Tongzhuang Shili Rice Flower Fragrance

In the afternoon of the next day, I really received a reply from the county magistrate that the construction of the flood control dam and the wharf was finally handed over to the Ming family, and they were asked to go to the yamen to sign the relevant contract as soon as possible.

When Ming and Ye Qiuniang received the news, they looked at each other and smiled, and started to work on the project.

Now Yu Fei is in charge of the Mingyan Rouge Gouache shop, and Zhong Tiantian is in charge of product production, Ming Rou hardly has to worry too much now.

It has been more than a year since the rouge store opened, and it has opened branches in two counties next door. Now the rouge brand of Qiuzihao is also on the market, and the sales are increasing day by day.

A few days ago, Mingrou just received the ledger that Yu Fei submitted to her. Although she knew that the rouge shop received money every day, she never expected that there would be so much. In less than two years, excluding the labor and cost, these days The rouge shop actually brought her nearly 4000 taels of income.

You know, Tongzhuang's [-] mu of land is planted for two seasons a year, and the total income is no more than that.

Seeing this result, Ming and Ye Qiuniang were shocked.

"I didn't expect to earn so much money from making rouge. The labor and investment are far less than those of farming. As expected, women's money is more profitable." Ming Rou smacked her small mouth and said happily.

After the dam project was finalized, the relevant contracts were signed one by one. As a witness, San Gong led people to confirm repeatedly, and evaluated the construction craftsman's ability and financial resources. After repeated confirmation that there would be no mistakes, he was relieved. Yu Mingyuan and others After the three people ransacked the house, the money handed in was registered and released in batches under the unified management of the Yamen.

The period before the start of work was the golden age of rice harvesting. Tong Guanshi organized all the people in Tongzhuang, and at the same time hired some nearby disaster victims to help harvest rice. He became more stable, won Tong Si's love, and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. During the time of harvesting rice, he was busy and helped a lot. Ye Qiuniang was finally able to devote himself wholeheartedly to the construction of the embankment and wharf. .

Mingrou's rouge shop is managed by a dedicated person, and when she has some free time, she goes back to the old house from time to time to assist her mother in managing Yangzhuang and the fields in the suburbs, including the management of the shop.

Now that Du Xian was arrested, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, the doctor and the assistant confessed to what they had done before they were bought, and the witness evidence was convincing. The death penalty should be executed immediately, but because of his special status, he was temporarily detained and handed over to the third official to take over, or sent to the capital to be dealt with with the eunuch Du Chong.

Ming Yulan no longer has any sympathy for this man who once shared the same bed but killed her own father, let alone a little bit of nostalgia. After Du Xian was sentenced, she didn't even look at him. Instead, she felt relieved. A heavy responsibility, finally can start a new life.

The same is true for Ming Rou. Although she has always claimed to be a Ming family member, she has half of this man's blood in her body. Now that Du Xian is in prison, she still has mixed feelings. The one who was killed hated him even more, so like her mother, she didn't intend to look at him again before she died.

Du Xian, who was imprisoned in the prison, vomited blood when He Xiang gave him a cuckold. Only then did he realize that in this world, the only flesh and blood left behind by him is Ming Rou. When people come, they feel uncomfortable in everything.

But the unexpected Ye Qiuniang came.

Du Xian said angrily: "What are you doing here, come to see my jokes, you bitch!"

Ye Qiuniang snorted lightly: "I just came to see you making jokes. Even at the end of the day, you still look like a dog. You have been pretending for so many years, and you ended up in this situation."

"Ye Qiuniang, don't think that when you appear in front of everyone with the name of a family member of Tongzhuang, everyone forgets what your origin is. You are just a little child bride, and you are all shameful bugs in the gutter! All these years Tail has been in the house for so many years, I am not as shameless as you, I can bear it without you, otherwise the Ming family can let you be a scholar?"

Du Xian looked at the luxurious Ye Qiuniang in front of him, and remembered how shabby she looked when she first came to the mansion. Now, after many years, this little bitch can climb on his head to show off his power, but he has become a lower class The condemned prisoner couldn't help but itch his teeth with hatred.

"Yes, I'm from a bad family just like you, but who told you that your luck is not as good as mine? Not only Rou'er trusts me, but Grandfather trusts me, now who in the whole Ming family treats me as an outsider?" The sarcasm in Ye Qiuniang's eyes was deep. It hurt Du Xian's eyes deeply.

"You—you—" Du Xian was furious, "If you didn't have my seed, Du Xian, and Rou'er, you would be nothing—"

"Yes, I don't deny it, I do rely on Rou'er to survive," Ye Qiuniang looked at Du Xian's state, and the situation of being raped that day came back to her mind, and she suddenly leaned closer and said in a low voice, "Who called your daughter?" Love me to death."

When Du Xian heard this, his pupils shrank immediately, his whole face turned pale, and he said in disbelief: "Bitch, what are you talking about—"

After finishing speaking, he slapped the railing between the two vigorously. Although he had always wanted a son, not only did he not have a son now, but the second daughter He Xiang gave birth to was actually a bastard, and he was not cold towards Ming Rou. As a result, the lukewarm attitude turned overnight into a paranoid and distorted paternal love.

Now the only daughter, actually——

He thought he had heard it wrong.

"What did you say, didn't you hear it all, and you still need me to repeat it?"

"Stay away from my Rou'er, you bitch, you are not allowed to touch my Rou'er—" Du Xian couldn't believe it, but he couldn't believe it, and beat the wooden board of the cell with his head with disheveled hair, screaming hoarsely.

The guards outside had been taken care of long ago, and Du Xian was a death row inmate, no matter how much he yelled, no one came in to take a look at him.

