After the general's wife was reborn, everyone knelt down and begged her for mercy.

In Wutong Courtyard, after having refreshments, the girls retreated outside the door, leaving space for the brother and sister.

"Ayan, what happened?" Ning Ruchen looked at his sister seriously. After her wet nurse and her son sent a letter back to Gusu, he and his father felt that something must have happened to his sister, so , he took advantage of the opportunity to express his condolences to meet his sister. Seeing these behaviors of the Jiang family, he was even more sure that something was wrong.

Ning Ruyan didn't talk about her rebirth, that was too weird. She only talked about the Jiang family's greed and calculations.

"Damn it." Ning Ruchen got angry when she heard this, "Is this still a human being? Sister, pack your things and let's go back to Suzhou." Anyway, Jiang Bonian is already here, so her sister has the right to return home with Li. As long as the Ning family Just support her.

"Brother." Ning Ruyan held back the excited Ning Ruchen, "I will definitely leave with Li, but not now."

"Huh? You..."

"Brother, I'm not a child anymore. I know it." Ning Ruyan smiled and said, "There are some things that I have to settle personally." Her dead husband has not yet faked his body, how could she Walk?

"But..." Ning Ruchen hesitated for a moment, looked at her sister's firm gaze, and finally nodded, "Okay, but if you need help, you must tell your elder brother."

"Have you done what I said in the letter?"

"Of course, food and herbs have been stored, as well as charcoal. My father has opened a charcoal kiln himself and hired people to burn it. However, it will take time to relocate the two villages you mentioned, and the villagers have to be talked through. , those are tenant farmers, not slaves, they cannot be forcibly moved away, and now is the time for spring plowing, so no one is willing to leave."

"We can move after the harvest this year." Ning Ruyan breathed out. She was worried that her father and brother would think she was fooling around. Now it seems that she thought too much, and her father and brother supported her.

The two villages she asked to relocate were both Ning's land. Because the terrain was too low, all the land was washed away by floods in the previous life. No villagers in the two villages survived.

In this life, she wanted to avoid such heavy casualties and minimize the losses.

Although there is still a year to go, she needs to prepare early.

"In addition, there will be a bumper cotton harvest in the south this year. Big brother, remember to ask people to buy cotton. The more, the better. Then organize people to sew winter clothes. The more, the better. Just wait for my news then."

"Xiao Yan'er, what on earth are you going to do?"

"Brother, don't ask, just listen to me, I won't harm my family."

Ning Ruchen took a deep breath: "Okay, but if something happens, you must tell me."

"Yeah." Ning Ruyan smiled.

After lunch, the coffin was lifted from Jiang Bonian's tomb, and the funeral procession set off from the General's Mansion and headed out of the city.

The Jiang family's hometown is in Suixian County, a hundred miles away.

The funeral procession took about two days to travel from the capital to Suixian County.

As a third-grade military general, Jiang Changgong still had a military position for the time being and could not leave the capital at will. Huo's body also did not allow her to travel long distances.

Although Ning Ruyan is married, she has no children and cannot go to her husband's ancestral grave to worship.

So, after a simple ceremony outside the city, Jiang Bowen led the team toward Sui County. He would come back after the burial of the tomb was completed.

"Ning." Huo called Ning Ruyan when she returned to the general's mansion.

"Mother." Ning Ruyan stopped.

"Your eldest sister has been married for two years, and now she is finally pregnant, so she couldn't come back. If A Nian knew about it, I'm afraid she would be very happy. As your sister-in-law and head of the family, remember to send someone to deliver gifts."

Ning Ruyan nodded: "Yes, but I don't know how much should be given. My daughter-in-law has never done this."

"Just...two thousand taels."

"Yes." Ning Ruyan responded, but sneered in her heart, two thousand taels? I didn't know if Gongzhong still had two thousand taels, so he turned around and went to the accounting room, only to find that there were only five hundred taels of silver that could be allocated in Gongzhong's account, so he immediately went to Shoukangyuan and brought all the account books, " Mother, I only have five hundred taels left."

"Ok?"

"Didn't mother say that I would give my eldest sister a gift of two thousand? I don't have any money now."

"you……"

"Mother, it's hard for a clever woman to make a living without rice. She has no money, and her daughter-in-law can't prepare gifts."

Huo frowned and suddenly sighed: "Ning, now that you are in charge, you have to see this matter resolved." If you have money, just take it out, why should you come here to ask?

"But mother, my daughter-in-law can't solve the problem without money." Ning Ruyan just pretended to be stupid, "Don't say two thousand taels, even five hundred taels can't be given. After that, our house won't be able to live. ”

The corner of Huo's mouth twitched.

"I've seen it. Of the several shops in our house, only the tea shop and the porcelain shop are profitable. The rest of the shops not only don't make money, they even lose money every month. Such shops will last longer and longer. The longer you pay, the more you will lose.”

Huo was silent, that was indeed the case, but what could be done? Those shops were all staffed by trusted people, so there was no problem of harming the owner's family, but even if they were not profitable, there was nothing she could do.

"Mother, I have a suggestion."

"You said."

"It's better to sell the shop that is losing money."

"Sell it?" Huo's voice rose, "How is that possible?"

"My daughter-in-law is just suggesting. After all, these shops have not made any money in the past six months, and they even have to rebate the workers' wages every month. Although it is not much, just dozens of taels per month, but it cannot last for a long time. Keep going. I’m afraid that all the money earned by those two shops will be lost.”

"This... let me think about it."

"My wife, please excuse me." Ning Ruyan bowed her knees and left Shoukangyuan. In a deserted place, the corner of her mouth curled up. Without her in this life, she would have taken her dowry subsidy, without her wholehearted efforts to reverse the losses in her business, or even He will also use his own shop to grab business. It depends on whether the General's Mansion can sustain it.

In fact, those shops are actually very good. The reason why they don't make money is because Huo thinks that his trusted people are just taking advantage of them. Unfortunately, the old lady calculated that she was a shrewd person, and she was really stupid outside.

In this life, she will definitely get several shops into her own hands.

Huo's mind was now full of selling the shop, but she couldn't make the final decision. She finally decided to discuss it with her husband, hoping that he would come up with an idea. As soon as she arrived at the door of Songzhuyuan, she heard Aunt Zhao's voice coming from inside. That delicate voice.