Although Xiao Ruixue said verbally that she was confident in her heart, in fact, it was her personality that made her unwilling to admit defeat easily.

The silk weaving of the jade silk workshop is rough, because of the backward textile machine technology, which Xiao Ruixue is a layman, and she can not turn things around with her enthusiasm alone.

Of course, Xiao Ruixue is not helpless, she knows that the silk weaving technology is the best in the world in Shu brocade, so she is also preparing these days, ready to select a few bold and reliable people to go to Shu to learn from the scriptures, if successful, maybe can change today's predicament.

However, considering that Shu is thousands of miles away from Jinling, although the relationship between the two countries is still harmonious, it can also rely on the convenience of the Yangtze River, but there is no shortage of strongmen and bandits on the way. The effect of this method is slow, and whether it succeeds or fails depends on the will of God, and Xiao Ruixue naturally cannot bet all on it.

So on the other hand, Xiao Ruixue still has to rely on the connections of the shopkeeper Hu, and with the generous treatment to dig some looms from other families, but because of the uproar about Jin Jinxuan last time, several silk villages with good weaving skills have taken precautions against her, and the story has been going very poorly.

All in all, this incident has indeed become a piece of Xiao Ruixue's heart.

The moment Zhu Yan pushed open the door of her daughter's room with the boiled sweet soup, she saw her daughter's crazy behavior at a glance, and saw her lying unkempt in front of the desk, with one hand black like a turtle's paws, scratching her ears and cheeks with one hand, and holding charcoal in the other, writing and drawing frantically in front of the case.

Zhu Yan couldn't help but widen her eyes, she really couldn't believe that the flower-faced cat girl in front of her was her daughter. "Girl! What are you crazy about? ”

"Huh? Mother, why are you here, what's the matter? The girl looked up and scratched her black forehead and chicken-nest hair twice with her turtle paws, and a pair of dark panda eyes revealed a confusion that had not yet been freed from some state of madness.

"What kind of demon are you? Make yourself look like this! "Zhu Yan is such a delicate person, where can she stand her daughter's dignity, her daughter was born with a beautiful billet, she has been trained by hand since she was a child, I can't wait to dress her up like a person in the painting, when I see it today, I am simply ruining the beauty in my heart! Without further ado, her anger came up all at once.

"Ah, mother, if you have something to say, don't do it, don't do it! Oops, don't get your hands dirty! Xiao Ruixue stretched out her beautiful neck in pain, and it turned out that one ear had been pinched in Zhu Yan's hand.

"Say! What the hell are you doing? ”

"I don't have any moths, mother, no, no! Tap, tap, I'm doing the right thing! Oops—" Xiao Ruixue's voice rose abruptly, and finally turned into a scream.

"Business? Can the hell be done like this? I want to see if you're there-" Zhu Yan turned her head to look at the white paper on the case, but was suddenly stunned, this-what the hell is this painting? I saw that on the white paper, there were all kinds of patterns that I didn't understand, and there was more than one thing, and it was not strange that they were scattered.

"What the hell are you drawing?" Zhu Yan was also a little confused.

"Mother, can you let go of your hand first, let me explain to you slowly!"

"Straightforward!"

"It's a loom, mother!" Xiao Ruixue's eyes were hazy with tears, and the black ash on her face was even more like wearing makeup, leaving two slender white marks.

"What about the liar, the weaver like this?" Zhu Yan's eyes widened.

"Each part is taken apart and drawn!" Xiao Ruixue replied truthfully.

"You still have what it takes?" Zhu Yan was surprised after hearing this, and unconsciously relaxed the strength in her hands.

Xiao Ruixue's tears immediately stopped, and she became angry: "I can't imagine it, mother, I pondered it for a day and a night, and finally understood what kind of structure it was!" ”

"You're still proud, aren't you?" Zhu Yan's hand suddenly tightened again, and Xiao Ruixue's tears continued to connect: "Light, it hurts-"

"Explain to my mother, what are you thinking about this thing for?"

"It's not for our family!"

"For our family?" Zhu Yan was puzzled.

"Mother, is it okay to let go of your hand, I'm your own child, aren't you distressed at all? Woo-" Xiao Ruixue cried, the "makeup" on her face was even more spent, and the appearance of black flowers with rain was still a little pitiful.

Zhu Yan's hand finally let go, and she looked at her daughter's ears that were red by herself, she was indeed a little distressed. "Okay, you explain to your mother, what is the whole thing?"

"Okay, mother!" Xiao Ruixue's tears stopped like a trick, she wiped the tears on her face with the back of her hand, and said with a toothy smile: "Mother, you sit down first, and wait for the child to come slowly!" ”

"Don't help me with your dirty hands!" Zhu Yan slapped away the outstretched turtle paw with one hand, made a disgusted expression on her face, and rubbed her hand on the blank space of the white paper before sitting down with an extremely elegant manner.

Xiao Ruixue curled her hands back to her chest, and only when she saw her mother's anger dissipate did she open her mouth to explain what she had done.

It turned out that in order to improve the structure of the textile machine, Xiao Ruixue came up with two countermeasures, but the first countermeasure was waiting for a long time, and the other countermeasure encountered all setbacks. In desperation, Xiao Ruixue was ruthless and decided to understand this principle by herself. In the past few days, it also happened that there was not much to do in the rice shop, so she asked the guy in the shop to move a textile machine to the main store, observe the real thing in the shop during the day, and then go home at night to draw it into a split drawing, basically forgetting to sleep and eat.

