Chapter 155

155. Chapter 155: Li Shoude is Back

The carriage stopped in front of a jewelry shop called "Cui Hua Ge".

The curtain was lifted, and a man and a woman jumped off the carriage.

The man was in his thirties, wearing a long gown and a square headcloth, dressed as a scholarly literati.

This person was Li Shoude.

Jiang Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes slightly, watching Li Shoude hug the petite woman in his arms and enter Cui Hua Ge, the two of them acting incredibly intimate.

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Wei looked in the direction of her gaze, but only saw a pair of backs, "Cui Hua Ge? Do you want to buy jewelry?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head and smiled: "The jewelry sold in Cui Hua Ge is so expensive, I don't want it."

She wasn't talking nonsense. This street was a prosperous area of Yong'an Town, and the things sold in the nearby shops were not cheap.

Li Shoude brought a strange woman to such an expensive jewelry shop as soon as he came back from the state, thinking that he had been mixing well with the Huang family in the past few months.

However, she didn't intend to tell her mother that Li Shoude was back, so she changed the subject: "Mom, our new house is almost finished. While Master Zheng is still here, let him build a few more bungalows near our house, which will be used as a soap workshop in the future."

"Okay." Jiang Wei glanced at her helplessly, "You, you are so young and worry about this and that, and your speech is old-fashioned, not like a child at all."

Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly laughed twice: "Haha, no, I am Mom's daughter, Mom is so amazing, I am naturally not bad."

She fooled around in a few words and talked about other things.

The mother and daughter chatted all the way and returned home.

When they arrived home, Master Zheng had completed the final painting process of the new house, and the new house was completely built and could be moved in in a few days.

He stood in front of the courtyard main room of the new house, looking at this two-story Chinese-style courtyard villa in front of him with pride.

To be honest, since resigning from the capital and returning to this small place of Yong'an Town, he hadn't built such a big project for a long time.

The new house in front of him, even if some building materials were completely incomparable to those of the rich families in the capital, in his eyes, the structure and layout of this new house were exquisite and atmospheric, faintly revealing a low-key luxury temperament. It was hard to imagine that the blueprint for building the house was provided by a village woman.

"Master Zheng, I've troubled you these past few days. Go to my place later to settle the wages." Jiang Wei walked over, also looking at the new house in front of her with great satisfaction.

The house building blueprint she gave was naturally modern retro-style, which had both the antique style unique to ancient times and the light and simple modern structural layout.

However, this cost a lot of money.

Just the material cost of bricks and tiles cost more than one hundred taels of silver, plus other building materials, plus labor costs, at least two hundred taels were gone.

Master Zheng smiled, rubbed his hands and said: "Little Madam Jiang, I can waive the labor costs for you, but can your family's cement first..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Wei grabbed the lead: "Oh, by the way, Master Zheng, you haven't taken any orders for building houses recently, right?"

Master Zheng was stunned: "No, no, I have only taken your family's order in the past few months."

"That's fine." Jiang Wei smiled and said, "I circled a piece of land outside the new house, and I have to trouble Master Zheng to build a few more bungalows for my family."

After a pause, she added: "The foundation, bricklaying, and plastering should all use the cement from my family."

"Using cement again?!" Master Zheng's old face suddenly drooped. Using such precious cement to build just a few bungalows, wouldn't it be too extravagant?

Moreover, all these cements were used in building the house, how much more could he buy...

Master Zheng sighed long.

Jiang Wei watched from the side and didn't speak.

She knew Master Zheng's urgent desire to buy her family's cement, but since her daughter was thinking about establishing a soap workshop, she naturally had to satisfy her daughter's wish first.

The soap workshop must be built with cement.

The huge profits of soap had already begun to show, and it would definitely attract many jealous people in the future. In order to prevent people from being jealous and making trouble, this soap workshop must be built with some thought, and it should be built as firmly as possible. Even if someone wanted to burn the soap workshop to make trouble, this fireproof and waterproof cement could block one or two.

However, the cement at home should not be enough, and the cement factory should be opened as soon as possible. There was only one kiln at home to burn lime, which was definitely not enough...

"By the way, Master Zheng, can you build a kiln?"

"Building a few kilns is naturally not a problem..." Master Zheng nodded. At this moment, he had already calmed down. Hearing that Jiang Wei wanted to build a kiln, he understood her intention and hurriedly said: "No matter which kind of kiln in town, I can build it. Which kind does Little Madam Jiang want to build?"

Jiang Wei took out the blueprint of the previous kiln from her sleeve, actually from the space, "Master Zheng, just build it according to the kiln in the blueprint."

Master Zheng took the blueprint and looked at it carefully, and then couldn't help but marvel that the structure of this kiln was truly exquisite, saving more fuel than those old-fashioned kilns in the county town, but could provide a higher combustion temperature!

He hurriedly patted his chest and guaranteed: "Little Madam Jiang, don't worry, as long as the materials are ready, I can build this kiln with a few disciples within a day."

Just as the matter of the kiln was agreed upon, someone ran into the Jiang family courtyard in a hurry.

"Good news! Great good news in the village!"

The people working in the Jiang family courtyard looked out one after another, only to see the Village Chief running into the Jiang family courtyard panting, saying: "Li Shoude, the eldest of the Li family, is back! All those who are Li family clansmen, go to the Li family ancestral house to gather!"

"Village Chief, what happened, why go to the old Li family to gather?" A few men poked their heads out and asked, "Li Shoude is back, so he is back. Do we need us distant relatives to go and welcome him?"

A while ago, many messy things happened in the Li family, which became the after-dinner talk of many families in the village. Everyone was disdainful of the Li family, and they were not interested in Li Shoude's sudden return to the village at all.

Especially for Li Shoude, a man in his thirties, who couldn't do work, couldn't carry with his shoulders or lift with his hands, and had to be served by the whole family for eating, drinking, and pooping. He kept saying that he must get a decent fame, but after so many years, he still couldn't see anything.

"Just say less!" The Village Chief glared at the person who spoke, "The Li Shoude now is not the same as before. He already has fame."

"What?!"

The people in the Jiang family courtyard were suddenly shocked: "Could it be that he really passed the exam this time!"

"Li Shoude is now a legitimate scholar, so be careful when you speak in the future." The Village Chief frowned and scanned the shocked crowd, "Li family clansmen, don't dawdle, hurry up and go to the Li family to gather."

"Oh, I have to go and see."

For a time, the people in the Jiang family courtyard dispersed instantly, and those who were clansmen of the Li family and those who were not all ran to the Li family to see the scholar. (End of chapter)