bookrandom Chapter 485 Xie Ying is cunning again.
Chapter 485 Xie Ying is cunning again.
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Xie Di was also very excited when he saw Xie Tang.
She almost trotted over to Xie Tang, hugged his legs, and looked up at him happily, "Why are you here?"
Xie Tang snorted somewhat complacently: "I came to accompany you, did you miss me a lot?"
Xie Ying glanced at Xie Di and said deliberately: "Brother must be here to eat Guoguo!"
Xie Di suddenly became anxious: "No Guoguo! Brother won't eat it, Didi will eat it!"
Xie Tang: “…”
He really wants to deal with these two little bastards!
Tu Jiaojiao was the happiest person when she learned that Xie Tang would be with them from now on.
She excitedly pulled Xie Tang over and looked him over. She even reached out and pinched his body, muttering to herself, "You've grown taller and thinner. Haven't you been eating well? Eat more at home from now on. Don't be picky about food, okay?"
Xie Tang's face flushed red from being pinched by her: "Mom, I'm not picky about food, I'm just growing taller."
But Tu Jiaojiao was not willing to listen.
As a mother, she felt heartbroken when she saw her son getting so skinny. How could she bear to let her child continue to lose weight?
Tu Jiaojiao even took a special look at Xie Ying and Xie Di, using them as examples for Xie Tang: "Look at Yingying and Didi, they are never picky about food!"
Xie Di was silly. After hearing what she said, he raised his chin towards Xie Tang proudly: "Di Di is the best!"
Xie Ying, however, couldn't laugh at all. She looked at Tu Jiaojiao with some resentment, thinking that her mother was saying that she was fat!
She also took a special look at her round belly, and then tried to shrink it, trying to make her belly smaller.
When Situ Yuan saw her little action, he almost burst out laughing on the spot.
Xie Ying quickly realized that something was wrong, and her eyes shot towards Situ Yuan with a cold look.
But Situ Yuan was staring at Xie Tang, as if he was studying something seriously.
Xie Ying couldn't help but feel a little uncertain: "???"
Could it be that she made a mistake?
She looked at Xie Di again and saw that he was circling around Xie Tang happily like a little follower. She couldn't help but look at Situ Yuan with pride.
Now that Xie Tang is here, she doesn't believe that Xie Di will continue to pester Situ Yuan!
Xie Ying smiled and curved her eyes, like a fat fox.
But soon, she couldn't laugh anymore.
Xie Tang and Xie Di actually got involved with Situ Yuan!
Xie Ying: “…”
In order to find out why the two men liked to pester Situ Yuan, she secretly hid outside the window and listened.
Then they discovered that Situ Yuan was like a know-it-all, telling them many stories, which frightened them.
After all, Xie Tang and Xie Di are both children, so they naturally like to listen to stories.
But Situ Yuan knows more, so it’s easy for him to deal with the two little kids, right?
Not to mention them, even Xie Ying listened with great interest.
But she left without listening any further.
The main thing is that I can't afford to lose face.
……
Jiang Er stayed on Penglai Island for half a month and witnessed the harvest of sunflower seeds, peanuts, rapeseed, etc.
Since it was their first time to come into contact with sunflower seeds, everyone didn't know that they could cut off the flower head of the sunflower seeds and stick it on the stem to dry in the sun, so they cut them directly, carefully threshed them by hand, and then dried them in the sun.
Peanuts are dug out and then dried directly.
Luo Zheng also found doctors and craftsmen to study the uses of rubber tree sap and coffee berries. However, rubber trees and coffee berries were too unfamiliar to everyone, so after almost a month of research, the doctors and craftsmen only figured out a way to tap rubber.
This is because there are lacquer trees in Daxia. After cutting the bark of the lacquer tree, white juice will flow out. This juice is raw lacquer, which can be made into beautiful lacquerware.
However, lacquer trees and rubber trees are different after all, and the techniques for tapping lacquer and rubber are also different.