But don't say it, just with her ingenuity, coupled with the overnight battle, she really understood the structure of this textile machine seven or eight times out of ten, but this pair of precious panda eyes is a reward for her.

After listening to her daughter's description, Zhu Yan wanted to be angry and want to laugh, and then looked at her dignity at the moment and her slightly excited expression, although she felt very funny, but somehow, she felt a sad mood in her heart.

"Girl, mother thinks you're crazy!" There was a slight hoarseness in Zhu Yan's throat.

"Mother, sometimes if you want to make things happen, you can't lack this energy!" Xiao Ruixue smiled stupidly, and there was a subtle sense of satisfaction hidden in her smile.

"And you got it through?"

"Hey, it's almost! At least I now understand how it works, and even if I move a loom to me, I can break it up and put it back in its original form. ”

"You've figured it out, and you'll know how to improve it?"

"I don't know yet, but I should be able to think of something if I continue to think about it!"

"It is said that interlacing is like separating mountains, you are not even a layman, how can you think of a way? If it's really that easy, why can't the masters of the Jade Silk Workshop think of it? ”

"Mother, you can't say that, maybe it really makes me think of it?" Xiao Ruixue smiled a little stubbornly.

"Mother, you look stupid!" Zhu Yan suddenly raised her voice for some reason, and this drink frightened Xiao Ruixue, who had not slept all night from last night to this time.

Zhu Yan saw Xiao Ruixue's tired look in her eyes, and said softly in her voice: "Girl, you haven't slept all night, right?" ”

"Momentarily engaged, forget sleepy." Xiao Ruixue's smile revealed a trace of weakness and worry, who knows, she didn't wait for her mother's scolding.

"You're so stupid!" Zhu Yan suddenly got up and wanted to hug her daughter into her arms.

Xiao Ruixue hurriedly took a step back: "Mother, what are you doing, I'm still dirty!" ”

"Mother doesn't dislike it!" Zhu Yan took another step forward, couldn't help but say, and hugged her daughter into her arms. She rubbed her daughter's hair and said softly, "Tell my mother, what are you doing this for?" ”

"For our family." Xiao Ruixue replied in a sullen voice.

"I know you're doing this for our family, but does our family need you to do this?" Zhu Yan's tone was gentle and incomprehensible. "The pillar of our family has always been the rice line, it is enough for you to take care of the rice line, even the master of the jade silk workshop feels dispensable, is it worth paying for a dispensable thing?"

"It's worth it." Xiao Ruixue cut the railroad to the fore, seeing that her mother was still looking at her suspiciously, she smiled, but then her face became very solemn. "Mother, don't you know, our Xiao family is actually not as glamorous as it looks now."

"What do you mean by that?"

"In the past month, I have rearranged all the accounts since the beginning of this year, and calculated the income and expenditure including the rice bank and the jade silk workshop, from which I found a very serious problem, that is, the total gross income of all our industries this year adds up to about 8,000 taels of silver, but the total expenditure has exceeded 5,000 taels, that is, we have earned less than 3,000 taels of silver in total this year."

Hearing these words, Zhu Yan frowned slightly, but in fact, she didn't have much concept of the numbers mentioned by her daughter, and the silver taels were just silver taels to her, because usually her monthly money was distributed by Mrs. Gu, and Mrs. Gu had never treated her harshly in this regard, but when she heard her daughter's tone, she faintly felt that something seemed to be wrong with this matter.

"In fact, our family's business has been declining over the years, so we haven't saved too much silver, plus the three thousand taels, it is estimated that the total is only five thousand taels of silver. Mother, do you know what five thousand taels means to our family, it looks like a lot, but it's not like that at all! ”

"Now it seems that this year seems to be peaceful, but in recent years, the Miao Yi Tusi in Jingnan has often been in turmoil, and the army of the imperial court has not made much of a name for itself, resulting in the people in Jingzhou's grain-producing land unable to grow grain steadily, and the price of rice will inevitably rise sharply next year. And the surplus grain in our warehouse can only be dealt with until the end of the year, which means that our family will use the five thousand taels to buy the grain that has risen in price next year, in case the price of grain rises to the point that it is difficult for us to accept next year, this five thousand taels of silver is not enough for us to turnover! ”

"It was only after I finished calculating these accounts that I understood why my father was in such a hurry to go to Jingzhou, and it was very likely that he was trying to stabilize our family's upstream rice merchants. He asked his eldest brother to go to Suzhou, probably for the same purpose, and the semicolon was just a disguise, but he actually didn't want to cause the hearts of the shopkeepers below to fluctuate. I investigated and learned that the ancient family of Lingnan rice merchants has now settled in Suzhou, and my father actually doesn't want to bet all the fate of our Xiao family on Jingzhou rice merchants, all of which is to take precautions for next year! ”

With Xiao Ruixue's layers of descriptions, Zhu Yan's willow eyebrows became tighter and tighter, although she was surprised that her daughter knew everything about the Xiao family's business in a short period of time, but she was more worried about the future fate of the Xiao family.

"If there will be such a big trouble, why does the master never mention it at home?" Zhu Yan wiped her eyes slightly.

"Dad didn't talk about it, it was just that he felt that we couldn't help much, and second, he didn't want to bring a lot of unhappiness to this family. Dad, in fact, carried a lot of things for us outside alone! Xiao Ruixue pursed her lips and said. Mother, in fact, I don't dare to say one thing! ”

"What's the matter?"

"The remaining five thousand taels, because of a mistake I made a while ago, are actually one thousand taels less!"