After Mai Wang left, Shan Cuihua remembered that she didn't bring him silver, and Mai Xiaofang complained dissatisfiedly: "Yesterday's silver was ours, even if it is a wheel today, it should be paid by the milk and uncle!" ”

Grandma might be able to pay a little, uncle...... Mai Xiaohuan dared to guarantee that even if he followed the county lady, he would not bring a copper plate.

This time I went for a whole day, and after coming back, Mai Wang went back to the house without saying a word, and Mai Yonghai grabbed his sister and asked when he was going to Tongbei County, and he didn't want to stay here in Shaxi Village for a day.

It seems that he really guessed correctly, and Dad ran with him for two days, and finally became the thankless man. Something like this happened, how could Mai Xiaohuan leave! My grandmother and third uncle at home will be scruples, and they don't dare to go too far, if they leave, they will definitely be embarrassed for their parents.

The next day, except for cooking, Mai Xiaohuan stayed in the house to write a plan, revised those imperfections as a whole, and added some new ideas.

"Aren't you in a hurry to see the Qu County Order? Why don't you plan to go, or worry about your family? Your dad and I will be fine, but ...... Yesterday, your father gave your third uncle a few sticks of bone paste on credit at the pharmacy, and the doctor said that it was their family's ancestral secret recipe, and it cost half a tael of silver for one sticker, and this money ......."

"I know, my father bought a few stickers for the third uncle!"

"Ten stickers."

The third uncle is dark enough, Mai Xiaohuan wants to know what to do if the third uncle runs out of these plasters, does the family still have to help buy them? In two days, fifteen taels of silver have been spent on the third uncle, if this injury is not good for a long time, or if he is disabled after healing, will his family have to support him and his family for a lifetime!

Now Mai Xiaohuan finally deeply understands what it means to be good and have no reward.

"Your father will go with you tomorrow, if they don't make trouble, they will come back before the year, if they don't forgive, I will sell what should be sold at home, kill what should be killed, and then go to you."

Is this a blessing or not! Mai Xiaohuan was very unkind and secretly compared to a scissorhands.

Out of Pingliang County, Mai Xiaohuan didn't know where to go, Mai Yonghai had never been far away, Mai Wang took the two children with his memory and finally arrived in Tongbei County in nearly two days.

Mai Xiaohuan remembered that the Zhuangzi he bought was in the north of the county seat, and the three of them inquired while walking, and finally saw the destination before dark.

"Is this your Zhuangzi?" Mai Yonghai felt that this place was bigger than the whole of Shaxi Village, with long courtyard walls and wide gates, and he never imagined that he would one day be able to enter the Zhuangzi, which only the rich and the wealthy can have.

"It's not a song here...... Prefectural order? We don't need to tell people first when we come here! Mai Wan asked nervously, as a guest, you must first greet the host, is it really good to come in so rashly?

Mai Xiaohuan went up and knocked on the door, and after a while, a middle-aged man opened the door and asked Mai Xiaohuan who he was looking for.

"Are you new here? I remember an old man who used to be a gatekeeper. ”

The janitor didn't answer Mai Xiaohuan's words, but kept asking her what she was doing and who she wanted to find.

"I'll look for your steward, just tell him that my surname is Mai, and it's Qu Hao's sister."

The man closed the door and went in to report, Mai Wan walked around the door twice, if it wasn't for the fact that it was already dark, he would have wanted to take his daughter and son back the same way. The child is small and has no depth, so why do you follow the nonsense! What if the steward of the lodge won't let him in; It would be bad if Qu Hao disliked his daughter and had no rules.

"Third Miss, are you here?" A rush of footsteps accompanied by the sound of words came to the gate in a blink of an eye.

"Uncle Qu, it turns out that you are here! That's great. ”

The two doors opened at the same time, Qu Mang stood at the foot of the steps to greet Mai Wang, greeted Mai Yonghai, and directly led the three of them to the backyard.

"Steward Qu, let's just stay in the guest room, Mai Wan looked at the surroundings by the candlelight from the lanterns in the courtyard. Steward Qu brought himself to the most regular and decent of all the houses. This should be the place where the host's family lives, how can you be a guest yourself!

Qu Mang looked at Mai Xiaohuan, and when he saw her shaking his head, he guessed that Mai Wang should not know that this was their Mai family's villa, since the third miss wanted to keep it secret, he just cooperated: "Master Mai, you are too outward, our son and the third miss are brother and sister, of course you are the master here, this row of houses is for you and your family." Our son-in-law has a separate courtyard next to it, so you can live here with peace of mind. ”

Steward Qu said so, and Mai Wan didn't postpone it anymore, he wanted to go into the house to see what it was like inside, and as soon as a pair of feet stepped in, he quickly retreated.

The most elaborate family he has ever seen is the Dou Mansion, but the living room of the Dou family is not as complete and elegantly decorated as here.

The furnishings in the room look so familiar! By the way, aren't these things left by my stepmother for Brother Qu? How could it be here!

