In the past few days, it has snowed again, and the ground has accumulated a thick layer. Zhao Yunlan and Wang sat in the hall and chatted, and Wang thought that the winter days in the north were too long.

"There is no shortage of ice this summer, and now there is a lot of storage in the cellar, which is enough for summer." Zhao Yunlan was a little happy.

Wang said: "This winter is not over!" I'm just thinking about summer. ”

Zhao Yunlan: "This is called taking precautions, look at how much ice we used in previous summers, and spend a lot of money." ”

Wang nodded, yes, if you can save more, you can save more, it doesn't matter if you can't use it up, it's better than spending a lot of money to buy it if it's useless.

"Is there a soap shop over here?" Wang asked, after all, in previous summers, ice was used, and this soap was a big head.

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "I won't invite outsiders this time, I will directly arrange our own people to do it." ”

Wang was a little anxious: "Then you have to teach them personally?" "I'm worried that Zhao Yunlan is tired, these two treasures are about to be born, and there is a mess in the school, as well as Zhuangzi.

Zhao Yunlan shook her head: "I wrote a letter a few days ago and sent it back, asking them to arrange some people to come over, and I will come to teach people from here for a month." ”

"Well, I'm worried that you're tired, I originally wanted to help you hire a nurse to take care of the child, but I think you must not agree with me and I didn't make my own decisions."

Zhao Yunlan: "Well, I still want to feed myself better, if my mother wants to find me a nurse, it is better to find me a sheep with enough milk, and I have to continue to drink goat's milk after the child is weaned from breast milk." ”

Wang agreed, although he felt that goat's milk tasted very good, because when he was raising his body before, Yunlan had cooked goat milk for the whole family, and he was not used to drinking it, but Wang didn't ask more and just said: "Okay, I have to look for a good ewe." ”

In the county office, Li Mingren received a message from the capital, and the letter said: Chengjia sent a large sum of silver into the palace to Concubine Hui, and the silver was spent the next night, and it was spent in the iron foundry, but the iron foundry was opened secretly, and who was behind it has not been found out, and people outside are not easy to find.

This news was sent by Zhou Hanwen, and the Zhou family has always supported the emperor and supported the orthodox status, and never participated in partisan disputes, so when Li Mingren's letter was delivered to Zhou Hanwen this time, Zhou Hanwen immediately took action.

In fact, the Zhou family has been secretly observing the princes, but there is no substantial evidence that the Zhou family cannot talk nonsense in front of the emperor.

"Lao Cao, you send someone to keep an eye on the path and see if you can meet the carriage transporting it."

Cao Yingfa responded, after this period of getting along, the relationship between the three of them can be regarded as a harmonious breakthrough, of course, this is just Li Mingren thinks so, Chen Yiqing and Cao Yingfa think this way, Li Mingren can't care.

"Eh, no, sometimes it's too hidden and it's easy to be suspicious, will they pretend to be supplies from the capital and take the official road?" Li Mingren said.

Chen Yiqing: "It is very likely that the military supplies have always been not strictly checked, and this general is not easy to mess with." ”

Cao Yingfa: "Then I'll send a few more passers-by to keep an eye on everything, and look at everything they might pass by." ”

Li Mingren: "Okay. ”

"Report! My lord. Zhang Liang ran in from outside and saluted, this is the spy sent by Li Mingren to Motong County.

"What's the news you brought back?"

"Last night, we saw a young general next to Cheng Ping meeting with someone from the Northern Desert, and that person was the personal guard of the Prince of Nurha of the Northern Desert."

Nurha is the third brother of the King of the Northern Desert, and it is rumored that this third prince is a non-offensive person, and he hopes that everyone can coexist peacefully.

"I don't see it, do you know what they did?" Cao Yingfa asked beside him.

Zhang Liang: "I don't know, we are far away, and there are people guarding us, so we can't get close, but when the two of them dispersed, the young general looked happy, and he was still holding a box in his hand." ”

Li Mingren: "Find a way to see what's in that box." ”

Zhang Liang: "Yes." ”

"I'm thinking about a question, if all the soldiers in the barracks are standing in the ranks of Chengping, then ......," Chen Yiqing said.

Cao Yingfa replied: "Then we are all finished, and we may be killed by Chengping before we are punished." ”

"We're going to hurry, we're going to have to stop this. Let's not talk about this for now, have you done a good job of the budget table I asked you to make? Li Mingren looked at Cao Yingfa.

Cao Yingfa's eyes widened, didn't he just say that he wanted to hurry, how could he turn his head and talk about the budget.

"The lower official has already done it, and I will present it to the adults in a while." Cao Yingfa sighed in his heart, fortunately, he didn't think about being lazy these days.

"Well, Lao Chen, what about the list you chose?" Li Mingren turned his head to look at Chen Yiqing again.

"Here, please take a look." Chen Yiqing took out a small notebook from his sleeve pocket.

Li Mingren opened it and looked at it, and said, "Okay, you can arrange a day to summon all these people to probe everyone's tone first, and be careful not to scare people away." ”

Chen Yiqing: "Huh? Me~"

Li Mingren: "Yes, you, just let you have a brief chat with everyone first, and you can't let them out the money right away, of course, if you can do it, it's not impossible." ”

Chen Yiqing's brows furrowed slightly, he had never cared about these people asking for silver before, but they took the initiative to send it to the door, and he was at a loss and didn't dare to accept it.

Cao Yingfa looked at Chen Yiqing's expression and wanted to laugh, Li Mingren couldn't bear to look at Cao Yingfa's gloating appearance, and said: "With a big tooth, don't catch a cold when it's cold, hurry up and take a look at the budget table, if there is a problem, you have to redo it." ”

Cao Yingfa replied with a tense mouth: "Yes, my lord, I'll go now." ”

I have to say that Cao Yingfa is still very reliable, this budget table is okay, and all the expenses are very similar to Li Mingren's own budget.

"Yes, that's all." Lee agreed.

Cao Yingfa looked at Chen Yiqing's bitter face with a playful face. Li Mingren continued: "It's just that you have too many stains on this paper, so let's transcribe it again!" ”

"Huh? Yes, sir. Cao Yingfa's face was also bitter.

Li Mingren was very happy, "Okay, I'll go down first, you're busy." ”

Should I say it or not, there have been fewer people who have come to report the case recently, and Li Mingren feels that it is Yunlan's credit, because everyone is busy building a school to make money, and they have no time to make trouble outside.

Li Mingli also said a few times when he came back that the gangsters who were rampant and domineering in the county before have become the pillars of their work, and they are not sloppy at all. Everyone wants to earn a little more money, and they can stay for an extra meal.

There were also people making trouble on the construction site before, and Li Mingli dismissed the person without saying a word, and said that he would never use the person who made trouble in the future, and everyone was frightened by this move.

Help build a school here, wages are never in arrears, seven days a settlement, the daily meal is also sufficient, the dishes are delicious, you can eat meat from time to time, and occasionally there is a meal or fine grain. Who can live without this, just having a full meal makes people happy.