The ten people from Ruifufang lined up in a line, followed the team from Xiangyunfang, and entered the Yahang courtyard.
Qiao Zhi's family of three walked in the middle of the group.
Qiao Zhi Auntie was at the front, holding her neck with all her strength and controlling her urge to look back.
Grandma Qiaozhi followed her daughter, pursed her lips tightly, and also tried her best to make her steps appear as easy as possible without the support of crutches.
Wang Quexi followed Grandma Qiaozhi, lowered his head slightly, and stared at Grandma Qiaozhi's slightly trembling legs.
Qiao Zhi Auntie told him that if grandma couldn't support her, he had to help her quickly.
Qiao Zhi stood behind Li Xiaonan with her hands hanging down, her eyes quickly passing over the weavers who came in one after another. Her eyes fell on A Niang, and her legs were lifted up before she realized it.
Dongmei, who was standing next to her, grabbed her.
Qiao Zhi stood back and glanced at Dong Mei gratefully.
"Are you here?" Li Xiaonan turned around and asked Qiao Zhi.
"Coming, coming! The fourth one is my grandma, followed by my grandma and my dad." Qiao Zhi's voice was trembling.
"Pick those three over first." Li Xiaonan patted Wang Yuting.
Wang Yuting turned around, blinked at Qiaozhi, walked over a few steps, and whispered a few words to Li Wenru, who then nodded to Qiaozhi's family of three.
Yaren took off the number plates pinned to the shoulders of the three of them and motioned for them to stand over.
Qiaozhi's grandmother pursed her lips tightly and walked stiffly. Qiaozhi's grandmother followed behind Qiaozhi's grandmother, shaking her legs but unable to lift her feet.
Wang Yuting stepped forward, grabbed Grandma Qiaozhi's arm, and dragged her out of the team.
"Go and get a chair for your grandma." Li Xiaonan didn't look back, but patted Qiao Zhi with the back of her hand.
Qiaowei moved very quickly. He brought a small bamboo chair over, turned it around in a circle, stretched his head and asked Li Xiaonan, "Where to put it?"
Li Xiaonan clicked next to herself.
"Grandma, please help me see which one can be used?" Li Xiaonan looked at Grandma Qiaozhi sitting down and said with a smile.
"The last one!" Grandma Qiaozhi immediately pointed at the last person in the Ruifufang team.
The man couldn't tell whether he was male or female. He had one hand twisted and curled up in front of his chest, and half of his face was red and ferocious.
"Huh?" Li Xiaonan looked at Grandma Qiaozhi.
"She was the best at sizing and removing starch. She became the steward of the sizing department in the weaving mill before she was thirty years old. She was not lucky. When she was watching the starch being boiled, for some reason, the starch bucket overturned and was buckled in the sizing box.
Her body was so burned that her mother-in-law knelt down and cried, begging Mr. Liu to hire a doctor for her. Mr. Six had his mother-in-law beaten up.
"Oh, she made it through, but her mother-in-law didn't." Grandma Qiaozhi sighed softly.
Li Xiaonan signaled to Wang Yuting.
Eleven people were selected for this trip, four were brought by Qiao Zhi, three by Dongmei, one by Mingzhi, and Wan Qing chose three from the test.
Although all of these eleven people seemed to be crooked, Li Xiaonan was very satisfied.
In the afternoon of that day, Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing borrowed a long escort, and three carts pulled the fourteen people under her new command, and rushed to Pingjiang City. They were handed over to the eldest sister and sent to Guoxiang to learn how to do it with Sister-in-law Lu.
Set up a weavers’ school.
The commander led three carts straight to Pingjiang City. Li Xiaonan and his entourage also set off immediately, rushing to Jiaxing County, and from Jiaxing County to Hangzhou overnight.
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Gu Yan weighed the scroll, which was at least twice as heavy as usual, took the cutter and opened it, read it carefully, smiled and entered the upper room with the letter.
The prince looked at the smile on Gu Yan's face and looked at the letters in Gu Yan's hand.
"Look at that little girl's petty attitude." Gu Yan handed the letter to the prince.
