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Chapter 233 Family Affairs and State Affairs Are Mess

The next day, the couple rushed back to Yangzhou by boat.

Because the time of this trip was almost a month earlier than last year, and there were not too many boats on the river, the trip went smoothly. They returned to Tianchang County on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

As soon as he got out of the car, Wang Shiqi, Mr. Zhuang and Mr. Wu surrounded him.

Cui Pu asked people to unload the things that were tied up, and asked Mr. Wu: "How is the greenhouse that I wrote to you to prepare now?"

"Since we received the letter, we have invited craftsmen to build it. We just finished the project two days ago. We just tried the heating pipe yesterday, and it feels okay. I will wait for the magistrate and your wife to come back and have a look. If there is no problem If so, you can move things in immediately." Mr. Wu said hurriedly.

Cui Pu was very satisfied with his ability to move, so he only changed into his normal clothes, and took Mu Jiaojiao to the backyard together.

This time the greenhouse was specially built by Cui Put, just to grow the sweet potato seedlings in advance.According to Mu You, the place where sweet potatoes were grown before should be relatively hot and humid, but Yangzhou is now in winter and the temperature is not enough.In order to test the effect as soon as possible, Mu Jiaojiao specially took out a thousand strings and asked Mr. Wu to build a glass greenhouse.A lot of pottery pipes are specially laid in the conservatory. When the weather is cold, straw and other things are burned in the stove outside, and the heating can flow into the conservatory through the pottery pipes, warming the indoor air.And the glass is transparent, in addition to being able to isolate the cold air from the outside, it can also allow sunlight to shine in without hindrance, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Rich people often use this kind of greenhouse to provide themselves with fresh vegetables in winter.

Mr. Wu is a master in water conservancy.Needless to say, this greenhouse was built by him.Anyway, Mu Jiaojiao and Cui Pu couldn't find anything wrong with their picks.

After experiencing the effect of heating in the greenhouse, and after confirming the temperature at a similar height, Mu Jiaojiao asked someone to move in the sweet potato seedlings they had cared for all the way.

When she was in Chang'an, she put the few sweet potatoes Mu You gave her in flower pots, buried them with a thin layer of soil, and placed them in her room where the brazier was always burning.When I came all the way to Yangzhou, the flower pots were neatly placed in the lower cabin, and the brazier was burning day and night inside.So when they arrived in Tianchang County, these sweet potato seedlings had grown lush in flower pots, and the parts that grew out of the soil were about ten inches long.

Mu Jiaojiao asked someone to dig out the sweet potatoes inside, carefully cut them into many portions one by one, and planted them in the greenhouse.

After working until dark, these dozens of sweet potato seedlings were planted.

Mr. Wu paid special attention to this matter, so he recommended himself to stay in the greenhouse tonight.

Mu Jiaojiao and Cui Pu traveled long distances, and they were already exhausted.Not too polite with him, just thanked him, and the couple went back to rest.

When he woke up early the next morning, Cui Pu's yamen had a backlog of things, so he naturally became busy again.Mu Jiaojiao used the excuse of feeling unwell and stayed in the greenhouse all day long.

In fact, she has little experience in cultivating sweet potatoes.But in the past, I followed my grandfather to grow many herbs, and Mr. Wu is also a master at it.Two people exchange experiences with each other, and they can also find out the method of nurturing closely.

Two or three days later, Wei Zhuang and his wife came from Yangzhou Mansion.

"Your elder sister wrote to me shortly after returning to Chang'an to ask me to raise money. In the past two months, I raised [-] yuan. I don't know if it's enough?" .

"It's almost there." Cui Pu nodded, and led the couple to the greenhouse in the backyard, "Sister-in-law must have told you everything we have to do? As long as these things can grow smoothly, wait until In March and April, we will go to the lower villages to promote planting. It’s just that these things are very unfamiliar to the people. If we want them to agree to plant this thing, we must give them certain guarantees and rewards. We don’t take the money No, it’s just that you understand, brother-in-law. This is what I did for the county, for the entire Yangzhou and even the entire New Tang Dynasty, and I have already passed the enlightened path in front of the saint. If it’s still us and the husband and wife smashing it in If we talk about money, people will definitely laugh at us now, but if things come to fruition later, they will naturally have another excuse, which is not good after all.”

"I understand." Wei Zhuang nodded quickly, "This is a great thing that benefits the country and the people. Once it is done, it will benefit endlessly. If you don't ask me, just go to the wealthy households in Tianchang County to ask for some donations. You can make up about the same. But you can still think of me in this matter, and you want to support me, how can I not know the fun? Although this ten thousand is a lot to me, if I lose it in three or two years You can also earn it back. So you just use it, even if you fail, you don’t have to worry about anything.”

Seeing that he was so good at Taoism, Cui Pubie stopped talking, and quickly took him to visit the small cultivation base, talked about the general plan for the future, and promised that when the products in the greenhouse matured, he would definitely Send the first batch of production to Wei Zhuang's family to taste.

