starling is not a bird

Li Jiashi was holding the thin child, feeling bitter in her heart, she already knew that someone in the palace was targeting her, so why was she so careless?Thinking of the friend who went first, I felt even more tearful.

Originally, he wanted to be careful, but before the prince left, he begged him to report his minor ailments, so as to avoid Shi's morning and evening sleep, and just take care of him every day.For food and daily life, he sent his confidants to the court ladies, and they all gave generous rewards, promising wealth in the future, not daring to take more steps, not daring to eat less.

In the first ten days, I still felt unwell occasionally, my lower abdomen was distended, I felt restless and hot, and I got palpitations and shortness of breath. When I woke up all night, I saw blood on my little clothes.She didn't dare to be careless, she reported back to Fujin, and sent a seventh-rank court judge to ask for pulse.After thinking about it for a long time, he said it was blood fever.

The two people from the Tai Hospital drew up a prescription, saying that it is suitable for nourishing blood, heat and anti-pregnancy, mainly using Baoyin decoction: [-] qian of yam, [-] qian of ramie root fried with rice wine, eclipta, white peony, side Botan and Shengdi are three qian each for honey decoction, and Duan Duan, Scutellaria baicalensis, Cortex Phellodendri, Cuscuta, and Ejiao are each two qian.If you feel upset after eating the flocs, you can tell the pharmacy and add some Ophiopogon japonicus and Poria cocos into it to soothe the mind and calm the mind.

Li Jiashi felt strange, since she was pregnant with this child, she always said it was a deficiency of Qi and blood, why did it become blood fever again?At first I had the guts to ask Mammy to ask, and the court judge passed on the previous prescriptions to see, and the two of them combined, but they couldn't tell the reason.He only said that Li Jiashi was too caring and thoughtful, so he changed the focus.

That Shishi was also calm, after hearing this, she didn't say a word, she just didn't realize it, ordered people to decoct the medicine with nice words, and even comforted Li Jiashi a few words to make her feel at ease.

Li Jiashi herself was anxious and overthinking?In the palace, resentment is death, and I don't know if Shi Shi really doesn't care or has other ideas.Li Jiashi couldn't take care of it anymore, keeping the baby in her womb was the top priority.

After Shi walked out of Li Jiashi's door, she dared to let go of the solemnity on her face. She stood at the courtyard gate for a while before she pointed to the two useful palace servants: "Go, watch them grab the medicine and decoct it. Keep the road away from your eyes!" The two maids led her away, and Shi returned to her room, her palms were covered with cold sweat, she sat down and drank several cups of hot tea before she regained her strength.

Ever since the crown prince came to her room specially to ask her to take care of Li Jiashi before his departure, she knew that something was wrong. The crown prince has been saving the position for many years, and the younger brothers below are growing up day by day. Still desolate below the knees.

It should be known that in the royal family, the matter of heirs is the most important thing, and Shi Shi has been worrying about it for a long time, and his heart is not without sadness. She is the daughter-in-law appointed by Lord Kangxi, but the crown prince's thoughts are either on those little hands, or on Li Jiashi .Shi's reputation as a concubine Fujin is empty, but in fact he is nothing.

Father had already ordered someone to bring a letter in, no matter which concubine's room gave birth, it is a good thing, so I don't want to be jealous, but Shi Shi asked himself that he has never been jealous, and the mistress's demeanor is not inferior to anyone, but there is no good news for that concubine's room , Feng Changzhai tried everything secretly to worship Guanyin. Although the prince didn't spoil himself, he would come to accompany him on the first and fifteenth day of every month. Although it was a routine, there was no complaint.

Thinking of it, I am quite envious of the elder brother's Fujin Yiergenjueluo family. Although the sisters-in-law are joking, Yiergenjueluo family is often teased as Wayao, and all the children are born with relatives.But behind the scenes, who doesn't envy her being the only favorite in the pepper room?

The crown prince despises elder brother the most in his heart, always saying that he is reckless, but Shi Shi thinks that Ergen feels that Luo Shi follows this reckless man to play the piano and sing in harmony, which is much better than himself!

This time, Li Jia's health is not good, and Shi's face is like a big enemy. Finally, there is a good news that must be kept. Additional staff are assigned to take care of it every day. Tea and water are all boiled in the small kitchen, and every prescription is made. People taste it before using it.

Li Jia's plumpness gradually became visible, but on the [-]th day, she suddenly became pregnant and gave birth to a sick and weak daughter prematurely.

He had a high fever since he was born, which made Li Jia's anxious and Shi's sick.Seeing that the little one doesn't know if he can keep it or not, but he can't make the big one sad, how will the prince explain himself when he comes back!

Because she is not an elder brother, the imperial concubine and empress only ordered Haosheng to take care of her after she came to see her for a few times, and the crown prince was not in the palace, Li Jiashi became thinner just looking at it, and Shishi gradually felt that the burden on her shoulders was heavy.

The reason for the premature birth here has not been found out, and the letter from His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived, and there is an unconcealable anger and disappointment in the light tone. Not far away.

