Chapter 475 Returning to Qiongzhou

No matter how unwilling Miao Jingjing was, Li Baolu crippled her skills. It's not that she didn't want to escape, but the bamboo forests around Lingtian Gate were hidden by the formation of Mizong, even if the effect was not as good as that of Mizong Forest, she still couldn't escape.

What's more, there are Master, Bai Yitang and Li Baolu here, these three people are not easy to provoke, it is impossible to escape quietly from under their noses.

Miao Jingjing could only feel aggrieved that her kung fu was wasted. In the end, although she didn't vomit blood in anger, she opened her eyes wide with resentment, and couldn't sleep for two days in a row.

Dabao was frightened by his mother, and after crying for a while, he got closer to Cao Shi.

Both Ma Yihong and Miao Jingjing were immersed in their own hatred, so they couldn't think of their son, and Dabao was very relieved to hand them over to the master.

The two of them didn't want to see Bai Yitang and Li Baolu, and often stayed in their own room in a daze. Bai Yitang was so satisfied that he pulled Qin Wenyin down the mountain to help Master and them choose a homestead.

This piece of land is all owned by Lingtianmen, and the villages below are composed of tenants of Lingtianmen. There is no so-called village head, so he is the master of his territory, and he can choose which piece of land he wants.

Gu Jingyun tossed around a well, trying to make a water shaking device.

Li Baolu went to the study to find him a lot of books on institutions, combined with some knowledge from her previous life, after three days and eight failures, she finally made a water shaker that can shake water from a well.

A diabolo was randomly inserted at the exit, allowing the water to fall from the diabolo. The piston that should have been made of rubber, Gu Jingyun, replaced it with cowhide. Coming up is much easier than fetching water with a potter's wheel. The most important thing is that you don't have to throw the barrel into the well and then take it up again. The well cover can be closed, so you don't have to worry about children falling down again.

And because shaking the water is convenient, even children aged three or four can do it.

Gu Jingyun drew the blueprints, recorded all the materials and production methods needed, and handed them over to Bai Yitang, asking him to install them when digging the well.

Bai Yitang was very happy, and Bai Baishan and Mrs. Cao were even more happy, watching Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu keep praising them for their filial piety.

For them to come up with this thing, what is this not filial piety?

It's a pity that they can't stay for long, they can only stay for one more day before leaving, because they still have to rush to Qiongzhou.

Mrs. Cao was a little disappointed, but Bai Baishan took it for granted, stroking his beard and nodding his head: "That's fine, just remember to come back to see us two old people in the future, if you have something to do now, go and do it first, your master is still here."

Bai Yitang intends to stay here for a little longer, at least to finish building the house and settle down the master and wife.

Qin Wenyin has no opinion at all. In fact, she likes this place very much. It is surrounded by green bamboos, the scenery is beautiful, and there are so many books to read. It can be seen that the former heads of Lingtianmen are very elegant and funny, and they have many hobbies. There is no shortage of various musical instruments such as Qin, flute and Xiao.

Qin Wenyin didn't want to leave.

So when Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu left, Qin Wenyin talked with Mrs. Cao, cooked some meals for everyone, played with Dabao for a while, played the piano and read books in her spare time, and accompanied Bai Yitang to see the mountains, rivers and beauties nearby.

Bai Yitang led the tenants and villagers down the mountain to dig the foundation and bought bricks to build the house.

In order to prevent Master and the others from going far away when they were farming, they leveled out the wasteland not far from their house to grow food for them, and even brought people to fertilize the land very thoughtfully.

In order to make it easier for them to travel, he had to beat stones with others to repair the road, and directly repaired the road until it was in line with the official road.

And while he was busy with these tasks, Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun had traveled smoothly from the Yangtze River to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then arrived in Hangzhou. From Hangzhou to Qiongzhou by sea boat, it only took ten days in total.

It happened to be morning when they arrived in Qiongzhou, and there were many coolies on the pier waiting to move the goods.

Li Baolu asked someone to help pull the carriage off the boat, and pulled it directly to the horse harness in the bull market.

The group of three didn't stop at all, bought three cages of steamed stuffed buns and drove to Sin Village.

Li Baolu leaned against the car wall and looked at the bustling crowd on the street through the car window, and said sadly: "Qiongzhou seems to be getting more and more prosperous."

Gu Jingyun also looked at the people coming and going outside, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised. He has been in touch with Zhang Yiyan for a long time, so he naturally knows the reason for this change.

The cultivation of hemp has expanded from sin village to the whole of Qiongzhou, and because of the continuous improvement of spinning machines, the production of hemp cloth is speeding up step by step, the cost is reduced, and the production efficiency is very fast.

Now that the linen in Qiongzhou is not only supplied to Baolai, other companies have also begun to purchase goods in Qiongzhou. There are more merchants, more inns, restaurants and grocery stores, and less idle labor. Even farmers in remote areas, as long as they are willing to work hard to come to the county. If you can find a job, you can earn some income.

Now the planting of tea is still in the experimental stage, but judging from the data obtained so far, the effect is not bad.

Once tea can be planted, roasted and sold, the people of Qiongzhou will have another source of livelihood. For the two of them, Qiongzhou is the place where they grew up, and it is their second hometown, so they hope that it will develop better.

