The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 370 Vacation Mode
There is no tacit understanding between the siblings.

After finally finding out from his younger brother that the woman he admired was Zhao Ran.

Gan Minglan remained silent for a long time.

After holding back for a while, I couldn't resist my curiosity and asked, "Is this unrequited love, or is it mutual?"

Gan Mingfu met her sister's blinking eyes and shook her head helplessly: "Is there a difference?"

Listen and listen.

This means that the two people are in love!

Oh my god.

Zhao Ran didn't stay in Hami City for very long, and Gan Mingfu was working at the General's Mansion during that time.

How exactly did the feelings between the two of them develop?

Gan Mingfu was too embarrassed to share such details with his older sister, and he stammered, his face turning bright red.

Gan Minglan clicked her tongue in amazement, praising her younger brother's good judgment, while also feeling a bit wistful.

nowadays.

Even in the most open-minded northwestern border region, children's marriages are arranged entirely by their parents.

The more noble a young lady's status, the more useful she is to her family.

Free love or eloping, etc.

Any man with a modicum of manners and a sense of responsibility would not do something to ruin a young woman's reputation.

But what kind of status or position does the Gan family have that they would dare to attempt a marriage alliance with the King of the Northwest?

With a thousand words in her heart, she could only utter one sentence in the end: "It's still because I didn't try hard enough!"

Gan Mingfu stared blankly at his sister.

How did you say this?

His sister joined the army less than a year ago and was promoted to a valiant general of the fourth rank. What more could you ask for in terms of hard work!

He worked very hard on the sand table map for the past six months and finally completed the task several months ahead of schedule.

Earning the rank of a centurion is a level that many low-ranking soldiers can never reach in their entire lives.

But compared to Zhao Ran, the legitimate daughter of the Northwest King, she is nothing!

We can't just take advantage of the fact that the young lady likes us and rashly have our parents hire a matchmaker to propose marriage to her family.

When there is an imbalance of power, this behavior is called "extortion."

My parents will definitely be humiliated by others.

The siblings analyzed the possibility of their marriage for a long time, and finally realized that the problem was completely unsolvable at the moment.

In the end, Gan Minglan could only pat her younger brother on the shoulder to comfort him:

"Don't be discouraged. Maybe your sister can earn a generalship or something when we go on the western expedition next year. As the younger brother of a general, she should have some influence with the prince, right?"

Otherwise, what else can we do?

She spoke lightly, but Gan Mingfu dared not take it seriously.

General Xiong has no further promotions to his current rank.

Surely the Kansai region can't have two generals-general and grand commanders-in-chief?

The young man pondered to himself whether, given his abilities, he could advance his rank once again on the battlefield if the Guanzhong army planned to launch a western expedition against the Hu next year.

Anyway, there's nothing we can do right now.

Hopefully, his hard work is not too late.

Gan Minglan: "Don't think about anything else. You've been busy all year. Take a break during the Spring Festival."

She said she wanted to rest, and she really did start her vacation.

He even gave a month-long winter vacation to a hundred of his personal guards, including Lu Ye and Lü Chen.

"During the winter break, you don't have to attend classes or train with sandbags every day. Just have fun, spend time with your family at home, and we'll take the exam again when school starts after the break."

Lu Ye and the others wept, saying, "If you hadn't said that last sentence, we would have truly believed your evil deeds, Master."

Gan Minglan ignored the resentful looks from her soldiers and, like most military dependents, hibernated on the heated brick bed in her dugout.

During the day, I spend half of my time eating and drinking.

Under the direction of Granny Wang, they even made a simplified version of Qiegao (a type of sweet rice cake). The cloyingly sweet Qiegao became a sensation among the children of Ganluchuan as soon as it was launched.

Fatty would take his sister and a small basket of cut cakes and visit the homes of military families in Ganluchuan every day.

With free time, Gan Minglan stopped caring about anything else.

I'll find an opportunity to go into the space and cultivate a relationship with the little golden eagle.

Little Jin is now bigger than Big Jin.

Ever since Gan Minglan kept several hundred pigeons in the space, they have learned to hunt on their own.

It can't get enough to eat if it doesn't catch two or three pigeons a day.

Perhaps because it was adopted by Gan Minglan when it was only half a month old, it always seemed to be closer to her than to its parents.

She carried out the instructions given to her very well.

Gan Minglan had no doubt that Xiao Jin would become an even smarter hunter and messenger than Da Jin and his wife.

Cats have such a wonderful time at home.

Of the entire family, only Zuo Wenkang had already started working right after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Previously, when he was making a sand table at the General's Mansion, he didn't have the chance to appreciate the seven-colored silkworm.

I only learned after arriving in Ganluchuan that the garrison had plans to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms next year.

He directly took charge of the overall management of silk weaving.

If you were to ask which industry is the most developed in the matriarchal Phoenix Dynasty,

It must be the silk textile industry!

Those upper-class people all take pride in being able to wear fine clothes all year round.

Then ask what kind of business Zuo Wenkang's family business did in his previous life.
Coincidentally.

His family was one of the most renowned silk merchants in Fengchao back then, and it had been passed down to his mother for five generations.

Unexpectedly, he was outmaneuvered by a competitor.

At the beginning of the year, the business received a large order that could support three generations.

Unexpectedly, when it came time to harvest the spring cocoons, they only managed to collect 20% of the raw silk yield from the mulberry farmers who had been cooperating with them for generations.

The raw material for brocade is raw silk.

The weaving workshop employs several hundred people.

An agreement was signed when the order was received, stipulating that failure to complete the delivery would result in a penalty of several times the amount owed.

An order that could support three generations could also result in a family going bankrupt from the compensation.

In order to preserve the business that had been passed down for five generations, the final solution they came up with was to send him to the War King's mansion as a concubine.

His sacrifice was all it took for the business to survive.

Having been exposed to the world of silk weaving since childhood, Zuo Wenkang's understanding of the silk weaving process is unparalleled in the entire Northwest.

He treasured these brightly colored wild silkworms that had their own color without needing to be dyed.

He almost wore a patina out of several silkworm cocoons of different colors.

He couldn't wait even during the Lunar New Year.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he gathered more than 300 military dependents who were skilled in carpentry and they were helping him build a large jacquard wooden loom in the classroom greenhouse.

According to his description, this loom is the most complex, unique, and perfect weaving tool among the female-dominated phoenix jacquard looms, mainly used for weaving Yun brocade.

Yunjin.

That is truly the crown of brocades, every inch of brocade is worth its weight in gold.

How magnificent it would be if made from this natural seven-colored wild silkworm silk?

Career truly is a man's second spring.

From then on, the person who left early and returned late in the family changed from Gan Minglan to Zuo Wenkang.

Roche has a natural affinity for her son.

Let alone Zuo Wenkang being able to design and manufacture jacquard wooden looms, even if he claimed to be able to weave silk by hand, Mr. Luo would only praise him for being good at everything he learns!

(End of this chapter)