There are always horses running on the official road from Fujian to the capital, and of course there will be something that Xiao Jiu and the others have been waiting for. : "Myna, myna, there's a letter over there!"

Xiao Jiu was talking excitedly, holding up a thick stack of letter paper in his hand, Yinhu accepted the letter with a smile, and discussed with his younger brother carefully.Huang Ama and her elder brothers were not in the capital, and she didn't dare to restrain these little brothers in the study, so Yinhu was happy to leave the homework she had learned and do something else.

It's already February, and the spring tea is about to start. Yinhu just feels that things are piled up, and it's very frustrating to scratch his beard and eyebrows. It's a pity that the selected ones are all capable, and they can understand a little instruction, otherwise they will be exhausted.

I really don’t know if I don’t do it. I was shocked when I did it. The family members sent out brought 5000 taels of silver to the front station. According to Yinhu's instructions, the manager of the factory and pedestrians bought several tea mountains in the Yangloudong and Yanglousi areas at the junction of Puqi County, Chongyang County in Hubei Province and Linxiang County in Hunan Province.

Here they sent another 1 taels, and Yinhu wrote a letter to tell them: "Don't begrudge the price, be greedy for cheap, there is no good product."

They were instructed to set up sub-zhuangs in the local area, deploy manpower, and when the spring tea began to be picked, they would hire tea farmers to pick the raw tea, then send the raw tea back to the tea shop, make brick tea or other finished tea, and then transport them to Guangzhou for sea.

This time they wrote to ask them to ask for manpower. There are three tea houses in total. The tea houses make tea with complicated processes: sifting tea, stepping on tea, rubbing tea, drying tea, chopping tea, pounding tea, and sorting tea. There are at least [-] steps, including tea testing, serving tea, dividing tea, making tea cakes, and numbering tea boxes. The tea workers must be divided into dozens of workers for picking, screening, and kicking.

Xiao Jiu looked at her brother embarrassed and said: "Brother, you know, if you want money, I have it. At worst, ask your mother for it, but I really can't prepare this manpower."

Xiao Shi couldn't answer the question either, they were all princes who didn't have a separate mansion, and didn't have a separate banner, so how could they use anyone?

Yinhu already had an idea in his mind, but he didn't say anything, and deliberately asked his younger brother: "This manpower is difficult, Xiao Jiu, what are you going to do?" , You said how about we ask him to borrow someone?"

Before Yinhu answered, Xiao Shi said: "Brother Nine, what you said doesn't make sense. We didn't look for him when we were worried. Now it's not good to look for him when we are in trouble. Besides, elder brother hasn't been divided yet. He also used the assistant leader under the flag, and he still mobilized the crowd!" Xiao Jiu said with a bitter face: "You pretend I don't know, but this is so close to the door, how can you let me be reconciled?"

Yinhu smiled and said, "Could it be that only Beijing has people?"

Xiao Jiu turned around and said, "Brother, you don't know, my grandfather's house is in Shengjing, how can there be any place in Hubei and Hunan that I can use?" Yinhu stretched out a finger and poked his younger brother's head: "Didn't you say no?" Are you short of money? Why don’t you hire them locally? I’ve inquired about it a long time ago, and the tea farm over there generally uses eight people for kicking hands and two people for palm punching and beating. There are eight kickers, each paid 160 renminbi, the screener earns 120 renminbi a day, and there are 140 renminbi workers. Wouldn’t it be more convenient for you to pay more to hire them than to find someone here?”

Xiao Jiu was very happy to hear this: "This is a good idea. There are people on my side, and they may not know how to make black tea over there. It's so convenient. But, myna, it's said that the barbarian land over there, if they don't accept What to do?"

Xiao Ten coughed from the side: "Ninth brother, you are so used to gentleness! Let's write a survey and have the gatekeeper pass it to the yamen, and ask the guarantor in the village over there to recommend someone as a guarantor. Only those with families will be hired. Even if there is someone who is sneaky, are you afraid that he can run away from the monk and the temple?"

Xiao Jiu took a few glances at his younger brother: "Brother, I didn't expect to see you for a few days, your heart is so dark!"

Xiao Shi gave him a chestnut, and Yinhu also looked at him and smiled: "Xiao Shi has grown up, he can think of so much!"

Xiao Shi smiled faintly, the imperial concubine and empress looked like she was just having a hard time, although the starling had invited someone to watch over her wholeheartedly, but he knew it well, every day when he went to pay his respects, he saw his mother's weakness, and he felt very sad.He also knew that it was time to cheer himself up.

Yinhu thought for a while, and continued: "There are various benefits to employing local people, and you will know in the future. If we use more local people, it will be a good thing to prosper in the future. But since we have to do it, we must do it well later. Son, go to the Ministry of Industry to borrow some people, our tea house must be well built, and the office room, manufacturing room, and packing room must be spacious, so it can be called grand!"

Thinking about the prosperity in the future, Xiao Jiu nodded with anticipation.

