Because the snow was too thick, it was impossible to buy rice and firewood, and many people were stolen and robbed of firewood and grain in the villages along the road. People who live in remote areas will find that there is less firewood and less kitchen things when they get up early in the morning, and they are so shocked that they even sleep with food.

Because there are no homes along the road at the entrance of Yuefu, the snow on the road will not be cleared at all, so other officers and soldiers will not choose to pass this road, but it does not include the sailors who came from the river on skateboards.

Yue's family is close to the riverbank, and he will not be spared from being robbed. The leader who was about to carry out the robbery with a team of soldiers was none other than the commander of Qian, who was known vigorously, and this leader had a very clever surname Xiang, and the soldiers called him Xiang Guan Band.

Vigorously take a bite of a big brother called the fierce and vicious necklace, and the chief manager Xing cooperated to send soup and cakes, and discussed that this piece would be protected by the necklace, and Yuefu would provide a meal of mutton soup and steamed buns every day. If the navy is willing to send dried reeds and puzi from the river, the Yue family will buy them according to a bundle of 100 wen, and take care of the noodle soup at night.

Xiang Guan Belt is also idle, there are twelve soldiers under his command, do some work and take silver to manage the food, and can also cure chilblains for free, why not. So I went back and took the initiative to ask for patrols with Mr. Qian, who was reluctant to go out in this weather, and Mr. Qian saw that someone took the initiative to undertake the patrol task, and did not hesitate to respond.

Xiang Guan led his soldiers to come early every morning and go to the river to harvest reeds and cattails. When cutting reeds on land in the river, he picked up a lot of frozen wild ducks and duck eggs, and took them all to Yuefu. Manager Xing asked the cooks to cook for the sailors, and he was not allowed to keep it privately.

There were experienced sailors, who broke ice to fish from the river, and Mr. Xing asked people to buy them all at a high price. In addition to mutton soup, Yuefu sometimes also stewed fish for them to eat. Within two days, Dali and Manager Xing were very familiar with Xiang Guan, and Xiang Guan patted his chest and promised that he would never let other sailors come here to fight the autumn wind, and he could do anything in the Yue Mansion in the future.

From the conversation, Manager Xing found that Xiang Guan took his mother to be extremely filial, and there was a widowed mother and two younger brothers at home, and his life was very hard. Manager Xing asked Yu Jin to give Xiang Guan gloves and cage Weng to his mother and younger brother at home to keep out the cold, and promised to teach his younger brother to weave a cage next year, which is also a way to make money. Excited that Xiang Guandao was going to kowtow to the master's family, Xiang Dali told Xiang Guandao that if his family didn't meet the master's kindness, he would definitely be frozen and starved to death this winter, so Xiang Guandao was even more grateful to the Yue family for his good heart, and he was full of expectations for next winter.

Yu Jin has been paying attention to the situation of the water army, and when she saw that the crisis had been alleviated, she was completely relieved. Entering the wax moon and began to prepare for the New Year, Li Shizi finally couldn't hold his breath and asked Changbai to see Yinuo.

"Changbai, Yinuo threw the plane renderings to us, why didn't we have any words! We don't know what to eat, we can't sleep, and we discuss how to do business every day, but she hides and doesn't see us. You go and urge her, and we will see her. “

Yu Jin heard Xing Yin's words, and saw that her appetite was almost hanging, so she went to see her father Yue Sanye first. Yue Sanye is very simple, he supports everything his daughter wants to do, and puts his daughter in charge.

Mrs. Wu is helping Yu Jin prepare spring and summer clothes, embroidering and making clothes every day, and sending shoes to Aunt Meng to make, and has made six sets of spring clothes and three sets of summer clothes to fill Yu Jin's wardrobe. Seeing the eldest daughter, he hurriedly smiled and asked, "Da Yu, your clothes are too little, it's not cold to work here." You can't just design men's clothes, but also design a few sets of clothes for yourself, and your mother has nothing to do with it for you, so as not to go out and meet customers without clothes that you can wear out of the house. “

Yujin euphemistically proposed to her father, "Father, mother, everyone knows that I am not in good health, please continue to say to the outside world that I am sick and cannot go out to visit and will not accept visits." Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain the things that I promised to the outside world, and if people know that I wear men's clothes to meet my son, they will suspect that our family is not good. “

Yue Sanye and his family thought that the eldest daughter's words were reasonable, so they naturally agreed, and promised the whole family to be unanimous that the eldest daughter was recuperating from poor health, so that Yu Jin could continue to wear men's clothes.

Bai Zhao got up early and started to cook in the big kitchen, and Yu Jin took Xi Nu to the outer courtyard to inspect the circle, and saw that everyone was busy in an orderly manner, and he was very satisfied. Bai Zhao made more than ten kinds of food, and Yu Jin asked people to send it to his father, sister, two gentlemen in the outer courtyard and Li Shizi as soon as possible.

After Li Shizi and Tang Ergongzi finished breakfast, they were bored pacing and gossiping on the pavilion. Zhuge has been eating and living here, and the carpentry master is slow to do his work, so he goes back to urge the work, and by the way, he checks the remaining herbs, prepares to replenish the missing herbs, and begins to be busy for the opening of the New Year.

Changbai, Fang Ronghua, Liao Fanlin, and Changqing were all exams by the two gentlemen every day, and they hardly had time to go out. After eating breakfast and walking around the pavilion for a while, he was called into the house by the husband and continued to close the door and study hard.

