Not too many rules have been abolished, not too many etiquettes have been removed. !
For this courtyard located in Yanhe Lishang near Dahuohang Street, the change in atmosphere started after the host returned in late autumn.
For the old servants who had followed the northward journey and belonged to the Su family, perhaps they never thought that the family would become so relaxed after the northward journey. The Su family in Jiangning is a big family. Although it is not the kind of family with very deep connotations, the way of running the family has its own reasons. Su Tan'er led her family to the north, and after settling here, she maintained the same atmosphere, especially in the absence of the male master. As a woman in her early twenties, she had to be majestic if she wanted to run the family. Just after Ning Yi came back, everything changed subtly.
It wasn't such a deliberate change, it was just the atmosphere that existed in the most common words and deeds. Ning Yi has always been kind at home, sometimes even a little chaotic. After the fall, this winter, Su Tan'er followed her husband's pace with a bit of laughter, adapting to such changes. Sometimes, this kind of randomness would even damage the majesty of her mistress, and sometimes , she will feel that she has been tossed to the point of returning to the time when she was a young girl, and she can laugh and laugh unrestrainedly. But in fact, when she was a girl, she didn't actually feel that she was so childish.
From the first time she made it clear that she wanted to do business, she has maintained her "mature" mentality. In this world, it has always been very clear to her how to behave as a woman, how to be majestic as a master, and how to behave as a wife and mother, and she can indeed do well .
After getting married with Ning Yi, especially after gaining mutual understanding and being able to communicate, there are many happy days. Of course, since she went south to Hangzhou, she has always had a lot of things to do. Later, she faced Fang La's rebellion, family division, and family destruction. She never thought that now she is a mother, she will become more childish. Sometimes I get teased by this husband, and I get angry and want to hunt him down. Not long ago, I was dressed up as a man and dragged him to a poetry festival to join in the fun. Later, I went to the light market, Guessing the lantern riddle also let her know that this husband is not omnipotent.
Whether she is happy or not, she can't tell. In the face of outsiders, she still tries her best to maintain the majesty of the hostess when it comes to running a cloth shop and building a new workshop. In the eyes of the servants at home, she may still be the hostess who is more terrifying than the male host, but There are always some images, and sometimes they are forced to be unable to maintain it, and she has to slowly adapt to it and experience some feelings that she has never experienced before.
"Wow...don't bite me, Xiaoxi, my mother is washing your face. You put on saliva and my mother also washed you..."
In the bustling bedroom, Su Tan'er was washing her face, Ning Xi opened her hands to lean towards her mother. After Xiaochan hugged her, she realized that the child was going to smear her face with saliva, and hurriedly smiled and used a towel to scare him away . Ning Yi gave the room a gust of wind, then closed the window and took the child with a smile.
"This is to kiss you, where is the spit. Our little Xi gave you a kiss, but he didn't accept it, come on, give it to your great daddy... uh, no? Have a personality. Try your auntie Chan
After washing up in the early morning, Xiaochan and Juaner took the water basin and went out to supervise the breakfast in the kitchen. Tan'er took the child and sat by the bedside to feed the child breakfast. These days, although there are nurses at home, most of the time Tan'er nurses the child by herself. Ning Yi sat by the bed and discussed with her about the child's second birth. The condition of baby teeth.
"Wait until two more, and he will really bite me..."
After washing her face just now, Su Tan'er's face was clean at this time, her hair was a little messy, because she didn't want to be bitten, her tone was a little melancholy, but her face was slightly red. When Xiaoxi had her first baby tooth not long ago, she secretly told Ning Yi about this. The little baby would not pity her mother's pain. When talking about this, the two were lying on the bedding, and Ning Yi also experimented with her. A moment, let her taste the feeling of being bitten. For Su Tan'er, even though Ning Yi takes what she does to her for granted, she still feels a little ashamed when she thinks about it.
It's only when they're alone that the two of them talk about these kinds of things. Soon after dressing up, Tan'er will be the dignified and calm Ning family mistress and shrewd businesswoman again. In fact, at this time, she is a mother, has a lot of self-consciousness, and a woman who has already carried many things on her shoulders is really just the age of a girl who has just entered college in later generations. At this time, she has taken it for granted that she can carry half a family or even a family. On the contrary, the joy like a girl that she occasionally discovered by Ning Yi may be her Think of it as a bonus...
This kind of feeling sometimes makes Ning Yi feel warm.
