The daughter-in-law of the first assistant is a super prosperous husband, and the whole family is vy

Chapter 144 Engraving
Back then, the Wei family also forced Wei Yan's eldest brother to study and make progress, but Wei Yan's eldest brother was really unable to hold up the wall. He was either fighting cocks or running around in brothels and fireworks all day long. As for books, he didn't read at all. Not going in.

The Wei family had no choice but to give up on Wei Yan's eldest brother and work on Wei Yan instead.

Fortunately, although Wei Yan is also a bit careless, he is quite serious in his studies and quite filial. Under the strict discipline of Mrs. Wei, Dean Meng and others, he has now fulfilled the wishes of the Wei family.

Since Wei Yan won the Jinshi, he will definitely become the support of the Wei family in the future. The eldest brother Wei Yan is unreliable. At this time, Wei Yan's sister-in-law does not say that she is fawning over Wei Yan, but she actually plays all kinds of tricks because Wei Yan's son is the eldest grandson. It's such a small gesture that I really don't know what to say.

Zhou Ran's eyes lit up after hearing Ye Ximing's words. Yes, now is a good time to want Ye Xiaomei to leave the Wei family with her children.

"I'll go have a chat with Wei Yan after he takes the Shujishi exam." Ye Ximing said.

If he goes to Wei Yan to tell him this now, it will definitely affect Wei Yan's Shujishi exam. Although the possibility of Wei Yan being selected as a Shujishi is very slim, he must try his best.

After the two of them agreed, they put it down in advance and continued reading.

Next, Ms. Zhang continued to talk about Ms. Chen and Ms. Li.

The sisters-in-law also gave birth to a baby on the front and back in early March, but to Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Chen's dismay, they both gave birth to boys.

The two children followed the names of the previous three children and were named Ye Huaiyi and Ye Huaixin.

Zhang also complained in the letter that if the two of them had another son in the future, the child would not have a name. He also said that it was fortunate that the family was not short of money now, otherwise there would be so many young men who would not even be able to afford a wife in the future.

Finally, Mrs. Zhang also said: I don’t know when she will be able to hold her sweet and soft little granddaughter.

When Zhou Ran saw this, she glanced sideways at Ye Ximing and said with a smile: "If you have too many grandchildren, they won't be valuable anymore. All I want now is a cute little granddaughter."

Ye Ximing smiled and said, "I will write to my eldest brother and my second brother later, asking them to continue working hard and give mother a granddaughter as soon as possible."

Anyway, there is no hope for him and Zhou Ran here for the time being.

Zhou Ran burst out laughing after hearing this. The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law had just given birth, and Ye Ximing wrote such a letter back. He was really not afraid of his two brothers scolding him.

In the five-page letter, Zhang took more than two pages to explain what happened at home, more than one page to express concern for Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran, and finally Ye Erlang explained the matter of the more than 10,000 taels of silver notes.

Those banknotes were the profits of the roast duck restaurant last year. Ye Erlang was worried that Ye Ximing and the others had many places to use money in the capital, and they did not have enough money. After discussing with Ye Dalang, he gave Ye Ximing all the profits of the restaurant last year. coming.

After Ye Ximing read the letter, he put the letter away, then handed all the banknotes in the box to Zhou Ran, saying: "Since the second brother sent the banknotes, let's accept them first."

It just so happens that they are in urgent need of banknotes now.

If you want to open Liuguang Pavilion all over Dashun Dynasty as quickly as possible, you will definitely not be able to do it without banknotes.

With these banknotes, they can go a little faster.

Zhou Ran collected the banknotes, and Ye Ximing opened Liu Wenzhuo's box again.

What was also placed in this box was a letter and a stack of silver notes, but this stack of silver notes was much thinner than what the Ye family sent. Ye Ximing picked up the banknotes and counted them. There were a total of 4,500 taels of banknotes.

Ye Ximing still handed the banknote to Zhou Ran and said, "This should be the caravan's share last year. You should keep it first."

"The revenue from the caravan last year was also good." Zhou Ran said. Compared with the previous two years, the revenue from the caravan can be said to have increased steadily.

Ye Ximing nodded and said: "Now the caravan is becoming more and more familiar with the roads and the scarce goods in various places. As long as we control it well in the future, our income will definitely be higher and higher. But starting this year, I and I Liu Wenzhuo’s cooperation is over, and the caravan’s income from now on will have nothing to do with me.”

After hearing this, Zhou Ran said: "That's fine. You have become an official. If you continue to cooperate with Mr. Liu, it will not be good if others find out."

Although the status of merchants in the Dashun Dynasty was not as low as in some dynasties, the descendants of merchants could also take part in the imperial examinations and pursue official careers. Family members of officials were also prohibited from engaging in business, but officials themselves were not allowed to engage in business.

Ye Ximing also thought of this at the beginning, so when he cooperated with Liu Wenzhuo, he only agreed on a three-year period.

Later, Ye Ximing read Liu Wenzhuo's letter to him. The letter mainly wrote about the caravan.

After reading the letter, Ye Ximing put it away and talked to Zhou Ran about tomorrow's arrangements.

Some time ago, Zhou Ran thought about it carefully and found that she had entered a misunderstanding about Liuguang Pavilion.

She only wanted to find an embroiderer to teach those women who wanted to learn embroidery skills, but she forgot that she still had tools in her hands.

The three encyclopedias of embroidery techniques at all levels in her hand can be used as props for embroidery masters to teach their apprentices.

In this way, she doesn't have to worry about the embroidery skills of the embroidery masters themselves not being high enough. The embroidery apprentices want to learn better embroidery skills, but she has no way to teach them in person.

Moreover, those embroidery masters can also learn more advanced embroidery skills according to the content in the book.

So Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran discussed taking the three books to engrave more and distribute some to Liuguang Pavilion in each place. If possible, they also wanted to distribute the books for free, so that more people could get them. People who want to learn embroidery skills learn embroidery skills.

Ye Ximing had already gone to the engraving workshop and sent the book there for them to engrave. Tomorrow was the last date they promised, and their engraving should have been finished.

They need to take a look at the engravings they carved tomorrow. If there are no problems, they can start printing books.

Although this will definitely cost a lot of money, as long as the system tasks can be completed, no matter how much money is spent, it is worth it. After all, the money can be earned again.

Both of them were tired after talking about this, so they went to bed to rest after washing up.

Early the next morning, the two of them had breakfast at home and went straight to the engraving workshop that Ye Ximing had been looking for before.

The engraving shop that Ye Ximing found was not big. It wasn't that Ye Ximing didn't want to find a big engraving shop, but that the big ones didn't want to take his business.

This engraving workshop is located in a small courtyard in the western suburbs of the capital. The total number of workers and masters in the entire engraving workshop does not exceed ten.