Mian Tang smiled slightly and said, "I am happy, I can't help it for a moment!"

Mother Li looked at her again and felt a little puzzled. Could it be that the pickled H qi that she had just received in the Chamber of Commerce was not enough? Why was she happy?

Miantang was still in a state of interest and said with a smile: "Mama Li, you have heard of it too. Those people just said that the royal tribute was large this year, but the clay for burning porcelain must be dug from the high mountain fifty miles away because it was good. I thought of one thing, the road was not far away, and the road was unobstructed. However, because King Huaiyang had newly built water conservancy and dug the river channel, the ship was temporarily unpassable, so he had to go around... This circle was two hills. It was originally transported by car, but now it has to be used to switch to boats..."

Mother Li didn't understand the trick and wondered: "What's there to be happy about here?"

Mian Tang smiled and said, "There are so many ways to transport ships. Originally, the river was digging fortifications, and there were not enough labor ships, so all the fishing boats in the country were assigned to corvee. If I brought many ships... or transported a lot of clay, would those men scramble to flatter me?"

When Li's mother heard this, she made some sense. After all, when she went to buy fish yesterday, she found that the price of fish was high. After inquiring, she found that many fishing boats were confiscated to labor service, and there were not many fish that were beaten, so naturally they had to sell them for high prices.

But Miss Liu was also fantastic when she wanted to get a fleet. There were only a few ships on the ground in W State. She was not very good at hand and only had the money that was not warmed up. She was just thinking about it and it was just a pleasure.

But Miantang obviously didn't think about it casually. After she returned to the shop, she immediately asked the guy to get a donkey cart and wanted to walk around the canal built.

Mother Li has become accustomed to Miantang's troubles and has specially brought braised eggs and meat buns for easy eating, so as to avoid delaying mealtime like when she visited the countryside last time.

Miantang saw that Li's mother had prepared a small warm stove for her and brought it to the donkey cart, so she joked: "Mom has been doing things so carefully recently, but because she added monthly money."

Mother Li quickly put a snack box on her hands and feet and said, "Madam, you are generous. You just made money there, so I have added three times the monthly money for us here. But if you don't make money in the future, you still have the reason to reduce it back? You can't be the mistress of the house like a mountain king. You have to do some things with some rules!"

Although Miantang gave a lot of monthly money, Li's mother, who has a high vision, really didn't take it to heart. She received a lot of rewards in the royal palace and her hometown also had land. She just thought about what life Miantang had lived before and had stomach cold problems, so she prepared carefully.

However, she thought that Liu Miantang would always get married in the future. If the prince had a good heart, he would have placed a house and money for her. In addition, she had a good appearance, and someone would have to come to propose marriage!

It would be better if she met a teacher man, but if she was a dishonest person, she would have to spend money on her now, as she was uncontrollable. She must teach her now so that she would avoid detours in the future.

Miantang was drinking the tremella tea cooked by mother Li for her. Seeing that mother Li was a little confused about her master and servant, she just smiled and didn't refute her.

She also saw that although Li's mother was a stern face, she was a hard-mouthed person and soft-hearted person.

Moreover, Mother Li is older and is no better than those little maids who don’t understand the rules. These irrelevant things have been nagging with her.

What's more, what she said is not unreasonable. Miantang was seriously ill and didn't remember how she took charge of the family after getting married. The inner house is not less than in the business world. She needs to learn it from scratch, so she remembered what Mother Li said with sincerity.

However, it takes some effort to go out because Miantang locked the door tightly and didn't know what he had done in the room.

After leaving the door, Miantang walked even harder, almost walking the big roads and bridges leading to Gaoling.

Moreover, this trip took two days in a row. But the next day, Miantang seemed to have an idea in his mind, so he went straight to Shuangling Village. When he got there, he found the village chief to ask, and finally settled a piece of land in a few words.

Mother Li was dumbfounded from the side, watching her buy a large area of ​​sloping fields and a fish pond - these fields are not valuable in the eyes of the crops... But Miantang bought them at a high price without blinking.

It seems that she did not listen to her thoughts. Mother Li was so angry that she shook her head, but she was too lazy to say anything.

When they came back from buying the land, they didn't walk smoothly because the roads next to the river bank were dug up and were muddy. If they were not careful, the wheels of the donkey cart fell into the mud.

Mother Li helped Miantang to the small slope beside him, while the chasing man was busy pushing the cart.

It was a coincidence that when I walked to the middle of the canal, Miantang saw a familiar figure standing on the river bank from afar...

"Husband!" She looked up and shouted at the figure.

The King of Huaiyang was standing on the river bank and looked at the digging river channel from afar. Unexpectedly, he heard Miantang's call.

He looked back and saw that it was Liu Miantang!

Today he was taking a few confidants to visit him in private, and he was not wearing official uniforms, so Miantang didn't see anything wrong, but was just curious about a large group of people surrounding his husband.

