Zhou Ming handed over the affairs of the garden to Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu and Zhang Biao at the beginning of the construction of the first batch of green bricks, and he himself began to prepare for next year's Spring Festival.

Regarding Zhou Ming's final decision to participate in the Spring Festival, Lin Taohua felt very uncomfortable, so she didn't give Zhou Ming a good face for several days. In this regard, Zhou Ming was very helpless, and patiently communicated with Lin Taohua several times, but he was always speechless by her crooked reasoning, and finally completely annoyed her, and was forced to play on the floor for a few days.

Zhou Yuan saw this matter in his eyes, and always felt that Lin Taohua really shouldn't be so nonsense about the Spring Festival. Zhou Wang's family didn't care so much, and she didn't talk to Lin Taohua with Zhou Yuan's constant nagging in her ear.

After such a stalemate for a week, Zhou Ming saw Lin Taohua's bad temper, and secretly jumped into the icy river helplessly, playing a bitter trick, and then coaxed his wife to ask for warmth in every way.

The matter of the spring boudoir was a foregone conclusion, and Lin Taohua was reluctant to toss Zhou Ming again, so she could only reluctantly accept his decision.

After Yue Yang learned about this, he laughed at Lin Taohua very much, saying that she was not as attractive as a cold official seal, and the angry Lin Taohua did not teach her, so she directly drove Yue Yang out of the house, and even took Yu Ning into a blank eye.

Zhou Ming rushed to the gate of the courtyard leisurely, threw the fox fur that Yue Yang had fallen, and said with a smile: "Brother Yang, if you still want to drink Red Rain Wine next year, you need to be cautious in your words and deeds." ”

Yue Yang raised his eyebrows, "If Lord Xie Yuan can be the master of your family's wife, why bother jumping into the river in winter?" What, do you want me to talk to the little lady about the dangers of winter swimming? ”

Zhou Ming was speechless, he didn't know how this guy knew, gritted his teeth and said, "Count you ruthless." ”

Yue Yang smiled and said, "It's easy to say." Then he was in a good mood and took Yu Ning back home.

In the days that followed, except for occasionally going to the garden to check the progress, Zhou Ming basically nested in the room to read, which made Lin Taohua deeply understand the meaning of not letting go of the volume.

After nearly two months of hard work, the Zhou family's Zhuohua Villa project has come to an end, and the five-entry compound built of blue bricks is located in the peach forest, which is very eye-catching, and the silver sprinkled down like flowing water has finally seen results. Of course, in addition to the money spent, the various incomes of the Zhou Mansion are also quite considerable, and many personnel arrangements are also on the agenda.

First of all, the cooperation between the Zhou family and Zhuangyuanlou has become the main source of finance for the Zhou family, and Zhou Hui has made great contributions. She likes to fiddle with her food and is willing to experiment. In the past two months, she not only mastered the crystal jelly, shaqima, fruit candy, glutinous rice and plum blossom cake and other foods that Lin Taohua taught her, but even developed several new flavors by herself, among which the appearance of matcha flavor amazed Lin Taohua.

Lin Taohua lamented the importance of concentration, and at the same time organized a small-scale family banquet for Zhou Hui. At the family banquet, she praised Zhou Hui's intelligence and remarkable achievements, and entrusted the business of the Zhou family and Zhuangyuanlou to Zhou Hui.

Because the business of the Zhuangyuan Building needs to enter and leave the county every day, for the sake of her safety, Lin Taohua directly pulled Zhou Wu out of the hot construction of the villa, and let him and Zhou Hui be jointly responsible for the business of the Zhuangyuan Building.

Since there is a man from the Zhou family, Zhou Hui automatically plays a supporting role. However, Zhou Wu is silent, and often the two sides are embarrassed, and after a few times, Zhou Hui had to find Lin Taohua and euphemistically said that Brother Wu was not suitable to go out to talk about business.

Of course, Lin Taohua knew that Zhou Wu was not suitable for this kind of field work, but she didn't intend to let Zhou Wu shine in the field position, so she sent Zhou Hui away with a word of exercise.

Lin Taohua didn't agree to the substitution, and Zhou Hui didn't have the courage to put forward opinions in the Zhou family, so she could only bite the bullet and treat Zhou Wu as an escort. After going back and forth, Zhou Hui's courage became bigger and bigger, her temperament became much more lively, and her business became more and more popular, which directly contributed to the expansion and redevelopment of Zhou's food industry.

Lin Taohua saw that she was doing well, and bought two more mothers-in-law for her to help, and the first and second junior high school were also assigned to help.

Zhang Biao was assigned the task of selecting a nursing home by Lin Taohua, going to the city to take care of the nursing home every morning, working in the garden in the afternoon, and helping Zhou Wen inventory the materials and arrange the materials in his spare time, as if he had become the security director and logistics minister of the Zhou Mansion.

