"What? You look like you don't want to. Meng Changqing asked, "Are you forced to come to this marriage?" ”

"Nope." Sha Zhu said, "I can't say the same, we all had a family before, and now that we are married again, we will inevitably feel sorry for our previous family."

I am like that, and so is she. ”

Meng Changqing nodded, "In this way, you are still willing to spend so much money to buy sugar and cloth, which shows that you are still sincere in your marriage this time." ”

"After all, she will live with me in the future, and these things will always be given."

"It is said that people become souls after death, and souls return to the underworld, and we living people are looking forward to the deceased relatives knowing underground, are you worried that she will not want you to marry again when you mention your previous family at this time?"

Sha Zhu nodded his head and quickly lowered his head, "I can't help but think of her." ”

"If you keep thinking about her, you shouldn't get married, and you shouldn't keep regretting it after preparing for the marriage." Meng Changqing said, "In this way, not only you are unhappy, but also the deceased and the alive are unhappy."

I don't know the friendship between you and the first lady, I don't know how to persuade you, I shouldn't persuade you, I just hope you recognize your true heart. ”

Shaju's gaze fell on the red coarse cloth placed on the counter.

Meng Changqing took out another packet of brown sugar from the shelf behind him, "These two packets of sugar are my congratulatory gifts to you, and Brother Dai only accepts the money for the red cloth." ”

"Hey." Xiao Dai pulled the abacus, and after a pause, he told Sha Zhu, "This coarse cloth costs five cents a foot, and one zhang will charge you fifty wen." ”

Sha Zhu paid the money, and saw that the two packets of sugar really couldn't shirk, so he had to accept them, "Thank you so much, Master Meng." Sha Zhu knelt down at Meng Changqing, "Thank you for the dry food you gave last year, thank you for being the official of Beishan County." ”

Meng Changqing stepped forward to help the person up, "It's too early to say thank you." ”

Sha Zhu was stunned for a moment, and always felt that this person said this, and he didn't do good things after preparation.

"Since you're married, have you ever thought about making a living?" Meng Changqing asked.

Sha Zhu looked at Meng Changqing in a daze, obviously he hadn't thought about this question before, "Please advise." ”

"What can I teach you? It's just that this grocery store is ready to go out, if you have the ability to do next, selling groceries to make money is much more comfortable than farming, especially in Beishan County, where there is only this one at present. ”

Sha Zhu reluctantly accepted the information and asked, "I don't know how much money it will cost to put it down, you also know that we were born as homeless people, we don't have much family property to accumulate, and the money we have in hand is only a few saved after selling grain this year." ”

"Not counting the batch of goods I brought back today, I can sell it for ten taels of silver." Meng Changqing said, "That is, in Beishan County, it is impossible to sell a grocery store for ten taels of silver in other places." ”

"That's right." Sha Zhu listened to the ten taels, and also felt that it was unexpectedly cheap, but no matter how cheap it was, it was expensive for him, he had a total of two hundred yuan in hand, and he also spent fifty yuan to buy a piece of cloth.

"You go back and think about it." Meng Changqing said, "The shop is also a big deal, you go back and discuss it with Huaihua, if your family really can't afford it, you can do it with others."

I can't afford to give ten taels of silver for a while, so I can set a time limit and give it later. ”

Sha Zhu became excited at this time, and rushed home after leaving the grocery store.

"Young Master, don't you tell everyone publicly?" Xiaodai couldn't understand this approach, "Why just tell him." ”

Compared with Xiaodai, Bafang is more entangled in, "This shop has just started to make money, why should it be sold?" ”

"The young master naturally has the young master's concerns." Xiao Dai turned his head sideways and said to Bafang: "Don't ask more." ”

"If you tell him, you will naturally tell others." Meng Changqing put the things out of the outside, and after receiving them at the counter, "When the time comes, whoever can take out more cash will give it to whomever he wants." ”

Meng Changqing said to Xiao Dai: "I may not have time to take care of this matter, you can do it yourself, there is only one thing to remember, you can't give it to those people in the twenty-five groups on the west side, and you can't give it to Wang Lamei's family in Luojia Village, both of which are mercenary people."

If the grocery store is given to these two, the entire Beishan County will have to be unlucky for a while. ”

"Yes, I wrote it down." Xiao Dai took the things in Meng Changqing's hand, "Don't worry about it, I'll sort out this little thing slowly, you can go back to the yamen." ”

"Okay, I'll have to go back and settle the score."

Meng Changqing returned to the mansion and took Xi Bei and Yang Zheng to count the grain in the warehouse again.

Yang Zheng said: "At the beginning of May, there were only more than 3,000 acres of cultivated land, but later the people cultivated it while planting, and now there are more than 4,000 acres of cultivated land. ”

"Thanks to a good year." Meng Changqing looked at the front of the warehouse one by one, "The yield of millet per mu is about ten stones, the yield of soybeans per mu is about 300 catties, and the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is conservatively estimated to be 4,000 catties."

After paying off the debts of the two governments, there is still a lot left in the county. ”

Meng Changqing accumulated all kinds of grains together and calculated the silver taels.

This calculation, my heart suddenly cooled in half.

Looking at it in front of me, I still feel that there is a lot of food, but it can be counted as silver, but it is barely 5,000 taels.

To buy bricks, recruit workers, and build walls, this grain is absolutely not enough.

Meng Changqing kept planning against the account book, but no matter how she played, the silver would not come out.

That can only be counted on Uncle Wei's side to ask for the appropriation from the imperial court, otherwise it will not be enough to invest all this grain this year, and you will have to owe debts.

Now that the food that the people should have handed over has been delivered, Meng Changqing will still go to the field whenever he is empty, and watch the adults collect the grain in front, and the children carry a basket and follow behind to pick up the land that has fallen into the field.

The land cultivated by the people in the west extends further west, and the land on the east side extends in the opposite direction.

In order to separate the two groups of people.

Except for idle bastards like Ma Lishan, ordinary people don't go to the field on the other side.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Ma Lishan walking over with a basket in his hand and a weed in his mouth.

Judging from the fineness of the weaving of this basket, its original owner would never have been Ma Lishan.

"Where did you get the stuff in your hand?" Meng Changqing stepped forward and asked.

The person who had been walking with his head tilted shook when he heard the voice, and when he turned around and saw that it was Meng Changqing, he was even more frightened and shrunk his hands and feet together.

Before he could reply, Meng Changqing heard the cry of the little girl in the distance.

Then came the reproach of the adults, "Who told you to put the basket on the ground?" ”

"I saw that the stone ran away and went to chase him, I was afraid that the beans would be scattered, so I put it down, and I deliberately covered it with grass."

"Okay, don't cry, it's gone, can you cry back? Be careful in the future, there will always be those ghosts who lack virtue and like to ask for other people's things. ”

Meng Changqing stretched out his hand towards Ma Lishan.