The King of Huaiyang looked at the several military officers and water conservancy engineering officers following him, signaling them to stand there and wait, before walking to the donkey cart so that she would not walk over and greet those people.

Miantang crossed his shoulders, looked at the people standing in the distance curiously, and then asked, "Mr., what are you doing here?"

Cui Xingzhou frowned slightly and said casually: "Celebrating folks by the river with a few friends...why are you doing here?"

"I brought Mom Li to see the river, thinking about transporting some clay..." Miantang was still a little curious and asked again, "Collection of the field? Should my husband write paintings or recite poems?"

Cui Xingzhou was unintentionally lying to her, and said with a blank expression: "There are many workers coming and going. You, a woman, have many inconveniences to walk. If you have nothing to do, go back quickly!"

In fact, the King of Huaiyang today was not very smooth. Early in the morning, the progress regulations submitted by the water conservancy engineering officials, as well as the account forms, and the death and injury of the canal in the past two days made him angry.

After this canal was built, the grain and grass reserves in W Prefecture will no longer be restricted by the court, and the dispatch of troops will be much more relaxed, so it is crucial.

However, after the canal was dug, there were a lot of unexpected expenses, and the progress was delayed, which really made people furious. Many of these bureaucrats in W State were old subordinates of their fathers, and they all took credit and took advantage of their seniority and deceived their superiors and concealed their subordinates.

So Cui Xingzhou kept silent and only brought a few confidants to check it out in person, so he could make a clear idea in his heart before making a statement.

Miantang saw that her husband was a little unhappy because she had the criminal record of Mr. Tzuyu, and she also felt that she should reshape the image of a chaste and virtuous woman in front of her husband. She did not refute it now and agreed obediently.

However, before leaving, Mian Tang kindly reminded the official: "Husband, please be careful too. Those workers use the stone blowing method to dig the river, which is very dangerous, don't get too close."

Cui Xingzhou looked at Miantang unexpectedly, but unexpectedly, a woman, could tell the tricks of water conservancy projects, so he asked: "Do you understand water conservancy?"

Mian Tang shook his head and said, "My uncle likes these. He contracted water transportation and studied the method of building rivers by himself. I once heard him talk about this stone-fried method, which is a common trick for brainless people to save time. However, cleaning sand and gravel later takes more effort, and if it is not done properly, there will be danger."

Cui Xingzhou heard the trick and asked, "What method should be used?"

Miantang shook his head and said, "When my uncle told me, I was still young and couldn't remember it. If my husband is interested, I will write to my uncle..."

Speaking of this, Miantang stopped again. She suddenly realized that she could not remember where her grandfather's family was now. She only vaguely remembered that when she got married, her grandfather's escort agency seemed to be poorly managed and moved to another province. And in the past year when she was sick, she had not received a letter from her grandfather's family...

Thinking of this, he felt another headache. Before he could ask, he fell slanted into Cui Jiu's arms. Cui Xingzhou saw that she suddenly turned pale and intuition reached out to hold her, then lowered his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Miantang's scalp was so tight that he couldn't open his eyes, so he said softly: "The headache is so bad..."

Cui Jiu looked at the donkey cart that was stuck in the mud, thought for a while, looked at the carriages of him and his staff, and then carried Miantang onto one of them, and asked his mother Li to take her back to North Street.

He had seen Miantang suffer from a headache. He could not eat for a day when the pain was hurt, and his face was so white that it made people feel distressed. I don’t know how Zhao Quan treated her, but he said that he would relieve it after taking medicine.

Miantang was in great pain until he returned to the northern house and lay on the bed that he felt a little relieved.

When Li's mother brought her the medicine, she asked hesitantly: "Mom Li, after I got married, has my grandfather's family ever written a letter to me?"

Li’s mother didn’t know this, so she said to her: “Mrs. I don’t show it to me after receiving the letter. I will drink medicine while it’s hot. When the boss comes back, the wife will just ask the boss.”

So when Cui Xingzhou came back, Miantang asked him.

Because he was angry with Li's mother in the morning, Cui Jiu was prepared and said: "Your grandfather's family moved far away, and it was not easy to communicate. In addition, the case of your father and brother was so big that everyone in the countryside scolded him. Maybe they had no contact in order to avoid suspicion."

Miantang was silent for a while, and she said to Cui Jiu again: "Do you know where they moved?"

Cui Xingzhou was holding the sketch on her desk, looking at it, saying perfunctorily: "I will ask someone to send a message to your hometown to see if I can find out their whereabouts... What are these you draw?"

Since Miantang heard Cui Jiu's words, he was a little depressed and said depressedly: "A convenient roadmap for transporting clay..."

