When he arrived at Zhujia Village, Qi Ning sent Qi Fugui back to see his grandson, and he went directly to Zhushan, where Qi Zhong and Zhu Xiuwu were cleaning duck dung.

Seeing Qi Ning going up the mountain, the two of them threw down their tools and came out to salute: "The girl is here." ”

"Well, I've bought the two mountains behind us, Second Brother Zhu, you can go to the village and find some capable people of about ten people, and fence the mountain, preferably with stones on the mountain to surround a six-foot-high wall, and put some thorny branches on it, so as to ensure that the livestock can't escape. But the trees that bear fruit on the hill are not moved, and they are fenced with bamboo. On the hill to the west, facing south, two densely populated stone huts were built for the inhabitants, and two larger pigsties were covered. There is a col in the middle of these three mountains, and I see that there is a small pond in the col, so you dig it deeper and wider, cut a dam around it, and then bring the river water over, so that you can raise some fish, and if there is a big drought, you can also put water in the paddy fields. The dam must have been built with stones to make it easier to walk between the three mountains. The cave on the back side of the mountain, you have people block it with stones, leave a door-sized opening, and then find someone to press the door and put hay in winter. ”

Qi Ning used a branch on the ground and said to him while drawing.

"Girl, the laborers in the village can find more than a dozen, and these jobs can be completed in two or three months, but I don't know how to pay for them?"

"It's hard work in the mountains, a person has 300 wen a day, and can he take care of food at noon?"

"Okay, this salary is not low. I'm going to find someone? ”

"Well, you go, don't look for those cheaters, you have found all the people, let them start doing it tomorrow, you follow and take care of it, and come back to me if there is something." I asked Sister-in-law Zhu to cook lunch for everyone. ”

Zhu Xiuwu got the order and went down the mountain to find someone.

"Qi Zhong, how is Qiaoniang's mother and son?"

"Miss Xie remembers, they are very good, my son is almost ten pounds now. Can you eat it. Qi Zhong mentioned that his son and daughter-in-law were even more grateful to Qi Ning, and said with a smile.

"Well, how hard you will work during this time, you will take care of the chickens and ducks yourself, and then go back to see their mother and son when you have time, and when the mountains are ready, I will let your father and mother come back to raise livestock, and I can also help you take care of the children."

"Thank you, girl, I will do a good job, I have opened a few more vegetable plots in the past few days, and the girl will buy more seeds, and we will have enough in the store by then."

"Well, you can work more leisurely, rest when you are tired, don't worry, our family will get better and better in the future, and I will not treat you badly." After Qi Ning finished speaking, he went down the mountain.

Qi Zhong shouted from behind: "It's just raining and the road is slippery, girl slow down." ”

Qi Ning went to see Qiaoniang's mother and son, and then went to Zhu's sister-in-law's house to ask her to help the people who work on the mountain to cook in the future, so she did it on Zhushan, and sent it over when she was ready, and the salary was still 800 wen a month. took Qi Fugui back to the city. Called Steward Jing to the backyard to tell him his plans, and asked him to go to the construction site in Zhujia Village every morning to watch, give the workers a good meal, and have meat every day. If there is something that doesn't work, supervise them to change.

The housekeeper has been convincing early through this period of getting along.

Qi Ning was very happy that he could not go to the construction site by himself to show his face.

"Don't worry, young grandma, I will definitely go every morning. I also arranged it in the shop, but now only the Zhao family is a little busy in the back kitchen, and Handong can't take care of too much, so the young grandmother will see if she will buy two more people? ”

"If you don't say that I forgot, it's really hard for the Zhao family, you go to the tooth store to buy two young and capable ones, and you want those honest ones."

"Yes, I'll go." The butler took the money from the ark and went to the tooth shop.

Before eating, the housekeeper came back with two people and asked Handong to come over and invite Qi Ning over.

Qi Ning was helping in the kitchen, wiped her hands and went to the hall.

The housekeeper bought two young people in their twenties, both of whom were strong and capable, Qi Ning nodded, named them Jinghou, and the other was called Jingdao, and the housekeeper took them down to settle down.

