"Cousin, help me write a letter." In the evening, after eating, Hua'er walked into Zhenniang's room with a happy expression.

"Do you want to tell your eldest brother about the Ge family?" Zhenniang pulled her to sit down and asked rhetorically.

"Well, I've thought about it, although the eldest brother and Sister Ge Qiu have reconciled, but it's better to say hello to the eldest brother for such a big thing." Hua'er nodded.

Zhen Niang thought about it, and nodded, this matter should also be known to Brother Zhengping, so she turned around, she had been drawing ink line drawings before, Gu Yu elk ink is considered to be researched, but it will take a while to make it, the most important thing under it is the carved plate, and to make the carved plate, you must first draw the ink line drawing.

So he sharpened the haode ink, took out a piece of paper, and wrote a letter with a pen, telling the Ge family in detail what happened during this time, and then read it to Hua'er.

After hearing this, Hua'er nodded: "Well, that's it." Then I carefully received the letter, and then handed over the car and horseback tomorrow to send it to Huizhou.

And in the next few days, there were no rumors about the Ge family, Ge Da was imprisoned, and there was no news for a while, and Sister Ge Qiu was said to have gone to join her relatives, but there was no news after all.

It was the yellow wolf that actually replaced Ge Dana as the patrol fence of this area, and the merchants in this part of the official street shook their heads one by one, which drove the tiger and welcomed the wolf.

However, fortunately, before the yellow wolf also knew, he was criticized for the affairs of the Ge family, and after taking over the patrol fence, he was smiling and welcoming, except for some customary apportionments, but he never increased the amount of additional taxes, compared to the Ge patrol fence, it was actually good, and people are forgetful. Plus the yellow wolf is now a patrol fence. Merchants inevitably have to stutter a little. Therefore, after a few days, there was a lot of praise for the yellow wolf.

Li Jiamozhuang is living his life plainly, and the taxes that should be paid are paid on time, as for the rest, he will not be mixed with others, and Zhenniang is not afraid that the yellow wolf will have a business for his own family. Without complete certainty, the yellow wolf did not dare to reach out to his own house.

On the Tian family's side, Tian Benchang was busy with no one, and Tian Ronghua was in charge of the affairs of Mozhuang, the retreat that should be returned, or the negotiation of exchange or something, but it was also in order, and the influence of the Tian family's ink turmoil was gradually dissipating, as for Tian Er, it is said that he has been confined to his home in the past few days, and he will return to Huizhou in two days. In short, his errand in Nanjing was over.

It's the Cheng family. After taking Zhujiamozhuang, taking advantage of the chaos of the Tian family during this time, he pulled a group of customers over, and he actually stood firm on one foot.

That's why ginger is old and spicy.

As for the Yi Housheng side, during this time, Luo Jiu was also busy, he was in Nanjing, in addition to opening a money village, he also had to receive goods, mainly Songjiang cloth and rice grain, etc., which were said to be military funds bought for the Qi family's army.

As for Sun Yuejuan, she rarely goes out, and occasionally passes by the door of Li's Mozhuang, but she will come in to say hello to Zhenniang. But he never said anything about ink. Naturally.

Not to mention, although Sun Yuejuan is less straightforward than in the past, she has more harmony, which is the essence of life experience.

After all, it has grown.

In the evening, Zhen Niang returned to the wooden building in the backyard from Mozhuang.

"Alas, you don't know, this year's silkworm raising has not made any money at all, the yamen has deducted the cocoons of the silkworm farmers from each family, and you have to pay off it, and it is always offset, but these people in the yamen are all rotten stomach goods, good haode first-class silkworm cocoons are classified as poor, and the three pennies are not worth two pennies, to zuihou, and even some people have to take money from home to make up for the tax that is not enough to deduct, isn't this a slander? In short, if you look at it, no one will raise silkworms next year, and no one will raise silkworms in the first season of Zuihou this year. ”

Zhao and Huang sat in the house chatting, and Zhao talked about the silkworm farmers in Huizhou.

"Hey, the court has become more and more disagreeable over the years, the Tartars in the north are also fierce, and bandits in various places are also coming and going, if this continues, the people's lives will be sad, and the lives of our merchants will not be easy." Huang said.

"Not really." The Zhao family responded with hatred, and when it came to the Tartars, Li Jingfu died at the hands of the Tartars, and the Zhao family couldn't wait to swallow such a thief alive.

Zhen Niang was coming over to compare the ink line diagram to her second aunt, and when she saw her mother like that, she knew that her mother thought of her father's death again, and this thing was always sad, so she changed the topic: "What is the eldest brother doing these days, and there is no one to see." ”

"Oh, he's not running tung oil? Someone introduced him to a big tung oil merchant, he wanted to ask to see him during this time, but he ate a few closed doors in a row, your eldest brother admitted death, and when others didn't see him, he went to ask to see him every day. Zhao waved his hand.

"Well, Masahiro has a lot of energy in doing things." On the side, Huang said.

"Where is the drilling, I think it's stupid, brainless, this is not good, I don't know how to change it, if this is a big Nanjing City, is it difficult to achieve only that tung oil merchant?" Zhao said angrily.

"Mother, the eldest brother is so deadly, there must be a reason for him." Zhen Niang also helped her eldest brother speak.

