Lin Qingwan held the pen and thought about it for a long time, but finally couldn't put it down.

Lin Yubin leaned over and took a look, "Auntie, are you writing a letter to Mrs. Xie?" ”

Lin Qingwan put down her pen and sighed: "What reason do you think you should find to coax her back to Jiangnan?" ”

Lin Yubin thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Unless something happens to you, or something happens to your uncle's grave, she won't come back." ”

Lin Qingwan rolled her eyes and said, "Then say I'm seriously ill?" ”

It's an old-fashioned method, but it's the most useful.

"Then when she comes back, she will see that you are not sick......

"No matter, let's coax people back first," Lin Qingwan picked up the pen and began to weigh the words, "Mama Yang said that she has been in poor health and spirit recently, and she still wants Dr. Xu to see her sick." ”

After writing the letter and checking it again, she went outside again to shake around, recuperated her spirits, and then picked up the pen and copied the letter, which was even more attentive than the college entrance examination that year.

But after copying it, she was stunned, she looked at Lin Yubin with a blank face, "I'm seriously ill, how can I write such a good hand?" ”

Lin Yubin also stayed.

Lin Qingwan rolled her eyes, threw away the letter, pointed at Lin Yubin and said, "You come and write!" ”

This time Lin Yubin was entangled.

When the aunt and nephew tossed out two similar letters, it was dark, and the two of them washed their hands and went to eat.

"It's about to be harvested in the summer, I'll be a little busy recently, so you can help Mama Lin more with family matters." Lin Qingwan took the soup bowl handed over by Lin Yubin and advised: "I know that you have been crazy recently, but now there are many outsiders, you are not allowed to go to places with few people, you must take Jiang Nan with you at any time, do you know?" ”

Lin Yubin nodded again and again.

After Shang Danju's ceremony, the relationship between the fifteen girls was better, except for Shang Danlan who wanted to stay at home to prepare for marriage, the remaining fourteen ran out as soon as they were free, and they couldn't pull it.

Who didn't want to play when they were young, and there wasn't much time for girls to play carefree like this in this era, so Lin Qingwan didn't stop Lin Yubin from going out to play.

But since the Lantern Festival, the Lin family's protection of her has increased, except for Jiang Nan, who is always by her side, there are other guards in the shadows.

Lin Qingwan's scope of activities is limited, most of them go around the Lin family's industry, and occasionally go to the Lu family's school to visit Shi Hui Shixian, so there are not many people around.

The main conservation target of the Lin family is still Lin Yubin.

After sending the letter, Lin Qingwan began to prepare for the summer harvest.

There was some drought in Suzhou this year, but fortunately, in the past two years, Lin Qingwan has had the river that flows through Juetian widened a lot, dug so many ponds, and stored a lot of water at the turn of spring and summer, so in the end the wheat and rice did not drought.

It's just that people have worked harder, but fortunately, there is a good harvest in the field.

In the past two years, Lin Qingwan has let people sprinkle a lot of fertilizer into the field, and the land that was still rough has been raised to a lot of finer, plus the water and fertilizer are sufficient, this year's wheat grows particularly well.

Now that the ground was yellow, orange and orange, Fang Datong walked beside Lin Qingwan with an empty arm, and stretched out his hand to pull a piece of wheat for Lin Qingwan to see.

"It's all solid, and this year's harvest is no worse than last year's." Fang Datong happily wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "Grandma, find a good day to start a sickle." ”

"I'll ask the weather when I go back, and if the sun is good these days, we'll open the sickle." Lin Qingwan raised her eyes and looked at the endless wheat and rice, the wheat was yellow, the rice was still green, to the left was a mulberry orchard, and to the left was an orchard.

The corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up, and she asked, "When the time comes, let the pastoral garden drive all the cattle over, and people can be more relaxed." ”

Fang Datong's eyes lit up and he was even more happy.

This year, a lot of cattle have been added to the farm, and the most important thing is that the first batch of calves have grown up and are already able to pull plows and work.

It helped a lot at the beginning of spring, and now the summer harvest, the cattle are not hard, as long as the cart is pulled, it is much more leisurely than the beginning of spring.

Now Fang Datong is the chief steward of the farm, but the pasture, mulberry garden and orchard are managed separately, and he has to ask the chief steward Zhong if he wants to use cattle.

This time, Lin Qingwan gave a direct order, which was more effective than what Steward Zhong said.

"Uncle Fang might as well go to the pasture garden if he is free," Lin Qingwan said: "Steward Zhong has a lot of things to do now, and he is only afraid that he can't take care of the farm here, so I plan to ask you to take care of the pasture together." ”

Fang Datong is smart, and there is nothing wrong with him except for his lack of literacy, so Lin Qingwan plans to slowly let her take over the work of Steward Zhong on the farm, and then he will be in charge of the entire farm.

It's not just about food.

With the expansion of the Lin family's industry, Steward Zhong has more things to do, and even Steward Lin, who was originally only in charge of the affairs of the Lin Mansion, was pulled by him to share.

There is no way, Lin's paper mill, weaving mill and embroidery workshop are developing too fast, even if the weaving workshop and embroidery workshop have no shops, but because Lin Qingwan has planted a lot of mulberry trees in the farm, the number of silkworms is increasing every year.

