"Uncle, why are you only coming back now?" When Luoluo saw Zhao Yuan, she ran over and threw herself into his arms, and began to cry.

"It's uncle's fault, he should come back soon, Luoluo doesn't cry, and if he cries, he won't be obedient." Zhao Yuan squatted down and wiped the little girl's tears.

"Didn't you say that you will go for about ten days, and today is the nineteenth day, and you will come back." Luoluo said aggrievedly.

"Uncle shouldn't come back so late, don't cry, the skin on his face will crack if he cries again, let's go into the house, Uncle rushed to the road all morning, so hungry." Zhao Yuan comforted.

"Okay, let's go into the house, Grandma Jia and Aunt Jia have boiled lean porridge." Luoluo finally stopped crying.

"Brother-in-law." Xiaobao shouted Zhao Yuan.

"Just get up, little treasure." Zhao Yuan touched Xiaobao's head.

"Just get up." Xiaobao said with some embarrassment.

"You should still wake up early in the morning and exercise."

“……”

The four of them walked towards the house, and when they passed by the vegetable garden, Jia Yang, father and son, and Yao Yuan, both husband and wife, saw Zhao Yuan coming back, and hurriedly came forward to say hello.

There are many houses and rooms in Zhao Yuan's house, and the original housekeeper Jia Yu's family and Yao Yuan's family all lived on Zhao Yuan's side, but later there were many inconveniences, and there were more and more jobs on the farm, so a few houses were built with cement bricks over there, and Jia Yu's family moved with Yao Yuan's family, and each had a home.

Since last month, Jia Yu's family has eaten with Yao Yuan's family and has not eaten with Zhao Yuan's family anymore. Sun Ying and her daughter-in-law Xue Yao made breakfast and returned to the newly built house on the farm to make breakfast for their family.

"Didn't Xiaoya sleep here?" Back in the house, Zhao Yuan asked.

"No, after the new house on the farm was repaired some time ago, she moved in with her brother and sister-in-law, and only occasionally slept here." Meng Ying said.

Meng Ying called hot water for Zhao Yuan to wash up, at this time Shao Meng and Guo Du parked the carriage, moved Zhao Yuan's iron box back to the study by the way, and also came to the kitchen to start eating, laughing with Luoluo and Xiaobao from time to time.

"Uncle, is it fun for you to go to Danling this time?" Luoluo ate the porridge with a small wooden spoon and asked curiously.

"Your uncle is here to run errands, not to play, Luoluo, you see that your aunt is right, your uncle will come back after finishing his errands." Meng Ying said with a smile, after Zhao Yuan came back, he was in a very good mood.

"How's it going at home?" Zhao Yuan drank the sweet lean porridge in a few sips, and the things at home were still delicious.

"The family is fine, just waiting for you to come back and kill the New Year's pig, I caught a few chickens and ducks at home and sent them to my mother, and my sister-in-law is pregnant again." Meng Ying said with a smile.

"I'm pregnant again, too, Xiaoying is more than a year old." Zhao Yuan nodded, the son of his uncle's family still took his own name.

"The business of the supermarket in the market has not changed much, Uncle Tao said that the business of the supermarket has been straightened out, and there is no need for him to keep an eye on it every day, and asked me if I could find him other things for him to do."

"After all, there are only so many people in Gray Plains Town, and there really isn't much going on in that small supermarket. Let's talk about it in a few years, and we'll see the rest when the time comes. Zhao Yuan nodded.

The family's business has reached the current scale, and the income of the small supermarket is really nothing. Now the biscuit workshop and canning workshop that belong to Zhao Yuan's family are the most profitable.

The establishment of the transport fleet can easily transport locally produced goods. The good taste made the demand for biscuits and all kinds of canned food continue to expand, and the scale of the two workshops continued to expand, with the bandit captives to add to the cement workshop, the women who originally worked in the cement workshop gradually broke away and devoted themselves to the production of biscuits, canned food and daily small goods.

"After a few workshops work for another half a month, the holiday will begin." Zhao Yuan said after thinking about it.

After breakfast, Zhao Yuan didn't want to do anything, so he let Shao Meng and Guo Du move freely and help the farm work, while he kept playing with Meng Ying and Luoluo, and climbed up Huaguo Mountain to take a look.

"Uncle, look, there's snow on the old mountain." Climbing to the top of Huaguo Mountain, Luoluo pointed to the old mountain and said to Zhao Yuan.

"It's going to be colder on the old mountain, and it won't be long before we have snow here." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Sister, brother-in-law, can we make a fire here?" Meng Xiaobao asked.

"Okay, let's go pick up some firewood, it's still quite cold on the top of this mountain." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

The summit of Huaguo Mountain is not easy to climb because near the top of the mountain is a stone cliff, and there is only one path to go up. The top of the hill is a sandy area with very few trees, and from the top of the hill, you can see the market and the bamboo village hidden in the bamboo forest on the other side.

"Brother Yuan, how did things go to Danling this time?" After Luoluo and Xiaobao went to the side to collect firewood, Meng Ying asked.

"It's going well, mainly because the workshop army has been delayed for some time to return from Tongyi, this time the workshop army has exterminated almost all the bandits in Tongyi, and arrested more than 2,000 bandits, and today the workshop army will escort them all." Zhao Yuan told Meng Ying about the general situation.

"There are so many people, how can we arrange them here, so many people, is there enough food?" Meng Ying worried.

"It's definitely enough, there is a lot of food seized, and there are other things that are seized, and a lot of food is bought after being sold." Zhao Yuan nodded.

"It's a pity that I can't help, Brother Yuan, am I useless?" Meng Ying said.

"How could it be, Xiaoying, I was always worried about insecurity before, I didn't expect to be so busy now, but now the workshop army is also a little bit like this, here in Gray Plains Town, I want to develop it well, and more workshops will be opened next year, and then Xiaoying you can come to help." Zhao Yuan looked at Meng Ying and said.

"Okay." Meng Ying smiled and nodded.

"Let's go and help pick up some firewood, too." Zhao Yuan comforted his wife, looked at Luoluo holding a small bundle of firewood, and said with a smile.

After not waiting for a while, a fire was lit on the top of the mountain, and Xiaobao and Luoluo jumped happily around the fire.

"Uncle, that's our fish pond, the fish in the fish pond are so big, can we catch them?" After playing around for a while, Luoluo pointed to his own fish pond at the bottom of the mountain and asked.

"Yes, you can catch fish in two days." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Why two days?" Luoluo asked.

"Because Uncle's Workshop Army will come back in the second half of the day today, there are a lot of things for Uncle to do, and there will be no time in the next two days." Zhao Yuan patiently explained.

"Oh, then I'm going to go with my uncle." Luoluo said sensibly.

"Okay, let's go together in the afternoon." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

The wind was strong on the mountain, and after playing for a while, the fire was extinguished, and several people went down the mountain.

In the past year, the pear saplings on the mountain have grown a lot, and the soil used to raise earthworms to fertilize these pear trees, and these pear trees are growing very well, especially the old uncle Wen of Yakou Village, who planted pear trees, took his son to help take care of them, so that the entire Huaguo Mountain was not sealed by thatched shrubs.

"There won't be snakes hibernate again in the cave, will they?" Walking to the cave on the mountainside, Luoluo asked.

"There shouldn't be snakes going in, there is still a lot of food in the cave, people often come up, snakes won't go in." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

With the prestige of the workshop army, the role of the grain hidden in this cave may not be so great, but Zhao Yuan did not cancel this cave grain depot, just in case.