According to what was written in the contract, Sheng Jiaojiao needed to transport a certain amount of baggage to the barracks every time, and the medicinal materials in the woods and the medicinal materials in the medicinal fields planted by Qi Sanniang were actually enough for the medicinal materials in the two barracks.

But it doesn't matter, there is still a part of the col, and the medicinal herbs that Niu Ju picked alone are enough for the needs of the other two military camps.

Also on the same day, the embroidery girl came to work as usual, the enlightenment school opened as usual, and after the three ladies were busy, they went to the set to do business as usual.

And the three uncles of the Qi family brought Qi Hua together, bought a total of five mules last night, and came back with a donkey.

The money for the purchase of livestock was paid from the official account of the Qi family.

In this way, together with the three mules that Qi Ming brought back, and the mule that Tan Ji gave to Qi Ji before, there are a total of nine mules and one donkey at home.

The three uncles of the Qi family, together with Niu Yuan, formed a small team to escort the baggage.

These four people are all retired soldiers who have been retired for fifteen years, among which Niu Yuan is a scout with fifteen years of military experience, Qi Ada has been a cavalryman for fifteen years, Qi Ada has been an infantry for fifteen years, and Qi Asan's combat effectiveness is not as good as the two elder brothers, who have been a post guard for fifteen years.

The men were busy all day, washing the mules and donkeys, and fetching grain and grass to feed them.

So many mules are crammed into a small shed, which is not enough at all, not to mention that half of the Qi family's shed is also occupied by Qi Erniang's dried straw paper.

It was to take advantage of the free time, the three masters of the Qi family, plus a Niu Yuan who took the initiative to help, discussed building another livestock shed on the edge of the Qi family's medicine field with the wood that Tan Ji cut down yesterday.

It turned out that the small shed of the Qi family simply let it out completely to dry straw paper for Qi Erniang.

The newly renovated medicine field, plus the newly built livestock shed, required too much area, so several masters combined, and demolished the fence of the Qi family's yard, and completely divided the livestock shed and the medicine field.

This movement is too big, but the Qi family has been in the limelight in the village recently, and no one has jumped out to say anything.

Only people heard that Sheng Jiaojiao hired Niu Ju and Niu Yuan's father and daughter, and for a while, Sheng Jiaojiao's eyes were a little different.

Especially Xiong Lin, she couldn't close her mouth with joy, and within two days, while the man in the family went to the north of the county to send the baggage, she mentioned the two pieces of bacon that Mrs. Tan gave to her family before, saying that it was for Sheng Jiaojiao.

Sheng Jiaojiao didn't bother to go out to deal with her, and when Qi Huan came to say, she was crooked on the kang, looking at the tricks that Wenxiu sent her.

She asked Wenxiu to sit on the kang, Wenxiu didn't dare, she directly picked up Zhang Mudun and sat under the kang, Sheng Jiaojiao glanced at her with lowered eyes and didn't say anything.

He looked at Qi Huan, who came in with two pieces of bacon, and asked:

"You didn't say I was home, did you?"

"No, where can I say that?"

Qi Huan smiled on his face, looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, stretched the two bacon in his hand forward, and asked:

"Where is this bacon?"

"Send it back to her, our family is short of her two bacon?"

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was sitting crookedly, flipped over the patterns in her hands, and snorted in her mouth, quite disdainful of the gift given by Xiong Lin.

It's not because the gift is too light, but from Niu Ju's mouth, Sheng Jiaojiao knows that their family now has two bacon, and it was sent back by Tan Ji's aunt Mrs. Tan.

I wanted to say goodbye to Tan Ji and Niu Ju, so I sent it.

Yes, Sheng Jiaojiao looked at the two pieces of bacon sent by Xiong Lin, which was quite an eyesore.

Qi Hua let out an "oh" in his mouth, went out again with two bacon, and brought the bacon back to the Niu family.

This Xiong Lin is also a wonderful person, seeing that Qi Hua sent the bacon back to her again, instead of being worried, she smiled happily, praised Sheng Jiaojiao's generosity and kindness, and happily hung the bacon back to the beam.

I didn't think Sheng Jiaojiao was in her face at all.

Qi Huan, who was watching, stood outside the fence and kept scratching his head.

He turned around and entered Sheng Jiaojiao's house, and told Sheng Jiaojiao about Xiong Lin's reaction, which couldn't help but cause Sheng Jiaojiao to laugh.

Qi Huan asked puzzledly:

"Sister, what's so funny about this?"

