Chapter 37 Immortal Godmother

When she heard the word "You Yue" from Jiang Xuening's mouth, You Fangyin's first reaction was surprise, because she didn't know how she could guess so accurately. However, just a moment later, this surprise turned into terror——

The boss has already helped her too much.

She doesn't want to cause trouble for her boss anymore.

Not to mention, this person is still her difficult sister You Yue, who came back yesterday and said many unpleasant and difficult things to listen to

Never let Miss Er know!

At that moment, she slowly and forcefully pulled her palm back from Jiang Xuening's hand and eagerly said, "No, my injury has nothing to do with my second sister. It's all my fault for being careless. This small injury doesn't matter, I'll just take a few days to recover."

Jiang Xuening leaned against the cushion and looked at her.

With a pair of eyes scrutinizing her, she rarely became a bit sharp. She slowly said, "I was just asking if your second sister has returned, but I didn't say that your injury was caused by your second sister. Why are you in such a hurry to defend her?"

Only then did You Fangyin realize that she had leaked some information in her eagerness, and her ability to lie was not good enough, let alone lying to her life-saving benefactor. She felt embarrassed for a moment and hesitated, saying, "Because Fangyin knew that Miss Er was genuinely good to me, she was afraid that Miss Er might misunderstand and cause conflicts with Sister Er. After all, I heard that Miss Er and Sister Er were both reading to the princess in the palace, and we should get along well. My Second Sister is quite impressive..."

Amazing?

She pushed her into the fish tank and didn't dare to retort with two more words, saying "amazing"?

Jiang Xuening smiled inwardly, her eyes flickering slightly, and suddenly asked, "Are you afraid that I might meddle in this matter and offend your sister? It's not easy to live in the palace?"

You Fangyin was momentarily stunned, and after a while, she slowly lowered her head and said, "Yes."

Jiang Xuening remained silent.

You Fangyin was afraid that she was angry or sad, so she hurriedly explained: "My second sister is very popular with her father and his mother at home, and she is not very good tempered. It is said that even Yan Shizi and His Highness King Linzi from the Duke Yongyi's Residence came to the Double Ninth Festival that day, and her paintings were ranked first by the Royal Highness of the Long Princess in the palace, which must be very popular with the Royal Highness of the Royal Highness Princess. If, because of my misunderstanding, there was a conflict between the two girls and my second sister, Fangyin did not dare to think about it, but also felt sorry for it..."

Jiang Xuening almost burst out laughing.

This girl really didn't understand the situation. She seemed to regard You Yue as the most terrifying and powerful person in her life, with a look of fear that she would be bullied by You Yue. That's why she was so compromise and swallow her pride.

A living cushion.

It does make people a bit angry.

But it's also to protect her from the bottom of my heart. I would rather endure this injustice myself than let her know that You Yue is acting recklessly in the mansion, afraid of involving her.

Jiang Xuening and You Yue's feud is really not lacking in this matter. At this moment, her slender fingers lightly rested on the corner of the desk, slowly spinning around, and suddenly she had a plan in mind.

The raised eyebrows and eyes slowly drooped down.

As if remembering something, she sighed faintly, and a vivid bitterness hung on her lips: "That's right. Your second sister is very popular with Royal Highness Princess, very powerful..."

You Fangyin was originally still nervous, afraid that Jiang Xuening would provoke You Yue. When she saw her suddenly depressed expression, her heart skipped a beat and she blurted out, "Did she bully the second girl?"

Jiang Xuening supported the corner of the case and buried her head.

But one hand slowly clenched in the place where You Fangyin could see it, and said, "Just the night before yesterday, when we were still in the palace, we were originally chatting about an adult from the previous dynasty. As I was speaking, I didn't know which sentence angered her, so she called me to her side. I went over, but unexpectedly, she suddenly started to take action, fiercely attacking me and me..."

At this point, there was already a hint of choking.

I can't go any further no matter what.

God knows she hasn't pretended in a long time, she almost laughed just now.

At this moment, she only buried her head, not letting You Fangyin see her expression, and quickly raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eye that had no tears at all.

Tang Er and Lian Er in the room looked at each other and said, "Is there something wrong with our girl's delicate art style?"?

She didn't finish speaking, but the effect was even better than finishing.