She asked Qu Mang with her eyes how these things that were originally stored in the Tang family were here.

"These things were originally left to you and your son by the lord and the lady, isn't it just right to use them here? You can rest assured that Gongzi will bring all his usual belongings to the residence behind the county office, and the rest will be delivered here.

Besides, these things are not convenient to bring back to the capital, nor can they be placed in the Tang family for too long, and now they are used to decorate your backyard in the words of our son-in-law, that is, "make the best use of things".

In order to let himself accept these things, Steward Qu can be regarded as racking his brains, and Mai Xiaohuan is not a twisted person, nodding can be regarded as accepting these items. She pushed her father and second brother into the room separately and asked them to rest for a while, and she wanted to inquire about the situation in Zhuangzi in detail.

Without waiting for her to ask, Qu Mang introduced it, because Tongbei County was too poor, Qu Hao planned to use Mai Xiaohuan's Zhuangzi and her novel farming method to make a try. If it succeeds, Tongbei County will be able to get rid of the hat of the poorest county in Qingcheng County in the future, and even if it fails, it can find out the reasons and sum up the experience.

So he sent Qu Mang here to renovate the house, put up those advertisements, and buy sweet potatoes according to the requirements set by Mai Xiaohuan...... More than two months have passed, and the task assigned by Mai Xiaohuan is almost completed.

"Thank you!" In this way, you will have a lot less work to do, and you can get straight to the point.

"Don't be polite to me, Gongzi said that I will be at your disposal in the future, this cellar and sweet potatoes are ready, and the workshop you want has also been cleaned up, and there are people inquiring about the purchase these days, and I am also ready to let them send those things, but I don't know how to pile them up, you are too good to come, we can start tomorrow."

Mai Xiaohuan nodded, she also wanted to start work quickly, find something to do for her father and second brother, if she let her father stay like this all the time, he would go home in a few days.

"Oh! By the way, Shangyang County recently raided a group of corrupt officials, and their families and slaves, as well as mountain villas and slaves, were sold. Childe asked me to select a group of people, all of whom were farmers who sold themselves to the village, and I chose four families with a total of 18 people, and more than a dozen strong laborers, do you think it is enough? ”

"Are there any of them who are good at growing crops? I want to be able to settle accounts and know how to manage. ”

"This ...... How much do you want. Qu Mang thought he had bought enough! I didn't expect Mai Xiaohuan to be too little.

Mai Xiaohuan said that the more crops, the better, because she wanted to buy the barren slope behind the Zhuangzi, and the account room should be two or three first! Replace this villa with one in advance, and choose two more to spare.

"The head of this villa has changed, and the son also said that your eyes are too vicious, and you can see that there is something wrong with the original person when you only see one face. The life of the tenant in this village was hard enough, and he could bear to increase the rent and seize the grain, and we found two hundred taels of silver and more than fifty taels of silver in his residence. ”

This person is enough for two hundred and five, but Mai Xiaohuan doesn't sympathize with him at all. Qu Mang asked Mai Xiaohuan what to do with the silver.

"Hey! The tenants must have been exploited by him, and a portion of the silver taels was duly returned according to the year in which they had been in the cottage, and the chief laborer and the people in the courtyard were to be compensated for something. If there is any surplus, they will buy some daily necessities for everyone, I guess these people are either short of medical care or have no household belongings, buy some cloth and cotton, and distribute some to each of the new arrivals. Those who are single will find some who can cut clothes to help them, and if the money is not enough, ask my eldest brother for it. ”

"Your money is now in my custody!"

"That's great, it's more convenient to use, Uncle Qu, don't call me Third Miss in the future, you can just call me Xiao Huan." The money bought so many people, harvested sweet potatoes, and renovated the house, is it enough! ”

Of course it's enough, Qu Mang remembers it every time! After all the expenses have been removed, there are nearly 4,500 taels left!

And so much more!

Qu Mang told Mai Xiaohuan that there are more people who grow sweet potatoes now, and the price has dropped from five to three yuan, and it cost three hundred taels to collect 100,000 catties, and it took more than 100 taels to buy people, and the house didn't use a few dollars, but it was repainted, and the things in it were left by the old lady and the Tang family.

The Tang family also gave themselves things, so do they know what they are going to do here? Qu Mang hurriedly explained that the Tang family only knew that Mai Xiaohuan had a Zhuangzi here and what he was doing for it, but they didn't inquire.

Even if you ask yourself, they are not afraid, they will know about the workshop sooner or later, and if you want to promote noodles and fans, you have to count on the Tang family's restaurant! You also have to cooperate with a restaurant to grow vegetables, don't you?

The two of them chatted for most of the hour, and when someone came to shout for dinner, it was already dark outside.

On the table is either pure meat dishes, or eggs, dried vegetables, this standard of living is far worse than Pingliang County, it seems that he can do a good plan on vegetable planting, this is definitely a good project to make money and lead the people to get rich.