"Isn't it funny? This cow lady is also a little more interesting, she didn't plan to give me a gift sincerely, but she was afraid that if she gave me two bacon, she would have to hurt herself. ”

Sheng Jiaojiao spread out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, changed Wenxiu's pattern on the small table, and glanced at Wenxiu who was sitting at her feet, and saw that Wenxiu was also smiling with low eyebrows, so she asked with a smile:

"What does Mrs. Zhang think?"

Wen Xiu touched her stomach, covered her lips and said:

"Yes, otherwise this cow lady wouldn't be happy like this."

If an ordinary person gives a gift to the owner, and the gift is rejected, shouldn't they first think about whether they have offended the owner?

On the contrary, this cow lady still looked elated, and only happily saved two bacon, she didn't think about it at all, why did Sheng Jiaojiao ask Qi Ju to return her two bacon?

To put it bluntly, it is a lack of heart.

Those who lack heart and eyes don't have to worry about her.

Sheng Jiaojiao shook her head with a smile, handed the newly changed pattern in her hand to Wen Xiu, and asked Qi Hua to make tea, before she said to Wen Xiu:

"The few pieces of silk handkerchiefs you embroidered last time, we still need some at home, I heard my second lady say that you still have some stocks at home, and these stocks have been given to us, okay?"

Without waiting for Wenxiu to speak, Sheng Jiaojiao said again:

"I don't take advantage of you, although you now sew clothes for our family, we are paid daily, but this is only limited to the salary you pay for making clothes for a few people in our family, if you have other embroidery goods, we will collect them by piece, and this money is paid separately."

Hearing this, Wen Xiu raised her head violently, her lips moved slightly, looking at Sheng Jiaojiao, there was hope in her eyes,

"Niang, if. If I embroider more, the quality of the embroidery work is the same, can I charge more? I mean, I mean."

As she spoke, she suddenly came down from the pier, her knees weakened, and she knelt directly at Sheng Jiaojiao's feet, crying with a snow-white face:

"Jiao Niang, Jiao Niang, I have two sisters, and their embroidery skills are much worse than mine, Jiao Niang."

If it is not finished, in fact, the meaning has already been exhausted.

Wenxiu wanted Sheng Jiaojiao to accept the embroidery work done by her two prostitute sisters.

Saying this, Wenxiu took a great risk, she was ready, Sheng Jiaojiao would scold her for not knowing the severity, or directly quit her job.

Wenxiu has thought about these consequences.

Daze, slaves can't do business, if you let others know that the embroidery you use is from the hands of prostitutes, buyers and middlemen will be dirty, just afraid that these two prostitutes will be beaten with military sticks.

On the kang, Sheng Jiaojiao sat crookedly, with an embroidered pillow under her elbow, she quietly looked at Wenxiu who was kneeling at her feet, and when Wenxiu was almost crying, she said slowly:

"You sent the embroidery, I don't know who did it, I just know that these are from you, if there is any problem in the future, it is also a matter for you to go to the buyer to apologize, and it has nothing to do with me."

"Thank you, thank you."

Wen Xiu had a big belly, but she kowtowed to Sheng Jiaojiao again and again, and her head slammed on the ground, and the sound of "bang bang bang" was indeed a solid kowtow.

Compared with Xiong Lin's two bacon, it is much more sincere.

Sheng Jiaojiao sat up straight, lowered her eyes and said:

"Get up, you don't have to tell the second lady about this matter, one less person knows, and less people are implicated."

Although Qi Erniang's courage is big, she is still much smaller than Sheng Jiaojiao, and she doesn't dare to do this kind of dark Chen Cang.

Therefore, there is no need to teach Qi Erniang to know.

Wenxiu responded again and again, wiped her tears and got up, Sheng Jiaojiao was generous, as long as her two sisters embroidered a few more embroidery jobs, and redeemed the slave household capital in her mother's hands, it would not be a problem to rely on embroidery in the north of the county in the future to make a living.

Thinking about it this way, Wenxiu is full of hope for her future life.

She glanced at Sheng Jiaojiao with great gratitude.

Sheng Jiaojiao didn't care about it and tilted her body again, looked for a book and read it,

"If you have nothing to do, go and work, I want to be quiet here for a while."

Wen Xiu thanked her and left with the newly changed tricks, which made Sheng Jiaojiao very useful.

After another day like this, Niu Yuan and the three masters of the Qi family have explored the way these days and carefully planned, determined a fixed route for transporting baggage, and reported it to Sheng Jiaojiao.

In the Qijiatang house, Niu Yuan said:

"We have sent several trips to the north of the county, and this route is currently the most hidden and safest, but the road is farther away."

Sheng Jiaojiao sat in the hall, unfolded the map of Zhishou County, carefully looked at the route of transporting the baggage, and instructed Qi Huan to take out pen, ink, paper and inkstone from her room, and added a few strokes on the map about the terrain of the subject country.