"You're always protecting your big brother." Zhao nodded Zhen Niang's forehead angrily.

Zhenniang touched her forehead: "Of course, I used to make ink at home, and my eldest brother saw that I was working hard, but I went to the mountains to hunt game to replenish my body." ”

At the beginning, the family had a bad time, Zhen Niang was dedicated to lighting cigarettes to make money, and during that period of time, people were black and thin, and Li Dalang also went to hunt game to make up for Zhen Niang, and now I think about it, my heart is always warm.

"Stinky girl, she also knows what to do." Although Zhao was smiling and scolding, he was very relieved in his eyes.

Zhen Niang rolled her eyes angrily, looking at what her mother said, is she the one who doesn't know what to do.

At this time, the door in the front yard creaked open, and the eldest brother Li Zhengliang was heard greeting the porter.

Apparently Li Dalang is back.

"I'm going to see Big Brother." Zhen Niang slapped her face, then said goodbye and went downstairs, and when she arrived in the front yard, she saw her eldest brother leaning against a pillar in the corridor of the front yard, scratching his head, and looking a little annoyed.

"How. Eldest brother. Haven't seen anyone yet? Zhen Niang stepped forward and asked.

"See you today. But ......" Li Zhengliang said, frowning as if he was annoyed, in fact, he went to find the tung oil merchant today, but he didn't expect to meet the shopkeeper of the Bai family at the door, the shopkeeper of the Bai family's tung oil workshop was so unreasonable, knowing that he came to sell tung oil, he ridiculed him at the door. said that he was a rich man in the countryside, and he didn't know how thick the sky was. Come to Nanjing to "offer treasure".

This "offering treasure" is a country language, which means to be embarrassed.

In short, he was ridiculed, and his face was red, so he also refuted it, saying that the tung oil of the Bai family was mixed with impurities, and it was not as good as his Li family.

Yunnan Baijia tung oil has been specially studied in the past few days, the color and clarity are all haode, and even the clarity is a little clearer than his tung oil, but sometimes. What looks good may not be really good, he has played with oil for all these years. A pair of eyes are extremely hot, and his nose is also very sensitive, he clearly feels that the Bai family's tung oil is mixed with something to have this clarity.

Therefore, in a hurry, there is such a saying.

But the problem is that he is clumsy, but he can't explain clearly, and as a result, Zuihou has an unreasonable impression in the eyes of Boss Xi.

It really made him feel a little depressed.

My eldest brother is a sincere person, Zhen Niang didn't use two sentences to set out what the eldest brother encountered today, and when I heard my eldest brother say this, I also understood.

This kind of means has been more in later generations, such as the wolfberry, some unscrupulous merchants often use sulfur to smoke in order to be easy to preserve, so that it is not only convenient to preserve, but the color will be more bright and beautiful, but it is a harmful thing.

So, there are some things that don't use to look at the surface.

However, when it comes to the quality of tung oil, in later generations, Zhen Niang has also checked, just because tung oil is used for burning oil smoke, and she also needs to know a little bit about this. Among them, there is a test method for the quality of tung oil, which is very simple.

"Big brother, wait a minute." As she spoke, she ran back to the house and took out a blank piece of paper. Then let the eldest brother take out his own tung oil and the Bai family's tung oil.

Cut the white paper in two, one of which was smeared with his own tung oil on both sides, and the other was smeared with the white family's tung oil.

"Girl, what are you doing here?" Li Dalang asked curiously.

"You'll find out in a moment." Zhenniang replied.

Tung oil dried quickly, almost wiped while drying, after a while, Zhen Niang picked up two pieces of white paper, first picked up the white paper smeared with her own tung oil, held one end in one hand, pulled, the toughness is very large, it seems to be elastic, the paper is not damaged in the slightest.

Then he picked up the paper smeared with Baijia tung oil, pulled it with both hands, and pulled it, but it made a crisp sound, and it was broken in some places.

"This, this, this, this ......" Li Dalang was a little stunned.

To tell the truth, their master passed down that it all depends on a pair of eyes to see whether things are good or bad, and they didn't know that there was such a simple test method.

Li Dalang understands oil, Zhen Niang this set down, he naturally understands the reason, this tung oil is squeezed out of the cooked tung seeds, belongs to the cooked tung oil, mainly used for furniture, ship boards and so on waterproof and anti-corrosion to increase the luster and other maintenance, one of the most important is permeability, tung oil will penetrate through the wooden surface to the inside, and the toughness and elasticity are better, the longer the aging and shelf life, and at this point, the pure tung oil is the most haode, and the impurities are a little worse.

This is also the reason why Weishenme's paper with impurities mixed with tung oil will become brittle, because impurities reduce the toughness and elasticity of tung oil.

"I'll go find Boss Xi again." Li Zhengliang jumped up and said excitedly.

"Don't worry, big brother, it's almost dark this day, let's go again tomorrow, and I'll go with you to take a look." Today, from the attitude of the eldest brother, it can be seen that the eldest brother is very ridiculed, and tomorrow she will also go to see what the Bai family shopkeeper has to say.

"Yes, Haode." Li Zhengliang patted his head, he sometimes does things with a tendon.

In this way, there was no word all night.

Early the next morning, after Li Zhengliang had breakfast, he called his sister-in-law to come out together, and everything that should be tested had to be prepared. (To be continued......)

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