"...Actually speaking, several workshops outside the city are about to be completed. If you can get the first business of the Lu family, I'm afraid there will be something to do during the New Year. But it's snowing now. , I'm going to visit the new workers who were recruited before. Master, tell me, should we send some cotton cloth or some charcoal to the door..."
Gently patted the child on her chest, and after a little gossip, she entered the thinking of a strong woman again. Ning Yi disapproved of her running around in the snow, and only said that the steward should go, while Su Taner thought that her family had just arrived in Bianliang, and the steward was not necessarily famous among the workers, and the master paid more attention to it in the past. . The two talked for a while, and there was a relatively noisy voice outside, which meant that the young people at home came back after practicing martial arts in the morning, and it was time for breakfast.
After coming from Jiangning, in addition to some accountants, housekeepers, nurses, cooks, handymen, and cousins such as Wen Ding Wenfang, as well as newly recruited servants, the family lived in the four courtyards. Fifty people were drawn, and the lot was drawn. In order to avoid a group of young people who are not very good at holding knives when they encounter the Su family again, Ning Yi asked these brothers in the family to do some exercise as much as possible, and invited Lu Junyi to take action and teach them as much as possible in these months Some things, and most of the time, it is Yan Qing who urges them to exercise.
After returning from Shandong, some of the Liangshan generals who had surrendered were sure to be available, such as Qin Ming, Guan Sheng and others. After being cleaned up by Qin Siyuan, they were included in some military formations that had a good relationship with the Right Prime Minister's government. Yan Qing is very capable. Ning Yi suggested that he join the Secret Investigation Division, but this kind of thing is not important to Yan Qing. !
And although Ning Yi promised to cleanse Lu Junyi, some of the follow-up things are actually more troublesome. Liang Zhongshu, who participated in the framing of Lu Junyi, was Cai Jing's son-in-law. In order to whitewash, Qin Siyuan and Cai Jing had negotiated several times, and both sides took a step back. It was easy to cleanse Lu Junyi's identity, and it would be very troublesome to take back his property later. On the other hand, Lu Junyi was suitable for military formations, while Yan Qing was suitable for intelligence. Qin Siyuan seemed to have a good impression of Lu Junyi during this period of time.
Ning Yi felt somewhat guilty about this, and visited Lu Junyi and Yan Qing several times when he had nothing to do. In fact, according to the thoughts of Lu and Yan, Ning Yi is estimated to be at a distance, because once this guy uses his tricks, it will be too cruel and poisonous. But after going back and forth a few times, he might think that he might as well make friends. Soon after, Ning Yi asked Lu Junyi to teach his family's Wen Ding Wenfang and others martial arts, and the other party agreed.
In this way, in the recent days, every morning before dawn, a group of young people from the Su family went out to exercise, mainly to strengthen their bodies.
Soon after, the side hall of Su Family Dining became lively. This side hall is not small, and it is also heated by a honeycomb stove. When Ning Yi and Tan'er came over, most of the relatives, stewards and others in the side hall had already arrived. Wen Ding, Wenfang and others had already washed their faces and changed their clothes. Su Yanping took an egg and put it on his face, probably during the previous fight. Someone beat me up in the middle of it, but at this time, I was still laughing and joking with people while applying it. Only when Ning Yi and his wife came in, everyone calmed down and greeted them.
"Second sister."
"Second brother-in-law, good morning."
"Second brother-in-law, where is Ning Xi..."
For others, they may not know the details of the family, and they will feel that the hostess is far more dignified and imposing than the male host, and sometimes even feel that it is difficult to get along. But in the eyes of people like Wen Ding and Wenfang, the real backbone of the family was Ning Yi, who alone forced the Liangshan bandits back in Jiangning, and then leveled Liangshan Park within three months.
After that, no matter how kind he behaved, some people might think he was close, but no one would think that he was kind to bully, and as long as he was there, at least this small family would maintain a compelling momentum and move forward.
"Don't be Ning Xi, Ning Xi, Su Wen made you a bastard. Yesterday, you ran to tease him, made people cry, and made me coax for a long time."
While Ning Yi was laughing and scolding, Xinger pushed a wooden baby carriage and opened the curtain and entered, Wen Ding and the others swarmed up with a smile and ran to tease the child. Su Tan'er pursed her lips, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. This kind of teasing usually doesn't end well. Although the child is giggling at first, he will cry unbearably after a while. And because of her previous experience, Myolie had already turned the stroller around and started to run away, and the several stewards in the room, the slightly older Su family accountant, were still smiling and watching the development of the whole situation.
