Shen Ruolan was wearing a lake blue Shu brocade beige, sitting on a chair in the main room, accompanied by a few elders in the village, and the rest were standing. Everyone was talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was particularly good.
"Lan, Lan'er, hehe, can I call you that now?" Qiuping's sister-in-law said to Shen Ruolan a little cautiously.
Shen Ruolan smiled and said, "Why not? When I was a child, my sister-in-law kept teasing me a lot!"
Seeing that Shen Ruolan didn't alienate everyone because of her superior status at all, and was so approachable, everyone was very relieved, and she no longer spoke cautiously.
Shen Ruolan asked about everyone's harvest and how they are doing now, and she was very satisfied with the answers she got.
The current per capita income of Fenghuang Village is already ten times that of before. The villagers are now working for Shen Ruolan's workshop, earning a lot of money. Planting some land and raising some poultry at home, it can be said that every family has already lived a well-off life.
Nowadays, when asking if someone is doing well, you should not ask if someone has enough to eat, but if someone has built a brick house.
Now the living conditions of the villagers in Fenghuang Village have to be measured according to whether they have built a brick house or not, and how many brick houses they have built.
Now in Fenghuang Village, if you look around, almost every household has been built with brick houses, even the main roads in the village are paved with bluestone slabs, just like in the city, most of the villagers wear cotton clothes, few wear Patch clothes. Girls from other villages all go to Fenghuang Village to marry with their heads cut. !
Seeing that everyone was doing well, Shen Ruolan felt very relieved, and shared the New Year gift with everyone by the way.
She came back in a fit of anger. She didn't plan to come back before, so she didn't prepare anything, so she had to give everyone the most basic and most suitable money.
Each household in Fenghuang Village was rewarded with ten taels of silver. There were more than sixty households in the village, and a total of more than six hundred taels of silver was rewarded. This amount of money was nothing to Shen Ruolan or Princess Zhan. But it made the villagers of Fenghuang Village very happy.
Ten taels of silver, almost catching up with a year's harvest.
The princess is the princess, it really is a big deal!
Not to mention the joy of the crowd, but to say that Liu Shi, Shen Degui and others couldn't help but frowned when they saw that Shen Ruolan had rewarded several hundred taels of silver so easily, feeling heartbroken.
More than six hundred taels of silver, just gave it to someone without blinking an eye, this is too prodigal!
It would be great if the old money was given to them!
Seeing the ten tael denomination silver bills being taken away by the villagers, Mrs. Liu opened her mouth several times, trying to stop her, but she glanced at Shen Ruolan who was sitting on the chair, looked at her faint eyebrows and eyes, and felt that even if she Even if I opened my mouth, I couldn't stop this matter, and if I didn't, I was making fun of myself, so I tried not to say my reluctance, just looking at the banknotes that were distributed, secretly hurting!
Everyone was a winking person, and soon after they got the bank notes, they all dispersed.
Lan'er just came back, and the journey was full of dust. She must be tired now and wants to rest. They just take a look. They can't just stay in other people's houses endlessly without winking. The disturbed people can't rest, right? !
After everyone left, Mrs. Liu and Shen Degui did not leave.
Their house had already been sold to Shen Ruolan and turned into a workshop. After returning this time, the couple lived in Shen Dejian's house confidently.
Liu believes that this is her son's house, and she can come and live if she wants, and no one can control it.
If the previous Shouya and Heizi were still there, they would probably be able to resist for a while and drive them out, but Shouya is already married and is no longer at home, and Heizi is dead, so Daidi is the only one left at home. He and Miss Lingdi, the two sisters are not very powerful, and they dare not stop them, so they have to let them live in.
After the couple moved in, they not only regarded this place as their own home, but also bossed Daidi and Lingdi around, as if treating them as maids from their old Shen family. The two of them did spend a few days of comfortable life in Shen Dejian's big house, but after Shen Ruolan came back, their comfortable life would come to an end.
Because Shen Ruolan came back and brought back dozens of people, and these people couldn't live there, let alone let them hang around here.
Not to mention that she couldn't live with them, even if she could, Shen Ruolan wouldn't put people who bothered her under her nose.
Therefore, after hearing that Mrs. Liu and Shen Degui have been living in their own home, they said plainly, "It's the Chinese New Year, and I didn't prepare any New Year's gifts for grandma, so I returned the original house to grandma. It’s your New Year’s ceremony! I’ll ask someone to clean up later, and grandma and third uncle can go back to their own home tonight.”
When Liu Shi heard that Shen Ruolan had returned the old house to them as a coming-of-age gift, she was extremely disappointed.
She thought that Shen Ruolan even gave ordinary villagers ten taels of silver, so she, a grandmother, would have to give a few hundred taels or even a thousand taels, but unexpectedly, she only gave them a worthless house. Old houses, this is not as good as the villagers' ten taels of silver!
Besides, they were all used to living in her big brick house, how could they live in a small and dilapidated earth embryo house
Therefore, after hearing Shen Ruolan's words, Liu's face suddenly became ugly.
However, with Shen Ruolan's status today, even if she is dissatisfied, she doesn't dare to yell like she used to, and she just said with displeasure, "Didn't your family use that house as a workshop?" Well, since it’s already a workshop, let’s keep it as a workshop, otherwise it will be troublesome to move around. You all live in the Jizhou Prince’s Mansion, and no one lives in this house. Your uncle and I happen to live here, so we can Help you take care of the house and look at your home."
Although she said so, in fact, she had already regarded this house as her own in her heart, thinking that they would not come back anyway, this house is empty and empty, why not let her old lady live in it, As long as they live here, slowly, isn't this house owned by her and Degui
But Shen Ruolan said, "No trouble, the workshop at home is expanding day by day, and your house can't accommodate so many workers. I'm thinking about building a big factory when it gets warmer, and moving the vermicelli workshop and dried tofu workshop there." !"