As soon as Yu Jin appeared, Li Shizi came out in surprise, "Yinuo, you are finally willing to come out." Throw the bait and leave, I swallowed the bait and didn't see you lifting the fishing rod for a long time, this can't go up or down, you want to kill me in a hurry. “

Yu Jin was amused by the analogy, "Shizi is really funny, you think you are a fish, and fishing is all for food, but I don't have this Yaxing." “

"Yinuo, it doesn't matter if you don't come, why did the food stop. I wanted to eat every day, but it was hard to eat. The soup and cakes delivered in the morning are delicious, can you deliver them evenly, this hungry meal is full, so I can't sit down after eating. The second son of Tang complained when he came up, the complaining eyes and pitiful voice made Yu Jin embarrassed to look at him directly, is this still the second son of Linyang Bofu.

Yu Jin pointed to the closed door of the Dongnuan Pavilion and motioned not to speak in the courtyard. Entering the Xinuan Pavilion, Xinu quickly cleaned up the kang table, put on the tea set, and went out to fetch boiling water.

Yu Jin took off his shoes and sat on the kang in the hall, Li Shizi took the initiative to sit on the main seat, and Tang Ergongzi sat on the side of the kang with his waist straight, it seemed that he didn't lie and really ate it.

"Are the sons and second sons still used to living?"

"At first, I was not used to sleeping on a kang with them, but then I fell asleep as soon as I dipped my head in the pillow. Hey, what kind of pillow are you, so soft and elastic, it's so comfortable. I asked Weilan and he said it wasn't a medicinal herb, and he couldn't guess what was inside. Li Shizi asked curiously.

"It's not unusual to say it, it's filled with pu sticks, and the river is everywhere in autumn."

Li Shizi asked, "Is there anything else?" Give me two pillows, I can't sleep with this other pillow. “

"What you use is new, take it away, I can only give you one. Don't worry, I will treat everyone equally. However, there are a lot of pu sticks, and when the weather is clear, you can send someone to pick it up when it is dried and cleaned up, and it is not better to make a coarse cloth pillow at home than my house. Yu Jin explained with a smile, and when Tang Ergongzi heard that there was still Puzi, he didn't speak.

Xi Nu brought boiling water, began to wash tea and make tea, poured tea and said, "The prince and the second son, please drink tea." She withdrew and took the door and stood guard.

Shizi took a sip of the cup and tasted it, and praised: "Good tea." Then he took out the floor plan and asked, "When are you going to build these, I will cooperate with you, if you have any ideas, I will listen to them first."

Tang Ergongzi really doesn't know how to talk about business, and he is worthy of the royal family, so he doesn't even ask how much silver he needs, and directly shows his hole cards.

"There are teahouses, restaurants, inns, hypermarkets, this is an internal exploded view, you can take a look at it first. There are three ways to cooperate, one is to decompose cooperation, that is, to cooperate with you in the restaurant, and he to cooperate in the teahouse, but you invest in the building, I out of the land, no map, technical guidance accounts for 30% of the dry shares. The second is collective cooperation, how much silver is needed to build this, divided into ten shares, you pay the silver to subscribe for shares, I still give those, account for one share. The third is that you lend me money to build a house, and I will pay off the arrears in three years, and you can also participate in the shares separately, that is, you are only allowed to invest in one item. Hear me clearly!

To build a building, you need people from the Ministry of Works, and only they can afford to build a three-story building. It cost about 130,000 taels of silver to build these, and 160,000 taels to build them respectively. Here is the need to use silver to build separately and jointly, and the advantage of joint construction is that the walls can be shared, and there is no need to leave water leakage for each other. “

Yu Jin finally said: "If the above doesn't work, I won't build it for the time being." I am ready to start construction in the first month of next year, and the house and garden of Yuefu will be completed at one time. In addition to the mansion gate, the Yuefu near the main road will be the façade. Give me three years, and I can build these on my own. “

"Don't mind, I didn't say I didn't agree, you didn't give me time to speak, and I started pumping the ladder, I won't fall to my death if I can't get up or down." Tang Ergongzi's eyes had already lit up, and instead of making a small fuss in the city, it was better to open up another business venue.

"You're not going to make me say it on the spot, are you?" Li Shizi asked cautiously.

"Naturally not, you can think about it slowly."

"Master Zhuge ." Xinu shouted outside the door.

Zhuge saw the Xi slave guarding the door and asked, "Is Yinuo in the house?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhuge please come in."

"Hey, what are you doing so seriously! Count me in. Zhuge Shu was not formal, pushed Tang Ergongzi into the kang, and sat on the edge of the kang by himself.

Yu Jin poured tea for Zhuge and said, "Talk to them about cooperation, I have already said in detail, if you are interested, discuss it slowly with Shizi and Tang Ergongzi." “

"I don't understand, why are you in such a hurry?" The prince was puzzled.

Yu Jin pondered for a moment and decided to tell the truth: "My father is idle at home, and he knows that we have no money, and Gai will not be impeached at this time." If his father took office, he would trouble the imperial historians and worry about collecting evidence and suing the Golden Palace. My two elder brothers have reached the age of marriage, and only with a house and money can they choose a lovely daughter-in-law, otherwise who will marry a good daughter to live a hard life. There are also two younger sisters who are not young, and the dowry must always be prepared in advance. In the in-law's right to speak, the rich dowry accounts for a part. “

Yu Jin has explained clearly enough, and she chooses to trust them by clearly showing her identity. They all understood what Yu Jin didn't say, Yinuo is a girl's age is not young, she should choose her own happiness, she doesn't have much time to help her mother's family, she must make her mother's family rich as soon as possible in order to take care of her two sisters.

Yu Jin stood up and said goodbye, "Give you three days to discuss, I know that after you choose, I can make a plan for the next step." “

"Yinuo, don't be in a hurry to leave, there are still many things that have not been discussed clearly!" Li Shizi spoke out to stop it.