She laughed:

"It doesn't matter if it's farther away, the main thing is safety, you are safe, the baggage is safe, and the baggage is safe, and the two military camps in the north of the county will have no worries."

The map was given by Niu Yuan, who had been a scout in Zhishou County for fifteen years, and was already quite familiar with the border terrain.

The route is also set by Niu Yuan.

He smiled and threw his hand at Sheng Jiaojiao,

"This is natural, then you know the severity, even if you lose your life, you can't lose the weight of the barracks, for this reason, I have prepared several routes, every once in a while, let's go in a different way, and the spies who keep the vassal country can't figure out our way."

The subject country can't figure out the path of Qi Zhang and Tan Ji now, even the people in the loess village, but they don't know that the Qi family is now sending baggage for the military operation.

Everyone thought that the Qi family made a fortune because of Qi Zhang's victory and prestige, Qi Ming made money as a merchant outside, and Qi Erniang started to do business again

It's just that no one thought that the Qi family could still make money from the barracks, and it was still a big profit.

For what Niu Yuan said, Sheng Jiaojiao thought so, she carefully looked at the map in her hand,

"The subject country and Zhishou County are closely connected, we can't just have a map of Zhishou County, but we still have to find out the terrain of the border of the subject country, and when necessary, we can also take the road of the subject country."

Niu Yuan's face was embarrassed, he thought that his requirements were high enough, but he didn't know that Sheng Jiaojiao was much more cautious than him.

He is naturally familiar with the terrain of the subject country, fifteen years of scouting, he has also penetrated into the territory of the subject country several times, only many roads he can walk, but he can't draw, presented to Sheng Jiaojiao's map, or his family decades ago old map.

Therefore, there are still many paths and shortcuts on the map, which he knows, but he has not drawn them.

Seeing the embarrassment on Niu Yuan's face, Sheng Jiaojiao smiled and said:

"It's okay, I'll have to get you a map of the subject country when I'm free."

Sheng Jiaojiao has seen the map of the whole territory of the subject country, not only has she seen it, she is in the deep palace, but also has a period of time to carefully study the map of the four countries around Daze.

Because life is too boring.

After Yin Ze realized Sheng Jiaojiao's control of power and the depth of the influence of the court, he gradually stopped coming to her palace.

Compared with a masked woman who is equal to him, he prefers to go to the palace of the concubine, who is more gentle and lovely, and still has a little infatuation with him.

But the concubine may not have any less ambition for power

Niu Yuanxiao looked at the map handed over by Sheng Jiaojiao, nodded and said:

"What Jiao Niang thinks about is that our team has a heavy responsibility, so naturally we should be careful and careful, and the national public opinion plan is prepared."

"You don't have to be too nervous."

Sheng Jiaojiao sat upright and said in a low voice:

"At present, the baggage in the military camp is enough, if there is a disturbance in the north of the county, how can the imperial capital also have some reaction, and then the baggage in the imperial capital is the key, and we will make up for the baggage in the imperial capital."

She is just habitual, and she has to be the most meticulous in doing things, in fact, she only has such a little side dishes and medicinal herbs, maybe she will not attract the attention of her subjects at all.

Niu Yuan and the three uncles of the Qi family all nodded, Sheng Jiaojiao told them a few more words, and the four of them carried weapons and drove the eight mules to set off again.

The donkey was kept at home, along with Qi Hua's mule, and now there is some work in the house, which requires the use of donkeys and mules.

The days went on as usual, and all the villages in Vaulting Lake were unblocked, and on the surface it looked like they had let their guard down.

In fact, there are more and more things about the militia.

Wen Xiu from Huangguo Village came to work as usual, and could bring one or two embroidery jobs every day and sell them to Qi Erniang.

Qi Erniang was a little suspicious, after all, no matter how fast Wenxiu's hands were, she couldn't embroider a silk handkerchief every day, not to mention that Wenxiu was now working in Qi's house all day.

But because of the nobles who came to the set, and the nobles brought hundreds of servants, these more than 100 people formed a huge demand market, so the embroidery in the hands of Qi Erniang was quite popular.

For Zhishou County, the sale of a pair of embroidery is already considered a high price, but for those people in the imperial capital of the Son of Heaven, the price of these embroideries is actually not so expensive.

And the embroidery in the hands of Qi Erniang, in comparison, can be regarded as the first in Zhishou County.

No matter how good the requirements are, there is no more.

Qi Erniang made money, although she was suspicious of the embroidery that Wenxiu took out, she didn't say anything.

Just as Sheng Jiaojiao pretended to be stupid, Qi Erniang only regarded these embroideries, all of which were embroidered from Wenxiu's hands.

(End of chapter)