Ordinary clear day

Chapter 233
Tongying's new errand is Luanyi Wei Luanyi envoy.This is a position of the second grade, which is quite high, but it is somewhat beyond Tong Ying's expectation.

He originally thought that if he didn't go back to the Ministry of War, he might be sent to the Ministry of Rites again, after all, he had done a good job there before.Even the other four ministries are good jobs. Of course, it would be best if it wasn't for the troublesome places like the Ministry of Household Affairs.

When he discussed with Shu Ning in private, he discovered that there were two other yamen.One is the Clan Mansion, and the other is the Li Fan Yuan.The former is because his father, Prince Jane, was once in charge of the Clan Mansion, and now there is a genuine vacancy in the Clan Mansion, which has always been held by Baylor and Beizi.As for the latter, it is because he is quite familiar with Mongolia, and he can get twice the result with half the effort if he does related errands.These two yamen are places where you can enjoy leisure. The only concern is that he is too young and may not have enough qualifications.

In the end, it turned out to be the envoy of Luanyi and Wei Luanyi.

Luan Yiwei is in charge of the emperor's and queen's driving ceremonies, mainly handling the chores of palace etiquette and the safety of the ceremony.Shangguan is the Minister of Security in charge of Luanyi, a first-rank military officer, and the envoy of Luanyi is below him, probably a position like the captain of the guard of honor.This kind of errand must be performed by someone trusted by the emperor. The work is a bit cumbersome and requires careful and cautious work, but it is easy to make mistakes.The chief officer of Luan Yiwei has never been able to sit firmly in his seat for a long time.Today's Minister of Public Security is said to be an old man who started from Zhiyizheng. He has rich experience, but he is too old, and it is very likely that he will retire in a year or two.The emperor asked Tongying to be the Luanyi envoy, but he didn't know what his intention was.

Tong Ying waved her hand: "Forget it, the decree has been issued, and I will do it. Anyway, I have worked in the Ritual Department for a few months. I am clear about etiquette, and I have some understanding of military affairs. The position of military officer , it’s still suitable for me. After two years, it’s best if I can be promoted to Minister of Security, if not, then go to the Clan Mansion or Li Fan Yuan to find a seat.”

Now that Tong Ying said so, Shu Ning didn't think about it any more. On the day of business, she got up early to order Tong Ying's official clothes, shoes and hats, had breakfast with him, and sent him out.Then she did housework at home, prepared a nutritious lunch, and sent someone to Luan Yiwei at noon.Of course, Feng Shiwei and Sun Shiwei and other entourages are also indispensable, and employee benefits are very important.Even Tian Yang, the follower, brought snacks to satisfy his hunger.

At first, she could take it as sending her husband to work.Although Tong Ying has to go to the palace to work every day, she can definitely go home for dinner before evening, so her life is not uncomfortable.But not long after, the tour of Mount Wutai, which was postponed due to Prince Kang's funeral, started again, and Tong Ying had to go to Mount Wutai with Shengjia.

During the days when he was not around, Shuning felt bored and flustered.It was really strange to say that the two of them hadn't seen each other for a year and a half before, and they didn't expect it to be this far. How could it be that she didn't even have the appetite to eat after being separated for a few days?I always fall asleep in the middle of the night at night, so my spirit is naturally not good during the day.As a result, she could only quietly take Tongying's homely clothes and come out to sleep in her arms, and the situation got better.

She knew that she did this because she missed her husband, but Shuning knew that she had to find something to do to divert her attention.

According to the news from various industries in the mansion, the grain planting work on Zhuangzi has been completed, and they are currently busy with flowers, melons and fruits.In addition to instructing the people in the Zhuangzi to repair the water conservancy facilities during the slack season, Shu Ning also specially transferred Friday Fu, who had relevant experience, to serve as a guide.

She also adjusted Zhuangzi's accounts for previous years, and found that in spring and summer, flowers and melons and vegetables were sold at average prices, but in autumn and winter they sold better, probably because other Zhuangzi also had these products when the weather was warmer. Hot Spring Zhuangzi, originally It's only beneficial when the weather is cold.

Therefore, she specially asked someone to stop the work on the Zhuangzi, and invited the Zhuangzi to readjust the industrial layout.In spring and summer, in addition to leaving two or three acres of land to plant some seasonal flowers and plants, most of the flower fields are replanted with flowers of higher economic value, such as those that can be used as medicine, tea, and varieties that can be made into spices and perfumes.Some flowers with strong ornamental value can also be planted, but peonies are planted according to the flowering season, and are not cultivated in autumn and winter. The manpower and material resources on its head are put on other flowers.In the cold season, it is good to produce more festive and popular flowers, which can be sold to rich families in Beijing for decoration and vase placement.

Some flowers with mediocre sales and low practical value are no longer planted at all.

In order to find a sales channel for the product, she also went to find her second aunt, Suo Chuoluo, because Valerian Caifang itself uses flowers to make skin care products or perfumes.However, the Vale Caifang has lost the vigor of the past. It is just a tool reserved by the second aunt to make friends with other noble women or to curry favor with the nobles in the palace. Therefore, Shu Ning did not place her hopes on it, but learned about it through the second aunt. After finding some merchants in this business, he asked Mr. Yin to open the way.