Xiao Ten took a few pieces of letter paper and thought about it for a long time before saying: "Mynah, we are making tea in Hubei and Hunan, and we will go to Guangzhou to go to sea. The boat is ready, but the journey from Hubei and Hunan to Guangzhou is very difficult!"

Xiaojiu said disapprovingly: "You don't have to worry about it. I have discussed it with mynah. If you encounter a waterway, you can hire a boat to load it. If you encounter a dry road, you can buy a horse, a cow or a camel. It's just a bit of a hassle. At least we don't want to follow. Just let it go and let someone else do it.”

Xiao Ten shook his head: "Ninth brother, you don't know, I heard the fourth brother said that the Ministry of Households has to fill the national treasury, and it has set rules that all merchants have to collect taxes when traveling in floods and droughts, and if the goods go to sea, they have to pay more. .If you hire a boat, you have to pay the freight after the boat reaches the shore, and you also need to pay tips for loading and unloading the goods;

Xiao Jiu's slender eyebrows twitched again, and he took out an emerald inlaid rosewood abacus from his bosom, and crackled a bunch of it, his brothers were dazzled by the sight, and asked himself that he had never seen him so neatly, as expected, he was specialized in art!

After a while he finished the calculation: "Brother, I have done the calculation, if we calculate the current price of Anhua tea bags, three piles of real silver, one tael, six cents, and seven cents per bag, and one bag of tea is about 26 catties. Because the three piles of tea are medium-grade teas, it is calculated from the difference of four cents and five cents for each of the upper two piles, the first two piles, the second second pile, the first three piles, the third pile, and the second third pile. The cost is about ten taels, medium tea is about six taels, and inferior tea is about two taels."

The series of numbers barely stunned his brother, and he couldn't keep up with his train of thought.

Xiao Jiuhun didn't care about the surprise of others, picked up the teacup and drank saliva, and continued: "After removing the shipping fee, labor fee, tea introduction tax, landing tax, and customs duties, I only make 100 taels for each load. It's a loss. !"

Yinhu looked at his younger brother amusedly, but he was not worried about other things, but worried about making less money: "Ninth brother, don't forget your identity! Are you just selling this tea for money?"

Xiao Jiu looked at his brother with a mysterious face, and asked in confusion: "Of course it's for money, why not?" Xiao Shi faintly sensed some implication, and looked at his brother cautiously.

Yinhu said in a low voice: "Tea, Western devils and Raksha devils like to drink tea, even the Khan King of Junggar wants to drink it!" Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up: "Mynah, you mean we can sell more?"

Looking at this dull younger brother, Yinhu finally understood why Huang Ama didn't handle military affairs for him back then, it was really insensitive!But Xiao Ten was already complacent: "Brother, do you want to take the opportunity to spy on the military?" Yinhu was overjoyed, finally had a clear-headed younger brother!

Xiao Jiu curled her lips: "I thought the starling was helping me sincerely, so it was to show off in front of Huang Ama!" Yinhu glanced at him: "You little money fan, let me ask you, your disciple sells you Tea spied on the military situation, so Huang Ama has the nerve to ask you to collect taxes?"

Xiao Jiu still had to make gestures, but couldn't help laughing: "That's what people say!"

Yinhu pinched his face: "You are the prince elder brother of the Qing Dynasty. Whose face do you want to look at when you want to do business? Of course it is our emperor Ama. Wouldn't it be a knife-cut tofu for you to earn a private house under the banner of doing business?" Double-faced? Who am I worrying about? Little bastard"

Xiao Jiu clung to his arms: "Naturally, you worry about me. Who told me that I'm my starling's baby? I'm not a little bastard!" Yinhu rubbed his head for a long time, and he didn't let go until his face was flushed. .

Xiao Ten walked to another desk, spread out the map and gesticulated for a long time: "Brother, spying on the military situation is not a trivial matter, and it has to be calculated."

Yinhu secretly sighed that this younger brother was sincere, walked over and said softly: "Spying on the military situation, I didn't say how important it must be! Could it be that the disciples of our little elder brothers must be better than the generals under Huang Ama? Show your heart and let Huang Ama know that we are not doing business 1”

Xiaojiu beside him laughed: "Brother, you are so bad!" Yinhu didn't look back: "Yeah, it's just too bad, that's why a little bastard came to torment me! It can be seen that I have to work harder, to be more It's bad!"

Several people laughed together, Yinhu crumpled a paper ball and threw it towards Xiaojiu, Xiaojiu refused to let go, and took a brush to touch his brother's face in the face, Xiaoshi came up to join in the fun, left and right However, the two ganged up to bully him, and he was pressed to the ground and drew a big turtle before giving up. The angry little ten called it unfair!The February sun shone golden on the ground.

It is said that happiness does not know how long it takes. At the beginning of March, Emperor Kangxi's inspection tour finally ended, and the little emperor's granddaughter died the day before he came back. The first night the crown prince returned to the palace, he stayed in the side In Fujin Li Jia's room, he did not visit other wives and concubines for ten consecutive days.