There weren't too many rules abolished, and not too many etiquette removed. For this courtyard located in Yanheli, near the street of the big goods store, the change in atmosphere began in late autumn after the return of the man.

For the old servants who followed the north all the way and originally belonged to the Su family, they may not have thought that this family would become so relaxed after going north. The Jiangning Su family is a big family, although it is not a very connotative kind of family, but the method of governing the family has its own reason. Su Tan'er led her family north, and after settling here, the same atmosphere was maintained, especially in the absence of the male host, as a woman in her early twenties, she must have her majesty if she wants to take charge of the house. It's just that after Ning Yi came back, everything changed subtly.

It's not a deliberate change, it's just that the atmosphere is a thing that exists in the most ordinary words and deeds. Ning Yi has always been kind at home, and sometimes he is even a little messy. After the autumn, this winter, Su Tan'er followed her husband's pace with some tears and laughs, and adapted to such changes, sometimes, such and such casualness would even damage the majesty of her as a hostess, and sometimes, she would feel that she was tossed back to the time when she was a girl, and she could laugh and be happy unscrupulously. But in fact, when she was a girl, she actually didn't feel so naïve.

From the first time she made it clear that she wanted to do business, she has maintained her "mature" mentality. In this world, what kind of manners should you have as a woman, and what kind of majesty you should have as a master. After becoming a wife and mother, what kind of behavior she should have has always been very clear to her, and she can indeed do well.

Since marrying Ning Yi, especially after gaining mutual understanding and being able to communicate, there have been many happy days. Of course, since he went south to Hangzhou, there have always been many things to do, and later he faced the hatred of Fang La's rebellion, separation, and family destruction. She hadn't thought about it. Now that she is a mother, she will become even more naïve. Sometimes when he is teased by this husband, he will be angry and want to hunt him down, and he was dressed up as a man not long ago. Let him drag him to a poetry party to join in the fun. Later, when she visited the lamp market and guessed the lantern riddles, she also learned that this husband was not omnipotent.

In the end, it is happy. She still doesn't think it's good, and she can't say it clearly. In the face of outsiders, in the business of the cloth shop. In the eyes of the people in the family, she may still be the hostess who is more terrible than the male hostess, but there are always some images, sometimes she will be forced to maintain it, and she has to slowly adapt to it, experiencing some feelings that she has never experienced.

"Wow...... Don't bite me, Xiaoxi, my mother is washing my face, you can apply saliva again, and my mother will wash you too......"

In the lively bedroom, Su Tan'er was washing her face, Ning Xi opened her hand to lean on her mother's side, and after Xiaochan hugged her, she found that the child was going to paint her face with saliva, and hurriedly smiled and scared him away with a towel. Ning Yi ventilated the room with a gust of wind, then closed the window and took the child with a smile.

"It's going to kiss you, where is smearing saliva. Our Xiaoxi gave you a kiss, but she didn't accept it, come, give your great father a ...... Uh, don't give? Have a personality, try your Aunt Chan......"

After washing up in the morning, Xiaochan and Juan'er took the basin out of the basin and went to supervise the breakfast in the kitchen. Tan'er took the child and sat on the edge of the bed to feed the child breakfast, these days, although there are nurses at home, but most of the time Tan'er still feeds the child by herself, Ning Yi sat on the edge of the bed and discussed with her the situation of the child's second baby tooth.

"Wait until two more grow, and he's really going to bite me......"

Just washed her face, Su Tan'er's face at this time was plain, her hair was slightly messy, because she didn't want to be bitten, her tone was a little melancholy, but she also blushed slightly. When Xiaoxi had her first baby tooth not long ago, she secretly told Ning Yi about this, the little baby would not pity her mother's pain, when she talked about this, the two were lying in the futon, and Ning Yi also tried it with her, so that she could taste the feeling of being bitten. For Su Tan'er, even though she took it for granted what Ning Yi did to her, she still felt a little ashamed when she thought about it.

It's only when they're alone, and the two of them talk about these kinds of things. Soon after, after dressing up, Tan'er will be the dignified and calm housewife of the Ning family and a shrewd businesswoman again. In fact, at this time, a woman who has become a mother, has a lot of consciousness, and has already carried a lot of things on her shoulders is really just the age of a girl who has just entered college in the future. At this time, she has taken it for granted that she is responsible for carrying half a family or even a family, on the contrary, the girl-like joy that she occasionally discovers by Ning Yi may be the extra gain she thinks......

This kind of feeling sometimes makes Ning Yi feel warm.

