“…… It's fate! ......" Mu Bingyue couldn't explain it, so she had to perfunctory the past.

Seeing that Mu Bingyue's expression was a little gloomy, Shen Xue didn't ask.

The two of them did it for a while, and Li and Li Tong brought people back one after another.

In the following days, it was tense and busy, but fortunately, the thirty Xiu Niang found by Tong's mother were fast, and with the help of the teachers, it only took eleven days for the clothes to be ready, and the Li family hurriedly found a ship to transport them.

After some time, the balance was sent, Mu Bingyue calculated, this business can only be said to be unpaid, fortunately, my father said in the letter that he had given a gift to the armament, and the man said that it was to see how the generals wore how to set the number of pieces, but the clothes they made had spread in the army, because of the prescription, many people have found their fathers, even if they don't want it in the army, they don't have to worry about sales. However, the man had already received his father's money, and it proved to be going well. The father asked them to make some clothes at home first, so that they would be in a hurry.

Li didn't dismiss those show girls, and took all the final money to buy fabrics, and asked the show girls to take them home to do it.

Mu Bingyue looked at her mother and Tong's mother who were fighting at night, and thought hard. It's a pity that the sun is scorching all day long here, otherwise the clothes they make will definitely sell well, and they don't have to spend all the little money they earn on that armament.

And there is still a big head waiting for them, her grandfather is a time bomb, I can't tell when I will give them a bit, I want to calculate the new account and the old account together, but the new fifty taels have also been spent, he doesn't want to lose all his money, he has to sing with them.

Shen Xue looked at Mu Bingyue with a bitter face, grinned, and took a plate of pastries, "Miss is worried, be careful not to wait for old age, wrinkles will crawl all over her face, she will become an old woman, and she will not be able to marry in the future." ”

Mu Bingyue smiled and didn't argue. But when she saw her mother looking over, her eyes were full of self-blame, she was afraid that her mother would think too much, so she picked up a piece of sweet cake, put it in her mouth indiscriminately, and said vaguely: "Don't worry, when my father comes back, he will let him find you a good family first." ”

Shen Xue's face turned red, and she stomped her feet and turned around, "Miss is a little smaller, so she is not ashamed." ”

Mu Bingyue was speechless, whether she mentioned it first or not.

Li watched them bickering, and finally smiled.

It's another year, because the family is in debt, and the family doesn't have a good look at it during the New Year, everyone just adds a new dress to the New Year.

It is said that money can make ghosts grind, and after the New Year's Festival, the military camp ordered another 500 clothes.

Fortunately, the people in the armaments department this time were soft-handed, and the delivery date was much more relaxed, and they purchased some in advance, and then recruited some more people, so the time was very abundant.

Li Tong is a sassy person, and after receiving the letter, he started to handle it, and he recruited enough people in a few days. Originally, there were not many fields here, and the men who escaped military service at home mostly went to the squire's house as long-term workers, and the women were mostly weaving at home to live.

When the manpower is sufficient, Mu Bingyue and Shen Xue are also idle, and they usually help run errands.

More than a month passed, and they were almost finished, and Li and Li Tong packed up and did the final finishing work.

Shen Xue cooked and set the table, and the family sat down and chatted while eating.

"Alas! This time I wrote to your father, telling him that there was not enough eiderdown at home, and telling him not to take jobs over there. Li frowned.

Mu Bingyue had actually thought about this problem for a long time, and there was a solution, so she smiled and said, "Mother, it's better to let my father buy some wool over there after receiving the final payment this time." ”

"Yue'er, how do you know that there are sheep?" Because the sun is shining all day long, every family only raises chickens and ducks, and only large families raise meat to eat, but they are all locked up in the yard, and Li doesn't know how his daughter found out.

"Yue'er, I listened to the embroidery girls." Mu Bingyue thought about the wording and said, "I heard that the plush on the sheep's body can be made into carpets, and it must also be made into clothes." ”

"Oh...... Hearing Yue'er mention it, my mother thought, how did Yue'er know that duck down can keep out the cold? ”

"Yue'er, I just think that duck down is like cotton wool, and sometimes ducks always have to shrink their heads under their armpits after rain, thinking that they can withstand the cold." She paused, saw Shen Xue looking at her with blank eyes, and said inexplicably: "What's wrong?" ”

Shen Xue grinned: "When I'm as old as Miss, I can only eat, Miss is really smart." ”

After Mu Bingyue heard this, her heartbeat accelerated, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that her mother was also looking at her thoughtfully, the atmosphere was a little too quiet, and she had to laugh twice.

When Li Tong heard this, he also looked at Mu Bingyue and said, "Yes, Miss Xiao Hanzhu was born, and she must be extraordinary." ”

Mu Bingyue didn't know how to answer when she heard this, her wrist was hot, and her hand was already pulled to her by her mother.

