After the meal, Yan Yan and Lu You stayed to drink a cup of tea with the old lady, and when they were talking about the conditions of this peace talk, the old lady Lu suddenly asked, "Daughter-in-law, do you still have any contact with the girl of the Zhou family?" ”

"Back to my grandmother, basically not." After Yan Yan finished speaking, she looked at the old lady, the old lady could not ask this sentence for no reason, she wanted to know what the purpose was.

The old lady and Yan Yan glanced at each other and pulled the corners of their mouths, "This girl is not the girl she used to be." ”

Yan Yan believed this, after experiencing the baptism of money and power, it is very difficult for a person to maintain his original intention.

It's a pity that Mrs. Lu didn't follow up after saying this, seeing this, Yan Yan had to ask: "Is she doing well now?" ”

"How can it be bad? Mother-in-law is spoiled, husband is hurt, all praise her for her ability and ability, now the family affairs are basically handed over to her, your mother-in-law is only responsible for outside things, I don't see people coming out and going in are a bunch of people hugging, I don't know, whose concubine can cross the wife? The old lady sneered.

"Doesn't that mean she's pregnant now? Can you still take care of things? Yan Yan didn't want to ask about these things, she also knew that the reason why the old lady told her these things was nothing more than to tell her how miserable Yan Yu's life was, and hoped that she could help Yan Yu in the past sisterhood.

But Yan Yan categorically would not be involved in these things of the Lu family, let alone Yan Yu's affairs, but it was about Zhou Wan, Yan Yan asked a lot.

Because what Yan Yan wants to do next is related to Zhou Wan, she doesn't want to hurt Zhou Wan, but she can't watch Zhou Wan help the Lu family grow up, which violates the agreement between her and Zhou Wan at the beginning, although the agreement is oral.

"With so many stewards to help, and your mother-in-law, how can it really make her tired? This girl has a lot of eyes and knows which one is important. The old lady pursed her lips disdainfully.

Yan Yan couldn't continue this, so he hurriedly found a few words and diverged them.

After returning home, Yan Yan learned some things about Zhou Wan from Qing Glaze's mouth, and also knew some of the Lu family's secret fights that could not be put on the table.

According to Qing Glaze, the relationship between Mrs. Lu and Zhu deteriorated and became clearer with Lu Ming's return, and Zhu took out evidence and witnesses that Yan Yu harmed her, and asked Lu Ming to divorce his wife, but the old lady had to stop her.

In addition, after learning that Zhou Wan was pregnant, Zhu called Zhou Wan to live in the same courtyard with her, saying that it was to facilitate her to take care of Zhou Wan, and it was also to facilitate Zhou Wan to discuss family affairs with her.

But in fact, Zhu did this to envelop her son, because she knew that Lu Mingzheng and Zhou Wan were so good that they could only have a little smile in front of Zhou Wan, and only in front of Zhou Wan could they completely relax, because both of them had a common hobby, and they either chanted poetry or played chess and piano on weekdays, and then they painted.

In this way, in addition to Lu Ming's habit of coming to the old lady's side every day after getting off duty, it is not easy for the old lady to see this grandson the rest of the time.

Not only the old lady, but even Yan Yu, the wife, wanted to see her husband once, and even if she did, Lu Ming's mind was not on her, and she left in a hurry after a while.

Of course, this departure is not necessarily to return to Zhou Wan, because Lu Ming still has a lot of government and military affairs to deal with, Lu Duan is not at home, and all the foreign affairs of the Zhenguo Mansion are handed over to Lu Ming, so Lu Ming is also busy, and most of the time after returning home, he has to discuss things with the Qingke, which also gives him a good excuse, and this excuse is mostly used on the old lady and Yan Yu.

Yan Yan was not interested in these, what she wanted to know was who was behind the movement of the Zhu family's medicine bag, was it really Yan Yu or someone else?

Zhu's evidence is the medicinal materials in Yan Yu's medicine bag and the so-called witness testimony, but Yan Yan feels that it is not credible, because these are easy to fake, who dares not to listen to Zhu's orders?

Also, Chong Zhu dared to tear his face and fight against Mrs. Lu, Yan Yan felt that there must be something hidden here, most likely because Zhu caught Mrs. Lu's handle, otherwise, Zhu dared to treat the old lady Lu Duan like this, and didn't he directly divorce her?

Unfortunately, all this is just her suspicion.

And Yan Yan quickly put aside her suspicions and devoted herself to packing some luggage for her husband, and at the same time, as a reward for Zhou Lu, Yan Yan drew a drawing of the threshing machine and asked Lu You to give it to Zhou Lu for free, and explained in detail the purpose of this threshing machine.

In addition, taking advantage of the opportunity of Lu You going north this time, Yan Yan picked two stewards from his Zhuangzi to follow him, planning to re-plan his 10,000 acres of land, in addition to planting wheat in the north, most of the rest are sorghum, soybeans, and millet, Yan Yan wants to take this opportunity to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes and cotton over there, and by the way, open a textile factory over there to buy cotton, she doesn't want to give up this business to Zhou Wan anymore.

Also, Yan Yan also wants to open a few threshing machine shops in the north, the north is a plain, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the market demand for threshers should be greater than that in the south, but it happens that there is Lu You's land over there, and Yan Yan also sent people to supervise it, so he can take care of the shop's business by the way.

After sending Lu You away, it soon entered November, the weather was getting colder day by day, Yan Yan picked up Mrs. Meng and lived the days of cat winter, in addition to reading books every day, accompanying the elderly and children, the rest of the time Yan Yan and the weavers studied the weaving of socks and towels.

She left the ten weavers found by Zhou Haisheng in Mingyuan, specially allocated a yard for them, and also set up five looms and five spinning machines, and two other people who were specifically responsible for improving the machines.

Because whether it is to make socks or towels, the yarn needed is different from the yarn used for ordinary weaving, so the structure of the machine must be different, and it is necessary to find someone to debug and improve.

These are not something that Yan Yan can interfere with, because the original owner does not have common sense in this regard, so what Yan Yan can do is to help design some socks and towel styles.

The socks are better, Yan Yan thought of a way, you can first weave the soles of the feet out, then knit the socks on the top, and finally sew them by hand, but there is a problem that cannot be solved, there is no elastic band, and it can only be replaced by a drawstring.

There has been no progress in the research of towels, mainly because the loops on the top can't be straightened out, Yan Yan has tried to pick up the cotton thread by hand with small bamboo needles, but it can't be picked like this for a whole towel, right? Moreover, even if it is singled out, it will not achieve the effect that Yan Yan wants, and this work is still being studied.