Half a month ago, Yuan Jie and Hu Yiren and his wife also officially took refuge in the Zhou family, one was appointed by Zhou Ming as the manager of Zhuohua Villa, and the other was promoted to the manager of the account by Lin Taohua.

Yuan Jie was not a native of Tianjiazhuang, but after returning to Tianjiazhuang, he got acquainted with the Huyi people, and then settled in Tianjiazhuang. After coming to Zhoujia Village, the Zhou family was very kind to people and things, and the food and clothing were well considered.

Hu Yiren was originally a young lady of a wealthy merchant, and it was no stranger to her to read and read the ledger, and after Lin Taohua found out, she directly pushed the account matters to her, and she spent most of her time practicing traditional Chinese characters in addition to listening to reports every week.

Hu Yiren is grateful for Lin Taohua's trust, and he does not dare to make any mistakes in the accounts, and he always has to check it two or three times a day to rest assured.

Yuan Jie watched her pick up the lights every day to settle accounts, and teased her for being harder than her son. Later, Lin Taohua knew about it, and she became closer to Hu Yiren, and often gave her some rouge gouache, jewelry and clothing, and after a while, the two became best friends who talked about everything.

This day was the day of accounting, and the Hu people knocked on Lin Taohua's door with the account book.

"Madam, I have made all the accounts for this month, please look at them." Hu Yiren smiled and put the account book next to Lin Taohua.

At this time, the weather was already relatively cold, and Lin Taohua was reluctant to go out, so she shrunk in front of the charcoal basin and dozed off most of the day. Hearing Hu Yiren's voice, she turned her head to look at Zhou Ming, who was still reading, and muttered, "Why don't you doze off when you keep staring at the book?" ”

Zhou Ming naturally heard her words and chuckled: "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book." This is both beautiful and wealthy, and the husband naturally can't sleep. ”

Lin Taohua was dissatisfied, "You mean that Lin Taohua is not as good as Yan Ruyu, and you don't look down on the earthen wall tile house I built?" ”

Zhou Ming smiled: "What's the matter?" The husband just said that reading is interesting. ”

Lin Taohua snorted. Since he knew that he was going to participate in the Spring Festival, the beautiful man reading the picture that was pleasing in the past was extremely dazzling.

"Yiren, they all said that it was good to call it Peach Blossom, why is it always Mrs. Madame's." The Hui were swept straight into the depression.

"Madame, didn't you say that there are no rules, I am a subordinate in the house, what kind of system is called Peach Blossom." The Huy man laughed.

Lin Taohua snorted coldly: "You also followed the owner to bully me." ”

Zhou Ming and Hu Yiren were both speechless, it was clear that she was unreasonable, and she had to blame others.

"Say it." Lin Taohua put some carbon in the charcoal pot and said to the Hu people lazily.

Hu Yi roughly reported the income and expenditure of the next week, and at the end of the month, he also reported the total income and expenditure of this month, and then made a rough budget for the next month according to the purchase list reported by Yuan and Zhou Hui.

Lin Taohua listened to it, and said: "Okay, you look at it, it is estimated that the garden will be over in ten days and half a month, and the furniture customized earlier will let Brother Yuan take the time to take a look, don't miss the housewarming." ”

Hu Yiren smiled: "I went to see it the day before yesterday, and the family attaches great importance to our business, and the craftsmen work day and night to ensure that they will not make mistakes." ”

Lin Taohua nodded, and then said: "It's approaching the end of the year, reserve more silver for Sister Hui, and you and Sister Hui will go to the county seat with me in two days, I want to make a big pen at the end of the year." ”

The Huy people naturally had no opinion, and nodded in agreement.

Lin Taohua brought the fruit bowl beside her and pulled a stool for the Hu people to come and accompany her.

The Huy people looked at it, this is the end of the debriefing? She glanced at the account books that had been sorted out for several days, and couldn't help but say, "Madam, don't you want to look at the account books?" ”

Lin Taohua raised her head: "Didn't you report?" I trust you, don't look at it. ”

The corners of Zhou Ming's mouth twitched, after all, he was still too lazy to read, after all, he didn't recognize the words very proficiently.

Hu Yi naturally didn't know the twists and turns here, and said helplessly: "Madam, it's really not okay for the wife of the house to treat you like this, and you don't know if you've been sold." Let's take a look, anyway, it took me a few days to sort it out. ”

Lin Taohua saw that she couldn't shirk it, so she could only put down the peanuts in her hand, pick up an account book and open it. The first reaction, well, the handwriting is good, and the second reaction, the accounts are really tired to be recorded like this, and the people who check the accounts are even more tired.

She only read one page and closed the book.

"Yiren, you might have to take it back and redo it."