Breakfasts of various kinds were served shortly after, and in the midst of the hustle and bustle, it was also a time for an individual to decide what to do today. In this Ning family at this time, Su Wending and a few shopkeepers basically still help Su Tan'er run the cloth shop, and recently, many things have been prepared. Su Wenfang, Su Yanping, and the rest of the family were arranged by Ning Yi in the large courtyard outside the city to be responsible for all kinds of messy things, such as some juggling ideas, and the iron smelting department for the manufacture of briquettes. Meal management for the many workers in the compound, reward records and more.
The large courtyard that Ning Yi had organized was still in a mess at this time, and the whole system was not fully formed. Although the pay and rewards are good, the reality is that the workers who are recruited are not quite sure what they need to do. To smelt a piece of iron, I hired some blacksmiths to build things as instructed. In the paper-making workshop, Su Yanping was responsible for urging workers to test various paper-making materials and processes. Many ideas were still based on Ning Yi's proposal, and everyone implemented it step by step.
On the one hand, in the kiln, in fact, in the past few days, several kinds of refractory bricks that are not easy to break have been fired. Since the material is the material that Ning Yi has dabbled in before, it has achieved results within a few months. The most important thing is to be used as the liner of the coal stove.
At this time, if you want to make a movable coal honeycomb stove, it is actually difficult to wrap it with iron sheets. The cost of making iron sheets is too high. If you use a bamboo or wooden shell and wrap it with iron wires for a few times, you have to consider the effect of heat insulation. ·So it took about two months for this simple thing to be put into sale, and the iron wire still accounted for a part of the cost.
In addition to these things, the juggling team in the eyes of outsiders experimented with all kinds of weird magic ideas. According to Ning Yi's expectations, it should be a group of brainstorming groups to make systematic ideas and plans for various things, but it is difficult to gather a group of smart people to do such things. Ning Yi had already begun to pay attention to craftsmen such as juggling when Jiangning was running Zhuji. At this time, he concentrated on some barely usable craftsmen and asked them to help make magic and juggling ideas first.
It can be said that things in the entire compound are not on the right track at all, because at present, the workers inside do not have too much subjective initiative. Ning Yi can only make a reward and punishment mechanism slowly in the chaos at this time. For example, for the briquettes, when the basic procedures are completed, some people will be moved out to build workshops, and a few who have the ability to innovate will be released. Skilled craftsmen remain.
When the paper-making side can come up with a practical effect, Ning Yi will also move some people out, leaving behind the craftsmen who can innovate, and the rest will follow the same steps. Such a system, reward, and guidance must not be done in a day or two, but the good thing is that for Ning Yi, the whole system is not very troublesome.
On the contrary, in the entire compound, the most active aspect of gunpowder at the moment may be the aspect of gunpowder, because the one who is currently working in it is Gongsun Sheng, the "Into the Clouds Dragon" of Liangshan. He was caught when Liangshan was destroyed and chose to surrender. After Ning Yi investigated him, he found that this Liangshan leader, who said he could call the wind and call the rain, was actually the best at alchemy. Although he was quite skilled in martial arts, he was actually obsessed with all kinds of weird research.
After asking Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Qin Ming and many other people's opinions, Ning Yi probably chatted with Mr. Gongsun about physical chemistry for a few days, and then showed him the black powder and other things, and finally decided to support his Dan. Technology research, win over a technical house. Although everyone's current cognitive system is very different, at least many of Ning Yi's ideas and the other party are capable of research. Things like sulfuric acid and nitric acid have been fiddled with for a long time. For these alchemists, they have enough ability to prepare them, which is a good start in the entire chemical research.
"But...Second brother-in-law, you really shouldn't have given him that gunpowder formula. Recently, Mr. Gongsun has been doing explosions in the yard all day, and sooner or later, he will have to kill himself... "Second brother-in-law, you know that those Taoists have a trick to throw the gunpowder out and light it up. Yesterday, Mr. Gongsun threw a torch and burned his sleeve, so we hurriedly grabbed something to fight next to him, but fortunately he was fine..."
After eating steamed buns, Su Wenfang talked about this matter, and everyone was talking about it, Ning Yi was drinking soy milk and smiling.