“…… In fact, a few workshops outside the city are about to be completed, and if they can get the first business of the Lu family, I am afraid that there are things to do in this section of the year. However, the snow has already begun to fall, and I plan to visit the new workers who have been recruited from house to house. Xianggong said, should we send some cotton cloth or charcoal......"

Gently patting the child on her chest, after a little gossip, she entered the strong woman's mind again. Ning Yi didn't approve of her running around on a snowy day, and only said that she just let the steward go, while Su Tan'er thought that her family had just arrived in Bianliang, and the steward didn't necessarily have a reputation among the workers, and the main family paid more attention to it in the past. The two talked for a while, and there was a relatively noisy sound outside, which meant that the young people in the family came back after practicing martial arts in the morning, and the time for breakfast was approaching.

After coming from Jiangning, in addition to some bookkeepers, housekeepers, nurses, cooks, and miscellaneous servants, as well as cousins and cousins such as Wending Wenfang, plus newly recruited servants, there were a total of about 50 people living in the four courtyards, which was quite lively. In order to avoid a situation where a group of young people are not very good at holding knives when the Su family encounters something like that at home, Ning Yi asked these brothers in the family to do as much exercise as possible, and asked Lu Junyi to help. In the past few months, I have tried to teach them something, and most of the time, it is Yan Qing who is urging them to exercise.

After returning from Shandong, some of the Liangshan generals who surrendered to Cheng, such as Qin Ming, Guan Sheng and others, were included in some military formations that had a good relationship with the Right Prime Minister's Mansion after being whitewashed by Qin Siyuan. Yan Qing is very capable, Ning Yi suggested that he join the Secret Investigation Division, but this kind of thing is not important to Yan Qing. He had to wait for Lu Yuanwai to clear his name. Consider something else.

Although Ning Yi promised to whitewash Lu Junyi, some follow-up things were actually more troublesome, Liang Zhongshu, who participated in the framing of Lu Junyi, was Cai Jing's son-in-law. For whitewashing. Qin Siyuan had several negotiations with Cai Jing. Both sides took a step back. It is very simple to clear Lu Junyi's identity, but it is very troublesome to take away the family property in the future. On the other hand, Lu Junyi is suitable for the military formation. Yan Qing is suitable for intelligence, Qin Siyuan seems to have a good impression of Lu Junyi during this time, and wants to wait until there is a more suitable position to arrange him, so he put it on hold for a while.

Ning Yi felt a little guilty about this, and visited Lu Junyi and Yan Qing a few times when he had nothing to do. In fact, according to Lu and Yan's thoughts, they probably have a mind to stay away from Ning Yi, because once this guy uses tricks, he is too ruthless and poisonous. But after going back and forth a few times, he may feel that he might as well make friends, and soon after, Ning Yi asked Lu Junyi to teach Wen Ding Wenfang and others in the family martial arts, and the other party agreed.

In this way, in the recent days, every morning before dawn, a group of young people of the Su family have to go out to exercise, mainly to strengthen their physique.

Soon after, the side hall of the Su family meal became lively, this side hall is not small, and it is also heated by a honeycomb coal stove. When Ning Yi and Tan'er came over, most of the relatives, stewards and others in the side hall had already arrived, Wen Dingwen Fang and others had already washed their faces and changed their clothes, Su Yanping took an egg and put it on his face, probably being beaten by someone in the previous fight, but at this time, he was still laughing and joking with people while applying it. Only when Ning Yi and his wife came in, everyone restrained themselves and greeted them.

"Second sister."

"Second brother-in-law, good morning."

"Second brother-in-law, what about Ning Xi......"

For others, they may not know the details of this family, and they will feel that the hostess is far more majestic than the male hostess, and sometimes they even feel that they are not easy to get along. But in the eyes of these people in Wending Wenfang, the real backbone of this family is Ning Yi, who forced back the Liangshan bandits with the strength of one person when he was in Jiangning, and then leveled Liangshanbo within three months. After that, no matter how kind he behaves, some people may think he is close, but no one will think that he is kind and deceitful, and as long as he is there, at least for now, this small family will maintain a compelling momentum and go all the way.

"Don't Ning Xi Ning Xi, Su Wending is a bastard, yesterday you ran to tease him, made people cry, and caused me to coax for a long time."

In the midst of Ning Yi's laughter and scolding, Xing'er pushed the wooden stroller and opened the curtain and came in, and Wen Ding and the others hugged each other with a smile and ran to tease the children. Su Tan'er pursed her lips, crying and laughing, this kind of teasing generally doesn't end well, the child is giggling and laughing at first, and he will cry humiliating soon after. And because of her previous experience, Xing'er had already turned around the stroller and started to run away, and several stewards in the room, the slightly older Su family's account room, were still smiling at this time watching the whole development of the situation.

