There is indeed great power when there are more people.
The group entered Changshu County, and one of Wan Qing's four eldest followers had already taken a step ahead. By now, they had found an inn and booked a small courtyard.
After settling down, Wan Qing took out a list of Jiangnan weaving workshops from the box and placed it in front of Li Xiaonan.
This roster also comes with a map. Which weaving workshop is where is clearly marked. Although the map is simple, it is enough to give a general location.
Wan Qing and Li Xiaonan looked at the roster with pictures, discussed it for a few words, and made the arrangements: four senior attendants plus six people, Li Wenru and A Wu, each of whom will be assigned to one family and two families. They will go to these weaving workshops tomorrow morning to check them out.
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Wang Yuting raised his head and asked what he would like for dinner.
Before Li Xiaonan could speak, Wan Qing said first: "We are all here on mission. We have rules in our house, including food, accommodation, and transportation. Otherwise..."
"Since there is a share, then you eat yours and we eat ours." Li Xiaonan interrupted Wan Qing's words.
No matter what, Wan Qing brought these people here to help her. If she didn’t spend any money and the food would go to waste, it would be too much. Besides, she was not the only one. A Wu and Yu Ting had a lot of food.
Not too small.
"Let's borrow the kitchen to make our own rice, put a few slices of bacon on top, and fry some egg sauce." Li Xiaonan and Yu Ting said.
They brought bacon, rice, eggs and sauce from home and kept them in the car.
"I'll eat it myself. I've been tired for a day and want to drink some wine to relieve my fatigue." Li Wenru smiled hurriedly.
Tsk, these sisters are very good at living. He would be able to endure this meal if it lasted only a day or two, but after this trip, it would be less than a month. He couldn't bear pickles, bacon and meat every day.
"That's okay." Li Xiaonan smiled dryly.
She also wanted to eat and drink well, but the eldest sister paid for it on a daily basis. Of course, the eldest sister had already considered that she had a greedy mouth and wanted to enjoy it, and had already paid extra for the eldest sister's own and second sister's standards.
I got 30% of the copper coins.
Li Wenru was about to stand up and ask the shopkeeper to cook a few dishes when he raised his eyes and met A Wu's glare. He was stunned for a moment, then he woke up and invited with a busy smile: "A Wu is tired too, let's have a couple of drinks?" Before Li Wenru finished speaking, Ah Wu had already nodded in agreement, looked at Li Xiaonan and said with a smile: "Master Li and I will have a drink. You and Yu Ting..."
A Wu pointed his fingers from Li Xiaonan to Wang Yuting, and laughed a few times.
"I know what you're laughing at. You're laughing at me for not being able to cook well and stew pig food, right?" Wang Yuting immediately answered.
Li Xiaonan looked at Wang Yuting, who couldn't wait to express that her cooking was just pig stew, and sighed.
"You come to eat with me. I am a second-class person. The portions are too many for me to eat by myself. When I was in the hospital, two little girls in our courtyard were eating my portions. Those two
This little girl has a bigger appetite than you." Wan Qing poked Li Xiaonan and lowered her voice.
"Yes, yes, you have a very small appetite, and I don't have a big appetite either. A Wu and I will eat together, and A Wu will save a few bites and that's enough for me." Yu Ting answered hurriedly.
"Okay, okay, bring ten eggs over and add some food to everyone." Li Xiaonan sighed and waved to Wang Yuting.
She also resigned and changed jobs because the food in the cafeteria was too unpalatable. Besides, Sister Mei's cured bacon was so salty that it was really unpalatable.
The next morning, within an hour, everyone who went out to inquire about several weaving workshops came back.
There are a total of eleven weaving workshops in Changshu County, seven of which are branches of large weaving workshops headquartered in Hangzhou and other places. Among these seven weaving workshops, Li Xiaonan knows two:
Xiangyunfang, the home of Chairman Zhu of Jiangnan Silk Head Office, and Ruifufang, the home of Chairman Shi of Pingjiang Silk Shop.
The heads of these two weaving mills are currently being held in the military camp in Linhai Town. She doesn’t know the details of President Shi’s case, and President Zhu must have more than one life on his hands.
"These seven weaving shops said that they were still the same as before the day before yesterday. They suddenly stopped around noon the day before yesterday. They didn't work yesterday and today. The other four small weaving shops have been watching these seven shops. These seven shops stopped working, and four small weaving shops stopped working.
The weaving mill has not been in operation since yesterday.
"Why did it stop suddenly? Is there any information about the case in Linhai Town?" Li Wenru looked at Li Xiaonan and lowered his voice subconsciously.
Li Xiaonan frowned slightly, but instead of answering Li Wenru's question, she asked, "Seven families stopped together?"
"The two families I asked about were at noon the day before yesterday. What about you?" Li Wenru looked back at A Wu and several of his followers.
"The two weaving shops I saw were small weaving workshops, and they stopped yesterday." Ah Wu crossed his arms in front of his chest, frowning, with a serious look on his face.
Several chiefs responded, saying that the seven large weaving mills all stopped around noon the day before yesterday, the four small weaving mills have stopped working one after another since yesterday, and the ten domestic weaving mills have not started working today.
"Where is the weaver? Have you gone home?" Li Xiaonan asked next.
"They all seemed to be in the weaving mills. On my way back, there was a tooth shop, so I went in and asked, and they said there were no weavers who could help me there, not one," Li Wenru replied.
"We just stopped working these two days, and we are all waiting for news. Weavers will definitely not be sold at this time. Weavers are the hardest to buy." Wan Qing continued.
Li Xiaonan hummed. Wan Qing was right. If work had been suspended the day before yesterday, it would not have been time to sell weavers.
"Go and see what the weavers are doing. Quietly, it's best to ask the weavers if you can. Ask the steward what he told them and whether they should be paid for such idle time." Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru.
and several long followers.
Awu also agreed, and when he turned around and walked out, he was grabbed by Li Xiaonan, "You are making too much noise, don't go."
"You..." Awu glared at Li Xiaonan.
"You and Yu Ting go for a walk to see how many silk shops and cloth shops there are in the city, and ask how the business is going." Li Xiaonan interrupted A Wu and waved to Yu Ting.
Watching the two people go out, Wan Qing stood up and sat next to Li Xiaonan, stretched her head and looked at Li Xiaonan's face, "Are you okay?"
"Why is it okay! How come these seven weaving mills, one in Pingjiang City, two in Hangcheng, two in Yangzhou, one in Yuezhou, and one in Danyang, stopped working on the same day?" Li Xiaonan asked
Head forward, his face almost hit Wan Qing's face.
"Yes! Why?" Wan Qing looked surprised.
"Let me ask you again, do Zhifang and Zhifang have a good relationship and are like-minded, or are they colleagues and enemies?" Li Xiaonan rolled her eyes at Wanqing angrily.
"We must be enemies in normal times, but now, they must be united in dealing with our prince, right?" Wan Qing raised her buttocks and said in Li Xiaonan's ear.
"It must be because of this that they want to cause trouble together with Qi Lianzhi! We have agreed to stop work together! Write a letter quickly and tell your prince about this." Li Xiaonan patted Wan Qing again and again.
"What about us?" Wan Qing stood up hurriedly, leaned over and took the inkstone, poured water to grind the ink, "wait here?"
"What's the use of waiting here? When they come back after asking, we will leave immediately and go to Wujiang County to have a look. If it is really stopped everywhere, and it was stopped the day before yesterday, well, either weavers will not be able to buy it.
, or there are too many weavers and we can’t buy them all.”
Li Xiaonan sat next to Wan Qing and sighed as she read her letter.
