noffsinger Chapter 279 July
Chapter 279 July
Time flies, and it’s already May.
A lot has happened in these three months.
Let me first talk about two major events that happened in the Qichao Kingdom. The first was that the eldest princess was exposed for raising soldiers privately. Although the empress was furious, she was kind-hearted because the child was her first child. She did not sentence him to death, but abolished his status and exiled him to the frontier.
The eldest princess knew that she would die on this trip, so she pretended to admit her mistake, obeyed the arrangements, and played the family card. In fact, she gathered people and horses to fight to the death. Unfortunately, she failed to force the emperor to abdicate and was beheaded in the hall.
The second thing was that the empress fell ill after this incident, and the second princess entered the palace to take care of her. She did everything herself until she recovered, but after all, she was seriously ill and her health was not as good as before.
In the past, ministers had always suggested that the crown princess be chosen as soon as possible, but she had been wavering between the eldest princess and the second princess. She was not satisfied with either of them, and the oldest of the remaining princesses was only ten years old. She thought that she was still in good health, so she delayed choosing a crown princess. However, she did not expect such a tragedy to occur.
She didn't want this to happen again, so she made the second princess the crown princess.
However, these things did not affect the lives of ordinary people. The clothing store Daiying Pavilion, jointly opened by Lin Jiaojiao and Liu Ying, also opened when the empress recovered from her illness.
The clothing store was doing a booming business. It took only one month for it to become popular in all places around Nanshan City, attracting many wealthy young men and women to come and buy.
It also boosted the business of Zhiwei Restaurant, with customers booking private rooms for a month later.
In addition, the daily limited amount of roasted chicken and roasted rabbit was not enough to sell, so Lin Jiaojiao had to ask Lin Chun to build a large oven on the farm specifically for roasting duck. Because hot pot became popular and many people came to eat it, a duck would die for this bowl of duck blood, so she limited the duck blood and offal to the first ten people who came to eat hot pot each day, and roasted the rest into crispy roast duck and sold.
It is worth mentioning that the ten new Zhiwei Malatang stores have been successfully opened. Business in the city is very good and the business in the town is not bad either.
Especially the mushrooms in the mushroom house and the vegetables in the vegetable garden, many of which are foods that ordinary people have never seen before, attracting many people to taste them, and once they have tasted them, they become addicted.
With the store system, the daily flow of people and turnover are recorded clearly, and the money earned every day is brought back by the delivery people the next day. At the beginning, she would reconcile the accounts every day, but after the novelty wore off, she unified the reconciliation every half a month.
But gradually, two or three store managers and shop assistants began to hide the money secretly, hiding one bowl of money a day, and finally they became more and more greedy and hid three or four bowls of money.
Lin Jiaojiao discovered this when she was reconciling the accounts. She directly asked Lin Dadan to handle it. Those who refused to admit it were fired and notified the entire store. Those who admitted it were given one more chance if they did not receive the salary for that month.
After this incident, some of the employees in other stores gave up their efforts, but there were still some who refused to give up. However, they were notified of their dismissal on the third day without even being given a chance.
After this incident, the thoughtful shop assistants were completely discouraged.
Now her vegetable garden has expanded to more than one hundred acres, all planted with fruits and vegetables.
She took ten acres of land to plant tribute vegetables, but here she called it by its alias, dried moss. After all, the name of tribute vegetables came from the fact that they were presented as tribute to the imperial court, and it would be inappropriate to call it by that name again.
The growth cycle of dried moss is very short, and there is a good harvest every month. After being dried, it is delicious when cooked in spicy hot pot and is very popular among diners.
However, the most popular are enoki mushrooms and other mushrooms. Due to the high demand, the mushroom house has been expanded from one to three.
Of course, the number of permanent employees on the farm has also increased to more than one hundred, and almost everyone in Linjia Village, young and old, has worked as a temporary worker. After all, too much labor is needed from land reclamation to tillage, from sowing to harvesting.