On the contrary, Ye Qiuniang said coldly: "Now you want to recognize your daughter? It's too late, let me tell you secretly, Rou'er originally wanted to come here, but I told her that the cell is filthy, and coming here will only dirty her feet, so let her wait at home." After that, she will obediently stop coming—you didn’t like to see her before, so you drove her out of the house and abandoned her like a piece of trash."

"But it's okay, you don't want me, I love her, I raise her like a baby, she can't do without me now, you're right, we're both bugs in the gutter, it's a pity you had it at your fingertips Everything is mine now." Ye Qiuniang said, with a seemingly gentle smile on her face, but deep possession in her eyes.

"Bitch—ah—bitch—don't touch my daughter, you're going to die—bitch—"

Ye Qiuniang looked at him madly with cold eyes, and finally dropped the last sentence: "You shouldn't do anything to the grandfather."

"Also, Rou'er must be mine, and it can only be mine in this life!"

After finishing speaking, he left the damp and cramped cell without looking back, leaving Du Xian who regretted it behind him.

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Ming Yulan didn't like to take care of these business matters. Now that Du Xian was locked up, she had to start to take care of the property left before. Ming Rou occasionally came to help. Cleaning, old people like Uncle Fu can still be trusted, and they can help with some things, but the shopkeepers of the shops below have been changed for a round, which still keeps her busy.

Mu Jianian did not leave, but he did not intervene in the Ming family's business. He was still the same as before, conscientiously being his housekeeper. Wherever Ming Yulan was going, he prepared his car and rode a horse to follow him. In the past, there were quite a few people talking about it, thinking that he also came for the property of the Ming family.

Mu Jianian didn't say a word, and let the people around him say suspiciously, what should be done or what to do, after a long time, the people around them got used to seeing these two people going in and out together, and they didn't bother to talk about them anymore.

On the contrary, the members of the former Ming family saw Du Xian being arrested, Ming Yulan and Ming Rou were the only two orphans and widows left in the Ming family, and they all became active again.

Ever since they were jointly betrayed by several uncles, the mother and daughter of the Ming family have long been disappointed with this group of people in the Ming family. Those uncles were arrested and eaten for a few days because they forged a fake house deed together with Du Xian. After being imprisoned, he was also ordered to return the money that Du Xian bought them off earlier.

It's a pity that they didn't repent after they came out, and felt that the Ming family's mother and daughter were unreasonable. Now that they had no man in their family, they used the name of the clan to ask Ming Yulan to adopt a nephew to raise her as a son. Choose a husband-in-law for Mingrou in the clan, in the name of not following Du Xian's old path, and also keeping the fat and water from flowing into the fields of outsiders.

You know, the few who can talk have just come out of prison, and they still feel sorry for the money they were forced to take out.

Not to mention hooking up with Du Xian, when the mother and daughter were alone and helpless, this kind of thinking about how to get something for nothing from others is enough to disgust the mother and daughter, let alone thinking about it. Ye Qiuniang refused to agree to Ming Rou Shi's favor at first.

Ming Yulan's temperament has changed a lot now, but she was annoyed by the three aunts, six wives, uncles, etc. all day long. After Ming Rou came back one day, she took her daughter's hand and said, "Rou'er, Otherwise, you can take over all the remaining family business, and then let me go to Tongzhuang to hide for a few days, okay?"

"That won't work. Jiujiu has been busy with the embankment recently. I'm going to help. I don't have time to help you."

Ming Yulan couldn't help but look resentful when she heard her say this, Ming Rou saw this, and said with a smile: "Mother, you are just idle at home, and you are not too busy now, let Uncle Fu take care of those things, if you don't like Those people always come to your door to bother you, so come with me to the riverside to cook for the workers."

Now that the dam project has started and the river silt is being cleared, the refugees who had nowhere to go and nothing to do finally found some work. Work sheds were built on the river bank, and the refugees were transformed into workers. They had food, housing and wages. With the guarantee, the political sentiment of the people has gradually been appeased.

The grain in Tongzhuang has just been harvested recently. There is no shortage of vegetables and food, and they are all provided by the family. There is no need to worry about the food. The materials are still found in the Xu family. Sangong specially sealed one for Fushuiyao As a supervisor, she has to focus on materials and labor to prevent any tricks and ensure that all materials can be used in good quality and quantity.

Now the manpower is sufficient, the materials are in place quickly, and the command and design are all experienced old craftsmen, and Wen Zheng joined in. After many investigations and calculations, the whole project has progressed very quickly from the very beginning.

Sure enough, Ming Yulan listened to her daughter. She took Mu Jianian to patrol the shop every morning, and followed her to the riverside to cook for the workers in the afternoon. She was working by the river, and thought it was just an excuse, but when she came, she found that she was actually washing vegetables and cooking with a group of women. The whole scene was busy, and they couldn't get in, so they had to leave angrily.

Seeing Ming Yulan and Mu Jianian busy in the crowd, Ye Qiuniang couldn't help laughing and said, "I didn't expect Madam to be so informal and come here to work."

"She's idle. The picture is fresh for a while, and she won't be interested in it after two days."

"No way, it's been less than half a month since I've been here, and the freshness hasn't passed, and it's still very powerful, but do you want to recognize the stepfather Mu Butler, or don't you want to recognize it?"

Ming Rou didn't know what came to her mind, she giggled: "I originally wanted to let my mother choose a few more to see, so that she wouldn't hang herself on a tree like before, but now that she looks like this, I really want to see her." Come up with a good idea."

"What's the best way?"

"If she recognizes you as daughter-in-law, I will recognize him as stepfather!"