Before closing in the evening, when Qi Ning and everyone were eating in the hall, Shi pouted and lowered his head, and did not eat or speak.

"What's wrong with the stone? Homesick? Qi Ning touched his head and asked.

"Young grandma, why do Sister Handong, Tie Niu and Aunt Qi all have the surname Qi, even the newcomers can follow the young master's surname, but I can't?"

"Silly stone, Han Dong and Tie Niu originally had the surname Qi, Uncle Qi and they didn't have their own surname, so I let them have the surname Qi, and now that I am married to Jing Su, of course the family should be surnamed Jing."

"Then why can they call you girl, the housekeeper doesn't let me call you young grandma."

"Silly stone, you can call it whatever you want, and you can call it sister."

"Then I'll still call you girl, even if I marry the girl's maiden family, I'm not the Jing family." Shi looked at Qi Ning seriously with a small face.

"Whatever you want, eat quickly, if you miss your mother, you will go back with the housekeeper tomorrow."

"I won't go back, our store is so busy, I'll go back and delay us to make money." Shi happily picked up the bowl and quickly took two bites of rice.

"Fool, I told you that you don't believe it, you have to ask the girl, I don't know how to be ashamed." The iron bull kicked him under the table, and the stone didn't care, hehe smiled and ate heartlessly. Qi Ning gave them a chopstick dish, and everyone ate with peace of mind.

After eating, Qi Ning stopped everyone who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks: "From next month, everyone's wages will rise, the housekeeper's profits will increase by one percent according to the original share, Zhu Accounts and Aunt Zhao will have one or two silver per month in the future, and everyone else's will be eight hundred Wen." Jing Hou and Jing Dao only came, it was still 500 Wen, and if they did a good job, they would also follow 800 Wen. Everyone has worked hard in the past few years, and I will increase the bonus at the end of the year. ”

Steward Jing originally followed Jing Su, and the monthly profit of five taels of silver a month, Qi Ning didn't say it in front of everyone, for fear that the two newcomers would not be convinced.

Everyone thanked happily, and Qi Ning came back with Handong.

In this way, the mountain was covered with a wall, Qi Ning asked Qi Fugui to drive the car to the surrounding villages to collect the pigs and lambs, take them back and put them on the bamboo mountain first, and let Qi Zhong take care of them first, Qiao Niang has been out of confinement, Aunt Qi will go up the mountain to help Qi Zhong take care of the livestock during the day, and go back to accompany Qiao Niang's mother and son at night.

After more than a month, the bamboo houses and fences on the mountain were repaired, and Qi Fugui had collected more than 70 piglets and more than a dozen breeding pigs, as well as more than 20 sows of the right age, and also bought a cow with calves.

Qi Ning asked people to help drive the livestock to the back mountain, Qi Fugui and his family also moved over to live, and Qi Fugui had to go out to collect pigs and lambs in his spare time.

Originally, Qi Ning planned to buy some alfalfa seeds and plant them for the sheep to eat in the winter, but Qi Fugui said that now the livestock are not needed first, and he will go to other mountains to cut the grass and come back to dry and store it in his spare time. The pigs were scattered on the mountains during the day and let them find their own food, and every morning and evening they were fed with corn, bran and oil cakes on sake lees.

Qi Ning asked Aunt Qi to milk the cow for Qiao Niang and the child to drink every day, and everyone was willing to drink whatever they wanted.

Qi Ning went back and instructed Zhu Xiuwu to pull the lees, go to the oil mill to buy oil cakes, and go to the village to harvest corn and rice bran. The money went to the steward to collect it.

Jing Su came to the border with a letter, nothing more than telling Qi Ning not to work too hard, Qi Ning took the letter paper and roasted it on the candle, and only four words appeared: I miss you so much. Qi Ning was happy, and it was worth the effort. What she didn't know was that Jing Su had already told Xiao Yunsheng and the emperor about this method of writing secret letters, and it turned out that they used code words to write intelligence, which was easy to be recognized, and now this method has saved them a lot of trouble.