Xiao Hanzheng stuffed the letter back into the envelope.

“Last time I went to Fucheng, I rescued a pair of brothers who were in trouble and asked them to go to the capital to help me and keep an eye on the general’s mansion.”

“If there is any trouble in the General’s Mansion, they will report it to me.”

“As long as there is an opportunity to add fuel to the fire, I told them not to let it go.”

Those brothers were both capable, but they encountered many setbacks and depended on each other.

In his last life, he met the elder brother who acted crazy after his younger brother died of illness.

When he went to Fucheng, he met two people, so he rescued the younger brother.

The two of them took the initiative to seek refuge and let him use them.

Shi Qingluo chuckled and said: “So you’ve also started to make plans early on.”

She thought her young husband wanted to cause trouble after taking the imperial examination.

Xiao Hanzheng smiled and said: “I learned this from my wife.”

Shi Qingluo leaned in his arms, and stretched out her hand to play with a strand of his hair, “Say, this time, if we present the cement-making method, as well as the fertilizer method, what will the emperor reward us?”

Xiao Hanzheng said: “I just wanted to talk about this.”

“Mo Qingling came to me today to test and ask us what rewards we want.”

He added: “What do you want? It’s all up to you.”

He will fight for fame and fortune, but he will change his reputation fairly. He doesn’t need to rely on these methods to ask for it actively.

Shi Qingluo thought for a while: “Do you think the emperor can reward us with the mountain where the Taoist temple is located?”

That big mountain was a virgin forest. Few people dared to go deep into it, so there were naturally a lot of good things.

It was also rumored to be quite mysterious by people in several villages, saying that there were gods and so on in it. Adding to the Taoist stories, everyone felt that the mountain was even more mysterious.

It can be used as a shield to cause trouble.

And that large area of wild sugar beets and sumac trees were all on the mountain.

Once lacquer trees and other trees were developed, if someone decides to make the mountain privately owned, the raw materials for their workshops will be gone.

There were also ginseng and other things in the mountains that her young husband mentioned before.

She has been traveling in the mountains frequently recently and found that many fruit trees and medicinal materials were planted without going deep into the mountains.

She and her young husband have never gone into the mountains very often. But if it becomes their property, they can always go in and find some good things.

As an agricultural expert, she was very interested in this unexplored forest.

Xiao Hanzheng didn’t expect that his little wife wanted that mountain.

“Okay, I will talk to Mo Qingling tomorrow.” He has now become a very chatty friend with the other party.

Shi Qingluo said again: “The chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep on the mountain over the old house are well raised. I’m going to buy another batch and put them there.”

More than a month ago, Bai Xu’s uncle helped get a group of pigs and sheep, as well as hundreds of cows.

She also invited good farmers from nearby villages to carve out a lot of land on the mountain and plant soybeans, wheat, sugar beets, peanuts, etc.

Soybeans will be used to extract oil and make tofu, while the dregs can be used to feed cattle and sheep.

Wheat bran was also a good feed.

A lot of vegetables have also been planted. When the time comes, the manure of cows, sheep, chickens, and ducks will be used as fertilizer, and the entire mountain can be recycled.

Of course, she watered the spring in the ground and also fed the chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, and sheep on the mountain.

In this way, whether it was her vegetables or poultry and livestock, their survival rate has improved. Their taste and nutritional value were also higher than others.

Xiao Hanzheng was very supportive of these: “Okay!”

Next, Xiao Hanzheng focused on reading.

Shi Qingluo focused on breeding and planting.

After this period of observation, she selected more than a dozen families and taught them how to make tofu, fermented bean curd, soy sauce, and miso.

Three factories do the same thing, but their numbers will still increase in the future. To guarantee the shipments, she made them all sign a confidentiality contract.

She taught them how to make it, and shared twenty percent of the profits from their sales to their family. Without her permission, they can’t leak the method.

She did not ask for profits from the people who made tofu but asked them to provide bean dregs free of charge for five years.

After making them, they will sell them in the village to attract more people to come to the village to buy.

Making tofu was too difficult, so Shi Qingluo planned to throw it out for others to make. She doesn’t want her mother-in-law and sister-in-law to work too hard.

Of course, these dozen family members agreed without hesitation and were particularly grateful to Shi Qingluo.

After they started making it, they first sold it in their yard.

When they made it, they followed what Shi Qingluo said and went to the entrance of the village to build a few houses next to each other and sell them specifically.

These things were in short supply, so when they put them on sale, they indeed attract many small and large traders to come to the village to wholesale and then resell them.

With the addition of people who came to buy saltpeter and mosquito coils, the whole Xiaxi Village became more and more lively.

Some people came to inquire about Xiao Hanzheng. He built a guesthouse near the entrance of the village and sold food at the same time. The business was very good.

Some businessmen who came from afar did not stay overnight in the county town. Instead, they purchased things, stayed in a guest house for one night, and then set off on their journey the next day.

The business of the guest house was good, which naturally led to the opening of a second one.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed, and the Xiao family’s new house was all decorated.

Including the custom-made furniture drawn by Shi Qingluo, all of it was put in place.

After that, they chose a good and auspicious day for the Xiao family to move into a new house.

This was a big day, and now the Xiao family was rich.

Shi Qinglou and Xiao Hanzheng also wanted to have fun, so they held a flowing banquet.

Not only people from the village came, but also many people from nearby villages came.

Bai Xu and the Bai family from the county town also came.

Many of Xiao Hanzheng’s classmates who were close to him also came.

These people were arranged in the yard, and a flowing banquet was set up on the cement road outside. Anyone from the village and nearby villages, including merchants who came to purchase goods, could come and eat.

There was meat and vegetables, and the menu given by Shi Qingluo made everyone feel novel and happy.

Then someone who surprised everyone came.

The county magistrate, Mo Qingling, and the first-rank official who had just become Xiao Hanzheng’s teacher.

The two happened to meet each other and came together.

Xiao Hanzheng politely welcomed them.

“Teacher, Shaoqing, please!”

Mo Qingling’s cousin and his friends called him Shaoqing.

Hou Dongsheng, Xiao Hanzheng’s teacher, looked about fifty years old, elegant, and energetic, but he was nearly sixty.

He was very satisfied with Xiao Hanzheng, his new direct disciple.

With a loving smile on his face, he said: “Your new home is in a bamboo forest. The atmosphere is very good.”

Xiao Hanzheng smiled affectionately and said, “If you like it, teacher, you can stay for a while.”

He was accepted as a student by the other party just a few days ago.

This also shocked the other teachers and students at the county school.

Because he fitted the old man’s appetite, the other party took the initiative to accept him as his disciple.

The old man had accepted three disciples before, but they were all ten years ago.

In the past ten years, he didn’t accept any disciples anymore, but he broke this this time, which was shocking.

He also aroused the envy, jealousy, and soreness of many classmates, and at the same time, more people’s attitudes towards him changed.

Master Hou chuckled and said, “Let’s talk about it later.”

He accepted the young disciple’s thoughts.

Then he handed a box to Xiao Hanzheng, which was a housewarming gift from him.

Mo Qingling presented his gift and said with a smile: “Congratulations Jinyu!”

Jinyu was the pseudonym given to Xiao Hanzheng by his teacher when he became an apprentice.

Then Mo Qingling took out the imperial edict and said, “In addition to my congratulations today, I also brought you the reward from the Emperor!”

As soon as these words came out, the people who came to attend the housewarming were shocked again.

How come the Xiao family has another reward from the Emperor?