She was telling the truth. With the growing business of vermicelli and dried tofu, the two workshops had long been unable to accommodate the workers. Shen Ruolan planned to rebuild the courtyard that Chunyu Juan had built on the mountain before. Factory buildings and warehouses, move the workshops there, where the crops on the mountain can be temporarily stored after the autumn harvest, the space there is large enough, and it is not far from the village, so it is very suitable to be placed there.
Seeing that Shen Ruolan was determined to drive her away, Mrs. Liu did not dare to argue with Princess Zhan, so she pinned her hopes on her son, looked at Shen Dejian and said, "Second brother, what do you think?"
Shen Dejian also saw that the old lady didn't want to leave, but he also knew that his daughter didn't like his old lady, and he was afraid that her staying at home would make everyone unhappy, so he said: "Why don't you and Degui go back first, and stay here for a while. You live in the old house, and when the spring warms up, I will help you renovate the old house, and also build it into a brick and tile house, and if you enter twice, it will be built like my house."
When Liu Shi heard Shen Dejian let her go at the beginning, she felt unhappy immediately, but when she heard that he promised to build a brick house for her family, or build it according to their house, Liu Shi was satisfied this time, thinking that it must be her son Well, I know that being a mother to her is much better than that dead girl who flies to Gao Zhi'er and refuses to recognize anyone!
Shen Degui was dissatisfied, the second brother wanted to build a house for them in his hometown, why did he want them to take root in his hometown? He doesn't want to stay in the countryside for a lifetime, he has to go out to be an official!
Seeing the satisfied expression on his old lady's face, he hastily and quietly gave her a hand, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about it, second brother, the old house is fine for us to live in, and we don't need to flip it over again. Besides, we It may not be possible to live in the old house for a long time."
Speaking of this, he looked at Shen Ruolan, his eyes became more flattering, and said, "Thanks to Lan'er, I have been doing business outside for two years, and I have gained a lot of knowledge, but I am a scholar after all. , not as good at calculating as the second brother-in-law, and there is no improvement after two years of work, I thought it would be better to go back to my job, I have read books for so many years, it is more appropriate to study the text."
Shen Ruolan looked at his carefully probing look, and suddenly understood a little bit, and said with a smile: "Third Uncle is right, it's better to be in the industry, why not do this, anyway, there are many children in our village school, so why not?" Just add another class, and the old uncle will go to the school to be a teacher."
The corner of Shen Degui's mouth twitched: It's better to be a teacher in the upper village school than to go out to do business. He has studied for so many years to become an official, not to be a teacher.
So, she coughed, and said cheekily: "Lan'er, look, you are a princess now, and if you let your third uncle become the teacher in the school, you don't even look good."
Shen Ruolan hehehe: "Then what do you think makes my face look good?"
Shen Degui said brazenly: "Look, Third Uncle has also read the books of sages and sages for more than ten years, and he also has some ink in his stomach. Although his literary talents can't be compared with the literati and Confucians in the court, he is comparable to the county magistrates and county prime ministers in the county. Bi, definitely not inferior to them, so, so... "
"So Third Uncle wants to be an official!" Shen Ruolan continued.
Shen Degui laughed a few times, and said, "Lan'er is still smart, and uncle thinks exactly like that."
When Shen Ruolan heard his brazen confession, she almost laughed angrily. Thanks to him, he dared to make such a request. After studying for more than ten years, she didn't even pass the exam for a child student. She still wants to be an official. I really don't know. Where did he get his confidence
Besides, remember how he forgot about himself back then? What face do you have to ask her for an official? Why is his face so big? Why doesn't he go to heaven
Shen Degui didn't know that Shen Ruolan had already denied him to death in his heart. Seeing that Shen Ruolan was silent, she was actually thinking. Now that she had said all the words, she simply gave up her face and begged pitifully: "Lan'er, good Lan'er, you are a princess now, and King Zhan dotes on you so much. Whether uncle can become an official is a matter of your own words. You can pity poor uncle and help uncle. If uncle gets what he deserves I hope that I will never forget your support for the rest of my life. Don't worry, after taking office, my uncle will appoint me to do a good job. I will never let you slap your face in front of King Zhan, and I will never smear your face... "
"Third Uncle wants to be an official, that's a good idea."
Shen Ruolan interrupted his chatter and said, "Just, do you understand the laws of Chu State? Do you know how to be an official?"
"Understood, understood, it's not that uncle is bragging to you. Uncle has read books for so many years. There are few things in the world that uncle doesn't know!" Shen Degui said confidently, patting his chest.
In fact, he didn't understand at all, but if he said he didn't understand now, he was afraid that Lan'er would deny it, so he had no choice but to put the foot of the bed on the bed—hold it up!
Shen Ruolan said with a smile: "Since third uncle understands, then I will test you to see if you really understand or fake."
"You take the exam, you take the exam!" Shen Degui said repeatedly, as if he had a plan in mind.
Shen Ruolan chuckled, looked straight into his eyes, and said word by word: "There is a poor orphan girl who has no father or mother. Her uncle wants to sell her to an old and vulgar butcher for a few taels of silver. Concubine, may I ask Third Uncle, does her uncle have the right to do this? If so, why? If not, what crime did her uncle commit?"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Degui's face turned pale, and even Liu Shi's face changed color.
They are not stupid, they all heard Shen Ruolan's subtext, that is to say, she already knew about their plan to sell Girl Lan to Zheng Tuzi, but she didn't say it!