Their carriage was fast, and they arrived at the fifth village just after noon. Before entering the village, someone rushed back to report the news, and then Li Jun brought people to greet him.

"It's two days earlier than expected. You must be exhausted from the journey, right?"

Li Baolu jumped out of the carriage, glanced at the people behind him, nodded and said, "Fortunately, it's relatively smooth to take a boat."

Li Jun followed her gaze and hurriedly said, "These are all elders in the village, you must not know them."

These people are all the "old people" of the five villages. They thought that the people here would spend their whole lives, and even their descendants would live here forever. Who would have thought that the Li family would be rehabilitated and returned.

It's impossible not to be excited, but they still have self-knowledge, know that the Li family has been wronged, so they still have a chance to be rehabilitated, and they...

In the past, when I couldn't see it, I was jealous at most in my heart, but now I see it and I feel the gap is so big that I can't even feel jealous.

Only Li Junshi might still say a few sour words, but now that they saw Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu, everyone put away all their extra thoughts and only dared to show respectful expressions.

Because everyone knows that the business that is popular in Qiongzhou is now in the hands of the couple.

Although some people later learned the technology of textile machinery and made imitations, they were no longer under the control of Zhang Yiyan, and some people began to learn from Zhang Yiyan to buy linen, but because Zhang Yiyan has expanded his business and gained prestige, and everyone always feels that it is imitated by others. The textile machinery produced by Yicun Village is not as good as that produced by Yicun, so everyone is more inclined to sign a contract with Zhang Yiyan.

Of course, the main reason was that the price they offered was fair, and those who intervened halfway thought about using high prices to squeeze out the market, but because Zhang Yiyan had many weavers in his hands, this strategy was useless to Zhang Yiyan, and instead ruined himself.

Later, everyone learned how to behave, and the price was not set too high, only a little more than Zhang Yiyan's, in order to get the fabric.

If it is too high, they will not make any money, because they are small in scale and earn less than Zhang Yiyan, so it is difficult to expand the scale. Under the cycle, no one can surpass Zhang Yiyan.

And Zhang Yiyan is Gu Jingyun's spokesperson in Qiongzhou, which is known to all the people in Qiongzhou.

So how dare they offend Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu? Seeing the tired faces of the two, they only dared to say hello and leave as soon as they knew each other.

Back in Sin Village, Li Baolu didn't care about it anymore, and directly reached out to support Gu Jingyun, and helped him back affectionately.

"Have you visited grandfather's grave? How are the preparations going?"

"It's all ready. I thought you wouldn't arrive until the first day of the new year. I hired someone to calculate the day after that. The grave will be opened on the third day of August. If you arrive early, do you want to move forward?"

Li Baolu thought for a while and shook her head, "No, we have to meet some people too, so let's do it later."

Li Jun expressed his understanding, and quickly asked his servants to boil water for the two of them, and cook for them by the way.

Li Baolu took a look at those people, and Li Jun explained: "These are servants of the world, digging up a grave is a major event, and the journey is far away, so Grandpa specially asked them to take care of me."

Li Baolu glanced at them, and saw that they were all young and strong, if they really came here to dig up a grave, at least they should send someone older and more knowledgeable, right?

But she saw that Li Jun was not ignorant, so she left it alone. Anyway, Li Jun will be the one who will communicate with Shunde in the future, since he knows what she knows, she doesn't care.

After washing up and eating, Li Baolu also knew what happened after she left. Li Hong didn't know that all the money was spent by Li Jun until he returned to the capital, and he fainted out of anger.

At that time, Li Jun had already obtained the land deed, house deed and other things, and handed over the things belonging to the elder sister and younger sister to them for safekeeping. His share was directly locked in a box, and sent to the bank for safekeeping in front of Mei.

Unless he came personally, or someone he designated to pick it up, no one could get it out.

Mei didn't know that there was only one-third of the property in the box, she just thought that all the property was locked inside, so when she saw Li Hong woke up and made a fuss, she told him about it without any burden.

When Li Hong learned that Li Jun's designated candidate was Li Baolu, he fainted from anger again.

He couldn't force Li Jun, and he couldn't force Li Baolu even more, which meant that he couldn't get the money, and he couldn't get the property bought by the money.

All the plans came to naught in an instant, and Li Hong almost suffered a stroke.

No one knew that Li Jun's three siblings still had 30,000 taels of bank notes in their hands, 10,000 taels each.

In order to comfort Li Hong, Li Jun could only give him the remaining four thousand taels of silver, telling him that only four thousand taels of all the money was left.

And the house they just bought was empty, they would definitely have to buy some furniture and other things to live in, Li Jun promised to give Li Hong the rest after buying things.

Li Hong almost spat out a mouthful of blood, he might as well not give it.

The 150,000 taels were only 4,000 taels left, and he still had to pay for furniture. Is there any justice in this world?

Because Li Hong cried at home every day, for real, everyone in Liu'er Hutong knew that Li Jun's prodigal son had ruined all his family's wealth.

Even Xintang sent people to ask questions, and finally Li Xie and Li Sheng had to come forward to comfort Li Hong, and then sent Li Jun away, and asked him to bring his servants to Qiongzhou to dig up the grave.

When Li Jun left, he was not worried about the Li family in Shunde playing tricks, because with Li He and Li Liu around, their determination was still higher than his.