It left an infinite imagination behind——

===Kunning Section 48===

What exactly did You Yue do to her?

You Fangyin's mind suddenly revolved around this question. For a moment, she remembered the day she saved her in the desperate situation at You Mansion, the gentle embrace she held in her arms while crying yesterday, and also remembered the words Jiang Xuening said that day.

The sentence she still dares not forget.

In order to save her, the second girl gave up her greatest reliance in this life.

But now her second sister is not only bullying her, but also bullying the second girl!

Fingers hanging on the side of the body and cage in the sleeves quietly grip tightly!

You Fangyin's eyes suddenly turned red.

Her body was trembling slightly, but this trembling was completely different from the previous one: it was because of fear, and at this moment, although fear had not dissipated, it added an inexplicable anger.

At this moment, Jiang Xuening lifted her head, turned her eyes again, raised the corners of her lips, and smiled at her.

The more brilliant it is, the more dazzling it will be in You Fangyin's eyes.

Jiang Xuening reached out and pulled her down, with a deep smile in her eyes. However, she went to comfort her gently and said, "Ah, it's all my fault. Why do you mention this so kindly? After all, as someone who is not favored at home and doesn't have the likes of nobles in the palace, I can't compare with your second sister. It must be because I unintentionally made some taboos about her. Where can there be someone in the palace who doesn't feel wronged? I'll just endure it, and it's only been six months."

You Fangyin sat down, but her eyes were lowered and her body did not relax at all. Instead, it was even tighter than before.

Jiang Xuening first sent Tang'er Lian'er out, pretending to be relaxed and saying, "Look at me. I've been looking at your injuries, and I've forgotten to talk about the main business. You have a lot of money now, and you can barely be considered a decent businessman. I've heard that in the past month or so, there was a salt farm owner from Sichuan named Ren Weizhi who seemed to be running around all day, wanting to raise some money to continue developing their family's salt farm. Many people know that their salt farm has been boiling salt for over a hundred years, and there is no salt brine underground that can be used anymore. So even if this owner, Xiao Ren, He said he was willing to distribute dividends to the future salt fields according to the proportion of everyone's money, but everyone was also unwilling to invest. But this Xiaoren boss also said that he invented a new tool that can penetrate deeper into the salt well..."

Most of the famous salt farms in the Da Qian Dynasty were located in the south.

But the natural flow wells in Sichuan region are an exception.

This can be called the largest salt farm besides the seaside!

When people dig wells from certain places, salt brine will gush out of the wells. And there is a lot of inflammatory gas underground in Shu. After extracting brine from the ground, a pot is placed near the salt well to ignite the gas, sun and filter the brine, and finally fry the salt.

The salt produced in this way is called "well salt".

The well salt market in Shu is very famous in the north and south, so there are hundreds of salt farms, big and small, selling private salt in Ziliujing, which the court cannot control.

Ren Zhizu has been operating that salt farm for three generations, and it happens to be the fourth generation in his hands.

How can a well withstand hundreds of years of mining?

The salt wells in Sichuan are all "large shallow wells", and one well can only be drilled so deep. At most, the wells can only be dug a little larger to obtain more brine. As the brine is extracted, its height will gradually decrease, eventually falling below the depth of the salt well, and then no matter what, it is impossible to extract more brine.

Salt wells will become "abandoned wells".

Salt fields will also decline along with it.

Ren Weizhi took over a salt farm that was about to decline. The long-term workers walked and scattered, and the huge family business collapsed.

It is difficult to accept the sudden pressure that people face in a desperate situation.

So for the next two years, he squandered gold and silver, drank alcohol to ease his sorrows, and spent his days sitting on an empty salt field with nothing but abandoned wells, weeping.

But suddenly one day, he fell down on the wine jar.

I pressed it without even paying attention.

The ground was hard soil, and as he pressed down with one palm, the fragments of the wine jar slowly penetrated into the soil.

So in such an instant, he was caught in all kinds of difficulties and filled with darkness, and a spiritual light suddenly appeared!

Ren Weizhi suddenly stopped drinking alcohol and didn't even leave the house. He stayed at home all day, buying various books on construction. Surprisingly, he spent a whole three months studying and drawing several complex blueprints.

But by this time, he had run out of money.

There are not many people around who are willing to lend him money.