Wei Zhuang nodded again and again, and took the opportunity to give some opinions of his own.

This pair of brothers-in-law never finished talking.Mu Jiaojiao stayed by the side for a while, seeing that the two of them were getting further and further away from each other, and he couldn't get in the conversation, so he stopped talking altogether, and took Mu Yiyi back to the backyard.

"Sister, I see that you are out of your mind today, did something happen to the Wei family?" Mu Jiaojiao asked after dismissing the idlers.

Mu Yiyi quickly squeezed out a smile: "What's the matter? No, you read it wrong."

Mu Jiaojiao's face turned cold: "You still lied to me! Could it be that your brother and sister did something together with your aunt while we were returning to Chang'an?"

Mu Yiyi couldn't bear it any longer.

She sniffed, but tears still rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

"The two of them are too deceitful! I said that when I reported to my aunt at the beginning that she would go back to Chang'an to take care of my father's illness, how could she agree so readily, and she kept saying that she would help me take care of the house for a few days, and everything will be the same as before. Follow the established rules, and return everything to me intact when I come back. I didn't take her words seriously at first, but I thought she would not do too much for the good of the Wei family. Who knows, When I came back, I found out that she had changed hands and left everything to the tenth younger siblings. And the tenth younger siblings took advantage of the three months when I was away to pull out all the people I had worked so hard to train for ten years. It's been a while, and then her people are installed. Now the whole Wei family is in disarray!"

"That's it, Auntie also said that the housekeeper of the ten younger siblings is doing well these days, so I should just give her the important places like the big kitchen and warehouse, and let her help me share my worries, so that I don't have to work so hard every day."

The corners of Mu Jiaojiao's lips twitched slightly: "It's not surprising that they can do such a thing. What about brother-in-law, doesn't he know about this? What's he thinking?"

"Him? What else can he think? It's different, let me bear it! He also knows that the ten younger siblings are not housekeepers, and he has had a bad time at home in the past three months. It's just that Auntie cried and made trouble at him, and he There is nothing I can do. On the way here today, he was still persuading me, telling me to take a step back. The warehouse can not be given, but the big kitchen can be taken care of by her. Anyway, with me in charge, there will be no big problems wrong."

As Mu Yi said, tears rolled down again. "Why? Haven't I refunded enough over the years? Is it enough for me to clean up their mess? Just this time, I heard from Wang Rui's family that in just these three months, the two of them filled their pockets and emptied them all. There are thousands of pennies in the account. Now you are calming me down, don’t you just let me fill in this hole? Just let me fill in the hole. They don’t give me a good face, but it’s like giving alms. Am I Did you owe them in your previous life? People say that I am the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wei family, and I am beautiful from the inside to the outside, but who knows how miserable my life is? I have had enough of this kind of life!"

"If it's enough, then you don't have to." Mu Jiaojiao said indifferently.

Mu Yiyi was taken aback. "Sister, what did you say?"

"I said, since you can't take it anymore, sister, you might as well just stop worrying about this mess. Since the family affairs are still in the hands of Wei Shi and his wife, you can relax and stay with me for a few days. Waiting to go back after the first year of the year, so as not to be disturbed by those people."

"How can I do that? How can I spend so much time outside for no reason?" Mu Yiyi shook his head subconsciously.

Mu Jiaojiao pulled her arm to feel her pulse: "You have accumulated blood in your lower body, and the burning heat disturbs your heart. Now the symptoms are very serious. If you don't treat it in time, it is very likely to cause madness."

Mu Yiyi instantly turned pale with fright. "Sister, did you scare me?"

"Where did I ever tell a lie about seeing a doctor?" Mu Jiaojiao asked in a low voice.

Mu Yiyi froze suddenly. "Then you mean, my problem must be treated as soon as possible? Is it cured now?"

"As long as you take care of me for half a month, you should be fine." Mu Jiaojiao said, "Sister, think about it for yourself, do you often feel tightness in your chest and dull pain in your heart? Almost costing you half your life?"

Mu Yiyi quickly covered his chest. "You're right! I've always had such symptoms before, and they've gotten worse recently."

"That's it. You have a bit of such a problem. After this incident this time, after being stimulated, the condition suddenly worsened. If you don't treat it quickly, but go back to that place and continue to be angry, you will definitely die soon after the year. I can't hold it anymore." Mu Jiaojiao said slowly, "Sister, you have to think about it. If you fall, who will benefit in the end? Don't forget, you still have three children who haven't grown up. Cheng, do you have the heart to let them suffer from your illness at a young age?"

Mu Yiyi lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head firmly: "I don't want to."

"So, what is your choice?"

"I stayed."

That's right!Mu Jiaojiao immediately laughed. "Sister, you can live here for a few days, and let the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law go to the Wei family. If they can make this year go smoothly, I will admire them!"

Mu Yiyi understood instantly, and immediately grasped Mu Jiaojiao's hand tightly. "Thank you, sister."

"Thank you, we are sisters!" Mu Jiaojiao smiled sweetly at her.

(End of this chapter)