Even the children in the village were not spared. They were allowed to go into the vegetable garden to catch leafworms. They were paid one penny for fifty of them. In this way, they saved the vegetable garden and provided food for the chickens.
As the number of people increased, the dormitories were no longer sufficient, so ten dormitories were converted into four-person rooms with bunk beds, which provided some relief.
The construction of the park was also half completed. The first thing to be built and completed was not the Lin residence which had been expanded twice, but the school.
Then there is the artificial lake in the center. When the silt was being laid, Lin Jiaojiao had water lilies planted in it. Now the fast-growing ones have bloomed. A large number of koi were also put into the water, half of which were bought with money, and the other half were put in secretly by her in the middle of the night.
Now she and her family would go for a walk by the lake after dinner, or go to the pavilion to watch the flowers and fish. Especially when they scatter fish feed, all the fish in the lake would swim over, looking colorful and beautiful.
Although we have these in our garden at home, they are not as big as the one outside. One walk outside is equivalent to ten walks at home.
The house has become bigger, but they still live in the original place. Everyone is close and it is lively. The new yard is left for the children to live in when they grow up.
Behind the Lin residence are the second courtyard of No. 01 and the second courtyard of No. 02, which are the houses of Fu's mother and Lin Dadan.
These houses have no plaques, only numbers hanging on the walls of the doors.
After the construction of House 02 was completed, Lin Dadan and Zhou Xiaofeng moved in immediately. The whole Linjia Village was shocked at that time. It had only been a short time since Lin Dadan's family moved into the second courtyard.
Later, some people who were close to Lin Dadan asked her whether the second courtyard was given by Lin Jiaojiao or bought by herself.
When Lin Dadan said he bought it himself, everyone gasped. How much money does he have to earn in a month?
However, Lin Dadan quickly explained that she would pay in installments, paying the down payment first and the remaining money month by month until all the payments were made and the house would be hers.
Some people were immediately attracted, but when they were asked how much the down payment was, they immediately became discouraged.
However, No. 01's mother and her family had not yet moved in, and they had only sent two servants to clean the house every day.
Fu's father would occasionally come to the Lin residence to stay for a few nights to visit Fu Qi and Jiang Huai, but Fu's mother was very busy. She had not stopped since the ointment and soap were launched on the market more than a month ago. Recently, she was invited by the Queen to make incense in the palace.
When the news that Jiang Huai was the eldest princess secretly raising soldiers and horses was exposed and reached Linjia Village, his face changed drastically and he got on the carriage back to Qingzhou early the next morning.
But after a few days he came back and brought a lot of his own luggage. He handed the letter from Governor Jiang to Lin's father, which roughly meant that the court was in turmoil and he wanted Jiang Huai to stay here for a few days and pick him up after the court stabilized.
After reading it, Father Lin sighed inwardly and called Lin Jiaojiao and her three husbands over to explain the situation.
Lin Jiaojiao didn't care. When Jiang Huai came to live with her before, he always played with her husbands. They were only alone together that night when she got up, so she didn't think he was interested in her.
She got up before dawn every day to exercise, then designed clothes, solved various problems that arose on the farm and vegetable garden, managed shops in the town, and finally took care of her three husbands. She only noticed Jiang Huai during meals, after all, he was pleasing to the eyes.
So she just admired him and had no love for him.
Among the three husbands, only Fu Qiu is the happiest, because Lin Yiyan has to embroider clothes and look at the account books, and Lin Yizhi will also go to the farm to work. Only Jiang Huai can play together at any time to relieve boredom, and the two cousins can talk about anything.
For a moment, he thought it would be great if Brother Huai could marry Sister Jiaojiao.
Lin Yizhi was also fine. After all, it was Jiang Huai who took care of him when he was in the Jiang Mansion. The three of them often went out to play together during the days since he came back. She didn't notice that he was interested in her.
Lin Yiyan lowered his eyes with an unclear expression. When everyone thought he was unhappy, he raised his eyes and smiled faintly.
"I know dad."