After Mengfan's affairs were all accepted by her father without any suspense, she became an idler, and in the eyes of others, this is what a little girl of her age should be.

But can she really be idle? Definitely not! Because the income of a few shops is simply not enough to meet the various expected expenses that have been carried out earlier, and with her father's presence, the daily purchase and sale of various goods and raw materials are clear at a glance.

The wages of the servants and maids in the family can be paid once a month, or once every two months under the condition of stabilizing people's hearts, but the wages of the craftsmen who are invited to build the house cannot be delayed for a day.

Therefore, when Daddy roared coldly and angrily that she didn't know how to start everything but didn't have any money left for Lao Tzu, in the face of Daddy's unsparing opposition, she still went her own way and took some silkworm seeds issued by the local government back, and asked Ling Yaoxuan to go to Li Zheng, the village chief of several nearby villages, and also brought some silkworm seeds from them at a more suitable price.

Spread out the shelf and prepare to raise silkworms!

No matter how cold and contemptuous her father was, she would definitely not be able to do this, no matter whether her father sent all the people who could be used to do the work of reclamation and farming, she started this plan according to her own ideas.

There are ten silkworm seeds in large flat sieves, which are 100 times that of ordinary farmers.

In the early stage, she successively did a good job of disinfection and drying of bamboo plaques, these things, when she wanted to support people, if all of them were sent by her father to do things, she would find some idle short-term workers in the village to help, no wages, only pay food, do what you want, one pound of rice and two pounds of bud rice every day, or a pound of flour and a pound of bud rice, each person chooses how to settle. When I did things that day, I could find Lan Bao'er, a boy who was playing with my grandson, outside my eldest brother's house that night.

Ten days before the silkworm seed came, she said that she needed a daughter-in-law to help, and the village chief immediately sent his eldest daughter-in-law, Qian, who was thirty-six years old, gentle and decent, without the slightest appearance of holding a shelf, Mengfan responded to the matter on the spot.

In order to avoid people's eyes, she lived in the small backyard of Helian Yutian's house, although it was still cold in February, but the temperature was still moderate during the day, just put the silkworm seeds outside and naturally wait for them to hatch.

The purity and cleanliness of the water used for the 'bath' after the birth of the first silkworm seed must be high, so she directly used the water from the source of the waterfall in the waterhole in the space.

In the absence of modern disinfectants, the survival rate of the silkworms hatched at her home can almost be said to have reached 99 percent.

In fact, even if the success rate of hatching is low or completely zero, she wants to replace the silkworm seeds collected by Hu Yulang's demon in the space with these outside.

At first, she and Qian and her maid Fang'er together, the three of them carried a deep-bottomed basket every day to pick back the tender and fat mulberry leaves, brought well water and carefully cleaned them one by one, and then carefully wiped the water stains on the leaves one by one with a clean cotton cloth, and then used a new kitchen knife that had never been stained with oil meat to cut the tender mulberry leaves into pieces, and then took them and gently sprinkled them in a fine sieve covered with a layer of clean white cotton cloth.

It's just a few days of work, the black silkworms that were all wriggling in the fine bamboo sieve have grown up, it's time to divide the plaque, she is small, while directing the Qian family and Fang'er to put the fine sieves in front of her, while gently and gently using a new brush as a tool to move the silkworms to a new home.

There are mulberry leaves in those silkworm sands, and she also let the Qian family gather together, taking a small amount of chopped vegetable leaves and bran paste every day, and feeding them to more than 100 chickens on the side of the backyard.

After the wall of the new house was built for a while, the first batch of simple subordinate rooms were built, and one after another, the Zhou family's family moved over and occupied two rooms, leaving only Uncle Zhou, who was guarding the door, and his wife and Mrs. Zhou were left to do laundry and housework at home, and Fang'er was also waiting by her side at any time.

The brothers and sisters of the Han family took the initiative to mention to her that they would also move to the next room in the new house to occupy a room, and one room for their grandfather was enough; said that he had no money in his hand and lived for so long, and he would pay the eldest man a rent of 90 cents every month in the future.

Regarding this matter, she said it in front of her father, and her father agreed to it, which means that she has no reason to excuse herself at all, because the money from the rented house is not her hand at all.

At that time, Meng Fan just unconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth, glanced at the little bald head, and didn't say anything.

Whether it is her father trying to make money by all means, or for Han Xiaobo's consideration of establishing himself in the future, she will not object.

Moreover, in this house, there are fewer people left to come in and out, and the spring silkworms she gradually raises have more space to make room for silkworm babies.

