Jia Min's Counterattack

"Husband! You are finally back! I miss you so much!" Jia Min murmured.

"Why do I feel that Min'er has lost weight in the past few days? Do you think the food is not to your liking? Or do you want to be a husband so much that you even forgot to eat three meals?" Lin Ruhai lightly bit Jia Min's earlobe. I pinched my waist hard.

"What! Husband, you are not serious as soon as you come back!" Jia Min pushed Lin Ruhai away and stared at him coquettishly.

Lin Ruhai smirked, picked up Jia Min and walked towards the ear room, "My husband has been busy all the way, and Min'er will help my husband take a bath and wipe his back!"

The two stayed in the basement bathroom for half a day, until the sun set in the west and the forest was like the sea. Then they carried the exhausted Jia Min out of the basement bathroom, gently placed Jia Min on the bed in the inner room, and put a thin blanket on her body , went out and called Hong Po to prepare dinner.

Jia Min opened her dim eyes and saw a room dimly lit by candlelight. She got up, put on her clothes and shoes, and went to the outside room. The candlelight outside was much brighter. Lin Ruhai was sitting on the rattan chair she used to sit on. Look at something, and look up when you hear movement.

"Are you awake? I'll ask Hong Po to reheat the food, you must be starving!" Lin Ruhai put down the things in his hands and walked out of the room.

Jia Min walked to the rattan chair, picked up the things that Lin Ruhai put there, and looked through the account books that belonged to the Lin Family Island, but it seemed that it was not enough to make ends meet, Lin Ruhai had to subsidize a large amount of money to the Lin Family Island every year.

At this time, Lin Ruhai walked in with Hong Po, who put the food on the round table outside and then left.

"Min'er, hurry up and eat, see you later!" Lin Ruhai pulled Jia Min to the round table and sat down, and then began to prepare dishes for Jia Min.

They didn't eat or sleep, and the husband and wife finished their supper, which could be regarded as a supper. The red woman came in and took away the dinner plates, replaced them with a few new ice basins, and left.

Only then did Jia Min have the time to ask Lin Ruhai about Lin Family Island's finances.

"Husband, I looked through the account books just now, why is Lin Family Island's annual expenses so huge?"

"In the early days, houses and secret rooms were built on the island. Later, weapons were made and traps were arranged. All of these required a lot of money. Now the island has basically been built, and everything that should be there is not lacking, so in the future The expenses will not be so high, and we have our own two refined iron mines, so we don’t need to buy them from outside at a high price, the cost of refined iron alone accounted for more than half of it!”

"But I saw that this year you still subsidized 10 taels of silver to Lin Family Island! It's not a solution if you can't get in or out! Although we have a lot of money-making businesses in Daming, and the Lin family's family is very rich, I don't care about this little money. But Lin Family Island has not been self-sufficient for so many years, and it is actually very dangerous!" Jia Min frowned.

From Lin Ruhai's point of view, Daming's Lin family and the Lin family island are a whole. He has never considered what kind of situation the Lin family island will face if there is no supply from the Lin family. Such a Lin family island can dominate even in terms of force. , but without its own output, it cannot go on for a long time after all.Just like today's Tatars, their people are all brave, but they have been living a life of displacement, and survived by robbing other people's food and property during famine years.The root cause of this is their living environment and living habits, which prevent them from having their own output and being self-sufficient.Lin Ruhai thought about it deeply, and suddenly cold sweat broke out on his back.

"Min'er is right, I was negligent!" Lin Ruhai said in a deep voice.

"You can't blame your husband. The Lin family has always been a single family, so there is no need to think about it. Anyway, it belongs to you alone!"

"I will plan it carefully! Fortunately, Min'er reminded me in time, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to discover such a serious hidden danger!"

"I just said that my husband should take good care of me, and see if my lucky star has brought you benefits again?" Jia Min joked.

"Well! My Min'er is really a lucky star! Do you know what I am going to do in Luzon this time?" Lin Ruhai leaned on the wicker chair with Jia Min in his arms.

"I don't know! If you don't tell me, I thought it was something confidential, so I didn't ask."

"There's nothing you can't say. It's just that I didn't tell you because I wasn't too sure! Eighth Uncle found a gold mine in the northern forest of Luzon Island. It not only contains high gold content, but also is very large. 500 years will not be a problem."

"So my husband went to buy that mountain forest this time, did he get his wish?"

"With my great lucky star, how can I not get my wish? I didn't spend a tael of gold and silver for my husband to get that mountain forest. I used our two recipes of planting rice and making ice to get it! How is it? Your husband is amazing Go!" Lin Ruhai smiled triumphantly.

"Of course my husband is the most powerful! It's a shame that my husband can think of such a good way, I'm afraid I can't get that forest with gold and silver alone!"

"Min'er is smart!" Lin Ruhai pinched Jia Min's little nose and said, "But I don't plan to mine gold mines at the moment, but plan to sell timber. I am with the chief of Luzon because I have taken a fancy to the timber from that forest. Since I got that piece of land, I have to sell some of the wood in the mountain forest just to pretend. What's more, after hearing what Min'er said just now, I think it is imperative to make Linjiadao financially independent. Selling huanghuali to Daming can earn a lot of money, so we don't have to subsidize the island every year!"

"How big is that mountain forest? Where exactly is it?"

Lin Ruhai got up, picked up a candlestick with a gauze cover, and led Jia Min to the study in the outer courtyard. He found a map from the bookshelf, opened it, pointed to a place on it, and said to Jia Min: "From this peninsula to the Extending a hundred miles to the south is the mountain forest that I sold this time!"

"It's such a big area! It looks bigger than the whole of Suzhou!"

"That's right! This mountain forest is probably more than three times the size of our Lin Family Island! Not to mention the gold mines hidden in it, the wood densely covered in the forest is a considerable fortune!"

"Well! If the felling is reasonable, the mountains and forests can continue to grow. This is really a golden mountain!"

"It's a veritable golden mountain!" Lin Ruhai said with a smile.

"I hate it! Husband came to make fun of me again, don't you know that I'm talking about the wood in the forest!" Jia Min pouted her mouth and stared at Lin Ruhai.

"Yes, yes, yes! Min'er is right!"