Leisurely Daily [System]

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Fan and Zhang Shumo helped Mrs. Gu take stock of and clean up the noodle shop, and paid the employees half a month's wages to let them go home for reunion.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Fan took Gu Yuantao and Gu Lishi to prepare some annual gifts, Zhang Shumo drove the car, went to the town together, and then met Gu Changqing.Give the New Year gifts to Boss Xiao and Boss Zhou at Yaokou, and receive two gifts in return.

At Boss Xiao's place, Jiang Fan negotiated another business. He needed thousands of mulberry trees to grow into trees, so he asked Boss Xiao for help.

Boss Xiao really knew a lot of people in this area. Jiang Fan asked for such a large amount, so he knew without asking that he wanted to raise silkworms, so he agreed with a smile.

Originally, Jiang Fan's plan was to get silk from other places to weave and dye, but he was worried about the quality of the goods, so he decided to do it all by himself.When Liumian Zhifang starts construction, Jiang Fan will find a piece of land in the village to build a sericulture workshop, as well as a place for silk reeling in the future, and then recruit some small weaving experts.

Gu Changqing is very supportive of Jiang Fan's decision. After all, this is the inheritance of his father's business. After Jiang Zhen made a fortune, he did it in one step, and he doesn't have to be restrained by others in the future.

The group bid farewell to Boss Xiao, bought a lot of new year's goods, ate in the small courtyard at noon, played until two o'clock in the afternoon, and went to the shop.

Gu Fangqiu closed the store, paid half a month's wages to the three girls in the store and the sisters of the Hong family, and asked them to bring back an annual gift for each of them. Then they went to Meng Yancui's place together, and gave an annual gift as well. Going back to the small courtyard, I paid money to the servants who guarded it, and asked them to guard the courtyard to celebrate the New Year by themselves, and the group returned home together.

When they got home, there were two carriages parked in front of the door, and there were people unloading goods beside them. Uncle Zhang led Liuqu and Songjie to direct the work.

It was an annual gift from Mr. Liu and Guan Xiujin.

Uncle Zhang gave Jiang Fan the list of gifts, and Jiang Fan took a look. They were all expensive tea, wine, silk cloth, tonics, snacks and dried fruits, a few sets of high-quality pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and a few baskets that were hard to come by in winter. See the fruit.

Jiang Fan naturally also returned to the New Year's ceremony, holding baskets of freshly picked vegetables and freshly picked red jade fruits in the vegetable garden.Those who don't know will think that Jiang Fan's return gift is too perfunctory and insincere, but those who know these things will know how valuable they are, and they are not comparable to those expensive items that can be bought with money.

The servants of the two families returned the gifts happily and went back to do business. Jiang Fan turned around and looked at the red jade fruit in the sand. Mu didn't know how long she could last.

In addition to these people, people in the village have been sending things to Jiang Fan's house one after another in the past few days. They are not expensive things, but basically homemade food. Jiang Fan also prepared a lot of things at home as gifts.

At Jiang's house in Shangjing, Jiang Fan sent someone to send New Year's gifts over. It was very perfunctory, and they were all ordinary things, and the weight was not much. After all, when he was expelled, he was a poor boy with only 1000 taels of silver.As a result, the return gift from the Jiang family was even more perfunctory. There was a piece of cloth inside, and when Jiang Fan shook it off, the inside was moldy.

In the end, these were either thrown away or used by the servants if they liked them.

The ancestral grave of the Jiang family is in Lishan Village. When the Jiang family moved to Shangjing, because it was inconvenient to go back and forth, they invited a spiritual seat to set up an ancestral hall in Shangjing. In the past ten years, the ancestors were worshiped and cleaned in Shangjing. When the original parents had an accident, the journey Far away, the body was not transported back, but people were sent back to build a tomb and erect a monument.This year Jiang Fan did not return to Shangjing, so he worshiped his ancestors here.

Gu Changqing and his family's house in Wangjia Village is still the half-collapsed thatched hut. The family has been busy with the noodle shop for more than half a year. Gu Changqing has no time to fix his own house and plans to finish Jiang Fan's work on the mountain in Beijing. I will build a new house again, but I probably won't go back to live in it.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Changqing took his wife, children and Jiang Fan back to Wangjia Village to pay homage to the ancestors of the Gu family.

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Fan paid homage to the ancestors of the Jiang family, and he and Gu Changqing's family worshiped Jiang Zhen and his wife. When offering incense and burning paper, Jiang Fan burned a copy for the original owner and his family members who died in the original world.

Back home, Uncle Zhang led a group of servants to work in the kitchen, and the smell of vegetables wafted out of the kitchen from time to time. Liuqu and Songjie faced their little master, and with the help of the two adults, they climbed the ladder laughing and posted couplets.

This was Jiang Fan's first year here, and it was lively.

In the early morning of the first day of the new year, Zhang Shumo led the servants who were still in Lishan Village to kowtow to Jiang Fan to pay New Year's greetings. Jiang Fan prepared a basket of copper coins and scattered them, so that a group of servants also celebrated a happy New Year.

The Spring Festival atmosphere in Lishan Village is strong, but generally speaking, it is relatively quiet. After all, it is far away from the town, and there are no other activities except visiting relatives.Jiang Fan didn’t go anywhere this Spring Festival. Every day, he would lie on the reclining chair on the porch to tease the dog and read books, or open the system to browse various plants. The ones in his own plane saw the most, and Jiang Fan had already memorized a lot of flowers and plants. up.