"Cough, it's alright, just look at him, I don't care about doing some experiments... But today I'm going to see that refractory brick. As long as the process is ok, I'm going to sell it for money... ··Yanping, you are ready to get busy. I will tell you how to do it today. We can only do the first one or two years at most. Fast in and fast out. This kind of thing is not high in technology. It will be imitated, and then it will be sold at a low price. This is just for you to try, but don't take it lightly
Everyone was talking and laughing, while Tan'er was eating quietly, smiling at Ning Yi and chatting with her cousins. In the business of cloth line, her style is relatively tough, but she is not good at how to cultivate the people around her. Only in front of their husbands, these young people who were inactive and a little lazy in the Su family can show such vitality.
After talking for a while, Su Yanping said: "I heard that Wen Yu will be back in the next few days, and that Wang Shanyue."
He went north with Su Wenyu before, and Su Wenyu stayed in Shandong to do things. Now he can finally manage one aspect of things with Ning Yi, so he misses this brother a little bit. Ning Yi smiled and said: "It is estimated that there will be a delay due to the heavy snow, but it should arrive in these two days. After the Chinese New Year, Zhu Biao from Zhujiazhuang will also come, and then he will come to train you in martial arts. Take it lightly."
Su Wending spread his hands and smiled: "We are also very good now!" The crowd echoed with a smile. Ning Yi smiled and shook his head: "A bunch of bastards, wait for you to be beaten."
After returning to Bianliang, Ning Yi actually had a lot of connections with the Wang family. The Wang family used to be famous for making ink. Most of them are chores such as selling ancient books.
Ning Yi has been in contact with the other party for a while, and Su Taner has also visited several times in the past, hoping that they can run some businesses such as printing and publishing books, and Ning Yi can make plans and help management on their behalf, so that the two sides can join forces.
After all, it was the world of literati at this time, not the world of businessmen. The Wang family publishing books and the Ning family publishing books are two different concepts. In the future, even if there are some messy things, the reputation of the Wang family is in front, and which official dares to take care of it, but these things can only be officially determined after Wang Shanyue returns.
The family had a lively breakfast and went back to their rooms. Tan'er changed into the clothes she wore when she went out and put on a fox fur. She hugged the child and sat in Ning Yi's arms and talked for a while. Occasionally, the small face between the fox fur and fur has a pure and beautiful smile like a girl. Soon after, the carriage was ready outside, and when Myolie came over, Su Yanping had also come to look for Ning Yi. When holding the child and beckoning her little hand to send her out, Su Tan'er also smiled and waved back, but when she stepped out of the courtyard door, the sun shone down, and on her white side face, she had returned from a young girl to a former girl. In the calmness that belongs to Su Tan'er...
Bianliang suburb.
For half the morning, Zuo Houwen was in the carriage looking at the figure of the woman who was going in and out of the courtyard on the opposite side. There was a new workshop for cloth liners. Recently, things have been shipped in and out. move in. Although it snowed today, it was still the same, a batch of looms was brought in and the workers moved in. A woman dressed in fox fur looked like the master, watching and commanding back and forth. The woman wore a woman's bun, but her face was pure and beautiful. From the perspective of appearance alone, she looked very young, but her temperament should not be underestimated. She smiled and said little, but she had her own momentum and was often clean. A few neat words can make people obey orders.
Young and soft and mature and clean temperament are mixed together like that, in the heavy snow, like a proudly open narcissus.
He was over forty years old, and the cloth shop under his name was just a small business. He just came over to have a look at it. He could not help but stop the carriage when he saw such a peculiar woman. He had also seen some women from merchant families, or those who raised a family after the death of their husbands, but they were a little different from the women in front of him. In the heavy snow, she looked too young and pure, but also too calm, which was different from the calm that ordinary merchant women had to support.
"Who is that?" Putting down the Book of Songs in his hand, he asked the steward of the workshop.
"New arrival, Buxing seems to be called the Su family, but the master heard that the surname was Ning, and the woman called herself Mrs. Ning."
"The Su family? The Ning family? So strange? Her husband's family died? Let a woman come out and show her face?"
"I don't seem to have, I've been here a few times, I'm a scholar..."
"That's it." Zuo Houwen frowned, he probably understood, it's not uncommon for a scholar to match a businessman's daughter, but a scholar who is willing to do this kind of thing has limited backbone, "Next time I ask someone Name... Steward Liu, go back and see if there is any... this post from the Ning family."
At the same time, in a large courtyard outside the city, Ning Yi and Su Yanping were squatting on the ground to look at the fired refractory bricks. Soon after, someone sent a post saying that there was something in the prime minister's mansion. Shanyue and Su Wenyu are back.
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