Pearl has been really upset lately, and there is something in her heart that she has been unable to solve. has been married to Mingqian for so long, and he still knows Mingqian very well, although he rarely shows his emotions in front of Pearl, but Pearl also knows that Mingqian has feelings for himself, maybe not the kind of vigorous love, but after all, he also knows that he cares about himself. If you go to confront him now, you are really not smart, and you will live a lifetime again, and there has been no big setbacks in your life so far.

Managing the relationship between two people is probably more difficult than making money! Pearls had to be cautious. Call Liu Xuan and ask him to arrange for people to go to Zhangzhou to investigate the Li family. Now the brothers of the Liu family only work for Pearl alone, and the rest of them are in the hands of Ming Qian. When he handed over those secret guards, Pearl discovered this problem, and now Liu Xuan is by his side, but I believe that he has the ability to do it, after all, Pearl is relieved to let him go to the northwest to transport Hetian jade, this little thing is still okay.

Liu Xuan looked at the master and thought for a long time before saying, "Madam, do you want to avoid adults in this matter?" ”

Pearl raised her eyebrows, a little strange, this didn't say that this matter is related to Ming Qian! Could it be that Liu Xuan knows anything? Thinking of this, Pearl's face was a little unsightly, and she asked in a deep voice, "Why do you ask that?" ”

"Because yesterday the Lord sent me to the countryside to investigate something." Liu Xuan saw that Pearl's face was not good, so he hurriedly lowered his head and returned,

Pearl's face softened at this time, and said, "This matter has to force the adult, be careful not to let him know, this matter is not in a hurry, you go to the adult's business first." Wait until it's done. Let's just say that Zhuozhou has something to ask you to go. ”

"Yes, the villain knows and retires." Liu Xuan has never seen a pearl change his face, and this mission is very important!

After Liu Xuan left, Pearl sat alone for a long time, until the girl informed Pearl that she was going to make dinner, and then she got up and went to the kitchen.

In the past few days, Mingqian has been going out early and returning late, and Pearl knows that he is now busy with people repairing the canal. The rainy season is coming soon. In some low-lying areas, there will always be a reduction or extinction of crops because the rainwater in the farmland is not removed in time. Inevitably, some people will be able to collect more food. It's a pity that people don't need to build the canal where it should be. Now Mingqian is busy with this! Plus you have to make people serve in forced labor. It's not simple, either.

Pearl doesn't want to read now, doesn't want to write, can't calm down and embroider. I can only play with the birds. "Madam, madam, it's not good, our eldest young master was beaten by the master, you can go over and take a look!"

Pearl looked back at Yingying, this girl turned out to be the group of girls left by the Sixi class, the most clever, only ten years old, so she was sent to inquire about the children's classes. looked at the warbler kneeling on the ground and said,

"If you have something to do, you should be in front of the master, you can say whatever you need to say, you are good, you start shouting from outside the courtyard, where are your rules?"

"Madame spared the little maid, the little maid will never do it again next time!"

"Find Sister-in-law Liu to get ten boards."

"Yes!"

When Yingying went down, the sentiment next to him stepped forward and said, "Madame, don't you want to take a look?" ”

"Can you be the son of the county commander as a master, can you beat the board for no reason?"

When the children arrived here at noon, Pearl looked at the eldest son, and sure enough, he looked listless, let the other children go out to play, waiting for the meal, and then called the son to ask the big body,

"Huairen, what's wrong today?"

"Nothing."

Something was definitely wrong with Pearl, and the son must have something in mind, and said, "Son! If you have any troubles, you can tell your mother! If you don't say it, how can others know! If you can't figure out a way, Mom can help you think about it! ”

Huairen raised his head, looked at his mother, pursed his lips and said nothing, Pearl was even more anxious, and said,

"Huairen, you are the eldest son, you have to be the eldest son, you have brought a bad head to your younger brothers and sisters. Do you feel wronged? ”

"I didn't."

"Then what do you say, what is it for, you used to be the most literate."

After thinking for a long time, Huai Ren said, "It's not ...... you yet."

Hey? For her? Pearl quickly asked, "What's wrong with me?" ”

"My mother has been listless lately, and she doesn't cook for us anymore, and she doesn't smile at her father anymore."

The son shouted tears of accusation, and felt in his heart that such a young child is so sensitive, he is really smart, I am afraid that Mingqian's cautious heart also knows,

"Good son, my mother's family has been worrying about business and the Grange recently, and I have neglected you two, can my mother apologize to my eldest baby? The wife must correct it. ”

"Woo woo......" Huairen's children cried in a hurry, hey...... Get down to business!

Ming Qian didn't say anything, he was as warm as possible to the pearl, even if the county government still has important official business, he still has to worry about himself, it seems that it is time to cheer up. Thinking of a possible scenario, Pearl put most of the valuables in the secret room and warehouse into the space.

