The carriage stopped in front of a jewelry shop called "Cuihua Pavilion".

The curtain opened, and a man and a woman jumped out of the carriage.

The man is in his thirties, wearing a long gown and a scarf on his head, dressed as an elegant scholar.

This person is Li Shoude.

Jiang Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes slightly and watched Li Shoude enter Cuihua Pavilion with the petite woman in his arms. The two behaved in an indescribably intimate manner.

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Wei followed her gaze and saw only a pair of back figures, "Cuihua Pavilion? Do you want to buy jewelry?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head and said with a smile: "The jewelry sold in Cuihua Pavilion is so expensive, I don't want it."

What she said is not nonsense. This street is a prosperous area of ​​Yong'an Town, and the items sold in the nearby shops are not cheap.

Li Shoude took a strange woman to such an expensive jewelry store as soon as he came back from the state. He thought he had been able to live well by relying on the Huang family in the past few months.

However, she didn't plan to tell her mother that Li Shoude had come back, so she changed the subject: "Mom, our new house is almost ready. While Master Zheng is still here, let him build a few more houses near our house. The bungalow will be used as a soap workshop in the future.”

"Okay." Jiang Wei glanced at her helplessly, "You are so young and worry about this and that all the time. You also sound old-fashioned when you talk, and you don't look like a child at all."

Jiang Xiaoxiao laughed hurriedly: "Haha, no way, I am your mother's daughter, and my mother is so powerful, so of course I am not bad at it."

She blurted it out with a few words and started talking about other things.

The mother and daughter chatted all the way back home.

When he got home, Master Zheng had completed the final painting process of the new house. The new house was completely built and could be moved into soon.

He stood in front of the courtyard hall of his new house and looked at the two-story Chinese-style courtyard villa in front of him with pride.

To be honest, since he resigned from Beijing and returned to the small place of Yong'an Town, he has not built such a big project for a long time.

The new house in front of him, even though some of the construction materials were completely incomparable with those of wealthy people in the capital, but in his eyes, the structure and layout of this new house were exquisite yet grand, and it had a low-key and luxurious temperament. It was difficult to find it. Imagine that the blueprints for building a house were provided by a village woman.

"Master Zheng, I've troubled you these days. Come to my place to settle your wages later." Jiang Wei walked over and looked at the new house in front of him with satisfaction.

The house building drawings she gave were naturally of a modern retro style, which not only had the unique antique style of ancient times, but also the lightness and simplicity of modern structural layout.

However, it costs a lot of money.

The material cost of bricks and tiles alone cost more than one hundred taels. There were other building materials, plus labor costs, etc., at least two hundred taels were gone.

Master Zheng smiled, rubbed his hands and said, "Ms. Jiang, I can help you waive the labor costs. I just want to know if your cement can be used first..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Wei jumped in and said, "Oh, by the way, Master Zheng, you don't have any house building orders in the future, right?"

Master Zheng was stunned: "No, no, I have only taken orders from your family in the past few months."

"That's okay." Jiang Wei said with a smile, "I'll circle a piece of land outside the new house, and I'll have to trouble Master Zheng to help me build a few more bungalows." After a pause, she added: "The foundation, bricklaying and plastering all have to be done. Just use my cement."

"Use cement again?!" Master Zheng's old face suddenly drooped. Is it too extravagant to use such precious cement just to build a few bungalows?

Moreover, all the cement is used in building houses, how much more can he buy...

Master Zheng sighed.

Jiang Wei watched from the side and said nothing.

She knew Master Zheng was eager to buy his own cement, but since her daughter really wanted to build a soap workshop, she naturally had to fulfill her daughter's wish first.

Soap workshops must be built with cement.

The huge profits of soap have already been revealed, and it will definitely attract a lot of envious people in the future. In order to prevent jealousy and trouble, this soap workshop must put some thought into building it as solidly as possible. Even if someone wants to burn down the soap workshop in the future, Destruction, this fireproof and waterproof cement can also block one or two.

However, there may not be enough cement at home, and the cement factory must be opened as soon as possible. It is definitely not enough to have only one kiln at home to burn lime...

"By the way, Master Zheng, can you build a kiln?"

"Building a few kilns is not a problem..." Master Zheng nodded. At this moment, he had calmed down. When he heard that Jiang Wei was going to build a kiln, he understood her intention and said hurriedly: "No matter what kind of kiln in the town, I can build any furnace, what kind of furnace will Miss Jiang build?"

Jiang Wei then took out the drawings of the previous kiln from his sleeve, but actually from the space, "Master Zheng can just build the kiln according to the drawings."

Master Zheng took the drawing and looked at it carefully. Then he couldn't help but marvel at the exquisite structural design of this kiln. It saves fuel but can provide a higher combustion temperature than the old kilns in the county and town!

He hurriedly patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Miss Jiang, as long as the materials are ready, I and a few disciples can build this kiln in one day."

As soon as the matter of the kiln here was agreed upon, a person hurriedly ran outside the Jiang family's yard.

"A happy event! A great event for the village!"

The people working in the Jiang family looked outside one after another, and saw Li Zheng running into the Jiang family's yard panting, saying: "The boss of the Li family, Li Shoude, is back! All the members of the Li family's clan must gather at the Li family's ancestral home!"

"Li Zheng, what happened? Why do you have to gather at Lao Li's house?" Several men stuck their heads out and asked, "Then Li Shoude will come back as soon as he comes back. Is it possible that we, unrelated relatives, should go to him?" To catch the wind and wash away the dust?”

A lot of bad things happened in the Li family some time ago, which became the after-dinner joke of many people in the village. Everyone scorned the Li family, and they were not interested at all in Li Shoude's sudden return to his hometown.

Especially for Li Shoude, who is in his thirties, can't do any work, can't carry it on his shoulders, can't carry it with his hands, and has to wait for the whole family to eat, drink, and eat. He always says that he must get a decent academic qualification when he comes back. After so many years, I passed by and still couldn't see a single fart.

"Just stop saying a few words!" Li Zheng glared at the speaker, "Li Shoude is no different now than before. He is already a man of great fame."

"What?!"

People in the Jiang family yard were immediately shocked: "Could it be that he really passed the exam this time!"

"Li Shoude is now a well-established scholar. You should be careful what you say in the future." Li Zheng frowned and glanced at the frightened people, "Fellow members of the Li family, don't wait any longer and hurry up and gather at the Li family."

"Oh, I have to go take a look at this."

For a moment, everyone in the Jiang family's yard dispersed. Regardless of whether they were related to the Li family or not, they all went to the Li family to see the scholar.


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