Even during the Chinese New Year, Guan Xiujin's people did not forget to come to pick vegetables. On the fifth day of the fifth day, Jiang Fan received a letter from Guan Xiujin.

Every time he writes, this person has improved, at least one more line than last time, imitating Jiang Fan, telling him what he has done recently, what kind of people he has met, who in the family has done something wrong, and he What do you think.

Seeing the familiar words on it, Jiang Fan came back to his senses. It turned out that he and Guan Xiujin were so familiar, like a pair of bosom friends.

On the sixth day of the sixth day of the new year, Zhifang started construction, and the shop reopened. Gu Fangqiu returned to the town, and Jiang Fan prepared red envelopes for all the workers.

Afterwards, Jiang Fan chose a piece of land under Xiaobei Mountain, and then hired an engineering team to start building the factory.

The engineering team that Jiang Fan was looking for had come to build three warehouses and roads for Jiang Fan. Although the construction started earlier this year than in previous years, meeting Jiang Fan also represented a good start. He greeted his workers and was happy. It was done in full swing.

Because the design of the factory is simple, there are no complicated items, and the construction speed is very fast.

People in the village saw that Jiang Fan was building a house again, so they came to inquire about it, and found out that Jiang Fan not only wanted to set up a dyeing workshop, but also found people to raise silkworms, cut silk, and weave cloth. They all scrambled to apply.In this way, except for the children under ten years old in the village, almost all found long-term jobs.These people think well. Working under Jiang Fan is definitely better than guarding the fields. In the future, when the farming is busy sowing and harvesting, they can find part-time workers from outside the village, so that the future of the fields will be promising, and the fields will not panic. Wages are also earned.

There are many female weavers needed in the factory, and there are not many in the village, so they have to go outside to find them.Gu Changqing didn't have any relatives or friends to visit, so he got busy as soon as the sixth day passed, and the shops in the town posted job recruitment notices again.

The beginning of spring has passed, and the fire honey fruit planted last year has already formed flower buds; the red frost fruit has also emerged from the soil, and the ground is green; the windbird on Dongshan Mountain, on the bare branches, has also begun to form flower buds , It will bloom as soon as March is warm.

The cold winter finally passed, and when the factory was slowly recruiting workers, Jiang Fan took out the seeds of the purple wood and had them planted in Dongshan.

In this way, all five dyes have been planted, and the cocoon grass, tricolor flower, and silver moon grass can be harvested every month. The sparrow flower generally blooms in March, and the flowering period lasts until May. The purple wood can only be harvested in autumn. It takes the longest to harvest, but yields more because the whole plant is available.

Seeing that it was time to pick the sparrow flowers, the warehouse at the foot of Dongshan also put a lot of tools in, such as dyeing vats, various supports, and wooden boards, and piled up stoves. wooden frame.

It took only half a month for a green brick house to stand at the foot of Xiaobei Mountain, surrounded by high walls.

As soon as March came, the May period given by Guan Xiujin also arrived, and he also appeared in front of Jiang Fan on time.

"You are quite punctual." Jiang Fan looked at him and said.

I haven't seen him for two or three months, but this man stood there quietly, still looking calm and calm.

"It's an agreement." Guan Xiujin said, his eyes rolled around Jiang Fan's face, the man had lost weight again, and there was no trace of obesity on his body anymore.

With his hands behind his back, Jiang Fan turned around and walked towards Xiaobei Mountain. He said in a big brother's tone, "Go, I will take you to the mountain to have a look."

Guan Xiujin followed silently.

Passing by the newly built tile-roofed house, Jiang Fan pointed and said, "I just built this."

Guan Xiujin: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Fan: "Sericulture and weaving."

"You seem to be restless." Guan Xiujin said, this is an affirmative sentence.

Obviously this person said that he longed for freedom, but he was always busy, and he looked like he couldn't stop.

Jiang Fan smiled and said, "That's what makes it interesting."

The two of them went up Xiaobei Mountain along the mountain road, passing by densely growing green mist threads all the way, Jiang Fan took Guan Xiujin for a walk, and asked him: "All the green fog threads are here, do you think it's enough?" ?”

"That's enough." Guan Xiujin said, "Tomorrow I will send someone to collect them, and I will leave in three days. It will take ten days to reach the destination. Can you guarantee that they will all survive?"

Jiang Fan rubbed his chin, "With me here, it's naturally possible."

It was agreed before that when transplanting, Jiang Fan would follow and watch. Even if Guan Xiujin didn't mention it, Jiang Fan would have to say it, otherwise he would not be able to put in nutrients, and he would have to put in to get the ball.

The next day, more than a dozen carriages came in at the entrance of the village, and more than 30 tall and strong men came, but I don't know where these people came from. Everyone seemed to have some disabilities, either with arms or lameness. Stepping back, otherwise there would be a scar on his face, so that the villagers in Lishan Village would not dare to move forward.

Jiang Fan stared at the group of people for a while, then looked at Guan Xiujin: "Retired wounded soldiers?"

Guan Xiujin didn't deny it, but nodded in recognition.

Jiang Fan said, "Ah Jin, your family has a big official position, right?"

Guan Xiujin: "It's huge."

"How big?"

"It's very big."

Jiang Fan twitched the corner of his mouth, suddenly he didn't want to talk to this bad-headed person.

Jiang Fan fell silent, Guan Xiujin turned to look at him, Jiang Fan looked over and met his gaze.

The author has something to say:

Ah Jin: I am not only a big official.