Happiness System

Yang Nianqiu acted quickly. Gao Liyang came to find them on the afternoon of the second day after the Fu family arrived in Baiyuan Village.

Gao Liyang is three years older than Qin Yunxi, but he still followed Yang Nianqiu and called her sister and brother-in-law.

Seeing that Qin Yunxi wanted to invite him in, he quickly declined, "Sister and brother-in-law, don't bother. I have work to do. I just stopped by to say hello to you and your husband.

Yesterday my mother went to the general's mansion, and the general's wife said that what my sister proposed was a good thing that would benefit the country and the people, and asked my sister to go ahead and do it.

The general's wife has already sent someone to the Heilong County government office to inform them to cooperate with my sister and brother-in-law. The special order and appointment letter will be issued after Liu, the staff officer, comes to understand the details. "

Qin Yunxi saw that she was in a hurry to leave and did not try to keep her. The autumn harvest in Mo Nan had already been completed and the Hu people were ready to make a move. Gao Liyang's mission could not be delayed.

After thinking about it, she took out some medicine from the space and added some snacks made by Nanny Zhao and stuffed them into Gao Liyang's pockets.

Gao Liyang didn't say anything polite. He took the things, grinned, waved his hand, and rode away on his horse.

When the village chief's wife heard the news, she ran back home in fear and told the head of the household.

Seeing the village chief stroking his beard without saying a word, she looked at the hot things on the kang sent by the Fu family with a painful look. She had originally wanted to use these things to find a wife for her son!

Life in the southern part of the desert is harder than in the mainland, and it is more difficult to find a wife. Although people here can queue up to apply for aborted wives to continue their family line, who doesn't want to have someone who understands them and cares about them?

Seeing his wife's expression, the village chief sighed and said, "The Fu family is not the kind of people who bully others by taking advantage of their power. Otherwise, when they got the land to build the house, they would have used the name of Gao's relatives. Not only would they have saved money on the land, but they would have also kept the labor cost of building the house to a minimum. There would have been no need to pay such a high price."

The wife of the village head felt relieved when she thought about how her three sons had worked together for less than two months and had married their second daughter-in-law. However, she still felt reluctant to part with the things. She asked, "Do we still want to send these things back?"

The village chief shook his head and said, "The wealthy families are very particular. If you send something back, they might think too much about it. Take a look at what you have at home and pack it up and send it back. Also, pick out some autumn vegetables that look good and send some more."

"Oh! Great!" Hearing that the things could be kept and that her youngest son's wife had been found, the village head's wife became happy again.

She immediately went out to greet her eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law who had just come in and started working together.

After everything was packed up, the village chief thought about it and decided to go there in person with his eldest son.

Fu Xiuwen had just finished discussing something with Ding Hai, and when he saw the village chief and his son pushing a cart full of things over, he understood his intention.

"Master Fu, the winter here in Mo Nan is very long. I'm going to send you some autumn vegetables! Even though they're worthless, they can't survive without them in the winter..." The village chief had a bandit-like look on his face, but he tried to smile more kindly.

Fu Xiuwen smiled and bowed his hands to thank him, saying, "My wife just said that it's time to prepare autumn vegetables, and she wanted to see if anyone in the village has extra, otherwise she would have to go to the city to buy some. The village chief is here at the right time, and I just happen to have something I want to talk to you about. How about we go to my father's place and sit down and talk?"

The village chief wanted to say that his family had plenty of autumn vegetables, but when he thought about the number of people in the Fu family, even if his family didn't eat vegetables, they wouldn't be able to supply them, so he changed his words and said, "The grain harvest this year is not good, but the autumn vegetables grown in Baiyuan Village are pretty good. I'll go back and tell my wife to come and take the second master's family's purchases to the villagers' homes. I guarantee they won't dare to fool us!"

Seeing that Fu Xiuwen's expression didn't seem like a bad thing, he asked his eldest son to help the Fu family's servants unload the dishes, and then he carefully followed them to the next door.

It was easy for Fu Xiuwen to find Fu Ronglang. The construction of the academy had to start as soon as possible and the house had to be built before it snowed and the ground froze.

Fu Ronglang had worked in the Construction Department for several years, and Fu Xiuwen wanted to ask his father to help supervise it.

The purpose of looking for the village chief was to recruit some able-bodied men in Baiyuan Village to work at the academy. Most of the rows of houses where they lived were built with the help of the villagers.

Fu Xiuwen even took a special tour around the village today and felt that it was pretty good. The villagers did not treat them perfunctorily just because they were exiled outsiders.

So when building the academy this time, he reserved some places for Baiyuan Village.

Fu Ronglang was extremely happy when he heard that his son wanted to ask him to be the supervisor.

When he was in the imperial capital, he worked diligently and was busy all day long. On the road to exile, he was only thinking about how to protect his family. His mind and body were very busy. When he stopped in the south of the desert, he really felt uncomfortable.

While Fu Xiuwen was talking to the village chief about the laborers, Fu Ronglang kept studying the drawings drawn by Qin Yunxi.

As soon as the village chief left, he waved away Li Mutong who came to call him for dinner, and pulled Fu Xiuwen and Ding Hai into the study.

The discussion lasted until midnight.

The next morning, the men got up early again, had a quick breakfast, and took a carriage to the academy.