After a short period of research, the craftsmen found a method similar to that of later generations.
Jiang Er had the rubber collected, part of it given to the craftsmen for research, and the rest was taken back by the supply ship and delivered to Situ Yuan.
Situ Yuan's status was noble, so Xie Xiu did not dare to neglect him in the slightest, so he arranged a separate courtyard for him to live in.
Situ Yuan directly set up a small laboratory in the yard. Not only did he ask people to get all kinds of strange raw materials, he also discussed with Xie Xiu and planned to build a glass factory in Gusu.
Xie Xiu naturally wanted more than anything else for such a great thing.
Once a glass factory is built in Suzhou, workers will have to be recruited. Once the factory is built, a steady supply of glass and colored glaze will be produced.
When his glass and colored glaze sell well, he will be able to collect a lot of taxes.
So when Situ Yuan said he wanted to build a glass factory, Xie Xiu immediately picked out a good place for him.
With the land, all that remained was to recruit people to build the factory. Situ Yuan brought quite a few people with him this time, and with their help, construction of the factory started quickly.
Naturally, this matter attracted the attention of many wealthy local families, and they sent people to inquire about the news.
Although the workers did not know what kind of factory they were building, the wealthy families in Suzhou were not stupid.
When they heard it was Situ Yuan's factory, they guessed it was a glass factory.
So they were all excited and ran to the prefectural government office to hand in letters, asking to see Situ Yuan.
Situ Yuan naturally would not meet them, and left everything to his servant Lai Fu to deal with.
Lai Fu is smart and has experience in helping Situ Yuan manage the Beijing Glass Factory. Now he is familiar with handling these things.
In addition, Situ Yuan has a noble status, and the local tyrants in Gusu all want to get a piece of the pie from the glass factory. How dare they offend him?
Even though Lai Fu was just a servant of Situ Yuan, these people acted like lapdogs when they saw him, trying their best to please him.
Lai Fu never refuses the flattery of these people, but his attitude towards different people is slightly different.
As long as the gifts were numerous and valuable, he would mention a few things and reveal that Situ Yuan was going to build a glass factory.
But if the gift is too stingy, he will be too lazy to pay attention and even refuse to see the person.
After the wealthy families in Suzhou figured out his pattern, they became more diligent in giving him gifts.
However, the more they acted like grandsons in front of Lai Fu, the harsher they cursed him behind his back.
There was no way. Lai Fu's appetite was too big, and he relied on his status and never took people like them seriously.
These wealthy families are also well-known figures in Suzhou, and are often flattered by others.
Now they have to please Lai Fu, a servant. How can they not be angry?
So after returning, he couldn't help but curse secretly, hoping that Lai Fu would be rejected by Situ Yuan as soon as possible.
What they didn't know was that it was actually Xie Ying who suggested to Situ Yuan that Lai Fu accept the gift.
When Xie Xiu came to Gusu to serve as the prefect, the local wealthy families caused him a lot of trouble.
Now that Situ Yuan is here, Xie Ying must seize the opportunity to deal with these bastards.
There aren't many good ones among them anyway.
Since everyone wants to get a piece of the pie from the glass factory, how can they do it without spending some money?
Especially the Cao family!
She planted some seedlings in Cao's house and has eaten a lot of melons from Cao's family recently.
Unfortunately, not long after Xie Xiu arrived, Cao Wanning gave birth to another son for Chen Shao.
Emperor Taihe had already pardoned them mother and son, and now he was taking action against the Cao family. It was inevitable that people would think too much, thinking that Emperor Taihe was going back on his word, and Xie Xiu was eager to be the executioner to help Emperor Taihe get rid of the Cao family.
By then, Emperor Taihe's reputation would be damaged, and he would inevitably vent his anger on Xie Xiu.
So we'll have to wait for this.
Anyway, the Cao family has a lot of weaknesses, and they can slowly catch them.
This time, the glass factory might be able to take advantage of the opportunity to cheat the Cao family.