The bedroom of the new house in the compound has been put on a fire kang, and at Li Xiao's insistence, a lamp will be lit at night.

They are all landlords with thousands of acres of fertile land, so they can't go to bed when it's dark, and the nights in this winter are too long.

The kang is very warm, and the kang table made of pine wood is set up, and the kang is covered with a kang mat made of reeds, and a sheepskin robe is draped, and you sit on the kang and read a book under the oil lamp. Wan Niang sat on the other side and made shoes, and there was always no time for a woman to be idle in her hands at any time.

Although there is now a rough mother-in-law in the family, a maid, and even a cook and fireworker in the kitchen, Wanniang refuses to be idle. Help Li Xiao make clothes, she has to wrap inside and out, and even the socks are made by herself.

And shoes.

Making shoes is the most time-consuming and effort-consuming, especially for mille-feuille soles.

"I don't have to make shoes at night, and the light is not bright enough to hurt my eyes. Anyway, I have enough shoes to wear, and I put them there when I do so much. Li Xiao felt a little sorry for this mother-in-law.

Wan Niang glanced up at Li Xiao, "You don't have to read books anymore." ”

"It's still early."

In this winter, it gets dark early, and everyone eats early, all of them eat before it is completely dark, and no one deliberately lights the lamp to cook, and the lamp eats under the lamp, and it is not cost-effective to pay the wax and oil.

Eat too early and there is no activity, it turns out that when there is no kang, everyone will burn a fire pit, and a circle of people will sit around to roast the fire to keep out the cold, now there are kang kangs, who wants to bake that fire and eat that smoke and ashes, they are all early in the morning.

Each house goes on its own kang, and each drills its own bed.

Those who have daughters-in-law are not idle, but they pity those singles, and the nights are longer and more difficult.

Li Xiao closed the account book, in fact, there was nothing to see. The Li family's current situation is all right, there is no foreign debt, and there is no crisis.

There are now a total of 900 acres of irrigated land under the name of the family, and there are 20 acres of ancestral grave fields, and now it is winter, and the fields are all barren, and there is no need to pay attention to them, they are all frozen hard, and they have to wait for the spring of the next year.

It was cold outside, and there was still food in the warehouses of each family.

The money from the last tribute to the secret recipe for decolorization of frosting sugar has not been moved, ten dollars, plus a hundred silks, those cucumbers in the space are still being sold recently, and they are picked up every two days to send the goods, and the price has fallen a little now, but almost every time the thousand cucumbers are sold, they can still bring back more than a thousand dollars.

This business is basically a business, although Li Xiao said that these cucumbers were taken from another businessman, but so far everyone has never seen the businessman, although there are suspicions, but Li Xiao did not mention a word, and everyone did not go to investigate, after all, this is the secret of the owner.

There is Yang Dayan in charge of the school, which is not bad, Li Xiao occasionally goes to make a cameo, and sometimes Mr. Zhao and Wan Niang will also go to and from class.

Da Biao is mainly responsible for sports drills, running and doing exercises every morning, and now he is basically responsible for leading and supervising the team, and the students have become accustomed to running, from running five miles every morning in the early days, and now it has become ten miles.

Relying on the tuition fees collected by those self-financed students, it is possible to maintain the balance of the expenses of the school, and with these dozens of students, the compound is still very lively.

Li Xiao said at the beginning that he wanted to train these students as squire knights, and he did exactly that, regardless of whether he was a child of a tenant or a child of a landlord, as long as he was studying in the school, in addition to exercising every morning and taking classes in the morning and afternoon, they also had to take turns on duty.

The content of the duty includes cleaning the Li family's compound, etc., and after the beginning of spring, Li Xiao even plans to get some land for the school, so that they can be responsible for planting the land and vegetables themselves.

The original two maids in the family, Li Xiao was ugly, so he asked them to do other things, and let the students take turns to be responsible for serving tea and water, in Li Xiao's words, this is not to use child labor to exploit students, but to train them.

Teach them some daily etiquette, etc.

"I'm already planning to open a restaurant on Lanxi Street, so I'll let Da Biao be the shopkeeper and chef, and bring a few more people over, with our family's stir-fried vegetables and braised vegetables, we will definitely be able to make a splash."

"It's not a small cost to open a restaurant, right, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you can do it well?" Wan Niang always felt that it was better to live at home.

"Where can you just rely on the land to collect rent, you see which landlord does not engage in some shops, caravans, etc., land rent collection is basic, and doing some business is living money and water. The restaurant will not lose, we guard this road, so many people come and go, and they always have to eat. ”

"But the store spends so much money, how can you rest assured if you don't go?"