Ren Weizhi had no choice but to personally go to the capital and ask a friend of his former father for help. Unexpectedly, his father's friend heard that he had come and was very hospitable, willing to lend him some small money. However, if he wanted to borrow thousands or even tens of thousands of taels, he would refuse in every way.

Ren Weizhi spent two months practicing in the capital, but eventually became disheartened.

He was worried about his family's salt farm and had no choice but to inform other salt merchants in the capital that he had developed a new tool to mine "abandoned wells". He hoped to use future dividends from the salt farm as a reward to raise some money and quickly go home to implement his plan.

This new tool is known as the "Zhuotong Well" in later generations.

In the previous life, Jiang Xuening heard this story in the palace. When Shen Jie summoned the ministers of Shu, Ren Weizhi had already been hanged in the salt field at home for three years.

He did indeed raise a sum of money from the capital to go back.

After much trouble in Sichuan, he also made this "Zhuo tube well", but he was unlucky. On the first night of trying out Zhuo tube well, he hit the burning gas deeper into the salt well, and at that time, there was an open flame of lanterns outside, and the burning gas surged up. It immediately caught fire and started burning.

The entire salt farm was destroyed in an instant.

The first Zhuo tube well made of bamboo also collapsed in the fire.

Furthermore, several long-term workers were injured in the fire.

The merchants who had previously lent him money almost immediately came knocking on his door, demanding that he repay it.

Ren Zhishan is at the end of his life.

The salt field was destroyed, and the Zhuo tube well was gone. He had to compensate Changgong for his burns and also pay the principal that the merchants had invested in him according to the initial contract. In desperation, he sold off his ancestral home. On the day he cleared all his debts, a hemp rope hung him on the Zhuo tube well that was left behind by the salt field, ending his tumultuous life and passing away.

Three months after his death, the blueprint left in the box was discovered by someone;

Four months after his death, a second Zhuotong well was created and successfully drilled more than 20 zhang deep underground, extracting salt brine that had never been encountered before and hidden 20 zhang deep in the "abandoned well";

One year after his death, Zhuotong Well had become an essential tool for extracting brine from the "small mouth deep well" of Ziliujing Salt Field;

Three years after his death, wherever there is a salt field in Ziliujing, his portrait will be enshrined!

That is to say, the Zhuotong well invented by Ren Weizhi can be completely used to extract salt brine from deep strata, but he himself was unlucky and couldn't withstand the most difficult period.

Jiang Xuening still remembers that in her previous life, You Fangyin talked to herself about her experience of starting from scratch and also lamented the missed opportunity, because she did not know that Ren Weizhi had raised money in the capital back then.

She also said things like "drilling technology" and "natural gas".

These strange things, Jiang Xuening couldn't understand either.

But she knows the ins and outs of this matter, and also knows how many heart wrenching twists and turns there will be.

"It's not easy to accomplish something, and there may be many desperate situations in between. But it's only after gritting his teeth and holding on that he realizes' another village with hidden willows and bright flowers'." Jiang Xuening stared at You Fangyin and told her a meaningful story. "Ren Weizhi dared to borrow so much money and claim to be able to mine 'waste wells'. I believe this' Zhuotong well' would definitely be useful. If he had enough money, seize the opportunity, buy the 'waste wells' that other salt farms don't want, and then use' Zhuotong well 'to make brine and salt, heaven knows how big it would be." A career. "

You Fangyin was a bit confused about the matter of extracting brine and making salt.

But this does not prevent her from understanding the key points in Jiang Xuening's words.

That's it——

This person is ambitious and capable. If you invest money in him, even if you may lose a lot in the middle, as long as you grit your teeth and hold on, you can open up a new sky!

Jiang Xuening knew that she had at least understood the most crucial part. With a gentle turn of her gaze, she remembered You Yue and reminded You Fangyin with a worried expression, "You know, I didn't get the news easily this time. Don't go around saying it again. This time is different from the last time. The last time it was just selling silk, but this time it will go through a difficult process. If there is any unexpected change in the middle, you may have to invest all the money. This is a long-term business, and the torture in the middle is not something that ordinary people can bear. If someone who can't hold their breath knows," I impulsively invested money, but in the end, I couldn't even recover my savings. Isn't that a harm to others? "

You Fangyin's clenched fist did not loosen, and when she heard Jiang Xuening's words, a crazy idea suddenly came to her mind.