Then adjust your mindset and let your days go back to the original. Here Ming Qian is busy with official business all day long, and finally requisitioned the people to build dams and drainage canals, flood discharge land, this money, Ming Qian temporarily borrowed 100,000 taels from several businesses with assets on the scene, to help build reservoirs and embankments, the dam is not small, there is living water, the dam is very large, and under the dam is a drainage canal. Mingqian is very anxious, it is only two months before the rainy season, and the project is very tight. There is no way, come to Pearl to find a way, he knows that there are a lot of such miscellaneous books in his daughter-in-law's study, and Pearl has a lot of contact with people in business, and he can have contact with foreigners, and he may have ideas to chat with her.

Pearl cheered up, and now she won't have any inquiring and complaining eyes on Ming Qian, Ming Qian is overjoyed, her daughter-in-law has finally returned to normal, and it seems that there can be good things at night. When he entered the door, he smiled and said to Pearl,

"How's it going today? The kids didn't mess with you! ”

"It's fine. It looks like I'm tired today. Pearl walked over, took the official robe he took off, put it on the hanger, the girl came in with a basin of water, Mingqian washed up, changed into homely clothes, made it to the edge of the desk, and said to the pearl with the cement formula embroidered on the side,

"Ma'am, what do you think of the dam's cistern this time?"

Pearl didn't look up and said, "Wait a minute." Ming Qian was helpless, and directly watched his wife write hard, still using a fountain pen. After waiting for half an hour, Pearl looked up and asked, "Husband and wife?" ”

"Lady, come here, take a look at this drawing."

Pearl walked over, first glanced at it, immediately saw a lot of problems, picked up the drawings and looked at them seriously, looked at them for a long time, then relieved the drawings, and said to Mingqian, "This dam is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is naturally a good thing that it has been built, but now there is no shortage of materials, and it is even more difficult to levy labor, so Mingqian gave wages and good food this time, Mingqian said about this matter,

Pearl frowned and said, "Normally, at this time, it should be the county government to report to the state government, or ask large families to donate money for disaster relief." ”

Ming Qian snorted and said, "Who doesn't know, there is no money in the state capital, so don't think about it, please donate, hum!" ”

Seeing Ming Qian's embarrassed appearance, he understood in his heart that the county magistrate who had just come was afraid that he would not even be able to instruct the officials, and said, "There are more than 20 officials in the county government, but their kung fu is average, and compared with our family's guards, it is much worse." As the saying goes, when Xiucai meets soldiers, he can't explain it reasonably, since he can't say it clearly, he doesn't need to be reasonable, the new county order takes office, and everyone has to be invited to a bar! Then detain all the people......" There was a cold light in the eyes of the pearl,

Ming Qian was a little hesitant, after all, he was still young, and he couldn't let go of his hands, so he waited for a few days, went out for a few turns, and seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, Ming Qian finally made up his mind.

It stands to reason that the solution to this matter was proposed by Pearl, but in the end it was so tragic, but Pearl didn't expect that there was a difference between women and men, and Mingqian was ruthless enough, so he invited those big families to come, saying that he was drinking, but the wine was placed in the courtyard, Mingqian sat under the porch, eating ice porridge.

But other people can't do it, Mingqian pulled the surrounding squires to speak, from the poems and songs, said the eight articles, and talked about the suffering of the people of Limin, and crawled on the table and fell asleep halfway, this banquet, from noon to early morning, at the beginning these people were still reluctant to match, but it was too hot, especially at night, the lamp was in charge, and the food still came up, but this mosquito was really many, Mingqian's body was sprayed with strong flower water, and the mosquitoes could not get close.

In the end, everyone also understands that if you don't donate money, there will definitely be no end, and today is just the beginning. Soon, Ming Qian let everyone go back. The next day, a beggar and a homeless person suddenly came into the city, rushed into a large family, and scared the family to death, but fortunately, the county lord's guards came in time, and the family was very grateful to these guards, but the guards did not accept and bring gold and silver, saying that it was better to distribute it to those who were hungry!

Who knows if they'll be able to come in time next time!

After such an operation, there is still something I don't understand, and some people have donated one hundred taels or two hundred taels one after another. Ming Qian saw that this was not possible, and then he simply made a ruthless move, there was a family with a bad reputation, and the family with more than a dozen concubines was robbed, this time, there were no guards to save people. When the people arrived, the family was frightened and distressed about the money, so they could only hug people and cry.

In this way, there were more donors, and soon, Mingqian scraped together enough 100,000 taels of silver, and the case was solved, and the robbed family, things and silver were sent back, there were more than 100,000 taels of silver, and a lot of jewelry and jade. The things weren't sent secretly, they were sent back after a lot of sparing in the city. The people of the whole county are scolding, saying that these people have so much money, and they only donate 100 taels, which is for the rich! It's too much. After that, some people donated money, and they made up 167,500 taels of silver. The debt was paid, and there was money to build dams and drainage ponds. (To be continued......)