fruits in tropical, subtropical and temperate zones, a total of more than 20 kinds.
The coldest months of December and January are spent at the beach, and every day at sunrise with the fishing boats out to sea, and return at sunset, it is very pleasant. Here Satsuki learned to swim, learned to identify various seafood creatures, knew which ones could be eaten, which ones could be used as medicine, and which ones could be used as decorations, and followed the pearl diver to the deep sea to collect pearls.
The pearls in the space are mainly white and pink, and the pearls collected now have noble gold, pure white, romantic rose pink, bright golden pink, and black pearls, black pearls are not all black, its color is the most rich and charming, from translucent green, translucent blue, translucent purple, translucent brown, translucent silver gray, to translucent black gray and so on, mysterious, seeing it, Xiaoyue was instantly fascinated, and lived in this small village by the sea for half a year.
Yan Xiaoyue divided the newly emerged waterhole in the space into two parts, one for cultivating deep-sea pearls, and the other for raising marine fish and various corals.
In July of the fifth year of Emperor Zong, Yan Xiaoyue left Nanyi Kingdom, where she had stayed for a year, and took her maid to go to Nanyang with a merchant fleet.
Passing through more than a dozen countries along the way, I saw a vast forest, in which hundred-year-old red sandalwood and mahogany can be seen everywhere. Seeing the towering cliff, the swiftlets kept shuttling through it, and when they were moored, Xiaoyue explored the cave alone, took two bird's nests and six swiftlets into the space, and by the way, collected the bird's nests that did not have swiftlets to live.
Everywhere she went, Yan Xiaoyue would write down the local folk customs and buy some jewelry, clothes, and cloth. Winter goes to autumn, a year of sea voyage has made Yan Xiaoyue's life more colorful, more open-minded, and even her personality has changed, no longer confined herself to the rules and regulations under feudal rule, nor is she wandering uneasy about the past, it can also be said that these two years are a crucial period for Yan Xiaoyue's character building, so that she no longer worries about her future life, the world is so big, where is there no place for her?
Walking around the tropical and subtropical seas, Satsuki's space collects salmon, tuna, large and small yellow croaker, sea cucumbers, abalone, prawns, cod, squid, soft-shelled turtles, sea bass, mackerel, tongue fish, crucian carp, kelp, and some algae and shellfish. Since there are more species in the space, Xiaoyue feels that there is more displacement energy in it, the white jade bamboo has bloomed, the yellow bunches of small flowers, exuding an intoxicating fragrance, and even the flowers of the jade tree have also spread the fragrance, Xiaoyue stays in the space every night, and over time, the body is also contaminated with fragrance, which is elegant but lingering for a long time, which makes Jin Ling envious, and says that Miss will not need sachets in the future.