As the days passed, Su Jinyu was loved by the queen in the palace, if Wen Mo hadn't stopped him, Su Jinyu would have become his brother-in-law.

In October, the temperature plummets and there are many cold rains. Qiao Sheng came to work in the morning, so he first helped Luo Mingshu build a fire.

Wen Qian, who was dressed in cotton clothes, was bouncing beside her, learning to rub her mother's hands, as if it wouldn't be cold anymore!

Luo Mingshu couldn't help but complain: "I don't know when this rain will be a head." ”

"yes, it's getting cold too early this year." Qiao Sheng responded, with firewood in his hand, "The fire is ready, you two should roast quickly, don't get sick." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Qiao Sheng!" Wen Qian said sweetly.

Qiao Sheng's stiff face pulled out a smile: "Qian'er! ”

This scene is like that winter, Qian'er and her father are still there. Luo Mingshu had a piece in her heart that began to soften.

"Was it so cold in previous years?" Su Jinan said as he walked down the stairs while holding his hands. He wore a goose-yellow jacket, bearskin gloves and boots.

"Jin'an, come down and roast." Luo Mingshu hurriedly greeted.

Qiao Sheng sighed and replied: "In previous years, it was not until the end of November that it was so cold now, and I don't know what happened this year?" ”

Everyone is faintly uneasy!

Three days later, Su Jinyu came back with a beaver in the evening, and Su Jin'an hurriedly asked him to change into thicker clothes and put on the bearskin suit.

The family gathered around the brazier, Su Jinyu talked about the fun things in the palace, and everyone laughed.

"These four princes like to beat horses and hang them the most, and they have been admonished many times for this. A few days ago, after his birthday, the emperor asked him what he wanted for his birthday, and he said: Father, the son wants to play with his father, queen mother, and Eniang. ”

"Haha, did the emperor finally agree?" Aunt Qin asked.

Originally, the emperor's face darkened, and he wanted to speak on the spot to admonish. Who knew that the queen mother said first: Today's fourth birthday, the fourth is the oldest, it just so happens that my hands are itchy, and the playboy is going to prepare. ”

The duke is the emperor's personal eunuch and the eunuch boss in the palace. Not everyone can call it, this queen mother is so easy to call, you can know that she is favored.

"This horse crane is really hit!"

"Then the emperor must have won, what's the point of this horse hanging!" Luo Mingshu said.

Who knew that Su Jinyu shook his head: "No, no, no." ”

"Then it must be that the queen mother won, and the emperor will definitely feed the queen mother." Su Bai said.

"Haha, you all guessed wrong, although the emperor is indeed feeding cards to the queen's mother, but in the end, the four princes won!"

"Huh? These four princes are two years older than the crown prince, right, can they win three adults? Qin Xiulan didn't believe it.

"Hehe, you don't know this, these four princes are not proficient, and the only advantage is that the abacus is slippery. But a dignified son can't be a bookkeeper, right? So he has been reprimanded by the emperor when he seized the opportunity. ”

"And then?" Su Rui asked curiously.

"These four princes won the two thousand taels each prepared by the emperor, the queen and Concubine Lan. Concubine Lan was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy, so she knelt down and pleaded guilty. Who knew that the emperor laughed! ”

"Why do you laugh when you lose money, is the emperor a fool?" Wen Qiantong said.

Everyone's faces changed greatly, and Luo Mingshu hurriedly covered Wen Qian's mouth and signaled her not to talk nonsense.

Su Jinyu waved his hand to let Luo Mingshu let Wen Qian go, and then continued: "The emperor is not a fool, and he also saw that the four princes became human spirits as long as money was involved, and he ordered on the spot: let the four princes follow the household department as assistants and learn to manage the treasury finances." ”

Su Jinan nodded: "It seems that this emperor is also relatively open-minded. ”

Su Jinyu nodded in agreement.

Then he sighed and said: "It's just that this year it suddenly got cold, and everyone didn't take precautions in time, and many people in the palace were sick." ”

Hearing this, Su Jin'an frowned slightly.

Luo Mingshu told Su Jinyu to take care of her body in the palace, and then she talked about making more winter clothes...

In the dead of night, the beaver would come to Su Jin'an's room every time he came back, as usual, to report the situation to him.

It's just that after this report, Su Jinan didn't ask too much about things in the palace.

Instead, focus more on the weather.

Su Jin'an, who was wearing milky white pajamas, only used a hairpin to pin her hair. Sitting in front of the dresser, my fingers unconsciously playing with my teeth.

"In your experience, what do you think or feel about the weather this year?"

"When our fox clan encounters this situation, we will definitely organize our members to hoard a large amount of food, such a winter usually has a long snow period, if the food is not enough, either starve to death or freeze to death."

Su Jin'an raised her slender and slender middle finger and rubbed her eyebrows: "It seems that we need to prepare early..."

The next day, Su Jinan handed a note to Su Bai: "You go and send it to Wen Mo quickly." ”

Then he instructed Qiao Sheng: "You go to Lizheng, and say that I want to buy land, buy as much as I want, and when the time comes, divide the newly bought land into three parts, and plant potatoes, corn, and cotton respectively." ”

After the two left, Su Jinan listened to the sound of the rain outside the window and sighed slightly.