On the other hand, she remembered that some of the flowers in Fangshan's garden were sold to tea shops or pharmacies, and she also asked the housekeeper to find a few shops with good reputations.For the rest, since Zhuangzi already has a fixed sales channel, she will not make any changes.

However, because she accidentally found a lotus root powder workshop that had cooperated with Changping Zhuangzi, she told Wang Yin and asked him to negotiate with others, which was considered to have found a lotus pond for the tens of acres of lotus ponds produced by her dowry village. place.

The two shops and one restaurant that Tongying shared from Prince Jane's Mansion are mostly used by old people. Shuning sees that they are running well, so she doesn't take care of them. What articles can be done.

Among them, the business of the restaurant is good, so she doesn't care about it. At most, she asks the two daughter-in-laws who accompany the house to teach some dishes and dim sum recipes to the cook, and let them do it by themselves.Of those two shops, one was a silk shop and the other was selling the Four Treasures of the Study. The business was still going well, but after careful investigation, many problems were found.

She asked about the silk and satin shop, and learned that it sells everything from low-quality coarse silk to expensive brocades, but those expensive and high-priced goods are hard to sell, and they are all accumulated in the shop.After she learned the location of the shop, she somewhat understood the reason.It was in the outer city, where ordinary rich households and Han officials live together, and the location is excellent, but not everyone can afford expensive clothing, and those who can afford it often have regular purchases of clothing. shop.The shopkeeper of this shop originally wanted to catch all customers from all walks of life, but he ignored it. How could people who can afford brocade go shopping in a shop that sells low-quality coarse silk?However, the cost of those expensive clothing materials is extremely high, and the money is kept there.

So she called the shopkeeper and asked him to figure out what kind of customer business he wanted to do, and suggested to him that, according to the sales situation all the time, it is best to only do business with middle- and lower-class customers, and he can sell some high-quality goods. Good material, but don't buy those goods that move dozens of taels a piece.The shopkeeper was troubled for three days, and finally agreed. Shuning will buy all the expensive clothes at a [-]% discount, and use them for favors or for personal use. From now on, the silk and satin shop will only be used by ordinary wealthy households or officials. People's business no longer depends on which palace suddenly takes a fancy to their materials.

The other shop selling the Four Treasures of the Study was originally created by Tongying for the convenience of painting and respecting the teachers. It has always made meager profits, but because people who want to curry favor with Prince Jane's house often patronize, it seems to be doing well on the surface.Shu Ning asked the shopkeeper, and looked at the several colors of goods he brought, and found that it might be because the shop did not have a dedicated workshop, so she could only buy goods from other workshops and resell them.And some cooperative workshops have their own backgrounds, and the quality of the pens, inks, papers and inkstones they produce is not the best, and it cannot be compared with Songzhuzhai at Liulichang.

She always remembered that the pens, inks, papers and inkstones were the best in the south of the Yangtze River, and Songzhuzhai was also a paper shop in the South, so she asked her natal cousin Fu Ning for help, and went to the comprador family of Tuohuo to inquire about good workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou, so that Manager Yin found two reliable family members to accompany the shopkeeper to the south to find a good source of goods.As for the original workshops, after inquiring about the relationship behind them and inspecting the quality of their products, only one paper-making workshop and one pen-making workshop remained, and everything else was dismissed.Among them, there was only one workshop that was only engaged in Beizi Mansion shop business, and the quality was not good. Shuning learned that their family only had a daughter married to the son of Guerjia's housemate, so she unceremoniously suspended the cooperation.There is already a quarrel with the Guarjia family, so there is no need to lose money by yourself just to worry about this relationship.

After a while of cooking like this, she felt relieved that all the industries were going smoothly.But after a little rest, Tong Ying inevitably came to mind.Although he had sent two letters back from Mount Wutai, it was inconvenient for him to be away from home, and he was working in front of the imperial court, so he couldn't keep in touch with Beijing.Therefore, Shuning felt that she really missed him very much.

In the end, after finishing the housework, she started working in public relations again.

She is not a sociable person at all, since she married into Beizi Mansion, she has been in contact with people Tong Ying made friends with mainly.Right now, apart from her natal relatives, only the third elder brother, the fourth elder brother, the fifth elder brother and several clans have relatively close contacts.It's a pity that the whole family of Prince Kang's mansion kept their filial piety, lived in seclusion and had little contact with the outside world. I don't know if it was to let the previous rumors gradually dissipate.

Even Shuning or Dafang sent things there in the name of Xu Xu's mother's family, and they were also led into the mansion by special personnel. After talking with Xu Xu for a quarter of an hour or two, they were sent out of the mansion by special personnel. People, there is no way to stop them at all.Fortunately, judging from the replies from the sent people, Xu Xu is much healthier now, and will recover even better when the weather gets warmer.

San Age's house is the closest to Bei Zi's house, so Shu Ning has frequent contacts with Fujin's family, San Fujin even came to visit twice and visited the garden once.While she was full of praise, she wondered why several places didn't have names or no plaques. She also enthusiastically said that if she couldn't think of a good name, she could ask the third elder brother to help.

