Blessed Daughter

On the other side, Wei Ruo, without Wei Qingwan's followers, came to Xianqiu Pavilion.

This was originally a wing of the magistrate's mansion, but now it has become the place where Wei Ruo, a group of female gentlemen, and nuns in charge work.

These people who worked with Wei Ruo were capable nuns and accountants selected by Mrs. Yuan, His Highness the Seventh Prince, and other dignitaries in Taizhou Mansion. They were specially sent here to help Wei Ruo coordinate the disaster relief.

Because disaster relief involves a lot of people, money, and food, there are so many things to arrange for different victims to different places, to solve the problem of accommodation and food for them, to arrange money and food, and to assign caretakers.

Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Qin would come every day. Mrs. Qin participated in the whole process and helped with the work; Mrs. Yuan just took some time to come to accompany everyone every day to see what everyone needed, and she helped to arrange it.

Wei Ruo first went to meet Mrs. Yuan in the next room.

Seeing that Wei Ruo came later than the previous two days, Madam Yuan asked with concern: "But what's the matter? Are you tired?"

"It's okay, it's just that my mother asked me to bring my sister with me before going out, so I wasted some time." Wei Ruo explained.

Mrs. Yuan knew about Wei Ruo's relationship with her family, and when she and Wei Ruo met for the second time, Wei Qingwan almost caused Wei Ruo to fall into the water, so she knew that Wei Qingwan had no good intentions for Wei Ruo'an.

Now that Mrs. Wei wants Wei Ruo to bring her sister over, it's not hard to guess her intentions.

"Your mother wants your sister to earn a good reputation too?" Mrs. Yuan said.

In the past few days, Wei Ruo let all the noble ladies in Taizhou Mansion see her ability and insight. For a while, everyone praised the eldest daughter of the Wei family for her strategy and talent, which made Wei Ruocai's reputation spread far and wide.

Big families marry wives based on the housekeeper's ability and character of the future mistress, so people like Wei Ruo are very popular. She believes that after this disaster relief, there will be more families who want to marry the Wei family.

"If my younger sister performs well, it will be of great benefit to her personally and the Wei family. In the short term, the Wei family's contribution can accumulate more credit; in the long run, it will be of great help to my younger sister's marriage. Good." Wei Ruo said.

"If she treats you well, there's nothing wrong with that, but she doesn't have any good intentions for you. According to my personality, if someone else is in the first grade of junior high school, it's no wonder that I'm in the fifteenth grade. I'm determined not to learn from the sages and repay grievances with virtue." Mrs. Yuan laughed. .

"That's why I asked Qingyi to take him to Huichun Pavilion. Madam, please don't blame me. I made arrangements without explaining to you first." Wei Ruo said.

"It's a big deal. Didn't I say that these few courtyards are up to you to arrange? You can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't affect your mood or the progress of our business." Madam Yuan said.

"Thank you ma'am for your understanding." Wei Ruo then turned the topic back to today's business, "Madam, has the list of grains put into storage yesterday arrived?"

"Just sent it here," Mrs. Yuan said to Wei Ruo while taking the account book from the servant girl and handing it to Wei Ruo, "In just three days, the big granary in the government office is already full."

Wei Ruo took the list and began to look it up, and saw a familiar name in it—Fan Chengxu.

"Boss Fan from Zuixianju also participated? He also gave away five thousand taels of silver and ten thousand shi of rice?"

"That's right. Although the Fan family is not a local family in Taizhou Prefecture, the Fan family is very influential in the court. It's just that this Fan Chengxu is different from the general family. He likes to do business. Although the discussion that day I didn't invite him, but obviously he is also very interested in the work-for-relief thing you proposed, Ruo'er, and wants to get a share of the action."

Madam Yuan thought that Wei Ruo didn't know Fan Chengxu, so she specially explained it to her.

"He is willing to contribute money and food, no matter where he is, and whether he is an official or a businessman, we welcome him very much." Wei Ruo said.

Wei Ruo felt Fan Chengxu's business acumen in his heart, he really didn't want to miss any profitable business.

"The Xu family is sending food for the second time today." Madam Yuan said again, "And according to Madam Xu, she will dispatch another batch of food."

"Scheduling? From where?" Wei Ruo asked.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to buy food from other places.

"The Xu family started to take root in Taizhou Prefecture from the generation of Mrs. Xu's father. The hometown is in Lin'an, where the Xu family still has some farmland." Mrs. Yuan explained.

Madam Yuan couldn't help saying that, "Speaking of which, the old master of the Xu family is of the same family as the former Xu Guogong, and they both come from the Xu family in Lin'an."

"Xu Guogong? Is it Xu Guogong who just overturned the case?" Wei Ruo asked.

"Exactly. If it weren't for the famine in various places, it is estimated that this matter has been dealt with."

"I heard that when Xu Guogong's mansion was raided, all the relevant people were also dealt with. Why is the Xu family in Taizhou mansion all right?" Wei Ruo asked.

"Firstly, it is true that they are far apart. Although they are both from the Xu family in Lin'an, the two families are far away from each other in terms of blood relationship; secondly, the emperor's heart softened after he dealt with it back then. He cared about the queen. "

After Madam Yuan finished speaking, she suddenly realized that she had dragged the topic far.

"Look at me, I talk too much, and I said things I shouldn't have said. As long as you have heard these words, don't say them outside." Madam Yuan told Wei Ruodao, "Especially in front of Mother Qin, don't mention it."

Wei Ruo nodded, she knew what topics she could talk about and what she couldn't talk about casually, and she was neither interested nor wanting to discuss matters involving the royal family.

After discussing the list with Mrs. Yuan in detail, Wei Ruo went back to the next room, and together with the two female accountants, made a summary of the grains that have been in storage so far, and then began to allocate manpower to transport the grains. It will be determined two days before today. Some of them sent food according to the point.

Because the scope of land reclamation involved this time is relatively wide, Wei Ruo studied the map of Taizhou Prefecture two days ago, determined the scope of land reclamation, and set the corresponding base points.

At present, the land that Wei Ruo decided to open up wasteland and improve is mainly sandy land and saline-alkali land. Mountainous land is not considered for the time being, because the situation of mountainous land is relatively complicated, and different mountains have different situations, and the cost of reclamation is also higher than the previous two. higher.

As for the plan of opening pits in sandy land and saline-alkali land, it is still the same as before. Sweet potatoes are planted in sandy land, and winter wheat is planted after the improvement of saline-alkali land is completed.

Today, Wei Ruo's main job is to stay with several female gentlemen at the magistrate's mansion to make overall arrangements, but from tomorrow Wei Ruo needs to go to the field to conduct surveys, and then formulate different improvement and reclamation plans according to different soil properties.