"So I gave Da Biao two percent of the silver shares, and also told the past that those who go will have a salary, as long as they are diligent and steadfast, and work for three years for a full account period, they can give the body shares, and every time they pass an account period in the future, they will continue to add body shares. Everyone works in our restaurant, not only our guys, but they also earn money for themselves, and of course they will work very hard. ”

Silver shares, body shares from the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasty Jin merchants, silver shares are equivalent to real money into the partnership, not only has the right to dividends, but also the corresponding transfer, inheritance and voting rights, which is equivalent to the real shareholders.

The body stock is the equity that the owner conditionally gives to the employee, and only has the right to dividends of general shares, but does not have the right to inheritance, transfer and voting, and must be in the store to do things before the body shares, if you leave, it will be automatically withdrawn, and you will no longer enjoy the right to dividends.

Give Dabiao silver shares and other guys body shares, also to make everyone more motivated. How can you be more motivated to work for others and get a dead wage.

Although it is said that in this way, some income must be distributed to everyone, but Li Xiao always thinks that this way can earn more income.

Da Biao came here with him, but he was not his servant, he was his friend, and now he was half a guest of the Li family. He put forward his dream today, and of course Li Xiao has to pay attention to it. It is a win-win situation to contribute some capital by yourself and let Da Biao help manage it.

"Wan Niang, I see that your father has been studying his prescription recently, the old man is not old and ambitious. Otherwise, let's just open a medical hall for him on the street, we will pay the capital, the old man will sit in the hall, and recruit a few more apprentices, and this medical hall will be opened. ”

The old man has some medical skills, and the people are always inseparable from the medical hall and pharmacy, there are medical halls and pharmacies on Lanxi Street, but they are far from saturated, first open a small medical hall, and make money is certain.

"It costs a lot of money to open a medical clinic, and you have to hire people to rent a shop and buy medicine." Wan Niang said.

"What's the matter, you won't lose money by opening a medical center, let's open a small one first, I don't have this capital out now. We pay for it, and the old man goes to the museum, and divides it into fifty or fifty, how about it? ”

Wan Niang chuckled, "What's fifty-fifty, my father doesn't have any other children, isn't it still ours when he earns money." ”

"It's not like that, the old man is still young, and now he's only in his early fifties, it's not impossible to find another woman, it's normal for this old tree to have children and inherit the family generation every spring. Let's set the rules first, and there will be no contradictions in the future. ”

People in this era pay attention to unfilial piety, there are three, no queen is great, and it is a very important thing to delay the clan bloodline. Doctor Zhao used to have bad conditions, the dead woman was lame, and he had no money to marry with a young daughter, but now that the conditions are good, Li Xiao thinks that it is not too much to help the old man marry a young widow or something.

If the father-in-law has a wife and children in the future, the income of the medical hall will definitely be divided, and there can be no contradictions.

"It's still thoughtful, I'll ask my dad tomorrow, and if he wants, then we'll help him open a hospital on the street." Wan Niang said happily.

Opening a restaurant and a medical center, this is not easy to lose money, spend some money to invest, but in the future, you will become a hen that lays eggs, and there is a steady stream of profits, which is more cost-effective than throwing money at home and burying it in the ground. Even if it is said that the copper coins in these years do not depreciate and there is no inflation, it is a sin not to let the money go down.

"San Lang, meeting you is really a blessing that I have cultivated in several lifetimes." Wan Niang moved over and snuggled half of her body directly into Li Xiao's arms.

The warm fragrance entered his nose, it smelled so good, Li Xiao involuntarily involuntarily snorted a few more times.

Hey, I've been in Datang for so long, and I've finally begun to live a stable life, in this long cold winter night, a dim oil lamp, and the silence outside the house is extremely quiet.

It's simple.

"San Lang, does it smell good on me?"

"It's fragrant." Li Xiao said very honestly, Li Xiao, who had seen countless winds and waves, suddenly felt that Wanniang under the lamp had also become charming and moving.

The skin also seems to be better and more radiant.

"My body was clean the day before yesterday, and I took a shower today." Wan Niang's voice became smaller and quieter, but it was already explicit.

After Li Xiao came back, he slept in the same bed with Wanniang every day, but he had never had a room.

Today, Wan Niang finally mustered up the courage to make it clear directly.

The shy rose blooms quietly!

"Wan Niang, you are so beautiful today!"

Looking at the woman under the lamp, the more she looked at it, the more beautiful she became, Li Xiao felt as if she was a little nervous.

"San Lang, you want me!"

Wan Niang closed her eyes, like a flower that you can pick.

In the face of such an invitation, even a man can no longer refuse. The two have also lived together for so long, they are no longer two strangers, and Li Xiao has been adjusting to the fact that she is his wife and partner for the rest of his life during this time.

Now it's finally a matter of course.

Li Xiao lowered his head and kissed her on the lips.

Boom.

"San Lang, blow the lamp!"

Li Xiao turned his head and blew hard, the lights flickered a few times, and finally went out.

The room was plunged into endless darkness, with only two distinct gasps remaining.

The wheezing sound grew heavier and thicker.