In the same way, output is naturally increasing.

When everyone didn't react, the Lin family's annual brocade silk had accounted for a large proportion of Suzhou, and many foreign cloth merchants came to her family.

So unconsciously, the weaving workshop has expanded to the point where the house needs to be repaired, and the number of weavers recruited has reached three times that of when Lin Qingwan returned to Suzhou.

Steward Zhong didn't care about it at first, because his main focus was still on the paper mill and bookstore, and he was dedicated to carrying forward the bamboo paper and straw paper.

It was still in April when a group of little girls wearing the same clothes appeared at Shang Danzhu's ceremony, so that the ladies and ladies of Suzhou noticed the embroidery of the Lin family, and then someone found a relationship to place an order with the Lin family.

The embroidery workshop has entered the off-season, but it has received such a batch of orders, and the people who place the orders are all people with heads and faces in Suzhou.

The steward of the embroidery workshop did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly found the chief steward Zhong to ask for instructions.

Only then did the chief steward of Zhong notice that the embroidery workshop seemed to have opened a financial road, and hurriedly took the steward of the embroidery workshop to consolidate it, and opened the door to welcome guests during that time, so that the lady who intended to place an order could come to the door to select the style and pattern of clothing, and even the embroidery lady could choose.

Of course, as a qualified businessman, Steward Zhong must of course recommend the fabrics from his own weaving workshop by the way.

This time it was terrible, and the business of the weaving mill also exploded.

These ladies and ladies are very rich, otherwise they would not have come to the embroidery workshop to order clothes, and of course they couldn't help but buy and buy when they saw the exquisite fabric.

Of course, the prices of retail sales and wholesale are different, and although Steward Zhong did not ask them for money according to the market price, it was much higher than the wholesale price.

The profit earned by such a batch of going out......

In short, the chief steward Zhong was moved, and hesitated whether to reopen a cloth village, so as not to always cheapen the merchants who came to wholesale.

However, thinking about it is not good, and now the Lin family has limited talents, so I am afraid that it will be difficult to manage the store well, and maybe it will conflict with those cloth and silk villages.

So the chief steward Zhong thought about it, but now he finally noticed the changes in the weaving workshop.

There seem to be a lot of people in the weaving workshop.

Looking at the silk piled up in the warehouse and the female workers sitting in the yard picking up silk, he turned around silently, "It's not that there are more people in the weaving workshop, but there are fewer, there are too many silks......

In fact, this is really not to blame the weaving mill and the mulberry garden.

Who made them plant a lot of mulberry trees?

In addition to fruit trees, the less fertile land is planted with mulberry trees.

But the sales of fruits are very problematic, so when they were first planted, Steward Zhong preferred to plant mulberry trees.

Therefore, the mulberry garden was built a bit large, and the foundations of the ponds and the larger ridges were planted with mulberry trees.

This can't be blamed on the long-term and short-term workers who plant trees, they have little land, and they have always used the land in this way, otherwise it would be a pity to keep such a wide ridge and long grass.

The survival rate of partial mulberry trees is quite high, after raising for a year, there are more and more mulberry leaves, and in the second year, the steward of the mulberry garden can't watch the mulberry leaves fall to the ground and waste, right?

Therefore, a large number of silkworm cocoons are entered, in addition to selecting people from the village to raise silkworms, they can also recruit some female workers from nearby villages, which can be regarded as helping the villagers.

Anyway, as long as the report is reasonable, my aunt and grandmother will allocate money to them.

So last year's silkworm raising, raw silk is naturally more, the weavers in the weaving workshop are too busy to add the weaver, to this year, there are more mulberry leaves, more silkworms......

The chief steward Zhong, who had been focusing on the paper mill and the bookstore, was stunned.

He couldn't let the mulberry garden and the weaving mill continue to expand without discipline, which seemed good at the moment, but not necessarily good for long-term development.

So he's busier.

This busy can't take care of other places, so he proposed to Lin Qingwan that the affairs of the farm be handed over to someone else, and then he won't ask.

Lin Qingwan's first thought was Fang Datong, and Chief Steward Zhong also proposed him.

His reason was, "Fang Datong is loyal, smart and means, but benevolent, I looked at it coldly, and the farmers under his control were very convinced of him, and it should be possible to manage the entire farm." ”

So the candidate is tentative, but he still has a lot to learn.

Because Steward Zhong was very busy, Fang Datong could only study with Steward Lin temporarily.

The first thing Steward Lin took him to see was the grain depot, not the grain depot placed outside, but the row of grain depots built in the backyard, next to the foot of the mountain.

The stone house, from the outside, looks like rows of low subordinate houses, no different from the row of houses opposite.

But in fact, the house opposite is really a people's house, the residence of the guards in the house, but this row next to the mountain is a granary.

The Lin family's real grain storage place.

Every year, Fang Datong has to bring the farmers to transport the grain here, of course he knows, but he has not carefully looked at the layout inside.

This time, Steward Lin led him in.

It was as low as the house opposite, but it was open, unlike the one room opposite.

There were also several walkways in it, and Steward Lin led him straight to the wall, but he didn't know where he came across, and the wall slid to the right, revealing a large stone.

Fang Datong: ......

It took a long time to let him see a big rock?