After eating, the maid removed the leftovers and served tea, and the two slowly tasted the tea and continued to chat.

"Brother Yuan, I heard that Lingtang is still on the Yingshang?" Zhang Miao asked suddenly.

Xu Shu's face showed sadness when he heard this: "Exactly." A few years ago, I avenged my friend and killed someone, and I had to flee Yingchuan, so my mother was left alone on Yingchuan, which was really unfilial. ”

Zhang Miao said: "In that case, why don't you bring your aunt to Jingzhou?"

Xu Shu said: "I studied in Xiangyang, and there was no official and half-job, all relied on friends to help barely survive, and my mother could only be followed by the crime, and there were still a few acres of land in my hometown, and there were old friends to help her, and her old family could still live." ”

Zhang Miao said: "Even so, it is a great pity that a son of man cannot bear filial piety. Brother Yuan, I will send someone to bring my aunt here, not to mention anything else, in my Sanshui Village, I will definitely not be wronged by my aunt. ”

Xu Shu was a little moved, but also a little hesitant.

Zhang Miao smiled and said: "Brother Yuan, if you think that my Sanshui Village is dangerous, you can find a house in Xiangyang to settle your aunt, so that Brother Yuan can get together with your aunt sooner or later." ”

The reason why Xu Shu hesitated was that he was worried that Huyang would be too chaotic here, and once a big war broke out, he was afraid that his mother would be endangered. And if the mother is placed in Xiangyang, it will naturally be much better than Sanshui Village.

And when he exterminated Gegang, Xu Shu's command was the first merit, and he shared tens of thousands of worth of property, which was enough to house his mother.

Seeing that Xu Shu finally agreed, Zhang Miao was very happy and asked Xu Shu to write a handwritten letter and ask his uncle Zhang Qi to personally lead people to Yingshang.

"Uncle Zhang Qi is brave, and if he is equipped with a team of archers, even if he encounters a thief, he will definitely be able to bring his aunt safely." Zhang Miao said with a smile.

Xu Shu nodded, approving Zhang Miao's arrangement. Although he had the heart to pick up his mother in person, first, he was wanted in Yingchuan and couldn't show up, and now that the Sanshui Township soldiers were expanding their ranks, and at the critical juncture of military training, Sumeru couldn't leave.

After talking about this, Xu Shu was in a very good mood, and pulled Zhang Miao to continue to talk about the time of training.

"At present, there are as many as forty or fifty young people who defect to Sanshui every day, and according to this scale, it only takes ten and a half days and a month for the Sanshui Township soldiers to expand to four or five hundred. With the original township soldiers as the backbone, it can be expanded to more than 500 people. As long as you train for a month or two, five hundred township soldiers are enough to sweep away all the thieves in Huyang! Xu Shu said angrily.

Zhang Miao was also excited: "At that time, the reputation of my Sanshui Village will be known far and wide, and the people of all villages will join one after another." ”

Xu Shu smiled: "Exactly." ”

The fame of Sanshui Village is great, and Xu Shu's own fame will also rise, and with the deeds of pacifying the Huyang bandits, the reputation of knowing military strategy will spread far away, which will be of great help to Xu Shu's future career.

"However, the large number of people in the team will cause a lot of trouble for weapons and food. At the moment, we don't have all the weapons, so we can't all fight the thieves with bamboo spears, right? Xu Shu said, "There is also food, although a lot of money and grain have been seized in Gegang." However, with the increase in the number of people in Sanshui Village, it is difficult to last these money and food, so it is better to plan early. ”

Zhang Miao said: "Brother Yuan doesn't have to worry about the matter of money and grain, and the money and grain can last for two months now." After a while, I will send Uncle Jin to Xiangyang with my Sanshui Village specialties, and sell the specialties in exchange for food, plus we will continue to clean up the bandits and seize money and food from the bandits' nest to support ourselves, and we can always persevere.

When the spring begins, my father will take the whole village to continue to cultivate the wasteland, and the Huyang County Decree has allowed my Sanshui Village to cultivate uninhabited wasteland, as long as there are people, there will always be enough fields. In the summer and autumn, after the grain is harvested, my Sanshui Village will have enough food and no worries.

As for weapons, I have already bought hundreds of catties of iron through Deng Yicai, and hired a blacksmith to open a furnace to make weapons in my Sanshui Village. Moreover, Huyang ordered Cheng Qi to promise to allow us to buy iron cowhide in Huyang County. ”

"Sanshui specialty?" Xu Shu smiled, "Brother Xian, do you mean the honey candle?" This thing is scarce and expensive, and it is not normal to sell it in large quantities, not to mention that it cannot be sold at a high price, and it is not good if people know the secret. ”

In Sanshui Village these days, the matter of the honey candle naturally can't be hidden from Xu Shu, Xu Shu clearly knows that it is not a real honey candle, but scraped down from the tree. As a thing that can be used as a tribute, honey candles are originally rare, and if you are in a small village, it is considered luck to get some occasionally, and it is not normal to get honey candles one after another. If the secret is known, it is worthless.

Zhang Miao, who Xu Shu was worried about, was naturally clear.

"Brother Yuan doesn't have to worry, what I can get out in Sanshui Village is not only honey candles, but also soap. This thing can only be made by me in Sanshui Village, and its value is not below the honey candle. ”

"Soap?" Xu Shu was stunned for a moment, nodded, and didn't ask any more. He learned about the honey candle by chance, and he didn't specifically inquire about it. And the soap Zhang Miao covered very tightly, and there were few people in the village who knew about it, so Xu Shu didn't want to ask more.

"Not long after the soap was made, I took a few pieces and asked Brother Yuan to use them. It is the most convenient way to wash your hands and take a bath. Zhang Miao said with a smile.

Xu Shu shook his head: "No need." This matter is related to the money and food of Sanshui Village, and the fewer people who know about it, the better. The so-called king does not lose his ministers, and the ministers do not lose their bodies. For example, there are too many people who know the secret of the honey candle now, and I have long wanted to persuade the virtuous brother to pay attention to secrecy. ”

Zhang Miao said with a smile: "That honey candle is originally a candle, and the things on the tree should be used by the people of the world." It's understandable for my Sanshui Village to make a little money from it, but if it's for a long time, it's not appropriate. When my Sanshui Village is completely stabilized, I will secretly announce it to the world, so that all the people can afford to light candles, and no longer use blinding torches to light them. ”

Xu Shu was quite moved when he heard this, and sighed: "Brother Sanjiang's mind is ashamed of his brother. ”

For ordinary people, with a secret recipe to make money like honey candles, they must cover it to make a lot of money and even keep the secret forever and pass it on to their children and grandchildren. And Zhang Miao's behavior of announcing the secret recipe is simply treating money as dung. Xu Shu had to sigh.

Zhang Miao said proudly: "What is the honey candle, I have countless ways to make money in my heart, as long as it can bring benefits to the people of the world and make the people's lives better, I am willing to teach everything I know to the world." ”

"That's a great thing!" Xu Shu stroked his palms and praised.

Xu Shu doesn't think that Zhang Miao is talking big, people who can invent honey candles and soaps must have a lot of whimsical ideas in their minds, these days, Xu Shu has seen Zhang Miao's legend.