Shen Ru directly ignored Shen Ping's unhappy look, and ate with his father, aunt and younger brothers and sisters, and Dunzhu said interesting things about the prairie, so that Shen Xuan and Shen Nian couldn't help but chase Dunzhu and continue to ask interesting stories about the grassland.

Shen Ping was eating dinner sullenly, she imagined that Shen Ru, who had come back from a trip to the Western Regions, might be tired and tired, but obviously she was thinking too much.

Shen Ru gave them a jade pendant, which was indeed an excellent jade, but it made Shen Ping feel even more uncomfortable.

She and her mother embroidered day and night, and how many handkerchiefs and sachets she made were only a few taels of silver.

Why is Shen Ru able to mix so well wherever she goes, doesn't she have anything to worry about?

After dinner, Shen Ping's mother and son left the table first.

"Ping'er, how can you be so decent, you go to find fault with Shen Ru again, don't forget, we still live in the Shen family!"

Qian looked at Shen Ping worriedly, her daughter wasn't like this before!

"Mother, look at my hands!"

Shen Ping stretched out her ten-fingered calloused hand and said sadly: "Mother, the ten fingers we embroidered are stained with blood, and we can't buy such a jade pendant." But Shen Ru can take out three pieces casually, plus what she gave to her eldest uncle, I don't know how much? ”

"You say, how much money do they have?"

Shen Ping said quietly, how much money is there to support a family without doing anything, but he and his mother have to work hard every day.

"Ping'er, what do you want to do with this?"

Qian frowned and looked at Shen Ping: "Do you feel bitter?" But if you think about your father, the days of hard labor must be a thousand times more bitter than ours! ”

Shen Ping knew that she looked at the Qian family faintly.

"But don't people all want to climb up? Mother, under the same roof, they are like Hou Fu, but we are so hard, I ...... My heart is not happy! ”

"Child, in this world, everyone has his own life, you have to admit it!"

Qian resigned herself to her fate, and she felt that her current life was very satisfying and comfortable.

She doesn't want to accept her fate!

"However, what does Shen Ru mean by placing a foreigner in the West Courtyard?"

"Do you think we're guests, and you want to drive us away?"

"Ping'er, how can you think of the worst in your life, you ...... Mother doesn't know what to say about you, if you think the current life is miserable, you might as well go and see what life your father is living! ”

Qian was a little angry and said: "We make money with our own hands, there is nothing to be ashamed of." It's not inferior, it's time for you to settle down and live a good life! ”

Shen Ping pursed her lips and didn't speak.

She understands what Qian said, but she just can't hold back the disobedience and unwillingness in her heart!

On the other side of Dunzhu, he was embarrassed to go back to the house immediately.

"Sister Shen, did I choose the wrong house?"

"No, there are so many empty houses in the house, isn't it just for living?"

Shen Ru comforted Dunzhu and said, however, what her mother said, she was interested.

"It's time to make a yard out of yourself!"

After Shen Ru's mother expressed this idea, she thought of the south-facing courtyard in the second courtyard, and Shen's mother agreed.

"Aru, just do your thing, don't worry about anything, my mother will help you tidy up the yard."

Shen Ru was about to start getting busy, so he handed over the matter to Shen's mother and Aunt Lian, and took Dunzhu and An Qiao out on the second day.

"Dunzhu, when you come to Liangzhou, you naturally follow the customs, you will wear my clothes first, and we will buy you a few sets of clothes to change of clothes first."

"An Qiao, then let's go to the workshop, do you sell the stone candles and oil lamps?"

"Miss, we spent so much money, how could we not sell it!"

An Qiao said excitedly: "You just came back yesterday, and we didn't tell you. At first, it was sold in the old incense and candle shop, but later, do you know who bought more? ”

"Who?"

"Academy!"

An Qiao smiled: "Originally, it was just a scholar from the academy who bought it for night reading, but later, the entire academy wanted it!" ”

"And the Yan family next door, didn't you send some trials before, and then when you weren't there, you came to buy some again. The Yan family bought a dozen stone candles for fifty wen. ”

Yan Shaoqing never talked about it.

"In addition, the candles in the house have also been changed, but the lady has not noticed."

"In any case, compared to what we invested before, it is difficult to return the cost by selling it at such a piecemeal."

Shen Ru said: "I still have to discuss it with Yan Shaoqing when I go back, there will always be people who want these stone candles and oil lamps in the whole big end." ”

Listening to what Shen Ru said, Dunzhu couldn't help but ask curiously, "Sister Shen, are you doing any business?" ”

"You'll know in the future, follow me, it's not just dry rice!"

Shen Ru sold a pass, and soon, he went to the ready-to-wear store and picked out a few clothes for Dunzhu.

Before going to the workshop, Shen Ru asked An Qiao to take him to Yaxing.

"The girl wants to buy a field? We don't have much land in Liangzhou. ”

The attitude of the people in the tooth shop is very enthusiastic, they don't know Shen Ru, but they know An Qiao!

Before An Qiao and the three of them came to Liangzhou, they were looking for a tooth shop and saw a lot of houses.

"There aren't many fields, so what's more?"

Shen Ru asked rhetorically, "I want to have a place to grow cotton, you can pick a few places for me, the price is easy to discuss." ”

Cotton, Liangzhou planted cotton before, but there was a lot of waste!

When the Yaxing man heard this, he was surprised, but he still smiled and agreed.

"Miss, do you really want to grow cotton?"

Out of the teeth, An Qiao was surprised and asked, "How did you think of planting cotton?" ”

In her opinion, cotton is not as edible as grain.

"I only found out when I went to the Western Regions this time. One of the Yan family's business is to bring cotton from outside the customs into the customs, and the cotton can finally be woven into cotton cloth and supplied to some rich people, and the best ones are also sold into the capital. ”

Shen Ru explained: "If cotton is so useful, why don't I plant it? ”

An Qiao also felt reasonable when he heard this, and couldn't help but echo: "Miss, if we have a large cotton field by ourselves, don't we need to buy cloth at home in the future?" ”

"Let's see when the time comes!"

Cotton to cotton cloth, the process is complicated, but also someone to twist the cotton into a thread, and then use a shuttle needle to wind, weaving cloth on a textile machine, if you want to have a color, but also to find a dyeing workshop to dye, if you get it all yourself, how many people have to do how many workshops!

At this moment, in Shen Ping's embroidery workshop, there was another uninvited guest.

Shen Ping looked at the dignified and demure Yan Zhenshan, and her heart palpitated, and she immediately thought of the snakes of the Yan family.

"The second lady of the Yan family came to my small embroidery workshop, do you have any advice?"

No matter how scared she was in her heart, Shen Ping still entertained her.

"Your family lived in a bearded girl yesterday?"

Yan Zhenshan asked directly, "Bring that woman out to me, I will be rewarded with a lot of money!" ”