Summer is long.

This year happens to be a hot summer, so the hot days are particularly long.

Xie Zhiyun changed the light gauze window, and asked the ice cellar on Zhuangzi to send ice to the house, so that life was not so difficult.

She herself was not greedy for cold, so she would take a break at noon when it was too hot, and in the evening, when the halberd returned, and then put the ice basin on the table, it would be much more comfortable to stay in the house.

On this day, when the garrison came back, he told Xie Zhiyun a good news.

"That old man Wang knows a lot, he confessed many things before, saying that Sima did it, although it can't be used as evidence to counter Sima's, but he can throw him in front of the Dingxi Palace, and let the Dingxi King make the decision for our house."

Xie Zhiyun: "......"

I have to say that the garrison sometimes thinks of tricky methods, but it is particularly effective.

Xie Zhiyun said: "What did the king of Dingxi say? ”

Wei Ji sneered: "How else can you say that this person is a spy of Daqi and provokes the relationship between our two families, and says that he will kill Old Man Wang on the street to set an example." ”

"I've saved it," Wei Ji couldn't help but laugh again, "I said that in the future, I will bring him to the Great Qi Li Youxiang to have a look, and ask him if he is the person he sent." ”

Xie Zhiyun almost burst out laughing.

She handed the veil to the halberd and told him to wipe all the sweat off his body, and then changed into a clean undershirt so that he would not get cold again by sitting in front of the ice basin.

"This time, Sima Shi didn't do it, and he didn't do it, but he could be uncomfortable for several days."

Wei Ji lowered his eyebrows: "Yes, when it is the day of cotton harvesting, let them be honest and save the family from finding fault." ”

Xie Zhiyun nodded, poured sour plum soup for both of them, and ate together to relieve the heat.

She's been busy lately, too.

Linyan's cotton has been negotiated, and when it was time to harvest cotton, Wei Cang and Cui Ji were not very relieved, so they sent the second and third children to Linyan together, specifically staring at the cotton harvest.

There are four fewer people in the family, but Xie Zhiyun is even busier, she is looking for a cloth workshop here door to door, to weave cotton into cloth as soon as possible, so as to make winter clothes in time.

Last year's winter clothes were handed over to the cloth shop to do, this year because the cotton is collected by themselves, can reduce a lot of consumption, if their own family to negotiate the errand of the cloth village, should be able to get better materials and cotton clothes.

It can also save a lot of money.

In the past few days, Xie Zhiyun has been going out with Cui Ji, checking and discussing business from house to house, and he is so tired that he can't speak when he comes back at night.

A bowl of chilled sour plum soup went down, and Xie Zhiyun felt alive.

"In the past few days, my mother and I have looked at all the cloth villages, and several of them are very good, Ji's cloth village is the largest, they have Zhuangzi in Yezhou, Taixing and Langhuan, and they can produce more than half of the cloth, because they want to take over the cotton business, so the price is very appropriate."

"Wait for Xiuxiu to come back and talk about it, the price will be about the same."

"But the Ji family gave us a profit, we can't be too greedy, besides, there are so many cloth villages in the city, choose a few big cloth villages, and each one has a share, so that the cloth can be supplied within a month."

Xie Zhiyun said as he planned to show it to the guard: "Although we have to do some work, the final result is very good, and my father's decision is extremely correct." ”

The halberd didn't plan to make a disk, his eyes flashed on the abacus, and it fell on Xie Zhiyun's slender fingers.

Her fingers were very nimble as she intended to coil, fluttering and dancing in front of his eyes like glowing fireflies.

"Roughly calculated, this year not only did we save a lot of silver money for the families who donated military funds by relying on the cotton business, but we also saved a few thousand taels of silver in our own armament expenses.

Wei Ji smiled: "Good work. ”

The more Xie Zhiyun counted the money, the happier she became, and even forgot the tiredness during the day, she smiled and said, "What am I working hard for?" The key is that we can completely hold these armaments in our hands, and the cloth houses that have signed the agreement also have the intention to compete with each other, and we will continue to cooperate next year if the cloth is fast and good, and we will not be able to get our cotton next year if it is not good. ”

"If they want to do business, they won't cut corners, they will do it well."

As long as you pinch the cotton in your own hands, everything is fine.

Xie Zhiyun was still saying: "These thousands of taels can do a lot of things, and even the pioneer battalion can issue an extra pair of straw sandals per person, which is the benefit that falls on the soldiers." ”

Wei Ji drank sour plum soup, listening to Xie Zhiyun's hoarse voice planning this, the warmth in his heart flowed, and he was comfortable all over his body.

"Okay, don't be busy," Wei Ji took the abacus from her hand and said, "Your voice is hoarse, talk less, rest more, and go out tomorrow?" ”

Xie Zhiyun smiled, picked up the teacup obediently, and drank the sour plum soup slowly.

"It's all over, I won't go out tomorrow, I have to settle the family's accounts, and now that Xiuxiu is not here, I have to calculate it myself."

Wei Ji smiled, and suddenly said: "Madam has worked hard, by the way, I still remember, it seems that the end of July is Uncle Yu's birthday, and this year should be Uncle Yu's fiftieth birthday, and our family is going to give a gift." ”

Xie Zhiyun and Cui Ji have been busy with cotton recently, but they forgot about this stubble, and they were mentioned by the guard halberd before they remembered.

"Fortunately, you said it, Han Zhao has not been at home recently, and I can't see her, so I forgot about it with my mother."

As she spoke, she took a booklet from her desk and added a few notes to it.

"It's been too much lately, I need to write it down and discuss it with my mother tomorrow."

"But Uncle Yu has been in Yingzhou in the past few years, and he hasn't gone anywhere."

Yu Hanzhao's father was a general of Shangzhu State, and he had been stationed at the border pass in his early years, but later after the civil strife in North Vietnam, Yu Shangzhu State happened to be in Yingzhou, and he became a meritorious hero.

When Sima Ling ascended the throne as the emperor, he immediately sealed the general Yu to the Zhu Kingdom, which was already obvious, and he wanted the Yu family to have no spearhead with the Wei family.

But his wishful thinking fell through.

Both families believe that today's peace is not easy to achieve, so they privately agreed on a marriage contract, and last year let the second son of the Wei family marry the female general of the Yu family.

The matter of marriage is originally a good marriage with two surnames.

Their marriage can be described as a lie, no matter what the relationship between Wei Yao and Yu Hanzhao is in private, at least the people are a lot more relieved when they see such a scene.

At least, there will be no war in North Vietnam for the time being.

And then let the two in-laws swing their knives at each other?

But Xie Zhiyun also knew that since General Yu was named Shangzhu State, he was trapped in Yingzhou and couldn't go anywhere.

For Yu Bing, this is not another kind of bird to hide.

However, the Sima clan can't do without the Yu clan in the end, and now the people who are guarding the border pass Longsui are Yu Hanzhao's two brothers and the Yu family army.

"Sima Ling is too short-sighted." Halberd Road.

(End of chapter)