Soon after, a variety of breakfasts were served, and in the midst of the hustle and bustle of this time, it was also a time for individuals to decide what to do today. At this time in the Ning family, Su Wending and several shopkeepers basically helped Su Tan'er run the cloth shop, and many things have been prepared recently. Su Wenfang, Su Yanping, and the rest of the family were arranged by Ning Yi in the courtyard outside the city, responsible for all kinds of messy things, such as some juggling ideas, the construction of tools for making honeycomb coal in the iron smelting department, the management of the meals of many workers in the compound at this time, reward records, and so on.

The large compound that Ning Yi had put together was still in a mess at this time, and the entire system had not been fully formed. While the pay and incentives are good, the reality is that the recruited workers are not yet fully clear about what they need to do. In the papermaking workshop, Su Yanping is responsible for urging workers to test various papermaking materials and processes, and many ideas are still put forward by Ning Yi, and everyone implements them step by step.

On the one hand, in fact, in the past few days, several refractory bricks that are not easy to break have been burned. Since the material was something that Ning Yi had dabbled in before, it had results within a few months. The main thing is to be used as the inner tank of the coal furnace.

At this time, if you want to make a movable honeycomb coal stove, it is actually difficult to wrap it with iron sheets, and the cost of creating iron sheets is too high, if you use bamboo or wooden shells, and wrap the iron wire around a few times outside, you have to consider the effect of heat insulation, so it took more than two months to put this simple thing into sale, and iron wire still accounts for part of the cost.

Outside of these things. The juggling team in the eyes of outsiders. Among the experiments are all kinds of quirky magic ideas. According to Ning Yi's expectations, it should be a brainstorming group to make systematic ideas and plans for various things, but it is difficult to gather a group of smart people to do this kind of thing at the moment. Previously, Jiangning operated Zhuji. Ning Yi had already begun to pay attention to juggling and other craftsmen. At this time, there are a few barely usable craftsmen. Let them help with magic tricks and juggling ideas first.

It can be said that things in the entire compound are not on the right track at all. Because at present, the workers inside do not have much subjective initiative. Ning Yi can only slowly make a reward and punishment mechanism in the chaos at this time, such as honeycomb coal, when the basic process is done, he will move some people out to build a workshop, and leave a few skilled craftsmen who have the ability to innovate.

When the papermaking side can come up with a practical effect, Ning Yi also moved out some more people, leaving craftsmen who can innovate, and the rest are also doing the same. Such a system, reward, and guidance must not be done in a day or two, but fortunately, as far as Ning Yi is concerned, the entire system is not a very troublesome thing.

However, in the entire compound, the most subjective initiative at the moment may be the aspect of gunpowder, because the one who is doing things in it at the moment is Liangshan's "Cloud Dragon" Gongsun Sheng. He was captured at the time of the fall of Yangsan and chose to surrender. After Ning Yi investigated him, he found that this Liangshan leader, who could call the wind and rain, was actually the best at Danshu, although he was quite high in martial arts, he was actually obsessed with all kinds of strange research.

After asking Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Qin Ming and many others about their opinions, Ning Yi probably chatted with this Mr. Gongsun about physics and chemistry for a few days, and showed him black powder and other things, and finally decided to support his Danshu research and win over a master of martial arts. Although everyone's current cognitive system is very different, at least many of Ning Yi's ideas are capable of being studied by the other party. Similar to sulfuric acid and nitric acid, he fiddled with it for a long time, but for these alchemists, he had enough ability to prepare them, which can be regarded as a good start in the entire chemical research.

"But...... Second brother-in-law, you really shouldn't have given him that gunpowder formula, because recently Mr. Gongsun has been making explosions in the yard all day, and sooner or later he will have to kill himself...... Second brother-in-law, do you know that their Taoist priests have a trick to throw gunpowder out of the cannon and light it, yesterday Mr. Gongsun threw out a fire and burned his sleeve, we hurried to get something next to him, fortunately he didn't have anything to do......"

Eating steamed buns, Su Wenfang talked about it, and everyone was also talking, Ning Yi was laughing while drinking soy milk.

"Ahem, it's okay, it's okay to be optimistic about him, don't care about him if you do some tests or something...... But today I went to see the refractory brick, as long as the process is okay, I am ready to sell it for money...... Yan Ping, you are ready to be busy, how to do it I will tell you today, we will only do the first year or two at most, fast in and fast out, this kind of thing is not high in technical content, once it is done, others will imitate it in a short time, and when the time comes, it will be pushed out at a low price, this is just for you to try, but don't take it lightly......"

