"Husband! You're finally back! I miss you so much! Jia Min muttered.

"Why do I think Min'er has lost weight these days? Do you feel that the food is not appetizing? Or do you want to be a husband so much that you forget to use three meals? Lin Ruhai lightly bit Jia Min's earlobe and pinched it Jia Min's waist.

"What! Husband, as soon as you come back, you won't be serious! Jia Min pushed Lin Ruhai away and glared at him with disgust.

Lin Ruhai smirked and picked up Jia Min and walked to the ear room, "For the husband, Min'er will help the husband bathe and wipe his back!" ”

The two of them lingered in the underground bathroom for a long time, until the sun was setting in the west, Lin Ruhai took the tired Jia Min out of the underground bathroom, gently put Jia Min on the bed in the inner room, put a thin blanket on her body, and went out to call the red woman to prepare dinner.

Jia Min opened her misty eyes, and entered the dim candlelight in a room, she got up and put on her clothes and shoes and walked outside, the candlelight outside was much brighter, Lin Ruhai was sitting on the rattan chair she often sat on and looked at something, and looked up when she heard the movement.

"Awake? I'll go and ask the red woman to heat up the food again, you must be hungry!" Saying that, Lin Ruhai put down the things in his hand and walked out of the door.

Jia Min walked to the rattan chair, picked up the things that Lin Ruhai put there, and looked through the account books that turned out to be on Linjia Island, but it seemed that he couldn't make ends meet, and Lin Ruhai had to make up a lot of money to Linjia Island every year.

At this time, Lin Ruhai walked in with the red woman, and the red woman withdrew after placing the food on the round table outside.

"Min'er hurry up and eat, and we'll see it later!" Lin Ruhai pulled Jia Min to the round table and sat down, and then began to cook for Jia Min.

After the husband and wife ran out of dinner that could be regarded as a supper, the red woman came in again and took away the plates, replaced them with a few new ice basins and left.

At this time, Jia Min had the time to ask Lin Ruhai about Linjiadao's financial problems.

"Husband, I just looked through the account books, why is Linjiadao's annual expenses so huge?"

"In the first days, the island had to build houses and secret rooms, and later it was necessary to make weapons and traps, all of which required a lot of money. Now that the island has basically been built, there is no shortage of things, so the cost in the future will not be so large, plus we have our own two refined iron mines, and we don't have to spend a high price to buy from the outside, the original cost of fine iron alone accounted for more than half! ”

"But I see that you still subsidized 100,000 taels of silver to Lin Jiadao this year! This is not a way to get in and out, and it is not a solution! Although we have a lot of money-making in Daming, and the Lin family's family background is very solid, we don't care about this money. But Linjiadao has not been able to be self-sufficient for so many years, which is actually very dangerous! Jia Min said with a frown.

In Lin Ruhai's view, Daming's Lin family and Lin Jiadao are a whole, and he has never considered what kind of situation Linjiadao will face if there is no supply from the Lin family. Like the Tatars today, their people are brave and brave, but they have been living in exile, living by robbing others of food and goods during the famine years. The root cause of these is their living environment and living habits, which make them unable to achieve self-sufficiency without their own output. Lin Ruhai thought about it deeply, and suddenly a cold sweat broke out on his back.

"Min'er is right, I was negligent!" Lin Ruhai said in a deep voice.

"This can't be blamed on the husband, the Lin family has always been a single passer, and there is no problem of separation, so there is no need to think so much, anyway, it belongs to the husband and you!"

"I'll plan it well! Fortunately, Min'er reminded me in time, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to find such a serious hidden danger for a while! ”

"I'll just say that my husband should take good care of me, and see if my lucky star brings you benefits again?" Jia Min joked.

"Hmmm! My Min'er is really a big lucky star! Do you know what I'm going to do in Luzon this time? Lin Ruhai put his arms around Jia Min and crooked on the wicker chair.

"I don't know! If you didn't say it, I thought it was a confidential matter, so I didn't ask. ”

"There's nothing I can't say, it's just that I didn't tell you because I wasn't too sure! Uncle Ba discovered a gold mine in the northern mountains and forests of Luzon Island, which is not only high in gold but also very large, and it is estimated that mining will not be a problem for the last three to five hundred years. ”

"So my husband went to buy that mountain forest this time, did he get his wish?"

"With my great blessed star, how can I not get my wish? I didn't spend a tael of gold and silver to get that piece of mountain forest for my husband, and I got it in exchange for our two recipes of planting rice and making ice! How is it? It's awesome for the husband! Lin Ruhai smiled proudly.

"Of course, the husband is the best! The husband who is also a loss can think of such a good way, but I am afraid that he will not be able to get that mountain forest at all with gold and silver alone! ”

"Min'er is smart!" Lin Ruhai pinched Jia Min's little nose and said, "But I don't plan to mine gold at the moment, but I plan to sell timber." I got the land from the chief of Luzon because I liked the timber in the forest, so I sold some of the timber in the forest even if I was pretending. What's more, after listening to Min'er's words just now, I think it is imperative to make Linjia Island financially independent, and the red sandalwood and huanghuali in the mountains and forests can make a lot of money by selling them to Daming, so that we don't have to subsidize the island every year! ”

"How big is that forest? Where exactly? ”

Lin Ruhai got up and picked up a candlestick with a gauze cover, took Jia Min to the study in the outer courtyard, took out a map from the bookshelf, opened it and pointed to a place on it to Jia Min: "Starting from this peninsula and extending a hundred miles to the south, it is the mountain forest I sold this time!" ”

"It's such a big piece! This looks bigger than the whole of Suzhou! ”

"That's right! This mountain forest is about three times the size of our Linjia Island! Not to mention the gold mines hidden in it, even the timber densely covered in the mountains and forests is a lot of wealth! ”

"Hmmm! If it is cut down reasonably, it can make the mountains and forests endless, and this is really a golden mountain! ”

"It's a veritable mountain of gold!" Lin Ruhai said with a smile.

"Nasty! The husband came to make fun of me again, don't you know that I'm talking about wood in the mountains and forests! Jia Min pursed his lips and glared at Lin Ruhaidao.

"Yes, yes, yes! Min'er is right! ”

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