Li Shi looked at the bead the size of the dragon's eye, and stared at the purple light faintly circulating in the bead for a long time, but he didn't see the reason, so he had to let go and said, "Yes!" Strange to think of? ”

"Mother, aren't the pearls also produced by mussels? There are thousands of strange things in the world, and I think it's just strange because we don't know why. Mu Bingyue saw that most of the doubts in her mother's eyes had disappeared, she breathed a sigh of relief, turned her eyes and thought about it: "Mother, this matter is indeed a little strange, but I don't want to be treated as a strange person, it's better to hide this matter in front of outsiders, and it's better not to let people know about my idea." ”

Mu Bingyue saw that her mother, Tong's mother and Shen Xue all nodded, and then she completely relieved herself and changed the topic: "Mother, my father is in the barracks, running back and forth to buy wool, it is extremely inconvenient to think about it, it is better to ask my father to buy more goats and sheep over there." ”

Li hesitated: "Wool can be made into carpets and felt tents, but if it is made into clothes, no one can make it, and I don't know if it can be done?" Besides, the sheep are very expensive, and where shall we get the money to buy them? ”

She persuaded: "Mother, there is always a first time, and Dad's military tent is also made of felt, so as to resist the wind and snow in the frontier, and the clothes made will also be able to resist the cold wind, which can also solve our current problem of insufficient raw materials." Moreover, some embroidery girls have fled from the frontier, and they can weave felt, and it is no problem to make clothes. And buy sheep? We can ask the embroidery family to buy one, and we are responsible for the purchase of wool, which is much more expensive than cloth, and eats grass, so the shrewd ones will agree. ”

When Li and Li Tong heard this, they both turned their worries into joy, and said with a smile: "I don't know how your little head grows?" ”

Mu Bingyue saw that everyone agreed, smiled and blinked, and discussed the details with everyone, and when the matters were finalized, it was dark, because there was something to do tomorrow, everyone didn't stay up late to catch up, and after cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, they all rested.

The next morning, when she woke up, Shen Xue had already cooked the meal, and her mother and mother Tong had already eaten and went to each house to lobby.

Shen Xue saw that Mu Bingyue had woken up, and said with a smile: "Miss, the slave made your favorite fruit cake today, and you must eat more in a while." ”

Mu Bingyue freshened up, smiled and picked up a piece of fruit cake, and praised Shen Xue's craftsmanship while eating, if it weren't for the lack of funds, she really wanted to open a dim sum restaurant, Shen Xue's craftsmanship is really good, nothing to say!

It wasn't until nearly noon that Li and Tong's mother came back, and Mu Bingyue saw that their faces were full of joy, so the governor was done.

Li Shi said while washing his hands: "I didn't expect things to go so smoothly today, Yue'er, do you guess how many sheep Niangqin and Tong'er sold this time?" ”

Mu Bingyue listened, glanced at Tong's mother's sparkling eyes full of smiles, and said with a smile: "One hundred." In fact, this is what she has been blinded to when she grows up, you must know that although sheep eat grass, they only produce wool two or three times a year. Seeing that her mother shook her head with a smile, she had to stretch out two fingers.

Seeing that Li was still shaking his head, Shen Xue's eyes widened in disbelief.

Mu Bingyue was shocked, and before she could guess, Mother Tong had already said loudly: "It's more than two hundred and sixty, and the deposit has been collected."

Mu Bingyue was surprised when she heard this.

The ancients were not very vigilant, you must know that the price of a sheep is not a decimal, two sheep can empty the family of an ordinary person, and they are not afraid that they will run away in this troubled world.

This is also a small county town with seven or eight hundred people, and she can make up this number, it seems that she really underestimated the ability of her mother and Tong's mother. Mother and mother, although they are foreigners, it seems that those people still believe it.

After lunch, Mu Bingyue saw her mother go to write a letter to her father. She had calculated for herself that the money she had earned from this trip, after the cost of the wagons and boats, the handiwork, the raw materials, and the gifts for the armaments, was removed from the money to be bought there for wool and sheep, and there was really not much silver left.

It's a pity that they still didn't save enough money to exempt their father from military service, and now the upper and lower dredging has increased to three hundred taels of silver, and it is not enough for them to sell their property.

In order to avoid this endless conscription, some of the green men in the village actually sold themselves and sold them to the officials' families as slaves for life, just like livestock, life and death are controlled by the master's family, even if they give birth to offspring, they are also slaves of the family, and they are sold by the master's family, and they have no human rights at all.

Since her father chose to be a soldier, he must also have backbone, so she never mentioned this postponement in front of her mother.

His father is a private school gentleman, and he likes to read the most, but unfortunately in this troubled era of emphasizing martial arts and ignoring literature, even if his father's literary skills are good, the road of being an official is extremely difficult. There is no imperial examination here, and most of the local officials recommend talents to the imperial court, and only after getting the eyes of the imperial court can they mix with an official and a half-job.

Although everyone except the squires and officials were poor, the merchants were still at the bottom, and even the people had a higher status than the merchants. Due to the chaos of the world, commerce has never been given a market for free development, and businessmen have no independent social status, so they can only survive in the gap between the government and the people.

Mu Bingyue's grandfather in this life heard her mother say that he was quite good at business, and he didn't stay home for a few days a year when he traveled south and north, but he earned a huge family business, because her father never knew how to drill into camps, and he was deceived again and again in business, so he lost most of the family property. The father was disheartened and did not inherit his father's business, but became a private school teacher, and later paid to avoid two military services, plus in order to seek a son, the family funds were exhausted, so there was no money to avoid this military service, although there was still an ancestral house left, but it was not sold until death