But she didn't say anything.

At the moment, she seemed to be pondering something and slowly nodded, saying, "Fangyin, remember."

Jiang Xuening then said, "I have already pointed out everything that needs to be pointed out. You have been out long enough today, and there is still such a powerful sister at home. I dare not keep you any longer. Let me take you out."

You Fangyin stood up and saluted.

Jiang Xuening stood up and stepped on her embroidered shoes, escorting her to the door. When she arrived, she stuffed a medicine bottle into her hand and said, "This is medicine for you. Apply it well to the wound and it will heal soon."

You Fangyin almost shed tears and said, "You treat me so well."

Jiang Xuening laughed at her foolishness in her heart, but stroked her head and said, "If you know I treat you well, treat yourself better. By the way, you made so much money last time, but don't let your second sister know. Otherwise, she may not know how to inquire about your 'way of making money'. She bullied me, but Bi is actually in the palace. I will endure it no matter what. But you are in the mansion, and I'm really afraid you have something bad under her hands.". I know, you also want to protect me in your heart, but don't let any conflict between me and her be the reason... "

Tang'er and Lian'er were standing outside, listening to these familiar words: Isn't this what You Fangyin just said? The second girl almost moved it intact and used it!

However, You Fangyin was completely unaware of this. Upon hearing her words, her body trembled uncontrollably, her eyes turned red, but her head was buried deeper. She only responded low, "Yes."

Jiang Xuening looked relieved and asked someone to escort her out of the mansion.

You Fangyin came out of the side door, and the carriage was still waiting outside.

The coachman was already dozing off from waiting until he saw her come out. He quickly asked, "Miss, where are you going now?"

You Fangyin held the small medicine bottle in her hand and stood on the steps, looking at it for a long time.

There was no expression on his face.

A wave of anger surged in her heart, and she clenched the medicine bottle tightly again, saying word by word, "Go to Uncle Qingyuan's Mansion."

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You Fangyin walked away before leaving, and Jiang Xuening's previous tenderness that I still pity at first sight suddenly dissipated.

She snorted lightly and clapped her hands lightly.

The speed of changing her face before and after was so fast that Tang Erlian was stunned!

It is not easy to correct a person who is inherently cowardly.

But it's not without a solution.

In her previous life, Jiang Xuening was at least a skilled person who could coax men around. Now, she has only used the means of coaxing men to coax women, and the results are always so immediate.

Although she was determined to teach You Fangyin how to do business and earn more money, her situation in the Uncle's Mansion was also too poor to be able to do these things with peace of mind.

To resist the outside, one must first settle the inside.

The situation in this backyard is not resolved, and business is not at ease.

You Yue has a narrow heart and a cruel heart. Let's see if you Fangyin, this foolish girl, will give her another surprise.

Lian'er still hadn't figured out everything that had just happened, only feeling her whole head dizzy: "Girl, she, you, just now..."

Jiang Xuening didn't want to explain, but said, "It's getting late. Let's go see if the carriage is ready. We should also set off now."

Lian'er couldn't ask any more questions at once.

Someone has been sent to inspect the carriage.

On the other end, a servant from the mansion hurriedly carried a basket of fresh pears over, his face full of joy, and said, "Miss Er! This is something sent by Lord Zhou of the Jinyi Guard of the Zhou Mansion in Xiejie Hutong. It is said to be Dangshan crispy pears just brought from Anhui Kuaima, which were just appreciated from above. We have sent it to you for a try."

That pear is in the basket, there are twelve or three.

Each one looks soft yellow in skin, full and tender.

Jiang Xuening saw and listened to the servant's report, but her face changed slightly.

Appreciate things from above.

That should be because Zhou Yinzhi has already obtained the shortage of a thousand households.

===Kunning Section 49===

If that's the case

I'm afraid Yan Lin may not come this evening.

Tang Er saw that she had not reacted for a long time and cautiously asked, "Miss?"

Jiang Xuening finally regained consciousness and said, "A basket of pears is all, just put it down."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her eyes and walked back into the room, sitting quietly.

After a while, Lian'er returned and said, "The car and the driver are ready. But Miss Er, you don't seem very comfortable. Today, are you still going to the Skyscraper?"

Jiang Xuening blinked and said, "Go ahead."

What if?