Everyone was talking and laughing, while Tan'er was eating quietly, smiling and watching Ning Yi chatting with his group of cousins. In the cloth business, her style is relatively tough, but she is not good at how to cultivate the people around her. Only in front of their husbands, these young people who were originally inactive and a little lazy in the Su family can show such vitality.

After talking for a while, Su Yanping said: "I heard that Wen Yu will be back in the next few days, and that Wang Shanyue." ”

He went north with Su Wenyu before, Su Wenyu stayed in Shandong to do things, and now he can finally follow Ning Yi to manage one aspect of things, so he misses this brother a little. Ning Yi smiled: "It is estimated that there will be delays due to heavy snow, but these two days should also arrive." After the Chinese New Year, Zhu Biao of Zhujiazhuang will also come over, and then he will come to train your martial arts, people are very powerful, don't take it lightly. ”

Su Wending spread his hands and smiled: "We are also very powerful now!" Everyone laughed and agreed. Ning Yi shook his head with a smile: "A bunch of bastards, wait to be beaten up of you." ”

After returning to Bianliang, Ning Yi actually had a lot of contact with the Wang family, the Wang family used to be famous for making ink, but after coming to the capital, due to the death of Wang Qisong and other Wang family men, the craft of ink making has been lost a lot, and most of what he did was to sell ancient books and other miscellaneous things. Ning Yi contacted the other party for a while, and Su Tan'er also visited a few times in the past, hoping that they could run some businesses such as printing and publishing books, and Ning Yi could make plans and help manage them on their behalf, and the two sides would unite.

After all, at this time, it was the world of literati, not the world of merchants, and the Wang family's book was published by the Ning family, which were two different concepts. In the future, even if there are some messy things, the reputation of the Wang family is in front of them, and which official dares to take care of them, but these things can only be officially determined after Wang Shanyue returns.

The family had breakfast lively, went back to their rooms, Tan'er changed into clothes to go out, put on a fox fur, she held the child, sat in Ning Yi's arms and talked for a while. The little face between the fox's fur occasionally flashed with a girlish smile. Not long after, the carriage was already prepared outside, and when Xing'er came over, Su Yanping had also come over to find Ning Yi. When holding the child and beckoning her to send her out, Su Tan'er also smiled and waved back, but when she stepped out of the courtyard gate, the sun shone down, and on her fair side face, she had returned from a girl to the calmness that once belonged to Su Tan'er......

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The outskirts of Bianliang.

For half a morning, Zuo Houwen was in the carriage looking at the figure of the woman who came in and out of the courtyard opposite, there was a new workshop of the cloth shop, and in recent times, things have been transported and moved in. Although it was snowing today, it was still the same, and a batch of looms was brought in, and the workers moved in the door. A woman in a fox fur looked like the master's house, watching and directing back and forth. The woman combed the woman's bun, but her face was pure and beautiful, and she looked very young from her appearance alone, but her temperament should not be underestimated, with a smile, although she did not talk much, but she had her own momentum, and often a few words neatly and neatly could make people obey orders.

The youthful femininity and the mature and clean temperament are mixed together like that, and in the heavy snow, it is like a narcissus proudly open.

He was already in his forties, and the cloth shop under his name was just a small business, and he just came to have a look at it casually, and he didn't expect to see such a strange woman, so he couldn't help but stop the carriage. He has also seen some women from merchant families, or women who support a family after the death of their husbands, but they are a little different from the women in front of him. In the heavy snow, she looked too young and pure, and too calm, which was not the same as the calmness of ordinary merchant women.

"Who is that?" Putting down the poetry in his hand, he asked the steward of the workshop.

"The newcomer, the cloth shop seems to be called Su's, but the main family heard that the surname is Ning, and the woman calls herself Mrs. Ning."

"Sue? The Ning family? So weird? Her husband's family died? Let a woman come out and show her head? ”

"I don't think so, I've been here a few times, and I'm a scholar......"

"That's right." Zuo Houwen frowned, he probably understood, it is not uncommon for a scholar to be a daughter of a businessman's family, but a scholar who is willing to do this kind of thing is also limited in backbone, "Ask the name of the person next time...... Steward Liu, go back, and see if there is any ...... when you go back This post from the Ning family. ”

At the same time, in a large courtyard outside the city, Ning Yi and Su Yanping were squatting on the ground looking at the fired refractory bricks, and soon after, someone handed over a post, saying that there was something in the Prime Minister's Mansion to invite - it was Wang Shanyue and Su Wenyu who came back.

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