Shu Ning changed the subject with a smile, but she didn't think so in her heart. Why did someone else name her garden?Before, she thought it was unnecessary to be sorry, but now, she can't bear to be judged by people from other families.

So, she asked Mr. Shi for advice, and called Xiaobao and Shige to help out with ideas, and after thinking about it for a few days, she finally settled on a few names.The pavilion in the pine forest was named "Qingfengxueying" by Mr. Shi, the pavilion bridge in the middle of the lake was Shuning's idea of ​​"boating in the evening wind", and the bamboo house was also named "Windwind and Lying Bamboo" by her. On the bank of the lotus, there is the "Lotus Wind River Language" that Shige thought of, and finally there is the "Bijing Pavilion" built by Xiaobao, which is the room next to the Wang Pavilion.

All the names were temporarily written on scrolls and hung up. After Tong Ying came back and nodded, he went to make plaques.

As a result, when San Fujin came back, seeing that these places had already been named, he felt a little regretful, but he joked: "Why is the word 'wind' almost everywhere? Why don't we call this garden 'Wind Garden'." It's all right, I wrote down the scroll, and only said to wait for Tong Ying to come back to make a decision.

As for the fifth elder brother's residence, Wufu Jin Yuanning is still in the palace, it seems that she intends to give birth in the palace, Shuning can only send some medicinal materials and supplements to Wubeile's residence, as for whether she can receive it and use it, I don't know.

Shu Ning is the most frequent visitor to the fourth elder brother's house, firstly because Tongying and fourth elder brother have always been friends, and she herself has some ideas; secondly, because she has known Yu Min for a long time and got along well; thirdly, , it is for Wanning.After all, they are both traversers and sisters from the same family, so they cannot be ignored.

Sometimes she delivered things by herself, and sometimes she helped Nala's deliver them. Of course, she had people check all the things she helped to deliver, and only agreed after making sure that there were no problems.As the number of times she sent things increased, Wanning's attitude gradually became less indifferent, and sometimes she would chat with her about the recent situation, and once even invited her to the yard where she lived.

The courtyard was slightly larger and more magnificent than the one when Wanning was at home, but there were many people waiting on it, and it was a bit crowded.Qiaoyun has not worked here since she got married. When Wanning mentioned her, she just said lightly: "People go to high places, and I can't block their Qingyun Road."

But Yan Yun couldn't hear these words, and interjected: "Why does the girl say that again? Sister Qiao Yun is also doing it for your own good. Didn't you see that she brought you things every two days? Our daily food and clothing costs are comparable The previous ones were better." The girl next to her who had a rough face curled her lips and went down.

Shuning coughed lightly, asked about the needles and threads on the table, and changed the subject.As a result, Yanyun answered first: "That's an embroidered curtain made for religious ceremonies, I made it with the girl, and it will be sent to the temple in a few days." Wanning gave her a glare, let her go down, and then said slowly : "I heard that there is a famine in Shanxi, so I want to do a ritual ceremony to pray for blessings. Fujin and the others are interested in participating."

Shuning paused, and asked: "Is the money enough? Do you want to help?" The cost of doing things is not small.Wanning coughed twice, then turned her head and said, "That's enough, you don't have to worry about it." Not long after, she served tea to see off the guests.

Shu Ning returned to the Baron's Mansion, and told Nala about Wan Ning, seeing her non-stop chanting, suddenly had an idea, and said: "Instead of sending clothes and belongings to the old aunt, it is better to use the name of the second sister." Do some good deeds, help orphans and widows, donate medicine and give medicines, etc., if it is inconvenient, you can also donate money to temples that often do good deeds." There are several major Buddhist temples in Beijing that give out porridge and clothes every ten days The tradition seems to be the old practice left by Yuheng when he was the Governor of Shuntian.Every season, Mrs. Tong would order the housekeeper to send money and goods to the Huguo Temple, and Shuning herself had a similar practice.

Nala's eyes lit up: "That's right, Wanning's reputation will be better if you have more good karma."

Shuning sighed, and went back to Huaiyuan by herself.

Tong Ying finally came back.The couple's farewell was better than the newlyweds, and Shuning became more and more attached to him, even if he had any request at night, she half-pushed and half-complied.From then on, the young couple became more like sugar than honey.

In March, the emperor issued a decree to confer the titles of the princes. Among them, Yinti, the eldest son, was named King of Zhijun, Yinzhi, the third son, King of Chengjun, Yinzhen, the fourth son, King of Yongjun, and Yinqi, the fifth son, King of Hengjun. , the emperor's seventh son Yinyou, and the emperor's eighth son Yinhu are both Baylor.

Tong Ying's title has not changed, he and Shu Ning are finally convinced that the previous rumors are just rumors.

In a blink of an eye, Longevity Day is coming again.

(I'm sorry~~~ >_< I don't know how to describe this situation. In short, the computer and the web page seem to respond very slowly, no matter how I move, they don't respond, but it's not a crash...)
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