The prince also laughed after reading it, "She is not very old, but she is very good at manipulating people's hearts."
"There are so many petty things." Gu Yan smiled, looking helpless.
The prince glanced sideways at Gu Yan and said, "This is a turn of events. At least your little girl didn't suffer. Have you made an agreement about the autumn silkworm cocoons?"
"I want to ask what grandma means. If she can take over, it would be better for her to come forward than for me to come forward." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"Yes. Jiang Jianrong, the director of the Liangzhe Road Cao Department, wrote a confidential letter to me, saying that the Jiangnan Silk Headquarters had stopped all work in the weaving mills. He checked and found out that the reason why the Jiangnan Silk Headquarters dared to stop work was because they had received instructions from the capital."
The prince frowned slightly.
"Jiang Jianrong is attached to Prime Minister Pang's family. Is he alluding to Prime Minister Wang?" Gu Yan also frowned.
"The secret accounts you found went to those who studied social and cultural societies under Prime Minister Wang. A large number of them went to Prime Minister Wang. In recent years, Prime Minister Wang has been looking for famous teachers and traveling around, and he has also received funding from the Silk House.
"But if he really wanted to help Jiangnan Silk Headquarters overcome this difficulty, he shouldn't have ordered the weaving mill to stop work. Stopping work would add fuel to the fire. Wang Xiang is a smart man and would not have thought of this. If it were him, what would he want to do?
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"No matter what he wants to do, as for Jiangnan Silk Shop and the Customs and Excise Department, I will only follow the regulations we agreed upon at the beginning and try our best to remove all obstacles and eliminate corruption." Gu Yan looked serious.
"Well, I received a letter from my father yesterday." The prince paused, and then continued after a moment: "My father is not very energetic. He has been in the morning for too long and it is difficult to support him. He urges me to go back."
Gu Yan's face turned pale.
"After arriving at Fujian Road, you return to Liangzhe Road by land. I will board the ship and head north to return to Jiale City as soon as possible." The prince sighed quietly.
"Okay."
Both of them were silent for a long time, and the prince smiled and said, "Are you going back to the capital to celebrate the New Year this year?"
"Not necessarily, it depends on how the Customs and Excise Department case progresses."
"If you don't go back to celebrate the New Year, your mother-in-law will have to cry to my mother-in-law several times." The prince smiled.
"She will have to cry a few times when I go back, because of my marriage." Gu Yan spread her hands and said.
"Your marriage~" the prince trailed off, and for a moment, he curled his lips and let out a tut.
Gu Yan turned to look out the window, pretending not to hear.
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Gu Yan accompanied the prince to inspect Fujian Road. Zhou Chennian received Gu Yan's instructions and returned from Mingzhou. He went to Pingjiang City to find the fourth lady of the Li family, the proprietor of the old Yueyang house, to explain in detail the harvesting of autumn cocoons in the south and north of the Yangtze River and the scheduled spring. The various connections in Cocoon are exquisite, as well as some of the current situations that need to be explained.
Zhou Chennian rushed to Pingjiang City after a long journey, and went straight to the royal residence outside the city. He met Uncle Hong, took a shower and changed clothes. Hearing that the fourth wife of the Li family had returned, he declined the carriage boy arranged by Uncle Hong and walked as a carriage driver. Go to the Fuxue area.
He wanted to take a look at the fourth lady of the Li family first quietly.
Zhou Chennian inquired all the way, walking along the lake from the east side of Fuxue, and after counting three houses, he saw the house that was exactly the same as the boy described.
Zhou Chennian looked at the pot of hydrangeas in front of the gate on one side and saw the red lantern hanging on the top of the gate. He walked along the yard to the corner door, looked in through the crack in the door, and listened to the chirping for a while. The lively rooster crows, and then moves forward.
Behind the house is a large lake extending from the mansion. A little girl has two fishing poles in front of her, sitting on a pony, holding her chin and looking at the two buoys undulating on the lake.
Zhou Chennian took a few steps forward, stretched his neck to look at the lake, lowered his head, leaned forward, and looked at the little girl.