Knowing that these were definitely not enough, after thinking about it carefully, he came to the West Wing, where Luo Mingshu's mother and son now live.

opened the curtain and saw Luo Mingshu doing needlework inside. shouted: "Aunt Luo." ”

"Eh, Jin'an, why did you come down? Is there something going on? Luo Mingshu put down the things in his hand, got up and said.

Su Jinan walked in and looked around: "What about Qian'er?" ”

"That little skin monkey took Jinyu to Sister Qin's house early in the morning to play with Xiao Xin'er."

"That's good, Jinyu hasn't been very fun-loving since he entered the palace, and I'm really afraid that he will mature too early." Su Jinan said with a smile.

"By the way, I came to ask Aunt Luo, how did you keep warm in winter before, did you rely on firewood?"

"Alas, it's almost like this, only in the early years I saw in the palace that some of the main wombs used carbon wood, which is much better than firewood, but it also smokes the eyes very much."

Su Jin'an nodded: "We can burn some carbon ourselves to prepare just in case." ”

At noon, Su Jinan came to the inverted seat room and saw Qiao Sheng and a few people from farming eating.

Qiao Sheng saw Su Jinan standing at the door and hurriedly walked out.

"Boss Su."

"Well, I came here to ask you something, didn't disturb your dinner?"

"It's okay, I just finished eating." Qiao Sheng replied.

"That's right, I want to ask if you've ever seen charcoal? Or do you know someone who has burned carbon? ”

Qiao Sheng thought for a while, shook his head and said, "This kind of technology is generally in the hands of a few people, and it will not be passed on. ”

Su Jinan took out the sketch paper he drew in the morning according to the memories of his previous life.

It is the detailed process of burning paper charcoal in the earthen kiln.

At this time, Wu Dayou, who had finished eating, came out and glanced at the drawings, and instantly shouted with wide eyes: "Isn't this an earthen kiln that burns charcoal?" ”

Su Jin'an was overjoyed: "Uncle Wu, have you ever burned charcoal?" ”

Wu Dayou shook his head: "No, it's just that I once saw the appearance of an earthen kiln in the house of a charcoal maker." ”

Well, the hope was disappointed, but it did not affect Su Jin'an's enthusiasm for charcoal burning.

Pointing to the drawing, he said, "This is a way of charcoal burning that I know, and I want to try to do it." ”

"Oh, boss, you can make a fortune by making this, and the carbon on the market is too expensive." Qiao Mu said enviously.

"Then I'll have to rely on a few of you to help me develop it." Su Jinan said with a smile.

Several men shouted excitedly for help.

Su Jinan took out a piece of written paper and came out: "This is an agreement, the content is that you can't leak the charcoal burning technology, and you can't burn charcoal yourself within ten years." If there is a breach of the agreement, the loss of 10,000 taels of gold shall be compensated. ”

Qiao Sheng didn't hesitate, he signed it directly, anyway, he signed the deed of sale, and it wasn't bad for this one. After Qiao Mu and Wu Dayou hesitated for two minutes, they also signed.

Only Ren De didn't join it after thinking about it, he felt that charcoal burning must be a difficult thing, how could it be so easy to develop, it was better to farm honestly, and the salary was a lot.

Everyone has their own aspirations, and the others don't say much.

In order to be able to divide the manpower to do this, Su Jinan invited Uncle Qiu and three other brothers to farm the land.

After choosing a place to build an earthen kiln, under the leadership of Qiao Sheng, the four men who originally farmed the land groped to build an earthen kiln.

He also cut the wood cut from the mountain into sections according to Su Jin'an's request.

When it was fired for the first time, several people were disgraced. The carbon dug up is also partly carbon and partly wooden.

Su Jinan summed up the experience of the first time, mainly on the issue of fire control.

After several more experiments, we finally succeeded in firing low-temperature carbon and high-temperature carbon.

This low-temperature carbon does not burn as long as high-temperature charcoal, and there is a little smoke and dust when burning.

It can be sold to different demanders in different categories.

On the day of success, several big men were happier than Su Jin'an. Su Jinan rewarded two taels of silver and said: "In the future, you will be responsible for burning charcoal in the autumn and winter, and the salary for charcoal burning is fifty wen a day." ”

Fifty a day's wages, that was unimaginable before, the three big men were happy and happy, and Qiao Mu also said excitedly: "Brother Sheng and I will soon be able to save enough money to withdraw our daughter-in-law!" ”

Everyone laughed, but Qiao Sheng laughed a little embarrassed, Su Jinan naturally noticed this, and didn't say anything at that time.

Wen Mo received Su Jin'an's note here, and secretly began to buy a large amount of rice grain.

The second prince, who had been paying attention to Wen Mo, seemed to have smelled a trace of abnormal information, and ordered his subordinates to also start buying a large amount of rice and grain. It's just a step slower, and most of the liquid grain was still bought by Wen Mo.

After hoarding, one day, Wen Mo came to Su Jin'an's yard.

"Why did you let me hoard a lot of rice?"

Su Jinan was shocked: "You don't know why you still hoard so much?" ”

"Didn't you tell me to hoard it?"

"If I tell you to hoard it, you can hoard it?" Su Jinan pointed to himself and said.

Wen Mo nodded.

"I... You... Ah, my goddamn charm! ”