Half a month later, silkworms have been divided into twenty large fine bamboo sieves, and more manpower must be added, so she asked Qian directly, but she can help her find two girls who are neat and diligent and love to clean, and as a result, among the two girls that Qian brought her, one is her maiden niece, and the other is someone she knows, Xiaoyun.

It's been so long, although this Xiaoyun and her are in the same village, they don't look down and don't look up, but when they really meet, they are very rare, they see it on the road or in the town, then Xiaoyun looks like she doesn't know her at all, this time, why will he appear in front of her?

"Big girl......" As soon as Xiaoyun came, the pestle was there for a long time, Mengfan didn't speak, just looked at her quietly, she finally popped out of her mouth, and then, she didn't say anything.

Outside the gate of the courtyard, Hai Lao Liu, who had a depressed face, had to knock on the door, walked in under Mengfan's nod, and said: "Miss, Qingsong has been doing things for the son outside......" The implication is to solve this girl's clear life.

Meng Fan smiled at Hai Lao Liu, she understood what Uncle Hai Liu meant, Qing Song is the eldest brother's friend here, the sister of the eldest brother's friend, the eldest brother can't take care of it, Uncle Hai Liu hopes that her sister will help take care of it.

However, she really has nothing to say to this Xiaoyun, and she has the idea of not wanting to make friends with someone, where can she get along every day? Moreover, this Xiaoyun, has she always taken her, a little girl, in her eyes? She always felt that it was after Li Mengfan came that Helian Gongzi was cold to her.

She doesn't have the right to block others, but if she blocks herself, she doesn't have that obligation, so Mengfan smiled and nodded, and shook her head again: "Fang'er and her mother, busy with the river laundry and three meals a day every day, a few children run around all day without taking care of ......, Fang'er, take Miss Xiaoyun to your mother's place and see what can be done." ”

"What? Let me go and give your slave a hand? Do you mean to say that I am not even as good as your slave and maid? Big girl, you also used to live in my house, you look down on me so much, don't you look down on yourself too? ”

Xiaoyun hurriedly stepped forward, what she said was very reasonable, and her angry and complaining appearance was indeed pitiful.

However, Meng Fan replied slowly: "Then, so be it, Sister Xiaoyun, if you think that I have lowered your status by letting you go to work with the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, then you can help me do this decent thing of picking mulberry and raising silkworms here with Aunt Qian; As for me, go see what I can do with Fang'er and her mother, laundry and cooking, women can do it, and I will do it too! Her demeanor and tone were very serious, and she looked up and down at the big girl in front of her, who was always inexplicably hostile to her, and thought to herself, where did this inexplicable thing come from?

Although I don't spend money, I will use my own food to pay for my work, and whoever I want to hire to do things for me is my freedom and my right, and I am guilty of arranging things according to the identity of the people I recruit?

"You ......, big girl, what do you mean, if you don't want me to do things here, you can say it clearly, although I Xiaoyun is just a peasant girl from a poor family, I am not a person who can be degraded by anyone, if not...... If it weren't for ......" Xiaoyun blushed with a pretty face that couldn't keep up with some nutrition, and said these words with a lot of backbone, but she said half of the words in a slurred manner.

"Hehe......" Helplessly, Mengfan hooked the corners of her lips at this woman with a very strange backbone, why can't she be twisted with this girl? It's a waste of time.

Hai Lao Liu, who was standing opposite her, also looked like he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth and closed his mouth, but Qian, who had always been gentle and gentle, lowered his head very guiltily, and glanced at Meng Fan from time to time with the corner of his eye.

"I said Li Mengfan——, you are Ge Lao Tzu, are you full?" A loud scolding voice came from the hall: "Cheng Tianjing is looking for something inexplicable to do, where did you find such an inexplicable subordinate for the family?" Who brought it? Hurry up and let her go, it's enough for Lao Tzu to have a young lady like you who doesn't do business all day long! ”

"It's my lord, I woke up from a nap......"

When Qian heard who was speaking, he shrank his neck in fright, lowered his head, and his face was even more panicked.

This Xiaoyun, although it was Hai Liuye who asked her to take advantage of the young lady's need for manpower to bring it, but where did she know that this girl would be so kind of posing in front of the young lady of the owner, begging for people, and she could put her posture so high.

"Amazing, hum, let's go!" Xiaoyun blushed, others have a father to take care of, she is just a girl who has no father and no mother, the only brother and has not seen anyone all day, she bit her lip vigorously, turned her head and walked out.

"Uncle Hai Liu-" Meng Fan raised his shoulders helplessly towards Hai Liu: "It's not that I don't help take care of my eldest brother's friend!" ”