At this time, the academy was nothing more than an empty space filled with building materials.

Qin Yunxi didn't know that several men had been wandering around the construction site for a whole day, constantly modifying the drawings in the cold wind...

She slept until she woke up naturally, then had a leisurely breakfast and asked Honglian to call the manager of the manor.

That's right, she ignored the construction of the academy, one reason was because she was lazy, and the other was that she wanted to free up her hands to test whether the cold- and heat-resistant potatoes and sweet potatoes developed by the farmers in the end times could survive in the south of the desert.

These potatoes have high yields and can grow in extremely harsh environments. What’s more important is that they don’t even need photosynthesis to grow. They only need to be fertilized sufficiently in the early stages, and then they can absorb the soil fertility under the snow and grow.

But the disadvantage is that the taste is bad and slightly bitter. Both of them are high in starch, dietary fiber and have a rough taste.

At the end of the world, ordinary survivors would dry them, grind them into powder and make paste to eat. Those who were better off would directly buy the starch filtered by the base.

In addition, experts have also developed cold- and heat-resistant corn, rice, and wheat, but these three still require photosynthesis and are much more delicate than the first two.

Coupled with insect plagues, these three crops can only be grown in greenhouses, which makes them high-end foods that ordinary survivors cannot afford.

But these three don't have any major disadvantages except that they taste a little rougher than normal crops.

The steward looked at the huge potatoes and sweet potatoes, and after being stunned for a moment, he was delighted. When he learned the characteristics of these two crops, he even forgot to greet them and ran out with the things in his arms.

Qin Yunxi didn't care and asked Honglian to take out the map of the manor.

Zhuangzi is located between Baiyuan Village and Heilong County, and Qin Yunxi plans to renovate that place.

After all, there were many wars in the south of the desert, and as a woman, she had limited self-protection capabilities. She could only rely on external forces and find a place to hide.

Naturally, she would not use the local people from Mo Nan for such a secret matter. Yang Nianji had transferred quite a few people here, so she had no shortage of people except for the laborers for farming.

In addition to Ding Hai and the manager who just left, there is also Jiang Weixiong on Mo Nan's side.

Jiang Weixiong, like Ding Hai, was also the second in command. When he was in the imperial capital, he was responsible for guarding and some external business.

The original owner's business was not very big, and it was not even ranked in the imperial capital, but they had their own guard team, because most of their goods were found by themselves outside, and they had their own caravan.

Before leaving the Imperial Capital, Qin Yunxi had already notified Yang Nianji to stop and temporarily withdraw from the Imperial Capital market, fearing that the chaos in the Imperial Capital would affect the merchants. He would even have to downsize in other places starting next year.

In this way, the imperial capital would not need so many manpower. Considering the chaos here, Jiang Weixiong asked for permission to bring his men to Mo Nan.

She doesn't plan to live in Baiyuan Village permanently. The large group of Fu family will arrive in a few days, and it will be very troublesome to deal with all the aunts and uncles.

In this case, the residence at Zhuangzi's place becomes the top priority, and it is just right to give it to Jiang Weixiong.

"Master, Mr. Jiang is in charge of the shop in Baicheng. Isn't Manager Xuan at the farm? Wouldn't it be cheaper for you to give the task to him?"

Honglian couldn't understand why the master didn't hand over the matter to Xuan Jian when he came over. It was just a few big potatoes and sweet potatoes, and Xuan Jian didn't need to farm the fields himself.

Qin Yunxi shook his head and said, "Everyone has their own expertise. Xuan Jian is good at management and farming, so it's just right for him to do those things. Jiang Weixiong has been traveling for many years and has seen the world. We will probably live in the house over there most of the time in the future, so it's right to leave the security arrangements to him."

Honglian also shook her head and said, "We still have too few people here. If Master Jiang is transferred to the farm, we won't be able to find anyone to take over the shops in Baicheng for a while. We earn a lot from those shops!"

Qin Yunxi looked at her with amusement, "We don't need that little money. We can let Madam Gao take care of those shops for a few months and give up some of the profits. What's wrong with that?"

Although the Gao family holds a high position in Mo Nan, they are not a wealthy family. Even the general's mansion can be considered poor.

There is ice and snow in the south of the desert for half a year, and only the second half of the year is suitable for farming. The yield is already low, and the area has to be responsible for the monthly salaries and food and clothing of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The consolation money for soldiers who died in battle every year also accounts for a large part of the fiscal expenditure of the south of the desert.

The imperial court gave the mighty general a great deal of autonomy in management, and even the taxes in Mo Nan did not need to be submitted to the imperial court. But conversely, the imperial court rarely allocated funds.

Mo Nan supported General Wei Meng, but General Wei Meng had to support the entire Mo Nan Army. Even the construction of towns required him to allocate funds.

Not only the general's mansion, but also the deputy generals and staff of the Gao family are extremely poor.

When Yang Nianqiu got married, the original owner and Yang Nianji each bought a farm and several shops for her.

Mrs. Gao did not dislike her daughter-in-law's business. Instead, she helped Yang Nianqiu look after the shop when she was pregnant and giving birth, for fear that her daughter-in-law would be fooled because she was not energetic enough.

In addition, the Gao family did not covet Yang Nianqiu's dowry and money.