When Cui Xingzhou heard Li's mother talk about Miantang's attempt to give advice to the chamber of commerce, he would follow the drawings she drew. The clay could be transported by mountain without water and could be transported by mountain by land!

Miantang rarely lets himself fall into a depression, so after a while he was sad, he recovered a little. He heard Cui Xingzhou ask, and nodded and said, "Husband, look at the mountain under this place, which is a large area of ​​arable land and fish ponds. If you fill the arable land and fish ponds, it will be a shortcut."

Cui Xingzhou raised his eyebrows and said, "Since this place can be nearby, why didn't others think about it before?"

Mian Tang smiled slightly: "Because when the canal was not built before, it was naturally close and convenient to take the waterway, and the boat could be loaded. Who would think of taking the land route? But now the canal has not been repaired and the ship has only begun to be nervous recently. This shortcut was just something that no one thought of for a while."

Cui Jiu felt that this woman was trying hard to control the men, and she was really revengeful, so she couldn't help but talk: "But this is arable land. Even if you think about it, people won't let you live..."

Speaking of this, Mian Tang felt a little guilty. He looked at his husband and said carefully: "Husband, I moved a lot of money from my family today. Would you blame me?"

Cui Jiu narrowed his eyes, looked at the bed that there seemed to be signs of being moved again, and immediately guessed it, and asked tentatively: "You have raised the buried silver... and bought the arable fish pond?"

Miantang nodded obediently, looked at his official in admiration and said, "Husband, you're so amazing, you guessed it all at once!"

After checking the route recently, she immediately ran to the ridge and bought the land at a high price of twice the price.

Because the price was high, the landlord immediately found the guarantor and Miantang to sign the land deed.

From then on, this shortcut to transporting clay was "I drove this path. If you want to pass it from now on, leave it to buy wealth."

When Cui Xingzhou arrived here, he looked at Miantang deeply again.

In his opinion, the so-called woman is either gentle, soft and virtuous like his mother and cousin Lian Lu Lan; or like his father's concubines, she specializes in men's love for pets all day long, and is accustomed to poisoning people.

But Miantang obviously does not belong to these two types. She looks like a beautiful flower, but with thorns and grows tough roots like wild grass.

There is also a stubborn aura that a woman shouldn't have.

Cui Xingzhou had never met such a woman before, or had never seen any woman in person, so he couldn't help but look at her deeply, thinking: If she remarries herself in the future, what kind of man would she find to be worthy of her?

King Shi of Huaiyang had little time to think of these mother-in-law and mother, but after thinking about it deeply, he felt a little uncomfortable. He only felt that this woman had been in the bandit's nest and could not see the man's eyes.

Since she missed her grandfather, he might as well order someone to search for her carefully. At least, she will be helped by her family in the future and will not be easily deceived by any man's sweet words...

Thinking of this, King Huaiyang really started to find relatives for Miantang.

Miantang said nervously that he had spent all the money he earned, but he didn't expect that his husband would not move his eyebrows and just nodded lightly, and then sat upright at the table, looking calm and composed.

He looked very handsome, and his demeanor was naturally good. He only shook the tea cup with one hand, stared at the tea with deep eyes, pursed his thin lips slightly under his nose, leisurely and in a daze, not knowing what advanced chess moves were being thought of.

Compared with the couple who often talked about fireworks because of the firewood, rice, oil and salt in the next house, her house is a rare harmonious atmosphere, because of the gentlemanly style of a husband, it is different from the tolerant elegance of vulgar men!

Thinking of this, her respect for her husband was like a rolling river, and she walked over and leaned on his lap and said, "Don't worry, husband, I will earn back the money I spent, and I will never ask you to dig a deep pit with your own hands..."

When Cui Xingzhou heard this, he silently added a sentence in his heart, "In addition to being like thorny flowers and wild grass, sometimes like clingy cats..."

Just like now, she was not as stingy as she was outside. She only had black hair scattered behind her slender back. She leaned against his face and was soft and fragrant. The sweetness of the peach filled her breath again...

He raised his hand and almost stroked Miantang's hair, but he barely withdrew his hand and said gently: "You haven't had supper yet, just have dinner first!"

When Cui Xing came, he was in a good mood. Because Miantang's unintentional sentence gave him a breakthrough in censoring the river.

Most of the bureaucrats in W Prefecture are laymen in the construction of water conservancy projects. Therefore, the old people who presided over the water conservancy project this time also took advantage of this. During construction, they deliberately used some outdated methods to create a space for clever names, so they could make money everywhere, so as to fill their own pockets everywhere and make money.

Regarding the bureaucrats' greed, Cui Xingzhou has always adhered to the principle of "no fish will be left when the water is clear". Too much correction will be difficult to win over the hearts of the old generals. In some minor details, the King of Huaiyang turned a blind eye. This is the way to check and balance for those who are in high positions.

But they can't let them be too indulge in their own way.
To be continued...