Li Yan went home after leaving the county office, and saw Qiu Niang walking back and forth at the door.

"Childe is back." Qiu Niang saw Li Yan and happily stepped forward to salute.

Li Yan stopped and asked, "Qiu Niang?" Why are you here? Something? ”

Qiu Niang pointed to the bag in the corner of the wall and replied, "Come to the city to exchange some millet and boil porridge to drink." I wanted to find Childe for something, but I heard that Childe didn't come back, so I waited here. ”

Li Yan smiled: "If I come back at night, can you still wait?" If you have something, just tell the porter, and I'll just come back and tell you. You're lucky to be waiting for me today. Let's go, go in and say. ”

Qiu Niang nodded silently and followed Li Yan into the house. When she came to the living room, Qiu Niang saw Wu Niang sitting on the table with a pen and drawing. And Wu Niang just raised her eyes and glanced at them, and continued to write and draw on the paper.

Li Yan didn't care about Wu Niang, and poured a cup of tea for Qiu Niang, but fortunately the tea was hot. He didn't have a few servants in the house, and he only used his servants to greet him when he was meeting guests, and he could do it himself at other times.

Qiu Niang hurriedly thanked her, then looked at Wu Niang and asked suspiciously, "Why is she here?" Is it a subordinate? Or still~"

Li Yan said with a smile: "Wu Niang is the account room I invited, not a subordinate." You don't have to worry about her, what's the matter with you? If I can help, I will definitely help. ”

Qiu Niang smiled awkwardly, she glanced at Wu Niang again, and saw that Wu Niang was also glancing at her, so she crossed her heart and said: "That, I want to move to the city too, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Li Yan nodded and said, "Yes, you just need to find a good place to live." When you enter the city, you still go to work in the weaving mill in the city, anyway, you are also cooked, so you should be a deputy steward first. ”

Qiu Niang nodded happily and said, "Gongzi Xie." But before she could be happy, she thought about lodging. The city is not as tight as the outside of the city, and the houses are very tight. So she asked, "Can't you help solve the problem of the house?" ”

Li Yan shook his head in embarrassment and said, "This is really not easy to do. ”

Qiu Niang suddenly said: "Childe, you have such a big mansion here, just make room for me." ”

"It's, it's not good." Li Yan hurriedly refused: "It's not suitable, it's not suitable." ”

Qiu Niang frowned, pointed at Wu Niang and said, "Then how can she?" She's the right fit? ”

"Wu Niang has her own house, she doesn't live here." Li Yan hurriedly explained.

Wu Niang also snorted coldly, which can be regarded as dissatisfaction with Qiu Niang.

Qiu Niang thought for a while, and then said: "Then I will live with Wu Niang, there should be a vacant room in her residence, right?" ”

Li Yan didn't speak, but looked at Wu Niang.

Wu Niang finished writing the last stroke, put down the pen, and then said: "I don't have a vacant room there, you better find another place." ”

"It's all women, so it's okay to sleep in a room." Qiu Niang continued to fight. Since she has made up her mind, she naturally has to work hard. That Shi Jincai has been looking for her more and more diligently these days, although she doesn't hate that Shi Jincai, but there are better ones, she naturally won't give in. Li Yan has gone from only a dozen people and dozens of acres of land to now being able to control the entire county, and his future is really immeasurable.

Although Li Yan didn't seem to look down on her all the time, she felt that as long as she insisted, then Li Yan would definitely look at her differently. Therefore, after Li Yan was resident in the county seat and rarely went to Qilizhai, she took the initiative to come to the county seat, hoping to have the opportunity to get close to Li Yan conveniently.

"Vulgar!" Wu Niang replied disdainfully. After that, he said to Li Yan: "You don't have anything to do here, I'll go back first." Also, don't dictate for me, I don't have a room there. After saying that, he walked away on his own.

Although Wu Niang's mother and daughter are not treated well in the palace, they are the palace in the end. Although the mother and daughter do everything by themselves, they have an independent small courtyard with seven or eight main rooms, and she and her mother have their own rooms. Now she lives in a small courtyard with only two rooms, a bedroom and a living room, and she will not share them with others at all. What's more, she also thinks that this Qiu Niang is too annoying and is not interested in meeting her more.

"She, she," Qiu Niang pointed to Wu Niang's back, stunned and stammered, "How can she be like this?!" There is no condescension! She, can she still stay here?! ”

Li Yan smiled awkwardly, he just wanted Wu Niang to attract Master Niu over and help him make cannons. The problem of the barrel and bolt of a flintstone fissure is complicated, not to mention a gun that withstands a greater deflagration force. If it's the slightest bit out of place, the cannon is useless. That's hundreds of catties, thousands of catties of copper, not just a few catties of iron like the barrel of a gun.

Qiu Niang saw that Li Yan didn't say anything, so she became even more angry. There was a mist in her eyes, and she said with a crying voice: "Childe is planning not to help at all?" Qiu Niang is so annoying to the son? ”

Li Yan saw that Qiu Niang was about to cry, so he hurriedly persuaded him, otherwise he would go out and let people see it, as if he thought he had done something. He said, "Don't worry, I'll help you find a place to live." I can't find it alone, so I can only see who has an empty house and find one for you. ”

Qiu Niang heard that Li Yan was helping her find a house, so she reached out to wipe away the tears in her eyes, and thanked her with a smile: "Qiu Niang thanked her son." I'll go to the inn for the night now, and tomorrow I'll go to work in the weaving mill. ”

"Huh?" Li Yan said in surprise: "Don't be in such a hurry. You don't have to go back and pack up and say goodbye to other people or something? You'll come back when I've found a house. ”

"It's okay," Qiu Niang explained, "and there is nothing to pack at home." As for saying goodbye, it's not too late to go back and say goodbye when you rest in the future, anyway, you can rest every month. ”

She is smart, if she doesn't take this opportunity to settle the matter of entering the county, and Li Yan forgets it after a while, then didn't she make this decision in vain? And she also wants to avoid Shi Jincai, and she can't let this person continue to pester her.

Li Yan persuaded two more sentences, but Qiu Niang still insisted. Li Yan had no choice but to give Qiu Niang some grain to make store money, and now everything is expensive with silver money, but grain is hard currency, and it only takes two catties of noodles to live in the store.

After Qiu Niang left, Li Yan asked people to inform Li Zhong and asked Li Zhong to prepare a cart and grain, and he planned to transport the grain in batches to Kaifeng's father Li Chunyu to sell. Now the price of grain in Kaifeng has also risen to more than 1,200 yuan per bucket, and if he gives it to his father at a price of 1,000 yuan, both parties will make money, and the fertilizer and water will not flow into the fields of outsiders, so it is better to be cheap for his own family.

A big city like Kaifeng has a population of nearly one million, and most of them are citizens engaged in various jobs, and they make money every day just to buy grain, so they don't have to worry about not being able to sell food. And he can also use the money to go to Zhuxian Town to buy some things he uses, killing two birds with one stone.